The first VIRTUS training session of the year will be held on Monday, January 26, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. in Classrooms A & B in the Administration & Education Building. If you are a new volunteer minister and have not attended a previous training session, you are required to attend to meet the bishop's directive. To register online, go www.virtus.org, select "Registration," then "Little Rock Diocese," and lastly, "Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church." Call Russ at 922-1767 with questions. 
The Knights of Columbus invite everyone to stay for a parish breakfast in the Lower Hall this Sunday, January 25, after both morning Masses. New parish members are special guests. Biscuits, gravy, hash browns, sausage and eggs are on the menu. Breakfast is only $6.00 a plate and as always, kids eat free. All breakfast proceeds are used to fund the Knights charitable activities throughout the year. 
Tickets are sold-out for our first Mystery Dinner Theater. Call Gary Wolfer at 501-204-1192 to place your name on the waiting list should cancellations occur. 
The annual Mass and March for Life will take place Sunday, January 18, 2015 in Little Rock. Bishop Anthony Taylor will celebrate the Mass for Life at 12 noon at the Statehouse Convention Center Ballroom. The March then begins at 2:00 p.m. at Capitol and Battery Streets. Our parish will charter a bus for the day, leaving the church parking lot at 9:30 a.m. and returning about 4:30 p.m. The March will take place entirely on the State Capitol grounds. You can bring chairs to sit on. So, please give prayerful consideration to joining fellow parishioners in support for the most vulnerable members of our human family, the Unborn who have NO VOICE. Call Jim or Patricia Goodson at 226-5312 or Mary Ellen Costello at 922-3915 with questions. 
Our parish has again provided a bus for the 2015 Mass and March for Life. The sign-up sheets are in the A & E hallway. Please print clearly. The bus hold 56. All who sign up after the first 56 will be placed on a back-up list in case of cancellations. Please sign-up only if you plan to attend, and notify us if you must cancel so another can take your seat. If you plan to drive and would like to offer a ride to those who are on the back-up list, please sign the "I plan to drive" sheet and write in how many you can take. For more information, contact Jim Goodson at 501-226-5312 or 501-224-2494 (cell). 
The next Red Cross Blood Drive supported by the Knights of Columus and hosted by the Village United Methodist Church, 200 Carmona Road, is 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 13. Previous donors at this site with email addresses have been sent an email reminder. New donors can go to www.redcrossblood.org for detailed information and to schedule an appointment. Contact John Bodensteiner with questions or to be placed on an email reminder list (915-0339 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Thanks in advance for sharing your "gift of life." 
The babies we "spiritually" adopted back in April, are due to be born January 12, 2015. To welcome them into the world, we are planning a Parish Baby Shower. All parishioners are invited to participate.To participate, please purchase a baby item, and bring it to the church, UNWRAPPED, beginning Saturday, January 3, and no later than Monday, January 12. Members of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart can consider their gift as "something extra" for January, and bring the gifts to the general meeting the morning of the 12th.
A display area will be set up in the narthex where the gifts can be left. The donated items will be sorted, and then delivered to Catholic Adoption Services and local Pregnancy Help Centers in Hot Springs, Benton and Malvern, based on need.
Disposable diapers, all sizes, are always needed. Also, crib sheets, blankets, clothing for preemies and just about anything else parents would need for a newborn baby. Please remember NOT TO WRAP your gift. A flyer, listing the specific needs of each agency, will be available in the narthex. For information, call Edie Gray at 922-4694.
Beginning Sunday, January 11, 2015, grades pre-K through fifth will begin meeting on Sunday mornings from 9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. The Junior High and High School classes will continue to meet on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. For information on the REY program, to register new students, or to volunteer as an aide or substitute, please call Terry Poldrack at 501-922-6095. 
Sacred Heart Singles members will meet Monday, January 12, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Lower Hall for Pot Luck and Games. Join us and start the New Year with friends and neighbors. The new 2015 event schedules will be available. Sign-up in the narthex, and call Ann Hooper with questions at 922-6963. 
Your baby's face in now smooth and getting a little chubby, as baby is layering on fat stored over the next weeks in preparation for life outside the womb. Most babies will have their bodies turned down by this time in preparation for birth. If your baby were to be born now, (s)he would have a greater than 90 percent chance of survival. Please continue to pray for this precious child of God! 
