HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER!

Brent Billman, Sacred Heart Parish Webmaster, captured the essence of our Volunteer Thank you Luncheon above!  Thanks for the picture, Brent and for all you do for our Guild!

Bishop Frank J. Dewane is calling all....Respect Life Representatives in the Guild of Our Lady, and CCW at every level....Knights of Columbus, Women's Auxillary and other interested individuals  to spend a day at St. Charles Borromeo in Port Charlotte, (centrally located within our Diocese), on May 31, 2008.  Please mark your calendars and join us beginning at 9:30 a.m. for a Continental Breakfast, Prayer Service at 10 am, Closing Prayer at 3 pm.  For more information, please contact Jeanne Berdeaux, Venice Diocese Respect Life Department at Berdeaux@DioceseofVenice.org.  Please save this date on your calendars!

The Nine Months Novena of Masses started Monday, March 31, 2008 at Epiphany Cathedral in Venice,  Bishop Dewane celebrated the first of the Nine Month Novena of Masses being held in local area churches throughout the Diocese.  See Calendar Schedule (courtesy of Marina Kopko, Venice Diocesan Respect Life Department) so that you could make the Novena of Masses in a Diocese Church near you.  Representing Sacred Heart at this first Mass were Shirley Byrne, Sacred Heart Respect Life Team Publicity Chair, Barbara Chamberlain, Guild Legislative Chair and Respect Life Chair for the Guild and Sacred Heart Parish and Dolores Garvis, Guild Organization Chair.  See photos here.   

Are you wondering what we do here at Sacred Heart?  Every morning the Rosary is said at 8 am in Sacred Heart Church, Punta Gorda before the 8:30 am daily Mass.  While we are patiently rebuilding our new church, we especially celebrate First Fridays where we pray to Our Lady of Good Counsel to assist us and guide us and we receive our corporate communion.  We also strive to keep you educated, aware, informed and connected, not only to our community but also to the world where we live.

The Guild of Our Lady, Sacred Heart, Punta Gorda, Florida offers their First Friday Mass for our recently deceased members.  Come join the group in the choir section located behind the altar and help recite the prayer to our Lady of Good Counsel.  Following Mass we have our time for adoration of the Blessed Eucharist.

We celebrate the Holy Hour before Our Eucharistic King at 5 pm every Wednesday before the Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help held at 6 pm celebrated by either one of our priests or Deacon Ed Lundy right here at Sacred Heart.  It may be difficult to find us, but since Hurricane Charley we have been located in a room behind where the old church used to stand (211 Cross Street)!  Our Guild meetings are held across Route 41 at our Parish Center, corner of W. Charlotte Avenue and Route 41 South.     

Check out our photos of Central Spring Deanery Day from St. LEO's in Bonita Springs last Saturday!   http://home.catholicweb.com/CentralVDCCW/index.cfm/NewsItem?SlideID=92419&id=232717&From=Home#headline

We are always looking for new members!  Our MEMBERSHIP DRIVE is on.  So, be with us and let us refresh your soul, strengthen your faith, renew your lives, enrich your friendships, and empower yourself to make a difference in the world surrounding us!  

Come join us ($10 check payable to GUILD OF OUR LADY.  Enveloped clearly marked GUILD OF OUR LADY can be dropped in the Weekend Mass collection box at Sacred Heart) and be a part of the:

• Central Deanery CCW, http://home.catholicweb.com/CentralVDCCW 
• Venice Diocese (VDCCW), http://home.catholicweb.com/VENICE_DCCW
  Florida Statewide CCW (FCCW), http://home.catholicweb.com/FCCW
• National CCW (NCCW), http://home.catholicweb.com/NCCW/ 
• WUCWO (World Union of Catholic Women's Organization), http://www.wucwo.org/

Can women make a difference?  Yes, we can!  Each Council is a link in the chain of a beautiful rosary to the Blessed Mother!  Now, don't think of one rosary, think of many and not just one decade, not just one set of mysteries, etc.

THE  VDCCW VOICE SPRING/SUMMER EDITION published in March 2008.  By joining Guild of Our Lady (CCW) at Sacred Heart, we are automatically enrolled in the Central Diocese of Venice Diocese Council of Catholic Women (VDCCW). 

