Our pastor Fr John will be selling his new book entitled “Distressing Waves” (Inviting Jesus into the Storm) after all the masses. Fr. John will also offer his previous book “Upon an Untrodden Path”. The books are $15.00 each. The church will have a table where the books can be purchased. Fr John will also personalize the books for those who would like one. 

St. Mary’s Weekly Goal: $4,750.00

Weekly Collections for June:

On behalf of Fr. John, OMI, Pastor, Fr. Basil, OMI, Parochial Vicar and Fr. Ed, OM, Healing Ministry and the Staff of St. Mary’s Church: We wish all the Fathers in the congregation a blessed day! May St. Joseph, patron Saint of Fathers, be a model for all men to follow.

Saturday, June 21^st is the Feast of Corpus Christi. Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller will be leading a procession with The Blessed Sacrament through the Streets of the Downtown area. The Procession which will include music and singing of hymns, will stop in front of St. Mary’s Church at 6:30 p.m. where there will be prayers and a rose petal drop from the roof of the rectory. All are welcome and encouraged to join the procession.

In 1956, Pope Pius XII published the encyclical HAURIETIS AQUAS, On Devotion to the Sacred Heart. He writes:

The Heart of the Incarnate Word is deservedly and rightly considered the chief sign and symbol of that threefold love with which the divine Redeemer unceasingly loves His eternal Father and all mankind.

It is a symbol of that divine love which He shares with the Father and the Holy Spirit but which He, the Word made flesh, alone manifests through a weak and perishable body, since “in Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”

It is, besides, the symbol of that burning love which, infused into His soul, enriches the human will of Christ and enlightens and governs its acts by the most perfect knowledge derived both from the beatific vision and that which is directly infused.