MEMORIAL OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY.  "Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.” And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he said to them. He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.." (Luke 2: 41 - 51). Saturday 13th June 2026, in the 10th Week in Ordinary Time is the Saturday after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  The Church honors the Immaculate Heart of Mary today. You recognize the Gospel of today as the subject of the 5th Joyful Mystery of the Holy Rosary. Why this feast? The Church in her wisdom and discernment instituted this feast to encourage us to have great confidence in approaching the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary for all our spiritual and material needs.  By placing the feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary back to back, we know by filial instinct that both Hearts are not in competition. It is the will of God that She who is filled with grace and who "the Lord God is with you" in a preeminent manner will play a significant role in salvation history.  We do well to approach her constantly to be free from the chain and deceits of Satan. For the naive and ignorant who imagine that to honor Mary is to depreciate the honor of Jesus, please consider this:  Can you fail to honor the ambassador representing the President because of the foolish thought that honoring the ambassador might diminish the President's prestige?  If you do this, be ready to taste the wrath of the President. Mary, the holy handmaid of the Lord does not seek honor for herself. She is in no way in competition with her Lord "who has done great things for her."  The Holy Spirit prophesied that all generations will call Mary blessed. (Cf Luke 1: 48).  During her 65 years or so on earth, her life was hidden in Christ Jesus. But now that she is assumed into heaven, all generations call her Blessed every day.  How?  Billions of Hail Marys said every day to honor Mary.   Universities, Cathedrals, Institutes all over the world are named after the humble Virgin of Nazareth.  Her patronages are countless. "IN THE END, MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH!" Said Mary to a mystic.  AMEN. DEAREST OF MOTHERS. WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH! AND WE TRUST IN THE TRIUMPH OF YOUR IMMACULATE HEART. The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Two Hearts. One pulse.  "I beheld the Heart of Jesus like a lamp suspended in the midst of the Church, radiating the fire of the Holy Spirit to warm the coldness of humanity." — St. Gertrude the Great.  Contemplate the image of the Sacred Heart suspended as a glorious, burning lamp over the entire mystical body of the Catholic Church.  You are a living cell within that body.  The teleology of the Sacraments—especially Confession and the Holy Eucharist—is to continuously pump the fire of the Holy Spirit from that central Lamp into your own soul.  When you feel the creeping coldness of secular culture attempting to dim your faith, turn your gaze upward to this unquenchable Source.  Divine Providence has placed you in the Church for this very purpose:  to absorb that divine light and project it into the corners of your personal sphere of influence. Prayer: Sacred Heart of Jesus, celestial Lamp of the Church, set my cold soul on fire.  Read of the abundant promises made to people who honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus especially in June.  For Prayers and Prayer intentions click the link below.  http://seekfirst.blogspot.com/2020/08/12-promises-of-sacred-heart-of-jesus.html?m=1 To select Daily Bible Verse for another day please use Daily Reading section [Select date] option