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Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Dear Catholic Parents,

Elijah assembles the prophets of Baal and the whole people of Israel on Mount Carmel. Two altars, two bulls, no fire. Whoever's God answers - is God. Then he turns to the people and asks: "How long will you straddle the issue? If the Lord is God, follow him; if Baal, follow him." The people did not answer him a word (1 Kings 18:21), but the fire falls anyway - on the soaked altar, consuming everything. The people fall prostrate: "The Lord is God! The Lord is God!" Tomorrow the bishops of the United States consecrate the nation to the Sacred Heart. Today is Elijah's question.

📰 Quick Hits

1. Tomorrow, the Consecration.

Today we draw to the end of the national Novena to the Sacred Heart. Tomorrow, June 11, the U.S. bishops consecrate the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at their Plenary Assembly. The novena is still available to pray at usccb.org/novena-sacred-heart-jesus. The consecration prayer for households is at the same page. If you pray nothing else today, pray this: "Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in you." Then tomorrow, if you can, go to Mass. The fire falls on the altar that has been prepared.

Faith Lens for the Home: Elijah soaked the altar three times before the fire fell. He left no room for doubt about whose fire it was. Tonight, pray the final novena as a family. Then ask: "What are we straddling? What is the thing we have not yet fully given to God?" Tomorrow is the answer.

2. A U.S. Apache Went Down. Both Pilots Were Rescued. Then the Strikes Began.

Monday night, a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter went down over the Strait of Hormuz while on patrol. Both crew members were rescued safely within two hours by a Navy drone vessel. President Trump blamed Iran. Tuesday evening at 5 p.m. ET, U.S. Central Command launched what it called "self-defense strikes" against Iranian air defense installations, ground control stations, and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes concluded just before 1 a.m. Wednesday. Iran retaliated with strikes on U.S. bases across the Middle East. This comes after Iran and Israel had already broken the April ceasefire over the weekend with a missile exchange. The escalation is severe. Trump had told reporters that a comprehensive peace agreement with Tehran was in its "final throes" - potentially days away - when the Apache went down.

Faith Lens for the Home: The cause of the Apache crash is still under investigation - even U.S. officials have not ruled out an accident or midair collision. The Church's just war teaching does not change with the pace of events: every act of war requires legitimate authority, right intention, last resort, proportional means, and protection of civilians. Ask your family tonight: "What does the Church say about how we respond to provocation - especially when we're not certain what happened? What is the difference between a proportional response and an escalation?" Pray for the two pilots who were rescued. Pray for the civilians in Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island who heard the explosions. Pray for the negotiators whose window may have just closed.

3. The World Cup Begins - and Iran's Fans Have No Tickets

The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicked off this week across the United States, Mexico, and Canada - the first time the tournament has been hosted in North America in 32 years. Sixty-four nations. Forty-eight stadiums. Three countries hosting a single tournament of 2.5 billion viewers worldwide. And in the middle of it all: Iran is scheduled to play its opening match at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on June 15 - while the U.S. and Iran are exchanging strikes. FIFA has revoked the Iranian national team's fan ticket allocation, meaning Iranian supporters cannot attend their own team's matches. The team will play. The fans cannot come. The game continues while the war does.

Faith Lens for the Home: Sport has always been one of the ways human beings practice being in community with strangers. The World Cup gathers people who cannot agree on anything else and puts them in the same stadium. Ask your family: "What does sport give us that nothing else does? What does it tell us about what human beings need - beyond food and shelter?" Then notice: even in a world at war, 2.5 billion people will watch the same game.

⛪ Family Saint Spotlight

Elijah the Prophet - June 10

Not a canonized saint, but venerated by the Church from the beginning - a prophet of the ninth century BC who stood alone on Mount Carmel against 450 prophets of Baal and called down fire from heaven on a soaked altar. He ran from Jezebel into the wilderness and asked God to let him die. God sent an angel with bread: "Get up and eat, for the journey is too long for you." He traveled forty days to the mountain of God. He heard the Lord not in the earthquake or the fire but in a tiny whispering sound. He is honored by the Carmelite order as their father. Elijah's question - "how long will you straddle the issue?" - has never been answered once and for all. It is asked again every morning.

Ask at dinner: "Elijah felt completely alone - 'I am the only one left' - and God told him there were 7,000 in Israel who had not bowed to Baal. When do we feel alone in our faith? Who are the 7,000 we haven't found yet?"

✋ One Simple Action

Tonight: Pray the end of the novena at usccb.org/novena-sacred-heart-jesus. Download the household consecration prayer from the same page and pray it together. Tomorrow at Mass - or at home if Mass isn't possible - consecrate your household to the Sacred Heart alongside the bishops. The fire falls on the prepared altar. Prepare yours tonight.

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The people did not answer Elijah a word. The fire fell anyway. Tomorrow the bishops of the United States answer for the nation. Tonight your household answers for itself. How long will you straddle the issue?

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