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MASS SCHEDULE Monday - Friday 7:30 AM Saturday 8:00 AM & 5:00 PM Vigil Sunday 7:30 AM, 9:45 AM, & 11:30 AM Holy Days Check the bulletin & website RECONCILIATION Saturday 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Thursday 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Every Day 15 minutes before all Masses EUCHARISTIC ADORATION First Tuesday 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Thursday 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Friday 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM BAPTISM & MARRIAGE PREP Please contact Parish Office ANOINTING OF THE SICK Please contact Parish Office OFFICE HOURS Monday - Thursday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Friday 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM CHURCH IS HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE

46 Stone St, Danbury, CT 06810-8036 Phone: 203-748-9029 | Fax: 203-748-9168 offi[email protected] | www.sacredheartdanbury.org LITURGICAL SCHEDULE SATURDAY, JANUARY 4 MONDAY, DECEMBER 30 5:00 PM † Josephine Patren | Judy and Family Rdgs: 1 Jn 2:12-17 | Lk 2:36-40 7:30 AM Healing for Sr. Jude Carroll | Janice McNamara Reader(s): D. Pietras, ML Strano EMHC of the Blood: J. Dennison, J. Garofalo TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31 EMHC of the Body: R. Godfrey Rdgs: 1 Jn 2:18-21 | Jn 1:1-18 Altar Servers: JP Miranda 7:30 AM Sacred Heart Catechists | Debbie Isaacson Music Ministry: St. Cecilia Choir 5:00 PM † Josephine Patren | Judy and Family SUNDAY, JANUARY 5 Reader(s): ML Strano EPIPHANY OF THE LORD EMHC of the Blood: R. Strano, R. Doran Rdgs: Is 60:1-6 | Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6 | Mt 2:1-12 EMHC of the Body: D. Pietras 7:30 AM † Cindy and † Mema Palanzo | Cliff Kolwicz Altar Servers: C. Vogel, A. Vas Reader(s): D. & K. Kozlowski Music Ministry: Cantor EMHC of the Blood: C. & D. Gehring WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1 EMHC of the Body: R. Doran SOLEMNITY OF MARY, MOTHER OF GOD Altar Servers: K. Kozlowski, R. Posca Music Ministry: Cantor (HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION) 9:45 AM Parishioners Living and Deceased Rdgs: Nm 6:22-27 | Gal 4:4-7 | Lk 2:16-21 Reader(s): D. Suess, K. Horberg 9:30 AM Parishioners Living and Deceased EMHC of the Blood: A. Scalzo, S. Schirmer Reader(s): D. Isaacson EMHC of the Body: C. Stanley EMHC of the Blood: V. Giordano Altar Servers: E. Monaghan EMHC of the Body: Music Ministry: Children’s Choir Altar Servers: Music Ministry: Cantor 11:30 AM † Josephine Esposito | The Patren Family THURSDAY, JANUARY 2 Reader(s): G. Kula, P. Nero EMHC of the Blood: R. & R. Lamontagne ST. BASIL THE GREAT, & EMHC of the Body: V. Giordano ST. GREGORY NAZIANZEN Altar Servers: AM Hanley, N. Solano Rdgs: 1 Jn 2:22-28 | Jn 1:19-28 Music Ministry: Contemporary Choir 7:30 AM Healing for Betty & Mike Illies | J. McNamara FRIDAY, JANUARY 3 HOLY NAME OF JESUS Rdgs: 1 Jn 2:29-3:6 | Jn 1:29-34 7:30 AM Deceased Parishioners SATURDAY, JANUARY 4 ST. ELIZABETH ANN SETON, RELIGIOUS Rdgs: 1 Jn 3:7-10 | Jn 1:35-42 8:00 AM † Millie Mietelski | Toni Anania

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 LET US PRAY member of the family. Your prayers are requested for our hospitalized Please include them in your daily prayers. parishioners, family members, and friends who are bearing the Cross of Suffering: Sunday: Joseph and Helen Tomanic and family Bob Extance, Herminia Genao, Monday: Joshua Testani and family Al Cutler, Therese Slesinsky, Tuesday: Joyce Carvalho and family John and Johnny, Toni Pinkos, Wednesday: Juan and Rosa Segarra and family Edward J. Siergiej, Thursday: Julie Zelno and family and our Homebound

Friday: Julio and Gladis Miranda and family Please also pray for those suffering senseless Saturday: Julio and Maria Mancancela and family violence and racial tensions. Sunday: Justin and Cuyler Monroe and family Cut out this list, place on refrigerator or special place. PARISH STAFF ADORERS’ CORNER PASTOR SCHEDULE FOR JAN 3 Fr. Peter Towsley | 203-748-9029, ext. 25 8:30 - 9:00 AM Debbie Isaacson [email protected] 9:00 - 10:00 AM Ruth Doran IN RESIDENCE 10:00 - 11:00 AM Geraldine Lancey Fr. Jean-Rony Philippe, Chaplain 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Roger Palanzo 12:00 - 1:00 PM Tom DiGiovanni FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR 1:00 - 2:00 PM Jim Brew Marie Fitzgerald | 203-748-9029, ext. 18 [email protected] 2:00 - 3:00 PM Francis and Sonia Kieras 3:00 - 4:00 PM Ben Slesinsky ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 4:00 - 5:00 PM Peggy Dyer Kate Lamson | 203-748-9029 offi[email protected] 5:00 - 6:00 PM Joseph Kieras 6:00 - 7:00 PM Alessandra Zocolotti FAITH FORMATION DIRECTOR 7:00 - 8:00 PM Leoneidia Sousa Debbie Isaacson | 203-743-0689 [email protected] Please contact the Parish Office to become an adorer. 203-748-9029 or offi[email protected] PARISH BUILDING & GROUNDS Manny Guaman | 203-449-4197 (cell) If you can not make your assigned time please find a substitute. Jesus must never be left unattended. MUSIC MINISTRY DIRECTOR Thank you! Jim Stayton | 203-748-902 [email protected] SANCTUARY FINANCE COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON Nannette Scudiero | 203-746-5884 (home) CANDLE For the week of December 29: PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON Happy Birthday, Mary Cronin! Karen Cerno | 203-798-1466 (home) From: PARISH OFFICE EMAIL A Friend offi[email protected]

THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH THURSDAY, JANUARY 2 7:00 - 8:00 PM Confessions and Exposition Church SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29 FRIDAY, JANUARY 3 No Faith Formation Classes 8:00 AM-8:30 PM Adoration Chapel 6:30 - 8:30 PM Youth Group Parish Center 7:00 - 9:00 PM Cont. Choir Rehearsal Church MONDAY, DECEMBER 30 SATURDAY, JANUARY 4 7:00 - 8:30 PM Youth Choir Rehearsal Church 10:30 - 11:45 AM Youth Choir Rehearsal Parish Center 7:00 - 8:30 PM That Man is You Rectory Man Cave 6:30 - 9:00 PM Missionaries de Jesus School 7:00 - 8:30 PM Missionaries de Jesus School SUNDAY, JANUARY 5 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31 8:30 - 9:30 AM Faith Formation School 5:00 PM Mass WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1:00 PM EPIPHANY CONCERT SCHOOL HAPPY NEW YEAR 6:30 - 8:30 PM Youth Group Parish Center 9:30 AM Mass

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Thanks to all who helped with our Christmas Fair: Children’s Program The Organizers, The Workers, This Sunday, The Vendors, and The Contributors Our Parish received $1,518 from this event. December 29, 2019 PARISH PARTY FOR FR. PETER EUCHARISTIC . ADORATION SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2020 6:30-9:30 PM Spend an hour with Jesus! Fridays IMMACULATE HIGH SCHOOL 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM 73 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD First Tuesday Holy Hour DANBURY CT 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Hello Sacred Heart! Vicar, finishing up my last eight months there as the Administrator. From there, in 2004, I What a pleasure it is sitting down to write my was assigned as Parochial Vicar to St. Thomas first communication to you! I’ve been up to the Apostle in Norwalk, then in 2007, back to Danbury several times in the past few weeks, Stamford to St. Cecilia’s, then back to delivering carloads of my belongings (I have a Bridgeport in 2009, as Administrator of St. lot of stuff!) and getting to know your (our) Patrick’s, and finally, in 2012, as Parochial Vicar great staff and the campus itself. Fr. Peter of Holy Family Parish in Fairfield. Finally, I was and staff have been very kind, and have made asked 2014 to become the pastor of Holy me feel very welcome. Family, where (technically) I am assigned as I I’ve been asked to write a little biography to write these words until my assignment with help you to get to know me. Here’s my best you becomes effective on January 2nd. shot… Personally, I love photography, reading, and I I was born in Greenwich, CT in 1955, making am a pinned-to-the-wall stereo nut. I have me 64 years old. Interestingly (and proudly), been collecting music for many years, and my home parish in Greenwich is also named enjoy a good movie. I love travelling when I Sacred Heart, so there’s a real feeling of can afford it, and (I hope this doesn’t alienate ‘coming home.’ I am a late vocation. After a all you Boston Red Sox fans…) the New York seventeen-year career at Pitney Bowes in Mets. That’s about it personally. Stamford, I left the company to attend the St. I am so very impressed with the liturgical life I John Fisher Seminary (then in Trumbull) in have seen in my visits to Sacred Heart! The January of 1993, from where I (finally) Adoration, the chapel in the rectory, the completed my undergraduate degree beautiful church interior, and most of all, the through in Fairfield in people I’ve met. With the help of the Blessed 1994. I had studied computer programming Virgin Mary, I am positive that Sacred Heart is at Sacred Heart while still an employee of on a clear path to holiness, and is working to Pitney Bowes, and made my living at the end further the Gospel message. of my PB career as a programmer, so I ended up graduating with a Bachelor of Science What I am looking personally forward to is degree in Philosophy, due to the mixed bag of getting up to speed with the life of the parish coursework that I had taken as my career (please be patient with me!), getting to know aspirations changed from business-oriented you, and ministering in whatever capacity I into a priestly vocation. am called to by God’s will and your needs. I plan to get to Then, from 1994 through 1997, I attended know you all Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, personally, and Maryland, receiving my M.Div. degree in May hope you will of 1997, and was ordained by Cardinal (then make sure to tell Bishop) on May 24, 1997 at the me your age of 41. individual stories I have had over my 22 ½ years of priesthood a and needs. See total of seven assignments. First, St. Ann’s in you in January! Bridgeport from 1997 through 1998, when I In Christ, Fr. was asked to become the Spiritual Director for Norm one year at Trinity Catholic High in Stamford. I resided at St. Roch’s in Greenwich for that one -year assignment. In 1999 through 2004, I was assigned to St. Leo’s in Stamford as Parochial 92 Sandpit Road JOWDY-KANE Danbury, CT

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