Live-streaming Mass at Sacred Heart Church
Live-streaming is finally here!!! Sacred Heart Church offers a live-stream of the 5:30 pm Saturday Vigil Mass on our website each week.
Not able to join us at that time? No problem! A recording of the Mass will be available all week on our website.
Please be patient with us as we implement this new technology. Whether in person or online, we hope you can join us!
Not able to join us at that time? No problem! A recording of the Mass will be available all week on our website.
Please be patient with us as we implement this new technology. Whether in person or online, we hope you can join us!
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Act of Spiritual Communion:
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen. |
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October 17, 2020 is the 10th Anniversary of the Canonization of Saint André Bessette,
the first saint from the Congregation of Holy Cross.
the first saint from the Congregation of Holy Cross.
On Sunday October 17, 2010, Pope Benedict canonized the first member of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Brother André Bessette. Alfred (André) Bessette was born near Montreal, Canada on August 9, 1845. He was sickly, poor, and a man of faith. When he joined the Congregation of Holy Cross, he was assigned to serve as porter. He welcomed people at the door for over forty years. His hospitality turned into healing the sick and offering consolation for the hungry, the destitute, and crippled. He died on January 6, 1937. Learn more about Brother André.
At Sacred Heart Church, a first-class relic of Saint André Bessette is housed in our new altar. His life as healer remains at the center of parish life and worship. His simplicity speaks boldly today as we ache for healing from a pandemic and the violence of our divided society. Through the intercession of Saint André, pray for healing for our loved ones who have died of COVID-19 and those who grieve. Pray for the healing of racial divides, for those who have lost jobs, for people who live outside, for the unborn, for reconciliation among families and those who survive domestic violence. Pray for our children who have lost hope. Ask Saint André to intercede to God for what your heart aches. |
Saint Andre, pray for us:
You welcomed the lost. Shelter those who travel in fear. You embraced the weary. Calm the storms of our anguish. You lived simply. Guide us through our complicated lives. You healed the sick. Give us hope when we are in pain. You trusted Saint Joseph. Open the door to God’s providence. You embodied hope. Give us respect for every human being. You lived every day with body pain. Heal our bodies during this pandemic. You trusted your life to Jesus. Show us how to live beyond selfishness. You prayed for the ill. Change our agony into courage. You comforted the sinner. Love us in our anguish. You offered hospitality to all people. Help us heal our racial divides. You prayed during sleepless nights. Reassure us when we are restless. You were illiterate. Help us read the signs of the times. You were orphaned. Form our communities with respect and dignity. You were short in stature. Pray that we may stand tall when politics wearies us. You gave your life to others. Guide us to build the Church on trust. You allowed compassion to guide you. Show us the tenderness of the Sacred Heart. Amen *Original art and litany by Fr. Ron Raab, CSC* |
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Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 18, 2020
Pictured Above: Original art by Fr. Ron Raab, CSC
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Click here to listen to Fr. Ron's Gospel for the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 18, 2020.
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. We invite us all into prayer for those who are ill. Our Pastor Fr. Ron Raab, CSC is offering a new series on prayer during our time away from the church called "Spiritual Lifelines: Prayer and COVID-19." As Pope Francis suggests, we need to learn from this experience of illness and isolation both as individuals and as a Church. God is not to blame for this illness; instead we are called to discover mercy and love, hope, and service to our neighbors. This new series will be in text and video format. |
Dear Believers in the Christ,
In today’s first reading, Isaiah 45:1, 4-6, we hear, “I am the Lord and there is no other, there is no God besides me.”
I love this simple reminder. Our Christian identity flows from the gift of our baptism. We are born again in God and sustained in the Holy Spirit. We may live, especially in uncertain times, clinging to many other things we think may replace this identity. For example, we often use cultural power to replace God, that is money, authority, politics, greed, lust, ambition, education and our own opinions.
This sense of power controls our opinions about how other people should live. We may look to the poor and want them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get a job in order to justify their existence. This is using power over others instead of using our gifts and talents to better understand our neighbors and their suffering. We can make our own lives greater than God’s life. We can turn our cultural power into a god. We can even make our opinions of other people real truths. These opinions can then lead to condemning people, especially those who are different from ourselves.
