Third Sunday in Ordinary Time January 27, 2019 Welcome to our Little Church on the Hill Mass Schedule Sacrament of Reconciliation Monday - Friday: 7:30 AM Saturdays: 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Saturday: 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM Vigil Thursdays: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:45 AM, 11:30 AM Every Day: 15 minutes before all Masses 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) 748-9029 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) 748-9029 Office hours: Monday - Thursday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM ; Friday 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM -CHURCH IS HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE-
Liturgical Schedule - MONDAY 01/28/19 - St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church 7:30 AM Fr. Pius Kaluzny SH Staff B & W Dorothy Scalzo Cousin Rdgs: Heb 9:15, 24-28 Mk 3:22-30 - TUESDAY 01/29/19-7:30 AM JP Rizzitelli and Family Fr. Peter B & W John B. Scalzo Son Rdgs: Heb 10:1-10 Mk 3:31-35 -WEDNESDAY 01/30/19-7:30 AM Holy Souls in Purgatory anonymous B & W Edgar Rodrigues, Jr. Nephew Rdgs: Heb 10:11-18 Mk 4:1-20 - THURSDAY 01/31/19 - St. John Bosco, Priest 7:30 AM Frank Briscoe Chick and Jeanne Volpe and Family B & W Katherine Kit Curesky Anthony Rdgs: Heb 10:19-25 Mk 4:21-25 7:00 PM Confessions and Exposition - FRIDAY 02/01/19-7:30 AM Fr. Maurice Piszczatowski SH Staff B & W Edward Kowalski Anthony Rdgs: Acts 22:3-16 Mk 16:15-18 -SATURDAY 02/02/19 - Feast of the Presentation of the Lord 8:00 AM Fr. Paul Merry Maria Mullen B & W Frank Bonacci Godchild Rdgs: Mal 3:1-4 Heb 2:14-18 Lk 2:22-40 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. Do you know someone who is sick, or otherwise unable to join us for Mass and think they would appreciate a visit, Holy Communion, or maybe a phone call? PLEASE LET US KNOW! Call or email the Parish Office. Liturgical Schedule continued -SATURDAY 02/02/19-4 :00 PM Edward Kowalski Daughter, Cathy Reader(s) - D. Pietras, ML. Strano EMHC of the Blood - B. Miazga, N. Scudiero EMHC of the Body - R. Godfrey Altar Servers - JP. Miranda Music Ministry - St. Cecilia Choir - SUNDAY 02/03/19 - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM Parishioners Living and Deceased Reader(s) - D. & K. Kozlowski EMHC of the Blood - C. & D. Gehring EMHC of the Body - B. Scully Altar Servers - R. Posca Music Ministry - Cantor 9:45 AM Terence Laughlin Jim and Lisa Montalto Lector - D. Suess EMHC of the Blood - E. & K. Cerno EMHC of the Body - B. Hagan Altar Servers - Suesses Music Ministry - Cantor 11:30 AM Peter Robert Roux Fr. Peter Lector - P. Nero EMHC of the Blood - M. Casey, J. Peters EMHC of the Body -V. Giordano Altar Servers - N. Solano Music Ministry - Contemporary Choir Rdgs: Jer 1:4-5, 17-19 1 Cor 12:31-13:13 Lk 4:21-30 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: Matthew and Tatiana Preston & Family Monday: Patricia Preston & Family Tuesday: Edina Procopio & Family Wednesday: Lisa Pryzgoda & Family Thursday: Ethel Pudelko & Family Friday: John and Pat Pudelko & Family Saturday: Keith and Michele Radeschi & Family Sunday: Daniel and Cathryn Rafael & Family Stewardship Our Financial View Weekend of January 19 th and 20 th $2,156.00 If you can t make it to Mass due to bad weather, you can always make your donations online. Consider helping make up the deficit from last week. Visit our website to set up your online giving account. https://sacredheartdanbury.weshareonline.org/ Thank You for your continued generosity! Jan. 28 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM in the Café Lesson 19: Martha of Bethany
Parish Staff Pastor Fr. Peter Towsley 203-748-9029 ext. 25 FrPeter@SacredHeartDanbury.org In Residence Fr. Jean-Rony Philippe Pastoral Administrator Dan Tomé 203-743-0689 Danieltome.sacredheart@gmail.com Finance Administrator Marie Fitzgerald 203-748-9029 ext. 18 MarieKFitzgerald.SacredHeart@gmail.com Office Administrator Suzanne Najman 203-748-9029 ext. 10 Suzannenajman.SacredHeart@gmail.com Parish Building & Grounds Manny Guaman 203-449-4197 (cell) Music Ministry Director Suzanne Najman 203-748-9029 ext. 10 Suzannenajman.SacredHeart@gmail.com Finance Council Chairperson Nannette Scudiero 203-746-5884 (home) Parish Pastoral Council Chairperson Karen Cerno 203-798-1466 (home) Parish Office Email office@sacredheartdanbury.org Adorers Corner Scheduled for February 1 st 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM VOLUNTEERS NEEDED 9:00 AM -10:00 AM Janice McNamara 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 Ginger Wohlfarth 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Fran and Sonia Kieras 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Larry Martin 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Peggy Dyer, Deb Isaacson 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Mary Cronin, Denise Gehring 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. 