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St. Bede Church 509 South Dallas Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15208
Mother of Good Counsel Church 7705 Bennett Street Pittsburgh PA 15208
St. James Church 718 Franklin Avenue Wilkinsburg PA 15221
The Catholic Community of the East End of Pittsburgh
Mass Schedule
Saturday Vigil 4:00 pm St. James Sunday 9:00 am Mother of Good Counsel 11:00 am St. Bede
Monday - Saturday 9:00 am St. Bede
Novenas 9:30 am St. Bede
Monday Miraculous Medal Perpetual Novena Wednesday Mother of Perpetual Help Novena
Confession & Eucharistic Adoration
Saturday 9:30 - 10:30 am St. Bede
The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available by appointment.
St. Bede Church is open Monday to Friday 7 am to 3 pm
Saturday, 8 am to 12 pm
Faith Formation (CCD) Sunday 9 am on Zoom
Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals by appointment only.
Our churches are accessible.
Parish Office 509 South Dallas Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15208
Phone: 412.661.7222 Fax: 412.661.9337
“With God All Things Are Possible!”
Website: saintmarymagdalenepgh.org @smmppgh St. Mary Magdalene Parish PGH
Protection of God’s Children Report suspected child abuse
At the 24-Hour Child Abuse Hotline: 800.932.0313 If a child is in imminent danger, call 911
Parish Office 412.661.7222
Pastoral Staff Rev. Thomas J. Burke, Pastor [email protected] Rev. David Taylor, Senior Parochial Vicar [email protected] Rev. C. Matthew Hawkins, Parochial Vicar
In Residence Rev. James Adeoye [email protected] Rev. Augustine Temu [email protected]
Office Staff Frank Grande [email protected] Terri Price [email protected]
Religious Education Teresa Maynor [email protected]
Music Ministries Jennifer Gorske, Director of Music Ministries
412.370.2638; [email protected] Gerard Rohlf 412.657.7570; [email protected]
Safe Environment Melissa Viator [email protected]
Social Ministry & Community Outreach 412.241.1309 Anne Scheuermann [email protected] Pat Hoffman, Social Worker Marcus Smith, Food Distribution Assistant/Maintenance
Holy Rosary Food Bank Veronica Synder 412.731.4195
Media & Communications Cathy Raffaele [email protected] Glennen Lloyd [email protected] Bulletin [email protected]
Housekeeping/Maintenance Paul Denk, Ray Krivanek, Michael Natalia, Annette Shunk
Principals Sr. Thea Bowman Catholic Academy: Ms. Stephanie Michael
412.242.3515; [email protected]; sistertheabowman.org St. Bede School: Sr. Daniela Bronka 412.661.9425;
[email protected]; saintbedeschool.com
Bulletin Announcements are due on Monday at 9 am for next week’s bulletin.
Larger announcements must be submitted a week prior to the Monday deadline.
New Parishioners Welcome! To register, please call
or email the parish office. Registration forms are also available
on the welcome page of our website:
saintmarymagdalenepgh.org
Advisory Councils Parish Pastoral Council Finance Council
Patricia Albacete Linda Atkins
Lois Campbell Denise Charron-Prochownik
Anne Kovalan-Santoni Peter Lahoda
Teresa Maynor Joan Price
Janice Reed Dante Romito Eric Setzler
Geloria White
Pastoral Council meets on the 3rd Monday
of the month.
Martin Albacete David Aleva
Christopher Benec Linda Burke
Michael Myers Michael Polite
Judy Prata Mara Sullivan
Finance Council meets on the 4th Monday
of the month.
Mass Online: Livestream
The direct link for the live stream: facebook.com/smmppgh/live/ (choose the video with the red "live" icon)
(link is also on the homepage of our website)
You do not have to have a Facebook account.
January 10: St. Bede Church, 11 am January 17: St. James Church, 4 pm January 24: Mother of Good Counsel Church, 9 am
The Mass will be available on the homepage of our website and YouTube within two hours of the livestream.
saintmarymagdalenepgh.org St. Mary Magdalene Parish PGH
As a Faith Community, we pray for all who request prayers.
