February 23, 2014

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

110 N. Jefferson Street Milledgeville, GA 31061

E-mail: sacredheartmga@windstream.net Web site: sacredheartmilledgeville.org

Phone: 478-452-2421 FAX: 478-454-1110

Cell/Emergency: 770-289-3466

Staff

Rev. Young Nguyen, Pastor

Rev. Mr. John Shoemaker, Deacon Emeritus Rev. Mr. Cesar Basilio, Deacon

Cindy Sencindiver Secretary & DRE Susan Craig Organist Rick & Melanie Pfohl Youth Choir

Sacraments

Sacrament of Penance

Saturday 4:30—5:00 or by appointment

Sacrament of Baptism For information concerning baptism, call the Parish priest.

Sacrament of Matrimony

Arrangements with the church should be made at least six months in advance by calling the Parish priest.

Sunday Bulletin

Deadline for items for the bulletin is 12:00 Noon on Wednesday.

Parish Membership

We welcome new families to our parish.

Parish Registration

Parish registration forms can be picked up at the back of the church or at the church office.

Annulment Case Sponsor

Jean Atwood

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

To know, love and serve as Jesus did

Schedule of Masses

Monday—Thursday 12:10 p.m. Friday 5:30 p.m. Saturday 9:30 a.m. Vigil 5:30 p.m. Sunday 9:00 a.m., 11:15 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

Holy Rosary and Adoration

Monday—Thursday Holy Rosary 11:45 a.m. Saturday Holy Rosary 9:00 a.m. Monday—Thursday Adoration 11:00 a.m. Friday Eucharistic Adoration 6:00 p.m.

Mass of Healing

1st Saturday of the Month 9:30 a.m.

Masses for the Week of February 23, 2014

Saturday 9:00 a.m. Rosary 9:30 a.m. Mass 5:30 p.m. Mass Sunday 9:00 a.m. Palmy Pohovich, R.I.P. 11:15 a.m. Mass 5:00 p.m.. Pro Populo Mon. 12:10 p.m. Mass Tues. 12:10 p.m. Mass Wed. 12:10 p.m. Mass Thurs 12:10 p.m. Mass Fri. 5:30 p.m. Mass Sat. 9:00 a.m. Rosary 9:30 a.m. Mass 5:30 p.m. Mass

March 2, 2014

9:00 a.m. Pro Populo 11:15 a.m. Mass 5:00 p.m. Mass Please call the church office to schedule mass intentions. Diocese policy suggests an offering of $10 or more per mass intention.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Jas 3:13-18; Ps 19:8-10, 15; Mk 9:14-29 Tuesday: Jas 4:1-10; Ps 55:7-11a, 23; Mk 9:30-37 Wednesday: Jas 4:13-17; Ps 49:2-3, 6-11; Mk 9:38-40 Thursday: Jas 5:1-6; Ps 49:14-20; Mk 9:41-50 Friday: Jas 5:9-12; Ps 103:1-4, 8-9, 11-12; Mk 10:1-12 Saturday: Jas 5:13-20; Ps 141:1-3, 8; Mk 10:13-16 Sunday: Is 49:14-15; Ps 62:2-3, 6-9; 1 Cor 4:1-5; Mt 6:24-34

Welcome to Our Parish

We are glad that you have come to visit. We invite you to register and become part of our parish family. Please fill out the registration form at the back of the church or stop by the parish office during the week.

Weekly Offertory

Regular 02/02/14 $6,604.00 02/09/14 $7,429.00 Helping Hands $1,092.00 Just a reminder that when donating to a second col-lection or Helping Hands, a separate check needs to be written. We can no longer divide check amounts.

Why Corner

Higher Standard (Part II)

Jesus, you want us to be perfect? Why? You want us to re-flect your Father’s likeness, goodness, kindness, and agape-love in us for others. "So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect."

First, Jesus said, "love your enemies...." Agape-love someone unconditionally and sacrificially, is that what you meant? Yes! Love them even if they don't want to change? Abso-lutely! Love them even if every second of their lives is to kill, harm and hurt me? No questions asked! As Jesus said, "For he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good...." Agape-love demands that we take a proactive step toward our enemies by doing good and caring for them if need be. No room for hatred, ill feelings or negligence on our part toward them. Do you love your enemies?

