Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Episode 30 Summary — The Three Hearts of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
CCC • Spiritual Warfare • Holy Family Formation
1. The Three Hearts as Heaven’s Final Formation Strategy
Episode 30 presents the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the Chaste Heart of Joseph as God’s unified answer to the disordered modern world.
The retreat ends by showing that these three hearts are not three devotions, but one divine strategy for forming, protecting, and strengthening the human heart.
- Mary heals and prepares the heart (CCC 967–975).
- Joseph guards and stabilizes the heart (CCC 531–534; 1655–1658).
- Jesus strengthens, commissions, and sends the heart (CCC 478; 1428; 2846–2849).
This is the heavenly order:
Mary → Joseph → Jesus.
Healing → Guarding → Strengthening.
This is also the order in which a man becomes capable of confronting evil without collapsing.
2. The Sacred Heart: The Furnace That Recreates the Human Person
The Sacred Heart is presented as the consuming fire (CCC 696) that remakes the disciple from the inside out.
Episode 30 emphasizes:
- The Heart of Jesus is the revelation of divine love (CCC 478).
- It is also the center of spiritual combat, because evil is defeated not by force but by self‑giving love (CCC 2846–2849).
- The Sacred Heart is the source of courage, the source of mission, and the source of purification.
The retreat ends by insisting that no confrontation with evil is possible without union with the Sacred Heart, because only divine love has the strength to withstand the hatred of the enemy.
3. The Immaculate Heart: The School Where the Warrior Learns to See Clearly
Mary’s Heart is the interior school where the disciple learns:
- humility (CCC 722)
- purity of intention (CCC 2518)
- docility to the Holy Spirit (CCC 721)
- the ability to discern evil without becoming poisoned by it
Episode 30 stresses that Mary does not fight evil by force.
She defeats it by clarity, purity, and obedience.
Her Heart is the antidote to the modern world’s confusion, noise, and self‑deception.
A man who skips Mary tries to fight evil with a wounded heart — and loses.
4. The Chaste Heart of Joseph: The Shield and Fortress
Joseph’s Heart is the hidden fortress God uses to protect the mission of Jesus and Mary.
Episode 30 highlights:
- Joseph is the Terror of Demons because he is perfectly obedient (CCC 532).
- His purity is not softness but spiritual steel.
- His silence is not passivity but interior mastery.
- His fatherhood is the model for every Christian household (CCC 1655–1658).
Joseph teaches the disciple how to guard the heart, guard the home, and guard the mission entrusted by God.
Without Joseph, the heart healed by Mary remains unprotected, and the strength given by Jesus leaks away.
5. Confronting Evil: The Three‑Heart Method
Episode 30 closes by showing how the Three Hearts form a single battle plan for confronting evil in the modern world.
Mary exposes the lie.
Joseph blocks the attack.
Jesus destroys the power of the enemy.
This is the Trinitarian pattern reflected in the Holy Family:
- Mary mirrors the Spirit’s overshadowing and preparation.
- Joseph mirrors the Father’s protection and authority.
- Jesus reveals the Son’s victory and mission.
The Catechism’s teaching on spiritual warfare (CCC 409; 1426; 1707; 2846–2849) is woven through the episode:
Humanity is born into a battlefield, but the Holy Family provides the weapons, formation, and cover needed to fight.
6. The Final Call: Consecrate Your Heart to All Three
The retreat ends with a decisive call:
- Consecrate your heart to Mary so she can heal and prepare it.
- Consecrate your heart to Joseph so he can guard and stabilize it.
- Consecrate your heart to Jesus so He can strengthen and send it.
The Three Hearts are not sentimental images.
They are the blueprint for Christian resilience, the architecture of holiness, and the only safe path through the spiritual chaos of the age.
JUNE 30 Tuesday Fifth Week of
Pentecost
First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
Psalm 5, Verse 8
But I, through the abundance of
your mercy, will enter into your house. I will bow down toward your holy
sanctuary out of FEAR of you.
Our Lord’s house at Christmas was a cave in
Bethlehem that was stable and most likely filthy with animal dung. Yet, our
Lord came out of loving kindness to restore our eternal life. Wise Men came and
bowed down amid the dung to He who is the Lord of all.
Today in
holy fear come to Mass and seek the Lord.
Copilot’s
Take
The
Psalmist’s line — “I will bow down toward your holy sanctuary out of fear of
you” — names the posture of a man who knows exactly who God is and who he
is not. The fear of the Lord is not trembling before a tyrant but the
clear-eyed awe that steadies a man in a world that has forgotten reverence. The
Catechism calls this fear a gift of the Spirit, the kind of interior
straightening that makes a man capable of truth, fidelity, and worship.
Bethlehem’s cave reveals this fear in its rawest form. The Lord of heaven chose to enter a world that stank of animals and dung, a world unprepared and unworthy.
