Sacred Heart Croatian Catholic Parish

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Sacred Heart Croatian Catholic Church

Hrvatska župa Srca Isusova


Welcome to Sacred Heart Parish!  For more than 100 years our parish has been dedicated to Jesus' Sacred Heart, which is full of love and mercy for every person.  Jesus said, "I AM the Way and the Truth and the Life." We try to respond to His Sacred Heart's love and mercy by embracing Him, who is the Truth, and by seeking to follow the Way to Life.  We invite you to join us on this journey!

A LOOK AT OUR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Sacred Heart Parish, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mass Times

 


SATURDAY 4:30 p.m. in English
SUNDAY 9:00 a.m. in English
SUNDAY 10:30 a.m. in Croatian

DAILY MASSES FROM MONDAY TO FRIDAY AT 7:45 a.m., with Rosary at 7:20 a.m.

CONFESSIONS AVAILABLE Saturday, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. or by appointment by calling 414-774-9418 to arrange.

 

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Nationwide Mass here at Sacred Heart

During the Coronavirus epidemic, the widely known nationwide TV Mass - "The Heart of the Nation Catholic Mass" - has found a stable temporary home in our Sacred Heart Croatian Parish Church, stability amid all of the ever-changing complexities of Covid.

"The Heart of the Nation Catholic Mass" is a Milwaukee-based ministry to the elderly, the homebound and now those sheltering at home.

This TV Mass reaches people nationwide, bringing them a high-quality half-hour Mass every Sunday on broadcast, cable and satellite TV, and online. (Their Mass is broadcast from Honolulu, Hawaii to Portland, Maine!) Locally, they broadcast Mass Sundays on Channel 24 at 7 & 9 a.m. and on Relevant Radio 1640 AM at 7:30 p.m. Thanks be to God that we are able to help them serve those in need, including our own homebound and sheltering in place!

Here is a link to the latest "Heart of the Nation" Mass offered in our church (without any advertizing from Youtube): https://www.heartofthenation.org/online-mass/sunday-mass

 

Here is a link to the "Heart of the Nation" Mass, for EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 4TH, with Archbishop Jerome Listecki, offered in our church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nJkKgo3faI

Here is a link to the 2021 Christmas Day Mass offered in our church by Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmW87C4onVY

 

Here is a link to a behind the scenes video shot while they were here for their first visit. https://www.facebook.com/SacredHeartMilwaukee/videos/1424900294360878/

Miraculous images of Our Lady with Child

Most visions of the Mother of God leave images only in the memories of the visionary.

But two times in Latin America the Mother of God left images of herself for all of us to see. We post two photos today, on December 12th, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe:

The first photo is of Our Lady of Guadalupe's miraculously imprinted image of her expecting the Child Jesus that ocurred in Mexico in 1531. This image is on the surface of a cactus-fiber cloth.

The second photo is of the far less famous Our Lady of Las Lajas in Colombia. ("Las Lajas" is Spanish for "the Rock Slabs.") Here Our Lady of Las Lajas (who profoundly resembles Our Lady of Guadalupe) holds the Child Jesus, with St. Dominic on the left and St. Francis of Assisi on the right. (The crowns worn by Jesus and Mary were added later by the grateful faithful.)

 

Amazingly this image from 1754 is imprinted in stone and not only on the surface of the rock slab but deep into the rock.

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Sacred Heart Parish on Milwaukee Public TV

February 6, 2020 Milwaukee Public TV broadcast an episode of "Around the Corner with John McGivern" focused on the Story Hill neighborhood of Milwaukee, in which is located Sacred Heart Croatian Parish.

Wisconsin had the opportunity to see the interior of our church and to see John McGivern making Sarma with Mary Schauer.

The show lives on forever on Youtube. See this beautifully done 26-minute show by clicking on the link below:

Around the Corner episode on the Story Hill neighborhood UPDATED LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhe5NfiZao

(Sacred Heart pops up a moment 39 seconds into the show, but the main two-and-half minute segment is 20 minutes into the program. Seeing the whole show is a good idea.)

Read and hear the Bible in a Year!

To register for Fr. Mike Schmitz's amazing podcasts of 20 to 25 minutes a day that let you hear the whole Bible in a year with great Catholic commentary, click HERE: https://ascensionpress.com/pages/biy-registration

To immediately listen without registering to the podcast episodes that have be released so far, click HERE: https://bibleinayear.fireside.fm/episodes

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO START YOUR YEAR-LONG JOURNEY THROUGH THE BIBLE! IT CAN BE MORE FUN TO GO THROUGH THIS BIBLE PROGRAM WITH A "BIBLE-IN-A-YEAR BUDDY" (similar to an exercise buddy). MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY!  SPREAD THE WORD.