Second, Jesus said, "pray for those who persecute you..." Pray for them! Here Jesus asked us to remember our persecutors in a personable and intimate way, prayer. Who would want to remember someone who persecutes us? No one! Why? Because in our prayers, we will realize how we persecute Jesus in and through our sins, but yet He continues "to intercede for us at the right hand of the father,"; and as He said to Peter and to us, "I will pray for you," knowing that Peter will deny Him. In prayers, our ill feelings, emotions, attitude and judgment toward others will be retuned to be more Christ-like. Are you praying for your persecutor? Fr. Young

THE 2014 ARCHBISHOP’S ANNUAL APPEAL “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF”

The 2014 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is now underway. You should be receiving a letter from Archbishop Gregory asking for a pledge to the 2014 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal. The Appeal funds the essential ministries of the wider church in our archdiocese—ministries that, in many cases, are of service to our parish. For example, Archbishop’s Annual Appeal gifts support seminarian education, respect life minis-try, child and youth protection, and priests’ continuing education to name a few. This year, the theme of the Appeal is, “You Shall Love Your Neighbor as Yourself.” Our Archbishop writes, “I see the love of the Lord lived in concrete and visible ways, and being shared with young and old, neighbors and strangers, near and far, every day in our archdiocese.” Your financial support for the work of our parish, and of the wider church in our archdiocese and the world is, in fact, one way to share your love with your community. After we reach our parish Annual Appeal goal, the archdiocese re-turns 100% of each additional dollar received from our parishioners to the parish. Please respond to the Archbishop’s request and make a generous pledge. All pledges will be billed in ten monthly installments. Thank you in advance for your support.

Yes, it Does Pay to Sign Up with Kroger Community Rewards!

Helping Hands received it’s first check from Kroger in the amount of $504.79 with only 37 of our parishioners signed up. We now have 58 parishioners signed up. Can you imagine how much money Helping Hands would receive if 100% of our Kroger shopping parishioners would sign up? If you’re not signed up yet, it’s easy to do. Go to www.krogercommunityrewards.com. Just follow the directions listed( you will need your email address, password and Kroger plus card account number). Its free and you will be helping your neighbors in Bald-win County. The organization number assigned to us by Kroger is 17538. Use this number when you register. If you are having trouble registering, contact Mike McCabe at 452-7265 for assistance.

If you saw Jesus standing at the alter when you came into church, what would you do?

Would you drop to your knees in prayer or would you sit and visit with your friends about Wal‐Mart or a party you went to last night, or gossip about someone you both know, or talk about an event that happened since your visit last week?

Talking in church is rude! It is rude to Christ and it is rude to those who come to church to be in communion with Christ.

You may not physically see Christ when you enter church but He is there and He sees you! He wants to receive you in his loving arms and listen to you. Spend the few mo‐ments before mass having a conversation with Him instead of your friends.

Having a conversation with Christ will do a lot more for your soul than a conversation with your friend.

Martha Smith

“From Fasting to Joy”

Join us for a one day seminar led by spiritual leader and Catholic scholar, Martha Smith. Martha currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and five children. She earned a Masters in Theological Studies and Certification in Spiritual Direction from Spring Hill College in Mo-bile, Alabama in May 2006. She has conducted numerous spiritual retreats, has written two workbooks focusing on Scripture and the Catholic Catechism. From 2006 to 2009, Martha was the Spring Hill College Coordinator of the Atlanta Summer Spiritual Institute which was held for 11 years in the Atlanta area at Ignatius House Retreat Center. The program helped bring graduate level courses on spirituality to people interested in attaining credit and/or enhancing their knowledge of the Scriptures, history, Saints, and certain teachings of the Catholic Church. She has been the Spiritual Director of St. Jude Catholic Church in Sandy Springs, GA for 4 years.

WHEN: Saturday, March 8, 2014

TIME: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

WHERE: Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Flannery O’Connor Hall

This one day retreat is open to all Sacred Heart parish members and your friends from

other denominations. Everyone is welcome! A continental breakfast will be provided and

lunch will be on your own.

