Pastor Rev. Robert L. Ruston

Sts. Gregory & Barnabas Parish Welcome to 

Daily Mass: (See inside for locations)

8:00AM Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Friday

6:30PM Thursday

Weekend Liturgy:

Saturday: 4:00PM (Daisytown)

Sunday: 8:00AM (Bon Air)

11:00AM (Daisytown)

120 Boltz Street 408 Luzon Avenue

Johnstown, PA 15902

Phone: 814-536-6818

Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00AM - 2:00PM

Visit us on the WEB!

www.ssgregbar.org

Join us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/groups/SSGregoryBarnabas/

Reconciliation: Saturday: Noon—12:30PM (Daisytown)

Saturday: 3:15—3:45PM (Daisytown)

Sacrament of Baptism: Parents are to be examples to their children by being regis-tered, active members of the Parish. Please call the rectory office to make arrangements.

Sacrament of Marriage: Couples planning to marry are to make arrangements at least nine months prior to their wedding date. Diocesan Guidelines regarding Marriage Prep-aration must be followed. The Catholic party/parties is/are to be registered, active members in the parish.

Anointing of the Sick: Please call the church office if you have a family member or friend in the hospital who would like to receive the Sacraments. The homebound and parishioners in nursing homes should also receive the Sacrament of the Sick and Holy Communion.

Parish Membership: New members are always welcome! If you are moving into, within, or out of the Parish, please call the Rectory Office and let us know.

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA): All who would like more information about membership in the Roman Catholic Church are invited to call the Church Office.

EMAIL: stsgregbar@dioceseaj.org

United In Christ

 

MISSION STATEMENT

As Catholic Christians, we will live to serve God and each other. And do His will as one family united in Faith. We will teach, serve, and be an example to the youth of the parish that they will come to a full understanding of Christ and His plan for their lives. We will nurture the gifts and talents of all parish members and use them wisely for the glory of God. We will compassionately implement the Spiritual and Corporal works of Mercy for those in our Parish, Diocese and throughout the world. Through the celebration of the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist, we affirm our Communion with Christ and each other. All are welcome.

4 S L M 31, 2019

Jesus said to them in reply, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sin-ners than all other Galileans? By no means! But I tell you, 

if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!"  - Lk 13:2-3  

 

Welcome to Sts. Gregory & Barnabas Parish

WEEKLY SCHEDULE MASS SCHEDULE (Mass Stipend $10) Sunday, March 31st 4th Sunday of Lent K-10; REMINDER: 11th Grade Monday, April 1st Wednesday, Fr. Bob’s Day Off Friday, Fish Fry D/BA Next Sunday, April 7th 5th Sunday of Lent K-11; Confessions 8th Grade

Family members are asked to present Offertory Gifts at weekend masses being offered for their loved ones.

March 31, 2019

CHOIR PRACTICE

 

IN STITCHES Next Meeting (in Bon Air):

April 9th & 23rd

Join us the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month

from 6:30 to 8PM in Daisytown Rectory.

New Members welcome!

 

M (SG) 8:00AM

T (SB) 8:00AM

(SB) 7:00PM

W (SG) 8:00AM

T (SB) 6:30PM

F (SB) 8:00AM

S (SG) 4:00PM

S (SB) 8:00AM

(SG)11:00AM

Bettie Washington by Ray Washington

Steven Yewcic by Bob & Donna Wisz

Stations of the Cross

Christine Goller by Andy & Mary Helen Percinsky

Helen Ritter by Mr. & Mrs. Bill Yurkovich

Members of Purgatorial Society

Richard Huss–Birth 4/12 by Children & Grand Children

Francis Kudel–Anniv by Stanley & Marlene Krawczyk

For The People RELIGIOUS ED SCHEDULE CLASS 9:30AM - 10:45AM

MARCH 3/30 Confirmation/1st Eucharist Retreat

in Bon Air; 11th Graders attend 7AM-7PM and 2nd Graders attend 10AM-NOON

3/31 K-10 APRIL

4/7 K-11; Confessions 8th Grade 4/14 K-11; Rite of Sending (11th Grad-

ers) at 11AM Mass; Sponsor & Can-didate Mandatory session during class time

***SERVICE HOUR FORMS DUE*** 4/21 Easter Sunday—Family Day-no

class 4/24 Confirmation Rehearsal 6:30PM–

Students and sponsors must attend 4/25 Confirmation 7PM at St John Gual-

bert student/sponsor arrive by 5:45PM

4/28 K-11 (Last Class–Closing Program @ 10:15/D hall

MAY

Prac ce is every Wednesday in 

 Bon Air at 6:30PM.  If you are inter-ested in joining please come to 

prac ce or contact: 

