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Sacred Heart Parish
Colorado Springs, CO
Served by the Congregation of Holy Cross
Sacred Heart Parish
Colorado Springs, CO
Served by the Congregation of Holy Cross
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!
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 1 & 2, 2022
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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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Funeral Arrangements for Bishop Sheridan Click here to view funeral arrangements for Bishop Sheridan. The Vigil and Funeral Mass were by RSVP only and there are no more seats available. The funeral will be live-streamed on the Diocesan Facebook page and the Diocesan website on Friday, Oct. 7 at 11 am.
Blessing of the Pets: In celebration of the Feast of St. Francis (Oct. 4), all are invited to attend Sacred Heart Parish’s Blessing of the Pets on Sunday, Oct. 9 at 1:30 pm in the Sacred Heart Church parking lot. Please keep all pets inside of your vehicles. (Feel free to roll down your windows!)
Women's Morning of Reflection Saturday, Oct. 22 with Bishop James Golka. The morning begins with Mass and Adoration at 8 am at Sacred Heart Church, followed by a continental breakfast in the Parish Center. This is a great opportunity to meet our Bishop in a casual setting before he begins speaking from 10 am—noon. Registration is required along with a $5 fee. Registration forms can be found at the back of the church, in the parish office or can be printed out. Please return them to the office no later than Oct. 18 with payment. Questions? Call Eileen at 719-424-2766 or Sheri at 828-280-6115.
OLPH Parishioner Michael Parrish is returning to Villa Infantil Orphanage located outside of Guadalajara, Mexico. Michael is requesting funds to stock the orphanage’s shelves with food and essentials. To donate, visit www.gofundme.com/villainfantilorphanage.
Sacred Heart Parish has a job opening for a part-time Youth Minister. Work hours include Sundays, 8:30 am- 1:30 pm, weekdays, and occasional evenings as part of the Youth Programs. Flexible hours totaling 15 – 20 per week. Responsible for the growth, care, and Catholic education of our teens ranging from grades 6-12. Includes recruitment and training of additional Youth Ministry staff as the program grows. To apply, email formationdirector@sacredheartcos.org. Click here to read more about the position on Indeed.com.
Blessing of the Pets: In celebration of the Feast of St. Francis (Oct. 4), all are invited to attend Sacred Heart Parish’s Blessing of the Pets on Sunday, Oct. 9 at 1:30 pm in the Sacred Heart Church parking lot. Please keep all pets inside of your vehicles. (Feel free to roll down your windows!)
Women's Morning of Reflection Saturday, Oct. 22 with Bishop James Golka. The morning begins with Mass and Adoration at 8 am at Sacred Heart Church, followed by a continental breakfast in the Parish Center. This is a great opportunity to meet our Bishop in a casual setting before he begins speaking from 10 am—noon. Registration is required along with a $5 fee. Registration forms can be found at the back of the church, in the parish office or can be printed out. Please return them to the office no later than Oct. 18 with payment. Questions? Call Eileen at 719-424-2766 or Sheri at 828-280-6115.
OLPH Parishioner Michael Parrish is returning to Villa Infantil Orphanage located outside of Guadalajara, Mexico. Michael is requesting funds to stock the orphanage’s shelves with food and essentials. To donate, visit www.gofundme.com/villainfantilorphanage.
Sacred Heart Parish has a job opening for a part-time Youth Minister. Work hours include Sundays, 8:30 am- 1:30 pm, weekdays, and occasional evenings as part of the Youth Programs. Flexible hours totaling 15 – 20 per week. Responsible for the growth, care, and Catholic education of our teens ranging from grades 6-12. Includes recruitment and training of additional Youth Ministry staff as the program grows. To apply, email formationdirector@sacredheartcos.org. Click here to read more about the position on Indeed.com.
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.
