Volume 53, No. 23 June 9, 2019 Veni Sancte Spiritus Come, O Holy Spirit, come! And from your celestial home Shed a ray of light divine! Come, O Father of the poor! Come, source of all our store! Come within our bosoms shine! You of comforters the best; You, the soul’s most welcome guest; Sweet refreshment here below; In our labor, rest most sweet; Grateful coolness in the heat; Solace in the midst of woe. O most blessed Light divine, Shine within these hearts of yours, And our inmost being fill! Where you are not, we have naught, Nothing good in deed or thought, Nothing free from taint of ill. Translation of the Sequence of Pentecost
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Volume 53, No. 23 June 9, 2019
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Come, O Holy Spirit, come! And from your celestial home
Shed a ray of light divine!
Come, O Father of the poor! Come, source of all our store!
Come within our bosoms shine!
You of comforters the best; You, the soul’s most welcome
guest; Sweet refreshment here below;
In our labor, rest most sweet; Grateful coolness in the heat; Solace in the midst of woe.
O most blessed Light divine, Shine within these hearts of
yours, And our inmost being fill!
Where you are not, we have naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill.
Translation of the Sequence of Pentecost
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M onday is the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, a relatively new
feast on the Church calendar - a title given to Mary at the Second Vatican Council and a feast created by Pope Francis. The first readings this week are from Paul's Second letter to the Corinthians. We take up the Gospel of Matthew, which will be part of our readings for Ordinary Time. The week offers us the Sermon on the Mount. By the end of the week, we hear Jesus encouraging us to live honestly, making elaborate promises and oaths unnecessary.“Let your ‘Yes' mean ‘Yes,' and your ‘No' mean ‘No,'” he says. The words we use are less important than the life we lead. Taken from the "Weekly Guide for Daily Prayer" on the Creighton University's Online Ministries website: http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/online.html. Used with permission.
JUNE 9, 2019 PENTACOST SUNDAY
JUNE 10-15, 2019, 10TH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME
S M R Acts 2:1-11 Psalm 104 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13
John 20:19-23
A few years ago, during Rome’s quiet summer, Pope Francis took a day off to visit privately with some
O P Veni Creator Spiritus, Murray Bradshaw (b. 1930)
Bradshaw was born in Illinois, and holds a degree from the American Conservatory in Chicago He currently serves as organist of the 43rd Church of Christ Scientist in Woodland Hills, California.
O P Veni Creator Spiritus,
Russell Schulz-Widmar (b. 1944) Schulz-Widmar studied at Valparaiso Uniersity, Union Theological Seminary, and the University of Texas. He is director of music and organist at the University Untied Methodist Church in Austin, Texas.
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Adela Carter, Lucille Hill, Sue Jensen, Tierney Langdon, Hugh Lynch, Bob Schorr, Calvin Scott, Pat Smith, Hung Tran, Gift of Grace House residents
T W H D Those who have died alone.
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Christofer Arguedas, Madison Bips, Paul Brieske, Rafael Duralde
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Intentions of: Cajulis Family, Bobbie Overton, Silender Family Birthdays, Hung Tran, Newly Baptized, Confirmed, and 1st Communicants
T C M The Caring Ministry provides support to those who have experienced the loss of a family member or who face a serious challenge. Contact Don Cameron [email protected].
H M Every Sunday afternoon, members of the Hospital Ministry visit nearby Emory Midtown Hospital to visit and pray with and distribute Holy Communion to the Catholic patients there. Contact Milt Shlapak 404-349-0909 or [email protected].
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PARISH NEWS
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J 15 J oin with fellow parishioners and
Msgr. Thein for a Saturday bike ride from Sacred Heart to Krog Market for breakfast. The ride will be along easy paths and is suitable for the whole family. Meet at Sacred Heart on June 15 at 9:30am (after Msgr. Thein finishes up the 9:00am Mass), and take off for a morning of fun. This marks the second breakfast bike ride, though the first was cut short by rain. Hopefully this time everyone will be able to enjoy breakfast at Krog Market.
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E ach year we ask Sacred Heart Parishioners to share a picture from their fun times over the summer and
to tell us what they did. Think of it as Show and Tell for your Parish Family. Send info to: [email protected].
