August 7, 2016 - Blessed Sacrament Cathedral
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August 7, 2016 - Blessed Sacrament Cathedral
BLESSED SACRAMENT CATHEDRAL Mother Church and Parish of the Diocese of Greensburg The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 7, 2016 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Monday, August 15, 2016 Coat of Arms of The Most Reverend Edward C. Malesic, J.C.L. Bishop of Greensburg August 10 is fast approaching! In the United States and other countries, the bishops have received permission from the Vatican to abrogate (temporarily waive) the requirement for Catholics to attend Mass on certain Holy Days of Obligation, when those Holy Days fall on either Saturday or Monday. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Holy Day of Obligation. However, when it falls on a Saturday or a Monday, the obligation to attend Mass is abrogated. Although it is not a Holy Day of Obligation this year, you are invited to attend the daily 12:10 PM Mass. Those who prepare the Liturgical schedules will soon be preparing the September and October schedules. If there are times when you or your children will not be available to serve during these months please contact Julie by: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10 Call the Parish Office at 724-834-3710, or email [email protected]. Thank you for your continued support to your ministry! FAITH FORMATION REGISTRATION INFORMATION August 27 & 28 is Faith Formation Sign up Weekend. Registration forms will be distributed in the Church and Social Hall. Registration forms. Will NOT be mailed out to parishioners. Forms can be picked up in the Church or Social Hall the weekend of August 27 – 28 or by calling Kathi Probo in the parish office at 724-834-3710 ext. 35. September 18 is Catechetical Sunday. Faith Formation Classes begin! Please join us to pray the rosary in the Church prior to the 12:10 PM Mass Monday - Friday beginning at 11:30 AM Liturgical Schedule (subject to change) Sacrament of Reconciliation Every Saturday at 11 AM till completed, or any time by appointment. Daily Rosary Monday - Friday 11:30 AM Daily Mass Schedule Monday - Friday 12:10 PM and Saturday: 8:00 AM Check out the Online Giving website at www.osvonlinegiving.com/584 Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil: 5:30 PM Sunday: 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM, 11:30 AM, 7:00 PM Holy Day Vigil Mass 5:30 PM Parish Office Hours Monday-Friday 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Phone (724) 834-3710 Fax (724) 834-1518 Greensburg Catholic Cemetery Office Hours Monday-Friday 8:00 AM—4:00 PM Phone (724) 836-4384 Aquinas Academy Phone (724) 834-7940 Website www.blessedsacramentcathedral.org Online Giving: www.blessedsacramentcathedral.org SPIRITUALITY Readings for 8-7-16 Wisdom 18:6-9 The holy children of the good are prepared for the day of their liberation. Psalm 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 God's eyes are on us. Are our eyes focused on God? Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 Abraham and Sarah trusted in God, and miracles were manifest to them. Luke 12:32-48 A reckoning is coming. Some will be ready, others will be surprised. Invest just five minutes a day, and your faith will deepen and grow, a day at a time… Appreciate your Freedoms The Founding Fathers of the United States thought freedom of religion and the press were so important they put them at the top of the Bill of Rights - they are included, together, in the First Amendment. Many countries haven’t had these same freedoms, including Cuba. When, in 1960, the Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism, Fidel Castro banned all religious media. Thankfully today the church in Cuba has greater freedom, but there is still no religious media there. You are able to enjoy vibrant religious media that informs and enriches your life and faith. Take advantage of the print, digital, and broadcast offerings available to you. Sanctuary Candle In acknowledging the Real Presence of Christ, the Tabernacle Candle will burn from August 6 through August 12 in loving memory of Donald P. McMahon requested by Dolores Bailey In Sympathy Saturday, August 6, 2016 The Transfiguration of the Lord 8:00 AM Mary Jane Carr (Carr Family) 11:00 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation 5:30 PM Gail Facchine Forbes (Joan Myers - Sister) Sunday, August 7, 2016 The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:00 AM 9:00 AM 11:30 AM 1:00 PM 7:00 PM Deceased Members of the Slaipoh Nickoloff Families (George Nickoloff) Sondria Shaw Gordon (Paula Korber) For the Living and Deceased Members of the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Baptisms Ellen Greiner (Greiner Family) Monday, August 8 2016 Saint Domenic, Priest 12:10 PM Jack Robertshaw (Jim and Becky Pospisil) Tuesday, August 9, 2016 Weekday 12:10 PM Deceased Members of the Kobil - Stauffer Families (Stauffer) Wednesday, August 10, 2016 Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr 12:10 PM Clara Franceschini (Mary Kay and Family) Thursday, August 11, 