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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27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 2, 2022
Gospel Meditation: A Joyful Duty
By: Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC, Pastor
I believe one of the reasons sports are so popular, both for spectators and for athletes, is because there is something beautiful about seeing and experiencing the human body doing amazing things. A fantastic catch, a flawless routine, perfecting timing and execution— there is something thrilling about seeing a person executing a feat of skill, strength, and (in a manner of speaking) of grace. “You have done something wonderful and something profoundly HUMAN.” There is something moving and inspiring in that. There is something of this appreciation, too, in a phrase like, “they do it for the love of the game, not just for the money.” Because there is an experience of intense humanness, and because there is a sort of joy in their own skill and excellence at it. You could say that in some real sense “it is fitting for that athlete to play their sport because they do it so well; there is something RIGHT about them being out there.” They are “doing their humanity right” when they participate in that sort of excellence. This concept of “doing your humanity right” can just as much apply to other sorts of human excellence as with artists, poets, scientists, etc.
I propose that we bring this frame of mind to this Sunday’s Gospel, which can come off as a bit harsh or dismissive of human fidelity to God, at least at first. The servant has been working hard out in the field, but when he comes into the house, he still has to serve his master’s needs first before taking his own rest. And this seems fitting; the servant is still the servant whether inside or out, and no one would think to praise him for attending to his master’s needs. That’s just what servants do.
But if our Master in this life is the Living God, then serving God will not be a drudgery, a meaningless and thankless slog (though it will probably feel that way some of the time). Rather, giving our life over to the Lord and living for Him begins to transform our every whispered prayer, our every tiny act of unnoticed service to our neighbor, our every breath taken with deep gratitude, everything we do into a form of “doing our humanity right.” There is no better or more perfect way to live; there is no more fitting and fulfilling and appropriate way to be alive, than to live in service of the Lord of Heaven. To live this way isn’t to be heroic; it’s simply to live as you were always meant to. We are simple servants; we did what we were asked to do.
And it was right and just.
Fr. Ron Raab, CSC has been reassigned.
Our new pastor is Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC.
By: Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC, Pastor
I believe one of the reasons sports are so popular, both for spectators and for athletes, is because there is something beautiful about seeing and experiencing the human body doing amazing things. A fantastic catch, a flawless routine, perfecting timing and execution— there is something thrilling about seeing a person executing a feat of skill, strength, and (in a manner of speaking) of grace. “You have done something wonderful and something profoundly HUMAN.” There is something moving and inspiring in that. There is something of this appreciation, too, in a phrase like, “they do it for the love of the game, not just for the money.” Because there is an experience of intense humanness, and because there is a sort of joy in their own skill and excellence at it. You could say that in some real sense “it is fitting for that athlete to play their sport because they do it so well; there is something RIGHT about them being out there.” They are “doing their humanity right” when they participate in that sort of excellence. This concept of “doing your humanity right” can just as much apply to other sorts of human excellence as with artists, poets, scientists, etc.
I propose that we bring this frame of mind to this Sunday’s Gospel, which can come off as a bit harsh or dismissive of human fidelity to God, at least at first. The servant has been working hard out in the field, but when he comes into the house, he still has to serve his master’s needs first before taking his own rest. And this seems fitting; the servant is still the servant whether inside or out, and no one would think to praise him for attending to his master’s needs. That’s just what servants do.
But if our Master in this life is the Living God, then serving God will not be a drudgery, a meaningless and thankless slog (though it will probably feel that way some of the time). Rather, giving our life over to the Lord and living for Him begins to transform our every whispered prayer, our every tiny act of unnoticed service to our neighbor, our every breath taken with deep gratitude, everything we do into a form of “doing our humanity right.” There is no better or more perfect way to live; there is no more fitting and fulfilling and appropriate way to be alive, than to live in service of the Lord of Heaven. To live this way isn’t to be heroic; it’s simply to live as you were always meant to. We are simple servants; we did what we were asked to do.
And it was right and just.
Fr. Ron Raab, CSC has been reassigned.
Our new pastor is Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC.
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