{"id":1502180,"date":"2022-06-03T09:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502180"},"modified":"2022-06-03T09:39:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:39:02","slug":"for-catholics-june-isnt-pride-month-its-dedicated-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-catholics-june-isnt-pride-month-its-dedicated-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"For Catholics, June Isn\u2019t \u2018Pride Month,\u2019 It\u2019s Dedicated To The Sacred Heart Of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffor-catholics-june-isnt-pride-month-its-dedicated-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502180&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sacred-Heart-of-Jesus-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Unless you live in a cave, you\u2019ve probably noticed that June is \u201cPride Month,\u201d when corporate America and nearly every public institution in the country swap out their logos for rainbow flags and engage in an appalling spectacle of empty, hypocritical virtue-signaling.<\/p>\n<p>Already in the first week of June we\u2019ve had the Brooklyn Net\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrooklynNets\/status\/1531984821152538625?s=20&#038;t=VPG-ArfSnY9m3Kl97dxCxQ\">insane pride flag graphic<\/a>, the U.S. Marine Corps tweet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USMC\/status\/1531994393950953472?s=20&#038;t=Avi00t54iMgtfJ3msQaOzQ\">with the rainbow-colored bullets<\/a>, and FIFA\u2019s tweet boasting about its embrace of Pride Month in the same breath as it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAcom\/status\/1532084168045350912?s=20&#038;t=4zN1nIXp2UqPW3tZoGqFGQ\">promotes the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar<\/a>, where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate America, professional sports, Hollywood, and the entire executive branch of the federal government now claim June for the so-called \u201cLGBTQIA+ community.\u201d As far as they\u2019re concerned, if you\u2019re not sufficiently on board with \u201cPride Month,\u201d you\u2019re a bigot. Indeed, the whole concept of \u201cPride Month,\u201d as my colleague Chris Bedford\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/02\/the-new-gay-left-and-how-pride-became-an-angry-vicious-movement\/\">noted recently<\/a>, has become less about inclusion and acceptance and more about \u201ctargeted campaigns to force submission to left-wing policies often far afield from even the radical goals of America\u2019s first gay activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christians and conservatives don\u2019t have to accept this. We can reclaim June. One way to do that is to return to the well of the Catholic faith and draw from its depths. For Catholics, the month of June isn\u2019t \u201cPride Month,\u201d it\u2019s dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and has been for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The feast of the Sacred Heart has been celebrated by Catholics since the late seventeenth century, following a series of appearances Jesus made to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 1670s asking her to promote a feast in honor of His Sacred Heart. The feast falls on the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi, which means it always falls during the month of June. After the feast was officially recognized by the Catholic Church in 1856, the entire month of June became dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and His divine love for humanity, with Catholics engaging in a host of devotional practices leading up to the feast itself.<\/p>\n<p>All of this might be unfamiliar to non-Catholic Christians, but there\u2019s no reason they can\u2019t celebrate and take part along with their Catholic brothers and sisters. Devotion to the Sacred Heart, unlike the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, doesn\u2019t involve a Eucharistic procession through the streets with priests in full vestments and all the pomp and circumstance that non-Catholics sometimes find off-putting.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, devotion to the Sacred Heart is a personal and private commitment to enthrone Jesus as king in one\u2019s own heart and king over one\u2019s own home or family. Evangelicals might call it a rededication to making Jesus one\u2019s \u201cpersonal Lord and Savior.\u201d Whatever you call it, the idea is to mark out June as a month dedicated to following Jesus as your king, drawing close to Him in devotion, and recognizing Him as truly the king of all hearts, the king of all kings, and the Savior of the world.<\/p>\n<p>This is something all Christians, regardless of denomination, could and\u00a0<em>should<\/em> get behind. If we believe that Jesus Christ is king, let\u2019s make Him the king over our private lives, over our families and homes, and order our days in the month of June to honor His kingship and draw near to Him in devotion.<\/p>\n<p>By doing so, we\u2019ll gain a new understanding of His profound love for us, and in turn we\u2019ll gain a deeper love for one another \u2014 the kind of compassion and charity that \u201cPride Month\u201d once claimed to foster but which it now actively undermines.<\/p>\n<p>It should be obvious by now that unless Christians everywhere stand against corporate mass culture, our civilization will collapse. It\u2019s time \u2014 long past time \u2014 to reassert devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus over and against \u201cPride Month,\u201d and reclaim the month of June for the king of hearts.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. 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