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 July 22, th Sunday in Ordinary Time 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: posted in the Bulletin Baptism & Marriage Preparation Eucharistic Adoration Please contact Parish Office (203) First Tuesday 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

2 Liturgical Schedule - MONDAY 07/23/18-7:30 AM Fr. Chester Kicia Sacred Heart Parish Rdgs: Mi 6:1-4, 6-8 Mt 12: TUESDAY 07/24/18-7:30 AM Vincent Inglese Fr. Peter Towsley Rdgs: Mi 7:14-15, Mt 12: WEDNESDAY 07/25/18 - Feast of Saint James, Apostle 7:30 AM Edward Jackson Lois Hunt Rdgs: 2Cor 4:7-15 Mt 20: THURSDAY 07/26/18 - Sts. Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary 7:30 AM Jean Stanton Klecha Family Rdgs: Jer 2:1-3, 7-8, Mt 13: :00 PM Confessions - FRIDAY 07/27/18-7:30 AM Rita Kolwicz Family Rdgs: Jer 3:14-17 Mt 13: SATURDAY 07/28/18-8:00 AM James Jowdy, Sr. Anthony Scalzo B&W Edgar Rodrigues Grandson Rdgs: Jer 7:1-11 Mt 13: :00 PM Mary Kowelski Deb Pietras & Family Lectors - B. Miazga & L. Noreika Ministers of the Blood - J. Dennison & J. Garofalo Minister of the Body - R. Godfrey Altar Servers - C. Vogel Music Ministry - Cantor Adorers Corner Scheduled for July 27 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 Sr. Doris and 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, Millie Mietelski, 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! Liturgical Schedule continued - SUNDAY 07/29/18 - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM Parishioners Living and Deceased Lectors - D. & K. Kozlowski Ministers of the Blood - B. Scully & Minister of the Body - J. Freitas Altar Servers - K. Kozlowski, K. Viera- Hanley, R. Posca Music Ministry - Cantor 9:45 AM Edgar and Mary Rodrigues & Family Family B&W Joseph Scalzo Nephew Lector - N. Mendonsa Ministers of the Blood - K. Cerno & Bill Hagan Minister of the Body - E. Cerno Altar Servers - B. Goodman Music Ministry - Cantor 11:30 AM Theresa Woolard Dorothy Pribulo Lector - G. Kula Ministers of the Blood - J. McNamara & P. Nero Minister of the Body - R. Lamontagne Altar Servers - JP Miranda, E. Vas Music Ministry - Contemporary Choir Rdgs: 2Kgs 4:42-44 Eph 4:1-6 Jn 6:1-15 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: Bill Hagan III & Family Monday: Sara Cerqueira & Family Tuesday: Steven and Michelle Cerveria & Family Wednesday: John and Amy Chaber & Family Thursday: Antonia Chieffalo & Family Friday: Sal and Ellen Chieffalo & Family Saturday: Sal and Ellen Chieffalo & Family Sunday: Dave and Donna Coelho & Family 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.

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 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: Stewardship Our Financial View Weekend of July 14 th and 15 th $4, Going on Vacation? Please visit our website to set up your online giving account. Thank You for your continued generosity! 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Church 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Church 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Church 6:00 PM - 9:15 PM Rectory 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Parish Center This Week in the Parish - MONDAY 07/23/18- - TUESDAY 07/24/ WEDNESDAY 07/25/18 - Meeting - THURSDAY 07/26/ FRIDAY 07/27/ SATURDAY 07/28/ SUNDAY 07/29/18 - Meeting Rehearsal Holy Hour The Peace Light is present in our sanctuary for the year 2018! May it help to bring peace to our streets, homes, and hearts. We will keep this candle burning for the year. Please consider making a donation to help defray the cost of keeping this flame lit and to help make our Little Church on the hill a light that is not hidden under a bushel.

4 Tuesday nights 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Join the Flame of Love group in the Church and Pray the Rosary in Spanish. Los Martes no juntamos desde las 7:00 hasta las 8:00 de la noche. Sea miembro del grupo La llama del amor en la iglesia y rece el Rosario en espanol con nostros.español. With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again. Catherine Doherty The Diocese of Bridgeport is interested in hiring an educator to teach an after-school enrichment program for 3 and 4 year-olds at St. Peter School. Activities will be provided for student work. Some time will be spent assisting students and parents during cooperative activities. This is a late afternoon into evening program Tues, Wed, Thurs beginning August 21 for six week sessions during the school year. Submit resume to: St. Peter School 98 Main St. Danbury, CT Attn: Mrs. D. Hocking, Coordinator, Pre-School Enrichment Program dhocking@spsdanbury.org

