FEBRUARY 25, Rev. Eric Flores, Parochial Administrator Deacons: Michael Evans Rich Valles Anthony Short Secretary/Bookkeeper: Angie Scott

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1 SACRED HEART CATHOLI C CHURCH ST. ANNE CATHOLIC CH URCH Sacred Heart Church 3141 St. Stephens Drive, Anderson Saturday Mass: 4:30PM (English) Mass: 10:00AM (English) 12:00 (Spanish) Weekdays: Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri: 8AM St. Anne Church 3415 Main Street Cottonwood Mass: 8:15AM Parish Office Angie Scott, Secretary/Bookkeeper FEBRUARY 25, 2018 Catholic Faith Formation Renae Magana, Coordinator Formacion de fe para ninos Martin Ramirez, Coordinador Youth Ministry Grupo de Jovenes Teresa Lomeli, Coordinador RCIA Fr. Eric Flores, Coordinator RICA Yolanda Alvarado, Coordinador Baptism Preparation Class st Tuesday of each month Mike Spence, Coordinator Clase de preparación para el bautismo 2do jueves de cada mes Hector Rubio, Coordinador, Parish Nursing Ministry Sandy Downing, Parish Nurse Sacred Heart Thrift Store Gateway Drive, Anderson Maria Gonzales, Manager Parish Gift Shop Kathy Weiss, Coordinator Anderson Cottonwood Christian Assistance 2979 East Center St. Anderson, Open Tuesday & Friday, 10am 2pm Northern Valley Catholic Social Service 2400 Washington Ave. Redding Knights of Columbus Jim Duval, Grand Knight FaithWORKS! West Street #1, Redding Rev. Eric Flores, Parochial Administrator Deacons: Michael Evans Rich Valles Anthony Short Secretary/Bookkeeper: Angie Scott Website: sacredheartparish.com sacredheartanderson@outlook.com

2 Coming Soon Micro-Giving: An easy way to support our parish How many of us still collect coins in a jar, saving all those pennies, dimes, and quarters for a special occasion? Check out this unique way to help support the parish. Think about buying a cup of coffee for $2.25. The next nearest dollar is.75 cents away ($3.00), right? The remaining amount, called a roundup, can be donated to your parish through a company called WeMicroGive. Working with The Catholic Foundation of the Diocese of Sacramento, WeMicroGive can safely and securely link your credit card or debit card and track the roundups each month. This innovative and effortless way to give is already used by credit card companies for various social causes. Now, you can use the same web and mobile technology to support your parish on every transaction you make! And, what s more, the parish gets to keep the entire amount of your donation minus the transaction fees. Just designate any credit or debit card for roundup transactions, and WeMicroGive handles the rest using a secure encrypted system recognized by 9,000 financial institutions. You also have full control you can track your donations on a donor dashboard, set limits to your monthly contribution or just give a fixed amount. You can even stop at any time. Why not give it a try, and help our parish financially through roundups! Name/ Welcome/Bienvenidos! (Please register or update our information/por favor registrese ó proporcione nueva información) Nombre: Address/Dirección: City/Ciudad Zip Phone/Telefono: Children s Names and Ages/Nombres y edades de los niños:

3 MASS INTENTIONS FEB. 24TH MAR. 4TH Saturday Feb. 24 4:30pm 8:15am 10:00am Noon Nickolas Medin Tuesday Feb. 27 8:00am Patrick O Shea Wednesday Feb. 28 8:00am Thursday Mar. 1 8:00am Friday Mar. 2 8:00am Saturday Mar. 3 4:30pm 8:15am 10:00am Noon Robert Rekert Nickolas Medin PRAYER CONCERNS Delpha Blahut, Ilene Duval, Butch Scott, Tillie Duval, Mary Marko, Dawn Drinkwater, Ashton Johnston, Carol Andrews, Sr. Janel, Katie Lewis, Martha Hitchcock, Carolyn Greenwood, Yvonne Mantey, Kevin Rezak, Angelo Costanzo, Mary Rowe, Joe Fitzpatrick, Delaney Valles, Ross Clark, Melody Christenson, Mary Jarvis, Mary O Keeffe, Jay Burns, Stan MacIsaac. FLU SEASON Health Officials are warning of a Flu Epidemic across the entire United States!!! As a precaution until the flu season has passed: We will no longer offer the Precious Blood. We will no longer hold hands at the Our Father. Do not shake hands/hug at the Sign of Peace. Use hand sanitizer and wash your hands often. PARISH WISH LIST The Parish is in need of a few items. The blower and lawn mower that were purchased in 2005 have finally given up. We have received a quote from a local vendor of $350 for each piece of equipment. We are also in need of 4 Blu Ray DVD players for our 4 Faith Formation Classrooms. The cost is approximately $75 each. If you can donate toward any of these items, it would be greatly appreciated. STEWARDSHIP CORNER Collection Summary January 27/28: $4,812 February 3/4: $6,783 February 10/11: $4,468 February 17/18: $4,765 For fiscal year Budgeted for Collections: $280,000 Total for 33 weeks: $181,546 weekly Goal: $5,385 Average Weekly Collection: $5,646 Second Collection Our Second Collection next weekend is for our Maintenance and Improvement Fund. This collection helps keep our parish buildings and grounds in good working order and looking so good. Thank you for your continued generosity. ON-LINE GIVING Online giving is the future. In the lifetime of our young people, we will see electronic payments overshadow traditional methods of paper payments. In order to position ourselves to continue doing the work of God in the future and to make it as convenient as possible to be a cheerful giver to God s work, we have decided to offer online giving to you. In addition to easier access to giving and more engagement with young stewards, online offering allows us to more easily track contributions for budgeting, saves us from large fees on check processing and allows us to more accurately forecast expenditures and needs. MyEoffering is a service our parish has teamed up with to give you the ability to send your offerings online in the same way that many of you already pay bills and purchase products. You can set donations to match your pay periods, and even send your one-time donations to special offerings. This service allows you to give any amount, any time, anywhere, with your computer or mobile device. Now you can control how and when you give your tithes. Signing up is as simple as going to our church website, and look for the green donate now icon. That button will take you to the myeoffering page for our church. Simply sign up and begin giving online today! If you would like more information or assistance, our parish nurse Sandy Downing has offered to help,

