Religious Education EMAIL: reledsh@optimum.net

ALL CLASSES ON WEDNESDAY

3:45 – 4:45 PM : Grades 1-5

6:30 – 7:30 PM : Grades 6-8

PARISH MINISTRIES

Adults Faith Formation – Carole Wiemer

Altar Decoration– Leah Olaes

Altar Servers - Yvette Solis

Birthright and Angel Tree - Susan Franco

Buildings & Grounds – John Ciovacco & Donna Mann

Care of the Sick – Father Raja

Counters – Liz Williams

Eucharistic Ministers – Veda Fratello

Greeters and Ushers – Tim Johansen

Hospitality – Karen Johansen

Lay-Rep. of the Parish Corp.– Kevin Burns

Lay–Rep. of the Parish Corp. – James Vivier

Lectors – Donald Mohr

Liturgical Music – Jan Gunnip

Prayer Ministry – Carole Wiemer

Prayer Shawl – Minnie Tigano

Religious Education – Father Raja

Thanksgiving and Easter Baskets – John Innominato

Virtus – Alice Neal

Parish Council Chairperson – Jan Gunnip

Finance Council Chairperson – William Dylewsky

New Parishioners Welcome to our parish family!

Please pick up a registration card in the Sacristy

or call the Parish Office .

PARISH STAFF

Pastor: Father Bose Raja Selvaraj

Bookkeeper: Thomas Spievak

Secretary: Alice Neal

Masses (in Chapel)

Monday through Friday: 7:00 AM.

(in Church)

Saturday Vigil : 4:00 PM

Sunday Masses: 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM

95A Henry Street, Greenwich, CT 06830

Phone: (203) 531-8730 Fax (203) 531-8794

Email: sacredheartgrn@optonline.net

Website: sacredheartgreenwich.org

Parish Office

38 Gold Street

Greenwich, CT 06830

Office Hours 9:00 AM— 1:00 PM Monday to Friday

Closed on Saturday and Sunday

Sacred Heart Church

Greenwich, CT

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Church) Saturdays: 3:20 – 3:50 PM Or by appointment

Sacrament of Baptism Baptisms are celebrated on Sunday at 12:30 PM. Please call

the parish office in advance to schedule a baptism.

Sacrament of Matrimony Should be arranged at least 6 months in advance.

Call the parish office for information.

May 28, 2017

SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER– A MAY 28, 2017

Saturday, May 27

4:00 PM †Stanislawa (Stella) Mazurkiewicz—Sophie Maczuga

& Family

Sunday, May 28

7:30 AM †Frank Keegan, Sr. (Birthday)—Alice & Marion

Neal

9:30 AM †Sr. Mary Bride—Anne & Bob Hallock

11:30 AM †Minnie DeFranco (20th Anniversary)—Sacred

Heart Parish

Monday, May 29

7:00 AM Parishioners

Tuesday, May 30

7:00 AM †Olive Masna—Family

Wednesday, May 31

7:00 AM XXX

Thursday, June 1

7:00 AM †Joseph Slomiana—Bill & Naomi Dylewsky

Friday, June 2

7:00 AM †Betty & Joe Wood—Alice & Marion Neal

Saturday, June 3

4:00 PM †Donna Sobeski—Alice & Marion Neal

Sunday, June 4

7:30 AM Parishioners

9:30 AM †Louis Kural Family—Sacred Heart Parish

11:30 AM †Raymond E. Grant, Jr.—Marylou Yusko & Family

Monday, June 5

7:00 AM XXX

Tuesday, June 6

7:00 AM XXX

Wednesday, June 7

7:00 AM †Joseph Curcuruto—Family

Thursday, June 8

7:00 AM †Katherine McEvoy (Anniversary)—Son

Friday, June 9

7:00 AM XXX

“I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ORPHANS,

SAYS THE LORD. I WILL COME

BACK TO YOU AND YOUR HEARTS

WILL REJOICE.” CF. JOHN 14:18

THIS WEEK–MAY 28—MAINTENANCE PARISH BUILDINGS NEXT WEEK—REGIONAL SCHOOL SUPPORT Weekly Offertory—May 21—Thank you! First Collection $2,196.77

Second Collection $674.55—Catholic Communications

The following list is for the most recent availability for

Masses: June 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 15, 19, 27, 28, 29, 30. July 3, 5, 6,

7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19 , 20, 25, 26, 27, 31. Aug. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9,

10, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31. Sept. 1, 3, 5.

For Altar Bread & Wine: June 4, 11. July 2. Sept. 3, 10, 17.

For Altar Flowers: June 4, 11, 25. July 2, 16. Aug. 13, 27.

SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER - A There are two lessons for us in this reading. The

first is that we can take the period of time between the As-

cension and Pentecost and make it a novena to the Holy

Spirit. A time of prayer for us to be renewed by the power

of the Holy Spirit that we received at Baptism and Confir-

mation. A novena that moves us to surrender ourselves

more to the Lord and to be open to whatever gifts he desires

to bless us with. There might be some gifts that we are hesi-

tant to receive, either because we lack the desire for a par-

ticular gift or feel inadequate about one gift or the other.

True openness in prayer is to surrender ourselves com-

pletely to God’s desire for us. That is being open to receive

and use whatever gifts God pours out to us through the

Holy Spirit. The first lesson is the immediate one of prepar-

ing for this upcoming Feast of Pentecost.

The second lesson is one of patience in prayer.

How often do we bring some petition to the Lord in prayer

and get frustrated or discouraged when it is not immediately

answered in some way? Jesus’ instruction to his followers

that lacked a definite time, was a lesson for them to truly

trust in God and his plan. It’s a lesson that mature faith re-

quires living with patience and continued faith when we put

our prayer requests before God. It means putting our time

aside and entering into God’s time which is without begin-

ning and end.

