The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-06-01
JUNE-MoNTH OF THE SACRED
HEART.

With the roses of June comes the
hearts welcome of love to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus. That heart so full of
love for men, draws men to love it in
return. Like the sun lighting up and
influencing the whole universe, so the
Sacred Heart of Jesus would be the
light and life of all mankind, whence
they would receive of His love human
and divine and whittier they would
return to Him their love, says Bishop
Cotton.
1t is of Faith that the human heart
of our Lord and Saviour is hyposta-
tically united with the divine nature,
so that 1t loves us with an infinite
love, and that through the same chan
mel We may return our love to God and
requite Him for His favors. We
should cultivate devotion to the Sa-
cred Heart of Jesus. It is so easy,
it is so natural to seek and find our
Lord in this way. There is to be had
the fullness of that divine love which
prompted the sacrifice of Calvary.
There rise the streams of that precious
the altar of the Cross. There is the
center of that life which our Lord
laid down for mans salvation. There
is the seat of His love, the tribunal
of His mercy, the treasure of His
goodness. There is His thought for
us; His design and plan to save and
sanctify us, and bring us to Himself
N RI oh wifi
and happiness. To that Heart of
Hearts let us, then, ever turn our
thoughts and our affections and give
to it the homage of our being. 1t is
for men to seek their Creator and
their God, and here is the way; name
ly, the way He seeks them, through
His Sacred Heart-His Heart of Love.
Let all our thoughts run there as to
their natural center; let all our love
go out to His Sacred Heart, for it
wishes to engulf us in it's love- Thus
shall be be united to God. We shall
live in Him and He shall live in us,
and make us by union more worthy
of Him, because growing more like
Him.
Let, then, the June days, so bright
with sunshine and warm with life, be
passed in renewed love and alteration
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; that He
may renew His love for us, and cheer
our souls and renew our energies and
cause us to love Him, as He does u.s.
with an entire and consuming love.
The lovely month of June has been
hxr t0
LORDS Sacred Heart. It is then when
the genial summer takes the chill out
of the air and nature settles down to
bright and beautiful days that the
joyful heart of man is hidden to think
of the Sacred Heart of his Lord and
Saviour, and through acts of adora-
ton, love and homage, to make CRATE
full acknowledgment for the redemp-
ton which has come to mankind from
that divinely loving Heart. Through
the Psalmist our Lord cries out to all
men, "Son, give Me thy heart" He
has given us His Sacred Heart, and
when He gave His heart, He gave us
ALL He is infinite goodness and in
finite love. He asks that we give Him
our hearts in return; that is, give
Him our affection, give Him our hon.
age, give Him our service as far as we
can, by offering up whatever we do,
or say, or think, as an oblation to
His Sacred Heart. His Heart gave it's
last drop of life's blood for us. What
a privilege is ours! If it is noble to
serve a great, good ruler, what an
honor to serve our Lord, the Kings of
Kings, great Lord of heaven and earth!
If it be sweet to die for ones country,
how great the joy and happiness to be
ready to die, rather than to offend
God, even in the slightest degree!
These are the feelings of the true
Christian for his Lord and Saviour,
and all this he sums us in an all.
absorbing love towards the Sacred
Heart of Jesus. He is the friend that
has proven His love for us by His
dying upon the cross. We can only
return that love even in slight de,
gree, by immolating our wills and our
whole souls to Him. We give so much
to earthly friends, our time, ou1
strength, our health, our very life even
are sacrificed for them, and yet how
Outlines it is ill requitted.
Should we not do all this and more;
yes, do everything we can for ou1
Lord who loves us with an infinite
love and has proven it by an infinite
sacrifice? o let us begin to love Him
as we should in the long, lovely days
of June!
We show our love for others by
thinking of them affectionatey, by say
ing kind words to and of them, and by
doing kind things for them. And this
is the way we can show our love fol
our Divine Lord and return love fol
love- How often we can think of Him
Everything about us recalls Him, fol
He is God as well as man, and so the
earth and all it's beauty, the heavens