2016 Saint Clare, Virgin 12:10 PM Hilda and John Martino (John and Blanche Dudek) Friday, August 12, 2016 Weekday 12:10 PM Jack Simon (Mary Kay - Wife) Saturday, August 13, 2016 Weekday 8:00 AM Keeping in our prayers and trusting that God will bring to their families comfort in the days ahead, we commend to your prayer the souls of James Robert Ranier (Nannette and Mario Luther) 11:00 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation 2:00 PM Horvath - Manns Wedding 5:30 PM Donald Milchak (Mary Jean - Wife) Edgar Joseph Wertz Jr. and Jo Ann Iannuzzo Sunday, August 14, 2016 Know that the Lord has welcomed our loved ones into the home of Heaven. Our parish community extends its deepest sympathies to their families and relatives on their loss. The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:00 AM 9:00 AM Coping with Loss Blessed Sacrament Cathedral offers a grief support program that meets the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM in the Cathedral Formation Center. This support program is an opportunity for those in their sorrow to join others for mutual support in grief. Please call Katie Zuzik in the Cathedral Parish Office at 724-834-3710 for more information. 11:30 AM 7:00 PM Nancy Lee Bauer (Roy - Husband and Evie Marie) John and Rita Vaccaro (Tish Bisignani Daughter) Baptism during Mass For the Living and Deceased Members of the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral BJ and Rose Vaira (Barbara George) A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not in the branch, but in its own wings. PARISH HIGHLIGHTS Parish Support, July 31, 2016 BSC ChristLife Reunion and Potluck Dinner In order to meet our budgetary needs, Blessed Sacrament Cathedral requires an average of $18,000 per week in the regular offertory collection. August 15, 2016 from 6:15 PM - 9:00 PM Sunday Offertory Other Income Mission Cooperative $12,309.00 265.00 2, 290.00 Families receiving envelopes 1,634 Envelopes used this week 335 Parishioners using Online Giving 65 Thank you for your generosity and support of Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Parish! Check out the Online Giving website at www.osvonlinegiving.com/584 St. Anne Home Calendar Sale Lottery calendars benefitting St. Anne Home will be sold in the vestibule of the Church after all Masses except 7 PM on September 3 and 4. The cost is $25.00 per calendar with 365 days to win! Your generosity has made this fundraiser successful in the past, and we hope you will support St. Anne Home again this year. God Bless you! Pathways 2016-2017 God calls, invites, encourages and helps us move forward in the life of Christian discipleship. Ignite your imagination about what it means to be known by our Christ-likeness as we follow Jesus who is “the Way.” Join us for Pathways and discover how together we are called and gifted by God for others. Our host sites are St. Edward Church, Herminie on Wednesday evenings and Christ the King Church, Leechburg on Thursday evenings. Brochures are available. For more information or to register online, visit us at http://goo.gl/ ddf0ak or contact the Office for Lay Ecclesial Ministry, 724-552-2598; path [email protected] Financial assistance from the Francis Fund is available. Westmoreland Manor Volunteers Needed! Volunteers of all ages are invited to assist at Westmoreland Manor in gathering to / from the 10:30 AM Mass, on the premises. We will meet in the lobby at 9:00 AM and will finish around 12:00 Noon. We hope to see you there! Blessed Sacrament Cathedral is assigned to assist on the following Sundays: August 21, 2016 October 2, 2016 November 1, 2016 (All Saint’s Day, Tuesday at 2PM) and December 25, 2016 Join us to catch up and celebrate our successful ChristLife sessions! The ChristLife Leadership Team invites anyone who participated in any part of ChristLife - Discovering Christ, Following Christ, and/or Sharing Christ - to attend this fun reunion! Our night will begin upstairs in the Church for Evening Prayer at 6:15 PM. Dinner will be served downstairs afterwards at 6:30 PM. We will provide the main course, but please plan on bringing a side or dessert to share! Last Name A - L: bring a side dish or salad Last Name M- Z: bring a dessert Please RSVP to Katie in the Parish Office by August 10. Call 724-834-3710 or email: [email protected] WE ARE IN NEED OF YOUR HELP! We have been experiencing a shortage of altar servers to cover the weekend liturgies especially now that some of our students have graduated and moved on. We will soon be preparing training sessions for ADULT SERVERS, and youth servers. Please consider helping at the liturgies you attend. As you may have noticed, at some Masses, those who are currently serving are on the schedule weekly. Additionally, you may have been contemplating the desire to be a reader or Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, now is a great time to follow through. Please take some time to think about... and pray about… entering into one of these ministries. If you have any questions or are interested in serving, please call Julie in the parish office at 724‑834‑3710 