Message on the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus June 1, 2026

His Eminence Frank Cardinal Leo Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto

My Dear Brothers and Sisters,

May Jesus and Mary be in your souls.

Each year Holy Mother Church dedicates the month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ. This devotion invites us to contemplate not only the mystery of Christ's love, but also the kind of hearts we are called to develop in the world (Mt 11:29; Jn 13:34). When we refer to the “Sacred Heart of Jesus” we recall the whole mystery of Christ - his Person, his mission and his infinite divine-human love for the Father and for humanity. As the Catechism teaches, Christ “has loved us all with a human heart”, and his pierced Heart is rightly considered “the chief sign and symbol of that love with which the divine Redeemer continually loves the eternal Father and all human beings” without exception (CCC, 478).

In the Gospels, we often see how Jesus responds to people with a sensitive heart that reveals itself in a remarkable attentiveness to their suffering. The evangelists repeatedly describe him as being “moved with compassion”. He notices the hungry crowd before they ask for food (Mt 14:14–16); he stops for the blind man others try to silence (Mk 10:46–52), and he restores dignity to those whom society has forgotten (Lk 7:13). These moments reveal something profound: the heart of Christ is never distant from human need. It is a heart that sees, listens, and responds (Heb 4:15). And as the Church pondered these scenes - above all in the act of redemption when the side of Christ Crucified was opened - we too learn to speak ever more clearly of the love revealed in his Heart.

Source (an excerpt); https://www.archtoronto.org/en/outreach/news/archdiocesan/cardinal-leo-message-month-of-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus/