July 15, Welcome to our Little Church on the Hill. Holy Days: posted in the Bulletin. Baptism & Marriage Preparation

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1 July 15, 2018 Welcome to our Little on the Hill Mass Schedule Monday - Friday: 7:30 AM Saturday: 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM Vigil Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:45 AM, 11:30 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation Available Saturdays: 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Thursdays: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Every Day: 15 minutes before Mass Holy Days: posted in the Bulletin Eucharistic Adoration First Tuesday 7:00 PM 8:00 PM Every Friday 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM Baptism & Marriage Preparation Please contact Parish Office (203) Anointing of the Sick Please contact Parish Office (203) Office hours: Monday - Thursday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM ; Friday 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

2 Liturgical Schedule - MONDAY 07/16/18-7:30 AM Marge Hlavenka Patren Family B&W Joel Garofalo Anthony Rdgs: Is 1: Mt 10:34-11:1 - TUESDAY 07/17/18-7:30 AM Special Intention Keogler Family B&W Patren Family Rdgs: Is 7:1-9 Mt 11: WEDNESDAY 07/18/18-7:30 AM Lyn Sweezy Lois Hunt Rdgs: Is 10:5-7, 13b-16 Mt 11: THURSDAY 07/19/18-7:30 AM Arthur Edelman Suzanne Najman Rdgs: IS 26:7-9, 12,16-19 Mt 11: :00 PM Confessions - FRIDAY 07/20/18-7:30 AM Cindy Palanzo Family Rdgs: Is 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 Mt 12:1-8 -SATURDAY 07/21/18-8:00 AM Healing for Jack Scully Clif Kolwicz Rdgs: Mi 2:1-5 Mt 12: :00 PM Helen Rupinski Ginger Wohlfarth B&W James Renna Anthony Lectors - J. Kieras Ministers of the Blood - Minister of the Body - ML Strano Altar Servers - R. Posca Music Ministry - St. Cecilia Choir - SUNDAY 07/22/18 - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM Robert and Agnes Pryzgoda Lisa & Denise Lectors - C. Gehring & C. Volpe, Jr. Ministers of the Blood - A. Freitas & R. Doran Minister of the Body - C. Bates Altar Servers - K. Kozlowski, K. Viera- Hanley Music Ministry - Cantor 9:45 AM James Kenneth Ferry Cilene Ferry Lector - R. Volpe Ministers of the Blood - A. Scalzo & S. Schirmer Minister of the Body - C. Stanley Altar Servers - B. Goodman Music Ministry - Cantor 11:30 AM Parishioners Living and Deceased Lector - D. Isaacson Ministers of the Blood - M. Casey & B. Lamontagne Minister of the Body - V. Giordano Altar Servers - C. Vogel Music Ministry - Contemporary Choir Rdgs: Jer 23:1-6 Eph 2:13-18 Mk 6:30-34 Your prayers are requested for our hospitalized parishioners, family members, and friends who are bearing the Cross of Suffering: Fran Wilkes, Bob & Pat Extance, Herminia Genao, Therese Slesinsky, Emily Donofrio, Pat Rooney, the Morosky Family, & Homebound. Please also pray for those suffering senseless violence and racial tensions. Have you signed up for online giving yet? It is quick and easy. No need to remember your envelope! To sign up, click the WeShare button in the APP or go to: OUTDOOR MASS & PICNIC Sunday

3 Parish Staff Pastor Fr. Peter Towsley In Residence Fr. Jean-Rony Philippe Pastoral Administrator Dan Tomé Finance Administrator Marie Fitzgerald Office Administrator Suzanne Najman Parish Building & Grounds Manny Guaman Music Ministry Director Suzanne Najman Finance Council Chairperson Nannette Scudiero Parish Pastoral Council Chairperson Karen Cerno Parish Office Bulletin Editor 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM 6:45 PM - 8:00 PM 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM This Week in the Parish - MONDAY 07/16/18- - TUESDAY 07/17/ WEDNESDAY 07/18/ THURSDAY 07/19/ FRIDAY 07/20/ SATURDAY 07/21/ SUNDAY 07/22/18 - S mores and the Stars! & Rehearsal Rehearsal Fri. July 20 8:30PM - 11:00PM St. Ann s ; 181 Clapboard Ridge Rd, Danbury God Bless Cecilia Roma Bulcher Week of July 15 Stewardship Our Financial View Weekend of July 7 th and 8 th $ 3, Going on Vacation? Please visit our website to set up your online giving account. Thank You for your continued generosity! As a Parish community, we continue to lift every family individually up in our daily prayers; praying for the spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being of each member of the family. Please be sure to include them in your daily prayers. Sunday: George Goodman & Family Monday: Robert and Susan Grady & Family Tuesday: Paul and Denise Grenier & Family Wednesday: Roger and Carol Guertin & Family Thursday: Gary and Brigid Guertin & Family Friday: Terrance and Janice Haase & Family Saturday: Bill and Cathy Hagan & Family Sunday: Bill Hagan III & Family

