Rev. Msgr. George A. Majoros, M.Div., M.S., Pastor

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Partnering Parishes Mass Schedule

Sunday

Sacred Heart (Vigil) 4:00PM, 7:30AM St. Hedwig Chapel 9:15AM (Rosary before Mass)

St. Charles 10:00AM, 4:00PM

Weekdays

Sacred Heart 8:30AM Mon, Tues (Rosary AFTER Mass)

St. Charles 8:30AM Thurs, Fri and the 1st Saturday of the month

Holy Days

St. Charles (Vigil) 7:00PM , 8:30AM Sacred Heart 12 Noon, 7:00PM

Sacrament of Reconciliation Sacred Heart 3:00-3:45PM Saturday St. Hedwig Chapel 9:00AM Sunday St. Charles 6:30-7:30PM on the Thursday before 1st Friday St. Charles 9:15-10:00AM on the First Saturday of the month

Sacred Heart Parish 316 East Broadway Avenue ~ Clifton Heights, PA 19018

Parish Phone 610-623-0409 Parish Website www.sacredheart-cliftonheights.net Parish Fax 610-623-2926 Parish E-mail sacredheartchurch@rcn.com

Rectory Office Hours Monday - Friday 8:30AM -4:00PM

Religious Education Office At St. Charles 610-259-4389 Contact: Lori Farrell

FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT ● MARCH 26, 2017

Daily Masses for Lent

Sacred Heart Church Mondays and Tuesdays -8:30A.M. Wednesday Evenings - 7:00P.M St. Charles Borromeo Church

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays -8:30A.M

Stations of the Cross

7:00P.M. Thursdays - St. Charles Borromeo Church 7:00P.M. Fridays -Sacred Heart Church

The Sacrament of Penance

(Confessions) for Lent

3:00-3:45P.M. Saturdays before the Vigil Mass at Sacred Heart Church 6:15- 6:45P.M. Wednesdays before Evening Mass at Sacred Heart Church 9:15-10:00A.M. Saturday, April 1, 2017 at St. Charles Borromeo Church 6:30-7:30P.M. Thursday, April 6, 2017 at St. Charles Borromeo Church 1:00- 2:00P.M & 6:30 -7:30P.M. - Monday, April 10, 2017 at Sacred Heart Church

MISSION STATEMENT

To live and grow as a church in the Roman Catholic tradition

by devotion to God in worship, doctrine, ministry,

and loving service to each other and to the people entrusted to us.

Bulletin Deadline Friday at Noon

Cleaning The Church For Easter Many hands make light work! We are looking for a brigade of people to clean the church on Monday, April 10th at 10AM . Please call the rectory to sign up!!!

Sacred Heart Church Saturday, March 25

4:00PM (Vigil ) + Edward Burns & Edward

Burns Of daughter, Mary

Sunday, March 26

7:30AM + Marilyn Sonderman Of Connie

Kleinschmidt

Monday, March 27

8:30AM + John Pecko Of. Lillian Pecko &

family

Tuesday, March 28

8:30AM + Living & Deceased Members of

Sacred Heart

Wednesday, March 29

7:00PM + Jack Hoy, Jr. Of Lillian Pecko &

family

Saturday, April 1

4:00PM (Vigil ) + Rose & Joe Mitchell & Chippy

DeCecco Of Family

Sunday, April 2

7:30AM + Grandparents of the Grassa &

Kaminski families Of Henry Grassa & family

St. Hedwig’s Chapel

Sunday, March 26

9:15AM + Hedy Gardocki Of Kathy & Sam

Oller & family

Sunday, April 2

9:15AM + Joseph & Lillian Foremny Of

Susan DiCesare

You are encouraged to participate in Holy Mass and to receive the Most Holy Eucharist daily, to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Penance) ) and to participate in our parish Lenten devotions. 092-2

Mass Intentions

The Following Have Asked For Our Prayers Bill Becht - Marie Blumenkrantz - Julian John D’Orazio - James Fitzpatrick - Robb Flick- Baby Flynn - Christine Hanson - Patricia Kaeser- Kaitlyn Klein - Helen Langley Patrice Laut - Joanne Marks -Jackie McBride -William Papa -Kevin Perkins - Kathy Pivnickas - Fran Ryn - Jean Sherwood - Tracey Sodermann - Catherine Spinelli - Ted Szyszkiewski - Emilie Wrzesniewski- Helen & Al Yakas.

