LETTER IN REGARD TO COVID-19
March 17, 2020 Dear Parishioners, As you are aware, federal, state, and diocesan restrictions related to the spread of the coronavirus are changing on a day-to-day basis. Bishop Knestout released a letter yesterday that provided operating guidelines for the parishes...
Catholic Mom’s Group
Calling All Moms! Are you interested in a Catholic Mom’s Group, supporting living simply, liturgically, and lovingly, in a relaxed and judgment-free environment? *With Free Babysitting!* ALL seasons of Motherhood welcome! Every other Thursday, beginning March 5th,...
Shine Like Stars: A Diocesan Bicentennial Book
As we celebrate our bicentennial anniversary this year, the Diocese of Richmond has published an illustrated history; “Shine like Stars.” This book tells the story of our parishes, our schools and other institutions. By word and image, it concretely verifies how God...
Wine Festival 2019
Wine Festival 2019 - Sept 21 6:30pm At Sacred Heart Catholic Church 520 Graydon Avenue, Norfolk Tickets are available after all masses during the weekends before the event, with cash or check. Tickets in advance: $25 a person or 6 tickets for $120. (You can buy...
Summer Sizzler’s at Sacred Heart
The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2019
Prelude: Pastoral Milhaud was born in Marseille, the son of Sophie (Allatini) and Gabriel Milhaud. His father was from a Jewish family from Aix-en-Provence, and his mother was from a Sephardi Jewish family from Italy. Milhaud began as a violinist, later turning to...
Baptism of the Lord
Processional: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise was written by Christopher Wordsworth (1807 - 1885), the nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high honors, in...
Epiphany
Prelude: The March of the Magi Kings. Theodore Dubois (1837-1924) is a very strange piece. The French elite were in love with everything "Eastern". Here is The Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) an oil painting on canvas by Eugène Delacroix, dated 1827. It...
The Third Sunday in Advent or Gaudate Sunday
Prelude: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland [BWV 659]* Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) Based Veni Redemptor Gentium by St. Ambrose [Aurelius Ambrosius] ( c. 340 – 397). Here is a link to the original: Latin.https://youtu.be/1yZr3w7YHuQ. This music is from a large body of...
The Second Sunday in Advent
The Prelude this week is an arrangement by J.S. Bach of a movement from Kantate 140 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, [also known as Sleepers Wake], He composed the cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November...