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“With God All Things Are Possible!”
The Catholic Community of the East End of Pittsburgh
June 16, 2019 The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Pastoral Staff Rev. Thomas J. Burke, Administrator [email protected] Rev. David Taylor, Senior Parochial Vicar [email protected]
In Residence Rev. James Adeoye [email protected] Rev. Cajetan Anyanwu [email protected] Rev. Augustine Temu [email protected]
Office Staff Joseph Perozich [email protected] Terri Price [email protected] Joyce Broadus [email protected]
Director of Religious Education Teresa Maynor [email protected]
Music Ministry
Jennifer Gorske 412.370.2638; [email protected] Carla LaRocca DiDonato 412.422.2460; [email protected]
Pat Morgan 412.425.3834; [email protected] Gerard Rohlf 412.657.7570; [email protected]
Communications Cathy Raffaele [email protected] Glennen Lloyd [email protected] Bulletin [email protected]
Housekeeping/Maintenance Paul Denk Matthew Denk Annette Shunk Jim Speranza Melissa Viator
St. Bede 509 S. Dallas Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15208
[email protected] 412.661.7222
Monday-Friday 8:30 am-5 pm
St. Charles Lwanga Church 7705 Bennett Street
Office 7114 Kelly Street Pittsburgh, PA 15208
[email protected] 412.731.3020
Monday-Wednesday 8:30 am-4 pm
St. James 718 Franklin Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15221
[email protected] 412-241.1392
Monday-Wednesday 9 am-3:30 pm Thursday-Friday 10 am-2 pm
Website cceepgh.org @cceepgh All our churches are accessible.
Confession Saturday 9:30 am - 10:30 am St. Bede
Eucharistic Adoration Saturday 9:30 am - 10:30 am St. Bede
CCD Sunday 9:45 am - 10:45 am St. Bede
Baptisms and Weddings By appointment only
Mass Schedule Saturday 4 pm St. Bede & St. James
Sunday 8 am St. Bede 9 am St. Charles Lwanga,
Mother of Good Counsel Church 10 am St. James 11 am St. Bede
Monday-Saturday 9 am St. Bede
Scripture Readings
June 16 First Reading Proverbs 8:22-31 The wisdom of God played on the surface of God’s earth, finding delight in the human race.
Second Reading Romans 5: 1-5 The love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
Gospel John 16: 12-15 The Spirit of truth will guide you to all truth.
June 23 First Reading Genesis 14:18-20 Second Reading 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Gospel Luke 9:11b-17
SATURDAY Vigil: The Most Holy Trinity
4 pm (SB) Mary Louise Wagner (Family) Fr. Mark Thomas
4 pm (SJ) Julianna Aleva (Dad) Burke
SUNDAY THE MOST HOLY TRINITY 8 am Robert Vogt (Sean & Bridget Kelly) Burke
9 am Living & Deceased Fathers of the Parish Taylor
10 am Living & Deceased Fathers of the Parish Burke
11 am Mary Jane Snyder (Faculty & Staff of St. Anthony School Programs & Foundation)
Taylor
MONDAY Weekday 9 am Charles Raetz (Eamon Griffin Family) Burke
TUESDAY Weekday 9 am Jeannine & Lucien Charron (Prochownik Family) Taylor
WEDNESDAY Weekday 9 am John Wicinas (Elvira Durbeck) Burke
THURSDAY Weekday 9 am Margaret Bronka (Sr. Daniela Bronka) Taylor
FRIDAY St. Aloysius Gonzaga 9 am Patricia Kelly (Faculty& Staff of St. Anthony School Programs & Foundation)
Burke
SATURDAY St. Paulinus of Nola; Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More; Blessed Virgin Mary
9 am Patricia Kelly (Jerry Gaughan) Burke
SATURDAY Vigil: Corpus Christi 4 pm (SB) Matt & Anna Gasparovic (The Snodgrass Family) Fr. Mark Thomas
4 pm (SJ) David Aleva, Living Intention Taylor
SUNDAY CORPUS CHRISTI 8 am Marlene Handrahan (Judy Meyers) Taylor
9 am Eugene Conner (Teresa Maynor) Burke
10 am Living & Deceased of the Parish Taylor
11 am Temporal & Spiritual Well Being of Bill & Pat Marino (Prochownik Family)
Burke
Mass Intentions June 15 - 23, 2019
Protection of God’s Children
Report suspected child abuse Childline: 800.932.0313
If a child is in imminent danger, call 911
Bulletin content is due no later than 9 am on Mondays. Larger announcements
must be submitted a week prior to the Monday deadline.
