July 24, 2011

Sixteenth Sunday of Easter

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 Sponsors

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.

Meeting the Lord in the Mass

Keep prayerful silence at all times before, during and after mass.

Turn off all cell phones and electronic devices.

Dress modestly and appropriately. NO tank tops, shorts, etc.

Remain until the final blessing at the end of the Mass.

Converse with the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

Avoid being a distraction to others.

From the Office of Formation & Discipleship. Archdiocese of Atlanta.

Why Corner

Is Heaven your priceless treasure? Jesus said in Luke 12:34, “where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Is heaven your priceless pearl or treasure? Is heaven your ultimate goal in life? Are you doing everything humanly possible and with all your might to get to heaven? Have you given any time today in your thoughts about heaven? In today’s Gospel, Jesus used the images of hidden treasure and/or finest pearl to illus-trate what heaven is like. In the ancient world pearls had a very spe-cial place in people’s hearts and lives. People desired to possess a lovely pearl, not only for its money value, but for its beauty. They found a pleasure in simply handling it and contemplating it. They found an aesthetic joy simply in possessing and looking at a pearl. So, what is Jesus suggesting or pointing out here? What is Jesus tell-ing us about hidden treasure and/or finest pearl? Is heaven your treas-ure and/or your pearl? First, are you searching for heaven, the loveliest thing for you in your life? The first lesson of this parable is that the person found the precious thing, not so much by chance, as in their day’s work. It is true to say that they stumbled unexpectedly upon it, but did so when they were going about their daily business. It is legitimate to infer that they must have been going about their daily business with diligence and efficiency, digging deep, not merely scraping the sur-face, in order to strike against the treasure and/or accidently finding the finest pearl. It would be a sad thing if it were only in churches, in so-called holy places and on so-called religious occasions, that we found God and felt close to Him. There is an unwritten saying of Je-sus’ which never found its way into any of the Gospels, but which rings true: “Raise the stone and thou shall find me; cleave the wood and I am there.” When the mason is working on the stone and when the carpenter with the wood, Jesus Christ is there. True happiness, true satisfaction, the sense of God, the presence of Christ are all to be found in the day’s work, when the day’s work is honestly and consci-entiously done. Brother Lawrence, a great saint and mystic, spent much of his working life in the monastery kitchen amidst the dirty dishes, and he could say, “I felt Jesus Christ as close to me in the kitchen as ever I did at the Blessed Sacrament.” Second, is heaven the loveliest thing for you in the world? And is everything that is important in your life focused to this loveli-est thing? To the ancient people, as we have just heard, a pearl was the loveliest of all possessions. That means that the Kingdom of God, Heaven, is the loveliest thing in the world. Let us remember what the Kingdom is. When we say the Lord’s prayer, we find that we could say that the Kingdom of Heaven is a state of society upon earth where God’s will is as perfectly done as it is in heaven. Therefore, to enter the Kingdom is to accept and do God’s will. That is to say, to do the will of God is no grim, grey, agonizing thing; it is a lovely thing. Be-yond (continued on next page)

Masses for the Week of July 24, 2011

Saturday 9:00 a.m. Rosary 9:30 a.m. Mass 5:30 p.m. Pro Populo Sunday 9:00 a.m. Ayden Anderson, R.I.P. 11:15 a.m. Billy Matthews, R.I.P. 5:00 p.m. Fr. Peter Sivjonovic, R.I.P. Mon. 12:10 p.m. Dr. Diego Sans, R.I.P. Tues. 12:10 p.m. Communion Service Wed. 12:10 p.m. Communion Service Thurs. 12:10 p.m. Communion Service Fri. 5:30 p.m. Communion Service Sat. 9:00 a.m. Rosary 10:00 a.m. K of C Installation 5:30 p.m. Mass

July 31, 2011

9:00 a.m. Virginia & William Matthews, R.I.P. 11:15 a.m. Pro Populo 5:00 p.m. Poor Soul In Purgatory 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: 2 Cor 4:7-15; Mt 20:20-28 Tuesday: Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28; Mt 13:36-43 Wednesday: Ex 34:29-35; Mt 13:44-46 Thursday: Ex 40:16-21, 34-38; Mt 13:47-53 Friday: Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37; Jn 11:19-27 or Lk 10:38-42 Saturday: Lv 25:1, 8-17; Mt 14:1-12 Sunday: Is 55:1-3; Ps 145; Rom 8:35, 37-39; Mt 14:13-21

