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Third Sunday of Lent
Pastor’s Desk
Years ago when I had more energy I used to go out for a walk every day. Obviously as you walked through the neighborhood you start to get to know the people who live in the houses you pass by every day. I came to know a very young person who would be cleaning his pickup truck once a week. He was very faithful to that ritual. His truck would look immaculately clean. So one day I asked him how much time he would spend cleaning his pickup truck? He told me that he would spend at least three hours every week. Then I remember that looking at his eyes I asked him, “And how many hours a week do you spend maintaining and cleaning your soul?” Then he looked at me and there was a sacred silence. Obviously he knew well that he was spending more time on his pickup truck than on the things of God, the spiritual welfare of the his soul. I strongly believe that the Season of Lent is a good opportunity to tune-up our souls, to reopen the divine line of communication between us and our loving God. Lent is a time to realize that our windows need washing, our church is in need of cleansing and our soul needs to be purified once again. Lent is a time when we are called to make a good assessment of our spiritual journey. Maybe we are spending more time cleaning our cars than our souls. And remember, when the Lord will call us home, your car will be left behind. What we take is only our good deeds and nothing else. Speaking about what we are all about during the Season of Lent someone wrote the following: “Ash Wednesday is a kind of baptismal branding. We are marked on our foreheads with the cross of Christ, which is a tree of life to beckon us back to the garden, a ship’s sextant to guide us to harbor, a bronze serpent to save us from dying in the desert”.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL,
Father Ismael Mora
moramacias@hotmail.com
Readings for this Sunday:
Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15
1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12
Matthew 4:17
Luke 13: 1-9
Psalm 24: 15-16
Psalm 103: 1-2,3-4,6-7,8,11
Psalm 83: 4-5
ATTENTION Parents of Children Receiving First Reconciliation and First Communion
First Reconciliation is scheduled for Saturday, March 20 at 10:00 am.
First Communion will be on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9th at the 10:30 am Mass
Sacred Heart’s Lenten Soup & Bread
Will be on Wednesday, March 31st at 6 pm followed by 7p m Prayer. We need 6-8 volunteers to make a large pot of soup that will feed 14-16 people. Please bring warm soup or use a crockpot and provide a serving ladle. Leftovers to go home with you or to feed the Homeless. Call the Office or Linda Bareilles 443-0923 for more information.
Come Enjoy Sacred Heart’s St. Patrick’s Leprechaun Feast
on Sat., March 20th @ 6:00 pm. Delicious corned beef and cabbage dinner with coffee, Arizona Tea, punch and adult beverages available for sale, and Irish music for an enjoyable time. $12.00 Adults - $6.00 Children under 12. Tickets on sale after mass in the vestibule and at the door. To volunteer to help or to make reservations call Joan Bronder 442-7117 or Susan Adelsperger 442-5652
St. Vincent de Paul Easter Dinner Project
St. Vincent de Paul is once again inviting parishioners to participate in the Easter Dinner Project as part of their Lenten practices. At next weekend’s Masses, you will have an opportunity to hear about the project, get an empty grocery bag and a list of non-perishable food items needed for an Easter Dinner. We suggest you assemble the bag as a family or get a couple of friends together so that we can help approximately 100 families in our area.
Filled bags can be brought to church with you on the weekend of March 27 – 28, 2010. A canned ham or a turkey will be added to each bag along with milk, bread and butter on the day of distribution, March 30, between 4 and 5:30 p.m.
We welcome cash donations and gift cards to cover the cost of perishable items. There will be an envelope included for this donation. Contact Georgeanne Fulstone-Pucillo with any questions at 443-5555.
Church Lenten Regulations Regarding Fast and Abstinence
Abstinence from meat (red meat or fowl) is to be observed by all Catholics 14 years old and older on Ash Wednesday and All Fridays of Lent. This obligation prohibits the eating of meat, but not eggs, milk products, or condiments of any kind, even though made of animal fat.
Fasting means limiting oneself to one full meal on a given fast day. Catholics who are 18 years and older but under the age of 60 are obliged to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. On fast days, two additional smaller meals are permitted if necessary to maintain strength. However the two smaller meals together may not equal one full meal. Moreover, eating solid foods between meals on fast days is not permitted.
Stations of the Cross in English
6:00 pm on Fridays
Mar 12 Youth Group
Mar 19 Our Columbian Squires Boys Club
Mar 26 Confirmation Group
April 2 Good Friday – Cursillo*Time to be announced
Stations of the Cross in Spanish
7:00 pm on Fridays
Lenten Operation Rice Bowl
Operation Rice Bowl is the official Lenten Program of Catholic Relief Services. Operation Rice Bowl calls Catholics in the U.S. to promote human dignity and foster solidarity with the poor around the world through prayer, fasting, learning, and giving during the Lenten season. Our CCD classes will be distributing Rice bowls. Please place the money that you save during Lent in the Rice Bowl and you can bring this back to church during the designated time during the Holy Thursday Mass. 75% of these funds will assist tens of thousands of lives around the world, and 25% will support local hunger and poverty alleviation programs in our diocese.
