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Friday, June 5, 2026 | Memorial of Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
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Dear Catholic Parents,

Paul tells Timothy plainly: "All who want to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived. But you - remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it" (2 Timothy 3:12-14). Today the Church gives us a man who lived that sentence to the end - and today's news has two stories about what it costs to protect children when the institutions around them fail.

Quick Hits

1. First Friday, Novena Day 3 - Six Days to the Consecration

Today is the First Friday of June - the monthly Sacred Heart devotion, when the Church invites Catholics to receive Communion in reparation and love. It is also Day 3 of the national novena to the Sacred Heart, with six days remaining before the bishops consecrate the nation on June 11. If you have not yet begun, today is your entry point. The nine consecutive First Fridays carry a special promise of perseverance - and this First Friday falls inside a Novena inside the month of the Sacred Heart. That convergence does not happen often. Go to Mass if you can. Pray the novena tonight at usccb.org/novena-sacred-heart-jesus.

Faith Lens for the Home: Ask your family: "What would it mean for our home to be genuinely consecrated to the Sacred Heart - not just on June 11, but as an ongoing orientation of everything we do here?" Six days to decide. Tonight is the practice run.

2. Chloe Cole Tells Congress: "Doctors Lied to My Family and Left Me With Irreversible Harm"

Chloe Cole, a 21-year-old detransitioner, testified before Congress this week urging lawmakers to ban gender transition procedures for minors. She described being put on puberty blockers at 13 and undergoing a double mastectomy at 15 - with her parents' trust in the medical system used against them. "Doctors lied to my family," she said. "They left me with irreversible physical and emotional harm." The Church teaches that the human body is a gift to be received, not a problem to be solved - and that children cannot give meaningful consent to irreversible medical interventions. Her testimony is not a political event. It is a young woman asking adults to protect children the way adults are supposed to.

Faith Lens for the Home: Paul warned of charlatans who deceive and are themselves deceived. Ask your family: "What does our faith say about the human body - and about who is responsible for protecting children from irreversible harm?" Then ask: "How do we speak about people like Chloe with both truth and compassion?" Both matter. Neither alone is enough.

3. Trump Administration Ends 60-Year Partnership With Catholic Charities for Migrant Children

The Trump administration has abruptly ended its relationship with Catholic Charities USA for the care of unaccompanied migrant children - a partnership stretching back more than 60 years. Catholic Charities has been one of the primary providers of shelter, legal services, and family reunification support for children who arrive at the border without a parent or guardian. The end of the contract leaves thousands of children without their primary institutional advocate. The Church's commitment to unaccompanied migrant children is not political - it is rooted in the same conviction that drives the pro-life movement: every child is made in the image of God and deserves protection, regardless of how they arrived or where they were born.

Faith Lens for the Home: Ask your family: "What does the Church teach about how we treat children who are alone and vulnerable - regardless of where they came from?" Then pray tonight for the unaccompanied children now without their primary support. Catholic Charities served them in your name for 60 years. Their need has not ended because the contract has.

Family Saint Spotlight

St. Boniface - June 5

An English monk born around 675 who became the Apostle to Germany - evangelizing pagan Germanic peoples, founding monasteries, and establishing dioceses across what is now Germany and the Netherlands. At Fritzlar, he came upon a crowd prostrating before a great oak tree sacred to Thor. He took an axe and began to cut it down, calling on Thor to strike him dead if the tree was truly holy. Thor did not strike. A great wind finished the job. Many converted on the spot. He was martyred on June 5, 754, while preparing converts for Confirmation - killed with the Gospel book raised over his head as a shield. He died obeying, not merely admiring.

Ask at dinner: "Boniface cut down the sacred oak to show that Christ alone is Lord. What are the things in our family's life - habits, priorities, attachments - that we treat as untouchable? Are any of them taking the place that belongs to God?"

One Simple Action

Go to Mass today if you can - it is First Friday. Pray Day 3 of the Novena tonight at usccb.org/novena-sacred-heart-jesus. And consider a donation to Catholic Charities USA in response to today's news - their work with vulnerable children continues regardless of the federal contract. Six days to the Consecration. Remain faithful to what you have learned.

Enjoy the weekend living the faith in your domestic church. See you Monday.

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Remain faithful to what you have learned and believed. A man raised the Gospel and died under it. Six days. One Heart.

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