FEBRUARY 28, 2010

 MAY THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS BE LOVED EVERYWHERE

 MASS NTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

SATURDAY-FEBRUARY 27-LENTEN WEEKDAY

 4:30 Andrew Babick by The Family

SUNDAY-FEBRUARY 28-SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT

 8:00 Special Intentions for Pauline Johnson by Elaine & Mike Grant

10:30 Julie Alteri by Mary Myers

MONDAY-MARCH 1-LENTEN WEEKDAY

7:00 PM-City-wide Mission-Holy Family Church

TUESDAY-MARCH 2-LENTEN WEEKDAY

7:00 PM-City-wide Mission-St. Patrick’s Church

WEDNESDAY-MARCH 3-LENTEN WEEKDAY-SAINT KATHARINE DREXEL, VIRGIN

7:00 PM-City-wide Mission-Our Lady of the Sacred Heart-Living & Deceased Parishioners

THURSDAY-MARCH 4-LENTEN WEEKDAY-SAINT CASIMIR

 7:00 PM-City-wide Mission St. Anthony’s Church-Thomas Loftus by Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Marzano

FRIDAY-MARCH 5-LENTEN WEEKDAY

 8:15 Phil Patenaude by Wife Rosemary

SATURDAY-MARCH 6-LENTEN WEEKDAY

 4:30 Deacon David Hennigan by Dottie Byrnes

SUNDAY-MARCH 7-THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT

 8:00 Julie Alteri by Frank & Josephine Natali

10:30 Robyn Smith by George & Mary Fitzgerald

 In Peace with Christ-Eleanor B. Kozlowski

 Weekly Activities

Monday-10:00 am Legion of Mary in D.H.

Tuesday-7:00 pm Bingo-Bob Keggins’ Team

                6:45 pm Choir in Church

Wednesday-7:00 pm Crafters in the School

Thursday-7:00 pm Big Bingo in the School Gym

Friday-11:30 am Soup & Stations

Marriage Matters– Forgiveness requires humility.     

Forgiveness is founded first of all on the humble acknowledgement that I am not perfect and I am a sinner like anyone else. Jesus invites us to become aware of this when he challenged the Scribes and Pharisees who brought to him a woman caught in adultery. The motivation to forgive is that we too need mercy and forgiveness. How easy is it for you to forgive your spouse?

An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. If you make a mistake, try to make a solution!

“Soup & Stations” during Lent will be held in the church on Fridays, soup at 11:30 am in Dostie Hall, Stations begin at noon.

 LENTEN MISSION-WATERTOWN, NY

Theme:

HIS FULNESS FOR OUR EMPTINESS

-I came that they may have life and have it to the full (John 10:20)

Objective: In this Lenten Mission, we hope to enter more deeply into the wonderful mystery of our desperate yearning for fullness that we all experience in the depths of our being. This emptiness we all feel pervades every fiber of our being and restlessly seeks fullness-and will not settle for anything short of fullness. We will see a matching yearning in Christ our Lord himself to fill that emptiness. We will seek to gain more understanding of just how Christ himself becomes the fullness for which we long.

Autobiography:My name is Fr. Simione R. Volavola MSC. I was born and raised in Fiji. I became a professed member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1993. I was ordained priest in 2001. In the same year, I was assigned as parochial vicar to Queen of Peace Parish, Marshall Islands. In 2005, I taught moral theology in the Pacific Regional Seminary, Fiji. In 2006, I served in Assumption Parish in Fiji. In Feb. 2007, I arrived in Holy Family Church in Nazareth, Pennsylvania & have been serving here since as parochial vicar. I look forward to coming to Watertown to meet with God’s beloved children there and to share with them Christ’s love for us expressed & fulfilled in the longings of his own human heart.

 City Wide Lenten Mission @ 7:00 pm Nightly

Monday, March 1 at Church of the Holy Family

                                                   129 Winthrop St.

Tuesday, March 2 at St. Patrick’s Church

                                                    123 S. Massey St.

Wednesday, March 3 at Our Lady of the Sacred

                           Heart               320 W. Lynde St.

Thursday, March 4 at St. Anthony’s Church       

                                                   850 Arsenal St.

 Food for the Needy-Sunday, March 7 is canned food Sunday. Please place non-perishable food items at the foot of the Altar. Thank you for your generosity.

 A LIST OF FAMILY MEMBERS BEING SENT TO IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN:  Sfc. Aaron Burns, PFC Jeffrey Minnick, Joshua Hayes,  PFC Matthew Smart, Lt. Col. Frank Walton, Warrant Officer Sean Byard, PFC Joe Salincs Jr., Major John Walton, Major Kelley Hissong, Master Sgt. Gino Giardini, Sgt. Brian Wallace, 1SGT. Donald J. Spock.  PLEASE PRAY FOR THEM.  

