These are weekly grouping for parish members who meet in a home setting to share & discuss the following Sunday’s Gospel readings.

       

Greetings Bros. & Srs. in Christ,

Monday Night BINGO !

Has sadly come to an end for this season On Monday JUNE 22, 2015.  We gave out lots of special prizes and served Pizza & Meatball hoagies for our last night Bingo Bash!! It was a winning night for all!!

 Thanks so much to all our wonderful volunteers and Bingo Players who faithfully returned every Monday to help support Sacred Heart.

 Monday Night Bingo- will return on September 21, 2015 at 6:30pm. Doors open at 4:00 pm.

 Friday Afternoon Bingo- will return on September 25, 2015  at 12:30pm. Doors open at 11:00am              

Come all and join the fun and See you in the fall!!

On Sunday, June 14th, we celebrated a beautiful solemn Mass in honor of our patron, the Sacred Heart of Jesus. After Communion, Catherine Krzeminski was honored with a gift (crucifix) by Fr. Murray, as an outstanding example of a Sacred Heart parishioner who by her example ‘builds up the Body of Christ.’ After the Mass the statue of the Sacred Heart was carried ever so devoutly by the Knights of Columbus. The procession was led by Deacon Darrell Cervasco, C.Ss.R., followed by altar servers, Fr. Murray, C.Ss.R., and then the parishioners. Upon returning inside the church with the statue of the Sacred Heart, the faithful were invited to continue the celebration with International foods, such as foods from the Filipino, Italian, and American communities. We even had a real Italian ice maker from Brooklyn, N.Y. The faithful were also invited to take part in all the many games and activities for family members and children. It seems like the tradition of our Parish Feast is catching on, more and more people are starting to become involved and to show up at the feast day activities. We had more people at this year’s Parish Feast than any of the previous years, thank you everyone for your participation, we had a great celebration, I want to also thank Mark Steighner for taking a movie and photos of the celebration and placing them on keystoourcity.com.  God bless you – Fr. Murray

– Congratulations to our Pre-K graduates who graduated on Wednesday, May 27th, our Kindergarten graduates who graduated on Thursday, May 28th, and our 8th Grade graduates who graduated on Friday, May 29th. May God bless all of you as you ‘Move Forward’ on your journey in life. You will always be in our prayers.

We are blessed at Sacred Heart Parish to have a wonderful Catholic School and also a Religious Education program with such dedicated teachers. Our school teachers and our religious education teachers do an excellent job in preparing our second graders every year to receive First Holy Communion.

As a parish we wanted to be in solidarity with our persecuted Christian brothers and sisters throughout the world. Some wondered why we chose Mother’s Day. On this day, we reflected on Mary our Mother who stood at the foot of the cross while her son was persecuted and put to death, all Mary could do, was pray!

At 3:00 in the afternoon on May 10th, we had a holy hour and prayed before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament for our brothers and sisters who are being persecuted.

We were all encouraged to wear the color orange to Mass on May 10th because orange is the ‘new color of martyrdom.’ Many of our Christian brothers and sisters are put to death in orange jump suits!

Every year the eighth graders of Sacred Heart School perform a live silent version of the stations of the cross. Every year this artistic reenactment of Jesus final moments on earth becomes more powerful. This is a wonderful tradition in our parish during Lent, and it is great to see all the eighth graders doing something together as a team for the parish.