Live-streaming Mass at Sacred Heart Church
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.
Whether in person or online, we hope you will 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.
Whether in person or online, we hope you will join us!
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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2023
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Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, Sept. 15, 2023
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Women's Morning of Reflection, Saturday, Oct. 21st, 8 am- 12 pm at Sacred Heart. Guest speaker Patty Crawford-Degen will present on the topic “Encountering Jesus through Surrender.” Registration now online. Cost $10.
Parish Picnic Aug. 27, 2023
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. Jarrod Waugh, CSC is the Pastor and Fr. Randall Rentner, CSC is the Associate Pastor of Sacred Heart Parish. |
Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC washes the feet of parishioners on Holy Thursday, April 6, 2023.
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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 1, 2023
Gospel Meditation: Stubborn Children
By: Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC, Pastor
Every new day, even every new breath is an opportunity to follow God more closely than perhaps we have been. There can be an interesting reaction to the two sons in today’s Gospel. For some reason the disrespect of the first son can feel like a worse offense than the lack of follow-through of the second son. Sometimes we prefer to have people SAY the right thing even if they don’t actually keep their promises. This is a strange phenomenon of human nature— so long as things LOOK (or sound) right, we put more emphasis on that than on what people actually DO.
Jesus reminds us in this Gospel that God is patient AND that God wants us to “put our money where our mouth is.” God is willing to be patient with us paying Him lip service but not giving over our lives to him… up to a point. While we live, we have many new opportunities to grow in our obedience to God. While we live! But none of us will live forever, and one day each of us will come before our loving and just Judge who knows whether we served him only with our words or if we indeed did try and serve God and neighbor with our lives and actions as well. Ideally, one would serve God with full integrity, both in their manner of speaking AND in their manner of living, but it is fascinating to see Jesus in this instance put more weight on actions— walking the walk verses talking the talk.
Jesus cautions those who are tempted to only pay God lip service that they are at risk of watching those who did not conspicuously praise and follow God with their words, but who did, perhaps quite discreetly, serve God and neighbor with their actions, will enter into God’s eternal life before or instead of those who spoke like Christians but failed to live the way Christ teaches.
By: Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC, Pastor
Every new day, even every new breath is an opportunity to follow God more closely than perhaps we have been. There can be an interesting reaction to the two sons in today’s Gospel. For some reason the disrespect of the first son can feel like a worse offense than the lack of follow-through of the second son. Sometimes we prefer to have people SAY the right thing even if they don’t actually keep their promises. This is a strange phenomenon of human nature— so long as things LOOK (or sound) right, we put more emphasis on that than on what people actually DO.
Jesus reminds us in this Gospel that God is patient AND that God wants us to “put our money where our mouth is.” God is willing to be patient with us paying Him lip service but not giving over our lives to him… up to a point. While we live, we have many new opportunities to grow in our obedience to God. While we live! But none of us will live forever, and one day each of us will come before our loving and just Judge who knows whether we served him only with our words or if we indeed did try and serve God and neighbor with our lives and actions as well. Ideally, one would serve God with full integrity, both in their manner of speaking AND in their manner of living, but it is fascinating to see Jesus in this instance put more weight on actions— walking the walk verses talking the talk.
Jesus cautions those who are tempted to only pay God lip service that they are at risk of watching those who did not conspicuously praise and follow God with their words, but who did, perhaps quite discreetly, serve God and neighbor with their actions, will enter into God’s eternal life before or instead of those who spoke like Christians but failed to live the way Christ teaches.
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A PRAYER FOR PEACE BY POPE FRANCIS
Lord God of peace, hear our prayer!
We have tried so many times and over so many years
to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the force of our arms.
How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced?
how much blood has been shed?
how many lives have been shattered?
how many hopes have been buried?
But our efforts have been in vain.
Now, Lord, come to our aid!
Grant us peace, teach us peace;
guide our steps in the way of peace.
Open our eyes and our hearts,
and give us the courage to say: "Never again war!"; "With war everything is lost".
Instill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace.
Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love,
you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters.
Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace;
enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister.
Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens
who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace,
our trepidation into confident trust,
and our quarreling into forgiveness.
Keep alive within us the flame of hope,
so that with patience and perseverance
we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation.
In this way may peace triumph at last,
and may the words "division," "hatred," and "war"
be banished from the heart of every man and woman.
Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands.
Renew our hearts and minds,
so that the word which always brings us together will be "brother,"
and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam!
Amen.
Lord God of peace, hear our prayer!
We have tried so many times and over so many years
to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the force of our arms.
How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced?
how much blood has been shed?
how many lives have been shattered?
how many hopes have been buried?
But our efforts have been in vain.
Now, Lord, come to our aid!
Grant us peace, teach us peace;
guide our steps in the way of peace.
Open our eyes and our hearts,
and give us the courage to say: "Never again war!"; "With war everything is lost".
Instill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace.
Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love,
you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters.
Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace;
enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister.
Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens
who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace,
our trepidation into confident trust,
and our quarreling into forgiveness.
Keep alive within us the flame of hope,
so that with patience and perseverance
we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation.
In this way may peace triumph at last,
and may the words "division," "hatred," and "war"
be banished from the heart of every man and woman.
Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands.
Renew our hearts and minds,
so that the word which always brings us together will be "brother,"
and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam!
Amen.
Sacred Heart Parishioner Sharon Marron describes her relationship with the Church.
Further reading for understanding the current state of the dialogue(s) between the Catholic Church and Judaism.
Nostra Aetate - 1965
https://www.vatican.va/.../vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra...
The Gifts of God are Irrevocable - 2015
http://www.christianunity.va/.../documenti-della.../en.html
Nostra Aetate - 1965
https://www.vatican.va/.../vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra...
The Gifts of God are Irrevocable - 2015
http://www.christianunity.va/.../documenti-della.../en.html
