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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!
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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 29 & 30, 2022
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All Saints Day Mass, Nov. 1, 2022
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All Souls Day Mass of Remembrance, Nov. 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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We will offer All Souls Day Masses on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 8 am at Sacred Heart Church followed by a trip to Fairview Cemetery for a blessing ceremony; 12:10 pm Mass at OLPH followed by a trip to Crystal Valley Cemetery in Manitou Springs for a blessing ceremony; and our 6:30 pm* Mass of Remembrance at Sacred Heart Church. Light Reception following in the Parish Center. *Mass will be live-streamed on our website.
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100th Anniversary Christmas Package Deal: For the holiday season, we are offering a 100th Anniversary book, a pair of St. André Bessette 100th Anniversary socks, and a commemorative 100th Anniversary pin all for $50! Proceeds benefit the St. André House. Purchase in the parish office while supplies last!
Click here to check out all of the different volunteer opportunities and ways to get involved at Sacred Heart Parish!
100th Anniversary Christmas Package Deal: For the holiday season, we are offering a 100th Anniversary book, a pair of St. André Bessette 100th Anniversary socks, and a commemorative 100th Anniversary pin all for $50! Proceeds benefit the St. André House. Purchase in the parish office while supplies last!
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. Jarrod Waugh, 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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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 30, 2022
Gospel Meditation: Feeling Short on Faith?
By: Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC, Pastor
I often encounter people out in public who, on seeing my collar, feel impelled to say something to me like, “Hey, Padre. I was raised Catholic you know, and…” Most of these conversations are innocuous and I find a way to end the best of them with something like, “nice to meet you, if you ever want to come back, you know where to find me!” But a great many of these conversations, even the shorter ones, will betray that the person had become, for some reason or another, fossilized in an understanding of God or of faith that might have made sense for Second Grade First Communion class, but which clearly is insufficient for a mature and seasoned believer. Maybe that’s why many people stop practicing their faith— they outgrow it. Or, to be more precise, they outgrow an early version of their understanding of the faith and never find or grow into a more mature faith.
One of the inspiring and yet simple elements of the story of Zacchaeus is his willingness to take initiative in order to find Jesus. He couldn’t see Jesus from where he currently was, so he went on a (small) quest to put himself in a better position in which he might encounter Him. He realized that he would be stuck if he didn’t make a change, and not insignificantly, he DID make a change in order to give himself a better opportunity. We know that the grace to make that change was itself a gift of the Holy Spirit, but at the same time, Zacchaeus decided to cooperate with that invitation instead of shrugging and saying, “well, I guess God just isn’t going to be around for me.”
If you realize that you are starting to have trouble seeing Jesus from where you are at, or where you have ended up at present, don’t settle for letting Him walk past. Be willing to make a change, large or small, and get to a place of new perspective. Change up your prayer life, start a new act of service to a neighbor, go on a retreat, find some religious art or music to move you. But don’t simply be complacent where you are. You haven’t outgrown God, but you may need to climb up to a new vantage point.
Fr. Ron Raab, CSC has been reassigned.
Our new pastor is Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC.
By: Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC, Pastor
I often encounter people out in public who, on seeing my collar, feel impelled to say something to me like, “Hey, Padre. I was raised Catholic you know, and…” Most of these conversations are innocuous and I find a way to end the best of them with something like, “nice to meet you, if you ever want to come back, you know where to find me!” But a great many of these conversations, even the shorter ones, will betray that the person had become, for some reason or another, fossilized in an understanding of God or of faith that might have made sense for Second Grade First Communion class, but which clearly is insufficient for a mature and seasoned believer. Maybe that’s why many people stop practicing their faith— they outgrow it. Or, to be more precise, they outgrow an early version of their understanding of the faith and never find or grow into a more mature faith.
One of the inspiring and yet simple elements of the story of Zacchaeus is his willingness to take initiative in order to find Jesus. He couldn’t see Jesus from where he currently was, so he went on a (small) quest to put himself in a better position in which he might encounter Him. He realized that he would be stuck if he didn’t make a change, and not insignificantly, he DID make a change in order to give himself a better opportunity. We know that the grace to make that change was itself a gift of the Holy Spirit, but at the same time, Zacchaeus decided to cooperate with that invitation instead of shrugging and saying, “well, I guess God just isn’t going to be around for me.”
If you realize that you are starting to have trouble seeing Jesus from where you are at, or where you have ended up at present, don’t settle for letting Him walk past. Be willing to make a change, large or small, and get to a place of new perspective. Change up your prayer life, start a new act of service to a neighbor, go on a retreat, find some religious art or music to move you. But don’t simply be complacent where you are. You haven’t outgrown God, but you may need to climb up to a new vantage point.
Fr. Ron Raab, CSC has been reassigned.
Our new pastor is Fr. Jarrod Waugh, CSC.
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