SACRED HEART CHURCH BOWIE, MARYLAND AUGUST 2, 2020

MONDAY AUGUST 3 6:30 Howard & Dorothy Elmore 8:00 Jerry Markey

TUESDAY AUGUST 4 St. John Vianney 6:30 Deacon Jeffrey Raffensperger 8:00 Maria Gonzales

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 5 The Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major 6:30 Peter Thua Tran 8:00 Joe Patanella

THURSDAY AUGUST 6 The Transfiguration of the Lord 6:30 Maria Thao Tran 8:00 Marlene Rocca

FRIDAY AUGUST 7 St. Sixtus II & Companions St. Cajetan 6:30 Ron Von Bank 8:00 Karen Himmel

SATURDAY AUGUST 8 St. Dominic 9:30 William Elliott

THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE CH=Carroll Hall (basement of church) --HC=Hogan Center (hill)

WMH=Whitemarsh Hall - HH=Hogan Hall (both in HC)

Sunday No Babysitting - Carroll Hall Closed

Monday 8:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. - Adoration - Chapel

Tuesday 12:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Adoration - Chapel

Wednesday 10 a.m. - Prayer Shawl Group - WMH 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. - Confessions - Chapel

Saturday 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Confessions - Church

The Chapel will be open Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m.—12:00 p.m. for individual prayer time.

WHITEMARSH BRANCH

All daily and weekend Masses are celebrated in the Church.

PLEASE NOTE: This Tuesday, August 4, the 6:30 and 8:00 a.m. Masses

will be celebrated in the Church while adoration continues in the Chapel.

The Sacred Heart Prayer Shawl Group meets the first Wednesday of the month. This month it is August 5. The group knits and crochets shawls to be given to individuals experiencing a hardship. New members welcome. Come join the group

Wednesday, August 5 at 10:00 a.m. in Whitemarsh Hall. If you know someone going through a tough time and could benefit by having prayers wrapped around them, contact Pat Steelman at 410-721-0109.

Pray for Priests

We will have 24-hour Adoration for the priests of the Archdiocese of Washington (ADW), beginning Monday, August 3, at 8:00 p.m. and continuing through Tuesday, August 4, at 8:00 p.m. August 4 is the Feast of St. John

Vianney, Patron of Priests. Without our priests, there would be no reconciliation to restore our souls and no Holy Eucharist to nourish our Spirits. You can sign-up for a specific time slot or just drop in and spend some time praying for our priests. There will be booklets in the Chapel listing all the priests of the ADW. Each adoration hour will be dedicated to praying for specific ADW priests.

CCD NEWS

CCD registration is now available on the parish website - sacredheartbowie.org.

The registration link can be found under Faith Formation. It is unclear at this time what our CCD program will look like. Families will be updated as these decisions are being made. Questions? Please contact Mary Hager at ccdsacredheart@gmail.com or 301-262-1221.

2020 Jubilarian Mass: The Archdiocese of Washington will honor couples married 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 51+ years at the annual Jubilarian Mass held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on November 22, 2020. To register, call the parish office at 301-262-0704 before September 23.

Second collection next weekend will be for

Catholic Communication Campaign and

Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

Please use the envelopes designated for the collection

and place it in the Poor Box/Collection Box.

Family Movie Night - Learn about a saint with your kids. It’s Free! Simply go to FORMED.org and sign-up. (1) Choose the third option: I belong to a Parish or Organization (2) Type 20715 to find Sacred

Heart, Bowie (3) click next and create your account.

FORMED provides you FREE access to a lot of Catholic resources. There are programs to explore your Catholic faith. If you are a parent, check out Pass It On—a series of presentations for parents who want to equip their children for life’s journey. There are talks on relationships, marriage, and grieving a loss. You will also find fiction and non-fiction audio and traditional books and movies. The resources of what to watch, study, and hear are endless. Check out FORMED today.

While the House on the Hill and the donation shed remain closed, we would like to suggest that you take donations to Goodwill in Odenton (1103 Annapolis Rd, Odenton, MD 21113) or Goodwill in Crofton (1657 Crofton Center, Crofton, MD 21114).

R.C.I.A. (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) provides for in-depth discovery of Catholic life. Do you know someone who is curious about the Catholic Church? Your invitation to someone who seems to be searching

for a faith to believe in may be just the encouragement needed to come and learn about the Catholic faith. The R.C.I.A. program is also intended for those Catholics seeking to “brush-up” on the faith. Adults seeking information regarding joining the Catholic Church and Catholics seeking to enhance their understanding of the Catholic faith are invited to attend R.C.I.A. classes which will begin in the Fall and conclude at Easter. If interested, please call the parish office at 301-262-0704.

Sacred Heart is now on two social media venues.

Facebook: Sacred Heart Bowie

Instagram: @sacredheartbowie

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EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

From the desk of Father Ronald A. Potts:

In our first reading from the Prophet Isaiah, the prophet is addressing the Israelites who have been exiled by the Babylonians. The passage is rich in its imagery of food and drink flowing for all to have their fill. This passage gives them hope in their time of pain and exile by referring to the eschatological banquet, the banquet of the end-time, when God’s kingdom on earth will be established with an ideal king to rule over them in the name of God. Then God will make a new covenant with His people. The invitation is simple, “Come to me heedfully, listen, that you may have life.” The Lord will never abandon His people but always remain faithful to His promise and to them.

