Eleventh Sunday in OT Consecration to Sacred Heart of Jesus & Immaculate Mary 6 14 26

Exodus 19:2-6a CCC means teaching from Catechism Catholic Church. CCC63,708,709,751,762,1539,2060,2810

Psalm 100:1-3, 5 No teaching on this psalm except We are Gods people.

Romans 5:6-11 CCC603,604,1825

Gospel Matthew 9:36-10:8 CCC543,1509,1627,2121,2443,2611

Forgive and pray with the Heart of Jesus and Love with the Immaculate Heart of Mary....DeaconLouisZemlick.com

We Love you all come home to the Catholic Church

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Hello, everybody. This is Deacon Louis Zimlik. We're glad you're with us here today on this 11th Sunday in ordinary time. I got some beautiful readings today, of course. And just glad you're with us here. We've also got from last week, you know, we had the uh the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the country being consecrated, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and of course, on yesterday, Saturday, the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I'm going to talk about that a little bit as well. And about this rediscovering our humanity, rediscovering who we are. You know, we have we have spent the last 15 years, actually, I dare say even longer than that, disconnecting from each other. You know, even our culture is just so focused on stuff, you know, the things that we have, and really to try to uh let go and let God not to make this uh living here on planet Earth or living here in the United States uh be a um a job. It's all about a job, right? It's all about the stuff that I have. So um we're gonna see how this the scriptures really fit into that and how really believing in Jesus, believing in God, uh following Christ and His teachings, um loving the Blessed Virgin Mary, loving her, not worshiping her. You know, many of our Protestant brothers and sisters will deal out that that can of garbage constantly. And it's it's just a lie. It's a flat-out lie. And as Catholics, we've been calling it a lie for the last um 500 years. And really, I think it's really only been really the last hundred years, 200 years, where they've really just gotten super nasty about it. Um, you know, uh, and and and saying things, you know, like we worship uh bread, and even though, you know, that that we consider that the Holy Eucharist, that's Holy Communion. All these things that are beautiful and holy and good, and um, you know, it's just a very um satanic, I think that was the best way of putting it, a very satanic attitude towards the Catholic Church. And we all know the devil hates the Catholic Church, and there's been plenty of infiltrators, and we're gonna talk about that a little bit too. You know, Judas being one of the first infiltrators into the church, and Jesus allowed it, and we're gonna look at that in the scriptures today, too, in our gospel. This is very fascinating. How God does permit some of these horrible things to happen to train his people to really uh in this battle, because it's a battle between good and evil. Uh there's no doubt about that. So, you know, and also to pray every time you hear a siren, every time you see a police car or a fire truck or an ambulance, say a prayer. Get outside of yourself, say a little prayer. Even if it's just as simple as saying, dear God, please help them, you know, that's a very secular prayer to say, or God, please help them, or creator of the universe, help them, uh, wherever that person is going and to help them. So, okay, so here we go. It is uh the 14th of June, 2026. And I know that I thought we had flag day along here somewhere, but uh I don't know, maybe not. It's not on my calendar. Apologize for that. Next week is Father's Day, so uh keep that in mind. Father's Day is coming up next weekend, next Sunday. Might be nice to take your dad to mass, right? Guys, we always want to work on that, right? Take your father to mass. Um, sons, take your dad to mass. Go to mass with your dad. It'd be a beautiful gift. So let's go right into our readings today on this 11th Sunday in ordinary time. We wish America a very happy birthday, of course, and uh this this um uh this this sacred heart of Jesus consecrated on this on this 250th anniversary of our uh the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which will be uh July 4th, will be the main day, but you know it's continuing on all year long, and it's just getting started. And I think what a great way to start it off, too, right, with the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the 13th of this month. So here we go. First reading is from the book of Exodus, chapter 19, verses 2 through 6A, and I will read that split sentence. It's kind of silly that it got split, but we'll look at it and read it. In those days the Israelites came to the desert of Sinai and pitched camp. While Israel was encamped here in front of the mountain, Moses went up the mountain to God. Then the Lord called to him and said, Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, tell the Israelites, you have seen for yourselves how I treated the Egyptians, and how I bore you up on eagle's wings, and brought you here to myself. Therefore, if you hearken to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my special possession, dearer to me than all other people, though all the earth is mine, you shall be you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Our psalm reading is from Psalm one hundred, verses one through three, and then verse five. We are his people, the sheep of his flock. Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands, serve the Lord with gladness, come before him with joyful song. We are his people, the sheep of his flock. Know that the Lord is God, he made us his we are his people, the flock he tends. We are his people, the sheep of his flock. The Lord is good, his kindness endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. We are his people, the sheep of his flock. Our second reading is from the book of Romans, chapter five, verses six through eleven. Brothers and sisters, Christ, while we were still helpless, yet he at the appointed time for while we were still helpless, yet died at the appointed time for the ungodly. Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person, one might even find courage to die. But God proves his love for us, and that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. How much more then, since we are now justified by his blood? Will we be saved through him from the wrath? Indeed, if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son, how much more once reconciled, will we be saved by his life? Not only that, but also but we also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. The word of the Lord, thanks be to God. Then our gospel reading today is the Gospel of Matthew, chapter nine, verse thirty-six through chapter ten, verse eight. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. Glory to you, O Lord. At the sight of the crowds, Jesus Jesus' heart was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few. So ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness. The names of the twelve apostles are these first Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew, the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, Simon from Cana, and Judas Iscariot, who would betray him. Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town. Go rather to the lost house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received, without cost you are to give the gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. May the words of this gospel wipe away our sins. Well, welcome, my brothers and sisters. My name is Deacon Louis Zimlik here in the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan. We're glad you're with us here today. We've got another 20 minutes to go here, a little less than 20 minutes. Talk about the scripture readings, some beautiful scripture readings. Holiness is God's way of life. And that way is to love. Yes or no? We have to ask ourselves these very simple questions. Because if you're going to be a Christian, especially if you're going to be a Catholic Christian, a Catholic, the original faith, the original faith, 2,000 years of history. We have a lot of history, good, bad, and otherwise, but we are still strong. And our priesthood is still valid. And the priesthood means something. It means everything because Jesus is our high priest, my brothers and sisters. Jesus is our high priest. And he is the one, persona and Christ, who confects the holy sacrament. All the sacraments. All the sacraments. Jesus does the curing. Jesus does the forgiving. You know, people say, well, you're Catholics, priest, forgive sins. No, Jesus forgives the sins. Okay? For the 100 millionth time, Jesus forgives the sins. Jesus performs the miracles. Okay, here we go. Get a little excited there, which is always kind of fun. So uh Catechism of the Catholic Church. God forms his people, Israel. Israel is the priestly people. There it is again. Ha ha ha. Israel is the priestly people of God, called by the name of the Lord, and the first to hear the word of God, the people of elder brethren in the faith of Abraham. The kingdom, that's 63 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Here we go again. 709. And this is all in regards to Exodus 19. And you can see all these listings, deaconlouisemlik.com. You can see all the catechism listings. Very fascinating, very beautiful. We're going to go through those, get through these real quick because I got some other stuff I want to talk to you about. The law, the sign of God's promise and covenant, ought to have governed the hearts and the institutions of the people whom Abraham's faith gave birth. If you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. But after David, Israel gave in to the temptation of becoming a kingdom like other nations. And this is what has happened to us, my brothers and sisters. We have given in. Many, even parts of the Catholic Church, have given in to the powers of the world. You see what's happening to our Protestant brothers and sisters, how the churches are closing one right after another, because they become more and more secular, more and more secular, moving away from the priesthood, the original priesthood, moving away from the priesthood, removing things that are holy, not even talking about holiness, not even talking about the sacraments. And what is happening? You see it on TV, you see it on EWTN.com, 20,000 French young people marching across their country for three days in procession. It's happening, my brothers and sisters. And in some ways, you know, God does this to shame those. You know, I'm I'm 60, 67 years old now. Now you see it happening. You see God in a certain sense shaming the old generations who have not followed God, who have not followed God's ways, who have not prayed, who have not repented. And I've been people who say, Well, I'm a Christian, I'm all set, I'm covered by the blood of Jesus, I'm all good, I'm calling that and the other thing. Really? Are you really? Because