July 26 & July 27, 2008: ANNUAL LEADERSHIP SYMPOSIUM Sponsored by Orlando Diocese Council of Catholic Women at Lake Yale, Florida.  "The Harmony of Leadership...Are you the Melody or the Maestro?"  All women invited particularly those interested in Leadership.  Forms available through local parish CCW affiliations. $75 includes full registration and  a double-room.  For more information, please contact Kathy Leigh, 1435B Oak place, Apopka, FL. 32712.  Please see our President, Barbara Gray for scholarship information.  Scholarship form must be signed by both President Barbara Gray and our Administrator, Father Jerry Kaywell and submitted 8 weeks before any CCW sponsored event.

September 25-28, 2008: NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN General Assembly, Salt Lake City Utah, Sheraton City Centre Hotel. "WE ARE WOMEN OF FAITH, WOMEN OF ACTION"  $275 earlybird registration by July 3.  Hotel, $129 for single, double to quads. (801-401-2000, please make room reservations directly with hotel).  For more information, please contact President Bobbi Hunt @ www.nccw.org.  Reservation forms dowload shall be posted May 2008 and available in CATHOLIC WOMAN, May 2008.

October 12 & 13, 2008: FLORIDA STATEWIDE RESPECT LIFE CONFERENCE.  Please reserve the date.  More information to follow.  For questions, please contact Jeanne Berdeaux, Venice Diocese Respect Life Director @ BERDEAUX@DioceseofVenice.org  

October 23-26, 2008: FLORIDA CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC WOMEN:  Three-Day Conference, Sarasota, Florida Hyatt Regency Hotel.  For more information, please contact Marianne Torgler, 863-675-4629 or contact Dolores Garvis, 941-575-4274.   Judy Powers, FCCW President/Province Director, the Venice Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, as hosts, and Bishop Frank J. Dewane, cordially invite you to attend the 18^th Biennial Conference to be held in Sarasota, Florida, October 23-36, 2008.    Our FCCW President/Province Director, Judy, has planned the program and workshops to inspire, enlighten and motivate you.   Registration and Conference Letter.  Registration begins at 2:00pm on Thursday, October 23^rd. The members of the Host Diocese have planned a special welcome reception to be held that evening. Our Luncheon Speaker, Ellen Bachman, Immediate Past President of the National Council of Catholic Women will set the tone and be with us throughout the conference. Other members of the NCCW Board that will be joining us include Patty Johnson, NCCW Region 3 Vice President, Debby Van Mele, NCCW Treasurer, Janie Southerland, NCCW International Concerns Committee and Mary Poker, NCCW Nominating Committee. The Province of Miami is blessed with wonderful leadership in and from Florida.   The Liturgies and Prayer Services will be meaningful and uplifting. Our Bishops of Florida will celebrate the Liturgy on Saturday at 4:00 pm at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Church. Following the Mass will be the Bishops’ Banquet at the Hyatt Sarasota. 

One could not have asked for a more perfect day!  Our new parking lot now complete, cars streamed in for the wall signing that began after the 12:30 p.m. Mass.  We march out from church with a joyous and triumphant, Alleluia!

Joy it was to be able to go inside our new church for the first time since Charley destroyed the old church!  We signed away!  While over across the street, safely accompanied by the Sherrif's deputy, we had a tent and a "Carry-In" Pot Luck Dinner thanks to the organization of the Guild of Our Lady.  (If you are not a member of the Guild of Our Lady, please think of joining us as we help Father Jerry build our new church.)  Everyone claimed everything was delicious! All  enjoyed the fellowship and some meet new parishoners who had been in the parish 10 years or more and simply never meet them before!

When it was over, two noble ladies were left, Lil and Charlotte. Lil sported her new Women's Auxillary pink shirt with a little sparkle on the top of the cross.  Charlotte was cleaning up the floor and getting the place ready for the Children's CCD on Monday.

Please email your photos to the webmaster at barbarachamberlain@embarqmail.com.  You could be named for the BEST PHOTO SUBMITTED!  Try it and see!  If you have a hard copy photo, see me at the Guild Meeding, third Tuesday of every month at Noon and I shall be happy to scan it into our slide show!

 

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Winner of a 2007 Gabriel Award!