SACRED HEART PARISH

MASS INTENTIONS

Monday, January 22

10:15 a.m. Viola Jares +

Helen Schoenweitz +

Wednesday, January 24

5:30 p.m. Dr. F. G. Daehne +

Reparation for Abortion

Friday, January 26

8:00 a.m. Pat Spencer +

Living & Deceased Members of the

Macha & Machycek Families

Saturday, January 27

5:00 p.m. Frances Daehne +

Adolph Novak, Sr. Family

Sunday, January 28

8:30 a.m. All Parishioners

Sacrament of Reconciliation: 4:15 p.m. Saturday, before weekday Masses and anytime on request.

SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.

Monday: Heb 9:15, 24-28 Mk 3:22-30

Tuesday: Heb 10:1-10 Mk 3:31-35

Wednesday: Heb 10:11-18 Mk 4:1-20

Thursday: Acts 22:3-16 Mk 16:15-18

Friday: 2Tm 1:1-8 Mk 4:26-34

Saturday: Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 Mk 4:35-41

Sunday: Jer 1:4-5,17-19 1Cor 12:31-13:13

Lk 4:21-30

PLEASE, pray for the sick, especially, Marvin Barta,

Della Brosch, Retha Cleghorn Colt Freytag, Jerry

Gordon, Karl Halamicek, Jerry Hall, Billie Mae

Janekca, Hortensia Lombrana, Felipa Morales, Bennie

Olmos, Christina Pena, Rodolfo Pena, Patricia Prihoda,

Diane Raef, Suzanne Sacks and Lillian Vinklarek.

ALTAR SERVERS

January 27

Nathan Kozelsky, Cote Schacherl, Abigail Schacherl

January 28

Philip Robinson, Karl Steinhauser, Ysenia Correa

OUR PEOPLE IN THE SERVICE: Dustin Blackwell, Everett Andy Estrada, Laura Estrada, Coleen and Shawn Foust, Jamie Grifaldo, Derek Hajdik, John Kalina, Stuart Mica, Scott Morrill, Casey Pavlicek, Joey Ramirez, Robert E. Riley III, James Robinson, Peter Scott, Samuel Simpson, Miranda Thibodaux and for all returning from serving.

STS. CYRIL & METHODIUS PARISH

MASS INTENTIONS

Thursday, January 25

5:30 p.m. All Parishioners

Sunday, January 28

10:30 a.m. Louis F. Gosch +

DISCIPLES ON THE JOURNEY: Groups are now forming and meet once a week during the six weeks of Lent to discuss the Sunday readings and to share in their faith using the Diocese of Victoria booklet Disciples on the Journey. Look for sign up sheets in the entry of the Church January 20 - 29. Group Leaders are needed!

PARENTS of First Communion students will meet at 6:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall on Wednesday, January 24.

FOURTH DEGREE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS are selling tickets for their only fund raiser of the year; 4 to 5 lbs fully cooked Smoked Briskets for $25.00. Presale only! To be picked up at Sacred Heart Parish Hall, Flatonia on Sunday, February 11, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Contact Fourth Degree members or Edwin Zapalac, 865-3307 or Ted Bratton, 865-2489.

FLOWER CONTACTS for January are Bernice Freytag, 865-3793 and Bernice Schacherl, 865-3922.

A MENS ACTS WEEKEND RETREAT will be March 8 – 11. The retreat is being presented by Catholic lay men from parishes within the Hallettsville Deanery. Registration forms are in the vestibule of the Church!

TEXAS RALLY FOR LIFE, JANUARY 27: Join thousands of Texans in the march to the State Capitol from Republic Square (4^th and Guadalupe) starting at 1:00 p.m. For more information visit www. texasrallyforlife.org or call 512-477-1244.

PRO LIFE ROSARY: The Flatonia Knights of Columbus will hold a Rosary Service on January 24, at 6:15 p.m. in Church to mark the anniversary of Roe V Wade and to honor the fight to end abortion. All are invited to participate!

CISTERN and FLATONIA

CZECH HERITAGE DAY

February 18

Sacred Heart Church

and Parish Hall

2:30 p.m. Czech – English Mass

Czech Heritage Choir of Austin

3:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Music, Song & Svacina

All Czech Class Students from Flatonia

will be recognized and honored.

Gifts from Czech Republic

V I T A M E V A S

BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS

January 22 Ella Mica, Donna Kozelsky

January 23 June Cernosek, Erica Garcia

January 24 Glenn Hudson, Jr., Douglas Branecky

David Kutac, Bryan Masek

January 25 Carol Cline

January 26 Lillian Florus, Troy Kainer

January 27 Maria Aguillon, Dennis Freytag

ANNIVERSARIES

January 23 Ramon & Henrietta Lopez

A SECOND COLLECTION will be taken next weekend for Churches in Latin America. Please be generous!

OUR GIFT TO GOD THIS WEEK

Sacred Heart Collection $1,444.55

Sts. Cyril & Methodius Collection $532.00

Flatonia Knights of Columbus Council 3295

BBQ Chicken Supper

PLATES TO GO ONLY

$6.50 Per Plate

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Sacred Heart Parish Hall

To Benefit the Rev. Allen M. Black Scholarship Fund.

THANKS to everyone who contributed to the KJZT Society 83 No Bake Bake Sale held during the month of December. With the donations from members and parishioners and matching funds from the State Office, the Flatonia Fire Department and Celebration House were given $248.50 each.

KJZT SOCIETY 83 will meet Wednesday, January 31, at 6:15 p.m. in the Parish Hall.

WORD OF GOD! We are all familiar with the power of words to shape our identity and way of life. Society offers conflicting messages which often pull us in many directions. In the midst of all these competing words, God’s word is the true source of our identity as Christians.

As the Lukan community received Jesus’ teachings, so have we. Our ministry? Transpose Jesus’ teachings from words on a page to a way of living. Who are the poor, the captives, the sightless in our midst? How is our word Jesus’ word that “is fulfilled in our hearing?” Do our lives bear out our own certainty about the “teachings we have received”? Christian living is none other than taking God’s word and making it concrete by the very way we live.

IMPORTANCE OF THE LITURGY OF THE WORD: One of the most significant liturgical reforms since Vatican II has been to restore a Liturgy of the Word to every celebration of a sacrament. This underscores the relationship of word to sacrament. It also says that the context for God’s work of salvation in and among the people is always the efficacious word of God proclaimed. The Liturgy of the Word, then, at Sunday Mass is hardly a preamble so that the assembly can get to the “good part,” Communion. The word is the context and Communion is the response. Further, Christ is present in the word proclaimed. In the Liturgy of the Word, then, we celebrate a presence of Christ just as we do in the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

Just as this Sunday’s gospel passage quoting the prophet Isaiah is challenging to us – we, too, are sent to “proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, and let the oppressed go free” – so is this true for every proclamation of the word. There is always challenge there to hear God in a new way, to discern afresh how we are to respond in our daily living, and to examine the fruitfulness of our responses. For us God’s word must become as “rich foods and . . . sweet drinks”; thus we already share in an abundance of ways in the Lord’s Table.