if you were baptized a Catholic, you're supposed to be practicing your Catholic faith. That's what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to be practicing your Catholic faith. And if you're not, you should think about it. Think about coming home to the church, the original church. All from so from Exodus, the church, prepared for, prepared for in the old covenant. But the prophets accuse Israel of breaking the covenant and behaving like a prostitute. They announce a new and eternal covenant. Christ into instituted this new covenant. Of course, Exodus 19, Deuteronomy 7. Okay, one more. Hallowed be thy name. In the promise of Abraham, the oath that accompanied it, God commits himself, but without disclosing his name. He begins to reveal it to Moses and makes it known clearly before the eyes of the whole people in that he saves from the Egyptians. So beautiful. And okay, and then we're going to go right into just so you know, there's no catechism teaching on our psalm reading. But I want to go right into Romans chapter 5. And chapter 5 of Romans 2 is very good on suffering, too. And we see that somewhat in our reading today, too, from Romans 5, chapter 5, verses, excuse me for just a moment here. Verses, verse 5, verse, chapter 5, verse 6 through 11. Sorry about that. Okay, God takes the initiative of universal redeeming love. By giving up his own son for our sins, God manifests that his plan is for us in one of a benevolent love. Prior to any merit on our part, in this love is not love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent us his son to be the expiation for our sins. God shows his love for us while we were still yet sinners. Christ died for us. Christ died out of love for us while we were still enemies. And I think it's interesting to see how it starts out that while we were still helpless, it goes from helpless and then to have courage, and then while we're maybe we would have courage to die for somebody who was a good person. But God dies for all of us, my brothers and sisters. And can we say that ourselves? Are we willing to die? Maybe we would die for a family member. And God bless all the veterans out there and all those who have died before us, who have died for this country, for our independence, for this country. Think about all the all the people and uh police officers and firefighters and people who have have died to make this country a better place. You think about that. And you ever think is do you ever offer a prayer, you know, for those people who put their lives on the line every day? Firefighters. Um, you know, even in today's environment, even school teachers, you know, and some of the things that they have people have to put up with, you know, is especially when you know parents aren't willing to do their job. Parents aren't willing to take their children to church. You know, parents aren't willing, you know, and it's and it's funny that we would even call them parents sometimes as well. And I know it's very difficult to be a parent. And being one, I can testify to that. So something very interesting here, you know, the sacred heart. Jesus still died for his sin. Okay, so the gospel. Go to the gospel, you know, try to squeeze us all in at once. And it's probably more than we can do. But listen, I'm gonna go check out the listings on the catechism of uh uh deaconlouisublak.com, and you can see the catechism listings on that in the gospel. So look at this. At the sight of the crowds, Jesus' heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned like sheep without a shepherd. This is trauma, my brothers and sisters, the trauma of our lives, the trauma of people who are in our lives, you know, that just seem we can't be able to put two and ten together. But instead of you know, making fun of them or belittling them, pray for them. Please start praying for them. Because we look at this, we look at, you know, and and and sometimes we get this illusion that things are supposed to be, you know, uh, that things are supposed to be fixed and everything's supposed to be good, and and everybody's supposed to be behaving themselves. But look what Jesus does in our gospel reading. Jesus sends out the 12 instructing them, telling them not to go into the pagan territories or enter into Samaritan towns. That comes later on. So this is kindergarten first grade stuff here, right? Very important stuff, but it's the beginning of the ministry for all of these priestly men. See? The beginning of their ministry. But one thing you see in this is Judas is there. Jesus is sending Judas out to try to help people. Jesus is trying his best. And you know, of course, God knows everything, right? God knows everything, God knows what's gonna happen. God knows Jesus knows Judas is going to betray him. But Jesus is still faithful. We are called to do the same. And with this sacred heart of Jesus, immaculate heart of Mary, we see this. God calls us to take a risk, the risk to love. To take the risk to love. See? This risk to love. And, you know, back in the day, you know, there there's, and there always is, there's always heresies. There's always, you know, well, you know, if you go to my church, you'll you'll be saved. And and all of these lies that happened. My brothers and sisters, only God decides who gets saved. We do our best through the sacraments. We do our best through prayers and acts of mercy. Yes, acts of mercy. Yes, acts. That's why they call it the Acts of the Apostles, right? All of these things participate. But what's happened in basic Christianity, not