Last call to Sign up!The fun and social game of Hand & Foot will resume from January thru May for those interested. Hand & Foot is a very simple card game consisting of 6 people (3 couples-married or single. The game is hosted at one of the couple's home each month, alternating homes and couples. An extremely easy game to learn. Sign-up in the narthex beginning November 16 OR you may e-mail Ann Krawczynski at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The necessary information is: names of the couple, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, address of the host, and if you wish to be a regular or a substitute player. Please call Ann at 501-915-9629 for further information.
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The Christmas Angel Tree will go up the weekend of November 23/24. Each angel lists a suggested gift of an article of clothing for a child in the families we help at Christmas. The gift MUST BE returned by Sunday, December 8. The Angel from the tree must be attached to the gift so that the side with suggested item is FACE DOWN. The Christmas boxes will be delivered between December 14 and December 22. Schools will be out of session for the holiday season, so volunteers must contact their recipient families before December 20. 
You are invited to bring framed pictures of deceased loved ones to church and place them on the designated table in the nartex. They will eventually be moved to a special table at the front of church for All Souls' Day where they will remain during November. PLEASE put your name and phone number on the back of the pciture. If you have any questions call Sandy DFarnell at 602-418-3414. 
Retired Old Men Eating Out (ROMEO), Men's Breakfast Group, will meet on Monday, November 11, at 7:30 a.m. at Debra's Restaurant, 198 Carmona Road, HSV. Please attend and join other men of the parish for breakfast and camaraderie. Great food, great conversation and awesome fellowship. If you need a ride, please call Bob Bowman at 922-6619 or Randy Schnoebelen at 501-204-9178. 
The Knight's of Columbus invite you to join them on Monday, November 11, 2019 at 8:30 a.m. for recitation of the Patriotic Rosary in the Main Church. Mass will follow at 9:00 a.m. There will be a reception in the Upper Hall with assorted pastries, juice and coffee immediately following Mass. Please join the Knights of Columbus as they honor our deceased and living veterans! 
LOSH will have their monthly meeting on Monday, November 11 following the 9:00 a.m. Mass in the Lower Hall. Our guest speaker is Dr. Penny Beed and will be discussing Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Project. Dr. Beed has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Literacy Education and has been involved with early childhood reading for over 23 years. Our "something extra" this month is for Oaklawn Racetrack Chaplaincy Center. Items such as new socks (men and women); new underwear in various sizes (men and women); work gloves, feminine hygiene products, toothpaste; bar soap; gently used items such as flannel shirts, sweatshirts, jackets, work pants (jeans or chinos); shirts (polo shirts are good); work shoes and boots; sheets, towels, blankets, winter hat and gloves.
We are also collecting items of The Caring Place in Hot Springs. The Caring Place of Hot Springs provides respite for caregivers and families of people with dementia and Alzheimer's through a supervised daily program for the participants in a safe and comfortable environment. Items needed are any leftover birthday plates/napkins you no longer need and/or bingo prizes.
All ladies of the Parish are welcome to attend this meeting.
The next meeting of the Sacred Heart Men's Club is on Tuesday, November 12, starting at 5:00 p.m. You may join others in the Upper Hall to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet for family, Church, our nation, world peace, and your personal intentions. Social gathering in the Lower Hall is from 5:00 to 5:45 p.m. Dinner will be served before 6:00 p.m. Following dinner, Linda Mayhood, who retired as COO, after 40 years' service with HSV POA, and is now Chairperson of the HSV 50th Anniversary. Following Linda's presentation there will be a short business meeting.
The dinner for the evening will be green salad, lasagna, green beans, garlic bread, and ice cream for dessert. The cost of the dinner is $12 per person and will be catered by Chef Johnna. Any man who is a member of Sacred Heart Church or any non-Catholic husband of a wife who is a member of Sacred Heart Church, is invited to attend. New members eat free by paying the $15 membership fee. Anyone attending and eating dinner will need to make a reservation by contacting Bill Patterson at 501-922-6965 or by e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 3:00 p.m. Sunday, November 10th.
