Pastor - Fr. Joseph G. Mulroney, J.C.L.

December 6, 2020 2nd Sunday of

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 535, Dunn, NC 28335 Physical Address: 108 S. McKay Ave., Dunn, NC 28334

Website: www.sacredheartdunn.org Weekend Masses Office Phone: (910) 891-1972 Vigil Saturday, 4:30 PM Office Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM –3:00 PM (Latin) Sunday, 8:00 AM Mass Sunday, 9:30 AM Parish Secretary: Mrs. Jan Rebman High Mass (Latin) Sunday, 11:30 AM [email protected] Daily Masses Faith Formation Director: Mr. Len Matz Tuesday 8:30 AM [email protected] Wednesday 6:30 PM

Thursday 8:30 AM Director of Music: Dr. Mary Ann Chiodo Friday 8:30 AM (Adoration Follows) [email protected] First Saturday 9:00 AM Daily Masses are preceded by 15 minutes for Finance Council Chair: Mrs. Jen Convery Morning Prayer or Evening Prayer [email protected]

Sacrament of Penance (Reconciliation) Parish Advisory Council Chair: Wednesday 5:30 - 6:15 PM Mrs. Cara Shackelford Friday 9:30 - 10:30 AM [email protected] Saturday 3:30 - 4:15 PM Welcome Visitors: The is reserved in this church. Please maintain reverence, respectful silence, and a prayerful attitude. Individual communicants are invited to kneel at the rail to receive (unless unable to kneel). For the reception of Holy Communion, one be in communion with God and neighbor, in a state of grace and not in a state of mortal sin. And finally, please remember the way we dress for Mass shows our internal disposition toward God. Mass Intentions Parish Stewardship

Saturday, December 5 Church Support 9:00 AM Mass Bryan Hobbs (The Hobbs Family) 4:30 PM Mass Kathy Naquin Donate by Mail: P.O. Box 535, Dunn, NC 28335 (Jan Rebman) Make checks payable to Sacred Heart Church

Sunday, December 6 Donate Online: Visit our website at 8:00 AM Mass Claire Coulombe (Jacque Luke) www.sacredheartdunn.org 9:30 AM Mass +Margaret Ann Bell received for last weekend (The Rebman Family) 4:30 AM 11:30 AM Mass People of Sacred Heart First Collection $1,335.00 Tuesday, December 8 Holy Day 8:30 AM Mass People of Sacred Heart Second Collection $ 10.00 6:30 PM Mass Holy Souls in Purgatory 8:00 AM

Wednesday, December 9 6:30 PM Mass +Eva Kryn First Collection $1,140.00 (The Kryn Family) Second Collection $ 53.00

Thursday, December 10 9:30 AM 8:30 AM Mass +Fr. Frances Scheurich (1975) Pastor of Sacred Heart from 1951-1954 First Collection $ 488.00

Friday, December 11 Second Collection $ 28.00 8:30 AM Mass +Fr. James Dull 11:30 AM (The Convery Family) Saturday, December 12 First Collection $ 843.00 4:30 PM Mass +Edward Fleming (The Fleming Family) Second Collection $ 16.00 Sunday, December 13 Totals 8:00 AM Mass Holy Souls in Purgatory First Collection $3,806.00 9:30 AM Mass People of Sacred Heart Second Collection $ 107.00 11:30 AM Mass Fr. Trent Watts Donations $1,605.00 (The Rebman Family)

Altar Flowers Parish News

Christmas flower envelopes are in your pews. To beautify the sanctuary for Christmas, it takes close The Immaculate Conception of the to $600.00 for the arrangements, poinsettias and Blessed Virgin Mary, Tuesday, wreaths. Please consider donating in memory or December 8th is a Holy Day of honor of a loved one. Your help will be much ap- Obligation. Masses will be offered preciated. Thank you!! at 8:30 AM in the Form and at 6:30 PM which will be a . Special Offerings

Call Jan Rebman at (910) 891-1972 to arrange for a Mass ATTENTION ALL TEENS, ages 13 - 18 (must still be in Intention, Candle Lighting, or Altar Flowers. high school) it’s time to register for !! $30 for Sursum Corda and an additional $30 for Confirmation Suggested Donation: students. Classes begun on Dec. 4th at 6:30pm in the parish hall. Call Mrs. Convery to register at 919.740.8125 Mass Intention $10.00 Sacred Heart Candle $20.00 First Weekend of the Month second collection will Sanctuary Candle $40.00 be next weekend, December 6th. All donations Altar Flowers $45.00 given to this second collection, stays in the parish. Sacraments Mass Readings Week of December 6th