Anointing of the Sick For those seriously ill, elderly, or preparing for surgery,
please call 412.661.7222
Pastor’s Note
Happy Father’s Day!
My dad, Bill Burke is a very hum-ble, quiet man. He grew up in H aze l wood , a t tend ed S t . Stephen’s Elementary School and graduated from Central Catholic in
1958. After high school he served in the Navy then came home and entered the Pitts-burgh Police Academy. He served as a police officer for thirty years. My dad is a wonderful husband, father and grandfather.
Happy Father’s Day to all of our fathers, grandfathers, step-fathers, uncles or any man who holds father-like role to someone. Let us pray for all of our fathers, liv-ing and deceased, this Father’s Day weekend.
Today, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Trinity, a day we marvel at how fortunate we are to be in a rela-tionship with God.
In the first reading from Proverbs, we read that God’s saving wisdom is apparent in the details of the created world. God the creator brings all things into being through his wisdom like a master craftsman. In the Second Reading from Romans, we read how Paul finds reason to boast of the hardships he must face in God’s service. In the Gospel of John we read how Je-sus promises to send the disciples the spirit of truth who will guide them through the challenges of the fu-ture.
The Trinity is a communion of love: God’s love comes to us from the Father through his Son Jesus, and is communicated to us in the Holy Spirit. We all believe in one God, we believe there are three divine persons. We don’t have to understand everything about him in order to have a personal relationship with each of those three persons of the trinity. Let us reflect on this great mystery and prepare our-selves for next week as we celebrate Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ.
Happy Father’s Day! CCEEP Social Ministry Center It gives me great pleasure to announce the renaming of the St. James Ministry Center to the Social Minis-tries and Community Outreach Center of the Catholic Community of the East End of Pittsburgh. Since we are moving forward on merging into one parish in January 2020, we are combining our resources to serve the needy in our communities of Point Breeze, Homewood-Brushton, Lincoln-Lemington, and Wilkins-burg.
For St. Bede and St. James parishioners, be sure to look in your July offertory envelope packets for a new envelope for “Social Ministries and Community Out-reach.” All of the donations, 100%, will go to fund our Social Ministries Center. We thank you for your gener-osity.
This coming week our Search Committee will be inter-viewing candidates for a new Part Time Coordinator of Social Services and Community Action. This new CCEEP Staff position will start July 1.
Summer Daily Mass Because Fr. James, Fr. Augustine and Fr. Cajetan are traveling most of the summer, we will only have 9 am Daily Mass Monday through Saturday at St. Bede through August. There will be no 8 am daily Mass at St. James or Mother of Good Counsel during the summer.
Summer Church Hours St. Bede Church is open daily for private prayer and meditation, Monday through Friday from 6 am to 3 pm, Saturday am until after the 4 pm Mass and Sunday morning 7 am until after the 11 am Mass. Mother of Good Counsel and St. James Churches are open one hour before Mass and locked after the final Mass on the weekends.
One Year Anniversary This past Tuesday, June 11, marked one year since I arrived as the Administrator of St. Bede. It is has been a true joy to work with Fr. Taylor bringing St. Bede, St. Charles Lwanga and St. James Parishes together. We have made many posi-tive upgrades to all three of our campuses and I am honored to serve you. As we prepare to officially merge into one Parish in January 2020, let us con-tinue walking this journey together to be the Church Alive!
TV Mass Tune into next Sunday, June 23 at 6am on PCNC for “The Mass” with Rev. Thomas J. Burke- celebrant and the St. Bede Children’s Choir.
Welcome A special welcome to John, Alexandria and Ava Hudak and Jane Desimone who recently registered at CCEEP.
Something to Think About… The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved
by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy
With God All Things Are Possible!