or send an email to: [email protected]. Training sessions dates, and clearance information will soon be in the bulletin so call the office and be added to the list, it would be a pleasure to have you join this ministry! Natural Family Planning Instruction CM-BBT is a medically based, scientifically researched and highly effective NFP method that can be used with no harmful side effects to avoid, postpone, plan or achieve pregnancy. The next Natural Family Planning CM-BBT Method INSTRUCTION is scheduled for SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 beginning at 10 AM at the Catholic Charities office. Participants are required to attend only ONE session. The instruction, continued support and follow-up are provided by a medically certified CM-BBT Professional. Please call at least one week prior to instruction date to PRE- register. Contact Mary Ann Newhouse at Catholic Charities at 724-837-1840, ext. 1658 for additional information or to register for this or an upcoming class. For more information about Natural Family Planning and the CM-BBT Method, visit www.ccharitiesgreensburg.org and link into Natural Family Planning under “Services”. COMMUNICATIONS The Bereavement Support Group at Saint Vincent Parish will meet on Monday, August 15 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM in the Parish Center Conference Room. Anyone experiencing the loss of a loved one is invited to attend. Contact Teri Pomerleau at 724-539-8629. ext 15. The Catholic Charities Annual Paul R. Smiy Memorial Golf Outing is Monday, August 22 at Ligonier Country Club. For information contact Heather Rady at 724-837-1840 or register online go to www.ccharitiesgreensburg.org. from 7 - 9 PM in the parish center conference room. The $20 registration fee covers a “Personal Survival Guide”, refreshments and materials. Find comfort in counsel consistent with Catholic teaching and in sharing with others who are going through similar circumstances. Registration will be accepted through Monday, August 29. For more information or to register, contact Teri Pomerleau: (724) 539-8629, ext. 15. St. Andrew Discernment Dinner. Explore a vocation to the Priesthood by joining Bishop Malesic for an evening of fellowship, a meal and a Saint Vincent Parish in chance to hear his journey to Latrobe will hold a divorce priesthood. The St. Andrew support group using The Dinner is open to all young, Catholic’s DIVORCE SURVIVAL Guide, featuring 30 single, Catholic men, high minute DVD showings followed school-aged or older. There is one more opportunity to by group discussions with fellow participants covering the attend on September 3 at St. Rita Church in topics of shock, denial, anger, Connellsville. For more grief, guilt, forgiveness, the information or to rsvp call kids, annulment, dating and 724-834-9045. much more. The 12 weekly sessions will be Tuesdays from September 13-December 6 (includes a break on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving) If you or someone you know from our parish is homebound and would like communion brought to their home, please contact Katie Zuzik in the parish office at 724-834-3710 ext. 11. A Holy Dwelling Place is a full color, hard cover book that is available for purchase at $33.39. The book traces the history of the Catholic community in Greensburg from the late 1700s to the establishment of Most Holy Sacrament Parish in 1847, to the construction of the current church in the 1920’s. The renovations following the Second Vatican Council and the restoration project which began in 2010 are discussed in detail, and the book features photos and descriptions of the Cathedral’s many stained glass windows along with explanations of the recent restorations. In addition to the books, resin replicas of Blessed Sacrament Cathedral are also available for purchase at $20 each. Both the book and the resin replicas can be purchased in the parish office. Both items make great gift ideas especially during the Year of Mercy. Padre Pio - Booklet- $2 Saint Booklet) Canonized on the 16th June 2002, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, better known as Padre Pio, had already become one of the saints whose intercession is most called upon, often with amazing effect. Padre Pio received the stigmata, worked many miracles and is said to have often bilocated. Yet as Jim Gallagher beautifully recounts, it was for his holiness as a priest and selfless ministry in the confessional that Padre Pio will ever be remembered among the saints. The Call to Evangelise ($2 Evangelization Booklet) Are you prepared to evangelise, to communicate the gospel to others? Amid the numerous urgent calls today to do so, many may find themselves unable to 'move towards others' with a genuine experience of God's forgiveness, mercy and joy. This text's proposal for true intimacy with the person of Jesus is both highly instructive and encouraging. To be genuine witnesses, disciples in today's fractured and wounded world must make space for contemplative prayer and for a tangible, living and personal relationship with the Lord. Fr. Anthony Doe is a priest of the Archdiocese