This weekend, November 16-17, the Second Collection will be for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).  Since 1970, CCHD-funded projects have created jobs, improved neighborhoods, and provided a way out of poverty for people with low incomes.  CCHD grants are at work in several local organizations within our own diocese.  “We should be particularly indignant at the enormous inequality in our midst…. We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading poverty, while others have not…

The weekend of November 9-10, Bishop Barron has asked all of the parishes in the diocese to take up a Second Collection for those affected by the recent Hurricanes Helene and Milton in Florida, North Carolina, and throughout the southeastern part of the United States.  Catholic Charities, the official domestic disaster relief agency of the Catholic Church in the United States, is coordinating the relief efforts.  Checks should be made payable to Sacred Heart Church; one check will be forwarded…

Next Sunday, October 20, is World Mission Sunday.  Pope Pius XI instituted World Mission Sunday 98 years ago in 1926 as a day “to encourage prayers and offerings for the missions.”  Your contributions in next week’s second collection for the Society of the Propagation of the Faith will help bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His Church to “all the nations.”  Your gifts will also help the many priests, religious sisters and brothers, and lay men and women who…