The Bereavement Committee at Sacred Heart Parish is privileged to support those persons who are grieving the death of a loved one. The committee acknowledges the death of a loved one through various methods of contact:
410-833-1696
parish@shgparish.org
If you'd like to get involved and join our parish Bereavement Committee, please contact us!
In normal, non-COVID times: parishioners are welcome to have their blood pressure screened on the third weekend of each month. Volunteer nurses are available on Saturday after the 4:00 PM Mass and on Sunday from 8:00 AM until 12:00 noon in Room 103.
Volunteers are needed! If you are a nurse who can volunteer with our ministry once per month at one or more of the Masses, you would be a great help to us. Thank you!
Quinn Nugent
443-821-3350
qnuge@msn.com
Mother Seton Room
Saturday, February 27, 2021
7:45 AM — 1:15 PM
Saturday, March 13, 2021
7:45 AM — 1:15 PM
Please consider giving the gift of life during our semi-annual blood drives with the American Red Cross! You can click here to schedule your live-saving donation online or call 1-800-RED-CROSS.
To save you time, we strongly recommend using RapidPass. It offers a way to complete your pre-reading and donation questions online ahead of time — reducing your waiting time at the blood drive by as much as 15 minutes.
Volunteers: If you are unable to donate blood for any reason, would you consider donating your time and volunteer at the blood drive for a few hours? Thank you to everyone who has donated blood or volunteered at our past parish blood drives!
One donation can save or sustain up to 3 lives!
Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood.
Most of us will need blood in our lifetime.
The number one reason donors say they give blood is because they "want to help others".
The Red Cross has tips on what do to before, during, and after your blood donation.
Jeff Ment
410-833-8515
jment@shgparish.org
Links:
American Red Cross
Find a local blood drive
Our Daily Bread is a soup kitchen in Baltimore City managed by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Sacred Heart Parish supports Our Daily Bread's ministry of outreach to the hungry by supplying casseroles and other items every other month [updated Nov. 2020].
Sacred Heart's casserole is a ground beef and noodles recipe called "Zippy Beef". Disposable pans with recipes can be picked after any Mass in the Main Church.
Casseroles and other items are then collected at the door to the school kitchen on the 4th Tuesday evening (7:00 — 9:00 PM) and 4th Wednesday morning (7:30 — 9:00 AM) of every even-numbered month.
In June 2020, we resumed our regular monthly casserole schedule for Our Daily Bread!
[Update November 2020: we've been asked to bring casseroles every other month only, on the even-numbered months, until further notice.]
We thank the Sacred Heart ODB Ministry team, new volunteer drivers, and you for your flexibility and for faithfully supporting this outreach during the pandemic
We also thank you for your patience as we continue to work out the “new normal”.
From ODB: “We are so incredibly grateful to SHG for your support to ODBEC during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your congregation has been an exceptional help to us in the most difficult time of our organization. Thank you for all the hard work. ODBEC is truly indebted to your service.” ~ Nick Rudomin, Volunteer Manager ODBEC
2 lb. ground beef
16 oz. elbow macaroni, cooked (or small shells or twist noodles)
1 large onion, chopped
5 cups spaghetti sauce
1/2 cup green pepper, chopped (optional)
Parmesan cheese
Cook onion, pepper, and beef until browned. Drain off fat. Mix together all remaining ingredients, except cheese, into ungreased casserole pan. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Cover first with plastic wrap to avoid any contamination between the tomato ingredients and the aluminum foil. Then cover with sufficient aluminum foil to cover the edges. Cool completely and put it in a plastic grocery shopping bag to keep it from spilling. Label with casserole name and date. PLEASE FREEZE.
