The LOSH 2019 Christmas Cookie Sale, hosted by Guild #7, was a huge success!!  The ladies sold 227 plates/bags of cookies, 55 bags of candy along with some breads, Chex mix and muffins, netting $1,194 for LOSH charities. A few leftovers were donated to the REY Christmas party. Committee chairs pictured above from left:  Barb Wallisch (Guild #7 Co-Captain), Jan Timmerman, Sandy Darnell (Guild #7 Co-Captain), and Kathy Bugnacki. Congratulations and thanks for a job well done!!

Prayer — Igniting a Fire Within Your Prayer Life

Sponsored by Hands of Mary

Saturday, October 19, 2019, St. Mary’s Parish Hall, 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Presented by Debbie McCollough,member of Immaculate Conception Parish, North Little Rock

Debbie graduated from UCA with a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education. Her first teaching job was at St. Mary’s Elementary School in North Little Rock where she was exposed to the Catholic Church and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. During that first year she experienced a call to enter the Church and did the following year. She spent the next 30 years studying Church teachings and life in different Catholic Church settings and locations. In 2011 she heard God call her back to Arkansas to care for her aging mother and to begin ministering in the field of Adult Faith Formation and Spiritual Direction. The topics she teaches include: Vatican II Documents, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Prayer, St. Ignatius’ Rules for Discernment, Christology and Church History. We are excited that she is available and willing to enrich our parish women.

Registration & Morning Social starting at 9:30 a.m. Retreat 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Please bring a sack lunch, drinks provided. If interested in attending, please text Peggy Peters at 501-231-6699 with your name and parish.

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Holy Souls Catholic Church in Little Rock is hosting its Women's Gathering, "Bear Much Fruit", on Saturday, October 5. All women are encouraged to attend this day of prayer, inspired talks, and community building. This event begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 4:00 p.m. The speakers will be Spiritual Directors Cindy Shaw and Diane Bausom. TIckets are $25 each with lunch and childcare provided. Register online at www.holysouls.org or call the Church Office at 501-663-8632.

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Ladies of Sacred Heart is pleased to present their Fall fundraiser "Fall Into Fashion" to be held at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church on October 21, 2019. Fashions by Kohl's will be featured and lunch will be catered by Dolce Vita. The fun begins with a silent auction at 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $17.00 and can be purchased from your Guild Captains or by contacting Marian LaVelle at (501) 209-2435. If you have items you wish to donate for our silent auction, please contact Barb Potter at (501) 226-3246.

  

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Walking with Purpose is back for Fall!  Please consider joining us for Reclaiming Friendship, a 6 week study that explores God's plan for friendship, which was meant to be a foretaste of Heaven.  What a wonderful way to dive back into relationships as we come back from COVID.  Like all Walking with Purpose studies, Reclaiming Friendship will help us explore the link between everyday challenges and the solutions given to us through the teachings of Jesus and the Catholic Church through personal study and small group discussions.

Sessions will be held between October 4 - November 15.  Watch the church bulletin for preregistration details in September.  The cost of the workbook will be $20.  Contact Cathy Kraus (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) in the parish office for more information.  

Pot of Gold 2018

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
The first LOSH Pot 'O Gold fundraiser was a huge success!! Over $5,000 was raised to benefit local charities. A big thank-you goes to all those involved in the planning, prep and execution. We've even secured a date on the calendar for next year, January 25, 2019. Congratulations to the 2018 winners: 

#1  ($100)                                    Christina Brahm
#10  ($100)                                  Rick Hiemenz
#20  ($100)                                  Gwen Auel
#30  ($100)                                  Kathleen & Dave Witchger 
#40  ($100)                                  Sue Hurley 
#50  ($100)                                  Dan Murphy
#60  ($100)                                  Don & Bev Abbott 
#70  ($100)                                  Gabriele & Darrel Hendrix 
#80  ($100)                                  Sherrie Nichols
#90  ($100)                                  Rosemary Miller & Barb Potter
#96  ($100)                                  Irma Gremillion 
#97  ($100)                                  Patty Doublin (Melenson, Good, Brewster, Hanschmann)
#98  ($200)                                  Paula Doyle
#99  ($500)                                  Kathy Merten & Arlene Giedt
#100  ($2500)                             Jerry Bielinski
$25 Gift Certificates:  Karen Feckler, Jean Krantz, Ted Otero, Joyce Field

The Ladies of Sacred Heart guild members participated in a Living Rosary after the 9:00 a.m. mass on Monday, May 8.

What is a Living Rosary? The devotion appears to have begun in France in 1826, when Venerable Pauline-Marie Jaricot formed the Living Rosary Association. She was inspired to pull together groups of 15 persons who would each be responsible for praying one decade of the Rosary each day, so that the full 15-decade Rosary would be prayed each day by the group.

Over a century later, during the Nazi occupation of Poland, a young layman named Jan Tyranowski formed prayer groups of 15 men in his parish, representing the 15 mysteries of the Rosary. One of the group’s leaders was the young Karol Wojtyla—the young St. John Paul II (who would later introduce the Luminous Mysteries in his pontificate). Tyranowski met with the men in prayer and guided them in spiritual direction. He called it the Living Rosary prayer group. Wojtyla, the future pope, remained devoted to the Living Rosary prayer group and brought this model into his own parishes after he became a priest.

The Spiritual Life Committee of Ladies of Sacred Heart recently promoted a Women's Retreat. Ten ladies of our parish were able to attend at Saint Scholastica Monastery of Benedictine Sisters in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The theme of the retreat was "The Circle of Life: Journey through the Seasons." It was a combination of retreat talks, prayer and/or time for contemplation, silence during parts of the retreat, fellowship and Sunday morning Mass in the beautiful chapel at the Monastery.

The weekend retreat was led by speakers Joyce Rupp, an award-winning author and a much sought after retreat speaker and Sister Macrina Wiederkehr, who is a Benedictine Sister at Saint Scholastica, a well-known author and retreat director.

Pictured front row, left to right: Evelyn Garrison, Chris Stein, Char Greil, Ann Krawczynski.

Back row, left to right: Ann Bowman, Joyce Rupp (retreat presenter and author), Mary Lucas, Sister Macrina Wiederkehr (retreat presenter and author), Valerie Hartnett, Martha Rogers (speaker), Paula Doyle (speaker), Maureen Halloran.