Text Box: approved by the Church in her canonization (1920): I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life; I will establish peace in their houses. I will comfort them in all their afflictions. I will be their strength during life and above all during death. I will bestow a large blessing upon all their undertakings. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and the infinite ocean of mercy. Tepid souls shall grow fervent. Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection. I will bless every place where a picture of My Heart shall be set up and honored. I will give to priests the gift of touching the most hardened hearts. 11. Those who shall promote this devotion shall have their names writ­ten in My Heart, never to be blotted out. I promise you in the excessive mercy of My Heart that My all-powerful love will grant to all those who communicate on the First Friday in nine consecutive months the grace of final penitence; they shall not die in My disgrace nor without receiving their Sacraments; My Divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment. ENTHRONMENT OF THE SACRED HEART (See Promise 9 above.) This is the formal and communal acknowledgement of the sovereignty of the Heart of Jesus over a Christian family. The “apostle” of this practice was Fr. Mateo Crawley-Bovey (1875—1960), a South American Sacred Heart priest. Approved by Pope St. Pius X, the steps of the ceremony are: 1. Blessing of the home (optional), 2. Blessing of the image/picture, 3. Placing of picture in place of honor, 4. Apostles’ Creed, 5. Explanation of enthronement, 6. Act of Consecration and Prayer of Thanksgiving, 7. Blessing of the family, and Signing of a document and “report card” MARIAN MOVEMENT OF PRIESTS CENACLE On this Sunday May 25, at 3.30PM, Holy Mass, Holy Hour & Benediction will be offered for the Marian Movement of Priests. Next meeting will be on Sunday June 22 at 3.30.PM. Please come & invite others. Text Box: PRAYER OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI TO OUR LADY OF SHESHAN ON THE OCCASION OF THE WORLD DAY OF PRA YER FOR THE CHURCH IN CHINA (24 MAY2008) Virgin Most Holy, Mother of the Incarnate Word and our Mother, venerated in the Shrine of Sheshan under the title “Help of Christians”, the entire Church in China looks to you with devout affection. We come before you today to implore your protection. Look upon the People of God and, with a mother’s care, guide them along the paths of truth and love, so that they may always be a leaven of harmonious coexistence among all citizens. When you obediently said “yes” in the house of Naz­areth, you allowed God’s eternal Son to take flesh in your virginal womb and thus to begin in history the work of our redemption. You willingly and generously cooperated in that work, allowing the sword of pain to pierce your soul, until the supreme hour of the Cross, when you kept watch on Calvary, standing beside your Son, who died that we might live. From that moment, you became, in a new way, the Mother of all those who receive your Son Jesus in faith and choose to follow in his footsteps by taking up his Cross. Mother of hope, in the darkness of Holy Saturday you journeyed with unfailing trust towards the dawn of Easter. Grant that your children may discern at all times, even those that are darkest, the signs of God’s loving pres­ence. Our Lady of Sheshan, sustain all those in China, who, amid their daily trials, continue to believe, to hope, to love. May they never be afraid to speak of Jesus to the world, and of the world to Jesus. In the statue overlooking the Shrine you lift your Son on high, offering him to the world with open arms in a gesture of love. Help Catholics always to be credible witnesses to this love, ever clinging to the rock of Peter on which the Church is built. Mother of China and all Asia, pray for us, now and for ever. Amen!