Welcome To Our Parish
The first Mass in Griffin took place in 1879 with five Catholics in attendance. Visiting priests periodically ministered to the spiritual needs of the people.
On May 2, 1910, the Sacred Heart Church was dedicated on North Hill Street as a mission in Griffin. The pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Athens served Griffin as one of his missions. And Plans for a new church on MacArthur Drive were begun in 1980. It was more than a 100 years after the arrival of the Catholics, a new church was dedicated by Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan. On December 18, 1982, Sacred Heart Catholic Church was dedicated. The marble altar, tabernacle, Stations of the Cross, and the statues of Mary and Joseph from the North Hill Street church are used in the new church.
The church featured a round, stained-glass window with a biblical Sacred Heart designed by a Trappist monk of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers. A large crucifix above the altar was the gift of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a Redemptorist parish in Boston, Massachusetts. Now we have daily masses and 3 masses on the weekends. Our religious education classes serve our children from kinder-garden to tenth grade. We have a teen group and a women group, also we have the knights of Columbus. Not forgetting all the wonderful volunteers of our parish family, including our teachers and staff who are also volunteers from our parish.
Every Sunday our community gathers after mass as a family for our Sunday social. There are several parish social each year, our parish feast, our parish picnic, etc.
We look forward to your visit and sharing with us in our Mass Liturgy.
Fr. Dennis Pastor