Catholic, somewhat in Catholic theology, but in basic Christianity, is it watered down till it basically doesn't mean anything. And that's why people are fleeing it. Thanks be to God, and heading towards the truth, the crucified Christ, and a love and an honoring for the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother, who supplied this flesh, this enfleshment of Jesus Christ, of God, this incarnation of God. She's important, very important in her immaculate heart. And I would say to you, do you have an immaculate heart? Do you have a sacred heart? Right? We're all called to these great, great things. Difficult? Absolutely. But we talk about this Janicism, you know, way back in the day in the 1600s, and St. Louis de Montfort fought against this. And that was a restriction on sacraments, especially Holy Communion, where the overreligious thought, well, they shouldn't receive it. You know, the dog shouldn't receive the food, right? But he always looked at it this way: the Holy Eucharist, Holy Communion, that it is the real that it is a remedy. It is a remedy, not a reward. Understand that? It is a remedy for sin. It is a remedy for trauma. It is a remedy to help us to have a sacred heart like Jesus, to have the immaculate heart like Mary, right? Not the actual, of course, right? But we think about that, that Janicism. The sacred heart kills heresies. The sacred heart of Jesus. What is the sacred heart of Jesus? You can look this up on the internet. Sacred heart of Jesus is a profound and enduring symbol within the Catholic Church, representing the immense love and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. Devotion to the sacred heart is a special form of devotion to Jesus. And unfortunately, my brothers and sisters, in some of the Vatican II stuff, they reduced a lot of these things. Became, you know, trying to make the church more Protestant, right? And they would say, well, it makes the church more open and more people will come back and stuff like that. No. The church is going through a purification, my brothers and sisters. This is purification. This is time. This is time. You cannot take away holiness. You can try, and it's been done, but as you can see with the young people marching across France, the people in this country coming back to the Catholic Church. Old school religion, my brothers and sisters. Old school holiness. And then the ten Eucharistic uh miracles. And one of the greatest is this heart, that they when they studied this tissue, um, and I believe it was uh, geez, I didn't even, I didn't even, but it was a piece of the heart. They they they they they examined it scientifically and found that during this Eucharistic miracle that the host had turned in to a piece of the heart of human flesh, of the heart of Jesus Christ. That's right. The heart of Jesus Christ. And that blood that flows through Jesus, the same blood that was given to him by his mother, his earthly mother. This is why Mary is holy. This is why Mary is immaculate, so that God can come into the all the Marian heresies, all the Marian heresies, there you go, all of the Marian dogmas are to battle against the heresies that Jesus was not God. See, but Jesus is God. And so this pure vessel, God creates this pure vessel, the Blessed Virgin Mary, for him to come into the world without spot or wrinkle, without sin. And in a very special way, when we receive this Holy Eucharist, when we receive Jesus, we receive this incarnation of God Himself to change our hearts, to look at our hearts, to look at our souls, and to ask ourselves, you know, am I not willing to pray when I hear a siren? Some of us would say, no, I'm I'm I'm too busy, Deacon Louis. I'm not gonna do that. That's silly. I'm gonna play your little game. I'm not gonna play your little church game. This isn't a little church game. This is life and death, my brothers and sisters. This is love. And because you have that attitude, you know, I do even heard somebody say that to me the other day, you know, they said, Oh that church stuff is a bunch of garbage. You guys do the same stuff week after week. And I was like, how do you know? How would you know? You don't go to church, you don't go to holy mass, you're one of the lost sheep. You know, don't say things when you don't know what you're talking about. Okay? You know, you may be able to pick on a Catholic here or there, or this person or that person, but not me. All right, you can send me an email, deaconlouisemlick.com, Louie at deaconlouisemlick.com. You can call me in Kalmazou, Michigan. I'm easy to find. But my brothers and sisters, it is about the truth, and it is about love. More than anything, it's about love. Can you love the person? Can you die for the person who you don't love, who you don't even care about? It's difficult. I know I'm I'm one of you, I'm a human being too, right? But God calls us to do this, God calls us to this level of holiness. So, my brothers and sisters, be in prayer, go to Mass, and uh remember God has a calling for all of us, no matter who we are, no matter what our stage is in life. But the greatest thing we can do is pray. Pray. Remember, next weekend is Father's Day, and uh God bless all of our fathers out there, uh, good ones and bad ones. God wants to bless, God wants to bless, and God wants to save all of us and all of them as well. And God bless all the mothers. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. May Almighty God bless you all. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. God bless you, we love you.