Preschool Christmas Program

Sacred Heart Preschool had our Christmas

Program last night. We got ready by lining up.

We counted to make sure everyone was here.

Then it was time to let everyone take pictures of us.

Merry Christmas

670 Confessions

Last week between the services for 3rd through 8th grade students in the Monday and Wednesday Religious Formation classes as well as the school students, about 670 received the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

The Parish Reconciliation Service is tomorrow,

Tuesday, December 20

7:30 p.m.

 

We will have ten priests available.

O'

Starting today, the O Antiphons begin. Each night in Vespers  (or Evening Prayer) there is always an antiphon before praying the Magnificat. Each Antiphon begins with "O" and uses a distinct title to address Jesus. Each comes from prophecies of Isaias and Micah. The initials, when read backwards, form an acrostic for the Latin "Ero Cras" which means "Tomorrow I come." Those titles for Christ are:

Sapientia: Wisdom

Adonai:  Ruler of the House of Israel

Radix Jesse: Root of Jesse

Clavis David: Key of David

Oriens: Rising Dawn

Rex Gentium: King of the Gentiles

Emmanuel: God with us

Today the O Antiphons are most familiar to us in the hymn "O come, O come Emmanuel".  Each verse of the hymn parallels one of the antiphons. In addition to their use in the Liturgy of the Hours and the gospel acclamation, they have been popularly incorporated into church devotions and family prayer.

Pick up Your Calendar

Pick up your 2012 Calendar in the church.

They should be by the main entrances.

Advent Family Festival

During our Advent Family Festival, students

learned to say the Hail Mary in Sign Language.

Meanwhile Third Order Carmelite Tony Salamone spoke to parents about Advent. He spoke about key words to ponder in Advent and how to keep Advent alive in the home.

Happy Advent!

Goodbye Mrs. Petrini

Today is Mrs. Petrini's last day teaching at Sacred Heart Preschool. There are three things Mrs. Petrini always wants her students to know:

1. Girls/Ladies first;
2. Your Guardian Angel is always with you; and
3. The quickest way to get get the help of Jesus is through His Blessed Mother.

Mrs. Crnkovich said she would sometimes go to conferences and hear theory on how to connect faith with children. Then she would return and hear Mrs. Petrini at God's Time. She would pass along the faith she had received from her mother in a simple way. The children could connect to what she said and bring it home. That truly is a gift.

40 Days: The Numbers

On Saturday, October 15th our parish participated in 40 Days for Life by praying outside the abortion site in Bellevue. As we typically do, parishioners took 24 one hour shifts from 8 a.m. Saturday until 8 a.m. Sunday.

40 Days for Life is a national campaign. Over the last four years there have been participants in 422 cities across all 50 American states and 13 countries.

This has resulted in:

More than half a million participants

5,045 lives confirmed saved

61 abortion workers quit

18 abortion facilities closed

Thank you for praying!

A Concert after lunch

After the Happy Lunch today, our seniors were entertained by St. Columbkille Catholic School's First Grade students who sang for them.

 

 

 

Here is some of what they sang for us:

As a thank you, each singer received a treat.

Thank you!

Clerestory

 The Stained Glass windows arrived ahead of schedule.

They are the only part of the Source & Summit

Campaign we are committed towards.

We want to see what six of the stained

glass windows look like in the clerestory.

 

 

 

Fr. Damian noted that they look very different up

close without the light flowing through them.

So what do you think?

Karly at Spirit Mass

The second Sunday each month our 5:00 p.m. Masses are largely done by our youth. If you attend this Sunday this weekend you'll see a new face as the accompanist: Karly Jurgensen.

If you watched the Pandora Unforgetable Moments on Ice special on NBC November 27th, you may have seen her playing with Mannheim Steamroller.

If you run into her at Mass say hello and welcome her.