June 2025

As we close the beautiful month of May 2025 — crowned by the Visitation on the 31st and the Queenship of Mary still echoing in our hearts — the Church is already feeling the mighty wind of Pentecost rushing toward us. June will be the month when the Holy Spirit descends anew upon the upper room of the Jubilee Year, setting every heart ablaze with the love that pours forth from the pierced Heart of Jesus. This June will see the great outpouring of the Spirit on Pentecost Sunday (June 8), the revelation of the Triune God on Trinity Sunday (June 15), the triumph of the Eucharistic Lord on Corpus Christi (Thursday June 19, with external solemnity transferred to Sunday June 22 in many dioceses), and the radiant solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus on Friday June 20 — the very day the Church has traditionally consecrated the whole world to that Heart which loved us and spent itself utterly for us. Under the prophetic leadership of Pope Leo XIV, who never tires of pointing us to the Heart of Christ as the true fount of hope, June will be the month when the Church falls deeper in love with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and allows that love to set the world on fire.

The liturgical calendar of June 2025 is a blazing progression toward the Sacred Heart:

Holy Days of Obligation in June 2025

There are no universal Holy Days of Obligation in June (the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart is not an obligation, though many bishops strongly encourage attendance). However, Corpus Christi remains a Holy Day of Obligation in some countries where it is kept on the Thursday (June 19). Check your local diocese — several bishops have already asked the faithful to treat both Corpus Christi Thursday and Sacred Heart Friday as days of special devotion and, where possible, to attend Mass.

Major Solemnities and Feasts

• June 8 — Pentecost Sunday — the birthday of the Church, end of the Easter season, and the great sending of the Holy Spirit

• June 15 — Most Holy Trinity

• June 19 — Corpus Christi (Thursday; external solemnity often transferred to Sunday June 22)

• June 20 — Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

• June 21 — Immaculate Heart of Mary

• June 24 — Nativity of St. John the Baptist

• June 29 — Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles (falls on Sunday this year, so the solemnity takes precedence over the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Every feast leads us deeper into the mystery of the Heart of Christ — wounded for our sins, burning with love for the Father and for us, and pouring forth blood and water as the fountain of sacramental life.

The Jubilee events in Rome will be radiant with the fire of the Spirit. The weekend of June 7–8 will see the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations, and New Communities — Charismatics, Focolare, Neocatechumenal Way, Communion and Liberation, Sant’Egidio, and hundreds of others will flood the city with praise, testimony, and missionary zeal on the very vigil and day of Pentecost. Pope Leo XIV will celebrate the closing Mass on Pentecost Sunday itself, imparting a new Pentecostal blessing and commissioning every movement to carry the Jubilee hope to the peripheries. Later in the month, June 14–15 has been designated as a special Jubilee celebration for the world of sports in continuity with the ecclesial movements — athletes, coaches, and sports ministers honoring St. John Paul II’s teaching that sport can be a school of virtue and evangelization.

Our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV has declared June a month of Eucharistic and Sacred Heart reparation. His prayer intention for June, released in the Pope Video filmed in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Manila, is for all those wounded by scandal in the Church — that they may find healing in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the maternal embrace of the Immaculate Heart. On June 20, the Holy Father will lead a worldwide act of reparation before the Blessed Sacrament, broadcast from St. Peter’s, with the Heart of Jesus exposed beneath the crucifix.

Around the world the Church is already preparing processions and adorations that will make heaven jealous.

In Latin America, the bishops of Mexico have called for the largest Corpus Christi processions in history on June 19 — entire cities shutting down so that Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament can pass through streets still scarred by violence. Brazilian dioceses are organizing 24-hour adoration chains from Pentecost to Sacred Heart, with youth keeping vigil through the night.

In Africa, Nigerian bishops are combining Pentecost with renewed calls for peace, with massive Sacred Heart enthronements in every parish. The Church in Congo is preparing to carry the Blessed Sacrament through mining towns on Corpus Christi as a prophetic sign of Christ’s preference for the poor.

In Asia, the Philippines — the only country where Corpus Christi Thursday remains a public holiday — is expecting millions in the streets for the Eucharistic Lord. Indian bishops are consecrating every diocese to the Sacred Heart on June 20.

In Europe, Polish Catholics are preparing national pilgrimage routes culminating on Sacred Heart Friday, while the French Church is reviving the great national procession of the Blessed Sacrament in Paris — forbidden for centuries — with government permission granted for the Jubilee.

In the United States, the final surge of the National Eucharistic Revival will peak this month. Dozens of dioceses are holding massive Corpus Christi processions through city centers on June 22, with several bishops announcing they will personally carry the monstrance for miles. Reports indicate that Perpetual Adoration chapels are overflowing and that confessions are at levels not seen in decades.

Our bishops are leading with extraordinary courage, many issuing pastoral letters on the real presence and the need for reparation, some mandating Eucharistic adoration in every parish every Thursday of June.

Our priests will be the visible flames of the Sacred Heart this month — hearing confessions until dawn after Pentecost vigils, carrying the Blessed Sacrament in procession under the June sun, preaching without compromise that only the Heart of Jesus can satisfy the human heart. Seminaries are reporting that the Eucharistic Revival and Jubilee graces have filled formation houses to capacity — young men writing, “I saw Jesus adored by thousands, and I knew I wanted to bring Him to dying souls.”

And our consecrated brothers and sisters — especially the many communities devoted to the Sacred Heart and the Eucharist — are the hidden furnace of this month. Cloistered Carmelites, Poor Clares, and Pink Sisters are being absolutely inundated with requests for Sacred Heart novena enrollments. Many monasteries have committed to perpetual adoration from Pentecost through the Immaculate Heart.

My dear brothers and sisters, June 2025 is the month to fall irrevocably in love with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Go to Mass daily if you can. Adore Him every night if possible. Make reparation for those who no longer believe He is really there. Consecrate your family, your parish, your nation to the Sacred Heart that was pierced so that we might enter in.