Sacred Heart of Jesus

The NeoCatechumenal Way

Our first English Community at Sacred Heart of Jesus was started 3 years ago in November. 2001. We all heard an announcement at different masses prior to that that invited us to come and learn more about our faith. None of us knew each other at the time. Quite a lot of people came to the first message and we continued coming 2 times a week for 8 weeks. This culminated in a long weekend at a Hotel in Denver where we learned even more about the Neocatechumenal Way and we formed a community within the parish.

Eventually a Spanish community was also formed and just in the last few months a new English community was formed. We do not live together in a commune, but we study the Word, and worship together on Sat. evenings in Jubilee Hall. The Spanish community worships separately because of language constraints. As I said before none of us knew each other at all and we never would have even met if we hadn't answered the call and come to hear the message. We are like family now and we are learning to love as Jesus loves us, warts and all. There all all ages and stations of life in our community and we are 15 to 64 years of age. Joseph Foss, a young man in our community heard the call to become a priest and now at 33 yrs. of age has entered the seminary. We have had a marriage that was totally broken, healed through Jesus Christ.

If anyone is interested in exploring the Neocatechumenal Way, please come to mass with us, but you must eventually attend a catechesis as we did if you are interested in actually joining the community.

We meet on Wednesday evenings for the Liturgy of the Word (English Communities). The Spanish Community meets on Tuesday evenings. The English Communities worship together on Saturday evenings at 5:30 pm and the Spanish Community meets at 7:30 pm in Jubilee Hall. The masses are very beautiful to experience and are unlike anything that we are used to. This is all completely approved by Canon Law.