Fr. Tom Burke, Administrator [email protected]
Father Taylor’s Reflection
Blessing ourselves in the name of the
Father Son and Holy Spirit is one of the
most routine prayers we offer as Catho-
lics. It is also how we begin and end our
other prayers and devotions. It is often
referred to as a Christian mystery.
Much of our faith is based upon things we cannot readily see
or prove. This is where trust comes in. We know that life can
and will get better if we just believe. Each day we offer our
most important gifts and talents even when we cannot know
the outcome of them.
One of the most significant challenges that we have over the
next few months is to believe in and trust one another. This is
what formed the early church and it will make us one as well.
We, our people, are called to put our faith in action knowing
that the outcome is always up to the Lord. And this we pray in
the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
Joint Advisory Councils
Each of our parishes have four people serving on the CCEEP Joint Pastoral and Finance Councils.
Pastoral Council Finance Council
St. Bede
Denise Charron-Prochownik Joan Price Dante Romito Eric Setzler
Stefanie Bonavita Linda Burke Jerry Conner Joseph Gartner
St. Charles Lwanga
Linda Atkins Teresa Maynor Janice Reed Geloria White
Michael Polite Judy Prata Bill Rawlings Victor Thorpe
St. James
Patricia Albacete Lois Campbell Anne Kovalan-Santoni Peter Lahoda
Martin Albacete David Aleva Michael Myers Mara Sullivan
STEWARDSH I P
ST. CHARLES LWANGA
Offertory $2,610
PSP 2019 Goal $15,000 Received $3,116
ST. JAMES
Offertory $3,227
PSP 2019 Goal $46,190 Received $20,655.
ST. BEDE
Offertory
Envelopes $4,876 Online 4,354 Total $9,230
PSP 2019
Goal $90,500 Received $47,279
June 9 Collection
Becoming one... the parishes of St. Bede,
St. Charles Lwanga, and St. James are scheduled to become one parish in January 2020.
Because it is important to be informed, every week there will be information in this column on the process.
One important task will be to submit a petition to Bishop Zubik to merge our parishes into one new par-ish and to provide three recommendations to Bishop Zubik for a name for our new parish.
To reach that point, in July and August, our parish ad-visory councils will meet and assist our clergy team and staff, and inform and engage parishioners in the merger process.
In September there will be a series of parish assem-blies to explain how we will merge our parishes into one and to recommend three names for our new par-ish.
In October, all the required documentation for the merger of our parishes, including our petition to Bishop Zubik and our recommendation of three names will be submitted.
And then we plan for the beginning of our new parish.
Please continue to pray for the success of our merger process and most importantly, for the ongoing growth in our faith in the Lord and our love for each other.
Cathy Raffaele
Effective June 10, St. Bede Church will be open
for private prayer Monday through Friday 6 am until 3 pm.
All parish offices will be closed at 3 pm on Mon-
day, June 17, for a staff meeting.
St. James Parish Office will be closed on Tues-
day, June 18.
SAT SJ Food Bank Distribution Adoration & Confession
Ministry Ctr 8:30 am St. Bede 9:30 am
SUN
MON SCL Food Bank Packing CCEEP Staff Meeting Joint Pastoral Council Meeting
Holy Rosary 10 am St. Bede 3 pm
St. James 6:30 pm
TUE St. James Parish Office Closed Wilkinsburg Solidarity Vigil
SJ Chapel 7 pm
WED SJ Food Bank Pick Up SCL Food Bank Distribution
Ministry Ctr 8:30 am Holy Rosary 9 am
THURS
FRI First Day of Summer
SAT Adoration & Confession Knights of Columbus
St. Bede 9:30 am St. Bede 4 pm
SUN Knights of Columbus St. Bede 8 am & 11 am
Schedule June 15 - 23, 2019
THIS IS THE HOLY TRINITY
Today we celebrate the Holy Trinity, one of the most confounding mysteries of our faith. Through this mys-tery we experience our relationship to God: Creator, Savior, and Holy Spirit. This relationship is not easy to understand or to describe. It does not become clearer through analysis. Its complexity mirrors the complexity of all our relationships. We understand our relation-ships with our spouses, our children, our parents, and our friends only through daily give-and-take, annual rituals, and the life-changing moments we share. We understand our relationships only as we live them. The relationships we have with those we love, and who love us, sustain us through an uncertain and difficult life. This is the Holy Trinity.