Loretta Ashley, Gail Britanik, Scot Brown, Terri Burns, Diane Catley, Mary Ann Dickerson, Brian Durant,
Louann & Joseph Gordon, Theresa Grieco, Pat Griffin, Dureena Grove, Mel Hobayan, Kimberly Lattimore,
Martin Lavelle, Patricia Marino, Matilda McGuinness, Michelle Menzietti, Dee Pryor, Mary Reidell, Emily Reiling,
Marion Reynoso, Natalie Semler, James & Rose Smith, Carlos Steele, Arlene Trichtinger, MaKenna Grace Turner,
and Rose Vega
Our parish community prays for those who request prayers for any reason. If you, a family member, or friend would like to be on our prayer list, please contact Cathy at 412.661.7222 or [email protected].
Online Giving We invite you to consider online giving
through Faith Direct
To sign up at Faith Direct, for regular contributions or for a one time gift, visit faithdirect.net and use church code PA994. En-rollment forms are available at all our churches and Parish Office.
Stewardship
Offertory
December 25 $4,745.00
December 27 $8,936.00
January 3 $6,565.00
PSP 2020 Goal $153,393.00 Received $130,776.00
Mass Intentions January 9—January 17
Saturday Vigil The Baptism of the Lord 4 pm Brother Kevin Dalmasse
(St. James Health Ministry) TAYLOR
SUNDAY THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD
9 am Russell and Grace Prata
(Judy & Mary Grace Prata) BURKE
11 am Livestream
In Memory of Dr. Robert Lee (Mary Jean & Dave Havern)
HAWKINS
MONDAY Weekday 9 am In Celebration of Fr. Tom’s First Anniversary
as Pastor of Saint Mary Magdalene Parish BURKE
TUESDAY Weekday 9 am The Deceased Members of the Daly Family
(Helen Daly) ADEOYE
WEDNESDAY Weekday 9 am Marie McInerrney (Family) TEMU
THURSDAY Weekday 9 am In Celebration of Fr. Matthew Hawkins’ Birthday HAWKINS
FRIDAY Weekday 9 am SB 9 am SJ
Barb Popowitz (Husband, Tony Popowitz) Lordeen & Linda Chadwick (Friend)
BURKE TAYLOR
SATURDAY Weekday 9 am Rosemarie Miele (Paula Blaney) ADEOYE
Saturday Vigil Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 4 pm
Livestream The Griffin Family (Jackie Rodgers) BURKE
SUNDAY SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 9 am In Memory of Dr. Robert Lee (Paula Blaney) HAWKINS
11 am For the People of the Parish TAYLOR
January 9—January 17
SAT Adoration & Confession St. Bede 9:30 am
SUN CCD Faith Sharing
Zoom 9:45 am Zoom 2 pm
MON Miraculous Medal Novena St. Bede 9:30 am
TUE RCIA Tuesday Vigil Group
Zoom 7 pm Zoom, 7 pm
WED Food Bank Pick Up Ministry Ctr 8:30 am
THURS Mother of Perpetual Help Novena Bible Study with Fr. Matthew Social Justice & Peace Meeting
St. Bede 9:30 am Zoom 7 pm
Zoom, 7 pm
FRI St. Bede School Mass STBCA School Mass
St. Bede 9 am St. James 9 am
SAT Adoration & Confession St. Bede 9:30 am
SUN CCD Faith Sharing
Zoom 9:45 am Zoom 2 pm
Except for CCD and RCIA, Zoom information is on the Events page of our website.
This week
the Sanctuary Candle
at Mother of Good Counsel Church
is lit in honor of Leola Cook
and Family.
Leola Cook
Mafalda Angelo, Mary Carretta, Marlene Joseph, George Kollar, and Mary Lou Laird
Eternal rest grant unto to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their soul and the souls
of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen
Special Collection on January 16 and 17 for the St. Anthony School Programs and DePaul School for Hearing and Speech. Both programs fill a necessary role for special education within the Diocese of Pitts-burgh: St. Anthony School offers education to children ages 5 to 21 years with special needs and DePaul School teaches children, birth to 14 years, who are deaf or hard of hearing. Both programs empower students to become active and contributing members of their respec-tive communities.
All contributions will be greatly appreciated and will make a tremendous impact on the student as well as their fam-ilies.
Please note: Contributions made to these programs are credited to our Parish Share (PSP) goal.
