A “special brunch” was prepared for “All Ladies” of the parish sponsored by our “Men” in honor of Mother’s Day. We honored allthe wonderful women in our lives; mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and friends who have nurtured, loved, and shaped us into thepeople we are today. A lovely Mother’s Day gift was presented to our ladies at the end of the Saturday and Sunday mass.

Sam Olive’s recipe for his famous “Pancakes and Sausage” were delicious as usual. Andy Ashurst and Chef Michael were at thegrill for several hours “flipping” the delicious cakes. Also, a big “thank you” to John Ashurst, John Caponite and Truman Maynardfor your help too! Several other dishes were prepared by parishioners and thank you to those who furnished the fruit, cake, andcupcakes. Thank you to the “Ladies and Gents” that cleaned up after the brunch!

Sacred Heart Parish is very proud of these young men. We pray your accomplishments will bring you far in life.

Treasure this moment of success! Embrace the journey ahead.

Congratulations to Christopher Hurley and Dominic Gentile on your well-deserved success. Christopher and Dom will graduatewith honors on Friday, May 27th at the Belfry High School gym. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers as Chris continueshis education at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and Dom will continue his studies at Eastern Kentucky University inRichmond. Congratulations to Chris and Dom’s parents!

Congratulations Christopher Blaine Vance! He will graduate from University of Pikeville on May 14th. He will receive his degree ofBachelor of Arts in Religion and Psychology. Blaine is the grandson of Barb and John Vance. He will be traveling to Japan to live,work, and continue is studies. Blaine would like to pursue is love of music. Hopefully, he’ll return in December to celebrateChristmas with his family and friends.

Congratulations Sam and Janice Olive on Louie’s graduation from Marshall University’s School of Medicine. We are pleased ofLouie’s accomplishment and his future as a Doctor. We know God will use his gift of healing to make positive differences in thelives of many people.

Please continue to pray for baby Jameson Lee Restar and his mother, MJ. Lee said MJ and Jameson are continuing toimprove at home. Baby Jameson now weighs 4lb and 6 oz. Also, keep Eddie Nenni in your prayers as he continues torecover. Eddie is still at the Corner Stone Facility in Huntington. He’s recovering from a stroke he suffered over 2months ago. Eddie’s breathing is still assisted by the ventilator and he began dialysis this week. Remember Linda

The Heart Beat

Congratulations Fr. Tom on your 21st Anniversary of your PriesthoodHonoring you for being a dedicated and loving shepherd of God’s flock.

God bless you on this milestone of devotion, love and service.

Thank you for your loving example of self-sacrifice and generous service. May you always be richly blessed. We are sohonored with your presence in our parish. Sacred Heart celebrated with Fr. Tom Saturday evening after mass with apotluck dinner. Thank you “all “ who brought your special dishes and celebrated with our community.

White’s brother, Harlan, in your prayers. He was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. Please pray for MJ, JamesonLee, Eddie, Harlan and all our parishioners that are experiencing health issues. Mark your calendar for the “Super Hero’s Birthday Celebration” Sunday, May 22, during the brunch. Please come andjoin us to celebrate Batman (Dr. Leo), Super Woman (Debby) and our newest hero – Superman (Fr. Tom)! Get yourcameras ready for the apron photos! There will be lots of food, fun, and good times.

Sacred Heart’s parish goal of $7120.00. The first 50% of our goal will be used to support the broader Diocesan case mentionedabove. Then every dollar raised will be returned to our parish, including 100% of the funds raised over our goal. We will use theproceeds of this campaign to address the following needs: mainly repairing roof of the school, and updating the Rectory kitchenand bathroom.

Sacred Heart Church once again has a wonderful Community Garden located on the lot adjacent to the handicap parking area. Mark your garden spot today after mass. Lonnie will have plants available to start your garden. Lonnie has cultivated, tilled, plowed and made gardening plots that will be adopted today by several parishioners and youngones. The gardens are rich with black soil – a gardener’s delight! It will be our challenge to take these gardens, tend, water andfeed them, watch them grow and give us unending joy. Once again this year, one of our gardens will produce vegetables grownfor Jacob’s Well. Thank you Lonnie for all you do for Sacred Heart Church.

Fr. Tom is reminding us of the special Mass Celebration for the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus on Friday,June 3rd at 6:00 p.m. The Mass will be followed by a celebration in the gym. The Ladies Altar Society decided to combinethe church picnic with the celebration. A potluck dinner will be served. Bring your special dish. Millie and Amber are incharge of decorations. They need everyone’s help! The theme this year is “Back in the 60’s Sock Hop!” Please volunteer,come and celebrate. Fr. Tom is asking that everyone attend this special mass and event. Get ready for Dancing!

Don’t forget to visit the Williamson Farmer’s Market on Saturdays’. They open around 8:00 a.m. in the morningson the parking lot across from the BB&T Bank (Against the Flood Wall). Lonnie has a variety of fresh gardenvegetables from his garden and occasionally, you might be lucky enough to see some of Debby’s “fruits of herlabor”. Also, you might even get a chance to buy some of Lonnie’s beautiful wood pieces. They’re very unusualand perfect for a gift for any occasion!

