Please join the Knights of Columbus at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church on December 31 to usher in the New Year! Any profits will help support "Christmas Gifts for Children."Gathering time and a Social will be held from 5:15 to 5:45 in the Lower Hall. Free party favors will be available. Dinner will be available at 6:00 p.m. as prepared and served by Home Plate: Shrimp Cocktail Starter, Chateaubriand (medium/rare), Rosemary Potatoes, Glazed Baby Carrots, Bourbon Sauce Bread Pudding. Dessert will be served at 9:00 p.m. with champagne service at 9:30 p.m. We will toast at 10:00 p.m.
We'll dance to the musical stylings of Marcus Sugg from 7:00 to 10:30 p.m. - or until whenever. We can bring our choice of drink as set-ups will be available with a "Free-Will Offering Refreshment Center (cash donations, please). Enjoy self-service wine, beer, soft drinks, mixed and other adult drinks.
Get your tickets early, for $35 each. Ticket sales will be held the weekends of December 8/9 and December 15/16 - before and after Mass. There are priority ticket sales for table reservations for eight guests. (Please prepary $280 a table). Other ticketed guests have random available seating.
For other ticket orders or for on-call-at-the-door ticket pick-up: Mail a check before December 20 to Walter Free, 5 Teleno Lane, HSV, 71909. To phone Walter for ticket availability, 501-922-9480.
Our annual Epiphany Crockpot Dinner will be held on Sunday, January 6, 2019. Please sign-up to attend and bring your favorite crockpot dish to share. Recipes are always welcome to accompany your dish! The sign-ups will begin on Saturday, December 22, and end on Sunday, December 30. We will also have our Gift Bingo, so please, bring a wrapped gift as well. It should be fun as always! Hope to see you and sample your dish. If there are any questions, please contact Jennifer Rivera at 928-358-9069. 
Sir Knights, join us for our first Membership Meeting of the calendar year. The Fourth Degree will be meeting in the Lower Hall on Tuesday, January 22, at 5:00 p.m. Dinner and dessert will be served. Please confirm your intent to attend by emailing Gary Wolfer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or calling him at 501-201-1192. Looking forward to seeing you there! 
This year's collection more than doubled the collection of 2017! Because of the generosity of the parishioners of Sacred Heart, the Food Basket program will be able to provide more food to more families in the Fountain Lake, Jessieville, and Mountain Pine school districts. During the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, the committee will need additional volunteers to take care of the shopping and delivery of the additional food baskets. If you are willing to help with this part of the program, please call Ed Keearns, 922-3832. Thanksgiving food baskets will be delivered between November 8 and November 21. 
Ladies of the Sacred Heart General Meeting will be held in the Lower Hall following Mass on Monday, January 14. Our speaker will be Hot Springs Village resident Colleen Angel. Founder of Tiny Angel Gowns, she will describe her mission of designing, sewing and donating gowns, hats and diapers to hospitals for those "angel babies" who do not leave the hospital.Our "baby shower" is also ongoing, so please bring baby items to the meeting, to be donated to three worthy charities. All women of the parish are welcome to attend.
Attention! Hand & Foot Club sign-up sheets will be in the narthex this month. Please join us if interested. Hand & Foot will be played January through May, no fee or closing dinner.Play is once a month and consists of three couples hosted by one of the couples at their home. Couples will be rotated and mixed to allow different couples to get together. This is a FUN GAME and EASY TO LEARN - if you are not familiar with it. Couples can be a married couple or two singles coupled for this game. Instructions and schedules will be available in December in the narthex, in envelopes addressed to each participating couple or single.
If you have questions, please feel free to call Ann Krawczynski at 501-915-9629.
We are beginning the third week of Advent. Have you found your schedule so busy that your intentions to make 2018 your best Advent yet, have fallen by the wayside? One way to help ensure you are remembering to make Advent meaningful is to sign up with formed.org for daily reflections. They can be sent to your inbox. Look for ADVENTREFLECTIONS on the site. Families will also want to check-out Brother Francis Presents the Days of Advent. Grandparents who share this site with their grandchildren will find it child-friendly. Try it with family. Perhaps you can help put the focus on Christ this Christmas.If you haven't registered on Formed.org, enter the parish code CNT7WK on the home page and create a password.
