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Please join with Sacred Heart Parish to celebrate the 10th Priestly Anniversary of Fr. Jean Felicien on May 25th at the 5:15 Mass. Click here for more information.

Click here to see the sanctuary lamp intentions for the week of March 9.

Please notify the parish office when your organization or ministry changes leadership. It is important for us to know the correct person to contact regarding 2021-2022 facility scheduling. Click the article title for contact information.

Don’t miss out on all the latest parish news—just fill out our email registration form (click on the article title for the link). It asks for some information beyond your email address, but is not the same as the parish registration. Thanks!

This year, the penitential season of Lent begins on February 17. Please bring in all old palms to be burned and used for ashes on Ash Wednesday. Beginning next week (February 6/7), there will be containers at all the exit doors on the weekends to hold the palms.

Check out the Monitor News Update for February to see the Bishop's reflection on Lent, a new Diocesan Lenten video series, an update on the Diocesan Youth Conference, and an article on the Catholic press online. You'll find this under Documents on the Adult Faith Formation page.

If you get an email supposedly from Msgr. Gervasio, that asks you to buy gift cards for him and send him the PIN numbers of the cards, ignore it...or report it to the police. This is a scam. Msgr. Gervasio would NEVER ask you to do this! Click the article title for more information on how to protect yourself from this type of scam.

After 65 years of the diocesan newspaper "The Monitor", we are moving to a new, dynamic model featuring a monthly magazine, expanded web presence, and regular posting of Monitor news briefs in parish bulletins and on parish websites. Click the article title for more information.

If you get an email supposedly from Msgr. Gervasio (or any other OLS-SA staff member), that asks you to do him a favor, buy gift cards for him and send him the PIN numbers of the cards, ignore it...or report it to the police. This is a scam. Msgr. Gervasio would never ask you to do this!

Are you thinking about marriage or planning a wedding? Check out the Matrimony page, under Worship & Liturgy > The Sacraments, for basic information about the sacrament of marriage and church teaching on marriage. For information specific to planning a wedding, look under Worship & Liturgy > Weddings. There you’ll find information on what you can and can’t do in a Catholic wedding ceremony, as well as a series of pages on preparing for marriage, including information on scheduling your wedding, marriage preparation programs, the wedding liturgy and music, and suggested offerings.

Mark your calendars now to celebrate the Feast of Saints Joachim and Anne with your grandchildren on Friday, July 26, at 12:15 pm at Our Lady of Sorrows Church. Check back here for details!

If you haven't already done so, please submit, prior to June 30, all requests for your group’s use of facilities at Our Lady of Sorrows and/or St. Anthony campus from July 2019 through June 2020. Click the article title for more information.

Of course, you knew that the Mass and Confession times are on the website (available from a button on the Home page, or by navigating to Worship& Liturgy > Mass & Confession Times). But did you know you’ll also find Sunday’s homily there (as well as an archive of homilies back to June of 2016)? And there's more...click the article title to find out!

It is which great sadness that we learned of the death of Kelli Pierfy, the beloved daughter of Deacon Jeffery and Jean Pierfy. Kelli was called by the Lord on the Feast of the Visitation of Our Lady, May 31. May the Lord sustain and comfort the Pierfy family and welcome Kelli into the joys of heaven. For information on where to send condolences, click the article title.

Are you planning to travel this summer? It can be difficult for Catholics to find a Mass when traveling. It is not always easy to find the right diocesan or parish websites. Click the article title to find a link you can use to find worship times and locations, wherever you are!

The parish office will close at 12:30 PM on Holy Thursday (April 18) and remain closed through Easter Monday (April 22). It will reopen at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, April 23.

Do you wonder where you can find the Holy Week Schedule? Are you looking for the rules for fast and abstinence? Do you simply want more information about what Lent is all about? Check out the Lent page under Worship & Liturgy > Liturgical Seasons where you’ll find this information as well as pages for the Lenten and Holy Week schedules, and about the Station Churches and a schedule for Lenten Station Church Masses.

Our parish offers a series of presentations on faith issues to keep you informed and give you the opportunity to ask questions after the presentations. You can find a complete schedule of the current series on the website under Faith Formation > Adult Faith Formation > Thought-Full Thursdays: Adult Faith Formation.

Our pastoral council has been “restructured” so that it might better serve our parish. For more information, click the article title.