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 4
th 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.
I am so proud to say that all the work that we have done over the past five years was paid in full due to the pledged contributions you made, so that we never needed a loan. We have accomplished many of our goals including:
· Improving our carbon footprint by insulating buildings, installing new roofs and gutters and removing asbestos tiles.
· Repairing all stained-glass windows
· Installing a new handicap accessible restroom
· Installing a new fire monitoring system
· Improving our lighting, sound and visual capabilities
· Opening an updated family room in the front of the church
· A new day chapel where we now also hold kids chapel
· Reconfiguring the sanctuary according to Vatican II specifications
· Functioning new front doors that make it much easier to welcome funeral celebrations
· A parlor in the front of the church for families assembling for Baptism, funerals and weddings.
· A conference and library room in the former choir loft making an outdated space, fully useful and functional.
Wow, thank you all who made these major renovations and updating possible. As the formal Capital Campaign draws to a close, we realize that as with any home, there is still work to be done to our campus at Sacred Heart. More on that that is to come. The office is preparing summaries of your capital campaign contributions. These will be arriving during the summer months. In the meantime, I want you all to know how grateful we are for making this all possible. Now let’s celebrate...don’t be left out...get your tickets for the Gala!