Dear Parish Family, It’s hard to believe that another year of Faith Formation has come and gone. Sunday was our last Faith Formation class for the year. This year has been especially challenging due to continued covid issues and not having a faith formation coordinator. Tina has been an unbelievable asset! She has done the bulk of the work with communicating to families, organizing classes and materials, keeping track of attendance…and the list goes on.
Dear Fellow Parishioners, Everyday when I celebrate Mass some words and phrases stand out more than others. Lately I have been focusing on the sign of peace that we have refrained from since the pandemic. It is a powerful prayer and currently has so much meaning for us all. It reads “Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles: Peace, I leave you, my peace I give you, look not on our sins, but on the faith of your Church, and graciously grant us peace and unity in accordance with your will…”
Dear Fellow Parishioners, Our Easter celebrations continue as we celebrate the outpouring of the graces of our Sacramental life as The Catholic Community of Sacred Heart. We have welcomed 15 young people who made their First Eucharist, to the table of the Bread and on Friday the 13th (Yikes) 19 of our young people will be Confirmed by Bishop McManus at Sacred Heart Parish in Milford. The waters of Baptism continue to flow as we welcome children into our parish community in their first sacrament of initiation.
Dear Fellow Parishioners, “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” I thought my mother came up with that quote, but it is attributed to Lewis Carroll. Right now, I know why he and my mother used the quote. There seem to be so many things happening and I am trying to keep up. So, I am going to try to help us all focus on two tasks that need to be brought to conclusion. Partners in Charity and our input for the Synod on Synodality (what?) which I have mentioned several times since last October.
Dear Fellow Parishioners, We are all invited to share our gifts, skills, and talents here in the Catholic Community of Sacred Heart. I wish to thank all those who answered the call to assist us in our Lenten and Holy Week journey: altar servers, cantors, greeters, readers of the word, ushers, environment decorations, musicians, laundry, Easter Fire, landscape workers, Easter Baskets to our homebound and assisted living facilities, operating the technology for a/v and live streaming; our Pastoral Planning Team (PPT) for the survey; and so much more. When everyone takes a part it all fits together for a memorable spiritual and religious experience for us all.