June 12, 2026 The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Gospel: Matthew 11:25–30
Today is Friday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time. The Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus today. Pope St. John Paul II teaches us: To venerate the Heart of Christ is to enter deeply into the contemplation of the inner core of the Savior’s Sacred Heart; the Bible indicates that this Sacred Heart is precisely the center of His Person, and the very place of that love which has saved the world. If the human heart is already a fathomless mystery known only to God, then how sublime and exalted is the Heart of Jesus—for within it beats the pulse of life of the Word. As revealed by Scripture and extolled in the Litany of the Sacred Heart, we find in the Heart of Jesus all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and the fullness of the Godhead. To save humanity lost through disobedience, God wills to grant man a “new heart” consonant with His merciful will; that Heart is the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the wondrous work of the Holy Spirit—which began to beat in the Virgin Mary’s womb and was pierced by the lance upon the Cross, thereby becoming an inexhaustible fountain of life for all. This Heart has now become a powerful pledge of hope for men and women throughout the world.
Today, the text taken from the Gospel of Matthew is undoubtedly a word of consolation spoken by Jesus to each one of us. For He says: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” (cf. Mt 11:28) Clearly, He is inviting us to lay down before Him the burdens of our hearts, as well as the toil brought upon us by money, power, and social status.
We may feel that the suffering we endure at present is like a heavy load. We constantly rush about for our livelihood, constantly striving to reach a certain stage in life. In experiencing all this, inevitably, we directly face the pressure exerted on us by the ruler of this world and his agents. When we undergo these experiences, our souls become distressed by all that we encounter in life, feeling pained as if carrying a heavy burden, unable to catch our breath. When faced with the pressures of life and the world, we often resort to ways we deem correct to try to solve our problems. Thus, we become “the wise and learned” in the eyes of God yet forget that everything we possess at this moment comes from God’s bounty.
Today, let us gaze upon Christ suspended on the Cross, and that Heart pierced for love of us, so that this Sacred Heart may heal us, cleanse us, and transform us. May our hearts be attuned to the Heart of Jesus Christ, and may this heart, conformed to His, drive us no longer to live according to the logic of this present life, but according to the logic of God’s world as taught by Jesus Christ. The world of God taught by Jesus Christ knows only a God who loves man, and a humanity loved by God; all are brothers and sisters, and there is no longer any division by social class.
O God, who in the Heart of your Son, wounded by our sins, bestow on us in mercy the boundless treasures of your love, grant, we pray, that, in paying him the homage of our devotion, we may also offer worthy reparation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
全属于祢 
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