Ministers of the Eucharist and Lectors April 1-2

4:00PM DeVitis/Leoncio/Barrett 7:30AM J. Lenski/Wufsus Counters: Team A

Mass Celebrants Weekend of March 25-26 Sacred Heart 4:00PM (Vigil) Msgr. Majoros 7:30AM Fr. McKenzie, OSA St. Hedwig’s Chapel 9:15AM Fr. Bielecki, OSA St. Charles Borromeo 10:00AM Msgr. Majoros 4:00PM Fr. Sperger

Mass Celebrants Weekend of April 1-2 Sacred Heart 4:00PM (Vigil) Fr. Sperger 7:30AM Fr. McKenzie St. Hedwig’s Chapel 9:15AM Fr. Bielecki, OSA St. Charles Borromeo 10:00AM Msgr. Majoros 4:00PM Fr. DeGrassa

* Mass Celebrants Are Subject To Change

Candles For The Month of March

Sacred Heart Church +Vincent Leonard & Helen Leonard Bowen

St. Hedwig Chapel + Joseph Bush

Sacred Heart Church Wednesday Evening Mass During Lent

Sacred Heart will have a Mass on Wednesday Evenings at 7:00PM during the Season Of Lent.

Stations Of The Cross Stations of the Cross will be held every Friday evening at 7:00PM during the Season of Lent.

St. Hedwig’s Chapel Friday Evenings at 7:00 PM

Gorzkie Zale: Following 9:15 AM Mass

Encounter Lent With The 42nd Annual CRS Rice Bowl

This year’s Rice Bowl seeks to open a path to a culture of encounter through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. This Na-

tionwide Lenten program gives people of all ages a tangible way to respond to human

suffering through compassionate action. Find stories of hope, recipes, and daily reflections for each of the six weeks of

Lent by visiting www.crsricebowl.org.

Please Give Generously To This Very

Important Appeal.

Please Support The

Catholic Charities Appeal

We ask you to look deep in your heart and be as generous as you can to help us reach our $12.5 million goal. So many people are counting on us. So we’re counting on you to give hope this year to those who need it the most. 092-3

Sacred Heart Parish Our Catholic Charities Goal

For 2017 $8, 600.00

Help Us Make Our Goal!

Fast and Abstinence The Bishops of the US prescribe, as minimal obligation, that all persons who are 14 years of age and older are bound to abstain from eating meat on all the Fridays of Lent and Good Friday. Further, all persons 18 years of age and older, up to and including their 59th birthday, are bound to fast by limiting themselves to a single full meal on Ash Wednesday and on Good Friday, while the other two meals on those days are to be light.

The Fourth Week of Lent

With this week, we begin the second part of Lent. We ask more and more deeply to be with and like Jesus. We desire to celebrate the approaching mystery of our salvation with greater freedom and greater joy. Each day's gospel will now be from the Gospel according to John. We can't avoid the feeling of being in a court room for a grand trial. There are "witnesses" and "testimony." It is a battle between the forces of Darkness and the Light. The opposition to Jesus mounts. It is inevitable that he will be killed. But, we know that the ultimate Judgment in the trial is against Sin and Death. We grow in gratitude and grace as we experience more deeply that this is all "for me."

