Please note that there will be no daily Mass Mon., Jan. 20, and the parish office will be closed in recognition of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

Sacred Heart Parish, Bellingham ~ January 19, 2020

Mass Intentions

Sunday, Jan. 19, Second Sunday in Ordinary Time —Family Promise Week—

8:30 am Mass —Nash Baptism Church 9:45 am Coffee Hour—St. Vincent de Paul Hall 9:45 am *No RE Classes 11:00 am Mass Church 12:15 pm *No RCIA 4:00 pm *No EDGE or Life Teen 5:30 pm Newman Center Confession WWU CF 115 6:30 pm Newman Center Mass WWU CF 115

Monday, Jan. 20, St. Sebastian —All Day—Office Closed for MLK Day 9:00 am *No Mass

Tuesday, Jan. 21, St. Agnes 6:00 am March for Life Bus Assumption 9:00 am Mass Church 10:00 am Bellingham Catholic Moms Hall 12:00 pm Angelus and Rosary Church 1:00 pm Prayer Shawl Group Hall

Wednesday, Jan. 22, Day of Prayer for the Unborn 10:00 am Faith Formation—Happiness Hall 12:00 pm Angelus and Rosary Church

Thursday, Jan. 23, St. Vincent 9:00 am *No Mass 12:00 pm Angelus and Rosary Church

Friday, Jan. 24, St. Francis de Sales 9:00 am Mass Church 9:45 am Adoration until 8:50 am Saturday Chapel

Saturday, Jan. 25, Conversion of St. Paul 8:30 am Rosary Chapel 8:50 am Benediction Chapel 9:00 am Mass Church 9:30 am St. Michael Chaplet Church 3:30 pm Confession Church 5:00 pm Vigil Mass Church

Sunday, Jan. 26, Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:30 am Mass Church 9:45 am Coffee Hour—Assumption Students Hall 9:45 am RE Classes Atrium/Library 11:00 am Mass Church 12:15 pm RCIA Library 3:00 pm EDGE/Life Teen Field Trip Trampoline Zone 5:30 pm Newman Center Confession WWU MPR 6:30 pm Newman Center Mass WWU MPR

Jan 21 Wolnik Family +

Jan 24 Carol & James

George

Jan 25 Jeff & Kelly Segel

The Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for

January 2020

Promotion of World Peace

We pray that Christians, followers of other religions, and all people of goodwill may promote peace and justice in the world.

Gospel Meditation

On the cusp of fame, power, or influence, would you turn

it down? Today’s Gospel again features John the Baptist.

Controversial but popular, John has gathered quite a

group of followers. He has disciples. People come from

near and far to be baptized by him. Pharisees and

government leaders are drawn to his preaching. If John

was another man, a lesser man, he would have claimed

his own greatness. Instead, John the Baptist is a witness

to humility.

“The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said,

‘Behold the Lamb of God … he is the one of whom I said,

“A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me.”…

the reason why I came baptizing with water was that he

might be made known.’” Rather than point to himself,

John points to Christ. John could have grasped at what

he had accumulated. He could have seen Jesus as a

Messianic competitor. Instead, John knows who he is. He

knows his place as forerunner. Because John knows who

Jesus is. “I have seen and testified that he is the Son of

God.”

A life of humility, a life for others, can be challenging to

live. So much of our culture is built around achievement

and individualism. We can justify it, too, in pursuit of

“greater goods” and higher ideals. In the process,

however, we might miss our own participation in the

kingdom of God. John, for all of his humility, was not an

afterthought. In another Gospel passage, Jesus calls him

“the greatest prophet,” even the greatest of men. Why?

Because he fulfills the mission given to him by God: to

announce the coming of the Messiah. We too are

prophets and forerunners. Our witness to the Gospel is

meant to point people to Jesus. Consider your own

mission this week. To whom are you called to announce

the good news of the Son of God? —LPi