This text from Isaiah not only tells us who God is, but reminds us that our false gods are not our real source of life and love. In these months of pandemic, we all have to be careful not to create new gods. We may think our political opinions are a solid identity upon which to build a life. We may take great delight when some people win, and some people lose. We may be waiting for a vaccine god, so to put our future in its hands. We may fight for the common good and believe that our fights are gospel truth. We may even create gods out of our fear, our distress and our economic uncertainty. We can make a god out of just about anything, even our education or our reputation or our employment.
In these days of great emotional stress and strain on family life and personal uncertainty, we settle into the mystery of God. I invite you to learn from these days of pandemic, to sort through your life and to not settle for hopelessness. Only God provides genuine hope for our future. There is no other god we can muster that will sustain us and give us direction in our lives of worry. God is here to offer us real grace, mercy, and forgiveness.
One of the beautiful outcomes of the pandemic and the incredible natural disasters we face is that we need God. It is alright for our lives to need something greater than ourselves. We need love, mercy and hope. In fact, this is the spiritual life, to finally come to the conclusion that we need God. In such suffering, we have options. We can abandon God altogether, or finally surrender our own personal power to God who has nourished us to this point in life.
Some people view our younger generation as having given up on God. I don’t really think so. I think they have given up on the rest of us who have not come to the conclusion that we need a spiritual power. The Christian institutions may not look the same in future, but I believe we are going through a great time of transformation and renewal. The younger generation will lead us to live a greater spiritual life. Young people are calling the rest of us into lives of genuineness and living the truth of what we claim to believe.
I hold on to the Real Presence of Christ Jesus to lead us into lives of compassion, tenderness and forgiveness. Only God’s fidelity can soften hearts and heal our mistakes. Only God who has begun this great work in us will bring it to completion. I look forward to the future with great hope, when we can finally turn toward the One who created us, the One who loves us, the One who spurs us forward to bear witness to the world that love is real.
“I am the Lord and there is no other, there is no God besides me.”
God give you peace,
Fr. Ron Raab, CSC, Pastor
In today’s first reading, Isaiah 45:1, 4-6, we hear, “I am the Lord and there is no other, there is no God besides me.”
I love this simple reminder. Our Christian identity flows from the gift of our baptism. We are born again in God and sustained in the Holy Spirit. We may live, especially in uncertain times, clinging to many other things we think may replace this identity. For example, we often use cultural power to replace God, that is money, authority, politics, greed, lust, ambition, education and our own opinions.
This sense of power controls our opinions about how other people should live. We may look to the poor and want them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get a job in order to justify their existence. This is using power over others instead of using our gifts and talents to better understand our neighbors and their suffering. We can make our own lives greater than God’s life. We can turn our cultural power into a god. We can even make our opinions of other people real truths. These opinions can then lead to condemning people, especially those who are different from ourselves.
This text from Isaiah not only tells us who God is, but reminds us that our false gods are not our real source of life and love. In these months of pandemic, we all have to be careful not to create new gods. We may think our political opinions are a solid identity upon which to build a life. We may take great delight when some people win, and some people lose. We may be waiting for a vaccine god, so to put our future in its hands. We may fight for the common good and believe that our fights are gospel truth. We may even create gods out of our fear, our distress and our economic uncertainty. We can make a god out of just about anything, even our education or our reputation or our employment.
In these days of great emotional stress and strain on family life and personal uncertainty, we settle into the mystery of God. I invite you to learn from these days of pandemic, to sort through your life and to not settle for hopelessness. Only God provides genuine hope for our future. There is no other god we can muster that will sustain us and give us direction in our lives of worry. God is here to offer us real grace, mercy, and forgiveness.
One of the beautiful outcomes of the pandemic and the incredible natural disasters we face is that we need God. It is alright for our lives to need something greater than ourselves. We need love, mercy and hope. In fact, this is the spiritual life, to finally come to the conclusion that we need God. In such suffering, we have options. We can abandon God altogether, or finally surrender our own personal power to God who has nourished us to this point in life.
