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\n In Knock, Ireland, on Sunday June 22, 2025, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh urged the people of Ireland to \u201cfeel inspired and courageous\u201d by the renewed consecration to the Sacred Heart. \/ Credit: Sean Flynn\/Irish Catholic Bishops Conference<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Dublin, Ireland, Jun 23, 2025 \/ 12:36 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

Ireland was reconsecrated to the Sacred Heart on Sunday in the town of Knock on the feast of Corpus Christi. Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, who presided at the events, urged the people of Ireland to \u201cfeel inspired and courageous\u201d by the renewed consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not be afraid \u2014 today\u2019s consecration will give you a new heart \u2014 a heart of love that can in turn give fresh heart to our troubled world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of the consecration, Martin received an apostolic blessing from Pope Leo XIV, a \u201cpledge of joy and peace\u201d for all who were present.<\/p>\n

The archbishop told the faithful in Knock Basilica not to be surprised if they felt a call to go out and confront those \u201cweighty evils that are pressing on the Church of God throughout the world\u201d and \u201cthe many dangers encompassing and threatening ourselves near home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The faithful process with the Blessed Sacrament on the feast of Corpus Christi in Knock, Ireland, where Ireland was reconsecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The last time the country was consecrated to the Sacred Heart was Passion Sunday in 1873. Credit: Sean Flynn\/Irish Catholic Bishops Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ireland was previously consecrated to the Sacred Heart on Passion Sunday in 1873, and for decades afterward, the people of Ireland held a particular devotion to it with the image of the Sacred Heart, commonplace in virtually every Irish home.<\/p>\n

Martin spoke to the desire to reconsecrate the country and its people now. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are living in a time of great need for God \u2014 for\u00a0faith, for hope, and for love.\u00a0Our age presents many challenges to our faith, to our families, and indeed to the deepest core of our humanity. But as a pilgrim people filled with great love and hope in this jubilee year of graces, while recalling the the promises of the Sacred Heart made known 350 years\u00a0ago to\u00a0St. Margaret Mary, we have chosen to renew the consecration of\u00a0our\u00a0country\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0Most Sacred Heart of Jesus as its secure refuge from all dangers \u2014 visible and invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cToday we desire to consecrate to the most Sacred Heart: ourselves, our home, our family, our parish, and Ireland our country. We ask the Sacred Heart to have mercy on our suffering world in which he chose to dwell as one of us, to pour out the treasures of his light and love so that, as our late Pope Francis put it, the world may regain the most important and most necessary thing of all \u2014 its heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pointing to the consecration over 150 years ago, Martin said in his homily: \u201cThere are many weighty evils, my dear people, pressing on the Church of God throughout the world, and there are many dangers encompassing and threatening ourselves near home. The spirit of irreligion and infidelity is growing strong every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThese words are not mine. They are in fact taken from the pastoral letter of the Irish bishops sent on Passion Sunday 1873 to announce their intention to consecrate Ireland to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Sadly, in many ways the bishops\u2019 words relate to the circumstances of today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The archbishop continued: \u201cWith God\u2019s help today\u2019s consecration will motivate us to radiate the light of faith, hope, and love, especially to the poor, the suffering, and those who are most in need.\u00a0It will set us on fire with the Holy Spirit, it will lift up our hearts, and give us like St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se \u201ca thirst for souls.\u201d<\/p>\n

On display at the consecration Mass were four pilgrim Sacred Heart statues blessed by Pope Francis at the Vatican symbolizing Ireland\u2019s historic four provinces. Ahead of the consecration, the pilgrim statues were brought to parishes throughout Ireland, accompanied by Father Shane Gallagher, Father John Mockler, Dom Basil Mary McCabe, and Father Shane Sullivan.<\/p>\n

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On display at the consecration Mass were four pilgrim Sacred Heart statues blessed by Pope Francis at the Vatican symbolizing Ireland\u2019s historic four provinces. Ahead of the consecration, the pilgrim statues were brought to parishes throughout Ireland, accompanied by Father Shane Gallagher, Father John Mockler, Dom Basil Mary McCabe, and Father Shane Sullivan. Credit: Sean Flynn\/Irish Catholic Bishops Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prior to the Mass of consecration, Father Richard Gibbons, rector and parish priest of Knock Shrine, welcomed the relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, St. Claude la Colombi\u00e8re, and Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart to the basilica where they were venerated by the congregation.<\/p>\n

One of the keynote speakers at the reconsecration event, Jesuit Father Bernard McGuckian, explained to CNA the historical context for the consecration and Ireland\u2019s devotion to the Sacred Heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe date of consecration at Knock is exactly 350 years since Our Lord spoke to St. Margaret Mary in 1675. In 1873, what happened in Ireland was the people all assembled in their parishes, and the consecration was done parish by parish on Passion Sunday, March 30. It was a unique activity. Ireland had been terribly affected by the penal laws and decimated by famine. One of the promises to Margaret Mary was that those who put up a picture of the Sacred Heart in their homes would be blessed. In Ireland for decades practically every Catholic home would have had a Sacred Heart picture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

McGuckian detailed the incredible efforts in promoting the devotion in the 19th and early 20th century, in particular by Jesuit Father James Cullen, who as director of the Apostleship of Prayer inspired the countrywide devotion to the Sacred Heart, founded the Irish Messenger of the Sacred Heart and established the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association.<\/p>\n

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In Knock, Ireland, on Sunday June 22, 2025, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh urged the people of Ireland to \u201cfeel inspired and courageous\u201d by the renewed consecration to the Sacred Heart. \/ Credit: Sean Flynn\/Irish Catholic Bishops Conference Dublin, Ireland, Jun 23, 2025 \/ 12:36 pm (CNA). Ireland was reconsecrated to the Sacred Heart on Sunday in the town of Knock on the feast of Corpus Christi. Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, who presided at the events, urged the people of Ireland to \u201cfeel inspired and courageous\u201d by the renewed consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. \u201cDo not be afraid \u2014 today\u2019s consecration will give you a new heart [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":68719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-52574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ireland-reconsecrated-to-the-Sacred-Heart-on-feast-of-Corpus-Christi.webp?fit=800%2C534&quality=75&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_publicize_connections","jetpack_featured_media_url","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52574"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=52574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}