Oktoberfest at Sacred Heart! Saturday, October 6, 2018. Beer, wine, music, good company! 21 and over only. Buy your ticket HERE.

During the last two weeks of June, 2018, our parishioners were asked to complete a survey regarding whether new church facilities should be designed, and if so, whether we should build on a new site or rebuild on the current site. We received 232 surveys. They were recorded in an Excel file, including all the comments. Click HERE to see the numerical results and the table with all the answers and comments.

(CNS photo/Paul Haring)
       
Pope Francis is often called a “man of Vatican II.” In his newly-released Gaudete et Exsultate, he offers a powerful magisterial reflection on the Council’s “universal call to holiness”:

“Rejoice and be glad” (Mt 5:12), Jesus tells those persecuted or humiliated for his sake. The Lord asks everything of us, and in return he offers us true life, the happiness for which we were created. He wants us to be saints and not to settle for a bland and mediocre existence. (§1)

Gaudete et Exsultate (GE) is an apostolic exhortation, a type of document that ranks below an encyclical but above everyday papal homilies and speeches. It is the third one issued by Francis, after Evangelii Gaudium and Amoris Laetitia. 
From Gaudete et Exsultate: An Overview by Bill McCormick, SJ, of The Jesuit Post
https://thejesuitpost.org/2018/04/gaudete-et-exsultate-an-overview/