Marlene Kotch 539-8292 

Liturgical Reflection… The devotion prompting the faithful to visit the Blessed Sacrament draws them into an even deeper share in the paschal mystery and leads them to respond grate-fully to the gift of him who through his humanity pours divine life into the mem-bers of his Body. Abiding with Christ the Lord, the faithful enjoy the Lord’s inti-mate friendship and pour out their hearts before him for themselves and for those dear to them, and they pray for the peace and salvation of the world. Offering their entire lives with Christ to the Father in the Holy Spirit, believers derive from the Holy Sacrament an increase in faith, hope, and charity. Order for the Solemn Exposition of the Holy Eucharist, Introduction, Number 5. 2019, Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Liturgy Office, 925 South Logan Blvd., Hollidaysburg, PA 16648

11th Grade from 7AM-7PM  

REMINDER: Confirma on and 1st Eucharist Retreat Saturday, March 30th In Bon Air: 

2nd Grade from 10AM-Noon  

Stations of the Cross At 7PM

Tue., April 2nd Bon Air Tue., April 9th Daisytown

Also, Stations of the Cross for students of Religious Ed and Catholic School (and any pa-rishioner) will be held Sundays at 3:30PM at St. Gregory’s Church from March 10th – April 7th. Students and parents please check your schedules. All are welcome to join us at that time for Stations of the Cross.

AREA PENANCE SERVICES: Church of the Transfiguration on Wed. April 3rd 6:30PM

St. Michael on Thur. April 4th at 6PM

St. Anthony of Padua, Windber Thur. April 4th at 6PM

St. Patrick Thur. April 4th at 7PM

Our Mother of Sorrows on Mon. April 8th 6PM

St. Mary, Nanty Glo on Tues. April 9th 6:30PM

Visitation on Wed. April 10th 5:30PM

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton on Thurs. April 11th 6PM

St. John Gualbert on Thurs. April 11th 6:30PM

St. Benedict on Mon. April 15th 5PM

St. Andrew on Wed. April 17th 7PM

& 

Easter Flowers Envelopes: Please return those envelopes by April 8th to be included in the memorial listings in the Easter bulletin. Again, we remind you to “PRINT” legibly so that your memorials may be published.

April 18th -  Holy Thursday 5:30PM—Daisytown                       Adora on to follow un l 10PM 7:30PM—Bon Air Adora on to follow un l 10PM 

 

Blessing of the Baskets

Saturday, March 30th

Bon Air NOON

&

Daisytown 1:00PM

April 19th—Good Friday Noon  -  Daisytown Passion of the Lord  

April 20th—Saturday Easter Vigil  8:30PM ONLY ‐ Daisytown  

April 21st—Easter Sunday 8:00AM—Bon Air  11:00AM—Daisytown 

FROM THE DESK OF FATHER BOB

Do you know someone who needs pray-ers? Please contact Debbie Washington at 536-3616 or dlwashi@hotmail.com to place a name on the parish Prayer Chain! Boxes for requests are also located in the vestibules of our worship sites.

PRAYER CHAIN

Ryan Wood, Army; CDR. Nathan S. Brezovic, US Navy; Fr. Frantisek Hal-ka, Army; Major David Dietz, Army; Petty Officer Tony Pinkas, Navy; Sec-ond Infantry Brigade & Det 1, Compa-ny C, 2nd 104th; Navy Corpsman Mari-na J. Sumrada, Annapolis (MD) Naval Academy Hospital

Please contact the parish office (536-6818) if we need to add or re-move any of our military personnel from this list. Thank you.

PRAYERFUL REMEMBRANCE FOR

ALL SERVING IN THE MILITARY

PLEASE, if you have a loved one ad-mitted to the hospital or nursing home contact the office. The hospital may take your church information, but we are not always notified. Fr. Bob likes to get to the hospital in a timely man-ner, but cannot if he doesn’t know. Thanks for your help.

