Mark your calendar for the Pot of Gold Dinner on Friday, January 25, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. The Ladies of the Sacred Heart are sponsoring this event for the benefit of the supported charities that help women and children.Know that your $100 ticket entitles you to two dinners of Pot of Gold Chicken Ranch Casserole, family-style salad and dessert. Also included will be an exciting raffle that will present a one-time chance to get a return on your monetary donation. The first ticket drawn returns $100. Every tenth ticket returns $100, the 98th ticket receives $200, the 99th ticket, $500, and the 100th ticket returns $2,500!
Won't you take a chance? Each ticket sells for $100 and can be purchased from any member of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart. If paying by check, please make payable to Ladies of the Sacred Heart. Come for a barrel of fun, good food, good drink and the building excitement of the raffle. Members of the Knights of Columbus will serve you from the donation bar. Buy now, play later! Call 922-8155 for more information or to purchase a ticket.
The 41st annual March For Life will take place on Sunday, January 20, in Little Rock. The March reminds us of the many lives lost since the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion (January 20, 1973) and celebrates the ongoing efforts to protect the lives of unborn children. The Mass For Life with Bishop Taylor as celebrant will take place at 12:00 noon at the Robinson Performance Hall at 426 West Markham Street in Little Rock. The March For Life will then begin at 2:00 p.m. at the staging area behind the State Capitol beteen Battery and Wolf Streets. You are encouraged to go to one or both events on your own or sign-up to go in a carpool. There is a sign-up list in the narthex. 
The August movie of the month, I Can Only Imagine, is in the library. Two other new DVDs are Road of Hope, the story of Cardinal Nguyan, imprisoned and tortured by the Communist in Vietnam, and Almost Home, the story of a grandfather and granddaughter who take a walk and get lost. 
Village Outreach gives each child in the families helped at Christmas a certificate for a pair of shoes. This Christmas we will be giving about 550 pairs of shoes to students at Fountain Lake, Jessieville and Mountain Pine Schools valued at approximately $19,000! These certificates are funded by donations to the Village Outreah Shoe Fund made by churches, organizations and individuals.Donations to this fund can be made by putting cash or a check (payable to Sacred Heart) in the decorated shoe box on the cabinet in the A & E hallway. Thank you for your past donations!
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church has agreed to take part in this year's Apostle Build for Habitat for Humanity. We will join 11 other churches from the Village and from Hot Springs to fund and build a Habitat home. Each church donates $5,000 and a work crew. All that is needed is a group of willing workers, both men and women (no age limit!) to be guided by a Habitat Construction supervisor.Please join us for a fun and personally-rewarding experience! Transmit an e-mail to Dave Witchger at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. A work crew will be assembled and scheduled for Sacred Heart's portion of the build. Please let Dave Witchger know if you can be a carpool driver. Your help is appreciated.
Effective with the December Parish Council meeting, a list of new members includes Janet Liszka for the Education Commission and Christine Cash for the Liturgy Commission. Thank you to previous members Sharon Board and Karen Feckler. Your dedication and contribution is appreciated. 
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.