Bishop Taylor is urging all Catholics to participate in the National Catholic Call-in Day for the Protection of Dreamers this Monday, February 26. Please call Sen. Cotton and Boozman and our U.S. representative to urge them to pass legislation to protect Dreamers from deportation. Details are available on the diocesan website, dolr.org.
Where it says "our U.S. representative" you can insert your congressman's last name, Hill, Womack, Crawford or Westerman.
Protection for Dreamers
Bishop Anthony B. Taylor is urging all Catholics to participate in the National Catholic Call-in Day for the Protection of Dreamers Monday, February 26. The U.S. Senate on February 15 failed to pass three separate pieces of legislation that would have given a path to citizenship to 1.8 million undocumented immigrants, commonly called Dreamers. Please call Sen. Cotton and Boozman and our U.S. representative to urge them to pass legislation to protect Dreamers from deportation.
Call Sens. Cotton and Boozman through the Capitol switchboard at (855) 589-5698 and press 1 to connect to each senator. Once connected to the senators' offices, ask the person on the phone to deliver this message to the legislator: "I urge you to support a bipartisan, common-sense and humane solution for Dreamers: Protect Dreamers from deportation and provide them with a path to citizenship. Reject proposals that undermine family immigration or protections for unaccompanied children. As a Catholic, I know that families are not 'chains,' but a blessing to be protected. Act now to protect Dreamers, our immigrant brothers and sisters."
Also call our representative again dialing (855) 589-5698 to reach the Capitol switchboard and press 2. Once connected to the representative's office, ask the person on the phone to deliver the same message to the legislator.
Where it says "our U.S. representative" you can insert your congressman's last name, Hill, Womack, Crawford or Westerman.
Protection for Dreamers
Bishop Anthony B. Taylor is urging all Catholics to participate in the National Catholic Call-in Day for the Protection of Dreamers Monday, February 26. The U.S. Senate on February 15 failed to pass three separate pieces of legislation that would have given a path to citizenship to 1.8 million undocumented immigrants, commonly called Dreamers. Please call Sen. Cotton and Boozman and our U.S. representative to urge them to pass legislation to protect Dreamers from deportation.
Call Sens. Cotton and Boozman through the Capitol switchboard at (855) 589-5698 and press 1 to connect to each senator. Once connected to the senators' offices, ask the person on the phone to deliver this message to the legislator: "I urge you to support a bipartisan, common-sense and humane solution for Dreamers: Protect Dreamers from deportation and provide them with a path to citizenship. Reject proposals that undermine family immigration or protections for unaccompanied children. As a Catholic, I know that families are not 'chains,' but a blessing to be protected. Act now to protect Dreamers, our immigrant brothers and sisters."
Also call our representative again dialing (855) 589-5698 to reach the Capitol switchboard and press 2. Once connected to the representative's office, ask the person on the phone to deliver the same message to the legislator.
Consider attending the Lenten Retreat scheduled from Monday afternoon until noon on Thursday, February 26 to March 1, at St. John's Center in Little Rock.Monsignor Scott Friend, Vicar General and Vocational Seminarian Director, has agreed to be Retreat Master for this event. There will be a combination of talks from Monsignor Friend, silent time for reflection and prayer, discussion and social times, daily Mass and other sacramental opportunities.
The cost of $200 will cover lodging for three nights at the newly-renovated Fletcher Hall and meals (provided by members of our own Knights of Columbus) starting with dinner on Monday, February 26, and ending with breakfast, March 1 - a total of eight meals.
Please commit early to be assured of a spot at this first ever Sacred Heart Men's Retreat at St. John's Center. Sign-up in the narthex or call Ed Doyle at 922-5771 or transmit an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Thank you to all who helped with the basket program for 2017. We delivered 31 baskets at Easter, 30 baskets during the summer, 20 baskets at Thanksgiving and 52 baskets at Christmas. This is a total of 142 baskets to families that included 432 children. Our area has many families that are living with incomes below the poverty line. This is our way of making their lives a little easiesr! Thank you! 
The Sacred Heart Men's Club distributed $9,500 during November to the following charities:Thanksgiving/Christmas Basket Program, Jackson House, Samaritan Ministries, McCauley Center, Cedar Mountain Boys and Girls Club, St. John's School, Our Lady of Fatima School. A donation to the Catholic Schools Scholarship Fund will be determined later in the fiscal year.
