This Week's Bulletin

                            Week of August 29, 2010

                                                              GREETINGS FROM FR. BILL 

Thanks from Our Lady of the Valley students: Last weekend we took up a second collection for OLV school.   To those of you who contributed, I join all our students in thanking you for your generosity.  We collected a little over $5000, which is so needed, so we can provide tuition assistance to families who simply cannot afford to pay full tuition.  If you have not yet contributed and would like to do so, just place your contribution in an envelope and mark if for OLV School.  We’ll see that it gets there

Pictorial Directory: Beginning the weekend of September 11th and 12th, you will be able to sign up to have your picture taken for our new parish pictorial directory.  The actual pictures will be taken beginning October 4th.  I’m really excited about this opportunity to up date our directory since we have so many new families since the last directory was done in 2002.  Please plan to take part.  Remember: if you have your picture taken, you are entitled to a free directory and an 8x10 color print.   This is also an excellent opportunity to purchase pictures of your family but there is absolutely no obligation to do so.

Religious Education: Just a reminder that it is time to register your children for religious education classes at Sacred Heart Parish.  There are registration forms on a table in the back of church.  If you have sons or daughters in 9th and/or 10th grades who will be attending confirmation classes this year, there is a mandatory meeting for confirmation students, their parents and their sponsors on Sunday, September 12th at 1:00 PM. 

My Absence from Sacred Heart: Just a little advance warning that from September10th through the 26th, I will be working with the Catholic community at St. Christopher by the Sea in Dutch Harbor, Alaska.  I made an agreement with them last year when I was there to return and offer some adult religious education classes for them.  I will be doing that plus saying Masses on the last three weekends of September.  Fr. Stan will be taking my place here in Wasilla while I’m gone.  If you are in need of a priest in an emergency, please contact the parish office and Sheila will get in touch with Fr. Stan.

Meeting with Francis Cardinal George: This coming Wednesday and Thursday the priests of Alaska will be meeting in Anchorage with Cardinal George, the archbishop of Chicago.  Cardinal George is in town to speak at the Serra Club Convention over the Labor Day weekend.  He has graciously agreed to speak to us priests beforehand.  Cardinal George is currently President of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops.  

Second Collection for Special Projects: Next Sunday there will be our normal monthly collection for the maintenance of our facilities.  I want to clarify what these monies will be used for.  Whatever money we can raise from this collection will be used for special projects like the “fix-up” of the St. Jude Center entrance and the replacement of the purple benches in church.  In other words, these types of projects will always be dependent upon funding from this special, second collection. 

 STEWARDSHIP

 WEEKLY READINGS 

Mon.    Aug. 30

1 Cor 2:1-5 Ps 119:97-102 Lk 4:16-30

Tues.   Aug. 31

1 Cor 2:10b-16  Ps 145:8-14 Lk 4:31-37

Wed.    Sept. 1

1 Cor 3:1-9 Ps 33:12-15,20-21 Lk 4:38-44

Thurs.  Sept. 2

1 Cor 3:18-23 Ps 24:1b-4b,5-6 Lk 5:1-11

Friday  Sept. 3

1 Cor 4:1-5 Ps 37:3-6,27-28,39-40 Lk 5:33-39

MASS INTENTIONS

Saturday  Aug. 28

5:00pm   For the People of the Parish

Sunday  Aug. 29

9:00am  + Frank & Rita Mellow

11:30 am            

Monday  9:00am             

Tuesday  Aug. 31

11:00am            

Wednesday  Sept.1

9:00am             + Betty Meiwes  

Thursday  Sept.2

9:00am             

Friday               Sept.3

9:00AM  + Emily Molepski

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