Month: June 2023

Summer movie nights at Saint Mark!

Throughout the month of July, Saint Mark parish is going to have Friday movie nights! With each night being themed differently, we’re hoping to have a wide variety of movies to enjoy together: family (July 7), action (July 14), classic (July 21), and anime (July 28). But we need your help choosing!

An online poll is live now – for two weeks only – to find out which movies would be best. For each category, we have several movie proposals – each with a linked review for your consideration. You can also suggest your own movie ideas. Please visit the poll (click this sentence), consider the options, and vote – and then let us come enjoy movies together!

(If you’d like to see the results – before or after you yourself vote – click here)

Prayers of reparation – an invitation from our bishops

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The bishops of the United States have recently called Catholics to pray the Litany of the Sacred Heart in reparation for the blasphemies against our Lord seen in our culture today.

Catholic Christians traditionally recognize June as the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. During this time, we call to mind Christ’s love for us, which is visible in a special way in the image of His pierced heart, and we pray that our own hearts might be conformed to His, calling us to love and respect all His people.

This year, on June 16—the day of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—a professional baseball team has shockingly chosen to honor a group whose lewdness and vulgarity in mocking our Lord, His Mother, and consecrated women cannot be overstated. This is not just offensive and painful to Christians everywhere; it is blasphemy.

It has been heartening to see so many faithful Catholics and others of good will stand up to say that what this group does is wrong, and it is wrong to honor them. We call on Catholics to pray the Litany of the Sacred Heart on June 16, offering this prayer as an act of reparation for the blasphemies against our Lord we see in our culture today.

– bishop’s invitation to the faithful

The Litany of the Sacred Heart, included in full below, is offered with the intention of repairing the spiritual damage inflicted by sin. May we pray individually, with our families, and as a parish that our hearts may be conformed to the Lord’s own Sacred Heart.

Litany of the Sacred Heart

Lord, have mercy
Christ, have mercy
Lord, have mercy

God our Father in heaven
God the Son, Redeemer of the world
God the Holy Spirit
Holy Trinity, one God
Heart of Jesus, Son of the eternal Father
Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mother
Heart of Jesus, one with the eternal Word
Heart of Jesus, infinite in majesty
Heart of Jesus, holy temple of God
Heart of Jesus, tabernacle of the Most High
Heart of Jesus, house of God and gate of heaven
Heart of Jesus, aflame with love for us
Heart of Jesus, source of justice and love
Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love
Heart of Jesus, well-spring of all virtue
Heart of Jesus, worthy of all praise
Heart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts
Heart of Jesus, treasure-house of wisdom and knowledge
Heart of Jesus, in whom there dwells the fullness of God
Heart of Jesus, in whom the Father is well pleased
Heart of Jesus, from whose fullness we have all received
Heart of Jesus, desire of the eternal hills
Heart of Jesus, patient and full of mercy
Heart of Jesus, generous to all who turn to you
Heart of Jesus, fountain of life and holiness
Heart of Jesus, atonement for our sins
Heart of Jesus, overwhelmed with insults
Heart of Jesus, broken for our sins
Heart of Jesus, obedient even to death
Heart of Jesus, pierced by a lance
Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation
Heart of Jesus, our life and resurrection
Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation
Heart of Jesus, victim of our sins
Heart of Jesus, salvation of all who trust in you
Heart of Jesus, hope of all who die in you
Heart of Jesus, delight of all the saints
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world
Jesus, gentle and humble of heart.

Lord, have mercy
Christ, have mercy
Lord, have mercy

have mercy on us
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Touch our hearts and make them like your own.

Let us pray.
Grant, we pray, almighty God,
that we, who glory in the Heart of your beloved Son
and recall the wonders of his love for us,
may be made worthy to receive
an overflowing measure of grace
from that fount of heavenly gifts.
Through Christ our Lord.
R/. Amen.