Radio Program, with Fr. Tom Burke as host, high-lights elementary and sec-
ondary schools; colleges; youth ministry programs; and more, and is broadcast every other Sunday morning on KDKA-AM. Fr. Tom’s next program is on January 17.
See the homepage of our website, for the link to pod-casts of the programs: saintmarymagdalenepgh.org.
Our Parish Pantries have requested cookies dur-ing January. Please bring donations to one of the churches. If you bring them to the Parish Office, 509 S. Dallas Avenue in Point Breeze, it is preferred that they be brought between 10 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday. If not, they can be left on the front or back porch.
Thank you for your continued support.
Fratelli Tutti If you haven’t read the new encyclical by Pope Francis, “Fratelli Tutti”, Brothers and Sisters, All”, please consider putting it on your winter reading list.
For the encyclical, more information, and articles visit the Fratelli Tutti page on our website:
saintmarymagdalenepgh.org/fratelli-tutti
Comments from parishioners on the encyclical... Nothing I have read or heard in these trying times gives me more hope that we really can work through the conflicts of our broken society than “Fratelli Tutti”. Jim McCarville
Bible Study with Fr. Matthew continues on Thursdays at 7 pm on Zoom. For bible study videos visit our website:
saintmarymagdalenepgh.org/bible-study-videos
For more information, contact Fr. Matthew at 412.661.7222 or [email protected].
To register (required): [email protected]
Book Study: “Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Comm unity Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity”
All are invited to the next Cultural Action Team’s (CAT) meeting on Monday, February 1, from 7 to 8:30 pm on Zoom as we discuss the revised edition of Fr. James Martin SJ’s book.
The meeting will be facilitated by parishioner, Vicki Sheri-dan, the mother of three LGBT daughters. A limited number of Fr. Martin's books will be available at cost, $16 after every weekend Mass. Cash or a check made out to St. Mary Magdalene Parish with Fr. Martin’s book in the memo are accepted. Please contact Jennifer Gorske if you will not be at Mass.
Even if you do not get a chance to read the book, please feel welcome to join us for the meeting.
Please RSVP for the Zoom link: Linda Atkins ([email protected])
and Jennifer Gorske ([email protected]).
CAT Corner
“To speak of a “culture of encounter” means that we, as a people, should be passionate about meeting others, seeking points of contact, building bridges, planning a project that includes everyone.” Fratelli Tutti
Celebration of Martin Luther King The Saint Paul Cathedral’s 10 am Mass on Sunday, January 17, will be celebrated in commemoration of the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and broadcast on the St. Paul channel (95 on Comcast, Christian Associates' Channel).
After Mass, to honor the legacy of Dr. King, the Race & Reconciliation Dialogue Group of St. Paul Cathedral will present, via Zoom, its annual Martin Luther King pro-gram. Young liturgical dancers will perform the Our Fa-ther followed by the Honorable Dwayne Woodruff as the featured speaker.
The theme of 2021 celebration is: The Dream Lives On Through Us. Students from the CCD classes of St. Mary Magdalene Parish will be participating in an essay and poster contest focusing on the theme and winners will present their work during the program.
The Zoom link will be posted on our website and Face-book page.
The Social Justice and Peace Commit-tee will meet on Thursday, January 14, at 7 pm via Zoom. All are welcome to join us as we look for-ward to Lent and plan for this new year.
The link to participate in the meeting can be found under Calendar/Events on our parish website:
saintmarymagdalenepgh.org
Parish Improvement Wish List The items include replacing the windows at St. James Rectory; up-dating the Parish Office restroom and kitchen; and the accessible entrance and sacristy doors at Mother of Good Counsel Church.
To donate online at Faith Direct: faithdirect.net; use church code PA994, and select Wish List One Time Gift. Please indicate in notes which project you are con-tributing to.
You do not need to be enrolled in Faith Direct to contrib-ute to the Wish List.
New Bulletin Coming in February We in-vite you to consider placing an ad in our bulletin and sharing this information with others. It is a great way to support our parish and parishioners. Diocesan Publica-tions is our new bulletin publisher.
For information on ads, please contact Rick Cortez at 412.897.6610 or [email protected].