4 THANK YOU We would like to thank everyone who made our 2018 Crab Feed a huge success!!! A big thank you to: Ray & Maria Gonzales and Renae Magana who chaired the entire event this year; Tina Nelson who coordinated the beautiful raffle; Josephine McCann who made the delicious clam chowder; Ray Dawson who cooked the wonderful prime rib again this year; Patty Ostrowski who went out into the community and solicited many wonderful prizes for the raffle; Robert DeGuerro who provided the music; the generous parishioners who donated raffle prizes; and...all our wonderful volunteers who helped set up, clean up, serve the meal, work the bar and cashier s table. It was wonderful to see all of our ministries join together to facilitate this year s Crab Feed: Thrift Store, English & Spanish Faith Formation, Knights of Columbus and the Marthas Ministry. Without all of you, this event would not be possible. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! SENIOR & VETERAN FRAUD PREVENTION FAIR The Shasta County District Attorney s Office is offering a Fraud Prevention Fair for seniors and veterans on Tuesday, March 6th, 10am 1pm at the Redding Elks Lodge, 250 Elk Drive, Redding. You will have a chance to meet the Fraud Protection Team, find resources from State and Local agencies, and listen to informative speakers. We will also offer free onsite shredding. For more information, please call CHILDREN S FAITH FORMATION On this First of Lent, we would like to encourage you to talk to your children about any changes they see in the Church or at the Mass. We have sent home a Lenten Family Activity Calendar to encourage change, help provide ideas, and allow everyone to participate fully in the Lenten Disciplines of Fasting, Prayer and Almsgiving. As part of the continued process of Sacrament Preparation, the second of our four Parent meetings will be this Wednesday, February 28th. IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER February 28th: Class and Sacramental Prep. Meeting MONTHLY SUNDAY BREAKFAST Join us next, March 4th, for our monthly Parish Breakfast, 9am to 12:30pm, in the parish hall. Come and enjoy a delicious breakfast prepared by our Knights of Columbus. Cost is $6 for adults and $4 for children under 12. LENTEN MUSIC During the season of Lent, the parts of the Mass that we sing will be different. Please check out the left side of the music board to see the new song numbers. We are always in need of new choir members. If you like to sing, please join us!!! You can contact Curt Nelson, for more information. LENTEN FAST AND ABSTINENCE: AN INVITATION TO AWARENESS What are you hungry for? Sometimes the answer is obvious: pizza, Chinese food, a juicy steak. Our spiritual hungers are rarely that easy to identify. The season of Lent, our 40-day preparation for Easter, is our annual invitation to grow in awareness of those deeper hungers. We need Lent to help us recognize that our meaning and mission are rooted in Jesus dying and rising. Together with those preparing for baptism, we join in outward signs of our inner conversion. Our year-round prayer, fasting and almsgiving take on new meaning during this season. Catholics were once well known for their practice of not eating meat on Friday a specific form of fasting called abstinence. Stories abound of the lengths Catholics would go to keep this law. Of course, as with any law, it was not that difficult to meet the letter of the law and violate its spirit. One might enjoy a fine lobster dinner or fish fry at a local restaurant and still meet the law s requirements. Catholics were also called to limit their food intake on a variety of other fast days. The reforms which followed the Second Vatican Council sought to simplify the often complicated questions that arose regarding fast and abstinence while re-emphasizing the continuing need for such practices. The current laws took effect in They read simply: Catholics who have celebrated their 14th birthday are bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and each Friday of Lent. Catholics who have celebrated their 18th birthday, in addition to abstaining from meat, should fast, i.e., eat only one full meal on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Smaller quantities of food may be taken at two other meals, but no food should be consumed at any other time during those two days. The obligation of fasting ceases with the celebration of one s 59th birthday. The spirit of the law may invite us to fast from other activities as well: from television or computer games, from eating out or from gossiping. These minimum requirements make the most sense when they are combined with prayer and almsgiving. These age-old disciplines reflect our most fundamental concerns: our relationship with God (prayer), with our bodies (fasting) and with each other (almsgiving).

