August 19, Welcome to our Little Church on the Hill. Holy Days: posted in the Bulletin. Baptism & Marriage Preparation

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1 August 19, 2018 Welcome to our Little Church 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 -CHURCH IS HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE-

2 Liturgical Schedule - MONDAY 08/20/18- St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church 7:30 AM Cindy Palanzo Family B&W Frank Bonacci Godchild Rdgs: Ez 24:15-24 Mt 19: TUESDAY 08/21/18 - St. Pius X, Pope 7:30 AM George and Ethel Deakin Clif Kolwicz Rdgs: Ez 28:1-10 Mt 19: WEDNESDAY 08/22/18 - The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary 7:30 AM Fr. Amobi Deb Isaacson Rdgs: Ez 34:1-11 Mt 20: THURSDAY 08/23/18-7:30 AM Fr. Cornelius Zak Sacred Heart Church Rdgs: Ez 36:23-28 Mt 22:1-14 7:00 PM Confessions - FRIDAY 08/24/18-7:30 AM Edward Nazarro Nellie Nazarro Rdgs: Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63 Mt 19:3-12 -SATURDAY 08/25/18-8:00 AM Stanislaw, Boleslaw, and Eva Korzenko Bruno B&W John B. Scalzo Son Rdgs: Ez 43:1-7ab Mt 23:1-12 As a Parish community, we continue to lift every family individually up in our daily prayers; praying for the spiritual, physical, and emotional health of each member of the family. Please be sure to include them in your daily prayers. Sunday: Vincent and Denise Dascano & Family Monday: Frank and Karen Dascano & Family Tuesday: Diane Davin & Family Wednesday: Toya Davis & Family Thursday: Rose DeBrito & Family Friday: Rick DeJohn & Family Saturday: Rommez and Argentina DeLeon & Family Sunday: Joleen Dennison & Family Liturgical Schedule continued -SATURDAY 08/25/18-5:00 PM Joanne Melillo & Carmella Barbera Eleanor Elias Lectors - D. Pietras & ML. Strano Ministers of the Blood - N. Scudiero & J. Garofalo Minister of the Body - J. Dennison Altar Servers - J. & J. Dennison Music Ministry - St. Cecilia Choir - SUNDAY 08/26/18 - Twenty First Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM Parishioners Living and Deceased Lectors - D. & K. Kozlowski Ministers of the Blood - D. & C. Gehring Minister of the Body - A. Freitas Altar Servers - K. Viera- Hanley, R. Posca Music Ministry - Cantor 9:45 AM John B. Scalzo Son Lector - N. Mendonsa Ministers of the Blood - E. & K. Cerno Minister of the Body - B. Hagan Altar Servers - B. Goodman, C. Vogel Music Ministry - Cantor 11:30 AM Dr. Joseph Young Fr. Peter Lector - G. Kula Ministers of the Blood - Sr. Doris & M. Casey Minister of the Body - V. Giordano Altar Servers - JP. Miranda, A. Vas Music Ministry - Contemporary Choir Rdgs: Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b Eph 5:21-32 Jn 6:60-69 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, & our Homebound. Please also pray for those suffering senseless violence and racial tensions. If you are aware of someone who is sick, or otherwise unable to join us regularly for Mass and think they would appreciate a visit, or a call, please let us know. You can either fill in this form and drop it in the collection basket, or call or the Parish office. Please be sure to let them know first, and include your name here. Name, address and phone number of Parishioner: Your Name:

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 Flowers Memorial for the week of August 18 TH -August 25 TH + Rev. Rose Ann Foege Happy Birthday in Heaven From: Nannette Scudiero Stewardship Our Financial View Weekend of August 12 h and 13 th $ 3, Going on Vacation? Please visit our website to set up your online giving account. Thank You for your continued generosity! This Week in the Parish - MONDAY 08/20/18- - TUESDAY 08/21/ WEDNESDAY 08/22/18-7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Meeting Parish Center - THURSDAY 08/23/18-6:45 PM - 8:00 PM Rehearsal Church - FRIDAY 08/24/18-7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Rehearsal Church - SATURDAY 08/25/ SUNDAY 08/26/18-6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting Parish Center Adorers Corner Scheduled for August 24 th 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Georgia Kula 9:00 AM -10:00 AM Georgia Kula & Roger Palanzo 10:00 AM -11:00 AM Sr. Doris & Virginia Giordano 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Louise Wichman 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Tom DiGiovanni 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Ginger Wohlfarth 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Fran & Sonia Kieras 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Colleen Stanley & Buzzy Klecha 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Peggy Dyer & Deb Isaacson 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Mary Cronin 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Alessandra Zocolotti 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. Jesus must never be left unattended. Thank you! Congratulations to the Raffle Winners. 1 st Prize/Amex $30,000: Rafael Calz # nd Prize Amex $4,000: Ana Pintado # rd Prize Amex $3,000: Nancy Natale # th Prize Amex $2,000: Pat Fitzgerald #11767