To download the sheets of reading materials, please register. And of course read the Bible chapters for each day (in Croatian or English) ideally before listening to Fr. Mike read the same chapters for you.

 

For those who have a hard time using Facebook and would like to hear an excellent Mass, Fr Mike Schmitz has amazing new homilies on YouTube every Sunday morning. Here are a couple of samples: 

FR MIKE'S MASS FOR 4TH SUNDAY OF EASTER, APRIL 25TH - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIMPxyurcbQ

FR MIKE'S MASS FOR EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 4TH - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx5JEycxxmI

FR MIKE'S MASS FOR 5TH SUNDAY OF LENT, MARCH 21ST - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYdt4beHcc8

Video from our livestreamed Masses

When Sacred Heart Parish broadcasts a Holy Mass "live" via Facebook, click on this blue text and you will go to our Parish Facebook page, where you will be able to find the "live" Holy Mass somewhat down on the page. (After these Masses, you can see the recorded copies of these Masses by clicking the "Videos" button on our Parish Facebook home page that you reach by clicking this blue text.) The schedule for livestreamed Holy Masses was: 4:30 p.m. Saturdays, 9 a.m. Sundays, and, in Croatian, 11:00 a.m. Sundays. This 11 a.m. time is a temporary time for the 10:30 Mass in order to allow for cleaning the pews after the 9 a.m. Mass; the Croatian Mass will resume being at 10:30 a.m. in the new year.. https://www.facebook.com/SacredHeartMilwaukee/

You do not need to be a Facebook member to see these videos on desktop computers.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! The 4:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Mass for December 24th at Sacred Heart Parish, Milwaukee.

SRETAN BOŽIĆ! Polnočka Hrvatska sveta Misa župe Srca Isusova u Milwaukeeju za 24. prosinca. The Croatian Midnight Mass at Sacred Heart Croatian Parish in Milwaukee for Friday to Saturday, Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas!

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Last weekend's livestreamed Masses:

The 9:00 a.m. Sunday Mass for Dec. 12th at Sacred Heart Parish, Milwaukee. A couple of weekends into the Coronavirus Lockdown, on Saturday, April 4th, 2020, Sacred Heart Parish in Milwaukee began the Facebook-livestreaming of our English and Croatian weekend Masses. After 19 months of livestreaming and after most people have resumed regularly going to restaurants, concerts, etc., our parish weekly livestreaming has now concluded. Father Ivan loved reaching out to you during this extended (and ongoing) crisis, but the time to conclude this particular livestreaming has arrived. Thanks be to God for our ability to attend Mass in person or, for grave reasons, to watch quality Masses via TV or internet! Thanks be to God for your prayers, and I am sincerely sorry to anyone who still really needs Sacred Heart's Mass on Facebook. May God bless you all! - Fr. Ivan Strmecki

Hrvatska sveta Misa župe Srca Isusova u Milwaukeeju za 12. prosinca. The Croatian Mass at Sacred Heart Croatian Parish in Milwaukee for Sunday, Dec. 12th. Iza 19 mjeseci nažalost kraj došao danas za naše svete nedjeljne Mise na Facebooka. Nije bilo lako "livestreamati" ove 19 mjeseci, ali je bilo potrebno. Ali narod sad uživa restaurante, koncerte, i tako dalje, i vrijeme došlo završiti ove emisije. Meni je žao za bilo kome ovisi na ovu Misu i nemože ići na hrvatsku svetu Misu. Neka Bog vas blagoslovi na veliko! -- fra Ivan Strmečki

4:30 p.m. Saturday Mass for Dec. 11th at Sacred Heart Parish, Milwaukee. A couple of weekends into the Coronavirus Lockdown, on Saturday, April 4th, 2020, Sacred Heart Parish in Milwaukee began the Facebook-livestreaming of our English and Croatian weekend Masses. After 19 months of livestreaming and after most people have resumed regularly going to restaurants, concerts, etc., our weekly parish livestreaming has now concluded. Father Ivan loved reaching out to you during this extended (and ongoing) crisis, but the time to conclude this particular livestreaming has arrived. Thanks be to God for our ability to attend Mass in person or, for grave reasons, to watch quality Masses via TV or internet! Thanks be to God for your prayers, and I am sincerely sorry to anyone who still really needs Sacred Heart's Mass on Facebook. May God bless you all! - Fr. Ivan Strmecki

 

 

GO HERE FOR ALL RECORDED VIDEOS      https://www.facebook.com/SacredHeartMilwaukee/videos/

 

 

SACRED HEART STATIONS OF THE CROSS RECORDED ON GOOD FRIDAY, 2020 --  https://www.facebook.com/SacredHeartMilwaukee/videos/1362663247267013/

Archbishop Jerome Listecki after Centennial Mass on October 8, 2017

Archbishop at Grotto

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