This Week's Bulletin

                            Week of March 7, 2010

                                                           GREETINGS FROM FR. BILL 

Please Help If You Can: As we enter the final quarter of school this year at Our Lady of the Valley School, we find ourselves with a deficit

of over $30,000.00 even after our fundraising and subsidies from the archdiocese and parishes.  This deficit is due to a decreased

enrollment.  We realize that we have to increase enrollment for next school year to break even.   For now, we need your help.  We need to

get through this year before we can begin thinking about next year.  If you can make a contribution to our school to help keep Catholic

education alive in the Valley, please use one of the white envelopes near the church exits and please be as generous as you can. 

Annual Clergy Conference: Every winter all the priests of the archdiocese get together for a few days of continuing education.  This year

all the priests working in Alaska (Fairbanks, Juneau and Anchorage) will gather together for three days.  Our conference will begin this

Monday afternoon and conclude on Wednesday evening.  I will be saying daily Mass on Monday, Thursday and Friday here at the parish.

Deacon Dave will be leading communion services on Tuesday and Wednesday.   

Spring Plant Sale: If you are the type of gardener who begins your plants from seeds, would you plant a few extra to donate for our

Spring Plant Sale.  The proceeds from this sale are used for landscaping around the church.  Also, the Knights of Columbus need

different types of vegetable plants to plant in the raised beds on the side of the church.  All the produce from the Knights’ garden goes to

the Wasilla Food Pantry. 

Lenten Penance Service: A week from Tuesday, March 16th, at 7:00 PM, we will be celebrating a Communal Service of Reconciliation

here at Sacred Heart Parish.  We will have a number of priests here to help with confessions.  Please take advantage of this time as a

preparation for Easter.

 Pictorial Directory: Thanks to the response of a few wonderful people, we now have our core team that will help in the organization of a

Parish Pictorial Directory.  My plan, currently, is to have the pictures taken next October when everyone is back from summer vacations.

In this way, if you choose to buy pictures, you will have them in time for Christmas.  You’ll be hearing more about this project in the weeks

ahead. 

Bulletin Inserts: Each week we have been placing a copy of “The Faith Connection” in each Sunday bulletin.  I would be interested to

know if you find these supplements helpful or not.  Please let me know either way. 

Daylight Savings Time: Next Saturday night, March 13th, it’s time to set your clocks ahead one hour.  Am I the only one who wonders

why Alaska has daylight savings time when it stays light in the summer until 11:30 PM?

STEWARDSHIP

      Feb 28, 2010      $7,932.35     

  Last Year           $7,234.25

Capital Fund       $1,140.00

WEEKLY READINGS 

Mon. Mar 8

2 Kgs 5:1-15b Ps 42:2-3;43:3-4 Lk 4:24-30

Tues. Mar.9

Dn 3:25,34-43 Ps 25:4-5b Mt 18:21-35

Wed  Mar.10

Dt 4:1,5-9 Ps 147:12-13,15-16 Mt 5:17-19

Thurs. Mar.11

Jer 7:23-28 Ps 95:1-2,6-9 Lk 11:14-23

Fri. Mar.12

Hos 14:2-10 Ps 51:3-4,18-21b Lk 18:9-14

 MASS INTENTIONS

Saturday  Mar. 6

5:00pm   + James Boyle

Sunday  Mar. 7

9:00am  For the People of the Parish

11:30 am  + Olga DeKreon

Monday  Mar.8

9:00am           Betty Meiwes

Tuesday  Mar.9

9:00am                

Wednesday  Mar.10

9:00am            

Thursday  Mar.11

9:00am  

Friday             Mar.12

9:00am           

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