June 17, Welcome to our Little Church on the Hill. Holy Days: posted in the Bulletin. Baptism & Marriage Preparation

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1 June 17, 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 06/18/18-7:30 AM + Stanley Kunicki Loretta Kunicki Rdgs: 1 Kgs 21:1-16 Mt 5: TUESDAY 06/19/18-7:30 AM + Peter McManus DiGiovanni Family B&W + Anna Falis Reynolds Family Rdgs: 1 Kgs 21:17-29 Mt 5: WEDNESDAY 06/20/18-7:30 AM + Cindy Palanzo Family Rdgs: 2 Kgs 2:1, 6-14 Mt 6:1-6, THURSDAY 06/21/18 - Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious 7:30 AM +Veronica Snyder Janice McNamara Rdgs: Sir 48: 1-14 Mt 6:7-15 7:00 PM Confessions - FRIDAY 06/22/18-7:30 AM + Leon Wayman Loretta Kunicki Rdgs: 2 Kgs 11:1-4, 9-18, 20 Mt. 6: SATURDAY 06/23/18-8:00 AM +Joanne Melillo & +Carmela Barbera Janice McNamara Rdgs: 2 Chr 24:17-25 Mt 6: :00 PM +Jean Kowelski Michael & Mary Ann Zelno Lectors - D. Pietras & ML Strano Ministers of the Blood - J. Dennison Minister of the Body - Altar Servers - E. & A. Vas Music Ministry - St. Cecilia Choir Rdgs: Jer 1:4-10 1Pt 1:8-12 Lk 1: SUNDAY 06/24/18 - Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist 7:30 AM Parishioners Living and Deceased Lectors - C. Gehring & C. Volpe, Jr. Ministers of the Blood - D. Hamm & D. Kozlowski Minister of the Body - A. Freitas Altar Servers - K. & K. Kozlowski, K. Viera- Hanley Music Ministry - Cantor 9:45 AM +Edward Kowalski St. Cecilia Choir B&W + John B. Scalzo Son Lector - R. Volpe Ministers of the Blood - A. Scalzo & S. Schirmer Minister of the Body - C. Stanley Altar Servers - A. & A. Tejada, D. Razzaia, C. Vogel, B. Goodman Music Ministry - Cantor 11:30 AM + Frank Peters, Sr. Sister, Joan Lector - D. Isaacson Ministers of the Blood - P. Nero & J. Peters Minister of the Body - J. McNamara Altar Servers - R. Posca, JP Miranda Music Ministry - Contemporary Choir Rdgs: Ez 17: Cor 5:6-10 Mk 4:26-34 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, the Morosky Family, & Homebound. Please also pray for those suffering senseless violence and racial tensions. The power of the priest, is the power of the divine person; for the transubstantiation of the bread requires as much power as the creation of the world. -St. Bernardine of Siena Please join Sacred Heart of Jesus Fraternity as its Secular Franciscans make their Holy Hour for Priests on Saturday, June 23; 9:00 am in the Adoration Chapel. Everyone is welcome. Stewardship Our Financial View Weekend of June 9 th and 10 th $ 3, Going on Vacation? Please visit our website to set up your online giving account. Thank You for your continued generosity! PLEASE NOTE 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) Tuesday nights 7:00PM - 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.

3 Parish Staff Pastor Fr. Peter Towsley In Residence Fr. Amobi Atuegbu 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 FRIDAY Adoration 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM closing with Benediction. Couldn't you watch with me even one hour? Matt 26:40 OUTDOOR MASS & PICNIC This Week in the Parish - MONDAY 06/18/18-7:15 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting Rectory Basement 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Rehearsal Church Hall 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Rehearsal Church - TUESDAY 06/19/18-6:15 PM - 7:15 PM Class School Gym - WEDNESDAY 06/20/ THURSDAY 06/21/ FRIDAY 06/22/18-6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Rehearsal Church - SATURDAY 06/23/ SUNDAY 06/24/18-12:30 PM - 6:00 PM EoY Picnic Playground 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting Parish Center Wednesday June 20; 6:30 pm Red Rooster: 1566 NY-22, Brewster, NY. Come for fellowship, food, and mini golf. Need a ride? Carpool will meet at Sacred Heart at 6:00pm. All Ministers please take note: As we head into warmer months, please remember that when you are exercising your ministry, you should be dressed appropriately.

