Sacred Heart Parish

Notice: Going forward, Mass Registration will be opened up on Mondays at 4 pm, and closing Thursday nights at 11:59 pm.  

Additionally, Mass registration will be facilitated through Flocknote instead of Google Forms.  Subscribers to Flocknote will also receive an email and/or text, and can directly sign up through the form provided.  All parishioners can register for Mass via this website, as well.  All parishioners will receive
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Mass Times

Weekdays:        Noon  (no reservation required)
Saturday:          5:00 PM
Sunday:             8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, Noon
Streaming:       10:00 AM  Sunday 

Confessions

Saturdays:        3:00-4:00 PM in the Parish Center 

Daily Reflection | 25 January AD 2021 | SS. Timothy and Titus 


“Who are my mother and my brothers?”
And looking around at those seated in the circle he said,
'Here are my mother and my brothers.
For whoever does the will of God
is my brother and sister and mother.'”
Mark 3:34-35

The lead-in to this excerpt relates how a woman among Jesus' followers cries out in praise of His Mother Mary, with a soaring compliment for being His Mother.  Jesus' reaction isn't what we might expect, but it's also not what we fear.  Many who do not understand our devotion to the Blessed Mother have pointed to Jesus' response ("Who are my mother and my brothers?") as if He is wantonly insulting His own flesh and blood for someone else's remark.  What is clear to Catholic wisdom, however, is that the Lord is, in fact, presenting Mary as the model for all the faithful.  Our relation to Christ runs only as deep as we conform our will to His;  Mary did this par excellence and Jesus points this out, as if to say, "Sainthood is not for my Mother alone.  Anyone who does My will receives the dignity of one who were my own mother, my own brother.  

Another difficulty the faithful might have is with the use of the term "brothers".  Jesus, we are certain, had no siblings.  Mary, we are certain, remained a virgin for life.  The greatest proof of this is the fact that He entrusted Mary to a stranger (the Apostle John) instead of the supposed "brothers" who were related to his Mother.  In Hebrew, however, the word "brothers" is not limited to having the same biological mother and father.  It includes cousins as well.  James the Lesser was a "brother" of Jesus, who was the son of Mary of Clopas, who was the sister-in-law of Saint Joseph.  So James and Jesus were cousins, not brothers in the strict sense. 

Today's Saints

St Titus - January 26th

Born: 1st century AD
Died:  AD 96 at Gortyn, Crete
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Reason: First bishop of Crete; Companion and disciple of St. Paul; Tremendous missionary work, especially to Corinth; Recipient of epistle from Paul which is part of the New Testament canon.                   
Patron: U.S. Army Chaplain Corps., Island of Crete
         

In your kindness, please pray for the eternal repose of

Edward Schmitt
Gene Gaetano
Margaret Picciuolo
Salvatore Cipriano
Paula Maas