Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 3, 2019

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1 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 3, 2019 Welcome to our Little Church on the Hill Mass Schedule Monday - Friday: 7:30 AM Saturday: 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM Vigil Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:45 AM, 11:30 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays: 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Thursdays: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Every Day: 15 minutes before all Masses 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 02/04/19-7:30 AM Lisa Marie Maroto Fran and Sonia Kieras Rdgs: Heb 11:32-40 Mk 5: TUESDAY 02/05/19 - St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr 7:30 AM Ralph E. Hoffman Fr. Peter Rdgs: Heb 12:1-4 Mk 5: :00 PM Holy Hour -WEDNESDAY 02/06/19 - St. Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs 7:30 AM Fr. Paul Merry Maria Mullen Rdgs: Heb 12:4-7, Mk 6:1-6 - THURSDAY 02/07/19-7:30 AM Bill Barnhardt Clif Kolwicz B & W John B. Scalzo Son Rdgs: Heb 10:19-25 Mk 4: :00 PM Confessions and Exposition - FRIDAY 02/08/19 - St. Josephine Bakhita, Virgin 7:30 AM Kathleen Tully Billy and Theresa Tully B & W Edgar Rodrigues Grandson Rdgs: Heb 13:1-8 Mk 6: SATURDAY 02/09/19-8:00 AM John B. Scalzo Son Rdgs: Heb 13:15-17, 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, Lucy Rozanski, the Morosky Family, Millie Mietelski, Rita (Lukas) McGoff, John and Johnny, and our Homebound. Please also pray for those suffering senseless violence and racial tensions. Donald and Marilyn Hassiak Janice McNamara Week of February 10 th Liturgical Schedule continued -SATURDAY 02/09/19-4 :00 PM Richard Scinto, Sr. Fr. Peter Readers - J. Kieras, B. Miazga EMHC of the Blood - K. Miazga, R. Strano EMHC of the Body - L. Pryzgoda Altar Servers - Dennisons Music Ministry - St. Cecilia Choir - SUNDAY 02/10/19 - Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM Parishioners Living and Deceased Readers- C. Gehring, C. Volpe, Jr. EMHC of the Blood - D. Hamm, P. Saviano EMHC of the Body - C. Bates Altar Servers - R. Posca, K. Kozlowski Music Ministry - Cantor 9:45 AM Bernard Blaney Cleo Calo Reader - R. Volpe EMHC of the Blood - S. Schirmer, C. Stanley EMHC of the Body - A. Scalzo Altar Servers - Hanleys, B. Goodman Music Ministry - Cantor 11:30 AM Patricia Durkin Patren Family Reader- D. Isaacson EMHC of the Blood - B. & R. Lamontagne EMHC of the Body -M. Casey Altar Servers - N. Solano, JP. Miranda Music Ministry - Contemporary Choir Rdgs: Is 6:1-2a, Cor 15:1-11 Lk 5:1-11 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: Daniel and Cathryn Rafael & Family Monday: Antonio and Rosa Ramos & Family Tuesday: Candido and Olimpia Ramos & Family Wednesday: Maria Ramos & Family Thursday: Ana Ramos & Family Friday: Ricky and Krystal Ramos & Family Saturday: Rich Raymond & Family Sunday: Frances Revell & Family Do you know someone who is sick, or otherwise unable to join us regularly for Mass and think they would appreciate a visit, Holy Communion, or even just a phone call? PLEASE LET US KNOW! Call or the Parish Office. MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW; JUMPSTART YOUR LENT Sunday March 3; 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Dan Burke giving us an Afternoon of Reflection

