Mary Queen of the Universe, Orlando

06/13/2026

𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁
“God proves His love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”

Why does God have to prove His love to you, to any of us, or to any of our family members or friends? God is living and true. God is the very source and essence of love, an unquenchable fountain, unfathomable depth, overflowing glory. God is the origination of love, its originator. God is love’s continuation, the very existence of love extending love itself into all eternity. God is love, true love that pervades beauty and all that is beautiful, good, holy, and true. An unconditional love that lovingly overwhelms all, even those who may not feel so lovely or beautiful anymore. Scripture graciously informs us and honestly invites us to consider God’s love. To contemplate it, take to heart and prayer who God is and how He has already proven His goodness to all generations inviting us to not question but to trust in the boundless and limitless love, which remains inexhaustible and eternal.

The Word of God says of love and of Himself, “Love is patient, love is kind… It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” Love draws its goodness and its pureness directly from God. Love derives from God, flows through Him, from Him and is itself like a stream of gentle water refreshing and renewing everything and everyone in its path. God is like light, gently, and quietly moving like the dawn bursting into daybreak into our hearts overflowing over everything. Love is true, good, beautiful and you. God’s love never fails. Then why must God prove His fidelity and covenant and faithfulness to you?

Why must we continue to test God and ask Him to continue to prove His love for us and for all humanity? We might on occasion be requested or even challenged to prove our love, our response, a word of value or commitment to validate our love, our response to determine whether our oath is valid or true. Why? If our words were truly honest and sincerely from our heart, if our actions were consistent and truly willed the good of the other, if our yes was yes and our no was truly no, then chances would be great that we are considered creditable, believable, trustworthy, true. There would be no need to undergo a scrutiny, a challenge or test or need to defend, inflate, embellish, or stretch the truth. Love does not have to prove itself. God already has.

06/12/2026

Jesus shares his passionate and unending love with us. Today we celebrate His heart as we open hearts to receive His love!

06/11/2026

At 4pm ET, the U.S. bishops consecrated the United States of America to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, joined by parishes and faithful across the country. The consecration took place as part of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Watch the livestream at:

The U.S. bishops consecrate the United States to the Sacred Heart o...

06/10/2026

𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
The Basilica will be closed on June 11th due to the consecration by the U.S. bishops. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘆.

We will re-open on June 12th for normal business hours. Please also join us for our own Basilica consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 12th starting with the celebration of Mass at 12:00 p.m. followed by Eucharistic Adoration and the Veneration of relics of St. Margaret Mary. 🙏

06/10/2026

To celebrate the Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, visit our gift shop and display the Sacred Heart of Jesus throughout your home or office. May we be unified with the Lord through this special day!

06/09/2026

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗡𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗵 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴
Join us for spiritual enrichment retreat to called The Crossing to help us to go from those places of anxiety and fear into those places of hope and trust. Join us for this retreat June 15-19th from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. May we grow in fellowship and deepen our relationship with the Lord.

06/08/2026

"Come and pray in that divine love and ask the Lord for His heart to help you to heal your broken hearts." Father Ivan Olmo.

Join us for our consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 12th with Mass at 12:00 p.m. and Adoration, Consecration, and the Veneration of Relics of St. Margaret Mary from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

06/07/2026

Today we celebrate the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. We are blessed with this gift to be nourished with Jesus' Body and Blood. 🙏

06/04/2026

𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁
“Do not forget the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.”

Where is your Egypt? You know – that place where God needs to rescue you from others and save you from yourself. That state of mind or frequented situation that causes you to resist God’s grace and solely depend on yourself and even permit others to take control of your faith and of your pursuit for all that is God, good, holy, and true. Your Egypt can be that habitual sin or that form of addiction that you do not want to be in but are not ready to leave or let go. For some, Egypt can be that unhealthy relationship that you understand and know is not good for you but perhaps considered the only means, possibility, or chance for some happiness. From their own personal Egypt, the People of God cried out in their need, their plight, and their great desperation and oppression.

They needed to be rescued and freed not only from those who oppressed them and reduced them to slavery but also from their own self-oppression brought about by their own sinfulness and slavery to idols and false worship. They wanted God but they also wanted the freedom to sin. Although we have free will to choose or decide, sin is not from God. There is no freedom in sin. Even the Lord says he takes no pleasure in death but rather in life, in giving life and sharing life eternal. Sin enslaves us and places us in a prison like state. Rather than becoming free to love and free to be loved, our truest form of happiness, sin separates, takes apart, and renders us orphans and citizens of an oppressive state. God needs to rescue us from darkness, from evil, from the harmful effects of sin. God calls us children, beloved children, heirs to the Kingdom of God.

We are not oppressed by God but rather free to share in His grace and in the glorious freedom of the Children and People of God. Love binds, mends, heals and graciously unites. Sin oppresses, abandons, isolates and separates. Love helps us to remember all the good that God has done personally to rescue us from the effects of our personal Egypt and sin. The oppressive enemy wants us to forget who God is and to remain in our Egypt and continue to recall our personal hurts, failures, and disappointments. Never forget the Lord your God, who graciously saved you from Egypt.

06/03/2026

Join us for our consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 12th. We will celebrate Mass together and then pray with Eucharistic Adoration and the Consecration! 🙏🕊❤️‍🔥