CHURCH PRAY † TEACH † SERVE

March, 28th 2021 Palm Sunday Mission Statement We are a Eucharistic Community which recognizes and values the dignity of each person by responding to the Gospel. We are called to Pray, Teach and Serve.

Weekend Mass Saturday Vigil 5:30 pm Sunday 8:30 am 10:00 am

Daily Mass Monday 7:00 am Tuesday 7:00 am Wednesday 7:00 am Friday 7:00 am Saturday 8:30 am

Communion Service Thursday 7:00 am

Confession Monday 7:30 am Tuesday 7:30 am Friday 7:30 am Saturday 9:00-9:30 am & 4:30-5:00 pm Adoration Friday 7:30am Exposition 8:30am Benediction

Baptism Please call the parish office to make arrangements for baptism at least 2 month in advance.

Matrimony Please call the parish office to make arrangements for marriage at least 6 months in advance.

Pastor Reverend Bruce Ludeke

Permanent Deacon Deacon Ken Funk

2224 Avenue J, Sterling IL www.sacredheartparish.net Tel. 815-625-1134 Emergency 815-625-0631 Pray

Mass Intentions

Mon. 03/29 7:00 am † Aldona Miloch Tues 03/30 7:00 am †Irene Hammes Susanna Riley has been an integral part of our parish staff Wed. 03/31 7:00 am † Linda Melendrez for over 5 years as our Coordinator of Evangelization. She 5:30 pm † Jim Foley also directed our middle school and high school youth Thurs 04/01 7:00 pm Holy Thursday programming, led our confirmation program, helped Sacred Heart Parishioners coordinate parish missions, coordinated our social media Fri 04/02 1:00 pm Good Friday outreach, and organized our Seven Sister Apostolate Communion Service ministry, among many other things. It is with great gratitude Sat. 04/03 Easter Vigil and our blessing that she has decided to leave these roles Sacred Heart Parishioners to take more time for her family. Her remarkable inspiration Easter Sunday and amazing work ethic will be greatly missed. When you Sun. 04/04 8:30 am Sacred Heart Parishioners see her, please thank her for all she has done for our 10:00 am Sacred Heart Parishioners beautiful parish! If anyone is interested in heading up any of these ministries going forward, please contact the parish office! Sanctuary Lamp Living Intention for the Mary Paver Family ~Father Bruce

Prayer before Communion Dear Lord, may I receive you in this Communion With open arms, And a loving, contrite heart, So that I may be filled with your grace, For my good and Your glory! Amen.

Thanksgiving After Holy Communion I thank You, Eternal Father, for giving me as the food of my soul, the Body and Blood of Your Only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. May this Divine Food preserve and increase the union of my soul with You. May it purify me by repressing every evil inclination. Grant that it may be to me a pledge of a glorious resurrection on the last day. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I love You with all my heart. I am sorry for ever having offended You, and I desire never to offend You again.

St. the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Fatima Prayer O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven Thank You to our Church Cleaners! especially those A big thank you to Peggy Potthoff for keeping our church in most need of thy mercy. clean for the month of March. We really appreciate your service to this ministry! The April church cleaner is Linda Hoyle. Holy Week at Sacred Heart:

Monday, March 29th 7:00 am Daily Mass 7:30 am Confession 6:00-7:00pm Confession 6:00-7:00pm Adoration & Prayer Tuesday, March 30th 7:00 am Daily Mass 7:30 am Confession 5:00-6:00 pm Confession

Wednesday, March 31st 7:00 am Daily Mass 5:30 pm Mass 6:00 pm Adoration 6:30 pm Stations of the Cross

Thursday, April 1st Holy Thursday No Morning Communion Service WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE 7:00 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper ENCOUNTER 8:30 pm-10pm Adoration at the Altar of Repose Covid disrupting your lives? Don’t let the

Friday, April 2nd Good Friday stresses destroy your marriage. Join us No Morning Mass or Adoration for an in person Worldwide Marriage 11 am-12 pm Confession Encounter Weekend. 1:00 pm Good Friday Service ♦ Take a weekend away at a Worldwide Marriage 2:00-3:00 pm Veneration of the Cross Encounter to gain a richer, fuller married life together. 6:30 pm Stations of the Cross ♦ Attend a Marriage Encounter weekend and learn the tools needed to keep your marriage Saturday, April 3rd Holy Saturday strong. No Morning Mass or Confessions ♦ Sign up today to attend a Worldwide Marriage 10:00 am Blessing of the Easter Foods Encounter Weekend on April 9-11 in 7:30 pm Easter Vigil Mass Brookfield, WI or June 25-27 in Geneva, IL. ♦ Early registration is highly recommended. For more Sunday, April 21 Easter Sunday information visit our website at: 8:30 am Mass alifetimeoflove.org or call (888) 574-5653. 11:00 am Mass First Friday / First Saturday Devotion The First Friday and First Saturday devotions are both reparatory devotions in the that arose from separate private . The is associated with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the First Saturday devotion is associated with the . These are two of the most widely popular devotions to Jesus and Mary. For more information on these devotions, go to www.aleteia.org and search ‘First Friday’ or ‘First Saturday’.

