September 23, Welcome to our Little Church on the Hill. Holy Days: as posted in the Bulletin -CHURCH IS HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE-

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1 September 23, 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: as posted in the Bulletin Eucharistic Adoration First Tuesday 7:00 PM 8:00 PM Every Thursday 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 09/24/18-7:30 AM Anna Franc Bob and Sandy Schirmer Rdgs: Prv 3:27-34 Lk 8: TUESDAY 09/25/18-7:30 AM Virginia and Bill Stanley Sheehan Family Rdgs: Prv 21:1-6, Lk 8: WEDNESDAY 09/26/18-7:30 AM Patricia Fedigan Louise Klecha B&W Special Intention Rdgs: Prv 30:5-9 Lk 9:1-6 - THURSDAY 09/27/18 - Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest 7:30 AM Sr. Monica Socinski, O.P. Sr. Doris, O.P. Rdgs: Eccl 1:2-11 Lk 9:7-9 7:00 PM Confessions and Exposition - FRIDAY 09/28/18-7:30 AM Peter, Roy, Claire Wohlfarth Ginger Wohlfarth Rdgs: Eph 4:1-7, Mt 9:9-13 -SATURDAY 09/29/18 - Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels 8:00 AM Stanizlaw, Bolslaw, Eva Korzenko Bruno Rdgs: Dn 7:9-10, Jn 1:47-51 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 include them in your daily prayers. Sunday: Jennifer Hernandez & Family Monday: Lucy Hernandez & Family Tuesday: Victor and Ana Hernandez & Family Wednesday: Vicky Hickey & Family Thursday: Diane Hnat & Family Friday: Karl and Brenda Horberg & Family Saturday: Michael and Michele Hossan & Family Sunday: Thomas and Karen Hunt & Family Eucharistic Adoration Thursdays 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM with confessions Fridays 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM Spend an hour with Jesus. Liturgical Schedule continued -SATURDAY 09/29/18-5:00 PM Dominic, Mary, Peter Volpe Volpe Family Lectors - D. Pietras & ML. Strano Ministers of the Blood - N. Scudiero & B. Miazga Minister of the Body - R. Godfrey Altar Servers - JP Miranda Music Ministry - St. Cecilia Choir - SUNDAY 09/30/18 - Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM Thomas and Martha Delay Hassiak Family B&W Thomas and Martha Delay Hassiak Family Lectors - D. & K. Kozlowski Ministers of the Blood - C. & D. Gehring Minister of the Body - A. Freitas Altar Servers - K. Viera-Hanley, R. Posca Music Ministry - Cantor 9:45 AM Parishioners Living and Deceased B&W Rotundo Family Family Lector - R. Volpe Ministers of the Blood - E. & K. Cerno Ministers of the Body - B. Hagan Altar Servers - E. Castro, B. Goodman, C. Vogel Music Ministry - Cantor 11:30 AM Mary and Frank Peters, Sr. Daughter Joan Lector - P. Nero Ministers of the Blood - Sr. Doris & J. McNamara Minister of the Body - V. Giordano Altar Servers - A. Vas Music Ministry - Contemporary Choir Rdgs: Nm 11:25-29 Jas 5:1-6 Mk 9:38-43, 45, 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, Irene Cebron, & our Homebound. Please also pray for those suffering senseless violence and racial tensions. Children s Program. Starting Sunday Sept. 30 During 9:45am Mass.

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 Adorers Corner Scheduled for September 28 th 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Georgia Kula 9:00 AM -10:00 AM Georgia Kula & Janice McNamara 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 Joe Kieras 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Alessandra Zocolotti, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Cyndi Morosky, Leoneidia Sousa Please contact the Parish Office to become an adorer or office@sacredheartdanbury.org If you can not make your assigned time please find a substitute. Jesus must never be left unattended. Thank you! This Week in the Parish - MONDAY 09/24/18-7:15 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting Rectory Basement 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Rehearsal Church 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Meeting Church Hall - TUESDAY 09/25/18-6:15 PM - 7:15 PM Class School Gym - WEDNESDAY 09/26/18-7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Meeting - THURSDAY 09/27/18-6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Rehearsal Church Hall 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Young Adult Group and Church - FRIDAY 09/28/ SATURDAY 09/29/ SUNDAY 09/30/18-6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting Mass of Reparation Sunday, October 21; 9:45 AM Mass Please join us in asking the Lord for forgiveness and to offer reparation for the sins committed by priests, bishops and any member of the Church. Stewardship Our Financial View Weekend of September 15 h and 16 th $3, Please visit our website to set up your online giving account. Thank You for your continued generosity!