Lenten Soup & Bread / Prayer
The Eureka Interfaith Fellowship is again hosting Wednesday evening gatherings of Eureka Faith communities during Lent for a 6:00 pm Lenten Soup and Bread followed by a 7:00 pm prayer service.
Mar. 10 First Presbyterian Church
Mar. 24 First United Methodist Church
HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE - March 28 - April 4
There will be no CCD classes during Holy Week.
March 28: Palm Sunday - Mass will be at the same times with Solemn Entry at all Masses.
Confessions: Monday, March 29 to Wednesday, March 31 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm.
March 31: Lenten Soup & Bread at 6 pm in the Parish Center folowed by prayer at 7 pm.
April 1: Holy Thursday There will be a bilingual Mass will be at 7:00 pm with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 12 Midnight.
April 2: Good Friday - Passion of the Lord at 1 pm.
April 3: 7 pm Spanish Easter Vigil – 7:00 Bilingual
April 4: Easter Masses –English 8:30 am, 10:3 0am Family Service, Children’s [12 and under] Easter Egg Hunt at 11:30 am.
Sacred Heart Welcomes New Members
Sacred Heart Church welcomes new members through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). If you desire to become Catholic and are: not baptized; OR were baptized in another Christian denomination; OR are a baptized Catholic who has not received the sacraments of Confirmation and/or Holy Eucharist,
Please join us to explore the Catholic faith on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm in the Rectory. For more info. call the Rectory 443-842
This Week
Saturday, March 6
4:00 - 4:30 pm - Confessions
5:00 p.m - Mass in English
5:00 – 6:20pm - Religious Education in Spanish in Room 8
7:00 pm - Mass in Spanish
Sunday, March 7
8:30 am Mass in English
9:30 – 10:20 am - Religious Education in English
10:30 Mass and Children’s Liturgy of the Word
Monday, March 8 (No daily mass)
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm - Confirmation Class in the Youth Building
Tuesday, March 9
8:30 am - Daily Mass
7:00 pm - RCIA Inquiry in the rectory library
Wednesday, March 10
8:30 am - Daily Mass
7:00pm Spanish (no Spanish Choir practice)
Thursday, March 11
8:30 am - Daily Mass
7:00–9:00 pm - Spanish Prayer Group in Room 8
Friday, March 12
8:30 am - Daily Mass
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Youth Meeting in the Youth Building
Saturday, March 13
4:00-4:30 pm - Confessions
5:00 pm - English Mass
5:00–6:20 pm - Religious Education, Spanish, Room 8
7:00 pm - Spanish Mass
Sunday, March 14
8:30 am - English Mass
9:30 –10:20 am - Religious Education (English)
10:30 am - English language Mass
ANNOUNCEMENT:
On Fridays and Saturdays from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Angelica Matias is in the Rectory office to assist our Hispanic parishioners.
Finance Corner
The weekly amount needed to sustain our Parish is $3,442.00.
Your Contributions Sun. 2 / 21 =$3,297.04
Central & Eastern Europe Sun. 2 /21 = $ 3,820.00
February & March 2010 Second Collection
Mar. 6/7 - Restoration & Repair
Mar. 13/14 - Catholic Relief Services
Thank you for your generous and faithful support of our Parish ~ Fr. Mora
Please Support the Diocese Annual Ministry Appeal – One Family in Mission
Our Santa Rosa Diocese provides many services to Catholic Parishes in our area. We are benefitting from their most generous support in providing Sacred Heart Church with a Priest In Residence, and Two Seminarians. In addition, we receive help with Religious Education: Youth & Young Adult Ministry, Catholic Schools, Adult Faith Formation, Evangelization & Catechesis, and Tribunals.
Ministry To The Sick
The priest of the parish wants very much to make sure that parishioners who are hospitalized or homebound receive pastoral care. We depend on the families and neighbors of parishioners to notify the rectory office so we can bring you the sacraments. If you would like to receive Communion, a visit from Priest/Deacon or are going into the hospital please call the parish office. For immediate needs ask who is on duty for hospital calls.