Toward the end of the Christmas Season (Friday, January 9), we are going to offer to all, a crock pot supper and movie starting at 5:30 p.m. in the Lower Hall. Please bring a crock pot of your favorite soup, stew or chili; or, some bread, cornbread or crackers; or, a dessert. We will have a sign up for what you will bring this weekend and next in the narthex. The movie, "More Than Chance" is inspired by a true story, and promises to be "The journey of a little girl with BIG faith." Let's come together for good food, fellowship and a movie in celebration of the end of the Christmas season. 
The Knights of Columbus will again sponsor the New Year's Eve Party on December 31 in the Lower Hall. Happy hour begins at 6:00 p.m. with dinner at 7:00 as catered by Home Plate. Dancing to the Blue Velvet band at 8:00 p.m. will follow till the ball drop at 11:00 p.m. (midnight New York time).Dinner will include appetizer of fruit cocktail followed by Caesar salad and rolls, prime rib, fresh asparagus, candied carrots and assorted desserts. Party favors, champagne and all set-ups are provided; brink your drink of choice. Dress is semi-formal.
Table reservations can be reserved through Russ Harrison at 922-1767. Cost is $37.50 per person with checks made out to Knights of Columbus, and mailed to Russ Harrison, 38 Doscientos Circle, HSV, 71909, to be received by December 29. This event is open to everyone in the community, so reserve early, bring your friends and welcome in the new year, 2015.
Product brochures and order forms for succulent hams and related products will be available after weekend Masses through the weekend of December 20/21. Pick-up date at the church is December 23. Orders can also be shipped with deadline of December 12 for Christmas, respectively. Detailed information with order forms is also availabe on the Knight's site www.hsvkofc.org. Contact any member of the sales team: Mike Welsh (915-8344), Ed Doyle (922-5771), Bill Nosek (915-9000), Tom Yerina (922-3062), Milt Spaniel (915-0148) and Bill Roe (915-9501).
Do you want to prepare yourself spiritually for Christmas this year? Did you know that the stories connected with the birth of Jesus are found in only two of the four Gospels? Did you know that the stories connected with the birth of Jesus are later, rather than earlier, additions to the Gospels as we have them? Did you know that the stories connected with the birth of Jesus, though entailing only a small section of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, are in fact the entire Gospel story in miniature?We invite you to delve more deeply into the infancy narratives of Jesus by joing us at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church for a four-week study of these fascinating and revealing stories starting the week of November 24-26 with the following options:
| Mondays | 9:45 a.m. |
| Tuesdays | 9:45 a.m. |
| Wednesdays | 6:00 p.m. |
Meet inthe classroom section of the church after entering the bulding from our small, side parking lot. People of all faith traditions are invited to join us. The cost of materials is $13. Please sign-up in the narthex. A Bible will be needed, both in the class and in preparation for each session; the last of which will be December 17.
The parish Advent Reconciliation Service will be held Wednesday, December 17, at 2:00 p.m. Priests will be available for individual reception of the Sacrament. Also, during Advent, Father Bill offers additional opportunites for the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Tuesdays from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Fr. Bill be NOT be offering the Sacrament on Saturday, December 20, as he will be attending the ordination of Jack Sidler at Subiaco. Additional opportunities for a Reconciliation Service are provided by St. Mary's Church in Hot Springs on Tuesday, December 16, at 6:00 p.m. There will also be a Reconciliation Service at St. John's Church, Hot Springs, on Wednesday, December 17, at 6:00 p.m. and by Our Lady of Fatima Church in Benton on Thursday, December 18, at 6:30 p.m.
This month continues to be a period of rapid growth for your baby. At 24 weeks, he can suck his thumb and hiccup, and his brain is developing rapidly. Fatty sheaths which transmit electrical impulses along nerves are forming.If your baby is a girl, she will develop eggs in her ovaries during the month. Bones are becoming solid, and your baby is almost fully formed. At her growth level, she cannot usually live outside the uterus without specialized care.
By the end of the sixth month, your baby will have grown to be 11 to 14 inches long and will weigh about one to one and one-half pounds. Please continue to pray for this special child of God.