4 Faith Formation Have you Registered? Classes begin NEXT SUNDAY Sept. 30 8:30am in the school Fr. Peter s Lectio Divina Beginning Tuesday October 9 th 7:15pm - 8:15 pm. 2 nd and 4 th Tuesdays of the month. Learn to: Read the Scripture Reflect on the Meaning Respond through Prayer Rest in God Respond in Action 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) Young Adult Bible Study and Holy Hour Thursdays 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM It isn t too late to join!! 1 st hour: Lectio Series on Peter in 2 nd hour: Holy Hour with Confessions in Church Questions? contact: Erika Leigh at Ekendrick2013@gmail.com

5 Pastor s Corner on The Feast of the Archangels: September 29 th St. Michael the Archangel St. Michael is one of the principal angels; his name was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers. His name is recorded four times in Scripture: Daniel 10:13: Gabriel says to Daniel, when he asks God to permit the Jews to return to Jerusalem: " The Angel of the kingdom of the Persians resisted me...and, behold Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me... and none is my helper in all these things, but Michael your prince"; Daniel 12, the Angel speaking of the end of the world and the Antichrist says: " At that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people." In the Catholic Epistle of St. Jude: " When Michael the Archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses", etc. St. Jude alludes to an ancient Jewish tradition of a dispute between St. Michael and Satan over the body of Moses, an account of which is also found in the apocryphal book on the assumption of Moses (Origen, "De principiis", III, 2, 2). St. Michael concealed the tomb of Moses; Satan, however, by disclosing it, tried to seduce the Jewish people to the sin of hero-worship. St. Michael also guards the body of Eve, according to the "Revelation of Moses" ("Apocryphal Gospels", etc., ed. A. Walker, Edinburgh, p. 647). Book of Revelation, 12:7, " And there was a great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon." St. John speaks of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflects also the battle in heaven at the beginning of time. According to the Fathers of the Church there is often question of St. Michael in Scripture where his name is not mentioned. They say he was the cherub who stood at the gate of paradise, "to keep the way of the tree of life" (Gen., 3, 24), the angel through whom God published the Decalogue to his chosen people, the angel who stood in the way against Balaam (Numbers 22:22), the angel who routed the army of Sennacherib (3 Kings 19:35). Following these Scriptural passages, Christian tradition gives St. Michael four offices: 1. To fight against Satan. 2. To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death. 3. To be the champion of God's people, the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore he was the patron of the Church, and of the order of knights during the Middle Ages. 4. To call away from earth and bring men's souls to judgment (Cf. "Hermas", Pastor, I, 3, Simil. 8, 3). Opinions vary regarding St. Michael s rank in the celestial hierarchy. St. Basil (Hom. de angelis) and other Greek Fathers, also Salmeron, Bellarmine, etc., place St. Michael over all the angels; they say he is called "archangel" because he is the prince of the other angels; others (cf. P. Bonaventura) believe that he is the Prince of the Seraphim, the first of the nine angelic orders. According to St. Thomas (Summa, I, cxiii, a. 3) he is the prince of the last and lowest choir, the angels. The Roman Liturgy seems to follow the Greek Fathers; it calls him "Princeps militiae coelestis quem honorificant angelorum cives". The hymn of the Mozarabic Breviary places St. Michael even above the Twenty-four Elders. The Greek Liturgy calls him Archistrategos, "highest general" (cf. Menaea, 8 Nov. and 6 Sept.). Veneration It would have been natural to St. Michael, the champion of the Jewish people, to be the champion also of Christians, giving victory in war to his followers. The early Christians, however, regarded some of the martyrs as their military patrons: St. George, St. Theodore, St. Demetrius, St. Sergius, St. Procopius, St. Mercurius, etc.; but to St. Michael they gave the care of their sick. At the place where he was first venerated, in Phrygia, his prestige as angelic healer obscured his interposition in military affairs. It was from early times the center of the true cult of the holy angels, particularly of St. Michael. Tradition tells that in the earliest ages St. Michael caused a medicinal spring to spout at Chairotopa near Colossae, where all the sick who bathed there, invoking the Blessed Trinity and St. Michael, were cured. More famous are the springs which St. Michael is said to have drawn from the rock at Colossae (Choanae, now Khonas (Turkey), on the Lycus River). In Normandy, France, St. Michael is the patron of mariners in his famous sanctuary at Mont-Saint-Michel in the diocese of Coutances. He is said to have appeared there, in 708, to St. Aubert, Bishop of Avranches. In Normandy his feast "St. Michaelis in periculo maris" or "in Monte Tumba" was universally celebrated on Oct. 18., the anniversary of the dedication of the first church, Oct. 16, 710; this feast is now confined to the Diocese of Coutances. In Germany, after its evangelization, St. Michael replaced for the Christians the pagan god Wotan, to whom many mountains were sacred, hence the numerous mountain chapels of St. Michael all over Germany. Sts. Michael, Raphael and Gabriel - Pray for us!