Voices Rising, a select vocal ensemble featuring singers from Hot Springs Village and Hot Springs, is please to present "The Twelfth Day of Christmas" at Sacred Heart Church, Epiphany Sunday, January 6, at 3:00 p.m. This approximately 60-minute concert will feature most of the selections Voices Rising presented last month at their Christmas event, ranging from the inspirational "What Sweeter Music" to the festive "Fruitcake." You will hear selections from the full chorus, the "Newbie Quartet," the men of Voices Rising, and solos by three very talented chorus members. And of course, the audience will have the opportunity to join the singers in a Christmas carol medley, and during a very special arrangement of "Peace," featuring "Silent Night."Sacred Heart parishioners Carolyn Bowers, Bill Lamoureux and Maureen Morgan, and Saint Mary's/Hot Springs parishioner Denise Steinhaus, are among the talented singers of Voices Rising.
A free will offering, to help offset the cost of music and other necessities, will be gratefully accepted.
The parish Epiphany crock pot dinner will follow the concert.
The next Arkansas Blood Institute Blood Drive supported by the Knights of Columbus and hosted by the Village United Methodist Church at 200 Carmona Road will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 8, 2019. Previous donors with e-mail addresses have been sent an e-mail reminder. New donors can contact Bob Woodall with questions, schedule an appointment, or be placed on an e-mail reminder list. Bob can be reached at 501-282-6072 or by e-mailing him at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Thank you, in advance, for sharing your "Gift of Life." 
We will have our annual Christmas potluck lunch, play cards, and have our "Dirty Santa" gift exchange on Wednesday, January 2, in the Upper Hall starting at 12:00 p.m. You can bring a food item (an entree, dips/chips or dessert) and a minimum $10 gift wrapped for the gift exchange if you want to participate in the exchange. Our regulars and anyone who wants to join us for the first time are invited for fun and fellowship. 
Men's Club General Membership Meeting will meet Tuesday, January 8, at 5:00 p.m. in the Lower Hall. At 5:00 p.m., you can 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. After diner, we will have a short business meeting. Remember to sign up with Danny Murphy at the meeting to participate in our "Meals On Wheels" program for February.
The dinner for the evening will be Pork Loin w/Sangria Sauce, salad with crackers, sweet potatoes, mixed vegetables, and ice cream for dessert. The cost of the dinner is $12 per person and will be catered by employees of Chef Johnna. Contact Bill Patterson by phone at 922-6965 or transmit an email message to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 3:00 p.m. Sunday, January 6, if you plan on attending and eating with us.
The Ladies of the Sacred Heart will have its annual Christmas Cookie Sale after all Masses next weekend (December 15/16). All plates, with a variety of cookies on them, will be sold for $4.00 each. Proceeds go to the Ladies Community Outreach Program. Please lend your support. 
Our December meeting is a "Holiday Meeting with Wives or Dates," and will be held on Tuesday, December 11. At 5:00 p.m. we will pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet in the Upper Hall. A Social then follows in the Lower Hall until 5:45 p.m. Dinner will be served before 6:00 p.m. Dress for dinner is evening casual.For fun and prizes, we will need to "Study the History of Christmas." Then, special music will be presented. The dinner will be prepared and served by Chef Johnna and will include: choice of three entrees, Prime Rib, Citrus Salmon, Herb-Grilled Chicken. These will be served with green salad with crackers, truffle mashed potatoes, asparagus, rolls, and cheesecake for dessert. The cost of the meal is $20 per person. Send your check, with the entree you have chosen indicated on your check, payable to Sacred Heart Men's Club to Bill Patterson, 7 Doscientos Lane, HSV, AR 71909. Your check must be recieved by December 8. You can reserve a table of eight for $160. Call Bill Patterson, 922-6965; or transmit an e-mail message to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Knights of Columbus Council 10208 is coordinating our annual Baby Bottle Campaign until November 4. The goal is to continue to fund the use of the ultrasound machine at the New Beginnings Pregnancy Resource Center in Benton, provide financial support to Change Point Pregnancy Center in Hot Springs, provide financial support to Arkansas Right to Life organization in Little Rock. Ultrasound macines are saving the lives of babie where they are used and the other organizations continue to provide support to women in crisis. What a great feeling it is when you know that you have helped save a life!Please take a Baby Bottle as you leave one of the Masses the weekend of October 6/7 and return it with your generous donation to the Baby Play pen in the narthex before November 4. Please open your heart and generosity to these beautiful unborn children of God.
Get your tickets by calling the School Office at 501-624-3171 for the children's program and meal of lasagna, salad and dessert. Join us December 13 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 each. Join us in the spirit of the Christ Child. 
The Sacred Heart of Jesus Advent Reconciliation Service, with opportunity for individual reception of the Sacrament (with the graces that go with it) is this Tuesday, December 18, starting at 4:00 p.m. As of now we are planning to welcome eight priests to help bring healing, hope and peace to those who avail themselves to this wonderful sacrament.PLEASE NOTE: if you can't join us at 4:00, know that priests will be available UNTIL 6:00 p.m. to celebrate the sacrament with you.