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Society of Saint Pius X St. Mary’s House Ribblesdale Place Preston - PR NA Contact: Tel.: — Email: [email protected] SAINT MARY’S NEWSLETTER JUNE 2018 My Dear Faithful, ith this month on June commencing, the By having to fear and struggle, Our Lord wants us to Church directs again our loving attention realise that the only solution is to surrender towards the Sacred Heart of Our Lord. ourselves to the Holy Will of God. What is more, our She wants us to penetrate into this heart fears and struggles are allowed by God because He pierced by the lance so that we may find in it all we wants us to trust in the capacity of His grace for need to positively promote our sanctification. facing the difficulties of life in a manner which will What should we find if we be pleasing to Him, that is to say with virtue, enter into this Sacred Heart especially those of patience and perseverance. God of Jesus? Mainly, and this has His time but He wants to see us working says all about the Sacred ourselves at our own sanctification. Of course we Heart, we must find the may have periods when things are slowing down in constant consolation of the our spiritual life but the devotion to the Sacred Heart love of God for our souls. should help us give a new impetus when we realise The Sacred Heart of Jesus that we have this eternal source of graces just at represents this burning hand. The problem is never on God’s side; it is always flame which is His love for on our side. We can always find in the Sacred Heart men despite their miseries. all of the graces we need by praying to Him and The love of Jesus for us is a trusting in Him. He will always ensure that we make merciful love which has progress as long as we have unlimited confidence in been there for all eternity and will never cease. God His Sacred Heart. Too often our confidence in Him is does not change and His desire is always the same. missing or weak. He wants to transform our miseries and faults into Let us not fail to pray to the Sacred Heart every day glory. This will happen if we have the good will to of this month. Especially, let us make reparation to confide ourselves to Him. the Sacred Heart for the scandal caused by those who Sometime some people feel depressed because of voted in Ireland for abortion. God’s love for our souls their own struggles with their sins or because of the is awaiting for a proper response from us. We must conflicts that seem to occur everywhere around renew our resolution to make efforts to correspond them. They may even feel abandoned by God since with God’s love for us. To act with charity, that is to things are tending to get worse every day. How does say with love for God, is the only way to move this match with the love of God towards men? they forward and not let ourselves be overwhelmed by may ask themselves. The answer is based on a fear or despondency. fundamental principle. It is absolutely capital to keep May the Sacred Heart of Jesus touch the hearts of us in mind and firmly believe that God’s Providence all, especially in our families, but first and foremost allows all events always for the greater good, that is, be the leitmotiv of our own efforts and sanctification. ultimately for His own glory and for our sanctification. Father Vianney Vandendaele + Preston — Manchester — Liverpool — Rhos-on-Sea — Bingley 12 Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary ur Lord Jesus Christ made Keep in mind in the th Promise that Our Lord asks O these twelve promises to us to receive Him in Holy Communion in a state of those who honour His Sacred grace on the First Friday of each of nine consecutive Heart to St. Margaret Mary months, a First Friday devotion. Alacoque, a French nun, whom he If you have any serious sins on your soul, it is called the Beloved Disciple of the important to have them absolved in the Sacrament of Sacred Heart and the Heiress of Penance first. If for some reason you miss a month, all Its treasures, in the ’s. the following month becomes your first again, but They show us how much He considering the graces Jesus offers us here, it’s more cherishes this devotion. than worth following this schedule! Considering that the blood that redeemed us at As with all of God’s graces, these promises are Calvary came from His Sacred Heart and that so contingent on our obeying His Will for us through much love and light still exude from it, we can easily prayer, the sacraments, reading and studying about understand why! These promises were revealed in one our faith, and listening to the Holy Ghost which, of many private revelations that Jesus gave according to Our Lord Himself, is His Spirit. This is St. Margaret Mary. Our Lord promised the following: not as difficult as it may sound, however. What it . I will give them all the graces necessary for involves, after all, is trying our best to live a good life their state in life; pleasing to God, in obedience to Him, and sharing His . I will establish peace in their families; love with others! . I will comfort them in their trials; Think also of those parables in the Gospels in which Our Lord Jesus Christ spoke approvingly of the good . I will be their secure refuge during life, and, and faithful servants who served their master above all, in death; diligently and thus were rewarded when he returned . I will shed abundant blessings on all their Matthew :- and :-. undertakings; The th promise, incidentally can help with the th and . Sinners will find in My Heart an infinite ocean th. Just as looking at a crucifix can remind you of the of mercy; immense depth of God’s love for us, so can looking at . Lukewarm souls will become fervent; an image of our Lord and His Sacred Heart such as the one above further personalise that love for each of . Fervent souls will rapidly grow in holiness and us, and for you in particular. perfection; Seeing His Sacred Heart ablaze with love and light . I will bless every place where an image of My can be a source of great consolation after a hard day Heart shall be exposed and honoured; or during a trying time in this often loveless world! . I will give to priests the gift of touching the And remember, His love is not just for us sinners or most hardened hearts; for fallen humanity in the abstract, but for you as well! . The names of those who promote this These promises, like this devotion, remind us that devotion will be written in My Heart, never to be God’s love for us is such that he doesn’t want to lose blotted out; any of us to Satan and Perdition. The Good Shepherd . I promise thee, in the excessive mercy of My will search after His lost sheep, but, we must want to Heart, that My all-powerful love will grant to all be found. those who receive Holy Communion on the First As St. Augustine, the th Century bishop of Hippo, one Friday of nine consecutive months, the grace of of our greatest theologians and a Doctor of the final penitence; they shall not die in My disgrace Church once said about God He who created us nor without receiving their Sacraments; My without our help will not save us without our Divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last consent. moment. From Our Catholic Prayers The Secret of the Rosary Fourteenth Rose should be filled with The Our Father — V overwhelming reverence. Then the fear of the Lord We make as many acts of the noblest Christian virtues will chase away all pride as we pronounce words, when we recite attentively and we will bow down this Divine Prayer. before God in our utter nothingness. In saying "Our Father Who art in Heaven," we make acts of faith, adoration and humility. When we ask When we say the name Father and remember that we that His name be hallowed and glorified we show a owe our existence to God by the means of our parents burning zeal for His glory, and when we ask for the and even our knowledge to our teachers who hold the spread of His Kingdom we make an act of hope; by place and are the living images of God, then we the wish that His will be done on earth as it is in cannot help paying them honour and respect, or, to Heaven, we show a spirit of perfect obedience. be more exact, honouring God in them. Nothing then, too, would be farther from our thoughts than to be In asking for our daily bread we practise poverty of disrespectful to them or hurt them. spirit and detachment from worldly goods. When we beg Him to forgive us our sins we make an act of We are never farther from blaspheming than when we sorrow for them. By forgiving those who have pray that the Holy Name of God may be glorified. If we trespassed against us we give proof of the virtue of really look upon the Kingdom of God as our heritage mercy in its highest degree.