Reclaim June
June will never be the month of pride, but it will always remain the month to worship Christ’s most sacred heart.
It is that time of year again! As corporations and town halls proudly raise the rainbow flag, the time for pride has come, and with it the theological battle for the nation’s soul. However, we can look to our own religious tradition for a solution. June must be reclaimed as the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Pride is the first and greatest sin. The celebration of pride has become a staple of American culture, acting as the rallying cry of sexual liberation. In America, liberalism has unseated Christianity as the state religion. America has replaced a duty to give reverence to the Sacred Heart with the pride flag. If America is to humble itself and relinquish its pride, June must be a celebration of Christ’s Sacred Heart. That being said, the liberal deification of pride should come as no surprise. Pride month takes one of the most sacred actions, sexual relations between a husband and wife, and perverts it. Pride parades replace Eucharistic processions, crosses become pride flags, humility is disregarded, and liberal priests in America promote this dangerous sin for tolerance's sake.
Ultimately, the descriptor of “pride” is a fitting one. The month is dedicated to placing our will above God’s. So too, the greatest perversion of pride month is taking what belongs to God, the rainbow, and transforming it into a chimera that encompasses all perverted sexual sin. God’s symbol of His promise to Noah not to flood the Earth has been adopted into the emblem of disordered desires. It remains the perfect encapsulation of liberalism as God is dethroned in pursuit of man’s most debased desires.
Catholic tradition holds that our Lord, Jesus Christ, appeared to St. Sister Mary Margaret on June 16, 1675, and implored her to create a feast to honor His most sacred heart, saying that “I promise you that my heart shall expand itself to shed in abundance the influence of its divine love upon those who shall thus honor it, and cause it to be honored.”
The Vatican declared June as the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1765. The Sacred Heart took hold of the faithful in France. Devotions to the Sacred Heart rose during this time. Most beautifully the Sacré-Coeur in Parish has had perpetual adoration for 135 years, even surviving the Great Terror. The Sacred Heart has given the faithful the insight to experience the beauty and love of Christ more intimately. The Sacred Heart reflects the burning love that Christ has for us, with a love so passionate it is willing to suffer for our salvation.
Ever since, the Sacred Heart has given the faithful the insight to experience the beauty and love of Christ more intimately. The Sacred Heart reflects the burning love that Christ has for us, with a love so passionate it is willing to suffer for our salvation. Ultimately, the Sacred Heart, being full of humility, is the only counter to pride in our own hearts. As David Richo writes:
Our heart is the soft center of the egoless self and it has one desire: to open. The heart is the capacity to open.… It contains our ability to reach out so it is the antidote to despair…Contemplation of Jesus’ Heart shows us how deep we really are, how vast our potential for love, how high our aspiration for the light.”
If America was a properly ordered society, June would be a celebration of Christ’s Sacred Heart, But in America, liberalism has unseated Christianity as the state religion. America has replaced celebrating the Sacred Heart with the pride flag.
The proper response to this dread of pride is not despair but vigor. American Catholics should reject any participation in Pride festivities and boycott any corporations, such as Target, that openly promote pride. What we really need is a government proclamation acknowledging June as the month of the Sacred Heart. If the government can endorse pride, it can certainly endorse the Sacred Heart. The time for debating this matter in the “public square” is over. The state has chosen its religion. However, by using the state to properly guide man’s soul, we can recover our humility and turn our nation to Christ. Imagine what could be different: a eucharistic procession through our nation’s capital and sacred heart flags hanging from every street corner instead of pride parades.
The image of the sacred heart should inspire us and remind us of Christ's unconditional love. Pope Leo XIII wrote in Annum Sarum,
There is in the Sacred Heart a symbol and a sensible image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love one another, therefore is it fit and proper that we should consecrate ourselves to His most Sacred Heart.”
The love of Christ should spur us towards this greatness. The love of Christ empowered the apostles to evangelize to the world and the martyrs to sacrifice themselves nobly. This is what true love is – not lust, but obedience to Christ. June is not a time for Catholics to remain passive. June will never be the month of pride, but it will always remain the month to worship Christ’s most sacred heart. It is up to us to defend it with all our might.