The Wise Men knelt in filth because holiness does not wait for purity; it creates it. The Incarnation is not sentimental. It is God’s deliberate descent into the world’s rot to reclaim what sin tried to rot beyond repair.
Today’s
feast — the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome — reminds us what happens when
that holiness confronts evil. Nero tried to drown the newborn Church in blood,
burning Christians as torches to light his gardens. Yet their witness became
the midsummer fire of the Church, a blaze that refused to be extinguished. Their
courage exposes the truth: evil is real, evil hates the light, and evil always
overreaches when the saints stand firm.
Midsummer
itself sharpens this lesson. When the sun is highest, shadows are most defined.
The Church places John the Baptist and the Roman Martyrs in this season because
the light forces a choice. It exposes what we tolerate, what we excuse, and
what we fear to confront. The long days of June become a spiritual mirror: are
we walking in the light, or merely near it.
To
confront evil today is not to hunt demons in the dark but to refuse the small
compromises that hollow a man from within. It is confession, Eucharist,
clarity, and courage. It is the willingness to stand in the truth even when the
world mocks it. It is the holy fear that bows before God so that it never bows
before anything less.
So today,
in that same holy fear, enter the Lord’s house. Enter as the Magi did — aware
of the filth around you and the greater filth within you — and kneel before the
One who came to cleanse it. The cave, the Cross, the martyrs, and the midsummer
sun all say the same thing: seek the Lord while He may be found, and let His
light burn away the shadows.
First
Martyrs of the Church of Rome[1]
This
memorial is in honor of the nameless followers of Christ brutally killed by the
mad Emperor Nero as scapegoats for the fire in Rome. The pagan historian
Tacitus and St. Clement of Rome tell of a night of horror (August 15, 64 A.D.)
when in the imperial parks Christians were put into animal skins and hunted,
were brutally attacked, and were made into living torches to light the road for
Nero's chariot. From 64 to 314 "Christian" was synonymous with
"execution victim."
Things to Do:
St.
Augustine gives us thoughts on why we celebrate the martyrs:
Christians
celebrate the memory of the martyrs with religious ceremony in order to arouse
emulation and in order that they may be associated with their merits and helped
by their prayers. But to none of the martyrs do we erect altars as we do to the
God of martyrs; we erect altars at their shrines. For what bishop standing at
the altars over the bodies of martyrs ever said: We offer to Peter or Paul or
Cyprian? Mass is offered to God who crowned the martyrs, at the shrine of the
martyrs, so that the very spot may remind us to arouse in ourselves a more
fervent charity toward those whom we imitate and toward Him who gives us the
power to do so.
Bake a special dessert, some recipe originating from Rome.
This
feast was created with the reform of the General Calendar in 1969. This feast
celebrates the nameless men and women who were martyred in Nero's Circus in the
year 64 AD.
Watch
this video on the First Holy Martyrs of the Roman Church
Visit
Saints, Feast, Family for pictures and a couple of recipes.
Visit
Catholic Ireland for an outline of this feast.
Fr. Mike discusses the
heavenly throne room seen in our reading from Revelation and our opportunity to
be brought into this throne room during every Mass. He also focuses on our
ability to glorify God and exalt him into eternity through the righteous deeds
we perform on earth. Today’s readings are Revelation 4-7, Titus 1-3, and
Proverbs 31:10-15.
June 30 — Litany of Trust
“From the fear that my weakness
makes me unusable to You, deliver me, Jesus.”
There is a particular fear that settles in when a man sees his limits
clearly. Not imagined limits — real ones. The habits He still hasn’t broken.
The virtues he still hasn’t mastered. The wounds that still ache when pressed.
The responsibilities feel heavier than his strength. Weakness becomes a
verdict: Surely God cannot build anything on this foundation.
But Scripture refuses that conclusion. God has always chosen men who
were too small for the task. Moses stuttered. Jeremiah trembled. Peter sank.
Paul begged for his thorn to be removed. None of them were impressive on paper.
Yet God did not wait for them to become strong. He made His strength visible
precisely where they were not.
Weakness is not a liability in the Kingdom — it is the doorway through
which grace enters. It is the place where a man stops performing and starts
depending. It is where he learns that holiness is not self‑improvement but
surrender. It is where he discovers that God is not looking for polished men,
but willing ones.
Lord, I confess how quickly I hide my weakness from You, as if You were
surprised by it. I forget that You formed me with limits on purpose — not to
shame me, but to teach me reliance. I forget that You are the God who
multiplies loaves, not the God who demands I arrive with enough. Deliver me
from the fear that my weakness disqualifies me from Your work.
Jesus, teach me to bring You the places I feel least capable. Teach me to trust that You are not hindered by my insufficiency. Teach me to believe that grace is strongest where I am most aware of my need. Teach me to stop measuring myself by what I can do and start measuring myself by what You can do through me.