St. John's annual Oktoberfest Bazaar is coming up on Friday, October 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., school gym, 583 East Grand Avenue, Hot Springs. A traditional Oktoberfest lunch (Brats, hotdogs, sauerkraut, potato salad and all the fall fixin's) will be served from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The traditional spaghetti dinner will be served from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Electronic bidding for silent auction items begins on October 12, www.sjs2019bazaar.givesmart.com, and ends the evening of the bazaar. A children's carnival with inflatables will be another highlight of the day. All proceeds go to support the only Catholic school in Garland County. Please participate in some of these and other activities going on that day. Fun times! 
NATIONAL COLLECTION for the ARCHDIOCESE for MILITARY SERVICESEstablished by Saint John Paul II in 1985, the Archdiocese for the Military Services is responsible for providing the full range of pastoral ministries available in all other U.S. dioceses to those serving in the United States Armed Services, enrolled in U.S. Military Academies, undergoing treatment at any of the 153 Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, working in civilian jobs for the federal government beyond U.S. borders, and for the families of these populations. In other words, the AMS is responsible for the pastoral care of men, women, and children from all U.S. dioceses, who hail from all 50 States and U.S. Territories - including members of your own parish.
The next National Collection for the Archdiocese for the Military Services is scheduled for the weekend of November 2 and 3, 2019. The AMS receives no funding from the U.S. Government or the U.S. Military, has no parishes for a weekly in-pew collection, and must rely principally on private donations to fund an annual operating budget of over $8.2. million.
Please help continue to provide priests for the Church and the military chaplaincy and to minister to the Catholic military men and women, and their families, who are part of the global Archdiocese - parishioners and families from your diocese - with a donation to the 2019 Triennial National Collection for the AMS.
Sacred Heart of Jesus parishioners, Cathy Kraus, (Director); Lynne Border, (Music Director); Susan Harrell, (Producer); Kathy Clark, (Lucy); and Shawn Clark, (ninja grip) invite you to come laugh with the Peanuts Gang once again. "You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown-Revised" is presented by the HSV Players at the Fountain Lake Auditorium, November 2-3. Tickets will be available at the door, or online through www.HSVPlayers.com. Adults are $20.00 and students are $10.00. 
The parish office is open Monday thru Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Please make a note of this change. 
Don't miss the opportunity for you and your spouse to honor your fallen fellow Knights and their beloved widows for Mass and dinner on Tuesday evening, November 5. Cost is only $19.00 per person for the special dinner in the Lower Hall following the Memorial Mass at 5:00 p.m. Tickets are available by calling the KofC ticket line 501-404-5195 or by calling Jim Dixon at 214-632-2351. 
A Fashion Show, presented by the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, will be presented Monday, October 21, in the Lower Hall. Fashions by Kohl's will be modeled by the women of our parish. Lunch, caterd by Dolce Vita, will be served. A Silent Auction will also be held. Cost of a ticket is $17, and can be purchased NOW from your guild captains. Tickets are NOW available to ALL ladies of the Parish and HSV. Please call Marion LaVelle, 501-209-2435, for tickets.Please call Barb Potter at 501-226-3246 if you have items to be donated for the Silent Auction.
We are looking for volunteers for the 2019-2020 food basket programs for Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church. A second collection will be taken up the week end of October 26/27. The money collected will fund the food basket program from Thanksgiving 2019 through Christmas and in to 2020 to cover the Easter holidays. Hopefully, enough will be collected to also cover a basket of food for families with school aged children at home through the summer.At the October meetings of the various service organizations of Sacred Heart, sign-up sheets will be available. Or, if you wish, you can volunteer to shop and deliver a basket of food for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas, by contacting Ed Keearns via e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or you may call him at 501-922-3432 (home) or 501-922-8986 (cell).
In addition to Mass on All Souls' Day, Saturday, November 2 at 9:00 a.m., we will process after Mass to the Sacred Heart Columbarium reciting the Rosary and offering prayers for the Faithful Departed once we get there. Prayers will be offered at CedarVale Cemetery at 11:00 a.m. that same day. Come join us as we carry on the long tradition of special prayers for the dead on this day.