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Mass for The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time is available on the Diocesan website www.diocs.org.
**COMING SOON: Live-stream Mass from Sacred Heart Church!**
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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 2, 2020
Pictured Above: Original art by Fr. Ron Raab, CSC
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Listen to the Gospel and Fr. Ron's Homily for The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 2, 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 gospel, Matthew 14: 13-21, people walked from their villages to be with Jesus. These people brought their sick to be healed. Word traveled fast even though people were on foot. Hope lit up their imaginations even though it took much work and effort to walk to the place where Jesus was gathering them. Curiosity roused people to set out to discover this miracle worker, Jesus. The Holy Spirit ignited their desire to set out and search for all that could free them.
As people gathered together, Jesus was once again moved with pity. This notion of pity is revealed in several passages in the gospels. Pity is the beginning of compassion. Jesus’ heart was moved by the suffering and complications of people’s lives. His heart overflows with love and tenderness. Pity can be a negative word in our day, when we stand on the sidelines of suffering and do not act to help folks who most need us. The word “pity” can be condescending, when we only pity people at arm’s length.
Jesus becomes the model of offering compassion and tenderness when he engages people who need help. He allows others’ sickness, disease and uncertain circumstances to change him. He not only enters people’s pain, but he also learns from them. This model of love continues for us who ache to help others as we learn that life for many people is not easy or fair. This movement of pity becomes the beginning of justice, the beginning of hope for those who are marginalized and discouraged by life. Jesus lifts up the poor. He welcomes the lost. Jesus embraces the leper and the sick, the outcast and the sinner.
This notion of pity in this gospel reveals itself in a new way. So, the disciples are now concerned about people because they were in a deserted place. People were hungry. People needed the basics of life and the disciples were becoming aware that Jesus was not providing for them. Something needed to happen.
Jesus begins to turn the concerns of the disciples back in their direction. Jesus says to the disciples that they should offer people food. Jesus here is trying to teach them that their pity toward people’s hunger must be turned into action. Their pity must become active compassion. Jesus reveals to the disciples that feeding his followers is going to become an on-going problem. Jesus invites his followers to consider their own miracles, their deepening faith, and loving concern for those who need food.
With five fish and two loaves of bread, new miracles happen. Imagine how the disciples felt at such a meager supply of food for all of those people. They must have felt helpless and embarrassed that Jesus would have even suggested such a way to feed the people. We can all feel this moment. We all understand that moment when we feel we do not have enough, when life itself is not enough, when our own faith and actions seem meager and insufficient.
Then the miracles really let loose. Not only were people fed, but they were satisfied. This statement overwhelms me. In many ways, I can imagine how Jesus fed the crowd, but the fact that they were satisfied is entirely a new miracle. Thousands of people received food to survive their trip home. Baskets full of leftovers must have fed the disciples as they packed up for their next journey. I also imagine that the faith of the disciples was taken to a new level as they witnessed this incredible moment on a hillside in the heat of the day.
The disciples witnessed how pity moved Jesus into action. Jesus wanted his disciple to also learn such a beautiful way to engage their faith. Pity, from the heart of Christ Jesus, is compassion in action. I wonder whom we are called to feed? How shall we engage our faith in compassionate action? How does people’s hunger for justice, love, and concern, change us who believe in such miracles? I am sure when we engage people’s hunger because we believe in Jesus, we too, shall be satisfied.
God give you peace,
Fr. Ron Raab, CSC, Pastor
In today’s gospel, Matthew 14: 13-21, people walked from their villages to be with Jesus. These people brought their sick to be healed. Word traveled fast even though people were on foot. Hope lit up their imaginations even though it took much work and effort to walk to the place where Jesus was gathering them. Curiosity roused people to set out to discover this miracle worker, Jesus. The Holy Spirit ignited their desire to set out and search for all that could free them.
As people gathered together, Jesus was once again moved with pity. This notion of pity is revealed in several passages in the gospels. Pity is the beginning of compassion. Jesus’ heart was moved by the suffering and complications of people’s lives. His heart overflows with love and tenderness. Pity can be a negative word in our day, when we stand on the sidelines of suffering and do not act to help folks who most need us. The word “pity” can be condescending, when we only pity people at arm’s length.
Jesus becomes the model of offering compassion and tenderness when he engages people who need help. He allows others’ sickness, disease and uncertain circumstances to change him. He not only enters people’s pain, but he also learns from them. This model of love continues for us who ache to help others as we learn that life for many people is not easy or fair. This movement of pity becomes the beginning of justice, the beginning of hope for those who are marginalized and discouraged by life. Jesus lifts up the poor. He welcomes the lost. Jesus embraces the leper and the sick, the outcast and the sinner.
This notion of pity in this gospel reveals itself in a new way. So, the disciples are now concerned about people because they were in a deserted place. People were hungry. People needed the basics of life and the disciples were becoming aware that Jesus was not providing for them. Something needed to happen.
Jesus begins to turn the concerns of the disciples back in their direction. Jesus says to the disciples that they should offer people food. Jesus here is trying to teach them that their pity toward people’s hunger must be turned into action. Their pity must become active compassion. Jesus reveals to the disciples that feeding his followers is going to become an on-going problem. Jesus invites his followers to consider their own miracles, their deepening faith, and loving concern for those who need food.
With five fish and two loaves of bread, new miracles happen. Imagine how the disciples felt at such a meager supply of food for all of those people. They must have felt helpless and embarrassed that Jesus would have even suggested such a way to feed the people. We can all feel this moment. We all understand that moment when we feel we do not have enough, when life itself is not enough, when our own faith and actions seem meager and insufficient.
Then the miracles really let loose. Not only were people fed, but they were satisfied. This statement overwhelms me. In many ways, I can imagine how Jesus fed the crowd, but the fact that they were satisfied is entirely a new miracle. Thousands of people received food to survive their trip home. Baskets full of leftovers must have fed the disciples as they packed up for their next journey. I also imagine that the faith of the disciples was taken to a new level as they witnessed this incredible moment on a hillside in the heat of the day.
The disciples witnessed how pity moved Jesus into action. Jesus wanted his disciple to also learn such a beautiful way to engage their faith. Pity, from the heart of Christ Jesus, is compassion in action. I wonder whom we are called to feed? How shall we engage our faith in compassionate action? How does people’s hunger for justice, love, and concern, change us who believe in such miracles? I am sure when we engage people’s hunger because we believe in Jesus, we too, shall be satisfied.
God give you peace,
Fr. Ron Raab, CSC, Pastor
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Online registration for the 2020-2021 Faith Formation year is now available.
Faith Formation Registration for grades 1- 12 is now available at Sacred Heart Parish.
We will resume Faith Formation for children and youth as an at-home program in the fall. We are eager to take advantage of this unusual year by exploring new catechetical methods, increase our digital resources, and place our focus on faith formation for the entire family in a new way. We are excited for the many new family formation opportunities, online resources, and creative educational lessons to support the Catholic faith in each family. We are willing to work with parents to continue to serve their family in whatever way possible in order to provide a quality Catholic education for every child in the Faith Formation program. We hope that your family will join us! Click here to learn more about Faith Formation at our parish.
We will resume Faith Formation for children and youth as an at-home program in the fall. We are eager to take advantage of this unusual year by exploring new catechetical methods, increase our digital resources, and place our focus on faith formation for the entire family in a new way. We are excited for the many new family formation opportunities, online resources, and creative educational lessons to support the Catholic faith in each family. We are willing to work with parents to continue to serve their family in whatever way possible in order to provide a quality Catholic education for every child in the Faith Formation program. We hope that your family will join us! 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.
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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.
"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.
