SACRED HEART CHURCH BOWIE, MARYLAND OCTOBER 18, 2020 THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE WHITEMARSH BRANCH CH=Carroll Hall (basement of church) --HC=Hogan Center (hill) WMH=Whitemarsh Hall - HH=Hogan Hall (both in HC)

Sunday No Babysitting - Carroll Hall Closed Rosary Recited Before All Masses 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Family Fun Day - Ball Field 8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. - Adoration - Chapel MONDAY OCTOBER 19 THURSDAY OCTOBER 22 Sts. John de Brébeuf & St. John Paul II Monday 12:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Adoration - Chapel

Isaac Jogues and 6:30 Jim & Rebecca Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - St. Peter the Rock - HC Companions Simpson (L) 9:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Adoration - Chapel 6:30 Thomas Price 8:00 Brendon Shea 7:00-8:30 p.m. - Walking With Purpose - WMH 8:00 Brendon Shea 7:30-8:30 p.m. - CCD Grade 8 - HC FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 TUESDAY OCTOBER 20 St. John of Capistrano Wednesday 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. - Confessions - Chapel St. Paul of the Cross 6:30 Kathy Pullin Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - St. Peter the Rock - HC 6:30 Carl & Brenda 8:00 Steve Eichhorn Germain (L) Saturday 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. - CCD Grade 2 - HC SATURDAY OCTOBER 24 8:00 Kay Graham 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Confessions - Church St. Anthony Mary Claret WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21 9:30 Betty Stone The Chapel will be open Monday through Friday from 6:30 Zachary & Rachel 6:30 a.m.—12:00 p.m. for individual prayer time. Germain (L) 8:00 James & Mary Hickey Weekdays after 8 a.m. Mass - Coffee, Tea, etc. - HH

The second collection this week is for World Missions During the month of October, the Rosary will be recited before all the Sunday Masses. PARISH REGISTRATION: New families are All daily and weekend Masses are celebrated in the Church. welcome! It is important that you REGISTER in Adoration on Tuesdays in the Chapel from 9:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. a parish since weddings, and other services, such as sponsor certificates or letters of good standing, require membership in a parish. 24-Hour Adoration will be held in the Chapel beginning Sunday, October 18 at 8:00 p.m. and Stop by the Parish Office to register. continuing through Monday, October 19, at 8:00 p.m. Parish Office hours: Please sign up to spend some quiet time with our Lord. Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

On Thursday, October 1, the Most Reverend Mario 33 Day Retreat to Marian Consecration Dorsonville administered the Sacrament of Do you want to give your life more completely to here at Sacred Heart. Thank you to all our Jesus? Want to connect with other like-minded parishioners for your prayers and support this past year parishioners? Join us for 6 weekly meetings beginning as these young men and women prepared for this final Wednesday, November 4, as we begin a 33-day Sacrament of Initiation. Congratulations to all of you. preparation for Marian Consecration. To learn more, visit the parish website at www.sacredheartbowie.org, Liam Peter Bast Reece Jarboe under Events and News. Registration required by Michael Lawrence Dash Aiden John Vianney Koch October 18, 2020. Questions? Contact Deacon Bob Seith at 240- Liam Duggan Alejandro Luke Mate 416-6631. You can also register at the parish office. Keydra Mary Herold-Smith Molly Bernadette McGee Keyvar Cecilia Herold-Smith Emma Faustina Sheppard All members of the parish are invited to join the Jack Padre Pio Melnick Francis Paul Snyder Papal Document Reading and Study Group on Cassidy Hilda Pappagallo Ethan Hubert Vicente Tuesday mornings beginning October 20 at 10:00 Audrey Brennan a.m. through Zoom. This Fall the group will be Michelle Monica Chukwuma reading and studying Dei Verbum, The Dogmatic John Paul Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Flynn Constitution on Divine Revelation. New members welcome! To Celeste Gonzalez join, contact Margaret Grybauskas at [email protected] or Sean Damien of Molokai Laddbush 301-390-6560. The booklet is $5.00 and can be purchased at the Kailyn Gianna Beretta Molla Munar- Hamlett José Sánchez del Río Rodriguez parish office. Olivia Elizabeth Ann Seton Simpson Carson Ignatius of Loyola Smith “Remember that you are never alone, Christ is with you on Collin Smith your journey every day of your lives! He has called you and Anne Brigid of Kildaire Tonrey chosen you to live in the freedom of the children of God. Turn to him in prayer and in love. Ask him to grant you the Follow Sacred Heart on courage and strength to live in this freedom always. Walk with him who is ‘the Way, the Truth and the Life’!” Facebook: Sacred Heart Bowie ~ John Paul II Instagram: @sacredheartbowie From the 12th World Youth Day in Paris, France (August 1997)

