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Click here to listen to the Gospel and Fr. Ron's Homily for Monday, March 30, 2020.  ​

Mass for the Fifth Sunday of Lent is available on the Diocesan website www.diocs.org. It is a banner at the top of the page that when you click it, you will be redirected to YouTube to watch the Mass.

Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 29, 2020

Pictured Above: Original art by Fr. Ron Raab, CSC

Click here to listen to the Gospel and Fr. Ron's Homily for the fifth Sunday of Lent, March 29, 2020.
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Click here to visit Fr. Ron's Blog, Broken But Not Divided. 

Click here for a link to the Novena, A Prayer for Protection in Time of a Pandemic, from the Knights of Columbus. I invite us all into prayer for those who are ill.

Here is Pope Francis’ prayer united with Mary during this time of illness:

​O Mary,
you always shine on our path
as a sign of salvation and of hope.
We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick,
who at the cross took part in Jesus’ pain, keeping your faith firm.
You, Salvation of the Roman People,
know what we need,
and we are sure you will provide
so that, as in Cana of Galilee,
we may return to joy and to feasting
after this time of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love,
to conform to the will of the Father
and to do as we are told by Jesus,
who has taken upon himself our sufferings
and carried our sorrows
to lead us, through the cross,
to the joy of the resurrection. Amen.
Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God. Do not disdain the entreaties of we who are in trial, but deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.

Dear Believers in Christ Jesus,

​John 11:1-45 tells a story that most of us remember. Lazarus, a friend of Jesus’, dies. In the presence of Jesus, he was raised from the dead. This gospel story becomes meaningful not only for the friends of Jesus, but it leads to the very core of our faith; death brings new life. This story leads us to Jesus himself. He will die on a cross and then he will live again. Death does not win. Life in Christ is eternal.

Lazarus was a friend of Jesus. Jesus loved him. Mary and Martha were his sisters. Jesus did not respond to his illness for a couple of days. I can’t imagine what Mary and Martha must have felt, knowing if Jesus had been at his side, their brother would not have died. They stood at Lazarus’ tomb weeping. The stench of death covered their senses. Jesus enters the chaos, the smell, and the uncertainty of death. Love comes to the tomb. Jesus opens the tomb. Silence. Then, Lazarus walks from the grave. Imagine the joy, the love in their tears, washing fear from their eyes and souls. I want to see what the women saw, that death does not win.

Lent invites us to die to ourselves. This death is about our selfishness and ego. We learn to live in Christ alone. This life comes from our baptism. We renew our baptismal lives in the moment of Easter. Lent forms us into the pattern of Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection. This is the essence of faith. In Christ Jesus, we let go of our old selves and live in him, even here on earth.

We are clothed in Christ at Easter. We take on this pattern of dying to self and rising in Christ. There is nothing more important in our lives of faith than this renewal. We strive to become who Jesus was on earth. We strive to become his message in our lives and relationships. We strive to become what Jesus still is. We bring the Kingdom of Heaven alive on earth. We take on the mantel of becoming peacemakers, disciples of justice, people who live for others. We learn to work for the needs of people. We learn to heal and not divide. We learn to walk with others and not create divisions, wars, and constant violence. The Christian life is not about what we want. It is an integral striving to live as Jesus did on earth, to model our lives for the benefit of other people.

Lazarus teaches us that it is all right to die. Death is a door to the Kingdom. Even the small deaths become examples for us to live more closely in him. We die to selfishness. We die to anger and rage. We die to always being correct. We die to right answers and surety. We die to our sense of certainty. We die to I-got-mine-attitudes. We die to privilege. We die to power and corruption. We die to revenge and hatred. We die to trying to live our children’s lives. We die to what we believe is the way to run the world. We die to our opinions. We die to bitterness toward our spouse. We die to the hardness that has covered our hearts. We grieve the dead and rejoice in the end that death gives way to life.

The story of Lazarus looms large in our faith, for it teaches us that death is not the enemy. Lazarus also shows us how to rise from the dead. Easter becomes our sure hope to live in love and freedom today. Easter shows us that God’s life in us can’t be lost, for we belong to him in the passion, death and resurrection of Christ Jesus. I desire to die to self and live in him. I know the Spirit speaks in every human heart calling us all to Jesus’ empty tomb.

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.”

 Blessings,
 Fr. Ron

"Straight from the Heart" video series

Our weekly video series "Straight from the Heart" provides a reflection and parish updates by our Associate Pastor Fr. Randy Rentner, CSC (and sometimes by our Pastor Fr. Ron Raab,CSC :). The videos are emailed directly to parishioners from our communication provider Flocknote. If you would like to receive the emails, sign up at https://sacredheartparish14.flocknote.com/       
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Connecting Sacraments and Service

Welcome families and friends, first time visitors and seekers of faith. Our three churches, Sacred Heart Church in Colorado Springs, Holy Rosary Chapel in Cascade and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel in Manitou Springs are an apostolate of the Congregation of Holy Cross, based in South Bend, Indiana. Holy Cross priests and brothers serve in 13 parishes in the United States and serve in 16 different countries around the world.

We are a welcoming Catholic community called by God to live out the message of Christ in love and service to all people. Our parish mission is: 

As a prayerful Catholic Community of service following Jesus Christ's message of hope and salvation, we make God known, loved and served.

Sacred Heart Parish consists of three churches:
Sacred Heart Church, Holy Rosary Chapel &
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel.

Fr. Ronald Raab, CSC is the Pastor and Fr. Randall Rentner, CSC is the Associate Pastor of Sacred Heart Parish.

Fr. Ron Raab, CSC welcomes parishioners and blesses the doors on May 23, 2018, the day of Dedication after the restoration of Sacred Heart Church was complete.



"... to make God known, loved and served."

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