June has become a month of two very different messages.
On one side, we see rainbow flags, parades, and loud celebrations of “Pride.” On the other, the Catholic Church quietly and faithfully continues a centuries-old tradition: June is the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
These two visions of love stand in sharp contrast.
What Pride Month Celebrates
Modern Pride Month often promotes the idea that personal desires and feelings define identity and truth. It says: “Be proud of who you are. Express yourself freely. Accept every desire as good.” What begins as a call for respect can quickly become a celebration of acts and ideologies that the Church has always taught are contrary to God’s plan for human sexuality and the human person.
The Catechism is clear: every person possesses infinite dignity and must be treated with respect. But it also teaches that sexual acts outside of marriage, including homosexual acts, are intrinsically disordered (CCC 2357). True love does not flatter; it seeks the real good of the other.
What the Sacred Heart Reveals
This is not a sentimental heart. It is a pierced heart — wounded by our sins, yet burning with mercy. It is the heart of a God who humbled Himself, became man, and died on the cross so that we could be saved.
Jesus said to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque:
“My Divine Heart is so inflamed with love for men… that, being unable any longer to contain within Itself the flames of Its burning Charity, It must spread them abroad…”
This love does not flatter our weaknesses. It calls us out of them. It says: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). It offers healing, not affirmation of sin.
Where Pride says “Celebrate yourself,” the Sacred Heart says “Lose yourself in Me.”
Where Pride exalts feelings and desires, the Sacred Heart calls us to humility, obedience, and self-giving.
Scripture warns us repeatedly about pride: “Pride goes before destruction” (Proverbs 16:18). Jesus Himself taught, “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted” (Matthew 23:12).
Choosing Love That Saves
The great tragedy of our time is that many people have only known a love that flatters — a love that says “You’re fine as you are” even when the soul is restless and wounded. The Sacred Heart offers something far better: a love strong enough to save us.
This June, we are invited to make a clear choice:
- Will we follow the spirit of the age, or the Spirit of Jesus?
- Will we offer the world cheap affirmation, or the costly, healing love of the Cross?
As Catholics, we must treat every person we meet with genuine kindness and respect, while never compromising the truth. We pray for those who identify as LGBTQ+, we fast and make reparation, and we point them — and ourselves — toward the only Heart that can satisfy the human heart.
Where there is light, darkness does not enter. It leaves on its own.
Let us therefore consecrate this month, our families, and our groups to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Let our homes, our conversations, and our hearts become small beacons of His humble, saving love in a world that desperately needs it.
Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, to Thee I consecrate and offer up my person and my life, my actions, trials, and sufferings, that my entire being may henceforth only be employed in loving, honoring and glorifying Thee. This is my irrevocable will, to belong entirely to Thee, and to do all for Thy love, renouncing with my whole heart all that can displease Thee.
I take Thee, O Sacred Heart, for the sole object of my love, the protection of my life, the pledge of my salvation, the remedy of my frailty and inconstancy, the reparation for all the defects of my life, and my secure refuge at the hour of my death. Be Thou, O Most Merciful Heart, my justification before God Thy Father, and screen me from His anger which I have so justly merited. I fear all from my own weakness and malice, but placing my entire confidence in Thee, O Heart of Love, I hope all from Thine infinite Goodness. Annihilate in me all that can displease or resist Thee. Imprint Thy pure love so deeply in my heart that I may never forget Thee or be separated from Thee.
I beseech Thee, through Thine infinite Goodness, grant that my name be engraved upon Thy Heart, for in this I place all my happiness and all my glory, to live and to die as one of Thy devoted servants.Amen.
— St. Margaret Mary Alacoque