Plainview Sacred Heart Church celebrates 50 years

With a joyful cry, Plainviews Sacred Heart Catholic Church will celebrate a historic milestone as the parish marks its 50th Anniversary on June 22.

The jubilee will start with an 11a.m. mass celebrated by Bishop Plcido Rodrguez, CMF, Father Arsenio Redulla, pastor of Sacred Heart, and visiting priests.

Following the monumental mass, parishioners will gather under tents for a banquet meal and fellowship at Sacred Heart located at the corner of 29th and Columbia streets.

The growth of the Plainview parish was guided by the long pastorate of Monsignor Fred Hyland, who founded the parish together with energetic and dedicated laity a half century ago.

From the small seed they planted, grew a great tree. This tree has many branches, which extended in various organizations branching out within our Parish, said Father Redulla.

The feeling was shared across the local catholic hierarchy.

This Golden Jubilee allows the chance to appreciate the past and to create another foundation for the future of the catholic community of Plainview, said Bishop Rodriquez of the Lubbock Dioceses.

Plainviews parish church stands as a testament to the hard work of a small congregation and its ability to endure the many challenges that have faced it over its history.

Cooperation meant collaboration at the beginning of Sacred Heart Churchs history when excessive rains in 1959 caused a flash flood that inundated Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, located in Plainviews Barrio neighborhood.

The areas of society affected by segregation included the residential areas in the Barrio, said 86-year-old Davis Horne, a local farmer and Catholic convert, who helped with the cleanup after the flood.

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Plainview Sacred Heart Church celebrates 50 years