June 3
SUNDAY: THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (Corpus Christi)
Solemnity
Ex 24:3-8/Heb 9:11-15/Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 (168)

4 Mon Weekday (Ninth Week in Ordinary Time)
2 Pt 1:2-7/Mk 12:1-12 (353)

5 Tue Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
Memorial
2 Pt 3:12-15a, 17-18/Mk 12:13-17 (354)

6 Wed Weekday
[Saint Norbert, Bishop]
2 Tm 1:1-3. 6-12/Mk 12:18-27 (355)

7 Thu Weekday
2 Tm 2:8-15/Mk 12:28-34 (356)

8 Fri THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS
Solemnity
Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9/Eph 3:8-12, 14-19/Jn 19:31-37 (171)

9 Sat The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Memorial
2 Tm 4:1-8 (358)/Lk 2:41-51 (573)

Three celebrations this week recall the love of Jesus Christ for us, Corpus Christi recalls his love for us in the Eucharist. The Sacred Heart of Jesus recalls his love through the image of his heart. The Immaculate Heart of Mary recalls the love Jesus inspired in the human beings who were close to him: Mary his mother.

In the readings from 2nd Peter we can hear questions about the second coming of Jesus, which certainly arose in the Christians churches after the destruction of Jerusalem and the religious persecutions that followed toward the end of the 1st century. Was this the end times and were new heavens and a new earth coming?

Deepen your faith, the readings say. Always good for us to hear.

St. Boniface was the apostle to the German peoples. Pray for them on his feast.