Weekly Offertory

Regular 7/10/11 $5,284.00 7/17/11 $3,475.50 Helping Hands $1,035.00 St. Vincent de Paul (Archdiocese) $ 118.00

Why Corner (continued) the discipline, beyond the sacrifice, beyond the self-denial, beyond the cross, there lies the supreme loveliness which is no-where else. There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, beauty to the life, and that is to accept and do the will of God. Are you living our God’s will in your thoughts, actions, attitudes and words? Third, is heaven the only lovely thing for you in the world? It is suggestive to find that there are other treasures and/or pearls but only one treasure and/or pearl of great price. That is to say, there are many fine things in this world and many things in which a person can find loveliness. A person can find loveliness in knowledge and in the reaches of the human mind, in art, music and literature, and all the triumphs of the human spirit. A person can find loveliness in serving his neighbors even if that service springs from humanitarian rather than from purely Christian motives. A person can find loveliness in human rela-tionships. These are all lovely, but they are all lesser loveliness. The supreme beauty lies in the acceptance of the will of God. This is not to belittle the other things. They too are hidden treasures and/or pearls but the supreme treasure and/or pearl is the willing obedience which makes us friends of God. Fourth, what are you willing to do for found hidden treasure and/or the discovery of the finest pearl? Are you willing to give everything for it? So, then, it is worth anything to do God’s will. Suddenly, as awe discover the treasure and/or pearl, there may flash upon us, in some moment of illumination, the conviction of what God’s will is for us. To accept it may be to give up certain goals and ambitions which are very dear to us, to abandon certain habits and ways of life, and self-denial which are by no means easy. In a word, to take up our cross and follow Jesus. No matter whether the discovery was the result of a mo-ment or the result of a life-time search, the reaction was the same – everything had to be sold and sacrificed to gain the pre-cious thing. But there is no other way to peace of mind and heart in this life and to glory in the life to come. It is indeed worth giving up everything to accept and do the will of God. Is your heart in heaven? Fr. Young

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Development of the Unborn Child Jesus

Week 18

My skeleton is hardening and calcifying and is visible on ultrasound. You can see by ears now and I have eyelashes! My vocal cords work now and if there was air in my Mother Mary's womb, she could hear me cry!

Happy Birthday

John DeRubbo Romanus Elangwe Richard Sand Stephen Harmon Charles Ubah

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St. Joseph’s Parishioner

The food pantry is in need of the following items: □ 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

A former parishioner is now working at the Women’s Prison in Reidsville and would like to start a “Fashionista Closet” for the ladies so they will not have to go into the world with their prison garb when they are released. If you have some gently used jewelry, handbags and clothes that you were go-ing to dispose of, why not donate them for the Fashionista Closet? They will also accept unused make-up and nail polish. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Bring these items by the office and we will see that they get delivered.

Fashionista Closet

Prayer requests: the homebound; nursing home and veteran home residents; the chronically ill; the mentally ill; all prisoners; all military personnel. Margie Shoe-maker, Beatrice Pipp, Steven Sand, Rizza Ibanez, Addie Johnson, Mary M. Thomas, Elba Bejarano, Carol Stur-geon, Julie Baker, Roy Lehrman, Elaine Crow, Rhoda Lazo, Dorie Neligan, Fr. Michael McWhorter, Irene Vivas, Elizabeth Cline, Robert Ritchotte, Patty Schilling, Grace Jones, Johnnie Bentley, Carolyn & Frank Smith, Charles Eckert, Richard E. Firth, Jeremy McClure, Mi-chael Warren, Ronnie Jones, Lonnie Durden, Jim Lena-han, Joe Stronko, Morgan Kern, Dr. Suzanne Palmer, Geraldine Shaw, Riley Wohlman, Jim Klendworth, Mary Florio, James Hurst, Benjamin J. Purvis, Sgt. James L. Purvis. *(these names will be removed at the beginning of each month unless otherwise specified) Please pray for the deceased: All deceased members of Sacred Heart Church, Ayden Anderson, Mike Knop.