As we read today’s passage from Saint Paul to the Romans, we see his inability to contain himself as he realizes the fullness of God’s love and grace. He enumerates obstacles of all kinds that can confront us in our daily lives: “anguish, or distress, or persecutions . . .” but in all of these things we conquer overwhelmingly through Christ. Nothing and no one can separate us from the love of God. These words must take root in our heart because we are surrounded by so many “things” which cause us anxiety in our daily lives. The world can “play on” our fears and our anxieties and shake us to our very core. It is Paul who reminds us to remain steadfast in the gift of hope realizing that God never abandons us. We are the Lord’s and we belong to Him and our hope will not be disappointed.

In today’s Gospel from St. Matthew, we find the multiplication of the loaves and fishes. The crowds have followed Jesus to catch up with Him after He took a boat to a deserted place. When Jesus arrives, He sees all the people waiting for Him. “His heart was moved with pity for them, and he cured all their sick.” The disciples are concerned because it is late and the people are hungry and there is no where to buy food. However, Jesus tells them, “There is no need for them to go away; give them some food yourselves.” Fives loaves of bread and two fish are found—that is all. In helping the disciples to realize their utter helplessness, Jesus wants them to turn to Him in faith. He is trying to teach them a simple lesson, “Turn to me.” For, with Me, you will see the bread multiply in your hands. Jesus takes the bread and fish “looks up to heaven,” “to say the blessing,” and “to give”—all of these gestures have Eucharistic overtones. At Mass today, we are reminded that Jesus takes our simple gifts of bread and wine and by the power of the Holy Spirit are transformed into His Body and Blood so that we might all be fed. Just as there was an overabundance of loaves and fishes when Jesus fed the large crowd so we receive grace beyond our imagining in receiving the precious Body and Blood of Jesus.

PLEASE PRAY for our parishioners who are in the ARMED SERVICES: Bill Glynn, Jr., Katelyn Ballagh, Riley Cassidy, Ann Maloney, Jake Rohme, Cody Komala, Joshua Poole, Aidan Reilly, Ethan

Copping, Kenton Stacey, Chris Seager, Richie Mulhare, Joe O’Connell, M. K. Harris, Justin Burns, Steven P. Maqui, Andrew Rodriguez, Damian Pedersen, Jim Ballagh, Jr., Michael Sierco, Stephen Prevo, Paul Gannett, James Pritchett. Please notify the Office of family members that can be included or removed.

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PLEASE PRAY for the SICK of the Parish especially William Flanagan, Reba Waple, Rene Lacoste, Mary McDonough, Maxine Gorman, Don Hirzel, Wilda Raffensperger, Dana Rodriguez, Robert Shourds, Jr., Karen Larson, Rosamond MacDonald, Adeline Grima, Lileen Schwarz, Mark Rose, Ann Brennan, Maria Dutkowsky, Jeanne Danko, Leona Kilday, Jennifer McClure, Matthew Leake, George Murphy, Jr., Cheryl Sprouse, Patrick Ledger, Brendan Farr, Carol Fitzgerald, Anna Jeanne Judge, Joseph Flanagan, Victoria Ose, Peter Kubic, Kristen Vicencio, Jennie Guilbaud, Paul Ford, Bill Hardin, Susan Swick, Regina Madigan, Luis Martarano, Roberto Cruz, Eric Seith, Kathleen Sierco-Werking, Jim Braswell, Thomas Lumsden, Bill Parent, Bernadette Braswell, Carolyn Kassabian, Bill Murphy, Raymond & Jean Wehrmeister, Hoa My Cai, Teri Mignosa, Renee Smigielski, Jamie April, Lorna Schrom, Margaret LaFerrara, Ruth Hayes, Debra Walter, Betty Dyer, Jeanette Harris, Karly Szostak, Mary Kotarski, Laurie Smith, Marianne VanOverwalle, Ivan Cobo, Monica Diaz, Charles Coley, Mary Krok, Mary Beth Fitzmaurice, Loretta Foley, Rachel Euber, Rene Roach, Robbie Svoboda, Linda & Pat McKenna, John Kylus, Margaret Quarto, Ann Leister, Dawn Chapdelaine and Joni Seith. Names will remain 3 weeks and can be continued by calling the Office.

Please remember in your prayers the souls of the FAITHFUL DEPARTED especially Agnes Rotondo.

The Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord is celebrated on August 6. It commemorates one of the pinnacles of Jesus' earthly life, when he revealed his divinity to three of his closest disciples by means of a miraculous and supernatural light. Christ climbed to a high point on Mount Tabor with his disciples Peter, James, and John. While Jesus prayed upon the mountain, his appearance was

changed by a brilliant white light which shone from him and from his clothing. During this event, the Old Testament figures of Moses and the prophet Elijah also appeared, and spoke of how Christ would suffer and die after entering Jerusalem, before his resurrection. The Gospels record that the voice of God was heard, confirming Jesus as his son. Pope Benedict XVI described how the events of the transfiguration display Christ as the “full manifestation of God's light.” This light, which shines forth from Christ both at the transfiguration and after his resurrection, is ultimately triumphant over “the power of the darkness of evil.” The Feast of the Transfiguration is an important opportunity for us to look to Christ as “the light of the world,” and to experience the kind of conversion which the Bible frequently describes as an emergence from darkness to light. “In our time too,” Pope Benedict said, “we urgently need to emerge from the darkness of evil, to experience the joy of the children of light!”

Vacations are a very important part of our life. But let us not forget to nourish and rejuvenate the spiritual part of us as we enjoy the physical and mental respite of our vacations. Wherever you are in the U.S., you’ll find the nearest Church and Mass schedule at www.masstimes.org.

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