Dear Sacred Heart Family, Love of God and CountryThe Fruits of Love We ended the month of June and our feast day on a single note, Love. The love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus that found its origin in the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is the same of love that we celebrate our…
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Dear Sacred Heart Family I wish to extend a warm Father’s Day blessing to all our fathers in our Sacred Heart parish family. It is our hope that this day you know our heavenly Father’s hand guiding you and your families in the path of His Son. For those of us whose Fathers have entered…
Dear Sacred Heart Family One of the things that impressed me most when I lived in Indonesia was that in a country that was 88% Muslim, 8% Christian, and 4% Catholic, 3 of their 6 National holidays were Christian feasts. I often ask Catholics, “If you had to choose our three most important feasts, what would they be?” Most…
Dear Sacred Heart Family Though your Easter candy may long be gone, Easter does not officially end until next week after we have gone through the Ascension and Pentecost. These two events are intimately linked as Jesus’ Ascension marks the moment He opened the heavens to us and this opening enabled the Holy Spirit to be able…
Dear Sacred Heart Family Today as our country celebrates Mother’s Day, our Church celebrates National Day of Prayer for Vocations. In many ways these two celebrations share much in common, as motherhood is one of the first and most common vocations. Without the vocation of motherhood, no others can exist. This day is more than…
Dear Sacred Heart Family Easter Blessings to you and your family! You may be used to hearing “Happy Easter”, but I wish you much more than a happy day. Today is a day of absolute joy and that joy is a blessing to us. Jesus blesses us with the promise that the evil forces of the world…
Dear Sacred Heart Family Today begins our holiest time of year. These next few days reveal the fulness of the promise God-With-Us, Emmanuel. The events of Holy Week, like our world today, go from the promise of Glory at Palm Sunday (akin to the joy of our Olympics) to the depths of despair on Good…
Dear Sacred Heart Family This week we will have our communal penance service (Thursday 7pm). I am always humbled when someone comes to this sacrament after being away from it for 10,20, or 40 years. If this is you, I would share one thought, the same one Jesus said time and time again, “do not…
Dear Sacred Heart Family This week in addition to celebrating the 3rd Sunday of Lent, we celebrated the Solemnity of St joseph (March 19) and the memorial of St Patrick (March17). Of these two latter events, I believe that St joseph is truly a model for us this Lenten Season. Even though very little is…
Dear Sacred Heart Family, If there was just one word we could use to sum up this Lenten season it is the word “conversion.” The odd thing is that it still takes many words to understand what is conversion, like change, reformation, transformation, and redesign to name a few. For some people, this word may bring up…
Dear Sacred Heart Family, We know that Lent is our season of penance when we fast, pray, and give alms to get ready for Easter. It might be helpful to look at how & why we do this as we start this season. In a word, Lent is about conversion—to take some time to look…