3 Parish Staff Pastor Fr. Peter Towsley ext. 25 In Residence Fr. Jean-Rony Philippe Pastoral Administrator Dan Tomé Finance Administrator Marie Fitzgerald ext. 18 Office Administrator Suzanne Najman ext. 10 Parish Building & Grounds Manny Guaman (cell) Music Ministry Director Suzanne Najman ext. 10 Finance Council Chairperson Nannette Scudiero (home) Parish Pastoral Council Chairperson Karen Cerno (home) Parish Office Adorers Corner Scheduled for February 8 th 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM VOLUNTEERS NEEDED 9:00 AM -10:00 AM 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 Marie Fitzgerald, Suzanne Najman 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Fran and Sonia Kieras 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Ben Slesinsky 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Peggy Dyer 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Joe Kieras 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM A. Zocolotti 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM 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! Children s Program: Sundays during 9:45 AM Mass Bring children ages 3-7 to the Café when you arrive. This Week in the Parish - MONDAY 02/04/19-7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Rehearsal Church 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Meeting Parish Center 7:15 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting Man Cave - TUESDAY 02/05/19-6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Meeting School 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM Meeting School - WEDNESDAY 02/06/ THURSDAY 02/07/19-6:45 PM - 8:00 PM Rehearsal Cafe - FRIDAY 02/08/19-7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Rehearsal Church - SATURDAY 02/09/ SUNDAY 02/10/19-6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting Parish Center Monday Night In the Man Cave 7:15 PM - 8:30 PM The Three Spiritual Foods Stewardship Our Financial View Weekend of January 26 th and 27 th $4, Visit our website to set up your online giving account. Thank You for your continued generosity!

4 In Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ. - Pope John Paul II - Join us for a monthly Holy Hour Tuesday, February 5 h at 7:00 PM Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. RESCHEDULED Admissions Event at Regina Caeli Feb. 4 Looking for an amazing resource devoted to a classical education and the Catholic faith? Regina Caeli meets in Wilton serving Prek-3-12 th grade. Students attend Socratic and hands-on classrooms two days per week and are homeschooled the remaining days. *Touring Event: Presentation begins at 10:30 AM with a tour, classroom observation, Q&A. *High School Info Session: Presentation begins at NOON. You CAN home school High School! Have your questions answered RSVP; Lisa Frawley, Coordinator of Education, (203) or lfrawley.fcc@rcahybrid.org Refreshments served; children welcome! Franciscan Life Center is offering a seminar: A Vision for Love and Marriage in Our Time Sat. Feb. 16, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM & Sun. Feb. 17, 10:00 AM. - 4:00 PM 275 Finch Avenue, Meriden, CT. $65.00/adult for both days, lunch included. Call: (203) for more information. Candlemas Day another name for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Forty days after His birth, Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the temple for the rites of purification and dedication as prescribed by the Torah. According to the Book of Leviticus (12:1-4), when a woman bore a male child, she was considered unclean for seven days. On the eighth day, the boy was circumcised. The mother continued to stay at home for 33 days for her blood to be purified. After the 40 days, the mother and the father came to the temple for the rite of purification, which included the offering of a sacrifice; a lamb for a holocaust (burnt offering) and a pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering, or for a poor couple who could not afford a lamb; two pigeons or two turtledoves.

5 Did YOU get your copy of our Parish Ministries Guide? If not, ask the ushers, or stop by the office. It is FILLED with information on all of our ministries, both in the Church and our Outreach groups. You see these graphics in the bulletin every week. Take a Ministry Guide home to learn more. Here are just a few highlights. Young Adult Bible Study meets weekly for study of sacred scripture, fellowship, and Holy Hour. Catholic Young Adults of Greater Danbury meets several times a month for Holy Hour, Social Events and a newly added monthly Faith Formation discussion.. Fr. Peter s Lectio Divina meets twice a month. Spend an hour delving deeper into the written word. Music Ministry Children s Choir - Ages (alumni always welcome back.) St. Cecilia Choir - Adults Contemporary Choir - Adults, and instrumentalists. We have a group for you. NO previous experience required. Champion Boys Club Little Women, Little Flowers, and Champion Boys Club are children s groups that meet monthly. Books are read, games are played, and to all groups, the truths of the Catholic Faith are taught. For teens from 8 th grade through High School. Weekly meetings have three foci: Prayer, Fellowship, and Fun. Spend time with other Men learning how, and helping each other navigate through modern life as a Catholic Christian. Women s fellowship and Bible Study. Sacred Heart has a council of this national Catholic Men s Organization.

