Sacred Heart of Jesus Church PNCC

10/07/2025

View Eleanor M. "Ella" Schmitt's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

12/31/2024

End of the year prayer ❤️

04/08/2023

Święconka, meaning "the blessing of the Easter baskets", is one of the most enduring and beloved Polish traditions on Holy Saturday during Easter 💖

04/08/2023

Holy Saturday ✝️

APRIL 8 + On Holy Saturday, after Christ was crucified, died and was buried, He "... descended into hell ..."

Many ask why Christ would descend into hell and what was His purpose in doing so? Tradition holds that Christ went to a level of hell called limbo. This was a triumphant descent to the place where ALL of the righteous souls were being held until Christ came to rescue them and open the gates of Heaven. The souls in this level of hell, which was not a place of eternal torment like the lower depths of hell occupied by satan and his demons, included the souls of Adam and Eve, Moses, Noah, Joseph, and millions of others who were patiently waiting for the Savior to take them to the Eternal Kingdom. It is said that because Adam and Eve had been in limbo the longest, Jesus went searching for their souls first.

04/07/2023

I hope everyone has a blessed Good Friday ✝️

04/03/2023

Services at our Church this Holy Week:

Thursday: Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 4:00 P.M

Friday: Veneration and Way of the Cross at 4:00 P.M.

Saturday: Easter Vigil at 10:00 A.M
- Blessing of the Easter food baskets after service on Saturday

Sunday: Easter Sunday Mass at 10:00 A.M.

04/02/2023

I hope everyone has a blessed start to their Holy Week !

APRIL 2 + Today is Palm Sunday — the final Sunday of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week. Today commemorates the arrival of Christ in Jerusalem, just a few days before He was crucified.

In the Gospels, Jesus entered Jerusalem riding a donkey, and to the lavish praise of the townspeople who threw clothes and palms or small branches in front of Him as a sign of homage. This was a customary practice for people of great respect.

Palm branches are widely recognized symbols of peace and victory, hence their preferred use on Palm Sunday.

The use of a donkey instead of a horse is highly symbolic as it represents the humble arrival of someone in peace, as opposed to arriving on a steed in war.

During Palm Sunday Mass, palms are distributed to parishioners which they use to participate in the reenactment of Christ's arrival in Jerusalem. The palms are blessed and many people will fashion them into small crosses or other items of personal devotion. These may be returned to the church, or kept for the year. Because the palms are blessed, they may not be discarded as trash. Instead, they are appropriately gathered at the church and incinerated to create the ashes that will be used in the following year's Ash Wednesday observance.

The colors of the Mass on Palm Sunday are red and white, symbolizing the redemption in blood that Christ paid for the world.

11/01/2022

donor-nose Being originally from Mexico, our local traditions are a really big deal in our country! For example, during the Mexican Independence Day, we have the best Mexican party of the year! During Christmas season we throw nine parties before Christmas which are called Posadas. But probably the....