What is striking about today's readings is that each is incomplete. What they do offer is a description of a mo-ment in our relationship, a memory of a time and an event when our relationship made sense even though that sense may be beyond our ability to describe fully. Often that is all that our faith offers, that is, a memory of what is possible, what is promised, what has been given. A memory of eternity, of love beyond under-standing is to be cherished and nurtured even if not fully understood. This is the Holy Trinity.
©J. S. Paluch Co.
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers, step-fathers, grandfathers, and
uncles in our community.
May God bless you and your families.
Juneteenth Observance On Saturday, June 29, at
10 am there will be an Ecumenical Program to com-memorate the end of slavery on June 19,1865 in Texas and more generally the emancipation of en-slaved African Americans throughout the former Con-federate States of America. The observance will begin at Freedom Corner in the Hill District, followed by a parade to Point State Park where there will be speak-ers on the topics of the end of slavery, voting rights and community cohesion. Fr. David Taylor will repre-sent Bishop Zubik.
June Birthdays and Matt Hawkins Ordi-
nation to the Diaconate will be celebrated on
Sunday, June 30, at the 9 am Mass at Mother of Good Counsel. Refreshments and fellowship will follow the Mass. All are welcome to attend.
A Summer Prayer
Long warm days… The pace of life slows… A time for picnics and rest in the shade… Lord, help me to rest awhile in the cooling shade of your presence. Slow down my restless heart and fill me with gentle compassion for all your people. Amen.
Author Unknown
Ways to Serve
in the Catholic Community
of the East End of Pittsburgh
Children’s Liturgy of The Word is a way for
young children to hear the readings in a way that is meaningful to them, and to talk about the scriptures, appropriate to their age and developmental abilities.
St. Bede’s Children's Liturgy will resume in early Sep-tember 2019. St. James Children’s Liturgy will con-tinue through the summer at the 10 am Mass.
As we continue to grow more vigorously into one Catholic community in the East End of Pittsburgh, we expect to more effectively collaborate and support one another in this important ministry for young chil-dren and their families.
Interested in how you can join this energizing out-reach?
St. Bede: Maryanne Loebig, [email protected] St. James: Kristie Weiland-Stagno,
Health Ministry Healthcare providers are invited
to share their skills and talents in this ministry. The team provides blood pressure screening and needed consultations to parishioners on the last weekend of the month at St. James and to Food Bank clients on the third Saturday of the month. Health education through the bulletin board in church along with hand-outs, CPR training and flu shots, when available, are also provided by this ministry. Non-healthcare provid-ers are welcome to join this ministry.
Lectors are needed to proclaim the Word at the 4
pm Mass at St. James. We invite you to prayerfully discern if you are called to this ministry.
Sacristans: There is a sacristan position open for
the 1st Sunday of the month and two sacristans are needed for the 5th Sunday of the month at St. James. Training will be provided.
To volunteer for any ministry or for more information:
412.241.1392 or [email protected].
Clearances through Safe Environment Compliance are required.
Cookies are requested for the St. James Pantry
during the month of June. Please place these items in the containers provided at the break in the pews at St. James or in the clear plastic bins at the back of St. Bede and Mother of Good Counsel. Thank you for your support.
CCEEP is hosting a Com-munity Blood Drive at two lo-
cations this summer on Sunday, July 21, in the Activities Room at St. Bede’s and in the Chapel at St. James. Infor-mation and sign up sheets for appoint-
ments to give blood will be available at all three cam-puses. Please mark the date on your calendar and consider becoming a blood donor on that day.
Information and sign up sheets for appointments to give blood are in the vestibules of all the churches.
To make an appointment on line, visit vitalant.org, click on the orange Donate button and search with our group codes: St. Bede - Goo40055 or St. James -Goo40285. For more information: 877.25VITAL or St. Bede’s office: 412.661.7222, ext. 205.
