Hello SKs and Fellow Brothers,
Today as we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I would like to thank Brothers Ricardo, Miguel and Bryan for being able to last moment assist our Chaplin Father Davy. We were able to get much of the furniture moved back into their rooms with great care as the Rectory was undergoing painting and new wood floors. We are happy to say Father Davy is back in his home!
Sacred Heart Update: Monsignor Walton’s last Mass will be Thursday, June 30th, at 8:00 am. Monsignor’s last Sunday’s Masses will be on June 26th.
Thank you Brother Al Fernandez who has picked up a card which will be from all of us at 953! We will also have a very nice bottle of wine as a retirement gift from our Council.
The attention of Christians was early attracted by the love and virtues of the Heart of Mary. The Gospel itself invited this attention with exquisite discretion and delicacy. What was first excited was compassion for the Virgin Mother. It was, so to speak, at the foot of the Cross that the Christian heart first made the acquaintance of the Heart of Mary. Simeon’s prophecy paved the way and furnished the devotion with one of its favourite formulae and most popular representations: the heart pierced with a sword. But Mary was not merely passive at the foot of the Cross; “she cooperated through charity”, as St. Augustine says, “in the work of our redemption”.
In the midst of the second world war Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior’s Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the *Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.* This is not a new devotion. In the seventeenth century, St. John Eudes preached it together with that of the Sacred Heart; in the nineteenth century, Pius VII and Pius IX allowed several churches to celebrate a feast of the Pure Heart of Mary. Pius XII instituted today’s feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, so as to obtain by her intercession “peace among nations, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, the love of purity and the practice of virtue” (Decree of May 4, 1944).
For more information on The Immaculate Heart of Mary please visit:
www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2022-06-25
Vivat Jesus!
SK & Brother Marco Ferrero Knights of Columbus Council 953, GK
Today as we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, I would like to thank Brothers Ricardo, Miguel and Bryan for being able to last moment assist our Chaplin Father Davy. We were able to get much of the furniture moved back into their rooms with great care as the Rectory was undergoing painting and new wood floors. We are happy to say Father Davy is back in his home!
Sacred Heart Update: Monsignor Walton’s last Mass will be Thursday, June 30th, at 8:00 am. Monsignor’s last Sunday’s Masses will be on June 26th.
Thank you Brother Al Fernandez who has picked up a card which will be from all of us at 953! We will also have a very nice bottle of wine as a retirement gift from our Council.
The attention of Christians was early attracted by the love and virtues of the Heart of Mary. The Gospel itself invited this attention with exquisite discretion and delicacy. What was first excited was compassion for the Virgin Mother. It was, so to speak, at the foot of the Cross that the Christian heart first made the acquaintance of the Heart of Mary. Simeon’s prophecy paved the way and furnished the devotion with one of its favourite formulae and most popular representations: the heart pierced with a sword. But Mary was not merely passive at the foot of the Cross; “she cooperated through charity”, as St. Augustine says, “in the work of our redemption”.
In the midst of the second world war Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior’s Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the *Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.* This is not a new devotion. In the seventeenth century, St. John Eudes preached it together with that of the Sacred Heart; in the nineteenth century, Pius VII and Pius IX allowed several churches to celebrate a feast of the Pure Heart of Mary. Pius XII instituted today’s feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, so as to obtain by her intercession “peace among nations, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, the love of purity and the practice of virtue” (Decree of May 4, 1944).
For more information on The Immaculate Heart of Mary please visit:
www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2022-06-25
Vivat Jesus!
SK & Brother Marco Ferrero Knights of Columbus Council 953, GK