The Sacred Heart Men's Club thank its members for participating in the various functions during the year and thanks the members of Sacred Heart for supporting their efforts, particularly our annual Chicken and Fish Bakes.
The FORMED website includes many video and audio programs. Some are full-length films or books; others are short dramatizations of important moments in saints' lives or documentary accounts of their words and actions that prove the depth of their faith. If you enjoy listening to short audio narratives, consider downloading "St. Francis of Assisi" or "St. Teresa of Avila: A True Reformer." If your prefer longer audio books, try The Trials of St. Patrick or Brother Francis: The Barefoot Saint of Assisi. If you would rather watch a film, there are short documentaries such as "The Secret of St. Therese" and "In Her Footsteps: The Story of St. Kateri Tekakwitha" and full-length films on the lives of saints of centuries past such as St. Peter and Joan of Arc and saints in our own time such as Mother Teresa and Padre Pio: Miracle Man.If you haven't registered yet, just type FORMED.org into your browser, enter the parish's code: CNT7WK on the FORMED homepage, and create a password for your continued use of the website, allowing you unlimited access to its library of materials.
On Sunday, March 4, the Knights of Columbus invite all to a parish breakfast after both Masses. The menu: sausage and eggs, biscuits, gravy, hash browns, juice, coffee or milk. This breakfast is being underwritten by Bill Roe in memory of Becky and Gladys Welsh in memory of Mike. We will be welcoming new parishioners as guests. Please join us in welcoming them to the Sacred Heart family. Breakfast is only $6.00 a plate and children 12 years and under are free. All breakfast proceeds are used to help fund Knights charitable activities. Your support is greatly appreciated. 
Our Sacred Heart Bowling League is off to a fun start! We meet on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. at Fiesta Bowl. Currently we are in need of anyone who would like to substitute bowl. The cost for a sub bowling three games is $7.00. Please call Bob Sipple at 915-8225 to get on our "Sub List" and be ready for fun! 
Just a reminder that our meeting will be held Monday, January 8, and our "something extra" a baby shower item. Please bring items that a new mother could use for her newborn. Our guest speaker will be Christy Etheridge from Good Samaritan, and her topic will address the difference between Home Care, Home Health and Hospice.This month we highlight Guild 4, St. Elizabeth Guild. Members donate Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter food baskets to families in need through Mission Outreach. Members also volunteer at Jackson House, St. Vincent's Hospital, and Potter's Clay. They organize the Christmas Cookie Sale, and are involved with the Shawl Ministry. For fun activities, they play Hand and Foot, have a summer barbeque with spouses, and get together at Christmas for dinner with spouses. Call Carol Barrett at 922-0071 for more information.
The Ladies of the Sacred Heart (LOSH) is sponsoring a fundraiser for the benefit of women and children on Friday, January 26, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. A ticket will entitle you to two dinners of Pot of 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 ticket investment of $100.During the raffle, the first ticket drawn returns $100, every tenth ticket drawn returns $100, the 97th ticket drawn returns $100, the 98th ticket drawn gives $200, the 99th ticket gives $500 and the 100th ticket returns $2,500! Won't you take a chance? You do not have to be present to win.
Each ticket sells for $100 and can be purchased from Mary Lou George at 922-8155, Carol Barrett at 922-0071, or JoAnn O'Brien at 922-1730. Please make checks payable to Ladies of the Sacred Heart. Join us on January 26 for a barrel of fun, good food, good drink, and the building exitement of the raffle!
We raise funds each year to help support the following charities: Potter's Clay, St. John's School, Our Lady of Fatima School, Project Rachel, Boys and Girls Club (Summer Lunches), Catholic Charities Adoption Services, Abba House, Quachita Children's Center, Mountain Pine Elementary School, St. Scholastica Monastery Retreat Center, and Change Point. Please help us continue our charitable works.
The Sacred Heart Men's Club will be the sponsor for parish Movie Night on Thursday, February 22. Please join us as brats will be served. Popcorn included! Join us at 6:00 p.m. in the Lower Hall to view "The Woodcarver." 