Pray For Us
Bernie & Barbara Barrett, Ashley Stoddard, John Thompson, Dennis Newstead, Francis Sczepanski, Emery Bator, Paul Burns, Charlotte Dillion, Steve Beckman, Juana Negrete, Antonio Tovar, Maria De Jesus Galvan
If you are on the mend and wish your name to be removed from our prayer list, please call the parish office and let us know. Names on this list are only included with permission of the individuals. They will remain on the list for one month, and can be repeated by calling the rectory.
Visitation Help Needed
We need a visitor(s) for Emery Bator on Sundays after Mass to bring him communion and the church bulletin. Emory is very lively but shut-in at Timber Ridge #123. Please call Fr. Mora or the Rectory
Leprechauns Needed
to volunteer for our Sacred Heart St.Patrick’s Leprechaun Feast to be held on Sat., March 20th @ 6:00 pm. We need servers, cleanup helpers, etc. It is Great Fun and a chance to meet some of your fellow parishioners. So, with little work and an enjoyable time, do come join us. To volunteer call Joan Bronder @442-7117 or Susan Adelsperger @ 442-5652.
Please help with Children’s Easter Egg Hunt Candy
We need donations of small wrapped candies brought to the Parish Office or to the CCD or Confirmation Classes, and Volunteers to help that morning. Please Contact the Parish Office or your CCD Teacher.
St. Vincent de Paul Society
at 35 W 3rd St, #D, in Eureka, CA 95501, (707) 445-9588, continues to provide Hot Meals
daily from 11:00am to 1:00pm to our needy. This Lent consider volunteering to help serve or
to help make food. Call David Vina 442-3098
Study the Gospel of Luke
Have you been thinking about learning more about the gospels? Fr. Eric Freed's weekly study group is studying the gospel of Luke on Wednesday nights from 7:30-8:30 pm at the Newman Center in Arcata. The group will meet next on March 3, 10, & 17. Several people from Sacred Heart have been attending the group that just finished studying the gospel of Matthew and recommend it highly. Everyone is welcome to drop in and no registration fee is required. Call 822-6057 for more information.
Fr. Eric Freed is the associate pastor at St. Bernard’s, the chaplain at the Newman Center, and teaches at Humboldt State University. He has just returned from a trip to Japan where he was promoting a book he has written. It is an account of the experiences of Hiroko Takanashi, who was 15 years old when the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Freed also translated a series of haiku poems about the Hiroshima experience written by Mrs. Takanashi and provided commentary on the literary quality of the poems.
PRAYER and SILENCE
Do you find yourself desiring to grow in knowledge and love of God? Do you desire to spend time in silent prayer alone with God? If yes, we invite you to visit and discern whether God may be calling you to the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites. We follow a life of prayer and service according to the spirituality of St. Teresa of Avial and St. John of the Cross.
We meet on the Second Sunday of each month from 1-4 pm at Church of the Assumption in Ferndale at the Parish Hall. For more information, please call Alan or Ginny Fox at 725-6930.
SISTERS of NAZARETH
Single young women prayfully considering a religious vocation, are invited to the Sister of Nazareth Discerner’s Day on March 14th at Nazareth House, 245 Nova Albion Way, in San Rafael, CA from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm. Call Sister Fintan 310-216-8170, go to: www.sistersofnazareth.com or email: sfintan@nazarethhousela.org
Pancake Breakfast
Sunday, March 7th from 9:00 am to 11:30 am at St. Bernard Parish Hall. Menu includes: Pancakes, scrambled eggs, ham or sausage, applesauce, coffee, orange juice. Adult $6 Children under 12 are $3. Proceeds for St. Bernard’s Maintenance Fund.
Help available for Couples wanting to start a Family.
The Pope Paul VI Institute, (The Home of Fertility Care and NaPro Technology) can offer hope to women struggling with infertility. “In everything we do , we seek to follow God’s plan and purpose for reproductive health, and provide patients with solutions that contribute to healthy marriages and families.”
For more information call or email (402) 390-6600 or www.popepaulvi.com
Humboldt Pro Life News
High School juniors and seniors get ready for the Humboldt Respect Life Jacqueline Kasun Oratory Contest Mar. 20 at St. Bernard’s High School. Each contestant will present a 5-7 minute speech, and the winner will receive a $500 travel allowance to compete in the California Pro-Life Council Oratory Contest in Sacramento on April 24. Registration is due on March 6.
For complete information & the registration packet go to: www.HumboldtProLife.com/oratory contest
Call Hope McNeil 445-9032
Also Visit: www.HumboldtProLife.com for info.
Merciful Jesus, I consecrate myself today and always to Your Most Scared Heart.
Most Scared Heart of Jesus I implore, that I may ever Love You more and more.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I trust in You!
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us!
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I believe in Your Love for me.
Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like Your Heart.