Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood - North American Province

06/15/2026

06/14/2026

God's Loving Care for Us

(11th Sunday Ordinary Time A;
Sunday, June 14th)

We return to the celebration of the Sundays of the ordinary time after concluding the central mysteries of or faith in the Paschal feasts and the subsequent feasts of the blessed Trinity, Corpus Christi and the Sacred Heart and I find myself drawn to something the late Pope Francis wrote on the occasion of the institution of the Sunday of the Word of God: "The relationship between the Risen Lord, the community of believers and Sacred Scripture is essential to our identity as Christians. If the Lord does not open our minds to the Scriptures, it is impossible to understand them in depth."

One idea that comes to me and connects the three readings of today, 'is God's loving care for us.’ This gift of God's unconditional love is not just for our own glorification but an invitation to share and witness to that love to others. He calls us his sons and daughters and sends his own beloved son to save us when we are lost.

In the reading from Exodus, God uses a beautiful image. He says He carried the Israelites on "eagles' wings" while rescuing them from slavery in Egypt. This God does not just govern His people as another ruler; He protects them caringly, like a mother eagle with her chick. He goes further still; he tells them they are His "treasured possession." All He asks is for them to humbly accept their new status.

In the second reading, Saint Paul explains just how deep God's love is. He not only sent his beloved Son but he reminds us that Jesus died for us while we were still sinners. What this means is, we do not have to be perfect to earn God's love, in fact true love cannot be earned. Jesus did not make it a condition that we fix all our weaknesses and get mistakes in order to continue in his love. He loves us at our worst so that we could be at our best.
In the Gospel, Jesus looks at the crowds of people and feels deep compassion for them. They look like "sheep without a shepherd" - confused, tired, and lost.

Jesus says the "harvest is abundant, but the labourers are few." This means there are many people who need help, who are lost in a wilderness of greed for riches, pleasure and power, who are searching for love, and guidance, but not enough people to give it.
Jesus does not just feel sorry for the people. He takes action: He calls His twelve apostles, gives them His power, and sends them out to offer guidance, to give them hope to lead them to the truth.
Jesus reminds them, "Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give." He reminds us that because God gave us His love for free, we should share love and kindness with others for free, too.

~Fr. Michael Morrissey, OMI

06/13/2026

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Mary,
God chose you as the mother of his Son
and called all nations and generations
to bless the gift of grace he gave you.
In the company of those who have gone before us,
with people of all races and languages,
we call upon you in prayer...
Holy Mary,
pray for us...
Mother of God
Mother of our redemption
Mother of a lost child
Mother of comfort and understanding
Mother who shares our joys
Mother who endures our sorrows
Mother whose heart was pierced by a sword
Mother most merciful...
Woman responsive to God's word,
pray for us...
Woman willing to believe the impossible
Woman who rejoices in her lowliness
Woman with an undivided heart
Woman of perfect freedom
Woman wrapped in mystery
Woman moved by the Spirit
Woman champion of the poor and lowly
Woman graced by a husband's love
Woman widowed by a husband's death
Woman at the cross
Woman patient and waiting
Woman clothed with the sun
Queen of the fullness of times,
pray for us...
Queen of beauty unalloyed
Queen of integrity
Queen of painful meetings
Queen of all our heart's treasure
Queen of our destiny
Queen of peace
Let us pray...
Mary,
you are mother and virgin, wife and widow,
peasant and queen, blessed for all time.
We need the comfort of your prayers.
Remember us always to our Father
through Jesus, child of your womb
who is our Lord for ever and ever.
Amen.
~ Fr. Austin Fleming

06/12/2026

On this Feast of the Sacred Heart, let us pray for our priests.

06/12/2026

Since the time Ángeles Hernández discovered her calling to become a pilot after boarding a Boeing 747 as a child bound for a visit to England, she never imagined that, decades later, she would sit in the cockpit of an Iberia airplane flying the successor of St. Peter from Madrid to Barcelona.

During takeoff, the pope was invited to the cockpit, where they shared an exchange she said she will never forget.

https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/i-m-still-on-cloud-nine-says-pilot-who-shared-cockpit-with-leo-xiv

06/11/2026

The Sacred Heart Of Jesus

Pope Leo’s new prayer:

Lord, I come to Your tender Heart today, to You who have words that set my heart ablaze, to You who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor, on those who suffer, and on all human miseries.

I desire to know You more, to contemplate You in the Gospel, to be with You and learn from You and from the charity with which You allowed Yourself to be touched by all forms of poverty.

You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure with Your divine and human Heart.

Grant all Your children the grace of encountering You. Change, shape, and transform our plans, so that we seek only You in every circumstance: in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine.

From this encounter, send us out on mission, a mission of compassion for the world in which You are the source from which all consolation flows.

Amen

06/06/2026

Feast of Corpus Christi

The solemn feast of the Body and Blood of Christ is not a static occasion, a time to gaze in wonder on the Eucharistic species for private devotion and communication with the Lord. The feast we celebrate together is not an invitation to just gaze and look, but to receive the Body and Blood of Christ and then, nourished by the divine life we receive, to become the Body and Blood of Christ to the world.

When we come to receive Communion and the Eucharistic ministers hold the sacred food and drink before us, they say, “the Body of Christ; the Blood of Christ.” They are not only naming what they are offering us to eat and drink, they are also naming each one of us, for we are, “the Body of Christ and the Blood of Christ.” In other words, the Real Presence is not only to be found in the liturgical action of the Church, but in each baptized Christian nourished by the Eucharist who becomes the Real Presence of Christ to the world.

To celebrate the Eucharist is to commit oneself to a discipleship that “remembers” Jesus, not only in the ritual breaking of the bread and sharing the cup, but also in the “imitation” of Jesus, in the ongoing breaking of one’s own body and spilling of one’s own blood “in remembrance” of Jesus.

How are we to be like Christ and feed the hungry and heal the sick? How are we to be like Christ and lay down our lives for others? What is the relationship between Eucharist and Reconciliation? Who is excluded from our love at his moment? Who is crying out for our presence? What do we say to those who are unable to partake of the Lord’s Supper? In the words and imagery of St. Augustine, can we say that our reception of the Eucharist, on a daily or weekly basis, nourishes our piety, urges us to work for unity, and strengthens the bonds of charity that exist among us?

~ Fr. Tom Rosica, C.S.B.