Angel Tree Thank You
Thank you to the St. Mary Magdalene Parish Angel Tree. Your generous gift to my grandchildren made such a dif-ference for Christmas. The two older brother and sister have spent much of their childhood at the Corpus Christi Parish. They are blessed to know the value of sharing. They both understood the meaning of receiving a gift from an Angel. While their younger sisters don’t yet un-derstand, Daniel 10 and Annelyse 6 were happy to re-ceive the gift and share with their sisters. Your kindness is most appreciated. Thank you again. Thank you the Tree of Angel Program. My family really appreciated the gift cards and winter clothes.
Somali Families We wanted to extend a big thank you for the Angel Tree program! It was such a surprise for the gift cards during this difficult time during the holidays. It is much appreci-ated and will go a long way.
Many thanks to everyone who helped make the Christmas Season at Saint Mary Magdalene Parish so special and beau-tiful.
Thank you to Fr. Tom, Fr. Taylor, Fr. Matthew, Jennifer Gorske, Director of Music Ministries, cantors, servers, lectors, Eucharistic Ministers, ushers, Melissa Viator for livestreaming our liturgies, and all who decorated our churches so beau-tifully.
We are grateful that, in this difficult time of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are able to be at Mass in person and virtually. We are also grateful for the many virtual opportunities to come together as community in faith sharing, discussion groups, and socials. And we look forward to the time we will meet in person.
Pastor’s Note A New Beginning!
This weekend we conclude the Christmas Season by celebrating the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Baptism is our gateway into the sac-ramental life of the church. This com-ing week we return to Ordinary Time before we start the season of Lent on Ash Wednesday, February 17.
In the first reading from the Prophet Isaiah, we read how God introduces a special servant who will bring light to the nations. The servant does not act on his own initiative but is chosen by God. The servant is a beacon of light for the nations. In the second reading from the Acts of the Apos-tles, we read how Peter preaches for the first time inside a Gentile household.
In the Gospel of Mark, we read that Jesus is baptized by his cousin, John the Baptist. The heavens open, the Holy Spirit descends like a dove, while God the Father calls Jesus his beloved Son. After the baptism Jesus begins his public ministry of teaching and healing.
We have all been called through Baptism to the common vocations of holiness and service. As we begin a new year, 2021, we hopefully have turned the page from this past year and are moving forward with new goals and res-olutions and trying to commit ourselves to growing deeper and stronger in our own discipleship.
Let us continue to be a Beacon of Hope here at St. Mary Magdalene Parish.
A New Beginning!
Catholic Education Plus Tune into KDKA Radio, 1020 am every other Sunday morning at 6:30am for Catholic Education Plus. This pro-gram, which I host, highlights elementary and secondary schools, colleges, youth ministry programs, and more. The next program will air next Sunday, January 17. This radio program is sponsored by Sam and Judy Spanos and the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
Offertory Envelopes Every registered parishioner should be receiving weekly offertory envelopes via mail or using the online giving pro-gram “Faith Direct.” Using your weekly offertory enve-lopes, helps run the day-to-day operations of our office and staff, liturgical services, pays the insurance, taxes, and utilities at our Ministry Center, Food Banks, Rectories, Churches and Schools, and keeps our doors open to help continue to proclaim the Good News!
Other “Special” Envelopes are earmarked for specific pur-poses not attached to the regular Parish operating account including: Social Ministries, Maintenance Fund, School Support, Parish Share Program, and Utility Assistance Program Envelope. If possible, please write a separate check for the weekly offertory but you can combine your “specials” into one payment. We appreciate your support to our parish and our various ministries. Thank you for your generosity and understanding.
Parish Census I continue to call the parishioners who have not yet com-pleted their updated parish census card which was mailed to every registered parishioner a few months ago. If you have not yet completed the parish census, please call Terri Price at the Parish Office, 412.661.7222 ext. 0.
Parish Improvement “Wish List” Items
We have several “wish list” items for updates and repairs to all three of our campuses including replacing the St. James Rectory windows, updating the parish office first floor restroom and kitchen, and upgrading the accessible side doors and sacristy door at Mother of Good Counsel. Please consider helping St. Mary Magdalene Parish with your financial support.
We also are looking to purchase two kings for our Crèche at St. Bede. (We only have one King). Each King costs $1,900. If you would like to help us complete the set, please send in your donation to my attention at the parish office and memo the check “Three Kings Fund.” We thank you for your generosity.