May we take advantage of these days to wait and

pray for God to act in our lives both by renewing the Holy

Spirit within us, and blessing us with the faith and patience

to continually come before the Lord with our prayers. -

Father Killian Loch, O.S.B.

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION We will be having Eucharistic Adoration in the chapel

on Friday, June 2nd 6 PM to 7 PM.

“ O LORD, HEAR MY VOICE, FOR I

HAVE CALLED TO YOU; OF YOU MY

HEART HAS SPOKEN: SEEK HIS FACE;

HIDE NOT YOUR FACE FROM ME,

ALLELUIA.” CF PSALM 27 (26) 7-9

EARLY REGISTRATION FOR

CONFIRMATION STUDENTS, CLASS OF 2018

Forms were mailed to the 8th Grade Confirmation

Class only. Please supply the name of your child’s

Confirmation sponsor and a sponsor certificate

from the sponsor’s parish with your registration.

The Parish Office will be closed Monday, May 29th for

Memorial Day.

Memorial Day We remember today

the courageous men and women

who gave their lives in

faithful service to our country.

SACRED HEART CHURCH GREENWICH

REFLECTION In the Gospel, Jesus is at the last supper the apostles

and the women followers had in that upper room. We are

listening to Jesus pray to his Father and our Father. He's

praying for us. In the verses just past today's selection

(verse 21), he will pray to the Father that we might all be

one. Jesus knows that his enemy, and those seduced by the

enemy, will work hard that we will always be divided. Self-

ishness, greed, lust, lust for power, competition, thought-

lessness of the needs of others, judgments, intolerance —

there are plenty of reasons for Jesus to beg his Father that

we might be healed of all of those movements and that we

be protected from being infected with those spirits, which

we know are all around us. Jesus prays for us - his own -

knowing that we remain in the world.

This is a great Sunday to pray to the Father for our-

selves. The Father knows we are in the world. Jesus is with

each of us every single moment of every day. We are never

alone. We have received the gift of the Spirit of Jesus many

times in our lives, but this week we can pray that the gift

might be re-kindled, re-ignited, re-refreshed and re-newed.

As we pray to the Father, we can hold up the things, the

attitudes, the un-freedoms, the defenses which keep us from

being people of unity, people who build communion, peo-

ple of mercy, people of love, with the heart of Jesus and the

fire of the Holy Spirit. There is so much we can ask the Fa-

ther for this week.

We can prepare our hearts for the celebration of

Pentecost next week by the way we pray this week. When

we devote ourselves to the kind of prayer that opens our

hearts to the very gifts God wants to give us, grace happens.

Perhaps we'll receive the gift of un-tangled speech - the gift

to share the graces we are receiving, so that others will hear

it and rejoice with us. Come, Holy Spirit.

- Andy Alexander, S.J.

NOVENA TO O.L OF PERPETUAL HELP: Wednesdays-7:30 PM (Chapel)

BULLETIN SPONSORS We are grateful to the sponsor of our bulletin. Many of

these sponsors are parishioners or live locally. Please utilize

their services. Tell them you’ve noticed their ad in our par-

ish bulletin and appreciate their support.

PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY MEETING

Saturday, June 10th at 9:30 AM in the School Hall

Please note the date change.

2017 ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL As of May 22nd our parish raised gifts worth $44,149

from 157 donors bringing the parish to 88.30% of its

$50,000 goal.

PRAYER GROUP : Wednesdays- 6 to 7 PM (Parish Meeting Room)

Worldwide Marriage Encounter The next WWME Weekends are Jul 7-9, 2017 in Manches-

ter, CT and Nov 3-5, 2017 in Manchester, CT. For more

information, call Paul & Kim Gilbert at 860-376-0440 or

visit us at https://wwmectw.org/.

ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL IN-PEW WEEKEND

June 3rd and June 4th

SOUP KITCHEN - NEW COVENANT HOUSE Our parishioners have the opportunity to volunteer at New

Covenant House on Sunday, June 25, 2017. You can help

and participate in one, two, or all of the following ways:

Cooking : Sat., June 24th, 10 AM – 12 Noon—School

Hall

Delivering : Sunday June 25th 11 AM from our School

Hall to New Covenant House.

Serving—We are scheduled to serve 11:30 AM—1:30

PM. at New Covenant House, Main Street, Stamford.

Please call the Rectory (203-531-8730) if you plan to vol-

unteer.

THE PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH 1. The first precept (“You shall attend Mass on Sundays and

holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor”) re-

quires the faithful to sanctify the day commemorating the

Resurrection of the Lord, as well as the principal liturgical

feasts honoring the mysteries of the Lord, the Blessed Vir-

gin Mary and the saints; in the first place, by participating

in the Eucharistic celebration, in which the Christian com-

munity is gathered, and by resting from those works and

activities that could impede such a sanctification of these

days.

2. The second precept (“You shall confess your sins at least

once a year”) ensures preparation for the Eucharist by the

reception of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, which contin-

ues baptism’s work of conversion and forgiveness.

3. The third precept (“You shall receive the Sacrament of

the Eucharist at least during the Easter season”) guarantees

as a minimum the reception of the Lord’s body and blood in

connection with the paschal feasts, the origin and center of

the Christian liturgy.

4. The fourth precept (“You shall observe the days of fast-

ing and abstinence established by the Church”) ensures the

times of ascesis and penance which prepare us for the litur-

gical feasts and help us acquire mastery over our instincts

and freedom of heart.

5. The fifth precept (“You shall help to provide for the

needs of the Church”) means that the faithful are obliged to

assist with the material needs of the Church, each according

to his own ability. The faithful also have the duty of provid-

ing for the material needs of the Church, each according to

his own abilities (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Nos.

2041-2043).