Holy Family Catholic School

Happy New Year to our Holy Family Community!

Great 2019 Memory...CHRISTMAS IN THE GARDEN

No tree is complete until you add your Holy Family School ornament. #HFSmemories

Great Memories!

Not too late to share a Flash Back Friday memory.

Flashback Friday! Can anyone guess the year? Looks like Ms. Remick was teaching younger grades and Ms. Gustason was a teacher’s aide.

Faith In Action: St. Stephen the First Martyr Helps Holy Family To Secure The Parish Grounds As many of you are painfully aware, on Tuesday, August 18th our sta...tue of our Blessed Mother was violently attacked resulting in the removal of her head. Our monument of the Ten Commandments was also defaced with graffiti. As hideous and sacrilegious as these acts are, the result has been, and continues to be, moments of grace. I invite you to recall the words of St Paul in his letter to the Romans, chapter 5, and verse 20: where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more. As you are also aware, we were blessed with the grace to repair the damage and return to a sense of normalcy in a very short period of time. What you are not aware of is the tremendous amount of love and compassion that has flowed out of this experience across the world as we have been showered with expressions of condolences and support, all of which strengthens our resolve and our faith. Upon hearing the news last week, St Stephen the First Martyr Catholic Church, in Sacramento, immediately put their faith into action. They began to offer acts of reparation, through Prayer, for the serious offense against our faith that help us to focus on the eternal God, His Risen Son, Jesus Christ, and in our final glorious resurrection where our Blessed Mother Mary is with her Son Jesus Christ and all the Angels and Saints. The community of St. Stephen also began an online giving fund raising drive to help us procure security cameras for our parish property. This Fund raiser began last week and continued through Monday evening. The success of this fund raising drive had to have been Holy Spirit driven. It was surely an outpouring of God’s love and grace through his beloved people at St. Stephen. The end result was so uplifting, at a time of depression, so edifying to realize that the majority of God’s creation is motivated by his love. Both Fr. Enrique and Dcn. Mark Holt went out to St. Stephen the First Martyr Catholic Church, to meet with Fr. Joshua Curtis, FSSP, the Pastor of St. Stephen, to express the heart felt gratitude of our Holy Family community for the incredible donation of $8, 842 for our security cameras. Words cannot begin to express the depth of our sincere gratitude for this generous outpouring of grace. Where sin abounds, God’s grace abounds all the more! With this great example of St. Stephen, we are inspired to follow their example to complete the task of securing the sacred grounds of our church. This becomes all the more important as we are seeing an increase in the defacing and vandalism of our parish property. We have seen satanic graffiti on the sidewalk at the back of the community center, burnouts in the parking lot late at night, needles, trash, and human waste left behind by overnight visitors. We have a great need to secure our parish property, now, not later when something worse may happen. We will start a giving campaign immediately to help us resolve this issue. We are currently soliciting proposals for surveillance cameras and fencing. We are also very open to other ideas for securing our parish grounds for the safety and wellbeing of everyone who comes to us seeking a safe place of sanctuary and solitude, to enter into the peace of Christ and leave the days tribulations outside the gates of this holy place. We will have a special sacrificial offering box, for parish security, set up next to our current weekly Holy Family Sunday offering box. We already have a special fund set up for online giving in support of parish security. You will find it at the top of the list of all of our funds. It is listed directly under the fund for Legacy Pledges (this is the fund for the renovation of our church). We are currently upgrading our online giving program to offer a simpler, user friendly format. We anticipate that being available early next week. We will include weekly updates of the progress of this drive in the Stewardship corner of our weekly parish bulletin. We cannot let this moment pass by without putting our faith into action. The moment is now, to keep our parish property sacred and safe This is real. This is the reality we are living today in our community, our society, and our world. May Almighty God Bless you and protect you and keep you safe in His Love and peace. Best wishes from Fr. Enrique, Fr. Tristan, Deacon’s and Parish staff In Christ Jesus, our beloved Lord Fr. Enrique Alvarez, Pastor

Update... Please refer to the link below https://holyfamilycitrusheights.org//Vandalism%20Update.pdf...

Outdoor Mass this Sunday (7/19) - Misa al aire libre este domingo.

So proud of our HFCS Alumni...way to go Juila!

The Knights of Columbus Fireworks Booth is up and running! Please consider supporting this wonderful organization by purchasing fireworks in the church parking lot between now and July 4th. The booth opens at 9 AM and closes at 9 PM daily. Thank you for your support! Always be safe!

Mass confirmation emails for 6/20 & 6/21 have gone out. Please check your junk/spam/quarantine folder if you do not find a confirmation in your inbox. Thank you! Mass confirmation emails for 6/20 & 6/21 have gone out. Please check your junk/spam/quarantine folder if you do not find a confirmation in your inbox. Thank you!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Protocols for the Public Celebration of Mass at Holy Family Beginning June 13/14th https://holyfamilycitrusheights.org//Protocols%20for%20the... Protocolos para la Celebracion Publica de la Misa en la Sagrada Familia A partir del 13/14 de junio https://holyfamilycitrusheights.org//Protocols%20for%20the