Sacred Heart Virtual Mass
COVID-19 is preventing us from gathering physically at Sacred Heart. To reach all our parishioners and others who want to celebrate Mass, you can join with us virtually. The video below is the celebration of the fifth Sunday of Lent.
3/28/2020
Dear Parishioners,
I pray this finds you all safe and starting to settle in to a “new normal”. This past week still finds me trying my best to keep up with electronic communications: emails, text messages, Zoom meetings, as well as trying to post Mass and Stations of the Cross. I am grateful to our parish staff who continually strive to think of ways to keep us all connected and offer all of you prayer opportunities.
I am also grateful to those of you who have agreed to help reach out to our parishioners to keep the Spirit of love moving between all of us – especially to those who might not be linked to us with technology! If you would like to volunteer for this ministry, please call Brigid at the office number (402-451-5755) which is forwarded to her at home, since we closed the office this week to do our part to help “flatten the curve” of spread. I shared with some friends last week that I was predicting that I would know someone who was exposed to the virus by the end of this week. Unfortunately, that came true. I learned that a very dear priest friend of mine, Fr. Jim Golka from Grand Island, anointed a woman who ended up dying and then it was confirmed that she had COVID-19. Fr. Jim is now quarantined for 14 days. Please join me in praying that this amazing priest does not contract the virus!
I really think it is important that we do all we can to grow in our spiritual lives at this time. God is a source of comfort and peace, and JOY! This is what the world needs at this time! I am not going to share my prediction for next week, because I don’t want it to come true… but let’s all realize that this pandemic is most likely going to get worse for us here in NE before it gets better. That is where our FAITH will become ever more important! Let us not allow ourselves to be bound tight by fear and anxiety. As Jesus says in this weekend’s gospel, “Untie him.” Let us untie ourselves and each other through the power of our faith in the Paschal Mystery: the belief that NEW LIFE springs from death. Please know that some of the silly things that I do at the end of our weekend Masses and daily Masses are not to show irreverence, but rather to remind us all to hold on to JOY!
Next Sunday we will invite you all to come to our Sacred Heart campus to receive Palms. I will have more instructions for how we ask you to do that in next week’s letter, but just know that it will be a “drive-thru” scenario.
Blessings,
Fr. Dave
Dear Parishioners,
I pray this finds you all safe and starting to settle in to a “new normal”. This past week still finds me trying my best to keep up with electronic communications: emails, text messages, Zoom meetings, as well as trying to post Mass and Stations of the Cross. I am grateful to our parish staff who continually strive to think of ways to keep us all connected and offer all of you prayer opportunities.
I am also grateful to those of you who have agreed to help reach out to our parishioners to keep the Spirit of love moving between all of us – especially to those who might not be linked to us with technology! If you would like to volunteer for this ministry, please call Brigid at the office number (402-451-5755) which is forwarded to her at home, since we closed the office this week to do our part to help “flatten the curve” of spread. I shared with some friends last week that I was predicting that I would know someone who was exposed to the virus by the end of this week. Unfortunately, that came true. I learned that a very dear priest friend of mine, Fr. Jim Golka from Grand Island, anointed a woman who ended up dying and then it was confirmed that she had COVID-19. Fr. Jim is now quarantined for 14 days. Please join me in praying that this amazing priest does not contract the virus!
I really think it is important that we do all we can to grow in our spiritual lives at this time. God is a source of comfort and peace, and JOY! This is what the world needs at this time! I am not going to share my prediction for next week, because I don’t want it to come true… but let’s all realize that this pandemic is most likely going to get worse for us here in NE before it gets better. That is where our FAITH will become ever more important! Let us not allow ourselves to be bound tight by fear and anxiety. As Jesus says in this weekend’s gospel, “Untie him.” Let us untie ourselves and each other through the power of our faith in the Paschal Mystery: the belief that NEW LIFE springs from death. Please know that some of the silly things that I do at the end of our weekend Masses and daily Masses are not to show irreverence, but rather to remind us all to hold on to JOY!
Next Sunday we will invite you all to come to our Sacred Heart campus to receive Palms. I will have more instructions for how we ask you to do that in next week’s letter, but just know that it will be a “drive-thru” scenario.
Blessings,
Fr. Dave