5 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Mon. Daniel 9:4b-10; Luke 6:36-38 Tue. Isaiah 1:10, 16-20; Matthew 23:1-12 Wed. Jeremiah 18:18-20; Matthew 20:17-28 Thu. Jeremiah 17:5-10; Luke 16:19-31 Fri. Genesis 37:3-4,12-13a,17b-28a; Matt. 21:33-46 Sat. Michah 7:14-15; 18-20; Luke 15:1-3, Sun. Exodus 20:1-17; 1 Corinthians 1:22-25; John 2:13-25 WEEKLY REFLECTIONS EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP Recognize God In Your Everyday Moments I have had the honor of coaching all three of my kids in soccer. When you are a coach of a team of little ones, along with the fundamentals of the game and good sportsmanship, you want to teach the value of teamwork. If they can learn about how a team functions and why working together matters, that lesson can benefit them for many years to come. The Body of Christ is a type of team. We are all called upon to use our talents and gifts in such a way that they complement those of others. We are stronger and capable of so much more together than when we are apart. Our stewardship isn't just about our personal call of God to cultivate our gifts and give them back with increase to Him. It is about how our stewardship way of life builds up the Body of Christ. The Body cannot function as God intended it to if parts of it are not fully giving of themselves. In community, we have the power to change the world around us because we bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who need to hear it and witness it by our actions. This Lent, consider how you fit into the Body of Christ. How can your gifts and talents make the Church stronger? You just might be the missing component of a team that really needs help to make the greatest impact for Jesus. -- Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS GOSPEL MEDITATION FOR FEBRUARY 25TH How are your Lenten resolutions? By the time week two rolls around, plenty of well-meaning people have skipped, neglected, or outright forgotten their Lenten resolutions at least once. It can be easy to start excusing our Lenten commitments altogether. Last week we saw Jesus driven into the desert. This, we see Jesus leading his disciples to an equally barren place: he led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. But what happens there? And he was transfigured before them and his clothes became dazzling white. Today s Gospel reminds us of the goal. We don t enter into the desert for the sake of suffering, but for the sake of transformation. Mountain imagery is prevalent throughout Scripture. The sacrifice of Isaac, Moses receiving the 10 Commandments, Elijah s revelation of God as a tiny whispering sound: all these occur on the mountaintop. Mountains are strenuous to hike. To assist the traveler in the assent, trails often involve switchbacks. These lead the traveler back and forth across the mountainside, sometimes appearing as if hardly any ground is gained. Perhaps Peter, James, and John hiked a similar path as Jesus led them up the side of Mount Tabor. A climb is difficult. A climb in a barren place leaves you thirsty, exhausted, and quite possibly frustrated or discouraged. Yet this is precisely how Jesus leads his closest disciples. Why? Because he has something to reveal to them. Practically speaking, Jesus needed to bring Peter, James and John away from the crowds for this revelation of glory to remain hidden. There are spiritual truths we will encounter only if we pass through difficulty. So let's persevere this Lent! Today s Gospel invites us to trust that, if we persevere in following Jesus, he'll lead us to something beautiful and glorious as well. QUESTION OF THE WEEK For Children: Jesus invites you to be close to him, to see him with clear eyes. What is Jesus like as a friend? For Youth: What do you most want God to help you with? For Adults: Sometimes we can see Christ with clear eyes, as the disciples did on that mountain. Share about such a time in your own life. WEEKLY CALENDAR: FEBRUARY 24TH MARCH 4TH Monday Tuesday Wednesday 8:15 a.m. Mass St. Anne 10:00 a.m. Mass Sacred Heart 10:00 a.m. Formación de Fe de los niños 12:00 p.m. Misa en Español 8:00 a.m. Mass 9:00 a.m. Bible Study 11:00 a.m. Rosary at Rosie s Home 6:00 p.m. Arise Meeting 8:00 a.m. Mass 6:00 p.m. Children s Faith Formation Classes 6:00 p.m. Sacramental Prep. Meeting for Parents Thursday Friday Saturday 8:00 a.m. Mass 8:00 a.m. Mass 10:30 a.m. Rosary at Oak River 5:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross 6:00 p.m. Grupo de Juevenes 6:15 p.m. Lenten Soup Dinner 7:00 p.m. Via Crusis PARISH OFFICE CLOSED 3:00 p.m. Confessions 4:30 p.m. Mass Sacred Heart 8:15 a.m. Mass St. Anne 10:00 a.m. Mass Sacred Heart 10:00 a.m. Formación de Fe de los niños 12:00 p.m. Misa en Español