– 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.