 IHC Wrestling is hosting a Spaghetti dinner Fundraiser to be held at the Italian American Civic Association on Thursday, March 4 from 5:30 pm-8:00 pm. Tickets are $7.00 and can be purchased from Immaculate Heart Central School by calling 788-4670. Tickets can also be purchased from any IHC wrestlers or at the door. Take-outs will be available. For more information, contact Ed Doldo at 788-2875.

 Kindergarten Registration

Registration and screening for children who will be entering kindergarten at Immaculate Heart Central Primary School in September 2010, will be held on Thursday, March 18, 2010. Anyone planning to register a kindergarten student is asked to call 788-7011 for an appointment.

To be eligible for kindergarten next year, a child must be 5 years old on or before December 1. Parents should bring their child’s birth and baptismal certificates and immunization records.

 Fasting during Lent-In the fifth century, St. Peter Chrysologus wrote: “Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. So if you pray, fast; if you fast, show mercy; if you want your petition to be heard, hear the petition of others. If you do not close your ear to others, you open God’s ear to yourself.” We take the initiative during Lent to curb our desires & exercise an opportunity to put aside what we may want so that we can be reminded of God. Every time we desire that from which we are fasting, we are reminded of why we chose to give it up: to think about God. And, when we give something up, we have more to give away, to help a brother or sister in need because we are not using something for ourselves.

                                                                                                                                                                          Quotes from our Founder of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Fr. Jules Chevalier.

   Take Heart

From the cradle to the cross, gentleness and strength appear in Jesus in an incomparably striking way.

How does my personality embrace “gentleness”? … “strength”…? Which of these qualities is “at home” in me?

 Make your Voice Heard

This year it is more important than ever to join the New York State Bishops in Albany for the New York State Catholic Conference Public Policy Day. Join over 1,000 Catholics from across New York State to support and give voice to the:

2010 New York State Catholic Conference 2010 Legislative Agenda You can learn more about the 2010 Legislative Agenda by visiting the New York State Catholic Conference website: www.nyscatholic.org. Please plan on being in Albany on March 9. Let your legislators know that you support public policies that respect the dignity of human life, support families and work towards the common good. You can register for the day at: www.nyscatholic.org. Once you are registered you will be contacted by a representative from Catholic Charities in Ogdensburg with additional information. For more information, you are welcome to call Catholic Charities at 315-393-2255.

Divine Mercy Sunday Celebration will be celebrated in Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, W. Lynde St. on Sunday, April 11th at 3:00 pm. On Good Friday, April 2nd, also at 3:00 pm, the devotion will begin with the praying of the Chaplet in the Church. Pope John Paul II declared Divine Mercy Sunday in the year 2000 and we are encouraged to celebrate the Feast of Mercy. We are all called to bring home fallen away Catholics & there couldn’t be a better time to return to the church because of the promise Jesus made concerning this devotion. Jesus said “any soul that would go to confession & receive communion without a mortal sin, on that feast day, would receive total forgiveness for their sins & punishment”. Jesus said “Let no soul fear to draw near Me” (in confession) The Greater the Sinner the more he is entitled to Gods Mercy!! (No sin is too great to be forgiven) For more info on how to prepare for Mercy Sunday, call Judy @315-783-7349 or 315-788-2388 or visit www.divinemercysunday.com.

Big Bingo-Thursday, March 4 at 7:00 pm in the school gym. Over $3,000 will be given away. 1 share the Wealth game with a 60/40% split. 1 Progressive. Jackpot game of $850. Bell Jar Tickets & Queen of Hearts. Concession Stand. Doors open at 6:00 pm

 Readings for the Week of February 28, 2010

Sunday: Gn 15:5-12, 17-18/Phil 3:17—4:1or 3:20—4:1/Lk 9:28b-36

Monday: Dn 9:4b-10/Lk 6:36-38

Tuesday: Is 1:10, 16-20/Mt 23:1-12

Wednesday: Jer 18:18-20/Mt 20:17-28

Thursday: Jer 17:5-10/Lk 16:19-31

Friday:  Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a/Mt 21:33-43, 45-46

Saturday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20/Lk 15:1-3,11-32

Next Sunday: Ex 3:1-8a, 13-15/1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12/Lk 13:1-9

LECTORS FOR MARCH 6 & 7

4:30 Jay Storey

8:00-Jean Doell   10:30 Ernest Reape

God’s Plan for Giving-Thank you for your

Generosity in supporting our parish:

February 14, 2010  - $4,722.52

Fuel—$1,018.99

Eastern Europe—$592.70