Church - 22430 Michigan Avenue Dearborn, MI 48124 313-278-5555
School - 22513 Garrison Dearborn, MI 48124 313-561-9192
Community Outreach
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Sacred Heart Christian Service Commission
The Christian Service Commission exists to enable our Parish Community to put the social teaching of the Church into action. The Commission responds to group and individual human needs to create and promote programs, and to implement actions to fullfill the social teaching of the Church.
We invite you to inquire at the Parish Office about attending a Commission meeting and becoming involved.
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“If I... have not charity,” says the Apostle, “I am nothing.” Whatever my privilege, service, or even virtue, “if I... have not charity, I gain nothing.” Charity is superior to all the virtues. It is the first of the theological virtues: “So faith, hope, charity abide, these three. But the greatest of these is charity.” (CCC1826)
Christian Outreach provides opportunities for us to show the love of Christ by providing for human needs within our parish and beyond. -
Christian Outreach Calendar
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Annual/Seasonal Parish Projects
Share-A-Morsel (S.A.M.) : Non-perishible food can be donated at any time in the Share-a-Morsel food baskets located in the church building. This food is distributed through the St. Vincent DePaul pantry at St. Sebastian Parish and the food pantry at St. Mary Parish in Wayne.
Food Baskets are delivered to families within our community at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.In September we collect socks and underwear for Saints Peter and Paul Warming Center in Detroit.
Gently used coats and jackets are donated in October and are taken to St. Patrick Senior Center, and Most Holy Trinity and Sacred Heart Parishes in Detroit where they are put to immediate good use.
We provide, cook, and serve a meal for the homeless at the First Methodist Church each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
Food and money donated at our Thanksgiving Day mass is delivered immediately after mass to Most Holy Trinity Parish in Detroit. Grocery gift cards are also collected each July and during ADVENT for our sister parish in need, Sacred Heart Parish, Detroit.
ADVENT projects include a hat, glove and scarf collection for St. Christine Christian Services (Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen) in Detroit, The Giving Tree collection of household items for AofD Catholic Charities Refugee Services, and the Tree of Lights which assists St. Vincent dePaul help our local needy. Details run in the Guardian during Advent.
Christmas gifts, many hand crafted, are donated and delivered to homebound members of our parish. Once a month, from September through May, meals are delivered to the homebound.
Those on our parish Prayer List are remembered with greeting cards mailed at Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.