Welcome to the Guiding Star, a monthly newsletter sharing tips and activities to help build and strengthen your Domestic Church. What is your Domestic Church? “The family, is so to speak, the domestic church.” (Lumen Gentium #11) Visit the USCCB website on the Domestic Church for more practical ways to demonstrate and encourage a rich life of faith at home.
The Church dedicates this month to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. His Heart, pierced yet burning with mercy, reveals the depth of His compassion for each of us and invites us to respond with trust and devotion. In a world that often feels hurried and distracted, this is a time to rest in His love, to make reparation, and to let our own hearts be formed more closely to His.
From Scripture: (1 John 4:7-16)
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
Activity: Sacred Hearts
Make your own sacred heart out of salt dough.
- See this video for instructions on how to make salt dough. Form a heart out of the dough.
- Then choose a background image from this site.
- Print your background on card stock and decorate it.
- Then glue your salt dough heart to the page.
While you are working on the craft, talk as a family about the sacred heart of Jesus.
June Saints & Feasts
June 1: St. Justin Martyr
June 2: Sts. Marcellinus and Peter
June 3: St. Charles Lwanga and Companions
June 4: St. Elizabeth Hesselblad
June 5: St. Boniface
June 6: St. Norbert
June 7: Corpus Christi
June 9: St. Ephrem
June 11: St. Barnabas
June 12: Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
June 2: Sts. Marcellinus and Peter
June 3: St. Charles Lwanga and Companions
June 4: St. Elizabeth Hesselblad
June 5: St. Boniface
June 6: St. Norbert
June 7: Corpus Christi
June 9: St. Ephrem
June 11: St. Barnabas
June 12: Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
June 13: Immaculate Heart of Mary and St. Anthony of Padua
June 15: Most Holy Trinity
June 17: St. Albert Chmielowski
June 19: St. Romuald
June 21: St. Aloysius Gonzaga
June 22: St. Paulinus of Nola, St. Thomas More, and St. John Fisher
June 23: St. Etheldreda
June 24: Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 27: St. Cyril of Alexandria
June 28: St. Irenaeus
June 29: Sts. Peter and Paul
June 30: First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
June 19: St. Romuald
June 21: St. Aloysius Gonzaga
June 22: St. Paulinus of Nola, St. Thomas More, and St. John Fisher
June 23: St. Etheldreda
June 24: Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 27: St. Cyril of Alexandria
June 28: St. Irenaeus
June 29: Sts. Peter and Paul
June 30: First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church