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The Month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the Friday following the second Sunday after Pentecost. In addition to the liturgical celebration, many devotional exercises are connected with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Of all devotions, devotion to the Sacred Heart was, and remains, one of the most widespread and popular in the Church.

Understood in the light of the Scriptures, the term “Sacred Heart of Jesus” denotes the entire mystery of Christ, the totality of his being, and his person considered in its most intimate essential: Son of God, uncreated wisdom; infinite charity, principal of the salvation and sanctification of mankind. The “Sacred Heart” is Christ, the Word Incarnate, Savior, intrinsically containing, in the Spirit, an infinite divine-human love for the Father and for his brothers.

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• A veil, like a sacrament, is an outward sign of an inward event. In this case, it is an outward sign of an inward call to emulate the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, the perfect woman, who always wears a veil. Honor the Blessed Mother May in the month of May by following her example of wearing the veil.

• The tradition of women wearing veils has been practiced within the Catholic Church since its beginning. St. Paul even speaks of women being veiled in Church. This is not because their status is less than men, but because they have a special role in creation and in salvation history. Because of this, women are to be cherished, set apart, special. By wearing a veil, a woman humbly accepts this great honor given to her by God. The veil symbolizes a woman’s acceptance of the sacred vocation God has ordained for her.

• Holy things are veiled in order to preserve their proper mystery and to show that they are set apart. In our Catholic churches, the tabernacle is veiled because it is holy and pure, containing the sacred Body of Christ, the author of life; a woman is veiled because she is a temple of the Holy Spirit and a tabernacle of life, whether in spiritual or physical motherhood, or both.

  [NOTE: Not only is a woman’s head veiled, but her entire body is called to be modestly concealed, preserving her sacred dignity before God and man. For women, skirts and dresses with hemlines below the knee and loosely fitted garments are modest; short skirts or dresses, and tightly fitted, body revealing fashions are not modest.]

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The Divine Mercy Chaplet Prayer Circle is a lay Catholic group offering prayers for those souls who are in their last hours and death is imminent. The group prays the chaplet throughout the day for souls near death. If you have a loved one for whom you would like to receive these prayers at the hour of his or her death, please send your request to the Divine Mercy Chaplet Prayer Circle at: Ezekiel.today@gmail.com