Lenten Patterns: Practicing Penance When you sprain your ankle, part of the healing process will involve physical therapy. It's tender, and perhaps it is swollen. It may be important to put ice on it first, to reduce the inflammation. You may want to wrap it and elevate it and stay off of it. Then you will need to start moving it and then walking on it, and eventually, as the injury is healed, you will want to start exercising it, so that it will be stronger than it was before, so that you won't as easily injure it again. Penance is a remedy, a medicine, a spiritual therapy for the healing you desire. The Lord always forgives us. We are forgiven without condition. But complete healing takes time. With serious sin or with bad habits we've invested years in forming, we need to develop a therapeutic care plan to let the healing happen. To say "I'm sorry" or to simply make a "resolution" to change a long established pattern, will have the same bad result as wishing a sprained ankle would heal, while still walking on it. Lent is a wonderful time to name what sinful, unhealthy, self-centered patterns need changing and to act against them by coming up with a strategy. Lasting healing needs the practice of penance. Putting It All Together - Alone and With Others In the end, the prayer of St. Augustine places us in the right spirit for Lent: O Lord, our Lord, you have created us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. Lent is indeed how God draws us home, as individuals. But, it is also a very communal journey. We never journey alone, no matter how "lonely" we may feel. We are always journeying together. If we can experience our journey in communion with others, it makes it so much clearer that we are on a journey together. When you can share your experience with even one other close friend, or with your regular worshiping community, you can enjoy and share the support and environment that allows grace to flourish. Let us pray for each other on this journey, especially those who need and desire a change of heart on this pilgrimage to Easter joy.

Lenten Prayer Compassionate and Powerful God, you have always guarded your people from the power of evil. You teach us to rely upon the guidance of the Holy Spirit as we enter this Lenten season of mercy – of prayer, fasting, and giving. Make me more aware of how close you are when I struggle to do what is right and just. Fill me with your grace, that I might be strengthened to walk in the footsteps of Jesus.

Prepare…………..

PIEROGI ~ March 27 - April 7

The price per dozen is only $7.00! PLACE YOUR ORDER by calling

Bill & Barbara Schwindt at 610-

623-7229 or the Rectory at 610-

623-0409 after 9AM. Remember

to place your order EARLY!

Pierogi Flour Donations

We would appreciate donations of Gold Medal or Pillsbury flour.

Donations may be brought to the rectory or placed in the vestibule of the church. CASH is also a great help in defray-ing costs. Cash donations can be put in an envelope and dropped in the Sunday collection basket marked “pierogi.”

FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP Prayerfully consider your Offertory Gift as your act

of praise to God for all HE has given you.

Sacred Heart- March 19, 2017 Sunday Envelopes 68 $1,574.00 Loose 157.00 TOTAL 1,731.00 Military Services 371.00 Loose 92.00 Latin America 30.00 St. Hedwig - March 19, 2017 Sunday Envelopes 32 $669.00 Loose 90.00 TOTAL 759.00 Military Services 223.00 Loose 19.00

2nd Collection Today: Maintenance

Next Weekend: Rice Bowl God Bless Those Who Are Great Stewards

To Our Parish!

FORMED

Featured in March

My Beloved Son Meditations For Lent Bishop Robert Barron offers five sermons on the spiritual discipline we must cultivate in the Lenten season, a discipline centered in Christ. These meditations cover topics such as finding our identity in God, prayer as the key to mission, our thirst for God, how to end our alienation from God, and how to joyfully embrace the way of hap-piness.

and Have a Lent to Remember with Forgiven No matter what you've done, no matter how long you've been away, Jesus is waiting for you in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

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Cleaning The Church For Easter Saturday, April 1, at 8:30AM (if funeral 7:30)

Call David if any questions 610. 485 1274

St. Hedwig’s Easter Food Drive We are accepting donations of boxed and canned foods or monetary donations. See Philip Tarashuk or Gina Dubinski in the back of the church. Thank you for your generosity.

St. Charles Happenings Ephesians: Discover Your Inheritance One of the most remarkable things about our Faith is that by God’s grace, we have become his adopted sons and daugh-ters. In your day-to-day life, what does it mean to be a son or daughter of God—an heir to his promises and blessings? When you sit in the pews each Sunday, what does it mean to you to be part of his family, the Church? To help you uncover this meaning, St. Charles Borromeo Parish will begin Ephesians: Discover Your Inheritance on March 29th at 7PM. For more information or to register contact Suzanne Judge at 610 626 4687 or sjudge.judge@aol.com . You will not only discover your unique gifts and calling as a member of Christ’s Church, you will also help us to grow in fellowship as a parish as we grow closer to Christ together. St. Charles Ladies Auxiliary Fashion Show The annual St. Charles Ladies Auxiliary Fashion Show is just around the corner! This years theme is “Fashion Magic” And will be held on Sunday, April 23rd, from 1PM to 5PM, at McCall Golf and Country Club. Planning is actively under-way and more details will be available soon!

