Have you marked your calendar for the Gala Celebration on May 4th, 2019?  Now you can obtain can make your reservations for the dinner on our website.  Don’t be left out!  Our celebration is to recognize and celebrate our past, our present and our future as a Catholic Community of Sacred Heart.  Where we are now has been made possible through all our work together in ministry and the generosity of all who assisted us in our Capital Campaign. 

In this even numbered year it’s my time to travel outside the U.S.A. and so my bags will be packed to depart for Russia on Sunday July 8th.  Many of you are interested in where I will be going, so I thought I would share the highlights of my itinerary.  I’ll be traveling with Msgr. Steve Pedone, my classmate.  We were ordained together by Bishop Flanagan on 3 June 1978.  We are both looking forward to our journey.

Thank you, thank you, thank you a million times over.  What a wonderful celebration on the occasion of my 40th Anniversary to Priesthood.  I feel loved, affirmed, appreciated and celebrated in this milestone on my journey of faith.  Nineteen of these years have been spent in Diocesan Ministry, the Office for Youth Ministry for 12 years, and 7 years in Haiti.  These past 17 years it has been a pleasure being on the journey with you here in the Catholic Community of Sacred Heart. 

Thank you for your generosity to the Catholic Community of Sacred Heart over the course of the past five years.  It is difficult for me to believe but it is over six years ago that we began our capital campaign “Our Family…Our Faith…Our Future".  Because of the generosity of so many of you we have lots of reasons to celebrate.  Next weekend we are starting to invite all of our Catholic Community to come to celebrate on Saturday May 4th 2019 when Bishop Mc Manus will be with us at the 4:00 Mass to consecrate our altar and church.  We will be holding our Gala Celebration of Community-Past, Present and Future to recognize the commitment of generations of parishioners and our accomplishments.

We have celebrated three major feast days in our liturgical calendar; Pentecost, Trinity, and Corpus Christi.  Now we enter into a time that is mistranslated from the Latin to English that we call “Ordinary Time.”  In English “ordinary” is something that has no special quality or interest; commonplace, unexceptional.  This is an improper translation by someone who doesn’t understand our English language.  We should be correctly calling this “Ordinal Time.”  This comes from the Latin “ordo” meaning order, and those who are math students will remember ordinal numbers are counting sequentially; first, second third…so this is really the Tenth Sunday of Ordinal Time.