Some people view our younger generation as having given up on God. I don’t really think so. I think they have given up on the rest of us who have not come to the conclusion that we need a spiritual power. The Christian institutions may not look the same in future, but I believe we are going through a great time of transformation and renewal. The younger generation will lead us to live a greater spiritual life. Young people are calling the rest of us into lives of genuineness and living the truth of what we claim to believe.
I hold on to the Real Presence of Christ Jesus to lead us into lives of compassion, tenderness and forgiveness. Only God’s fidelity can soften hearts and heal our mistakes. Only God who has begun this great work in us will bring it to completion. I look forward to the future with great hope, when we can finally turn toward the One who created us, the One who loves us, the One who spurs us forward to bear witness to the world that love is real.
“I am the Lord and there is no other, there is no God besides me.”
God give you peace,
Fr. Ron Raab, CSC, Pastor
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"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. 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/ Click here to see previous videos.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Fundraiser
OLPH, the historic chapel on Ruxton Avenue in Manitou Springs and a mission church of Sacred Heart Parish, is the oldest Roman Catholic church in the Diocese of Colorado Springs. So many in the Manitou Springs community recall memories centered at this pretty little chapel: weddings, baptisms, children dressed in their finest to receive their First Holy Communion. And who can forget the simple joy of kids climbing on the big rock in our front yard while their parents have coffee with neighbors and friends after Mass?
OLPH has survived fires and many other challenges in its over 125-year history. We now face a new challenge. We are asking for your help in making our historic buildings handicap accessible to everyone. We do not to want to turn people away when they are not able to manage the front steps of our old buildings.
The addition of a new ramp and deck will finally enable all parishioners and visitors to enter both the chapel and our community building, the Fr. Schultz House. Using built-up earth, concrete, and local green stone will both minimize maintenance expenses and preserve our traditional appearance, as required by the Historic Preservation Commission of Manitou Springs. (See computer generated rendering below). Additionally, an updated restroom to accommodate (Americans with Disabilities Act) standards will be added to the Fr. Schultz House.
This is a big undertaking for our small church. Building the deck, creating a new entrance into the chapel, and remodeling the bathroom to meet ADA standards will cost our little community $166,000. But with your help, we hope to be able to welcome everyone into our church community.
Members of the OLPH community have begun their fund drive for this important project. Although the project will cost over $160,000, OLPH has collected $30,000 so far in our preliminary silent phase from both contributions and a small grant. But in order to be eligible for larger grants, we need to raise around $10,000 more in the coming months. On August 23, 2020 we opened up our public fundraising phase by offering OLPH vigil candles to anyone who can contribute $20 or more to our campaign. Pamphlets are available with more information. Checks can also always be dropped in the collection basket at Mass with “OLPH building fund” in the memo line. You can also give online by designating your donation to the “OLPH Capital Improvements” in our online giving platform or by participating in our GoFundMe at https://gf.me/u/yzsjcm.
If you aren’t able to participate in the fundraiser, please pray that Mary, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, may assist us with this building project.
OLPH, the historic chapel on Ruxton Avenue in Manitou Springs and a mission church of Sacred Heart Parish, is the oldest Roman Catholic church in the Diocese of Colorado Springs. So many in the Manitou Springs community recall memories centered at this pretty little chapel: weddings, baptisms, children dressed in their finest to receive their First Holy Communion. And who can forget the simple joy of kids climbing on the big rock in our front yard while their parents have coffee with neighbors and friends after Mass?
OLPH has survived fires and many other challenges in its over 125-year history. We now face a new challenge. We are asking for your help in making our historic buildings handicap accessible to everyone. We do not to want to turn people away when they are not able to manage the front steps of our old buildings.
The addition of a new ramp and deck will finally enable all parishioners and visitors to enter both the chapel and our community building, the Fr. Schultz House. Using built-up earth, concrete, and local green stone will both minimize maintenance expenses and preserve our traditional appearance, as required by the Historic Preservation Commission of Manitou Springs. (See computer generated rendering below). Additionally, an updated restroom to accommodate (Americans with Disabilities Act) standards will be added to the Fr. Schultz House.
