Dear Friends,
Our pilgrimage to the Holy Land for this year is cancelled. Let’s pray for our Christian brothers and sisters in Palestine/Israel and Jordan.
First Friday and First Saturday next week. A 9:00 am Mass will also be available on First Saturday.
June is the month of the Sacred Heart. A docudrama that has swept France is now coming to the United States: “Sacred Heart” His Reign Has No End.” It will be showing only on June 9, 11 and 14 in select theatres such as the following: AMC Forum 30 (Sterling Hts.), Emagine Palladium (Birmingham), AMC Star Gratiot 15 (Clinton Twp.), MJR Marketplace (Sterling Hts.), Emagine Novi, AMC Livonia 20, Emagine Canton and Emagine Woodhaven. The Immaculate Heart exists for the Sacred Heart, and both Hearts are inseparable in love.
The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart falls on Friday, June 12. Our bishops will undertake a national consecration to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of our country. They will consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 12 at 5:15 pm at the National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. Why not undertake a Novena to the Sacred Heart to support this effort and help America turn back to God who is the basis of our existence?
We will make the Novena to the Sacred Heart that St. Padre Pio prayed available to anyone who wants it. Any novena to the Sacred Heart should begin on June 3 and be completed on June 11.
The Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, our Shrine’s other patronal namesake, falls on Saturday, June 13. We will hold an OUTDOOR MASS in the Hallow—the grassy backyard behind the chapel. May Jesus and Mary reign in the coming Kingdom of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
To communicate with me, please email me directly at my NEW EMAIL abunacalcio1982@gmail.com or call/text me at (313) 727-9784. Our Lady of the Cape, pray for us!
In Jesus, Mary & Joseph,
Fr. Alex Kratz, OFM
Spiritual Director of Terra Sancta Ministries