This
is Alice’s June newsletter. I explained Alice’s
monthly newsletter here. This month
focuses on the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Before
the newsletter, let us pray: For Pope Leo XIV
Hail
Mary, full of grace…
Hail
Mary, full of grace…
Hail
Mary, full of grace…
St.
Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the
wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do
thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell
Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of
souls.
Handmaids of Mary
St. Michael’s Warriors
June 2026 Newsletter
Sacred Heart of
Jesus, have mercy on us.
Recently we celebrated the feast of Pentecost ending the Easter season. Bishop Fulton Sheen, in an article on the Descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles, said, that if Christ never left us, Christ would always be outside of us. By sending the Holy Ghost, He now dwells within us.
Bishop Sheen gave this analogy of how The Holy Ghost is an encounter with love. “There was a boy who gave his parents a hard time. He didn’t like brushing his hair, washing his face, and he had a surly disposition. Whenever he went out the door, he slammed it. One day he came to breakfast, his hair was combed, his faced washed, he was pleasant to everyone in the family, and, when he left, he closed the door quietly. “He had met Susan…..”
He (the Holy Spirit) will be to us a cloud by day and a brightness of flaming fire in the night, ever guiding, ever leading us on, unswervingly to our home beyond the grave.
I pray: Love of the Holy Spirit be thou the source of all the operations of our minds, that they may ever be conformed to God’s good pleasure.
Some unfinished business from last month: regarding Pope Pius IX and the Holy Face of Christ, I neglected to mention the purpose of the devotion to the Holy Face is to make reparation for sins against the first three commandments: First Commandment, against denial of God. Second commandment, blasphemy such as using God’s name in vain. Third commandment, the profanation of Sundays and Holy Days. Our Lady of La Salette, whose sorrow was in the breaking of these commandments, gave us these words, “Fight, children of light; you, the few who can see! For now is hot time of times, the end of all ends. The Church will eclipse: the world will be in dismay. It is time you filled the earth with light. I am at your side.”
Recently I discovered there is a Holy Face medal. You can order it for free here. Or send a self-addressed envelope with two first class stamps to: Holy Face Association, P. O. Box 821, Champlain, NY 12919-0821.
Prayer to the Holy Face by Mother Maria-Pierina (Carmelite):
O blessed Face of my kind Savior, by the tender love and piercing sorrow of Our Lady as she beheld you in your cruel Passion,
Grant us to share in this intense sorrow and love, to fulfill the holy will of God to the upmost of our ability. Amen
The Holy Face is a weapon. In our Blessed Mother’s own words, the medal is a weapon for defense, a shield for courage, a token of love and mercy, which My Divine Son wished to give the world in these troubled times.
There have been so many Holy Days this past month: Pentecost, Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi, Sacred the Heart of Jesus. It is feast after the sorrow of lent.
The feast of Corpus Christi reminds us of the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Sadly, it was noted by a priest in his sermon, only 39% of Catholics believe in the real presence. As we processed with the Holy Eucharist in the streets of our Parishes, and as the Pope processed in the streets of Madrid, Spain, Corpus Christi Sunday reminds us of the True Presence.
“When all the world is comfortless,
And wrapped in
gloom as black as night.
Remind us, Lord, in our distress
One spot on earth is
always bright-
The Tabernacle.”
In conclusion as a tribute to Bishop Fulton Sheen in commemoration of his beatification, I offer his favorite poem to our Blessed Lady, “Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue.”
Lovely Lady dressed in blue
-------
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little boy,
Tell me what to say!
Did you lift Him up, sometimes,
Gently on your knee?
Did you sing to Him the way
Mother does to me?
Did you hold His hand at night?
Did you ever try
Telling stories of the world?
O! And did He cry?
Do you really think He cares
If I tell Him things -------
Little things that happen? And
Do the Angels' wings
Make a noise? And can He hear
Me if I speak low?
Does He understand me now?
Tell me -------for you know.
Lovely Lady dressed in blue
-------
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little boy,
And you know the way.
Handmaid of the Handmaids,
Alice
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