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Annual Archdiocesan Mass & Reception Will be held on Saturday, April 1, 10:30am – 12:00pm at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul, 1723 Race St, Philadelphia All are welcome to attend this Mass honoring the gifts of persons with disabilities, the Deaf community, family, friends and caregivers is at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., will be the principal celebrant and homilist. There will be a light reception immediately following the Mass.

Camp Veritas 2017 Camp Veritas is a one-week play-and-pray sleep away summer camp for teens going into 7th to 12th grades. It will be held at three USA locations: July 16-22 at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY, July 23-29 at Summit Lake Camp in Emmitsburg, MD and August 13-19 at Camp Lakota in Wurtsboro, NY. The enrollment price is $450 per camper, per week. Early bird rates paid by April 1, 2017 are $400 for all sites. No additional charge for dance and basketball programs at Mount Saint Mary College only. Volunteers over 18 years old are needed and free. For more information visit www.campveritas.com Little Sister Of The Poor Spring Concert Two Great Irish Groups ~ Scythian, the featured band and Runa, the opening act. Concert held at Villanova University’s Jake Nevin Field House on Saturday, April 1, with doors open at 6PM. General admission is $50/person and includes food and beverages. For more information please visit our website www.littlesistersofthepoorphiladelphia.org or call Catherine at 215-729-5153.. Benefits Holy Family Home. An Evening With Paul Walsh at St. Joe’s Collingdale Please join the Padre Pio Prayer Group of St. Joseph and the parish community of St. Joseph in Collingdale as they welcome Mr. Paul Walsh to share his miraculous story and experiences with St. Padre Pio. We will gather in the Church of St. Joseph in Collingdale for the 6PM Celebration of the Eucharist on Sunday, April 2nd with Mr. Walsh sharing his story after Mass. There is no charge for the evening but good will offerings are appreciated. Footsteps of Polish Saints ~ Pilgrimage To Poland Join Fr. Louis Kolenkiewicz For 12 days June 16-27, 2017. $3,595.00 includes airfare, excellent hotels, buffet breakfast and dinner daily plus four special dinners with wine, all admissions and sightseeing. For more information contact: sylvia@select-intl.com or call 800-842-4842. Or pick up a brochure with itinerary and registration form in the vestibule of the church

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CONVENT OF DIVINE LOVE HOLY SPIRIT

ADORATION SISTERS

THE PINK SISTERS

A LIMITED EDITION KEEPSAKE BOOK

Being With God ~ Being for the World Day after day, people of all faiths walk into the Chapel to witness the power of the Pink Sister’s relationship with God. The Pink Sisters are a cloistered contemplative missionary congregation, living in community, whose lives are entirely dedicated to contemplative life, Perpetual Adoration, and embracing the world in prayer. A world of mystery, a world of grace and beauty, a hidden life, often misunderstood, unveiled for the first time in a book of intimate photographs and revealing personal stories. Seventy pages with luminous photographs, personal quotes and favorite Psalms bound in a premium linen hard cover 8”x 8” book with dust jacket.

$50.00 Donation

100% of your donation will go to the Pink Sisters allowing them to continue their prayerful vigil on behalf of the world.

Books are currently available. You may call 215-567-0123 to place your order.

Please allow 2 weeks for delivery.

Archdiocese of Philadelphia Television Mass Sunday mornings at 5:30AM—WPVI-TV Channel 6

The Archdiocese thanks Channel 6 for its generosity in

broadcasting the Television Mass.

Rediscover the Love in Your Marriage Retrouvaille offers a welcoming and loving space to couples who have been living with the misery of a failing marriage. Retrouvaille offers hope: that it is not too late, hope of a different and better marriage. The next program begins on the weekend of April 21 at the Family Life Center in Malvern, PA. Go to www.HelpOurMarriage.com or call 215-766-3944. All inquiries are kept strictly confidential.