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Infant Baptism: Congratulations on the birth of your child! Sunday: Is 40:1-5, 9-11/Ps 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 Please contact Fr. Mulroney if you would like your baby 8]/2 Pt 3:8-14/Mk 1:1-8 baptized. It is strongly advised that infants be baptized Monday: Is 35:1-10/Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14 [Is 35:4f]/Lk 5:17-26 within one month of birth. Tuesday: Gn 3:9-15, 20/Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4 [1]/ Adult Baptism/Reception into the Church: Those adults Eph 1:3-6, 11-12/Lk 1:26-38 who would like to become Catholic should contact Fr. Wednesday: Is 40:25-31/Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 8 and Mulroney, whether they are previously baptized or not. 10 [1]/Mt 11:28-30 We pray that you join the One, Holy, Catholic and Thursday: Is 41:13-20/Ps 145:1 and 9, 10-11, Apostolic Church! 12-13ab [8]/Mt 11:11-15 Friday: Is 48:17-19/Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 [cf. FAITH FORMATION (CATECHESIS) FOR THE Jn 8:12]/Mt 11:16-19 SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION Saturday: Zec 2:14-17 or Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab/ Jdt 13:18bcde, 19 [15:9d]/Lk 1:26-38 or Classes to prepare children for the Sacraments of Penance Lk 1:39-47 and First Holy Communion meet on Sundays (September- May), from 9:50 AM-10:45 AM. For more information and registration, please contact Len Matz at [email protected] Please Remember in Prayer... SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION Sursum Corda (“Lift up your hearts”) is our parish youth We pray for members of our parish who are sick: group for teenagers. It meets on Friday evenings from 6:30-9:00 (during the school year) and serves as a George Convery, Eileen Rettig, George Glover, catechetical opportunity for those age 13 through senior Larry Johnson, Jacque Luke, Joe Senter year in high school who are preparing to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation (a two-year program). Those And for the people serving in the Armed Forces: who have already been confirmed are also welcome to LCpl Ian Qualls—USMC attend. There is lots of fun, faith, and food. For more LCpl Kenzie Qualls—USMC information and registration, please contact Jen Convery BU2 Bryan Naquin-US Navy at [email protected]. Thank you for continuing to notify the office to keep our All adult Catholics should be confirmed. If you are an prayer list up to date. adult and have not been confirmed, please call Fr. Mulroney at 910-891-1972. Candles

SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY The Sanctuary Candle will burn Fr. Mulroney provides spiritual preparation for the for the next 14 days reception of the Sacrament of Matrimony. Preceding the in Honor of marriage, the Diocese of Raleigh mandates a six-month The Nedley & The Sheridan Families period of preparation. Please contact Fr. Mulroney to ask about receiving this Sacrament. The Sacred Heart Candle will burn for the next 7 days SACRAMENT OF THE ANOINTING in Memory of OF THE SICK (LAST RITES) Nicole Glazewski Please contact the parish office to advise of an illness or hospitalization. The Sacrament of the Anointing is offered when a Catholic is: in an emergency health situation; in Prayer Chain danger of death; scheduled for surgery; or suffers If you or someone you know is in need of prayer, chronically in any way. Please notify Fr. Mulroney to please call our Parish Secretary, Jan Rebman, and arrange for the reception of this Sacrament. request to be included in the parish Prayer Chain. Santo Diocesan Mass for Life “A great prayer for life is urgently needed, a prayer Santo, Santo, Santo, es el Señor, Dios del uni- which will rise up throughout the world…let us verso. Llenos estan el cielo y la tierra de tu therefore discover anew the humility and the cour- gloria. Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna en el cielo. age to pray and fast so that the power from on high Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna en el cielo. Ben- will break down the walls of lies and deceit: the dito el que viene en el nombre del Señor. Ho- walls which conceal from the sight of so many…the sanna, Hosanna, Hosanna en el cielo, Hosanna, evil of practices and laws which are hostile to Hosanna, Hosanna en el cielo. life.” (Pope St John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae 100) Parish Announcements Continued Come and join us on January 16, 2021, at Holy Name of Cathedral as we pray and proclaim Flower Calendar 2021 - We have the following the dignity of human life. Rosary begins at 10:30; dates for flowers for next year. Mar.14, April 11, 18 Mass with the starts at 11:00. & 25, May 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, June 6, 13, 20 & 27, July 18, & 25. Aug. 1, 22 & 29, Sept. 26th, Oct. 3, 10, 17 & Las Posadas - Save the Date! 31 and Nov. 21 If interested in any of these dates, We will be having a Posada on Sunday, December 20 please call the parish office. Thank you! at 1:00 PM. There will be a bilingual rosary, singing, food and drink, as well as caroling throughout the Sacred Heart Candle Calendar for 2021 is open. neighborhood. More details to come next week. We This candle will burn for 7 days for your intentions. invite everyone from the parish to join us for this Cost is $20 for the candle. Please call the parish for wonderful celebration in preparation for Christmas! availability. Project Rachel Support Group - The Project Rachel Sanctuary Candle Calendar for 2021 is open. This ministry assists women and who have been wounded candle burns for 14 days and the cost is $40. We by abortion to find healing and peace. There is a have the following dates available. Jan. 30 - Feb. 12, support group beginning in the Triangle area in Feb. 27 - Mar. 12, July 3 - July 16, July 31 - Aug. 13, January 2021. If you have experienced an abortion Nov. 6 – Nov. 19, Nov. 20 - Dec. 3, Dec. 4 - Dec. 17. and would like (confidential) information about the support group, contact Project Rachel at (919) 852- BABY BOTTLE CAMPAIGN to benefit Birth- 1021, or email: [email protected] or the Choice of Raleigh (a Catholic pregnancy support website: http://projectrachelnc.org/. Calls and center) will take place during Advent. Please con- appointments are kept strictly confidential. sider taking home a bottle to gather change, bills, or checks (made payable to BirthChoice) and return them before Christmas. This year BirthChoice was unable to hold their annual fundraising Gala event. Instead, this year we are invited to participate in a virtual open house by visiting www.supportbirthchoice.org/bfl . Donations are down right now and every lit bit helps. Please prayerfully consider making a donation.

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