You need to register for this event. Please fill out the registration form below and either put it in the collection basket, return it to the office, or put it in the black mailbox by the office door no later than March 3rd. —————————————————————————–——————————————————

Registration Form

Name: __________________________________ Phone:___________________________________

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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper

Mark your calendars now for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper spon-sored by the Helping Hands Society. They will be serving pancakes, with your favorite toppings, and sausage from 5:30—7:30 p.m. in Flannery O’Connor Hall. There will be no charge but donations are Welcome.

Happy Birthday

Mary Singco Rose Smith Ryan Wolf

Joseph Vaughn Cathy Weasel

Francine Moats Kathy Boylan

Jessica Huguley

Mardi Gras We will be having a Mardi Gras Party on Saturday, March 1st at 6:30 p.m. in Flannery O’Connor Hall. The Gumbo will be provided. All we ask

is that you bring rice, rolls or a dessert. Laissez les bons temps rouler

PRAYING PACEM IN TERRIS Men are by nature social, and consequently they have the right to meet together and to form associa-tions with their fellows. They have the right to confer on such associations the type of organization which they consider best calculated to achieve their objectives. They have also the right to exercise their own initiative and act on their own responsibility within these associations for the attainment of the desired results. As We insisted in Our encyclical Mater et Magistra, the founding of a great many such intermediate

groups or societies for the pursuit of aims which it is not within the competence of the individual to achieve efficiently, is a matter of great urgency. Such groups and societies must be considered absolutely essential for the safeguarding of man's personal freedom and dignity, while leaving intact a sense of responsibility. (23-24)

The food pantry is in need of the following items: Baby Formula

Canned beef stew Canned Chicken & Dumplings Canned Chili Canned fruit Canned Salmon Canned Spam Canned Tuna Canned vegetables Cereal Cooking Oil Evaporated milk Flour Grits Instant Potatoes

Jelly Jiffy Cornbread Mix Juice Macaroni & Cheese Oatmeal Paper towels Pasta - different varieties Pasta sauce Peanut Butter Powdered Milk Rice Saltine Crackers Soup—all varieties, Sugar Toiletry items If you can help with any of these items, it will be greatly appreciated.

Chard Wray Food Pantry These names will be removed at the beginning of each month unless otherwise specified Prayer requests: the homebound; nursing home and veteran home residents; the chronically ill; the mentally ill; all prisoners; all military personnel. Rizza Ibanez, Addie Johnson, Elba Be-jarano, Carol Sturgeon, Elaine Crow, Elizabeth Cline, Renata Martinez, John Farmer, Jeanne Schoenholz, Carmen Silva, Grace Jones, Lilly Bentley, Pam Foy, Theresa Egejuru, Michael Keefe, Laura McClure, Mary Barbara Tate, Richard Mural, Mary Dur-den, Frank Schoeneman, Kenneth Wood, Tonya Gibson, Michael Wheeler, Cherrelyn Robinson, Ashley Wilhelm, John McMan-mon, Richard Firth, Beverly Batchelor, Al Shenenan, Billy Boone, Jovi Gutierrez Martinez, Marilyn McCoy, Johnaida Gutierrez Carbonnel, James Bray, Jr., James Bray, Sr., Jim Rum-pel, Donald Baden, Carol Parsons, Wayne Parsons, Carolyn Smith, Rose Tamasi, John Matthews, Kristin Schrubbe, Tiffany Pfohl, Nancy Murrison, Carmen Sans Graciaa, Earl Elm, Rita Elm, Josh Thompson, Berry Smith, Steve Brookins, Amy Smith, Nancy Smith, Judy Powell, Mary Ann Hammonds, Dolly Azar, Allen Spears, Don Lester, Curtis Roberts, Ted Schildknecht, Agnes Copeland, Mark Dexter, Dan Sikorski, Carol Sikorski, Judy Powell, Steven Sand, Naomi Blake Tronzo, Buster Holler, Helen Collins, Tug Greer, MalCha Snyder, Paul Leitgeb, Mike Lyons, Ken Foshee, Ray Sheeler, The Ketring Family

Please pray for the deceased: All deceased members of Sacred Heart Church, John Tamasi

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