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12 June 2026 (Friday) | Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

12 June 2026 (Friday)

Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

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First Reading: Deuteronomy 7: 6-11

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 10: ℟. 17

Second Reading: 1 John 4: 7-16

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia: Matthew 11: 29ab

Gospel: Matthew 11: 25-30

Liturgical year 2026 (Cycle A/II)

Liturgical color: White

Hymn

To Christ, the Prince of Peace,

And Son of God most high,

The father of the world to come,

Sing we with holy joy.

Deep in his heart for us

The wound of love he bore;

That love wherewith he still inflames

The hearts that him adore.

O Jesu! Victim blest!

What else but love divine

Could thee constrain to open thus

That sacred heart of thine?

O fount of endless life!

O spring of water clear!

O flame celestial, cleansing all

Who unto thee draw near!

Praise to the Father be,

And sole-begotten Son;

Praise, holy Paraclete, to thee

While endless ages run.

First Reading: Deuteronomy 7: 6-11

The Lord set his heart on you and chose you.

(Reader) A reading from the Book of Deuteronomy.

Moses said to the people:
“You are a people sacred to the LORD, your God;
   he has chosen you from all the nations on the face of the earth
   to be a people peculiarly his own.
It was not because you are the largest of all nations
   that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you,
   for you are really the smallest of all nations.
It was because the LORD loved you
   and because of his fidelity to the oath he had sworn your fathers,
   that he brought you out with his strong hand
   from the place of slavery,
   and ransomed you from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
Understand, then, that the LORD, your God, is God indeed,
   the faithful God who keeps his merciful covenant
   down to the thousandth generation
   toward those who love him and keep his commandments,
   but who repays with destruction a person who hates him;
   he does not dally with such a one,
   but makes them personally pay for it.
You shall therefore carefully observe the commandments,
   the statutes and the decrees that I enjoin on you today.”

(Reader) The Word of the Lord.

(All) Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 10: ℟. 17

℟. (cf. 17) The Lord’s kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.

Bless the LORD, O my soul;
   all my being, bless his holy name.
Bless the LORD, O my soul;
   and forget not all his benefits.

℟. The Lord’s kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.

He pardons all your iniquities,
   heals all your ills.
He redeems your life from destruction,
   crowns you with kindness and compassion.

℟. The Lord’s kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.

Merciful and gracious is the LORD,
   slow to anger and abounding in kindness.
Not according to our sins does he deal with us,
   nor does he requite us according to our crimes.

℟. The Lord’s kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.

Second Reading: 1 John 4: 7-16

God loved us.

(Reader) A reading from the first Letter of Saint John.

Beloved, let us love one another,
   because love is of God;
   everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.
In this way the love of God was revealed to us:
   God sent his only Son into the world
   so that we might have life through him.
In this is love:
   not that we have loved God, but that he loved us
   and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us,
   we also must love one another.
No one has ever seen God.
Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us,
   and his love is brought to perfection in us.

This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us,
   that he has given us of his Spirit.
Moreover, we have seen and testify
   that the Father sent his Son as savior of the world.
Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,
   God remains in him and he in God.
We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.

God is love, and whoever remains in love
   remains in God and God in him.

(Reader) The Word of the Lord.

(All) Thanks be to God.

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia: Matthew 11:29ab

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Take my yoke upon you, says the Lord;
and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel: Matthew 11: 25-30

I am meek and humble of heart.

✠ (Reader) A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew.

(All) Glory to you, O Lord.

At that time Jesus exclaimed:
“I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
   for although you have hidden these things
   from the wise and the learned
   you have revealed them to little ones.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows the Son except the Father,
   and no one knows the Father except the Son
   and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,
   and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
   for I am meek and humble of heart;
   and you will find rest for yourselves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”

(Reader) The Gospel of the Lord.

(All) Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

For our reflection today:

This devotional material is suitable for all levels of society, especially for personal, family and community use. Every group and community as well as the Congregation in the Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels) are encouraged to use it freely.