4 Adorers Corner Scheduled for July 20 h 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Georgia Kula & Christina Brito 9:00 AM -10:00 AM Janice McNamara & Christina Brito 10:00 AM -11:00 AM Geraldine Lancey 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Joan Peters 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Tom DiGiovanni 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM School of the Word 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Fran & Sonia Kieras, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Ben Slesinsky & Larry Martin 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Peggy Dyer, Deb Isaacson 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Joe Kieras 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Alessandra Zocolotti & Contemporary Choir 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Cyndi Morosky, Leoneidia Sousa If you would like to volunteer to be an adorer, please contact the Parish Office or office@sacredheartdanbury.org If you are unable to make your assigned time please find a substitute. FRIDAY Adoration 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM closing with Benediction. Couldn't you watch with me even one hour? Matt 26:40 WELCOME to Sacred Heart! Byenveni nan legliz nou an. Li pi piti pase katedral la, men nou akeyi ou ak bra louvri. Father Jean-Rony Philippe, a native of Jeremie, Haiti is our new Priest in Residence. In 1991, he obtained his bachelor s degree in Theology and Philosophy from the Dominican University College of Ottawa in Canada. In 1994, he earned his teaching certificate from the University of Quebec. After moving to the United States in 1997, Father Philippe was ordained as a priest for the Diocese of Bridgeport on May 23, From June 1999 to January 2008, he served the Haitian community of St. Charles Borromeo in Bridgeport. From January 2008 to June 2018, he was the Director of the Haitian American Catholic Center in Stamford. When you meet Father Jean-Rony, introduce yourself and ask "Ki jan ou ye jodia?", or phonetically "key zhan (same as his name) we aye zhodia" which is the polite way of asking How are you? in Patois.

5 The Myth of the War Between Science and Religion By Bishop Robert Barron For the past several months, I ve been posting short commentaries on YouTube, probably the most popular website in the world. I ve covered everything from movies and music to books and cultural trends, but I ve given special attention to the problem of the new atheism. I ve posted three answers to Christopher Hitchens terrible book God is Not Great, a brief presentation of some classical arguments for God s existence, and most recently, a response to Bill Maher s movie Religulous. As you might know, people are able to post comments in response to videos, and I ve received a huge quantity of them mostly negative in regard to the aforementioned pieces. Setting aside the venomous and emotionally-driven comments, I ve been able to discern, in the more serious ones, a number of patterns. If an apologist or evangelist were interested in composing a 21 st century version of St. Irenaeus s classic Against the Heresies, he could do worse than to consult these YouTube responses. The most glaring of these heretical patterns is what I would call scientism, the philosophical assumption that the real is reducible to what the empirical sciences can verify or describe. In reaction to my attempts to demonstrate that God must exist as the necessary ground to the radically contingent universe, respondent after respondent says some version of this: energy, or matter, or the Big Bang, is the ultimate cause of all things. When I counter that the Big Bang itself demonstrates that the universe in its totality is contingent and hence in need of a cause extraneous to itself, they think I m just talking nonsense. The obvious success of the physical sciences evident in the technology that surrounds us and facilitates our lives in so many ways has convinced many of our young people (the vast majority of those who watch YouTube are young) that anything outside of the range of the empirical and measurable is simply a fantasy, the stuff of superstition and primitive belief. That there might be a dimension of reality knowable in a non-scientific but still rational manner never occurs to them. This prejudice, this blindness to literature, philosophy, metaphysics, mysticism, and religion is the scientism that I m complaining about. Another feature of this scientism and it s evident everywhere on my YouTube forums is the extremely disturbing assumption that science and religion are, by their natures, implacable enemies. Again and again, my interlocutors resurrect the story of Galileo to prove that the church has always sided with obscurantism and naïve biblical literalism over and against the sciences. The Catholic philosopher Robert Sokolowski has argued that the founding myth of modernity is that enlightened thought was born out of, and in opposition to, pre-scientific religion. And this is why, Sokolowski continues, the conflict between religion and science must be perpetually rehearsed and revived, as a kind of ritual acting out of the primal story. If you want to see a particularly dramatic presentation of this, watch the movie Inherit the Wind. But this myth is so much nonsense. Leaving aside the complexities of the Galileo story (and there are complexities to it), we can see that the vast majority of the founding figures of modern science Copernicus, Newton, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Tycho Brahe were devoutly religious. More to it, two of the most important physicists of the 19 th century Faraday and Maxwell were extremely pious, and the formulator of the Big Bang theory was a priest! If you want a contemporary embodiment of the coming-together of science and religion, look to John Polkinghorne, Cambridge particle physicist and Anglican priest and one of the best commentators on the non-competitive interface between scientific and religious paths to truth. Indeed, as Polkinghorne and many others have pointed out, the modern physical sciences were, in fact, made possible by the religious milieu out of which they emerged. It is no accident that modern science first appeared precisely in Christian Europe, where a doctrine of creation held sway. To hold that the world is created is to accept, simultaneously, the two assumptions required for science, namely, that the universe is not divine and that it is marked, through and through, by intelligibility. If the world or nature is considered divine (as it is in many philosophies and mysticisms), then one would never allow oneself to analyze it, dissect it, or perform experiments upon it. But a created world, by definition, is not divine. It is other than God, and in that very otherness, scientists find their freedom to act. At the same time, if the world is unintelligible, no science would get off the ground, since all science is based upon the presumption that nature can be known, that it has a form. But the world, precisely as created by a divine intelligence, is thoroughly intelligible, and hence scientists have the confidence to seek, explore, and experiment. This is why thoughtful Christians must battle the myth of the eternal warfare of science and religion. We must continually preach, as Saint John Paul II did, that faith and reason are complementary and compatible paths toward the knowledge of truth.