Other food items needed by Our Daily Bread include:
Canned vegetables
Coffee
Tea
Sugar
Peanut butter and jelly
Powdered drink mixes
Non-food kitchen items such as paper cups, paper and plastic sandwich bags, and kitchen cleaning materials
Mark Grabenstein
410-654-0414 (H)
markgrabenstein@verizon.net
Links:
Our Daily Bread in Baltimore
Jesus healed the sick, comforted the sorrowing, and raised the dead. The Church is called to continue Jesus' work of healing, prayer, and comforting! At Sacred Heart, trained Pastoral Visitors bring Communion to the sick and homebound, usually on a weekly basis. Teams of Pastoral Visitors conduct communion services and take communion to those confined to their rooms at Cherrywood Future Care Nursing Home, and Mass is celebrated there on the second Wednesday of each month.
Pastoral Visitors also bring communion to residents at several assisted living facilities as well as to several apartment homes for the elderly. Staff members make monthly visits to those homebound parishioners who have requested them — and, where possible, to hospitalized parishioners. When requested, our priests visit the homebound and nursing homes for Reconciliation and the Anointing of the Sick.
The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, always available upon request, is celebrated at least twice annually at a designated weekend Mass.
At various times throughout the year, students at Sacred Heart School and the Religious Education Program prepare and send handmade get-well and greeting cards with personalized messages to the residents of Cherrywood and the homebound. Christmas and Easter greetings, signed by parish staff, are sent to these parishioners, as well as get-well cards for the hospitalized.
The names of ill parishioners who are in need of prayer are listed in the parish bulletin each week. Please join us in praying for God's healing for them.
To request that a name be added to our sick list, please contact the the Parish Office.
410-833-1696
If you, or someone you know, desires:
Please contact the Parish Office and provide the information we will need to make contact.
A Prayer Shawl is a shawl that is lovingly crocheted or hand-knit from a soft, comforting yarn.
As the shawl is created, it is prayed over by its maker for the intentions of its recipient.
It is also blessed by the parish priest.
In 1998, Janet Bristow and Victoria Galo, two graduates of the 1997 Women's Leadership Institute at The Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut gave birth to this ministry as a result of their experience in the program of applied Feminist Spirituality under the direct of Professor Miriam Therese Winter, MMS.
In 2008, a similar Prayer Shawl Ministry began at Sacred Heart Parish. A group of women meet together at the parish to knit or crochet in their own homes. Shawls are collected twice per year and blessed by the parish priest at the parish community's Mass of the Anointing of the Sick. Shawls are then distributed to anyone who is seriously ill or knows of one who is seriously ill. Blessed Prayer Shawls may be requested at any time through the Parish Office.
Blessed shawls have been distributed to various organizations such as the Hospice Center at Gilchrist, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Saint Joseph's Retirement Villa in Flourtown, PA, and the Veterans of War at Walter Reed Hospital and the Medical Center in Bethseda. Individual shawls have also been given to more than one hundred seriously ill persons in and around our parish and local community.
In normal times:
Third Tuesday of the month from June through September
First and third Tuesday of the month from October through May
1:00 — 2:00 PM in Room 103
Mass for the Anointing of the Sick, Blessing of the Shawls, and Prayer Shawl Giveaway
On a weekend of November
On a weekend of March
Sister Cecilia Cyford, SSJ
410-833-1696
sr.cecilia@shgparish.org
Contact us if you want to learn to crochet or knit!
The Respect Life Committee is Sacred Heart Parish's pro-life, pro-family organization committed to the sanctity of all human life from natural conception to natural death by promoting the teaching of the Catholic Church through education, outreach, and prayer.
We invite you to join with us in praying for the sanctity of all human life. We invite you to our meetings and events. We ask for your input and ideas to help us become a large and active group promoting a culture of life in our community. Please recommend our information to anyone experiencing a crisis pregnancy.
Spiritual Adoption program — click for info and to sign up!
The Respect life Committee meets monthly during the school year on the third Thursday at 7:00 PM in Room 112. (We are having "virtual" meetings during COVID.)
Project Rachel is a ministry offering post-abortion counseling, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Please call 410-625-8491 or click here for the Project Rachel Baltimore website. You can also visit the national Project Rachel website which offers compassionate advice, articles, resources, prayers, and much more.
Mary Ann Sorra, M.D., OB/GYN stopped prescribing artificial contraception and adopted the use of natural family planning in her medical practice in 2009. (Read the Catholic Review article about her.) She then partnered with Saint Agnes to start Natural Fertility Care. She believes she became a better doctor after making that transition — better able to care for the whole human person, body and soul. She trained at the Pope Paul VI Institute and became a Medical Consultant for NaPro technology in 2011. She is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Association of Pro-life Ob/Gyns. If you are looking for quality, life-affirming, reproductive medical care, then click here to read more about Dr. Sorra and contact her team.
We have a weekly Prayer Vigil for Life:
Saturday mornings from 7:30 — 8:00 AM
Corner of Dolfield and Music Fair Roads in Owings Mills
One does not have to attend the monthly meetings in order to help. Volunteers for our annual events are always needed!
Maternity Counseling / Adoption Services
These services are offered by Catholic Charities in Baltimore. They offer the support needed to make the best decision for you and your baby. Call 410-659-4050 or 1-800-CARE-002.
Our sister parish, St. Ann's Church, is located at 528 E. 22nd Street in Baltimore. The fascinating history of St. Ann's, from their parish website:
St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church on Greenmount and 22nd Street was erected through the generosity of Captain William Kennedy, commander of one of the most famous Baltimore clipper ships, The Wanderer. Caught in a raging storm off the coast of Vera Cruz in 1833, Captain Kennedy vowed that if he and his crew returned safely to port, he would build a church as a testament of his gratitude to God. The anchor held. Upon returning to Baltimore, Captain Kennedy gave up his life at sea and gave up his brig. He did, however, keep his anchor and chain. True to his promise, in 1872 Captain Kennedy and his wife, Mary Ann Jenkins, secured property and funds for the church which was to be named for Saint Ann, the patron saint of sailors. The cornerstone was laid in 1873 — the same year that Captain Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy died. Although neither of them lived to see the church completed, they are both buried under the main aisle of St. Ann's Church.
The history continues:
The church was completed in 1874, and later expanded seating capacity and a school (now closed) and convent were added. In 1925 the original anchor was restored and placed in a stone cradle beside the cornerstone where it remains today. The historic, cultural, and architectural significance of this church is well documented in the church archives, and St. Ann's continues to be a neighborhood landmark. St. Ann's is a good neighbor to the poor and disenfranchised and continues to reaffirm its mission to the East Baltimore community.
Sacred Heart's outreach to St. Ann's includes two large food collections, gifts at Christmas, various projects as needed, and Poor Box collections on the first Sunday of each month. Sacred Heart School adopts families at St. Ann's at Christmas.
Center for Pregnancy Concerns was founded in 1980 for the purpose of providing women facing an unplanned pregnancy with a place to explore their options in a non-threatening, comfortable environment. We offer a variety of services, all of which are entirely free. Our mission is to protect the physical, emotional, and spiritual lives of women and their unborn children. Current director is Gina Ruppert, a Sacred Heart parishioner.
CPC at St. Ann's is open on Tuesday — Thursday from 9:00 AM — 4:00 PM. You can schedule an appointment at www.cpcforhelp.org or call 410-391-6699.
Our mission: to protect the physical, emotional, and spiritual lives of women and their unborn children
Services include: a helpline, pregnancy testing, material assistance, referrals, education, post-abortion counseling, sonograms, and abstinence programs
Current center needs are: diapers, wipes, baby lotion, shampoo, sleepers 0-9 mos, and clothing size 2t-3t
Rogelio d'Almeida
Pastoral Associate
410-235-8169
www.stannsofbaltimore.org
(To view more great photos, click here!)
Our parish Social Justice Committee is currently being revamped. Look for more details in the future!