Recognizing June 12, 2026, as the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and honoring the Sacred Heart as the living sign of Christ's divine love, mercy, humility, and reparation for sin.
Summary
What This Resolution Does
This House resolution would recognize the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, identified in the title as occurring on June 12, 2026. It honors the Sacred Heart as a Catholic symbol of Christ's love, mercy, humility, and redemptive sacrifice and recognizes the historical place of Sacred Heart devotion in the Catholic Church in the United States.
The resolution commends the United States Catholic bishops who consecrated the country to the Sacred Heart. It affirms prayer, repentance, reparation, Eucharistic devotion, and the sanctification of priests. It rejects pride, self-idolatry, and rebellion against God in the religious terms stated by the measure. It encourages families, churches, communities, and people of good will to renew the devotion, seek Christ's mercy, and practice humility.
As a simple House resolution, the measure is a ceremonial and devotional statement by one chamber. It does not create a Federal holiday, order a government observance, close a public office, appropriate funds, require a school or agency activity, compel religious belief or worship, establish a benefit, or change any legal right or duty.
Who Benefits and How
Catholics who observe the solemnity, Catholic bishops, priests, parishes, families, and communities devoted to the Sacred Heart could receive symbolic congressional recognition. The resolution may increase public visibility for the observance and its devotional themes. Those benefits are ceremonial and expressive only; the measure provides no grant, service, legal status, or required public accommodation.
Who Bears the Burden and How
No individual, religious organization, school, business, or government agency is required to comply with the resolution, and it imposes no penalty, reporting duty, tax, or direct cost. Families, churches, and communities may choose whether to participate in any devotion or observance. Any voluntary event cost belongs to the organizer and is not required or funded by this measure.
Key Provisions
- Establishes ceremonial House recognition of the Sacred Heart solemnity.
- Provides honor for the devotion's stated themes of love, mercy, and sacrifice.
- Recognizes the devotion's history in the Catholic Church in the United States.
- Provides commendation for the United States Catholic bishops described in the measure.
- Affirms specified Catholic devotional practices and encourages voluntary observance.
- Creates no holiday, public funding, compulsory activity, or legal requirement.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Provide ceremonial House recognition of the June 12, 2026 Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and encourage Catholic devotional themes of prayer, mercy, humility, repentance, and service.
Key Policy Areas
Religion, Commemorations, Culture
Primary Purpose
Provide ceremonial House recognition of the June 12, 2026 Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and encourage Catholic devotional themes of prayer, mercy, humility, repentance, and service.
Policy Domains
Resolution text - ceremonial Sacred Heart recognition
Identified Gains
- Catholic families observing the Sacred Heart solemnity
- Catholic bishops recognized by the resolution
- Catholic priests associated with the devotion
- Catholic community organizations holding voluntary Sacred Heart observances
Identified Costs
- Catholic community organizations choosing to hold voluntary observances
- Catholic families choosing to organize voluntary observances
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Submitted in House
Mr. Moore of West Virginia (for himself and Mr. Messmer) …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "house"
- → House of Representatives
- "bishops"
- → Catholic bishops of the United States
- "observers"
- → Families, churches, communities, and people observing the devotion
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