of Westminster. He is a qualified psychotherapist who exercises his priestly ministry as a therapist and spiritual director. He also gives retreats and spiritual conferences. Jesus in You Book ($4 Spiritual Growth Book) Most people believe that there's something special about our “hearts.” Not just the physical organ, but something more. Most people understand that there's something “inside us” that goes beyond the physical realm and into the spiritual. There's something inside us that could be described as a “sacred place within,” or, more appropriately, a “sacred presence within.” With this in mind, we are forced to ask, “Who or what is this sacred presence, and does it exist in everyone regardless of race, culture, or even religious beliefs?” In Jesus in You: The Indwelling of the Trinity in the Souls of the Just, Mark Miravalle takes on these and other pertinent questions about Christ living within us. He also puts forth the challenge to be honest and courageous enough to ask the life-changing question: “What's inside of me? INFORMATION AT A GLANCE This Week at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Monday, August 8, 2016 6:30 PM Faith Sharing [Social Hall] Tuesday, August 9, 2016 5:30 PM Bethlehem Advisory Board Meeting [Social Hall] 6:00 PM Coping with Loss [FC-EAS] 7:00 PM Parish Finance Council Meeting [Parish Office] Monday, August 15, 2016 6:30 PM ChristLife Reunion [Church, Social Hall] Tuesday, August 16, 2016 7:00 PM SVdP Meeting [FC-EAS] 7:00 PM Parish Pastoral Council Meeting [Parish Office] Thursday, August 11, 2016 10:00 AM Door of Mercy Tour for Holy Family [Church] 5:30 PM Wedding Rehearsal Saturday, August 13, 2016 6:45 AM Christian Men's Fellowship Meeting [Social Hall] 11:00 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation 2:00 PM Manns / Horvath Wedding [Church] Parish Staff Contact Information The Reverend Monsignor Raymond E. Riffle Rector ext.12; [email protected] The Reverend Matthew J. Morelli Parochial Vicar ext.25; [email protected] The Reverend Mr. William J. Hisker Permanent Deacon ext. 27; [email protected] Katie Zuzik Pastoral Associate ext. 11; [email protected] Kathi Probo Director of Faith Formation ext. 35; [email protected] Sara Thomas Faith Formation; pre-school/ primary Contact the Parish Office [email protected] Christopher Pardini Director of Liturgy and Music ext. 21; [email protected] Linda DeFrancesco Financial Secretary ext.23; ldefrancesco @dioceseofgreensburg.org Julie Stauffer Receptionist ext. 10; [email protected] Cindy Cope Coordinator of Cemetery Services ext. 16; [email protected] David Koynok, Maintenance ext. 24; [email protected] Jan Brubaker, Custodian Contact the Parish Office; [email protected] Becoming a Member of Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Welcome! It is a great joy to welcome new members to our parish community. Please register as soon as possible in order to participate in our various programs, ministries and activities. Just drop this form in the collection basket and we will send you a detailed registration form. If you are already a member and have changed any of your personal information please call the Parish Office or return the changes on the form. Parish Pastoral Council Sacramental Information Mark Bartels Judy McChesney Andy Benedict Paul Niemiec Kelly Carr Betty Rua Linda Cooper Mike Rzempoluch David Fidazzo Kirsten Lieberum John Mickinack Baptisms By appointment only. Please call Kathi Probo in the Parish Office or email Kathi at [email protected] at least three months in advance of the Baptism. A class for parents is required to reflect on the meaning of the sacrament, to review the ceremony, and to highlight the importance of the family’s commitment to practicing the Catholic Faith. Callers Ruth McDonald 724-836-0588 Sponsorship Forms Forms for our parish members to serve as sponsors for Baptism and Confirmation must be filled out in person at the Parish Office. To serve as a sponsor, you must be at least 16 years old and a practicing Catholic who has received Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Eucharist. If you are married, it must be within the guidelines of the Catholic Church. Please call the Parish Office to make an appointment to fill out the form. Finance Council John Kline Judy Komarinski Ed Nemanic Nancy Rottler Nazzi Zola Prayer Chain JoAnne Hudock 724-834-1718 SVdP Membership Betty Rua: 724-454-7107 SVdP Food Pantry 724-836-0175 Weddings Please call Kathi Probo in the Parish Office or email [email protected] at least six months in advance. Do not set a date until you have contacted the Office of Faith Formation. Pre-marriage prep. classes are required. Contact the Office of Faith Formation for more information on classes. Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Membership Request / Change Name: ___________________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Contact Number: _____________________________________________ ___New Registration ___Change Address/Phone ___Moving Please drop this form in the collection basket.
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