4 The 2019 Mass book will be opening for Mass intentions on Monday August 20 at 9:00am. Please hold all 2019 requests until that time. Faith Formation Registration is OPEN The new Registration form is available on the website s Faith Formation page under Religious Education Payment can be made online in WeShare. Don t delay - Classes begin Sunday September 30 Secular Franciscans - Holy Hour and Prayer for Priests Saturday August 23 9:00 AM in the Church. Everyone is welcome to join and pray for all Priests. FREE! Picnic Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus OUTDOOR MASS & PICNIC Sunday :30am There will be NO 9:45 Mass that day FRIDAYS Eucharistic Adoration 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM closing with Benediction. Couldn't you watch with me even one hour? Matt 26:40 PLEASE BE AWARE Danbury Hospital is updating their computer system. We are not currently receiving notification of hospitalized parishioners. If you or a loved one are hospitalized, and would like a visit, please contact the Parish Office. (203) WE NEED YOU! The first Sunday of the month Contact the office if you can: Cook a healthy hot meal Deliver our monthly collection or be on a team of servers. You and your team will be called upon approximately 3 times per year. Please call the office if you are interested. Also starting September 30: Sundays during 9:45 Mass The return of our Children s Program. Children from age 3 through 1st Holy Communion

5 THE MCCARRICK MESS by Bishop Robert Barron - August 09, 2018 When I was going through school, the devil was presented to us as a myth, a literary device, a symbolic manner of signaling the presence of evil in the world. I will admit to internalizing this view and largely losing my sense of the devil as a real spiritual person. What shook my agnosticism in regard to the evil one was the clerical sex abuse scandal of the nineties and the early aughts. I say this because that awful crisis just seemed too thought-through, too well-coordinated, to be simply the result of chance or wicked human choice. The devil is characterized as the enemy of the human race and particularly the enemy of the Church. I challenge anyone to come up with a more devastatingly effective strategy for attacking the mystical body of Christ than the abuse of children and young people by priests. This sin had countless direct victims of course, but it also crippled the Church financially, undercut vocations, caused people to lose confidence in Christianity, dramatically compromised attempts at evangelization, etc., etc. It was a diabolical masterpiece. Sometime in the early aughts, I was attending a conference and found myself wandering more or less alone in the area where groups and organizations had their booths. I came over to one of the tables and the woman there said, You re Fr. Barron, aren t you? I replied affirmatively, and she continued, You re doing good work for the Church, but this means that the devil wants to stop you. And you know, he s a lot smarter than you are and a lot more powerful. I think I just mumbled something to her at that moment, but she was right, and I knew it. All of this has come back to me in the wake of the Archbishop McCarrick catastrophe. St. Paul warned us that we battle, not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities. Consequently, the principal work of the Church at this devastating moment ought to be prayer, the conscious and insistent invoking of Christ and the saints. Now I can hear people saying, So Bishop Barron is blaming it all on the devil. Not at all. The devil works through temptation, suggestion, and insinuation and he accomplishes nothing without our cooperation. If you want to see the principle illustrated, Google Luca Signorelli s image of the Antichrist in the Orvieto Cathedral. You ll see what I mean. Archbishop McCarrick did wicked things and so did those, it appears, who enabled him. And we have to come to terms with these sins. Before I broach the subject of how to do this, permit me to say a few words about unhelpful strategies being bandied about. A first one is indiscriminate scapegoating. The great philosopher René Girard taught us that when communities enter into crisis, people typically commence desperately to cast about for someone or some group to blame. In the catharsis of this indiscriminate accusation, they find a kind of release, an ersatz peace. All the bishops should resign! The priesthood is a cesspool of immorality! The seminaries are all corrupt! As I say, these assertions might be emotionally satisfying at some level, but they are deeply unjust and conduce toward greater and not less dysfunction. The second negative strategy is the riding of ideological hobby horses. So lots of commentators left, center, and right have chimed in to say that the real cause of the McCarrick disaster is, take your pick, the ignoring of Humanae vitae, priestly celibacy, rampant homosexuality in the Church, the mistreatment of homosexuals, the sexual revolution, etc. Mind you, I m not saying for a moment that these aren t important considerations and that some of the suggestions might not have real merit. But I am saying that launching into a consideration of these matters that we have been debating for decades and that will certainly not admit of an easy adjudication amounts right now to a distraction. So what should be done? The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has no juridical or canonical authority to discipline bishops. And even if it tried to launch an investigation, it has, at the moment, very little credibility. Only the Pope has juridical and disciplinary powers in regard to bishops. Hence, I would suggest (as a lowly back-bencher auxiliary) that the bishops of the United States all of us petition the Holy Father to form a team, made up mostly of faithful lay Catholics skilled in forensic investigation, and to empower them to have access to all of the relevant documentation and financial records. Their task should be to determine how Archbishop McCarrick managed, despite his widespread reputation for iniquity, to rise through the ranks of the hierarchy and to continue, in his retirement years, to function as a roving ambassador for the Church and to have a disproportionate influence on the appointment of bishops. They should ask the ecclesial version of Sen. Howard Baker s famous questions: What did the responsible parties know and when did they know it? Only after these matters are settled will we know what the next steps ought to be. In the meantime, and above all, we should ask the heavenly powers to fight with us and for us. I might suggest especially calling upon the one who crushes the head of the serpent.