Today is both the feast day of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Our Lady’s feast day is fixed on June 27, while the Sacred Heart of Jesus is tied to Pentecost Sunday, which all goes back to Easter.
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The Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus – also the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests – is celebrated on the Friday after the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. This suggests to us that the Eucharist (Corpus Christi) is none other than the Heart of Jesus himself.
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The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is another of those pesky moveable feasts. Like so many feasts, this one is tied to Easter Sunday, which is also moveable. Here’s how confusing the date is. The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus falls on the Friday that follows the second Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, which is 50 days after Easter. It is the Friday following the Octave of Corpus Christi.
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It has been 19 days since Pentecost Sunday. For those keeping track, it’s the feast of our Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. And just for the record, one of the things I love about the Catholic Faith are all the special days.
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Today is the Friday following the second Sunday after Pentecost. Pentecost Sunday occurs fifty days after Easter Sunday. And Easter Sunday happens on the first Sunday of a full moon after March 21, the spring equinox. Oh so complicated. In simple terms; Sacred Heart is 19 days after Pentecost.
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