Sacred Heart Parish, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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/

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.