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Blessing of the Backpacks, 2024
Sunday, September 15, 2024, 9:30am.
A special blessing will be shared with students, teachers, aides, instructors, administrators, etc. as a new school year begins.
School children are invited to bring their backpacks filled with their school supplies.
Let us pray together for a happy and successful school year!
Blessing of the Backpacks Flyer 2024
WANTED! New Altar Servers
If you are in fourth eight grades and are interested in becoming an Altar Server, please come with your parent or guardian to an information session Wednesday, September 18th, 7pm in the Church.
Altar Server Meeting Flyer 2024
REGULATIONS FOR INSIDE THE CHURCH FOR MASS
OUR CHURCH HAS REOPENED!
The following directives will apply in general and individual churches should prepare further directions which the faithful must adhere to when visiting a church.
- The Church has been completely and professionally sanitized and disinfected including sacristies, the main body of the church and pews, choir loft, vestibule, bathrooms and church basement. The Church will be cleaned every morning.
- Anyone who feels sick in anyway must stay home. Parishioners should take their temperature before leaving their home to ensure it is not 100 degrees or higher.
- The Sacred Heart Garden will be OPEN at the same time the Church is open, however, no more than six people are allowed (one at each concrete bench and one standing on the brick Pathway to Prayer). NO ONE IS ALLOWED ON THE GRASS.
- If you are UN-vaccinated, you should NOT enter the Church without a mask. Please bring one from home. If have been completely vaccinated and are two weeks past your last shot, wearing a mask is not required.
- Hand sanitizer stands are available as you enter the Church. But you are encouraged to bring sanitizer from home.
- Lighting Candles will be allowed but NO touching of the statues.
- There will be NO Holy Water in the fonts. Each first Sunday of the month, we will bless water that you bring in your own containers.
- Bulletins will be distributed. They will continue to be uploaded to the parish website (www.sacredheartrccglendale.org) and e-mailed via Flocknotes.
- DO NOT leave any holy cards or literature in the vestibule of the Church.
- The priests, deacon and extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion will follow the same sanitary procedures as when we first reopened.
GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE, UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION!
Fr. Fred’s Weekly Letter, June 21, 2020
Dear Parishioners of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church,
Along with Fr. Fullum, Deacon Peter, the Sisters of our Convent, the Parish Pastoral Council and myself, I would like to wish you all a blessed and happy Feast Day of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus!
I would also like to acknowledge this weekend the students of Sacred Heart Catholic Academy, their parents and families, Ms. Gangi our Principal, Faculty and Staff. Friday, June 19th was the last day of school and we wish you a happy and safe summer! I would also like to thank Deacon Peter in a special way. Throughout these three months’ lockdown, he faithfully offered on-line a prayer service and reflection on the Scriptures every Friday for the students.
One of the biographical facts known about St. Philip Neri, a priest who lived in Rome in the 16th century, is that he had an “enlarged heart.” It is recorded that while St. Philip was praying in the catacombs of Rome, he had a vision of a fiery globe that came toward him and entered his mouth and settled in his chest. His heart enlarged after this experience so greatly that there was a swelling in his chest. Two ribs broke forming an arch around it for protection and to accommodate the new size of his heart for the rest of his life. Along with this enlarged heart came an even greater zeal for charity and love for the people of Rome. His desire for holiness and service to all people increased and these became the foundations of his vocation.
My friend, Joseph Mario Reali, who died at the age of 25 in 2015, also had an “enlarged heart.” A true medical condition that was not known until his death. But, since childhood, he also desired holiness and loving service to all he knew and met. His Funeral and Mass, attended by almost 2,000 people, was a living legacy and a manifestation of how our Lord loved each of us through Joe, and who continue to experience the effects of Joe’s love for us because of the symbolic virtues of his “enlarged
heart.”
St. Margaret Mary Alocoque, the seventeenth century visionary of the Sacred Heart, witnessed Jesus reveal His “enlarged heart,” exposed and on fire with love for all humanity. This realization of the intimate love our Lord offers to each of us transformed her life and through her revelations transformed the Church even to this day with the devotion to the Sacred Heart, as well as the awareness of the goodness of the human person.
On this Feast Day, my sisters and brothers, I wonder if another characteristic of what it means to be a Christian is not only one who loves and forgives, but one who has an “enlarged heart?” Usually the medical diagnosis of a swollen or enlarged heart is NOT a good one. Usually, it means there is sickness or disease in or surrounding the muscles of the heart. Usually, it is the cause for alarm and immediate treatment with medication, diet and exercise or even surgery. But maybe as Christians, having a spiritually or symbolically “enlarged heart” means something different…. Maybe it means allowing more people into our hearts to expand it even more? Maybe it means we strive to be united to Christ to love as He loves, unconditionally and wholeheartedly? Maybe it means we are seeking to bring peace and serenity in our own particular way into this turbulent and chaotic world and into our own personal situations? Maybe it means offering prayers with charity from our hearts for those in
need of that spiritual lift of mind and spirit that comes from praying for another person?
May we all desire and seek to develop a spiritually “enlarged heart” in order to encompass all our sisters and brothers as we look to the example and love of the Sacred Heart for each one of us. May we proclaim with Christ using His words to describe our own hearts, “Behold this heart which has loved humanity so much!”
With love and blessings and gratitude for all your continued support and generosity,
Fr. Fred+
Announcement re: Solemnity of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Dear Parishioners,
This Friday, June 19th is the Solemnity of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, our parish Patronal Feast Day!
Since we are still not able to celebrate Holy Mass together, I will celebrate the Feast Day Mass live on the Sacred Heart Facebook page at 11:00 a.m.
Fr. Fullum will concelebrate and Deacon Peter will assist. Charlie Nicholson will also return to play music for this special day. At the end of Mass there will be a special blessing for all men in the Parish through the intercession of St. Joseph in honor of Father’s Day which is this Sunday, June 21st. Please join us for this Parish Feast Day Mass as we pray for all parishioners, staff, priests, deacons, Sisters of St. Dominic and students past and present.
Therefore, please return your Father’s Day envelopes with your intentions before this Sunday so that all Father’s living and deceased can be remembered at the private Masses offered by myself and Fr. Fullum.
With love and blessings,
Fr. Fred+