This is a big undertaking for our small church. Building the deck, creating a new entrance into the chapel, and remodeling the bathroom to meet ADA standards will cost our little community $166,000. But with your help, we hope to be able to welcome everyone into our church community.
Members of the OLPH community have begun their fund drive for this important project. Although the project will cost over $160,000, OLPH has collected $30,000 so far in our preliminary silent phase from both contributions and a small grant. But in order to be eligible for larger grants, we need to raise around $10,000 more in the coming months. On August 23, 2020 we opened up our public fundraising phase by offering OLPH vigil candles to anyone who can contribute $20 or more to our campaign. Pamphlets are available with more information. Checks can also always be dropped in the collection basket at Mass with “OLPH building fund” in the memo line. You can also give online by designating your donation to the “OLPH Capital Improvements” in our online giving platform or by participating in our GoFundMe at https://gf.me/u/yzsjcm.
If you aren’t able to participate in the fundraiser, please pray that Mary, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, may assist us with this building project.
Online registration for the 2020-2021 Faith Formation year is still available.
Faith Formation at Sacred Heart Parish has started with an at-home format for the new school year. We are excited for this opportunity for families to catechize their children in their homes. If you have not yet signed up or if you have questions about what this year looks like, please contact Roberto Chavez, Faith Formation Director at formationdirector@sacredheartcos.org. We are still accepting registrations for grades 1- 12 throughout the Faith Formation year, but please do not wait to register. The sooner, the better! We hope that your family will join us!
Click here to learn more about Faith Formation at our parish.
Click here to learn more about Faith Formation at our parish.
Connecting Sacraments and ServiceWelcome 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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The Stations of the Cross in Atonement for Abuse and the Healing of All: By Rev. Paul Turner. Art by: Rev. Ronald Patrick Raab, CSC. Published by Liturgical Press.
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Above: A video of Fr. Paul Turner and Fr. Ron Raab, CSC describing their work in "The Stations of the Cross in Atonement for Abuse and for the Healing of All" for Liturgical Press Summer Showcase 2020.
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"I am humbled to be part of this project for the healing of sexual abuse in our Church. Paul Turner's text is stunning. I offer images for all 14 Scriptural Stations of the Cross. I spent a couple of months during our COVID-19 shut down painting these images. I offer some reflections and explanations of my art in the booklet. Here is my approach to this important and soulful text from Paul Turner: I pray that my fingers covered in paint may help redeem the abuse our children faced at the hands of my brothers." -- Fr. Ron Raab, CSC
From Liturgical Press: The Stations of the Cross in Atonement for Abuse and for the Healing of All invites a wounded Church to contemplate the Passion and death of Jesus through the experience of clerical abuse survivors. This one-of-a-kind resource is written and illustrated by priests to foster healing amidst the destruction committed by their brothers. Award-winning author and acclaimed liturgist Paul Turner pairs each of the fourteen scripture-based Stations with powerful quotes from survivors of clerical sexual abuse, and responds to each with profound confessional prayer. Thought-provoking paintings by author, counselor, and liturgist Ronald Patrick Raab, CSC, accompany each Station.
Pre-order with Liturgical Press in Collegeville, MN. The booklet will be published mid-December, 2020. I pray that this version of the Stations of the Cross might be at the center of our Lenten prayer for 2021.
From Liturgical Press: The Stations of the Cross in Atonement for Abuse and for the Healing of All invites a wounded Church to contemplate the Passion and death of Jesus through the experience of clerical abuse survivors. This one-of-a-kind resource is written and illustrated by priests to foster healing amidst the destruction committed by their brothers. Award-winning author and acclaimed liturgist Paul Turner pairs each of the fourteen scripture-based Stations with powerful quotes from survivors of clerical sexual abuse, and responds to each with profound confessional prayer. Thought-provoking paintings by author, counselor, and liturgist Ronald Patrick Raab, CSC, accompany each Station.
Pre-order with Liturgical Press in Collegeville, MN. The booklet will be published mid-December, 2020. I pray that this version of the Stations of the Cross might be at the center of our Lenten prayer for 2021.