The words of the Popes.

"Learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart" (Mt 11:29). Only once, perhaps, did the Lord Jesus refer to his own heart, in his own words. And he stressed this sole feature: "gentleness and lowliness": as if he meant that it is only in this way that he wishes to conquer man; that by means of "gentleness and lowliness" he wishes to be the King of hearts. The whole mystery of his reign was expressed in these words. Gentleness and lowliness cover, in a certain sense, all the "riches" of the Redeemer's heart. But also that "gentleness and lowliness" reveal him fully; and enable us to get to know him and accept him; they make him the object of supreme admiration. The beautiful litany to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is composed of many similar words—more, exclamations of admiration for the riches of the Heart of Christ. Let us meditate on them carefully on that day. Thus, at the end of this fundamental liturgical cycle of the Church—which began with the first Sunday of Advent and passed through the time of Christmas, then of Lent and of the Resurrection up to Pentecost, the Sunday of Holy Trinity, and Corpus Christi—the feast of the Divine Heart, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, presents itself discreetly. All this cycle is enclosed definitively in it; in the Heart of the Man-God. From it, too, the whole life of the Church irradiates every year. (Pope John Paul II, General Audience, 20 June 1979)

Paragraph 478 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church states that Jesus knew and loved everyone completely during His life on Earth. It notes that His Sacred Heart is the ultimate symbol of the pure, deep, and unconditional love that God has for all people (click here).

Morning and Evening Prayer Prayers according to the teachings of Holy Tradition and the Catholic Church

This prayer request must be prayed by all members who are in the Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels). This prayer can be prayed individually, in the family, in the community, especially for the benefit of the group or community that has been established. Each Congregation is obliged to pray the prayers that have been provided according to the official prayers of the Catholic Church which are determined and regulated liturgically and which are rooted in Holy Tradition and the Catholic Church.

INTERCESSIONS (Morning Prayer)

We make our prayers to Jesus, who is meek and humble of heart, and we say to him:
– Beloved Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus, in you abides the fullness of godhead:
  let us share in your divine nature.
– Beloved Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus, in you are found all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge:
  through your Church reveal to us the manifold wisdom of God.
– Beloved Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus, in you the Father was well pleased:
  make us persevere in following your teaching.
– Beloved Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus, of your fullness we have all received:
  pour out upon us in abundance the grace and truth of the Father.
– Beloved Lord, have mercy on us.
Jesus, you are the source of life and holiness:
  make us holy and perfect in charity.
– Beloved Lord, have mercy on us.

Additional prayers: After these prayers have been prayed, all of you may use prayers in your own words spontaneously and according to your individual circumstances and situations.

Our Father
Our Father, who art in heaven,
  hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
  Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
  and forgive us our trespasses,
  as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
  but deliver us from evil.

Concluding Prayer

Almighty God and Father,
  we glory in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, your beloved Son,
  as we call to mind the great things his love has done for us.
Fill us with the grace that flows in abundance
  from the Heart of Jesus, the source of heaven’s gifts.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

DISMISSAL

When a priest or deacon presides over the Office and no other Hour follows:

Priest: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit.

May almighty God bless you, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

℟. Amen.

When no priest or deacon is present, or in recitation on one’s own, the conclusion is as follows:

The Lord bless us, and keep us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.

℟. Amen.

Hymn

O gladsome light, O grace

Of God the Father’s face,

The eternal splendour wearing;

Celestial, holy, blest,

Our Saviour Jesus Christ,

Joyful in thine appearing.

Now, ere day fadeth quite,

We see the evening light,

Our wonted hymn outpouring;

Father of might unknown,

Thee, his incarnate Son,

And Holy Ghost adoring.

To thee of right belongs

All praise of holy songs,

O Son of God, Life-giver:

Thee therefore, O most High,

The world doth glorify,

And shall exalt for ever.

INTERCESSIONS (Evening Prayer)

We make our prayers to Jesus, in whom we find rest for our souls, and we say to him: