The 2021 Mass Book is now open, for your Mass Intention requests (living or deceased). The Parish Office is open Monday to Friday from 9am till 4pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 9am till 3pm.

Please note, we have limited the amount of names that can be listed as the intention and if there is a middle name, only the middle initial will be used.
 

Father John Cambra, MIC, writes:
June is the Month of the Sacred Heart, in recognition of Jesus’ apparitions starting in 1673 to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647- 1690), a member of the Visitation Sisters, through whom He asked for devotion to His Sacred Heart.

In that first apparition, Jesus enveloped Saint Margaret Mary in a mystical experience of His love. She reported that Jesus allowed her “to recline for a long time on His divine breast, where He disclosed to me the marvels of His love and the unutterable secrets of His Sacred Heart.”

In His second apparition to her, a First Friday in 1674, Jesus showed Saint Margaret His Heart, “more dazzling than the sun and transparent as crystal.” The Cross stood above it, and a crown of thorns encircled it, signifying the wounds it had endured as a result of our sins.

Christ told Saint Margaret that He wanted to reveal His wounded Heart because He could not abide watching as countless people turned away from Him. He wanted all to experience His love, mercy, and grace, and to attain salvation.

Jesus’ request came at a time when many people had embraced the heretical teaching of Jansenism, which instilled a radical pessimism that implied that most people would be damned and only a few would be saved (by means of their rigorous observance of rules). It has been said that Jansenism — which puts too much emphasis on God’s Divine Justice, teaching that one has to be perfect to come to Jesus — breaks the Lord’s Heart.

In contrast, devotion to the Sacred Heart emphasizes the vastness of God’s concern and love for struggling humanity. It serves as a reminder to the sinful and hurting people to trust in His Heart, which so tenderly loves each of us. In the Image of the Sacred Heart, Jesus shows His burning love for us and His desire that we return that love.

This calls to mind the Gospel of Saint Matthew, when the Lord remarks on the mercy He wishes to bestow. He says, “How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing (23:37).

 

Congratulation to the Children
Who received their
First Holy Communion

At the end of April, and during the month of May, the following children received their First Holy Communion. We pray that the reception of this wonderful Sacrament will strengthen and sustain these children in the Roman Catholic Faith.

Sophia Acosta-Sierra
Johan Arias
Maximiliano Arias
Mia Arias
Daniela Barajas
Luis Cantillo
Ayelene Carmen
Michelle Carmen
John Dosseh
Juan Pablo Escamilla
Jimena Figueroa
Jayden Flores
Alex Garcia
Edgar Garcia
Emmanuel Gomez
Katelyn Guiracocha
Julian Ibarra
Emilie Leandre
Andres Lopez
Mateo Lua
Matthew Moncada
Jose Nahuatlato
Emanuel Oliveros
Matthew Perez
Olivia Silva Quetzalli
Tejeda Miguel
Torres Arianna
Valencia Luca Zambrano

Unfortunately, we were not able to have a First Communion Mass, with all the children together in one group, due to the pandemic. Hopefully, next year we will be able to do so once again.

It was a difficult year for teachers, students and parents. For the most part, parents did a wonderful job helping their children learn the assigned tasks and turn in their homework on time. Working remotely was not easy. This coming Religious Education year (which starts in September) will be different than this past academic year. We thank parents, children and teachers for their perseverance.