The good thing about the Catholic Arkansas Sharing Appeal is that the money goes to a great variety of people in need from the poor (Catholic Charities), to the Unborn (through the efforts of the Respect Life Office), to needy students (in Catholic Schools, religious education, and College Campus Ministry Programs) to our seminarians (who are being prepared to be our future priests in Arkansas), to our adults and youth who use diocesan facilities (that have recently been renovated) for retreats (like our own parish men's retreat February 26-March 1), and opportunities for formation and education (like our future permanent deacons). The list is long. The bottom line is THEY ALL need our support and will get it through our gift to the Arkansas Sharing Appeal. While we, thanks be to God have reached and surpassed our goal this past year and in previous years, the overall goal has not been reached for quite a few years, so some hard decisions have to be made when it comes to who might not get as much as they need.PLEASE have an open mind and heart, especially if you haven't given anything to this appeal in the past, consider doing something this year. I am happy to say, our parish has, in the last number of years, had some of the highest numbers of total givers, and I hope and pray that trend continues and goes even higher this year.
Praise God for all the work that's being done in the name of Jesus Christ and all of us who give to the Catholic Arkansas Sharing Appeal!
A Welcome Dinner for those who joined our parish between July and December, 2017, will be held February 24, 2018 at 5:15 p.m. after Saturday Mass in the Upper Hall. Leaders of the various parish commissions have also been invited. Come and meet fellow parishioners and learn more about our parish. Please RSVP to either Art or Marna Morissette at 501-915-8021 no later than February 14. We look forward to seeing you! 
The Sacred Heart of Jesus Men's Club Annual charities Fish Bake will be held on Friday, February 16, 2018. Everyone is invited. There will be two seatings: 5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The doors will open 20 minutes prior to each seating.The menu is Baked Domestic Tilapia, Tater Tots, specialty green beans, cole slaw, rye bread and coffee. We all need to eat fish on Friday during Lent; so, come join us at Sacred Heart in the Lower Hall for a great meal, and support our fundraising activity. Additional beverages will be available from the Refreshment Center. Donations are joyfully accepted. In addition, Father Bill's famous homemade ice cream will be available for a donation.
Tickets are $12 per person. Children under 12 years of age eat for $6, under the age of six years, no cost. Tickets will be sold before and after the Masses on the weekends of February 3/4 and February 10/11. Carryouts are available, and tables of eight can be reserved. For other information and tickets, contact Rick Martinek on his cell, 214-215-0133.
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The Knights of Columbus invite everyone to a parish breakfast on Sunday, February 4. This breakfast is being underwitten by Anna Suttor in memory of Carl. The menu includes French Toast, link suausage, hash browns, juice, coffee or milk. We will be welcoming new parishioners who will be guests of the Knights. Breakfast is on $6.00 and children under 12 years eat free. All proceeds are used to help fund Knights charitable activities. See you there! On January 25, the Church will celebrate the Conversion of St. Paul. FORMED, our new parish online resource of audio, video, and print materials for Catholics, gives us several ways to think about the importance of conversion in the lives of the saints and in our own lives. On the FORMED website, check out the short video "Paul of Tarsus" or the audio book The World of St. Paul to gain insight into the events of St. Paul's life that led to the moment of his conversion and acceptance of Christ. Or for something more contemporary, sample Paul Kim's reflection on his conversion in That Awkward Moment When God Changed My LIfe or Jennifer Fulwiler's From Atheism to Catholicism: My Conversion Diary. These and hundreds more resources are available to those who register or have registered on the FORMED website. If you haven't registered yet, just type FORMED.org into your browser, enter the parish's code - CNT7WK - on the FORMED homepage, and create a password for your continued use of the website, allowing you unimited access to its library of materials. Beginning in the week of February 19, the parish will offer a five-week Lenten study focused on our need for God's mercy and forgiveness. "Forgiven" is a video-based program that reminds us, through the biblical stories of the prodigal son and the women taken in adultery, that, as sinners, we rely on reconciliation with God as we endeavor to reform our lives. In weekly meetings lasting approximately 75 minutes, we will see the action of God's mercy in the Bible and examine sections of both the Old and New Testaments that form the background for the Church's practice of sacramental confession.Participants may choose to attend weekly discussion sessions or to follow the program on an independent study basis. There will be four sessions at Sacred Heart, each with its own facilitators(s): Mondays at 9:45 a.m. (Paula Doyle), Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. (Dave Johnston and Rose Harrigan), Wednesdays at 9:45 a.m. (Tom Canavan), and Thursdays at 9:45 a.m. (Mike Kerwin and Don Ritter).
Sign-up sheets for the discussion groups and independent study are in the Narthex. The study guide for those participating in the scheduled sessions costs $6.00 to be paid at the first meeting. Those following the program on an independent study basis should pick up an instruction sheet on the sign-up table that outlines the steps to access the Formed website and the "Forgiven" videos and study guide.