Parish Improvements Trpcic Landscaping removed and disposed leaves from the St. Bede School playground and front entrance and rectory.
Ruthrauff Services, LLC recently completed its annual routine maintenance on the St. Bede School/Church Boiler and air conditioning system.
Happy Birthday Happy Birthday to Frank Grande our Business Manager who celebrated his birthday this past Friday, January 8; Anne Scheuermann, Director of Social Ministries and Community Outreach who is celebrating her birthday this Tuesday, January 12; and our Parochial Vicar, Fr. Mat-thew Hawkins, who is celebrating his birthday this coming Thursday, January 14!
Something to Think About… When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced;
live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
White Elk
With God, All Things Are Possible!
Fr. Tom Burke, Pastor [email protected]
Fr. Matthew Hawkins
Last year, on December 24th
the New York Times published Esau McCaulley's thoughtful reflection on how the Covid-19 crisis is forcing us to reflect on how we experience our Sunday assembly for worship. With all of the inconveniences that the cri-sis imposes, McCaulley argues, we now have an opportunity to reflect on
an experience that has perhaps become too familiar to us. As we are forced to rely on streamed and recorded Mass-es, maybe it is time to take stock of why gathering as an assembly is so important to us in the first place.
McCaulley noted that “researchers at Barna, a group dedi-cated to studying faith and culture, found church attend-ance in America had dropped significantly during the pan-demic.” He was not surprised by this, because he and his family found worship over Zoom to be “fundamentally inad-equate.” For many people, however, given the serious-ness of the illness and its ability to spread, live streaming is the only reasonable option.
But McCaulley argued that the inadequacy of worship over the internet is an opportunity to reflect on “the very idea of what we look for in church.” He added that “If bodies and physical spaces are really means by which we attempt to encounter God on earth, something immeasurable is lost when worship goes virtual. This loss becomes all the more acute during the holiday season, a time when churches are usually filled with candles, flowers and flowing vest-ments. Instead, the choir stalls and pews will be largely empty.”
The faith that we live is incarnate. This means that an im-portant dimension of how we experience our faith is em-bodied; we experience it through the sense of sight (the colors throughout the liturgical year), sound (the ringing of the bell at the elevation of the Eucharist and the voices of the choir and canters leading us in musical worship), smell (the incense burning in the thurible), taste (the body and blood of Jesus Christ on our tongues), and touch (the physical sensation of kneeling, standing, and walking to-ward the altar).
McCaulley says, of the Sunday assembly: “[it] is not about what the church gives us; it is our way of offering some-thing to God. It is a small rebellion, a way of saying that there is more to life than simply the acquisition of more. It is an attempt to become the kind of people who live lives of charity and service.”
He adds that “the very inadequacy of church services, Zoom and otherwise, is a reminder we do not come into churches to encounter a life lesson on how to raise our children or to learn to be good Americans, whatever that means. Our aim is much more audacious. We are at-tempting to encounter God and, in so doing, find our-selves, possibly for the first time…”
Fr. David Taylor Over the last few weeks we fol-lowed The Holy family on a jour-ney of faith. We have been a participant in this journey. To-day, as we conclude the Nativity Season, we join Jesus as he begins another chapter of salva-tion history.
Baptism begins our own faith story. As we watch Jesus begin his life's work we must examine our own. Where has the Lord led us? And most important where are we going? I was baptized in two oth-er Christian religions before becoming Catholic. All were and continue to be a part of my faith life. All of us have a faith story. We live it out in the light of Christ. Although he did not need Baptism, there was a desire to identify with each of us. We often say that Jesus is like us in eve-rything but sin.
Living out our baptismal call is a real challenge .We can be lead in so many directions. It is so good to know that we can be redirected to the call of Christ. What Jesus did at the Jordan served as a model for his public ministry. As people of faith we are caught up in this same model.
This New Year will challenge our faith and how we carry it out in our daily lives. We pray for peace with justice for all. We pray for an end of this pandemic and how it has afflicted the lives of so many.
Yes, what happened at Jesus' baptism happened at our own. We are his beloved daughters and sons and we share in that same spirit.
A blessed new year to all.