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Sacred Heart Parish
The mission of Sacred Heart Church is to call people to develop a personal relationship with God, to build a community of faith and worship, to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by serving the needs of all people through the guidance of the Holiy Spirit.
The Easter SeasonThe Easter Season refers to the Great Fifty Days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday, a celebration of our participation in Christ’s resurrection which brings us from the death of sin to a life of grace. Its last ten days (Ascension Thursday through Pentecost) focus on the promise of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. The fiftieth day (pente-) is seven (the perfect number) squared plus one (the first day of the New Life). The word Easter probably has roots in the Norse term Eostur, the season of the rising sun, or the time of the new birth of spring. Both these meanings lent themselves well to Christian symbolism for the new life of the risen Christ, the eternal light.
Pilgrim SundayMark your calendars for Sunday, June 3 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. to join in pilgrimage journey in East Sacramento. St. Mary’s Parish and our parish have joined together to open wide the doors of our churches on that Sunday afternoon. We are inviting our neighbors, friends, and fellow parishioners to visit our two beautiful churches where there will be docents explaining the rich history of each church, the stained glass windows, and the artistic and architectural features of our distinctive places of worship. If you are interested in helping out with this project, please contact the Ministry Office at 452-4830. The children in the 7th grade and 4th grade will take an active part in this day by training to be tour guides for Sacred Heart.
High School Youth GroupYouth Group (YG) invites all high school students in the Parish to join YG. YG meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month in the St. Anthony Hall on the campus of Sacred Heart Parish School. We meet at 6:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. For more information, please contact YG adult leader Kelley Wilson at 397-5234. Sacred Heart Parish BulletinIf you missed something in the weekly bulletin and forgot to bring one home, it is posted here. We also post the ads from the back page of the bulletin and encourage you to support our advertisers. Baptism Classes
More . . . Prayer for the WeekGladden us with holy joys, almighty God, and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving, for the Ascension of Christ your Son is our exaltation, and, where the Head has gone before in glory, the Body is called to follow in hope. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
Go and teach all nations, says the Lord; I am with you always, until the end of the world. --Matthew 28:19a, 20b
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Please join us for Morning Prayer. We meet by the statue of St. Joseph. Start your day with praise and blessing. Come join us before work!
In baptism we come to Christ. And there with Him we become spiritually alive as God's People called to share in His mission to proclaim God's glorious presence and works among us. The key to understanding Baptism, the first of the Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist), and indeed all of the sacraments, is found in the simple word: "Christ in us and we in Him. Through baptism (and the subsequent gift of faith) we are called, from the darkness of not knowing God to the marvelous light of dwelling with and in Him. At the font of baptism, we are reborn and become new creations, clothed with a Christian dignity and called to witness, in word and example, to the Gospel of Life.