Community would be the operative word for our PSR experience this year. We have had many opportunities in the classroom and in the wider community of Wadsworth this year for our students and for their parents.

Our Confirmation candidates have provided baked goods, which earned them $417.00 to share with the bishop on October 23, when we will be celebrating the Sacrament of Confirmation here at our parish. They should be very proud of their efforts to provide three families of Sacred Heart with goodies and food items for their Easter baskets.

The Living Stations and Soup Supper was a great community effort between the day school children and the PSR students in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Next year, we would really like to have any home school students who would like to be part of the Living Stations to be involved with us.

We would also like to expand our Soup Suppers to every Friday during Lent. If you would be willing to chair this event for the 6 weeks during Lent, please call me at my office. The organization is already in place and we are looking for parishioners who would be willing to provide a soup for one of the Friday evenings. We need approximately six soups that will serve about 25 people.

We had three young people come into the Church this year at the Easter Vigil through the Children's Catechumenate. If you have a child who hasn't received his or her sacraments yet and they are in the third grade or higher, please consider this two-year process for your child to be able to be a full member of the Church. Call my office at any time and we will be happy to help you with your child's sacraments.

We have had 83 second graders receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist this year at Sacred Heart. Please keep these children and their famiies in your prayers as they continue on their journey home to our heavenly Father one day.

Don't forget all volunteers are expected to attend a VIRTUS workshop. The next meetings here at Sacred Heart are, : Monday, October 11, from 6 to 9 p.m. and Monday, February 28, from 6 to 9 p.m.