Parish Office Schedule of Ministers

Hours…...... Monday - Friday: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Saturday, April 3rd & Sunday, April 4th

(June-Aug: Friday - 8:00-12:00pm) Lectors:

Phone …………...……………………… 815-625-1134 7:30 pm Peg Hoffmiller & Fax………………...………………………815-625-1138 Tom Ausman Rectory, Emergency Only ….………..…815-625-0631 8:30 am Beth Hollaway

Parish Staff 10:00 am Mason Kids

Pastor Usher/Cleaners:

Rev. Bruce Ludeke……….…………….…….....ext. 3 7:30 pm 4 Volunteers Needed Email…………………….…[email protected] 8:30 am Gary & Denise Mosher

2 Volunteers Needed Permanent Deacon 10:00 am 4 Volunteers Needed Deacon Ken Funk………………...…...... ext. 5 Email……………..…[email protected] Please contact Karen Nestor at 815-625-1134 or [email protected] if you can Business Manager & Parish Secretary help out in these roles! Julie Massey….………………….………..…...... ext. 2 Email……....…..……[email protected]

Bulletin Editor Join us Mass live streamed on Shelly Oltmans Saturdays at 5:30pm.

Email……………….………. [email protected] here are the links (you can also find these links on our web- site, sacredheartparish.net) Director of Music & Liturgy Karen Nestor.....………………………….…...... ext. 4 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UC2dJmj_PKT6CPPqzZHUcGxA Email………………[email protected] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sacred-Heart- Coordinator of Religious Education Catholic-Church-115654265130918 Melinda Hutchison Email…………………[email protected]

Coordinator of Evangelization Susanna Riley….…...………...…..…...815-441-8170 Email………………….…[email protected]

Coordinator of RCIA Gonzalo Reyes Email……….……….………[email protected]

Prayer Chain for Special Intentions Call………..……………….…………….815-625-1134 Email…...……………..…[email protected]

Weekly Collection Your Gift to God last weekend was: Amount Required Weekly $4,442.31 Diocesan Stewardship Envelope mailed in/dropped off $2,420.00 Appeal - 2020-21 Online Giving $2,416.00 Goal: $34,725 Donated to date: $27,900 Weekly Total 03/14/2021 $4,836.00 Compared to last year to date: $28,725 YTD Required $164,365.47 YTD Collected (Week 36) $206,713.00 Thank you to the following donors who have recently given to the Total Envelope Holders 523 2020-21 Diocesan Appeal:

Envelopes Used 81 Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Hellwig % Contributed 15% Mr. & Mrs. Dean Lester Parish Raffle Winner Jerry Beranek Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Richard Nailor Mr. James Preston Tithing 4%...... Buddy Bags For Needy Kids($192) Penitential Act Second Reading Phil 2:6-11 I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, what I have done and in what I have failed to do, (striking breast 3 times) through my fault, through my fault, through my most he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the human likeness; and found human in appearance, he Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, me to the Lord our God. even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly Gloria exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, glory of God the Father. Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; you are seated at the right hand of the Nicene Creed Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are the Holy One, you I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Lectionary:37 & 38 the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem, true God from true God, begotten, not made, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village made. For us men and for our salvation he came down opposite you, and immediately on entering it, you will find a from heaven, (bow) and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of colt tethered on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and the Virgin Mary, and became man (stand). For our sake he bring it here. If anyone should say to you, ‘Why are you was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and doing this?’ reply, ‘The Master has need of it and will send was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance it back here at once.’” So they went off and found a colt with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated tethered at a gate outside on the street, and they untied it. at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory Some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have untying the colt?” They answered them just as Jesus had no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of told them to, and they permitted them to do it. So they life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with brought the colt to Jesus and put their cloaks over it. And the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from and apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the the fields. Those preceding him as well as those following forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of kept crying out: “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen. name of the Lord! Blessed is the kingdom of our father Holy, Holy, Holy (Sanctus) Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of David that is to come! Hosanna in the Hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in highest!” the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Reading I Is 50:4-7 Lord. Hosanna in the highest. The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will Communion Antiphon: Father, if this chalice cannot pass rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I without my drinking it, your will be done. may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those Happy Birthday from who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets Fr. Bruce and the and spitting. The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not Sacred Heart Staff! disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame. 03/22 Randy Hook Responsorial Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24. 03/22 Kateri Mowrey 03/28 Daniel Nobel R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? 03/22 Dawson Penaflor 03/30 Michael Edwards All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips, 03/23 Edward Hanlon 03/30 Mari Kahly they wag their heads: He relied on the LORD; let him 03/23 Kara Williams 03/30 McKelvey Olson deliver him, let him rescue him, if he loves him.” 03/24 Jessica Cutter 03/30 Cassandra Sabata R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? 03/24 Jan Hammes 03/31 Liam Ackley Indeed, many dogs surround me, a pack of evildoers 03/25 Michele Cheshier 03/31 Joan Biagioni closes in upon me; They have pierced my hands and my 03/26 Joseph Clark 03/31 Jessie Mason feet; I can count all my bones. 03/26 Shay Farley 04/01 Reyna Jibben R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? 03/26 Diane Gould 04/01 Sonya Sotelo They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture 03/26 Olivia Watson 04/02 Linda Bushar they cast lots. But you, O LORD, be not far from me; O my 03/27 Lois Oberle 04/02 Joshua Weber help, hasten to aid me. 03/27 Ed Wade 04/03 Kate Maloy R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? 03/28 Jonah Celestino 04/03 Carol Reyes I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the 03/28 Joan Harmes 04/03 Lonny Reynolds assembly I will praise you: “You who fear the LORD, praise 03/28 Sharon Lenhart 04/03 Charlie Chaney him; all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him; revere 03/28 Aidan Munoz 04/03 Patricia McLeod him, all you descendants of Israel!” R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? With Facilities OCTOPUS In BRUSHLESS CAR WASH Rock Falls 1514 W. 4TH STREET Many Hands to Serve You Where the world goes Sterling STERLING, IL 61081 Mon – Fri: 8am to 5:30pm 815/625-5949 Sat. 8:00am – 5pm • Sun. 8am – 1pm to look good. Serving Our faith community since 1984 ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS - 24 HR. SERVICE 407 E. 3rd St.

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