The HSV Pro-Life Celebration will be Friday, May 2 at the Balboa Outreach Center 5:30-8:00 pm. All proceeds go to Arkansas Right to Life. Donations will be collected for our local pregnancy centers, Change Point and New Beginnings. Dinner will be catered by Clampits Country Kitchen.

The guest speaker is Joseph K Wood. Abandoned as a newborn in the cold streets of Chicago, he was saved and taken to St. Vincent's Orphange. He was eventually adopted at 10 years old. Joseph became a teen leader in the tough neighborhood of Jeffrey Manor.

After college, Joseph went on to hold key leadership positions as a bank examiner with Illinois Commis-sioners of Banks, assistant director with the University of Chicago Booth School, head of recruitment at Walmart International and Deputy Secretary of State in Arkansas. In 2016, Joseph was elected the first black county judge in Arkansas stare history and was re-elected in 2018. He was appointed as Cabinet Secretary of Transformation & Shared Services for Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders in 2023. Contact Bob Bowman 501 226-0209 or robowman1@gmail.com for tickets and information.

Our community changed life this Lent through your contributions to CRS Rice Bowl and we would like to THANK YOU! Remember to turn in your CRS Rice Bowl to the "big rice bowl" in the Narthex or donate online at www.crsrice-bowl.org/give.

 Jack & Sharon Board, 60 years on May 1

 Wayne & Charmaine Gahr, 59 years on May 4

* Call the church office to provide your anniversary date.

We ask all event planners to review our Parish Calendar on www.hsvsacredheart.com
to ensure that your upcoming events are listed and reserved properly. This parish has MANY ongoing/recurring and special events and we strive to make certain rooms or halls are reserved to accommodate and coordinate all parish groups. Please utilize the Room Reservation form available in the office, the A & E hallway or print a copy from the website. You'll find the form under the Parish Information tab. The last sub-tab is Forms. Once completed, drop your request at the office or scan and email to hsvsacredheart.com.

Before and after we enter into the "Three Days" known as the Triduum, we invite you to gather to share in two meals on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. The Holy Thursday meal (at 5:00 pm in the Lower Hall) will be prepared by Chef Johnna and served by volunteers from our Sacred Heart Men's Club (thanks!). It will consist of a salad, chicken alfredo lasagna and bread. Donations of at least $10 per person are encouraged and will help pay for this delicious meal. Sign up in the Narthex or call 501 276-7837 to reserve by noon Monday, April 14. The Good Friday meal will be meatless minestrone after the 12:00 pm Stations of the Cross in the Lower Hall with donations accepted. Sign up in the Narthex by Monday, April 14. Join with your fellow parishioners and begin the observance of the Triduum.

Jesus told St. Faustina to encourage the Faithful to offer a Novena (with a particular set of intentions) the Chaplet of Divine Mercy on the nine days before Divine Mercy Sunday (April 27). We will do this publicly starting on Good Friday (April 18) at 3:00 pm (immediately before the main liturgy of Good Friday) and in the days afterward as follows:

 Holy Saturday ay 8:15 pm
 Easter Sunday at 7:50 and 9:50 am
 Easter Monday
 Easter Tuesday
 Easter Wednesday
 Easter Thursday
 Easter Friday and Easter Saturday immediately after the daily Mass.

If you are unable to make all of these, say the novena at home using the leaflets we are providing for you. There will be a divine Mercy Holy Hour on Divine Mercy Sunday at 3:00 pm.