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Join us online for our annual Novena to the Sacred Heart at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Live stream Mass, Sermon and Novena each evening at 8.00 pm, Thursday 11th June to Friday 19th June 2020 and for Mass at 11.00 am on Sunday 21st June.
Date and Time |
Celebrant |
Live Stream Link |
| Thursday 11th June 8.00pm | Mgr Daniel McHugh House Mass Solihull | https://www.facebook.com/daniel.mchugh.391 |
| Friday 12th June 8.00pm | Cn John Udris St Mary's College Oscott | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4992824951?pwd=Qmw2ZVNpZGNNeGhQTVFzVEpYZVVNQT09 Meeting ID: 499 282 4951 Password: 664850 |
| Saturday 13th June 8.00pm | Mgr Timothy Menezes St Chad's Cathedral Birmingham | https://www.stchadscathedral.org.uk/ |
| Sunday 14th June 8.00pm | Fr Joseph McLaughlin St Peter and St Paul Pype Hayes | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81185537588?pwd=VG9QWWthM2hLOXRkbU51QVhEZlhhdz09 Meeting ID: 811 8553 7588 Password: 268284 |
| Monday 15th June 8.00pm | Cn John Batthula The Immaculate Conception Bicester | https://watchmcnmedia.tv/camera/church-of-the-immaculate-conception-bicester |
| Tuesday 16th June 8.00pm | Fr Simon Ellis St Margaret Mary Perry Common | https://www.facebook.com/fr.s.ellis/ Fr Simon's homily |
| Wednesday 17th June 8.00pm | Fr Joseph Thé Quang Christ the King Kingstanding | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01rqebEVJks |
| Thursday 18th June 8.00pm | Fr Moses Pitya St Elizabeth Coventry | https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-elizabeths-church-coventry |
| Friday 19th June 8.00pm Solemnity of the Sacred Heart | Fr John Waters Christ the King Coventry | https://www.watchmcnmedia.tv/camera/christ-the-king-church-coventry |
| Sunday 21st June 11.00am Pilgrimage Day | Archbishop Bernard Longley St Chad's Cathedral Birmingham | https://www.stchadscathedral.org.uk/ |
Maryvale House is a place of pilgrimage and devotion as well as an educational centre, and the focus of that devotion is the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The story of Maryvale’s link with the Sacred Heart begins with Bishop John Milner who became Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District in 1803. He had a deep devotion to the Sacred Heart and when he enlarged the main chapel of the seminary/school, he built above the sacristy a small chapel in the Gothic style which became the first public shrine of the Sacred Heart in the British Isles. In 1814 Bishop Milner brought back from Rome a small panel of painted glass showing the Sacred Heart of Jesus as described by St. Gertrude; he set the panel in a window of the shrine and from that time onwards devotion to the Sacred Heart has been a key part of Maryvale’s life of faith and prayer.
St John Henry Newman, who founded the Oratory at Maryvale in 1848 said “In the Eucharist, the Heart of Jesus beats for us still.”
The Sisters of Mercy kept Devotion to the Sacred Heart going when they came to live at Maryvale in 1851 and started the practice of keeping a “Perpetual Lamp” burning in the Chapel.
The link between Maryvale (Old Seminary) has continued over the years with students and staff coming to Maryvale Institute and visiting the Chapel and the Shrine of Sacred Heart.
When Fr Daniel McHugh came in June 1980 to start the new Maryvale Institute, the Sisters of Mercy schooled him in the importance of the Shrine to the people in the area and beyond. He was fortunate that the Sisters of St Paul the Apostle joined him in August as the Sisters of Mercy departed. One of them, Sister Philomena, took on looking after the Shrine. Father McHugh began the public First Friday Masses and in 1981 the Novena of Masses leading up to the Feast, together with a Procession of the Blessed Sacrament on the Sunday after the Feast.
Since coming to Maryvale in 1999, the Bridgettine Sisters have continued to promote the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. And it is wonderful to see that the Feast of the Sacred Heart has now become the Annual World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests (2007).