6 Eucharistic Adoration Thursdays 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM with confessions Fridays 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM First Tuesday Holy Hour 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Can t Make it to Mass on Sunday? If bad weather, or illness is keeping you home, you can watch Mass on TV: Comcast Channel 291 or online: Daily and Sunday Masses available! Spend an hour with Jesus! In his homily last weekend, Fr. Peter spoke about the Bible and how it is God s love letter to us. What a love letter it is! He also challenged each and every one of us to spend 10 minutes a day for the month of February reading just one page of one of the Gospels. Which team will you join? Team Matthew? Team Mark? Team Luke? Team John? After Masses for the month, when you head down to the café, find a table with your team s icon on it, and discuss what you have read with your teammates over coffee, cocoa, or just some water. We are looking forward to lively conversation!

7 Dear Family: We have had it in the announcements that we are again holding Lectio Divina for beginners every other Tuesday now in the Adoration Chapel at 7:15 PM. Lectio Divina is an ancient Catholic prayer method for reading and praying with the Bible. Don t let the Latin scare you away from learning to do it yourself or from sharing it with us. It is an essential practice for all Catholics to learn and certainly not something we should avoid teaching other people to do. THE LECTIO DIVINA STEPS According to Pope Benedict XVI in the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Verbum Domini (nos ), Lectio Divina (Divine Reading) is broken down into the following steps named in Latin: Lectio (reading), Meditatio (meditation), Oratio (prayer), and Contemplatio (contemplation). Then, as a result of the encounter with God in Scripture, we are also called to Actio (action). Each of these steps together form a process by which we encounter God in His sacred word and respond to His grace. They form parts of a larger whole, but each one comes with a certain set of skills for us to master. Let s look briefly at each step. Lectio (Reading) In the first phase of Lectio Divina we understand what the passage we are reading says in itself. This is the literal meaning of the Scripture passage and the lessons everyone should recognize in reading it. At this stage we do not yet consider our own lives in connection with the Scriptures. We do not let our opinions influence our reading, but seek to understand the message of the passage as interpreted by the Church independently of anyone s opinions. This phase is summarized with the question: What does the text say that everyone should understand? Meditatio (Meditation) In the meditation phase of Lectio Divina, we ask, what does this text say to me, today, and to my life? We allow God to pull up certain memories of people, places, and events in our lives that relate to the passage we are reading. Meditation is also an opportunity to see ourselves in the text. We can consider our own feelings as if we were a participant in the text or try to understand what it would be like to be one of the people represented in the text. In this way we come to a deeper appreciation of how God is working in our lives through the sacred word. Having entered into the story ourselves, we can return to the present and consider the areas in our own lives that God is calling us to contemplate. Oratio (Prayer) Through a meditation on Scripture, we experience an intimate encounter with God that leads us to respond in prayer. Having met our Lord in his holy word, we courageously speak to him in our own words. In this way we consider prayer to be a simple conversation with God. It is a conversation that comes in various forms: we ask petitions (or requests) of him, we give him thanks, and we give him praise. We might also ask for the intercession of Mary or the saints represented in the passage we read. At this phase we ourselves: What can I say to the Lord in response to his word? Contemplatio (Contemplation) A true encounter with the Lord always leads to transformation. Indeed, the Lord God proclaimed, Behold, I make all things new (Revelation 21:5). Through contemplation we come to an understanding of the parts of our lives that need to be transformed by God s grace. We humble ourselves and open our lives up to his transformative power. This step comes with the willingness to change, an openness and trust in God, and the decision to follow God s will rather than our own. With this decision comes a fear of losing what we find comfortable and safe. At the same time we feel the excitement of a call to heroic adventure and a hopeful future of living the life we are meant to live. At this step in the Lectio Divina process, we ask ourselves: What conversion of the mind, heart, and life is the Lord asking of me? Actio (Action) Finally, although this phase is often not considered to be a part of Lectio Divina proper, it is an essential result of the encounter with God in Sacred Scripture. As Pope Benedict XVI wrote in Verbum Domini, We do well also to remember that the process of Lectio Divina is not concluded until it arrives at action (actio), which moves the believer to make his or her life a gift for others in charity (no. 87). Having received God s love and grace, we go forth to serve others out of the love we have been given. Our transformation calls us to witness to others; it calls us to selflessly serve our brothers and sisters in Christ. These acts are done not so much out of a sense of duty, but out of the inspiration we receive from the acceptance in faith of God s love. God Bless, your Pastor Fr. Peter Join me in the Chapel for our next Lectio Divina, February 12.