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In our first reading from the Book of Exodus, we find need? Network would love to have you sitting on the mountain with his hands outstretched on our team here at Sacred Heart. If you are inter- while the army fight in the plain below him. This image has ested, go to lovegn.org—selected Get Involved— become a symbol of the necessity and efficacy of prayer. Select Volunteer—Select pink highlighted words We cannot lose sight of the fact that Moses has “the staff of that say “please check out this form”. Complete the form God” in his uplifted hands. It is thanks to this that God, and we will contact you. Any questions, please contact Mary Cunningham at 301-358-9349 or 1-800-ANGELOK x304. through Moses, accomplishes His works: it releases the plagues of Egypt; it divides the Red Sea and it brings forth You are invited to join Bowie citizens for a Rosary water from the rock. This “staff” held over the plain by Rally to support our Police Officers on Saturday, Moses gives the army the strength to drive off the enemy. October 31, at 12:00 p.m. (noon) in front of Bowie City Hall. Prayer is so powerful. Come off the This battle is not only a military one but a spiritual one sidelines and show your support through prayer. against the true hereditary enemy that allows no respite. There can be no victory without the help of God and his Thank you from the Bethlehem Carving Group. angels. The episode of Moses on the mountain is therefore The group appreciates the support from Sacred Heart parishioners who purchased the many an urgent call to faithful vigilance and incessant prayer to handmade olivewood carvings from the Holy Land the Lord. We fight our own battle each day and prayer is last weekend. The carvings, made by the Christians our weapon as we proclaim that God is our help. He of Bethlehem, is their sole source of income. Thank protects us from all evil because He stays near to us and He you for your generous response! desires us to share eternal life with Him. Join the 40 Days for Life Fall Campaign for prayer, fasting and In St. Paul’s second letter to Timothy, Paul instructs peaceful vigil to end . The Fall campaign continues through Timothy on how essential it is to preach the word. Paul Sunday, November 1. Prayer hours are 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. at the Metropolitan Family Planning, 5915 Greenbelt Road, College Park. reminds him how he has received the faith and now he must Questions: Contact Katherine Hunter at [email protected]. pass it on to others. Scripture inspired by God is the weapon which allows one to prevail in the fight of faith. PLEASE PRAY for our parishioners who are in the Empowered by the strength of the word of God, Timothy ARMED SERVICES: Bill Glynn, Jr., Katelyn and every believer not only can but must proclaim the word. Ballagh, Riley Cassidy, Ann Maloney, Jake Rohme, Like Timothy all of us will have to give an accounting of Cody Komala, Joshua Poole, Aidan Reilly, Ethan the mission that has been given to each of us. Copping, Kenton Stacey, Chris Seager, Richie Mulhare, Joe O’Connell, M. K. Harris, Justin Burns, Steven P. Maqui, Andrew In our Gospel passage from Luke, Jesus tells a parable on Rodriguez, Damian Pedersen, Jim Ballagh, Jr., Michael Sierco, the necessity of praying always and not losing heart. As we Stephen Prevo, Paul Gannett, James Pritchett. Please notify the know, discouragement can erode devotion and make it Office of family members that can be included or removed. purely mechanical and rob it of its joyful spirit. This parable ******************************************** reminds us that our prayer is never in vain. In the parable a PLEASE PRAY for the SICK of the Parish especially George widow comes up against a powerful judge. She simply asks, Smith, Rick DeCicco, Richard Harris, Chic Cicolini, Barbara “Give me my rights against my opponent.” The judge is not Reilly, Mary Ann McKeogh, Sister Ignatia, Evie Leckie, William moved and nothing happens. In the end the judge gives her Flanagan, Reba Waple, Mary McDonough, Maxine Gorman, Don what she wants because she is so persistent. It is clear we Hirzel, Wilda Raffensperger, Dana Rodriguez, Robert Shourds, are to “pray always and not lose heart.” God is the just Jr., Karen Larson, Rosamond MacDonald, Adeline Grima, Lileen Judge not like the judge in the parable. How much more Schwarz, Mark Rose, Jeanne Danko, Leona Kilday, Jennifer will He attend to those who call Him persistently. We are McClure, Matthew Leake, George Murphy, Jr., Cheryl Sprouse, reminded that we must pray “without losing heart” in order Patrick Ledger, Brendan Farr, Carol Fitzgerald, Anna Jeanne to be “justified,” or saved. And one has, through faith, the Judge, Joseph Flanagan, Peter Kubic, Kristen Vicencio, Jennie Guilbaud, Paul Ford, Bill Hardin, Susan Swick, Regina Madigan, assurance that God will realize the promised salvation Luis Martarano, Roberto Cruz, Eric Seith, Kathleen Sierco- “swiftly.” Consequently, discouragement can have only one Werking, Jim Braswell, Thomas Lumsden, Bernadette Braswell, cause: a lack, or weakness of faith. Because we see nothing Carolyn Kassabian, Bill Murphy, Raymond Wehrmeister, Hoa happening, we begin to doubt God, the coming of His reign, My Cai, Teri Mignosa, Renee Smigielski, Jamie April, Lorna the promised salvation. The Lord leaves us with the Schrom, Margaret LaFerrara, Ruth Hayes, Debra Walter, Betty question, “But when the Son of Man comes, will he find Dyer, Jeanette Harris, Karly Szostak, Mary Kotarski, Laurie any faith on earth?” Thus the issue is one of faith; faith in Smith, Marianne VanOverwalle, Ivan Cobo, Monica Diaz, God who saves; faith in the Lord, the Son of Man who will Charles Coley, Mary Krok, Mary Beth Fitzmaurice, Loretta come again, faith which must always be reawakened in us, Foley, Rachel Euber, Rene Roach, Robbie Svoboda, Linda & Pat without losing heart, because, without it, there is no McKenna, John Kylus, Margaret Quarto, Ann Leister, Dawn Chapdelaine and Joni Seith. salvation. Names will remain 3 weeks and can be continued by calling the Office.

Please remember in your prayers the souls of the FAITHFUL DEPARTED especially those buried in our cemetery.

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