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Editorial: Dedicating the Month of June: Sacred Heart of Jesus or the 'LGBT' Agenda?

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'We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through'

We are called by the Church to dedicate the month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. However, there is a very different signal being sent by the President of the United States as to how we should spend the very same month. By way of a Presidential Proclamation he has declared the Month of June to be "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month." In the text of his proclamation he called for the repeal of the "Defense of Marriage Act."

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By Deacon Keith Fournier
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
6/1/2010 (1 decade ago)

Published in U.S.

P>WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - The month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Catholic Church. On the Friday after the Feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, we will celebrate the actual Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This is a moveable Feast and falls on June 11 in 2010. The Church as an expert in humanity calls us to spend the month reflecting on what it means to live our lives so as to reveal the Love of a Merciful God to the world. 

We are liturgical Christians. We know the importance of marking time. The Church has always marked time by the great events of the Faith. In so doing she invites the faithful to live differently, for the sake of the world. The early Christians referred to the Church as the new world, the world in the course of transfiguration. They knew, and so must we, that it is meant to be the home of the whole human race and a seed of the coming Kingdom.

As Christians we know that time is a gift from the timeless God. It is meant to be a tutor, teaching us how to live and to love. In the Incarnation, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, broke into time. It has now become a field of choice.How we spend it truly matters. 

All humans mark time. We all know it is fleeting.Nations mark time. In their special days they send important signals. For example, we just celebrated "Memorial Day" in the United States of America by honoring those who gave their lives to protect our freedoms. In so doing, we affirmed certain values which join us together.

The real question is how we mark time, individually, as families, as communities and as Nations. Then, what our commemoration says about who we are and who we are becoming.

On May 31, 1992 in Rome, the Venerable John Paul II canonized the Jesuit Priest Saint Claude de la Colombiere, the Spiritual Director of Saint Margaret Mary of Alocoque. She was the religious sister  to whom the Lord gave a special revelation of His Sacred Heart, filled with redemptive and merciful love for the world. The priest shared Margaret Mary's devotion to the Heart of Jesus and helped to spread that devotion. This occurred at a critical time when the culture of Europe was steeped in darkness - and the Church staggered from corruption within; a time which was very much like our own.

At the Mass of canonization the late Pope proclaimed, ""For evangelization today, the Heart of Christ must be recognized as the heart of the Church: It is He who calls us to conversion, to reconciliation. It is He who leads pure hearts and those hungering for justice along the way of the Beatitudes. It is He who achieves the warm communion of the members of the one Body. It is He who enables us to adhere to the Good News and to accept the promise of eternal life. It is He who sends us out on mission. The heart-to-heart with Jesus broadens the human heart on a global scale."

The heart is the center of a person, the place from which he/she makes the choices which will affect the world within them and around them. Devotion to the Heart of Jesus reminds us that it is in His Sacred Humanity that we find the pattern for becoming fully human ourselves. In His Incarnation, saving life, death and Resurrection, we receive both the pattern - and the means  - to become more like Him. 

The leaders of the Second Vatican Council in the Pastoral Constitution on the Mission of the Church in the Modern World wrote, "The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light. For Adam, the first man, was a figure of Him Who was to come, namely Christ the Lord. Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear.

"He Who is "the image of the invisible God" (Col. 1:15), is Himself the perfect man. To the sons of Adam He restores the divine likeness which had been disfigured from the first sin onward. Since human nature as He assumed it was not annulled, by that very fact it has been raised up to a divine dignity in our respect too. For by His incarnation the Son of God has united Himself in some fashion with every man. He worked with human hands, He thought with a human mind, acted by human choice and loved with a human heart. Born of the Virgin Mary, He has truly been made one of us, like us in all things except sin." (GS #22)

Two years before he became Pope, Karol Cardinal Wotyla (Pope John Paul II) spoke to the Catholic Bishops of the United States. His frank observation was republished in the Wall Street Journal on November 9, 1978:

"We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel and the anti-Gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine providence. It is a trial which the whole Church. must take up."

We are called by the Church to dedicate the month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. However, there is a very different signal being sent by the President of the United States as to how we should spend the very same month.

By way of a Presidential Proclamation he has declared the Month of June to be "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month." He has invited the whole Nation to a very different way of marking the month of June. In the text of his proclamation he called for the repeal of the "Defense of Marriage Act."

In this Proclamation he openly backs the Cultural Revolution advanced by that segment of the homosexual community which seeks to enforce a legal equivalency between homosexual partnerships and authentic marriage. The proclamation is unequivocally explicit. It reveals a very different vision of the human person, marriage and the family and society.   

The Venerable John Paul II was correct: "We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel and the anti-Gospel. This confrontation lies within the plans of divine providence. It is a trial which the whole Church. must take up."

This is a new missionary age. These two very different visions of the human person, human love and the dignity of human sexuality, human flourishing, marriage and the family - and the society founded upon them - are contending for the heart, soul and future of the West. One will lead to true human progress, flourishing and freedom, the other to human degradation and cultural collapse.

Let us spend the month of June in Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, lifting up our Nation, indeed the whole world, to the One in whom we place all of our trust. He will not disappoint; His Heart still beats with Mercy and Love for the world.  "Sacred Heart of Jesus, We Place our Trust in Thee."

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