From the fear that my weakness makes me unusable to You, deliver me,
Jesus. From the lie that You only work through the strong, deliver me, Jesus.
From the shame that keeps me hiding the parts of me that hurt, deliver me,
Jesus. From the discouragement that rises when I fail again, deliver me, Jesus.
From the pride that resists needing help, deliver me, Jesus.
Jesus, I trust that You choose the weak to reveal Your strength. Jesus,
I trust that nothing in me is beyond Your ability to redeem. Jesus, I trust
that my limits are invitations to rely on You. Jesus, I trust that Your grace
is sufficient for me. Jesus, I trust that You will finish what You have begun.
Around the Corner
Please pray the Stations of
the Cross for our firefighters from 911 and The Yarnell Hill
Firefighters; which were lost in a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by
lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and killed 19 City of
Prescott firefighters, members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. It was the
third deadliest U.S. wildfire since the 1991 East Bay Hills fire, which killed
25 people; and the 2017 Northern California wildfires, which killed over 40,
the deadliest wildland fire for U.S. firefighters since the 1933 Griffith Park
Fire, which killed 29; and the deadliest incident of any kind for U.S.
firefighters since the September 11, 2001, attacks, which killed 343. It is the
sixth-deadliest American firefighter disaster overall and the deadliest
wildfire ever in Arizona.
June 30-4 Gettysburg’s
163rd Anniversary Retrace one of America’s biggest
moments. This July the Battle of Gettysburg marks its 157th anniversary. Tour Gettysburg and its historic town, and take in battle
reenactments of events that culminated in more than 51,000 casualties and the
setting for President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Bartholomew is celebrated in the
Orthodox Church on June 30. In the Roman Catholic tradition, his feast
day is August 24
Last day of the month but let’s not
forget June is National
Country Cooking Month.
Bucket List trip[2]: USA
70-degree year trip: Detroit
St. Anthony Novena
3-on thirteen consecutive Tuesdays.
Pray Day 5 of
the Novena for our Pope and Bishops
And today is International Sailor Moon Day
Spirit Hour: TRE
FONTANE beer
Foodie- Detroit-Style
Pizza
July
Enjoy the 4th
Beans Month bursts into
July with a celebration of one of the world’s favorite and most versatile
ingredients—beans!
Daily
Devotions
Unite
in the work of the Porters of St.
Joseph by joining them in fasting: The
lonely and destitute
Litany
of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
Rosary
[2] Schultz, Patricia. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List Workman Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.
Overview of July[1]
The entire month falls within the
liturgical season of Ordinary Time, which is represented by the liturgical
color green. This symbol of hope is the color of the sprouting seed and arouses
in the faithful the hope of reaping the eternal harvest of heaven, especially
the hope of a glorious resurrection. It is used in the offices and Masses of
Ordinary Time.
Time
of Regeneration. The
Blood that coursed through the veins of Christ was a part of that Sacred
Humanity made possible by the maternity of Mary, whose parents, St. Joachim and
St. Anne are honored this month. (July 26). Our Lord's blood poured out on the
Cross purchased our salvation, washed clean the robes of the martyrs, and gave
birth to the Church as it flowed from his wounded side. The Precious Blood of
Christ — now pulsing through his Mystical Body — continues its salvific work,
preserving and purifying, repairing and providing nourishment for regeneration
and renewal of its members.
July’s
longer and warmer days also provide us with the opportunity for renewal, both
interior and exterior. Schedules relax and pressures ease, inviting travel. But
whether we travel or not, like the missionary, St. Junipero Serra (July 1), we
preach to others — by our conduct, our speech, even the clothes we wear. May we
be modest in everything we do, imitating St. Maria Goretti, the young martyr
for purity (July 6), and “preaching” Christ to everyone we meet.
The summer Readings of Ordinary Time remind us that our earthly pilgrimage is also a journey, a great adventure towards union with Christ, the Beginning and the End of our journey. Each Sunday with its Easter renewal becomes a mile marker along the way, linking where we have been with where we are going. May the Precious Blood of Jesus sustain us as we journey to our true home, with Mary and the angels as our companions on the way.
July Travel[2]
Escape the heat, and take
in awe-inspiring glacial views, with a cruise to Alaska.
Cruise ships dock alongside towns from Seward, along Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula,
to Ketchikan, in the Alexander Archipelago. Cruise ships also dock near Katmai
National Park, where July is prime time to see bears gulp up Atlantic salmon on
their run. And if cruise prices prove too high in July, fret not: Alaska’s
prime cruise season stretches through September.
National
Ice Cream Month
This July we all scream
for ice cream. Celebrate National Ice Cream Month — designated a national
holiday by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 — with a trip to America’s coolest ice cream shops. And why not head to the
granddaddy of them all — Bassett’s
Ice Cream in
Philadelphia — the oldest ice cream company in the U.S., founded in 1861!