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6 Faith Formation Registration is now OPEN The new Registration form is available on the website s Faith Formation page. Or you can register, and pay directly in WeShare. OUTDOOR MASS & Sunday PICNIC 11:30am The Word of God is a light to the mind and a fire to the will. St. Lawrence of Brindisi (Feast Day - July 21) FRIDAY Adoration 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM closing with Benediction. Couldn't you watch with me even one hour? Matt 26:40 SAVE THE DATE! Still haven t downloaded our APP? On your Android Device: Text SHDC2 to On your iphone: Text SHDC1 to Stay up to date with Parish notifications, send in a prayer request, or use the APP when saying the Rosary. The Best Shrines of France Pilgrimage Join Author, Speaker, Journalist & EWTN Television Host Donna-Marie Cooper O Boyle for a memorable, inspiring, and life-changing 11 days on the Best Shrines of France Pilgrimage with 206 Tours Sept Oct. 4, Holy sites include: Lourdes (St. Bernadette), Toulouse, Rocamadour, Paray Le Monial, Nevers (St. Bernadette), Chartres, Lisieux (St. Therese the Little Flower), Normandy Beaches, Mont Saint Michel, Paris (St. Catherine Laboure, St. Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac), and more. Info at:

7 BILL NYE IS NOT THE PHILOSOPHY GUY by Bishop Robert Barron Reliable sources have informed me that for the millennial generation Bill Nye is a figure of great importance, due to his widelywatched program from the 1990 s called Bill Nye the Science Guy. Evidently, he taught a large swath of American youth the fundamentals of experimental science and became for them a sort of paragon of reason. Well, I ll take their word for it. But judging from a recent video in which Bill Nye discussed the relation between science and philosophy, I can only tell you that he sure is not the philosophy guy. In a rambling and largely incoherent response to an interlocutor who wondered whether philosophy is still relevant, Nye denigrated the discipline, stating that philosophy never deviates from common sense, that it doubts the reality of sense experience, and that it engages in speculation about whether we might be part of an intergalactic ping pong match! In regard to the first observation, I would say that, pretty much from Socrates on, philosophers have practically specialized in deviating from common sense. In regard to the second (which flatly contradicts his first assertion), I would say that some philosophers Descartes most famously speculated along these lines in order to perform a sort of epistemological experiment and certainly not to prove the non-existence of the physical world. In regard to the third, I can only say that this has more to do with someone on an LSD trip than any serious philosopher that I m aware of. I don t want to spend any more time engaging Nye s rather silly claims, but I do want to address an issue that undergirds everything he says and that is infecting the minds of many young people today, namely scientism. Not to put too fine a point on it, scientism is the reduction of all knowledge to the scientific form of knowledge. In other words, it is a strict identification of the rational with the deliverances of the scientific method developed in the late sixteenth century. That this method empirical observation, followed by hypothesis, followed by experimentation, followed by confirmation through repeated experimentation has indeed rendered abundant fruit is obvious to anyone. And that its accompanying technology has benefitted the world in countless ways is beyond dispute. But the very success of the sciences invites the distortion of scientism, an epistemological imperialism which consigns extra-scientific forms of rationality to the intellectual ash-heap. And what an impoverishment this produces! At the very dawn of philosophy, Plato spoke to us of prisoners chained up inside a cave. All they can see are flickering shadows on the cave wall. One prisoner managed to free himself from the chains, escape from the cave, and find an upper world of light and substance. He realized that the shadows that he had spent his life watching were but mere representations of what is truly real. Finally, he gazed up to the sun, whose brilliant light made all things visible. This splendid fable is the metaphorical representation of the process by which one moves from knowledge of the evanescent world of nature to knowledge of the more permanent things and finally to the source of all knowledge and being. Plato s disciple Aristotle presented the same idea in a more prosaic manner, speaking of the transition from physics (the study of matter in motion) to mathematics (the study of numeric relations), and finally to metaphysics (the study of being as such). Neither philosopher despised what we would characterize today as science in fact Aristotle can credibly claim the title as father of Western science but they both recognized that there are things the sciences can t know, things that are, in point of fact, the most important, lasting, and fascinating. The physical sciences can reveal the chemical composition of ink and paper, but they cannot, even in principle, tell us anything about the meaning of Moby Dick or The Wasteland. Biology might inform us regarding the process by which nerves stimulate muscles in order to produce human action, but it could never tell us anything about whether a human act is morally right or wrong. Optics might disclose how light and color are processed by the eye, but it cannot possibly tell us what makes the Sistine Chapel Ceiling beautiful. Speculative astrophysics might tell us truths about the unfolding of the universe from the singularity of the Big Bang, but it cannot say a word about why there is something rather than nothing or how contingent being relates to non-contingent being. How desperately sad if questions regarding truth, morality, beauty, and existence qua existence are dismissed as irrational or pre-scientific. The scientism that I ve been describing and criticizing is but a symptom of a more far-reaching problem, namely, the fading away of the humanities in our schools. If the study of literature, the arts, and philosophy is regarded as impractical and soft in comparison to the study of the sciences, we will produce a generation of, I m sorry to say, prisoners chained inside of Plato s cave. They will know a great deal about the evanescent world of nature, but they won t know anything about how to live a decent life, how to differentiate between the sublime and the mundane, how to recognize God. So listen to Bill Nye as he leads you through an experiment, but please don t listen to him in regard to the higher questions and the more permanent things.