Debby Bowen would like to “thank everyone” who attended her Pampered Chef Party and those who placed anorder. It was a “great evening. If you were unable to attend; you can still place an order online. Use thefollowing link: http://tinyurl.com/Debby-Bowen

The Ladies will prepare a special “Father’s Day” brunch for our men and fathers on June 19th. Everyone isinvited. The Ladies’ Altar Society will honor our men with a “Pancake and Sausage Breakfast.” The ladies willhave a few surprises, as usual. Sacred Heart is blessed with to have such good men in our parish. Also, this willmark Fr. Tom’s first anniversary with our Sacred Heart Parish!

If you notice a nice looking man with grey hair; resembles the Venturino family and looks like a brother toDebby Bowen working around the church; well he is! Johnny Venturino has assumed the job as grounds keeperat Sacred Heart. Lonnie’s work with his Chattaroy Tomato Company; his gardens and High Tunnels have takenup all his spare time. We are fortunate and blessed to have Johnny working to keep the grounds manicured!

A message from Alexis Batasua……

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Be ready for a run through the hills and hollows of eastern Kentucky at the Hatfield-McCoy Marathon & Half Marathons

Remember, each and every one of us is the Heart Beat of Sacred Heart!

Resurrection Recommitment

We all know that Easter can tempt us with “cheap grace” and the cultural focus on chocolate bunnies and basketsof treats. But Easter is more than just a happy ending to a tragic story. Easter is power; power of the presence ofthe resurrected Christ.

Sure, Easter has to do with eternity, but Easter also has to do with everyday living. It’s is about this incrediblelife-change that can happen when we recognize the Risen Savior in our lives. And we can each knon ; He is there.He is Risen and through the power of the Holy Spirit and by the grace of God, He is everywhere we are - along theroad, at the store, in our work places and school, at home awaiting our return. He is risen and he is here.

So in the light of that, should nice weather erode away our Sunday commitment to attending worship? EasterSunday has come and gone? Should our joyful response “Christ is risen!" be so easily silenced by our absence? No!

Let's resolve to change the spring and summer slump into a Resurrection Recommitment. We may have asmany in the sanctuary like we did on Easter Sunday, but we can all work on it. So let’s commit, right now, toextend the Easter celebration and worship commitment we had on April 5th all the way through the Easterseason, which concludes on Pentecost Sunday, May 24th.

But why stop there? Let’s work on increasing our worship attendance and our regularity in worship (the amountof times you come each month) throughout the entire year. I know that May and the summer months are busytimes. Our calendars are filled with extra outings, longer days, and trips near and far. But worship is where youget recharged and refueled by the resurrection hope we celebrate each Sunday.

This is how we’re going to do it. You’re going put “Go to Church,” on your calendar every Sunday at10:00 a.m. That way it becomes a scheduled commitment you can’t break. You’re going to reach out to those whosit near you in worship, but you haven’t seen in a while, and tell them you miss hugging them when we pass thepeace. Ask them how they’re doing and offer to pray for them. Let’s remember “3 People,” that comeoccasionally and begin reaching out to them. You are going to invite your neighbors and friends to come to churchwith you - offer to pick them up and invite them to the Sunday Brunch.

We are not going to roll over and play dead during the spring and summer slump. Jesus’ final words on the crosswere, “It is finished.” But on Easter, “It is finished,” became “Now it begins.” Life begins NOW.

Christ is Risen! And so are WE! Yes, with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, a new era has dawned. Come hear aboutthose post-resurrection encounters with Jesus that changed people’s lives. They became different, new, vitalpeople. And the same be can true for our lives!

So many times we forget about those people who were once very active in our parish. Where are they now? Thisis a perfect time of year to remember them and make an effort to mention them in your prayers and then callthem to see how they’re doing and what’s going on in their lives. As Pope Francis has said so many times; invitethose Catholics that have fallen away from the church… “Catholics Come Home!”

A very special “thank you” to Millie Pajarillo for her talk to the community about the 2014 CSA Appeal – Sharethe Joy! Millie shared information about the CSA and how it embraces the charitable, spiritual and educationalneeds of thousands of individual families, helping to unite our various parishes into one diocesan family. Our goalat Sacred Heart here in Williamson is $5,720.00.

Please consider making a donation to this Appeal. Let’s do it again and surpass our goal for 2014!ADORATION of the BLESSED SACRAMENT: Begins this Friday from 12 Noon to 6:30 p.m. A sign up

sheet is on the table in the back of the church. You may sign up to be an "adorer" which allows you toschedule yourself to pray before the very presence of Our Lord, exposed in the monstrance. It means thatyou can have some time alone with Jesus to recite your favorite prayers, read the bible, contemplate actsof faith, hope, charity, thanksgiving, reparation, pray a rosary or do whatever type of prayerful devotionthat suits you before Our Lord. You can just sit and say nothing simply keeping Him company, just as you

would with a dear friend.Mass will be celebrated Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 6:30 p.m.

VOLUNTEER & MAKE A DIFFERENCE "There are no volunteers in the Church; only people responding to the call of discipleship."