Outlaw
Run (Branson, Missouri)[4]
Ready
for a 68-mph adrenaline rush? Kick off July on the only wooden coaster to twist
upside down with a record-breaking three versions — and a stomach-in-your-mouth
81-degree drop. Take advantage of Outlaw Run’s extended hours this month at Silver Dollar City.
Can’t
make it to Branson this July?
Check out our complete
guide to US amusement parks.
July
4-July 26 Tour de
France[5]
Celebrate
France’s biggest sporting event this month — the Tour
de France. The
official kick-off takes place on the island of Corsica then crosses onto
France’s mainland. Cruise the French countryside as you follow the grand event.
Or if you can’t make it abroad, head to one of America’s top bicycling cities.
June 30-4 Gettysburg’s 163 Anniversary
Retrace one of America’s biggest moments. This July the Battle of Gettysburg marks its 157th anniversary. Tour Gettysburg and its historic town and take in battle reenactments of events that culminated in more than 51,000 casualties and the setting for President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
July
3-12 Calgary
Stampede
Our "Neighbor to the
North" marks its birthday this month. Get in on the festivities during the
Calgary Stampede! This 10-day event is Canada’s largest annual rodeo,
and one of its largest festivals to boot. Billed as the "Greatest Outdoor
Show on Earth," the rodeo draws more than 1 million visitors each year.
Pop! Boom! Bang! July
spells independence, with glorious fireworks nationwide. Celebrate Independence
Day with a visit to the annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks display over the
Hudson River. And if N.Y.C.’s not on your itinerary, check out more of America’s best fireworks displays — in St. Louis, Addison, Texas and
Chicago’s Navy Pier.
July
6-14 San Fermin Festival (Pamplona, Spain)
Run for your life! Join
hundreds of thousands of locals and tourists who flock to the northern Spanish
city of Pamplona for the annual San Fermin Festival.
At 8 a.m. on July 7, the celebration unfolds with six bulls and another six
steers running down a half-mile stretch of narrow streets. The week-long event
culminates in a final, grand fight in a bullring.
July
17-18 California Wine Festival (Santa Barbara, California)[6]
Head to one of the biggest
wine festivals under the sun! Celebrate wine harvest season this July with a
visit to California wine country. Held this year in Santa Barbara, the annual California Wine Festival showcases vintage wines, along
with gourmet appetizers including artisan breads and cheeses. Cheers!
July
21-26 Hemingway Days Festival (Key West, Florida)[7]
Can’t make it to Pamplona
this month? Head to Key West instead! Hemingway Days Festival honors the late author, who lived
and worked on the southern coast of the island. The annual event includes its
own "Running of the Bulls" — this one with Ernest Hemingway
lookalikes pushing fake bulls on Key West’s famed Duval Street.
·
July
29-Aug 2nd -Maine
Lobster Festival (Rockland, ME)
The annual Maine Lobster
Festival kicks off this month, and you won't want to miss a moment of it! Over
the course of the 5-day festival, more than 20,000 lbs. of lobster will be
served -- lobster rolls, lobster wraps, lobster Caesar salad. Did we say lobster?
Plus, see the annual Lobster Crate Race, cooking contest and the Maine Sea
Goddess coronation!
Iceman’s Calendar
June 30-4 Gettysburg’s 163 Anniversary
Wed. July 1st Feast
of the Most Precious Blood
MASS First
Wednesday FAST Day
Thu. July 2nd Thursday Feast
Fri. July 3rd Dog Days begin FAST
Day
MASS First
Friday
Sat. July 4th MASS First
Saturday
Tour de France
Sun. July 5th Sixth
Sunday after Pentecost
Mon. July 6th San Fermin Festival
(Pamplona, Spain)
Sun. July 12th Seventh
Sunday after Pentecost
Tue. July 14th Bastille
Day
Wed. July 15th FAST Day
Thu. July 16th Our Lady
of Mount Carmel
Fri. July 17th California Wine
Festival
No FAST Iceman’s 22nd Wedding Anniversary
Sun. Jun 19th Eight
Sunday after Pentecost
Tue. July 21st Hemingway Days Festival
Wed. July 22nd St.
Mary Magdalene FAST Day
begin Novena to Holy Face for 1st
Friday
Fri. July 24th FAST Day-
Sat. July 25th St.
James, Apostle
Sun. July 26th Ninth
Sunday after Pentecost
Wed. July 29th St.
Martha FAST Day
Thu. July 31st St.
Ignatius
[1]https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=12555
[3]https://www.cntraveler.com/story/is-alaskas-summer-cruise-season-still-happening?verso=true
[6]https://www.californiawinefestival.com/santa-barbara
[7]https://www.historichideaways.com/events/key-west-hemingway-days-2020
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