The Catholic practice of assigning a special devotion to each month goes back to the early 16th century. The best known of those devotions is probably the dedication of May as the month of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the early years of the 19th century, it quickly spread throughout the Western Church, and, by the time of Pope Pius IX’s declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854, it had become universal. May Crownings and other special…

Foster Care Awareness MonthMay is Foster Care Awareness Month. There are thousands of children of all ages in need of homes. There are three different kinds of foster care: Family Foster Care (foster children are taken in and treated as family, can be short term or long term), Kinship Foster Care (family of the child takes them in), and Respite Foster Care (providing short term relief to long term foster parents for a few hours to a few days). To…

April 21 is Administrative Professionals’ Day. Sacred Heart would like to show our appreciation for our Administrator, Sandy Strand, and our Admin. Assistant, Jordan Gutierrez, for all they do for our church. God bless you both and all other administrative professionals!