Janie Hunt, President of the Ladies Altar Society, distributed a questionnaire to all the ladies that were presentlast weekend. Please take the time to fill out the survey and return it. Your comments and suggestions arevalued and needed in order for the Ladies Altar Society to continue to service the church’s needs. If you didn’t geta copy of the survey – see Janie and get one. The meeting has been postponed until the first weekend of June togive everyone a chance to complete the survey and attend the meeting. Your participation is very important! Please remember, all Ladies are members of the Altar Society!

Our First Communicants:

Prevaga Jonkam-Njpany son of Tumi Tafon and Collette Jonkam

Eli Tan son of Max and Len Tan

Ferdinand Edralin, & Jr. Christian Edralin – Sons of Ferdinand and Rosie Edralin

Please continue to pray for these four young people as they prepare to receive the Sacrament of HolyCommunion for the first time Sunday, June 22, 2014. Special blessings to them. A special “Thank You” to theirparents who are preparing their children for this great day. Also, thanks to Julie Miles, all the catechists andvolunteers who have worked so hard to teach the meaning and graces that flow from this Sacrament, thiswonderful day when they receive Jesus in the Eucharist for the first time.

A big heartfelt “Thank You” Lonnie!

We don’t often see the impact our day-to-day generosities have on other people. When we do, it’s a gift. Because of Lonnie’s love for the earth and what it can produce… Sacred Heart Church has a wonderful CommunityGarden located on the lot adjacent to the handicap parking area. Lonnie has cultivated, tilled, plowed and made 12 gardening boxes that have been adopted by severalparishioners. The gardens are rich with black soil – a gardener’s delight! Our gardens will become our oasis and our pride. We’ll use trowels, hand pruners, shovels, potting soil, and hard work. Through our endeavor tomake these gardens thrive, we will be strengthened and encouraged. It will be our challenge to take thesegardens, tend to them as if they were our children, water and feed it, watch them grow and give us unendingjoy. Attached is a visual walk through our Community Garden. Thank you Lonnie for all you do for SacredHeart Church.

Change And TrustBy Gini Andrews

Life for most of us is not a steady-paced stroll through time, with a beginning, a middle, and an end, like awell-constructed play. It’s filled with change. We change schools, careers, homes, relationships, and “images”almost as casually as our great grandparents changed horses.

Not that all change is by choice. Tragedy strikes and our lives change forever. A marriage dissolves, and a woman,linked to her husband by a thousand threads, finds those threads snapped and wonders who she is. Cherishedfriendships change in character or another person’s choice cuts directly across our own, bringing us where wenever wanted to be.

A career change, voluntary or involuntary, may disrupt our lives, leaving us searching for the chain that holds thebeads of our lives together, Financial losses sweep away our props. Even geographic change can be disorienting.

And always there is the unchangeable, the irreversible. We long to go back and begin again, to undo our mistakes.Impossible, of course. When we pull out the nails of our failures, the ugly holes remain.

For the believer, then, the question is vital: Is our God the Lord of change? Will he be with us in change, especiallywhen it strains our trust to its limit? Ironically, while we trust him with our eternal fate, we may find it difficult totrust him for next month’s car payment, a new relationship, or an unexpected turn in our lives. The assumptionthat the Almighty is unacquainted with the complex people he has made keeps us hanging onto bits and pieces ofour lives, deceived by Satan’s ancient lie that God does not want the best for us. In a threatened world, in the kaleidoscopic whirl of our life patterns, it can be enormously reassuring to re-mindourselves that God is unchanging: “I the Lord do not change” (Malachi3:6). “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday andtoday and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).

Do Not ForgetBy Joni Eareckson Tada

The Israelites witnessed miracle after miracle, even as the shackles of slavery fell off their ankles. They wereprotected by the goodness of God from the Egyptian plagues and were led by his goodness of Egypt. But the most miraculous display of God’s goodness was when he shored up the waves of the Red Sea to open apath for their escape. I can picture the Israelites liking up like bewildered tourists at the water, which rose likeglass skyscrapers on either side. “Wow, look at that...God is amazing!” they must have exclaimed.

If you want to hear how thrilled they were, read Exodus 15. The people were so excited that they went on fortwenty-one verses shouting hosannas to the Lord. But exactly three short verses later, in Exodus 15:24, their joyturned sour. It seems that for three days “they traveled in the desert without finding water…. So the peoplegrumbled.

It was as if the miracle of the Red Sea had never happened. The excitement of the Israelites’ songs and praisesfaded all too quickly when they ran into a little trouble. And the irony is, they grumbled about water! Didn’t theyre-call that God could do wonderful things with water? They had just watched him hold back a whole sea of it. Yetthey couldn’t trust God for his goodness even for three short days. How quickly they forgot,

Mark your Calendar! Sunday, May 25th after Mass – Social Hall

Yet, how quickly we forget. We are slow to remember God’s goodness, yet quick to complain. We doubt theprotection and provision of our God. Perhaps we ought to take the advice God gave those Israelites inDeuteronomy 4:9: “Only be careful and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forger the things your eyeshave seen.” That’s one verse we ought not to forget.