Monthly Sacred Heart Promises Pilgrimage (Bowmansville)

Sacred Heart of Jesus Diocesan Shrine will hold a monthly Sacred Heart of Jesus Promises pilgrimage at 8 a.m. on the first Friday of the month, from July 3 through June 2027, at the shrine, 5337 Genesee St., Bowmansville. This observance is in celebration of the shrine’s 100th anniversary and its outdoor Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Shrine and Altar of Reparation. Each month, participants will read and focus the day’s homilies and teachings on one of the 12 promises that Jesus extended to those who are devoted to His Sacred Heart and shared with St. Mary Alacoque.

The pilgrimage days will begin with Holy Mass at 8 a.m., followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the Litany to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Holy Rosary. Adoration will continue throughout the day until 6:30 p.m., ending with Benediction, Holy Mass, and the Litany to the Sacred Heart.

During Adoration, there will be a dedicated Children’s & Family Holy Hour from 4 to 5 p.m. (an active holy hour dedicated to children and families as children learn to sit with Jesus), reconciliation from 5 to 6 p.m., and the Holy Rosary at 5:15 p.m.

The June pilgrimage will also include a special reception for the shrine’s 100th anniversary.

To learn about other ways of inviting the Sacred Heart of Jesus into your home, visit www.sacredheartshrine.org.

• “Today, it seems as though Jesus’s Promises are like unopened gifts. Many have never heard of them; others have forgotten them or stopped looking for their treasure in their lives.” – Anne Costa, author of “Healing Promises, The Essential Guide to the Sacred Heart”
• “This highly recommended spiritual devotion that will help you to find a secure refuge and true peace throughout all of life’s pressures.” – Anne Costa
• “Cast yourself often … into His divine Heart and abandon yourself to all His designs upon you.” – St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
• “As to persons living in the world, they shall find in this devotion all the aids necessary in their state of life: peace in their homes, consolation in their work, the blessing of heaven upon all of their enterprises, comfort in their sorrows, a secure refuge during life and especially at the hours of death … It is plainly evident that there is no one in the world who will not receive all kinds of heavenly blessings if they have a true love of Jesus Christ manifested by a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.” – St. Margaret Mary