Pancakes, Coffee and more Coffee ☕

Upcoming outdoor fellowship and faith formation!

Moving Forward
Check out our list of upcoming events as well as a volunteer opportunity and social justice resources below.

WEDNESDAY MASS & BONFIRE
Wed., July 1 following 7 p.m. Mass at St. Raphael

We are excited to continue one of our most popular events. Join us this Wednesday following 7:00 p.m. Mass at St. Raphael church for a bonfire. Not sure how to find the fire pit? Meet up at the main entrance following Mass.

SUNDAY PANCAKE BRUNCH
Sun., July 26 following 9 a.m. Mass at Sacred Heart

We are bringing back our popular brunch - but in a new way. Join us on the Shady Ave. lawn following 9:00 am Mass at Sacred Heart as we host an outdoor brunch featuring pancakes and coffee. Feel free to bring your own mug and blanket or chair (though plates and cups and chairs will be available).

COFFEE & CONVERSATION:
First Sunday Formation
Sun., Aug. 2 at 10 a.m.
Sacred Heart Shady Ave. Lawn

Sunday should be another beautiful day! We'll be meeting on the Shady Ave. side lawn at Sacred Heart church for this month's Coffee & Conversation. Please bring your own chair/blanket and your own coffee and snacks and help us maintain social distancing guidelines. We'll once again be diving deeper into this week's readings.

SOCIAL JUSTICE RESOURCES

The parish committee working to address social justice has discussed and shared a few different resources. An opportunity for reading and discussion as a group is coming soon.
Books
The History of Black Catholics by Cyprian Davis, OSB
Racial Injustice and the Catholic Church by Fr. Bryan Massingale
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Shorter Articles
“White Privilege and What We Can Do About It” by Fr. Bryan Massingale
"Catholic Social Teaching and Racism" by Fr. Fred Kammer, S.J.

If interested in getting more involved, email Vicki Sheridan at vsheridan68@gmail.com.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY:
Sanitizing the Churches

Volunteers are need to help sanitize both Sacred Heart and St. Raphael churches after Masses. If interested in signing up or learning more, email us at sacredheart20plus@gmail.com.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY:
Social Distancing Rosary Ministry

Are you interested in a safe opportunity to interact with others from our grouping and pray the rosary? Join our Social Distancing Rosary Ministry. Volunteers will be connected to parishioners requesting a visit. They will then reach out to coordinate a day and time to visit and pray. Volunteers will stay outside of the house and pray with parishioners from within your doorway, a window or porch. Social distancing will be practiced, and this will allow an opportunity for Christian fellowship and spending time in prayer together with our Blessed Mother Mary.

If you are interested in joining the Social Distancing Rosary Ministry, please sign up on the online form below. Anyone is welcome sign up and families and households are encouraged to volunteer together.

Are you interested in receiving a visit to pray with others from a safe distance? Use the same online form and choose the "request a visit" option.

Join the Social Distancing Rosary Ministry

JOIN THE CONVERSATION:
We're Now on Slack!

Introducing a new way to share information and updates and connect with other young adults! Join us on Slack - a group chat site you can access from your computer, or from your phone with an app. Then check out our channels for discussions on everything from #prayer-resources to #movies-tv-games.

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STAY CONNECTED

Visit our parish website for continued updates, messages from Fr. Mele and to download this week's bulletin.

PRAY WITH US AT NOON
Oratio Imperato

Against the Spread of Coronavirus

God our Father, we come to you in our need to ask your protection against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) that has claimed lives and affected many.

We pray for your grace for the people tasked with studying the nature and cause of this virus and its disease and of stemming the tide of its transmission.

Guide the hands and minds of medical experts that they may minister to the sick with competence and compassion, and of those governments and private agencies that must find a cure and solution to this pandemic.

We pray for those afflicted. May they be restored to their health soon.

Grant us the grace to work for the good of all and to help those in need. Grant this through our Lord, Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with You, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. Amen.

Our Lady Undoer of Knots, pray for us.
St. Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.
St. Jude the Apostle, pray for us.

St. Gianna, pray for us.
St. Rocco, pray for us.
St. Elizabeth Seton, pray for us.

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