Saturday: 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM Vigil Thursdays: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:45 AM, 11:30 AM Every Day: 15 minutes before Mass

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1 September 16, 2018 Welcome to our Little Church on the Hill Mass Schedule Sacrament of Reconciliation Monday - Friday: 7:30 AM Available Saturdays: 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Saturday: 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM Vigil Thursdays: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:45 AM, 11:30 AM Every Day: 15 minutes before Mass Holy Days: as posted in the Bulletin Eucharistic Adoration Baptism & Marriage Preparation First Tuesday 7:00 PM 8:00 PM Please contact Parish Office (203) Every Thursday 7:00 PM 8:00 PM Anointing of the Sick Every Friday 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM 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 09/17/18-7:30 AM Ellen Sheehan and Family Sheehan Family B&W Mary Rodrigues Grandson Rdgs: 1Cor 11:17-26, 33 Lk 7: TUESDAY 09/18/18-7:30 AM Fr. Edmund Szymkiewicz Sacred Heart Parish Rdgs: 1Cor 12: 12-14, 27-31a Lk 7: WEDNESDAY 09/19/18-7:30 AM Patrick Rousseau Fr. Peter Towsley Rdgs: 1Cor 12:31-13:13 Lk 7: THURSDAY 09/20/18 - Sts. Andrew, Kim Tae-gon, Priest and Paul Chong Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs 7:30 AM Cindy Palanzo Family Rdgs: 1Cor 15:1-11 Lk 7: :00 PM Confessions and Exposition - FRIDAY 09/21/18 - St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist 7:30 AM Special Intention Deb Isaacson Rdgs: Eph 4:1-7, Mt 9:9-13 -SATURDAY 09/22/18-8:00 AM Ted Polinsky Anthony Scalzo Rdgs: 1Cor 15:35-37, Lk 8:4-15 Liturgical Schedule continued -SATURDAY 09/22/18-5:00 PM Charles Guy Brown Tomanic Family Lectors - B. Miazga & L. Noreika Ministers of the Blood - J. Garofalo & J. Dennison Minister of the Body - ML. Strano Altar Servers - J. & J. Dennison Music Ministry - St. Cecilia Choir - SUNDAY 09/23/18 - Twenty Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jasinski Sons and Family Lectors - D. Coelho & R. Doran Ministers of the Blood - D. Kozlowski & J. Freitas Minister of the Body - C. Gehring Altar Servers - K. Viera-Hanley, K. Kozlowski Music Ministry - Cantor THERE IS NO 9:45 MASS 11:30 AM Parishioners Living and Deceased Lector - ML. Strano, D. Pietras Ministers of the Body - B. & R. Lamontagne, R. Strano Altar Servers - R. Posca, B. Goodman, JP Miranda Music Ministry - All Musicians Rdgs: Wis 2:12, Jas 3:16-4:3 Mk 9:30-37 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: John and Alyson Halas & Family Monday: Richard Hamm & Family Tuesday: Steve and Neidy Hanley & Family Wednesday: Gerard Harrington & Family Thursday: Tony Vas & Family Friday: Joaquim and Maria Henriques & Family Saturday: Christiane and Ismael Hernandez & Family Sunday: Jennifer Hernandez & Family Eucharistic Adoration Thursdays 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM with confessions Fridays 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM Could you watch with Jesus an hour? 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. 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. Secular Franciscans Holy Hour and Prayer for Priests Saturday September 22 9:00 AM in the Church. ALL are welcome and encouraged to join and pray for all Priests.

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 21 st 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Georgia Kula 9:00 AM -10:00 AM Georgia Kula & Roger Palanzo 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 Mary Cronin 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 09/17/18-7:15 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting Rectory Basement 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting Parish Center - TUESDAY 09/18/18-6:15 PM - 7:15 PM Class School Gym 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Meeting Church Hall - WEDNESDAY 09/19/ THURSDAY 09/20/18-6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Rehearsal Church Hall - FRIDAY 09/21/ SATURDAY 09/22/ SUNDAY 09/23/18-12:30 PM - 4:30 PM PICNIC BENNETT PARK Happy Birthday Fr. Peter Staff Week of September 16 th Stewardship Our Financial View Weekend of September 8 th and 9 th $3, Please visit our website to set up your online giving account. Thank You for your continued generosity!

4 Faith Formation Registration is OPEN Forms are 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 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) Exciting News! Fr. Peter will be starting a Lectio Divina program. Beginning Tuesday October 9th 7:15pm - 8:15 pm. Mark your calendar for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month. Learn to: Read the Scripture Reflect on the Meaning Respond through Prayer Rest in God Respond in Action Young Adult Bible Study and Holy Hour Thursdays 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Beginning September 20. 1st hour: Lectio Series on Peter in Parish Center 2nd hour: Holy Hour with Confessions in Church Questions? contact: Erika Leigh at Ekendrick2013@gmail.com Starting September 30: Sundays during 9:45 Mass The return of our Children s Program. Children from age 3 through 1st Holy Communion Ladies Guild Members: Please join us at our next scheduled meeting on Tuesday, September 18 th, at 7:00 PM in the Church hall, as we discuss new, creative ways to revive the Guild in a different format, increase membership in our organization and enhance our experience by possibly bringing in outside speakers or hosting a Ladies of the Parish event. We would also like to consider revising the meeting schedule. All ideas and suggestions will be welcome.

5 Pastor s Corner Thank you for the many Birthday wishes for me! This column lead me to think about the 1st time I ran into a friend who had just joined the Jehovah Witnesses. One thing I found out that was heartbreaking for me was the fact that hey don't believe in celebrating Birthdays. WHY IS THAT? As Jehovah's Witnesses, they are convinced that celebrating birthdays is a pagan custom and not something Christians should do. Birthday celebrations are mentioned only a few times in Scripture, and nowhere are they condemned. Witnesses wrongly assume that celebrating birthdays is evil because the only two explicit biblical mentions of birthday celebrations are those in honor of a pagan, Pharaoh (Gn 40:20-22), and a wicked man, Herod Antipas (Mk 6:21; cf. Mt 14:1-12). To compound the issue, King Herod's birthday festivities were the occasion of sexual immorality involving the daughter of his brother's wife, Herodias, and led to the murder of John the Baptist. Witnesses wrongly reason that, because these biblical occurrences depict the celebration of the birth of wicked men, celebrating anyone's birthday is in itself sinful. You can demonstrate that this does not logically follow by showing that the Bible says that the birthday of John the Baptist would be the cause of "joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth for he will be great in the sight of the Lord" (Lk 1:14-15). While this passage does not explicitly mention an annual celebration of John the Baptist's birth, it certainly allows for such an interpretation and at the very least demonstrates that it is good to celebrate the birth of a holy person. In addition one might also point out to a Jehovah or Seventh Day Adventist that the Lord celebrated holidays during his earthly life (cf. Luke 2:41-43; John 6:3-5, 7:1-10, 10:22-23). In fact, one of the motifs of the Gospel of John is the Jewish holiday cycle. The purpose of holidays is not to worship days and individuals. It is to set apart time to focus attention on loving God and loving neighbors, the two great commandments (cf. Matt. 22:35-40). As in secular life where we must set aside vacation days to rest and focus our attention on family, so in the spiritual life we must set aside holy days to focus our attention more closely on God and neighbor. If left to our own devices, we might never do it. Because the days are set apart ritually, we don t have to think about doing it because it s already been done. Thank you again and Happy Birthday to all of you! My birthday celebration at JK'S God Bless all of you! Fr. Peter