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O n June 9, 1920, Sacred Heart was consecrated. This is different from a dedication, which is a ceremony all new
churches conduct. A Consecration takes place at relatively few churches and requires a number of preliminary conditions be met, including freedom from debt. It is a very long, very complicated ceremony (it took four hours at Sacred Heart) that is afterward commemorated every year. It is mandated that the anniversary of the Consecration be observed each year. If the anniversary falls on a weekday, Sacred Heart has special permission from the Archdiocese to use special readings on that day. If the anniversary is on a Sunday, Sacred Heart lights the special consecration candleholders at all Masses.
These candleholders were affixed to the wall as part of ritual itself, and their presence indicates a consecrated church. Twelve crosses are painted or placed around the four interior walls of the church. If they are not actually painted on the walls, they must be made of metal or stone and attached to the walls. Each cross has a candleholder attached to the bottom of it. During the consecration ritual, each cross is anointed with Chrism and incensed. Sacred Heart’s brass crosses are affixed to the walls: four on each side wall, and two on the back wall near the doors. Unfortunately, the two crosses that were in the walkway behind the sanctuary have been removed and lost. The candleholder part of Sacred Heart’s crosses is only attached when the candles are to be lit – at Christmas Midnight Mass, the Easter Vigil, and the anniversary of the Consecration.
Picture taken during the Consecration in 1920. The Bishop and his altar server attendants are within the altar rail. The markings on the floor of the center aisle are part of the ritual. Ashes are placed on the floor to form a cross, and the Bishop traces both the Greek and Latin alphabets in the ashes. These alphabets represent the Readings used
during Mass.
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A ’ A A
T he Archbishop’s Annual Appeal has set a 2019 goal for Sacred Heart of $92,300. These funds
are required to be paid to the Archdiocese by each parish. Each year parishioners are asked to contribute to the appeal to meet the goal. Any shortfall must be met out of offertory donations. As of May (the Appeal runs on calendar year, not fiscal), generous parishioners have so far paid about 46% of the goal with the year about 42% complete, so we are on a good pace to meet the assessment. Thank you to all who have contributed or pledged.
Assessed Goal=$92,300
THE BASILICA THANKS ITS ADVERTISERS
w e’d like to take a moment to draw your attention to the ads on the back page of SPIRES. It is
through the willingness of these businesses to advertise that we are able to produce this publication every week at no cost to the parish. Please consider patronizing our advertisers.
F R J 2019
June 2 $12.498 June 9 June 16 June 23
Monthly Electronic Giving Total Month-to-date $12,498 Monthly Budgeted Collections $86,500 Fiscal Year-to-date Comparisons Actual Year-to-date $960,409 Budget thru June 30 $1,100,000 Actual vs. Budget ($139,591) 2nd Collections June 2 $2,938
June 30
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E ach week, the Recycling
Committee takes a week's worth of materials to the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM). The below picture is just one week’s worth. These are in addition to 3 large, wheeled containers of "easier" to recycle materials that are picked up from Sacred Heart each week by Conex Recycling. Join us in this effort by thinking before you throw anything in the trash.
We'd love to have you help the Recycling Committee in other ways, too. Contact Jerry Pace at [email protected].
2019 E C J 21-22
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J 30 E F Y
J une 30th marks the end of the fiscal year for Sacred Heart. As of the end of May, the offertory was about
$66,000 behind the budgeted offertory. These are funds used for operational expenses of Sacred Heart, those expenses that not only pay for the ‘nuts and bolts” like electricity, but also pay for security, musicians, Communion elements — the mundane and the spiritually transcendent.. As we come towards the end of the fiscal year, it might be a good time, to consider your weekly generosity to your parish and help where you can.
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Artículos en Español 9 2019
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LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA Lunes: Gn 3:9-15, 20 o Hch 1:12-14;
Sal 87 (86):1-3, 5-7; Jn 19:25-34
Martes: Hch 11:21b-26; 13:1-3; Sal 119 (118):129-133, 135; Mt 5:13-16
Miércoles: 2 Cor 3:4-11; Sal 99 (98):5-9; Mt 5:17-19