4 Adorers Corner Scheduled for June 22 nd 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Georgia Kula 9:00 AM -10:00 AM Janice McNamara 10:00 AM -11:00 AM Sr. Doris Thibault & 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 and Buzzy Klecha 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Peggy Dyer, Deb Isaacson, Leoneidia Sousa 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Mary Cronin 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Alessandra Zocolotti, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Cyndi Morosky 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! As a Parish community, we would like to lift each family up in prayer; praying for the spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being of each member of the family. Please be sure to include them in your daily prayers. Sunday: Dennis and Michelle Fitzgerald & Family Monday: Anna Fitzsimons & Family Tuesday: Susana and Michael Forgue & Family Wednesday: Patrick Fortin & Family Thursday: Richard and Karen Fournier & Family Friday: Rachel Franc & Family Saturday: Jacob Franc & Family Sunday: Mary Franc & Family Did you know that we have a PARISH subscription to FORMED? Contact the Parish office for our code, and everything on their site is FREE for you! Movies, Documentaries, Podcasts, readings, Bible Studies and more.

5 SUICIDE in the NEWS, again! The suicide epidemic and a message for a hopeless world The Church has a unique spiritual response to our desperation: It is good that you exist. Right on the heels of the apparent suicide of fashion designer Kate Spade, America woke up Friday morning to the news of yet another suicide: CNN s Anthony Bourdain. They join a growing list of celebrities who have taken their own lives in recent years, including three talented musicians: Avicii, Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, and Chester Bennington of Linkin Park. Unfortunately, it would be an enormous mistake to conclude that this is only a growing problem for high-profile figures suffering the slings and arrows of fame and fortune. Suicide is a growing problem for all Americans. Right between the news of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain came a C.D.C. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) report that suicide rates increased by 25 percent across the United States from 1999 through The rates increased in nearly every state, and half of the states saw suicide rates go up more than 30 percent. In total, almost 45,000 lives were lost to suicide in It s among our leading causes of death. Why is this happening? The CDC notes that while suicide is often attributed to mental health, more than half of people who died by suicide did not have a known mental health condition. Suicide, the CDC concluded, is rarely caused by a single factor, but contributing causes may include relationship problems, recent or upcoming crises, health, finances, housing, legal problems, and substance abuse. Nietzsche once said the human heart is a labyrinth forever hidden to the world outside the world that operates according to government action, news reports, and public opinion. There are icebergs of the soul hidden even from friends, family members maybe even ourselves. Maybe, in the end, the only one who knows all the causes of any one person s tragic suicide is God himself. While the causes may not be ours to know, we can hear the same cry echoing out across the country: my life is not worth living. A recent song by Logic and Alessia Cara, (titled after the Suicide Prevention Lifeline number) speaks movingly of the state in which many people on the brink of suicide find themselves. I don t want to be alive, Logic sings with heartbreaking desperation. I don t want to be alive. I just want to die today. I just want to die They say every life s precious, but nobody cares about mine. How many people have spoken these words from the depths of their being? How many have then spoken them out loud? And how many, never hearing anything to the contrary, have acted on them? These cries call out for our collective resources promoting physical, mental, and social health. But, the Church also has and must deliver a unique spiritual response to those cries, one that Benedict XVI delivered beautifully in 2011: It is good that you exist. Whatever happens with you or to you, you are a beloved child of God, and it is good that you exist. Your life s worth is not measured by your productivity, social status, career path, bank account, love life, friendships, health, beauty, happiness, wit, or talent. It s not a function of how the world or other people look at you. Your worth is measured by the sign of God s infinite love for you: your being. Creation is not a distant event 14 billion years ago, but something that is happening right here and now. God didn t create you; God is creating you, because he desires you, accepts you, and loves you. And even if every last person in the whole crazy world tells you otherwise, your life remains incredibly precious and important, because God has a job for you that only you can do. Everyone you meet is fighting a great battle; some, veritable wars. But, both celebrities and workaday people are increasingly battered, bleeding, and whether cumulatively or suddenly upon waking one morning hopeless. More and more people are feeling like they have lost their fight. As always the Church remains a field hospital. Its doors opened two thousand years ago, and they are still open today. Above its doors is a message of hope, even and especially to the hopeless: It is good for you to be here!