203-748-9029 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 01/28/19-7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Rehearsal Church 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Meeting 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting Café - TUESDAY 01/29/19 - - WEDNESDAY 01/30/19 - - THURSDAY 01/31/19-6:45 PM - 8:00 PM Rehearsal Cafe - FRIDAY 02/01/19-7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Rehearsal Church - SATURDAY 02/02/19 - - SUNDAY 02/03/19-6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Meeting DOROTHY DAY COLLECTION February 2 nd & February 3 rd Bring your donation of: non-perishable food items, cleaning products, or paper goods. Congratulations to our newly baptized! Remy Richard Guzman We welcome a New Family to our Parish! Felix and Christine Guzman and their son Remy
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 Spend an hour with Jesus! 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: www.ortv.org Daily and Sunday Masses available!
A Look at the March for Life from the SEEK2019 Conference Marchers walk past the U.S. Capitol during the 46 th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2019. Anyone who doesn t see what goes on year after year is missing an important part of American life today. Happy March for Life! More than a few people said that to me as I spoke to a few who participated who arrived here for the annual March for Life. The march is really a few days of events. And it s weird, in a way. It is in fact a protest of the Supreme Court s Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions, which legalized abortion in all three trimesters of pregnancy. It took the most natural thing in the world, pregnancy and birth, and inserted violence into it. And, frankly, if you hate politics today, I humbly suggest you consider the role of this Roe v. Wade moment in it. It raised the stakes and dehumanized us at the same time. Abortion truly changes you. And not just the child whose life ends and the mother who had life ended within her. It affects the people in her life and people who will be in her life. Everything plays into who we are and how we interact; the enduring repercussions are inescapable. Mercifully there are beautiful ministries (Project Rachel, Rachel s Vineyard, the Sisters of Life) that help women and men heal from abortion. So why, Happy March for Life? In no small part, marchers say this because of the kids. The young people the vast majority of them are high school and college students show us a reality that is the very opposite of abortion. It happens without fail every year around the March for Life: as one reporter said, I walk into, usually, St. Matthew s Cathedral, not very far from the White House, on the morning before the March. She said, I, forgot this past week that it was going to be a full 8:00 AM weekday Mass. As she saw the high school students getting off their buses, she smiled. Most of them appeared to be from Baton Rouge, LA. After Mass, she asked a woman to confirm where they were coming from; she noted that she looked very familiar. It s in large part because of the young people that Happy March for Life is a perfectly appropriate greeting an exclamation, actually. And it s thanks to them that I associate the March for Life with hope myself! The recent Fellowship of Catholic University Students SEEK2019 event which had 18 of our own young people attended as well as I in Indianapolis, IN over a week ago started my new year, with a HOPE FILLED little window into the future. We the 18,000 plus attendees at the SEEK2019 Conference, prayed at the opening mass for all of the 10 s of 1,000 s of young people who would attend the up and coming March for Life. I walked away with a sense that these young people, both in Washington and Indianapolis, are the Joy and Hope of the future of the Catholic Church in America. Pray for them!