The Second Sunday in Advent

The Second Sunday in Advent

The Prelude this week is an arrangement by J.S. Bach of a movement from Kantate 140 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, [also known as Sleepers Wake], He composed the cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November...
The Second Sunday in Advent

The First Sunday in Advent, 2018

The Church has begun a New Year! Advent marks the start of a new cycle of readings and a new beginning but we begin quietly. The General Instructions of the Roman Missal says: “In Advent, the organ and other musical instruments should be used with a moderation...
Thanksgiving Basket Food Drive 2018

Thanksgiving Basket Food Drive 2018

Every year Sacred Heart provides food for Thanksgiving week to the needy. Last year we served 116 households (158 adults and 130 children)! We help migrant workers on the Eastern Shore. We support women in crisis pregnancies through Hope 4 Life. Our boxes go out to...
Message From Bishop Knestout

Message From Bishop Knestout

Bishop Knestout encourages anyone aware of sexual abuse of minors on the part of clergy or staff of our diocese to notify civil authorities, call the Attorney General’s Clergy Abuse Hotline at 1-833-454-9064, and reach out to the Diocesan Victim Assistance...
Message From Bishop Knestout

The 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Prelude: Symphonie 2 ‘V. Adagio’ Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) Offertory, Sunday at 11:00 a.m.: Expectans Expectavi Charles Wood The poem is by Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley (19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915) a British Army officer who fought in the WW I. He was...