The Chaste Heart

14/11/2025

PAANYAYA | PATRICIAN MEETING #6

Paksa: Mga Sakramento ng Paglilingkod (Kasal at Banal na Orden)

November 22, 2025
Saturday | 2 PM to 4 PM
Marian Hall, Imus Cathedral

PAANYAYA | PATRICIAN MEETING #6

Paksa: Mga Sakramento ng Paglilingkod
(Kasal at Banal na Orden)

November 22, 2025
Saturday | 2 PM to 4 PM
Marian Hall, Imus Cathedral

14/11/2025

THE PROTODULIA TO SAINT JOSEPH

It is the reverence paid to Saint Joseph. “Proto” means “first” and Saint Joseph is considered to be “first among the saints” for being the earthly father of Jesus and spouse of the Blessed Mother.

23/07/2025

WEDNESDAY DEVOTION TO SAINT JOSEPH

PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH

Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer,
Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
To you God entrusted his only Son;
in you Mary placed her trust;
with you Christ became man.

Blessed Joseph, to us too,
show yourself a father
and guide us in the path of life.
Obtain for us grace, mercy and courage,
and defend us from every evil. Amen.

Saint Joseph, Our Spiritual Father,
Pray for us!

03/07/2025

DOUBTING THOMAS

On July 3, the Church commemorates St. Thomas the Apostle, who doubted that Christ had risen from the dead until the Lord himself appeared to him. While a lack of faith, according to three great saints, Thomas’ doubt actually had the benefit of confirming Christians in their faith.

The Gospel of St. John relates that when the risen Christ appeared to his disciples, Thomas was not present. When they told him they had seen the Lord, the apostle said that he would not believe until he touched the wounds of Jesus on his hands and side. Eight days later the Lord appeared to them again. This time Thomas was present and Jesus told him to touch his wounds, exhorting him: “Do not be unbelieving, but believe.”

03/07/2025

JULY 03 | FEAST DAY OF SAIMT THOMAS,
APOSTLE AND MARTYR

This feast honors St. Thomas, often remembered as “Doubting Thomas” because he initially refused to believe in the Resurrection without seeing the Risen Christ. But when Jesus appeared to him, Thomas made a profound profession of faith: “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28)

His journey from doubt to faith encourages us to seek the truth and to trust in Christ, even when we cannot see. According to tradition, St. Thomas preached the Gospel as far as India, where he was eventually martyred.

Let us pray:
Almighty and ever-living God, who strengthened the faith of Saint Thomas the Apostle with sure and certain belief in Your Son’s Resurrection, grant us, we pray, so to believe and proclaim our faith, that we may always confess Jesus as our Lord and our God. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Saint Thomas,
Pray for us!

02/07/2025

WEDNESDAY DEVOTION TO SAINT JOSEPH

Act of Consecration to St. Joseph

O dearest St. Joseph, I consecrate myself to your honor and give myself to you, that you may always be my father, my protector and my guide in the way of salvation.

Obtain for me a greater purity of heart and fervent love of the interior life.
After your example may I do all my actions for the greater glory of God, in union with the Divine Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

O Blessed St. Joseph, pray for me, that I may share in the peace and joy of your holy death. Amen.

28/06/2025

JUNE 28 | MEMORIAL OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

The Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary takes place on the day following the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. This devotion honors Mary's perfect purity of heart in virtue of her Immaculate Conception.

Prayer
O Mary, gentle and humble of heart, remember us when we are in sin. You know that all men sin. Give us, by means of your Immaculate Heart, spiritual health. and may we be converted by means of the flame of your heart.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us

27/06/2025

NINTH DAY | Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

O Most Blessed Mother, heart of love, heart of mercy, ever listening, caring, consoling, hear our prayer. As your children, we implore your intercession with Jesus your Son. Receive with understanding and compassion the petitions we place before you today, especially... (special intention).

We are comforted in knowing your heart is ever open to those who ask for your prayer. We trust to your gentle care and intercession, those whom we love and who are sick or lonely or hurting. Help all of us, Holy Mother, to bear our burdens in this life until we may share eternal life and peace with God forever.
Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Pray for us!

27/06/2025

JUNE 27 | SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS

The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is a major feast in the Catholic Church, celebrated on the Friday following the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). This celebration focuses on the Heart of Jesus as the symbol of His divine love for humanity—a love that is at once human and divine, tender and merciful, poured out above all in His Passion, death, and the gift of the Eucharist.

The devotion to the Sacred Heart emphasizes Christ’s burning love, His desire to draw all people to Himself, and His infinite mercy for sinners. This solemnity invites the faithful to respond with love, reparation for sins (our own and those of the world), and trust in His compassionate Heart.

The origins of this devotion are deeply rooted in Scripture (e.g., John 19:34—where Christ’s side is pierced and blood and water flow out) and were spread through the visions of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in the 17th century. The Church encourages acts of consecration and reparation to the Sacred Heart, recognizing it as the source of grace and peace.

Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
by Pope Leo XIV

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.

26/06/2025

NINTH DAY | Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

I. O my Jesus, you have said: 'Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. ' Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of...... (here name your request) Our Father... . Hail Mary... . Glory Be to the Father... .

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

II. O my Jesus, you have said: 'Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. ' Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of...... . (here name your request) Our Father... Hail Mary... . Glory Be To the Father... .

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

III. O my Jesus, you have said: 'Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away. ' Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of... . . (here name your request) Our Father... . Hail Mary... . Glory Be to the Father...

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours.
Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Have Mercy on us!

26/06/2025

EIGHT DAY | Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

O Most Blessed Mother, heart of love, heart of mercy, ever listening, caring, consoling, hear our prayer. As your children, we implore your intercession with Jesus your Son. Receive with understanding and compassion the petitions we place before you today, especially... (special intention).

We are comforted in knowing your heart is ever open to those who ask for your prayer. We trust to your gentle care and intercession, those whom we love and who are sick or lonely or hurting. Help all of us, Holy Mother, to bear our burdens in this life until we may share eternal life and peace with God forever.
Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Pray for us!