We ask those who have requested prayers, to please give us an update
when your loved one is better.
As a Faith Community
we remember parishioners who cannot be with us.
David Aleva, Lauretta Ashley, Myra Bilotto, Marie Boyle, Dominic Braithwaite, Paul Brecht, Gail Bri-tanik, Jane Burgess, Willa Campbell, Rosemary Ca-pone, Linda Carr, Lillie Carter, Bruno Cassara, Eume-nia Castro, John Ceric, Leola Cook, John Davis, Ruth Ann Donnelly, Jacqueline Dumond, Herbert Durbeck, Judith Dyke, Donna Dzikowski, Cindy Farabaugh, Butch Filter, Rosemary Fitzgerald, Frieda Farrell, Audrey Fusco, Frances Galardi, Jack Gall, Michael Gallagher, Makenna Grace, Pat Griffin, Esther Hackwelder, Estelle Hagerdorn, Joseph Hamm, Chris Hudak, Marlene Joseph, DiDi Joyce, Fran Kali-nowski, Agnes Koppolovech, Pam Laico, Florine & Riggi Laus, Susan Loether, Paul Lydon, Josephine Major, Marianne Mangine, Fran McCarthy, Nadine McCoy, Ruth McGill, Dorothy Meyers, Aileen Min-nock, Brendan Minnock, Giovanna Nistico, Judith Nosling, Helen Nothwang, Kevin O’Brien, Charles Pa-pale, Elizabeth Petnuch, Susan Petnuch, Libby Regan, John Rettger, Kathy Savarino, Joanne Schwarz, Susan Schwochau, Judy Siewiorek, Do-reen Simeone, Arthur Smith, James Smith, Rex Smith, Gregory Spechtold, Sarah Stanfield, Terri Ste-venson, Suzanne Steitz, Neil Stewart, DJ Stinelli, Laura Swain, John Temu, Haley Thelen, Barbara Tierno, MaryJane Tirk, Rosemarie Toliver, Arlene Trichtinger, Andrea Ventomiller, Sandra Vesely, James Walsh, Jeff Witkowski, Joan Zankowski, Julian Zekan, and all in need of our prayers who wish to remain anonymous.
Radio Program, with Fr. Tom Burke as host, highlights elemen-
tary and secondary schools; colleges; youth ministry programs; and more, and is broadcast every other Sunday morning on KDKA-AM 1020 at 6:30 am.
The next broadcast is on June 23, featuring two schools, St. John the Baptist in Plum with guest Joe Messina, former parent, and and St. Joseph’s in Ve-rona with 2010 graduate, Alex Skeba. See the home-page of our website, cceepgh.org for link to podcasts of the programs.
CCEEP CCD Registra-tion for Fall 2019 is in pro-
gress. Registration forms are available at all churches. and under Religious Educa-tion at cceepgh.org. Please mail in registration to St. Bede Parish, 509 S. Dallas Ave, 15208, ATTN: Terri/CCD. All checks payable to St. Bede Parish.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Teresa Maynor, director @ [email protected].
Patron Saint of Youth.
Feast Day: June 21
St. Bede School Principal Sr. Daniela Bronka
6920 Edgerton Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15208
412.661.9425; [email protected]
saintbedeschool.com
St. Bede School is currently accept-ing registrations for academic year 2019-2020 for grades Kindergarten to 8. For more information: 412.661.9425 or [email protected]
Sr. Thea Bowman Catholic Academy Principal Ms. Stephanie Michael
721 Rebecca Avenue, Wilkinsburg PA 15221
412.242.6615; [email protected]
sistertheabowman.org
STBCA is currently accepting registra-tions for academic year 2019-2020 for grades Pre-K 3 to 8. For more informa-tion: 412.242.6615 or [email protected]
Our Schools
CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS
Catholic Community of the East End of Pittsburgh #100550
509 South Dallas Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15208
TELEPHONE
412 241.1392 or 412.636.2834
412 661.7222 ext 205
CONTACT PERSON
Cathy Raffaele
SOFTWARE
MSPublisher 2007
Adobe Acrobat 9
Windows 7
SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION
June 16, 2019
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