HOSPITALIZED After this weekend, we have one more Lenten Sunday before we enter Holy Week on Palm Sunday. A listing of all the Lenten Penance Services in the area can be found in this weeks bulletin. I will try to schedule some additional times here in the parish as well, but that can be difficult to do. I would ask you to take advantage of the area penance services where there are several confessors available and the lines move much quicker. There will be no confessions scheduled here in the parish after Wednesday of Holy Week. Thinking ahead, after Easter I would like to recruit more Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers, as well as new altar servers. With the arrival of Spring and the anticipation of another school year coming to an end, I would like to use those months for the training in all these ministries. Per-haps make this Lenten season a time of prayerful reflection as to which of these you might be willing to accept. After Easter we can then begin to make plans for the proper instruction in either one or more of these important ministries of the Church. Our Fish Dinners seem to be going very well and I thank all those who have come forward in any way to make them so successful. We have a very good reputation in the area at both sites. Everywhere I go, someone stops and tells me that we have the best dinners in the area. I have been so blessed in these 15 years with you and hope to be here until retirement at 75 or death, if it comes sooner! That, however, I do not have any control over. The schedule for Holy Week services here in the parish are listed in the bulletin this week. St. Benedict’s in Geistown will have their Penance Service on Monday, April 15th of Holy Week. Please take advantage of this opportunity. Usually there are at least 20 confessors or more available both in the church and the school. It is like the express lane in the grocery store and all are “checked out” within an hour’s time. The last “Stations of the Cross” here in the parish will be on April 9th. Please check bulletin this weekend for time and place.

Maryann Corbaci

L F F M 8 —A 12 B L ; F F G F I D !!! D F 4PM - 7PM B A 4-

6:30PM Fish Fry Week in Daisytown: Fridays, March 8th - April 12th & Good Friday, April 19th

Thursdays fish is cut and packed. This process takes approximately two hours beginning at 8:00AM. It is also time to clean the shrimp. Again this process can be done in 2 hours if we have enough help.

Thursdays at (NEW TIME) 5:00PM we will begin baking for the dessert counter. BAKING HELP NEEDED! During this Lenten Fish Fry Season, we will be baking every-thing Thursday evening starting at 5:00 PM. We could used extra help during this time. Please come lend a hand. First baking session will be Thursday March 2nd.

Friday mornings 8AM, is when we bread the shrimp & fish, cut cabbage and prepare the cole slaw.

Friday afternoon we begin serving at 4PM.

We also need extra help after the dinner is completed at 6:30PM to pack and store the lefto-vers and do the final cleanup. REMINDER: 11th Grade Spring Group Service Project is to reset halls 9:00AM Sunday mornings.

Fish Fry Week in Bon Air: Fridays, March 8th-April 12th

Thursday morning cut cabbage, prepare noodles for halushki, bake cakes, table set up.

Friday morning fish is cut and breaded.

Friday afternoon we begin serving at 4PM. We also need extra help after the dinner is com-pleted to pack and store the leftovers, and clean off counters/stove/fryers etc. 6:30PM.

Jr./Sr. high students are asked to fulfill their service requirement by assisting at either hall. Make this a part of your Lenten discipline and discover that it can also be an enjoyable experience.

Children’s Liturgy offered dur-ing the 11:00 mass in Daisytown for children in Preschool to First Grade (starting at age 3). This will be offered on a weekly basis. The children will be ex-cused at the beginning of the service and returned after the homily. The Children’s Liturgy will in-clude a Children’s version of the Gospel reading and activity. There is no need to sign up in advance. What a great way to include the youth of our parish!!

MembersofPurgatorialSocietyMay2018‐April2019 Oct.2018‐Sept.2019 Jan.2019‐Dec.2019(Con't)

Andrew & Margie Martinec Charlotte Costlow Dorothy Mesaros Jack & Dorothy Heller Norman Costlow Anna Elka

Joseph Kralik Mary Torok Frank Torok Feb2019‐Jan2020

Jamey Petrick Richard "Dick" Se ick Sr.  

Sept.2018‐Aug.2019 Jan.2019‐Dec.2019 Mar.2019‐Feb.2020Catherine Kormanik John & Albina Sweltz Joey Vogel

James Fisher Harry Pyrich Isabel Vogel William Biss & Frances (Biss)

Ashcraft Suzanne Pyrich

Edward & Sophie Utnik Margaret Mley

Raymond & Anna Ponczek James Utnik

FINANCIAL NEWS Fiscal Year July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019

Offertory Totals for the week of March 24, 2019

TV M $18

C H $20

Weekly Needs $5,000

3/24 $5,396

(Over/under) $396

Weekly Offering $4,400

Misc. Income $181

Votive Candles $72

Building Fund $63

Easter $130

Easter Flowers $485

Total $5,396

Holy Land Good Friday $25

Fuel $40

CMD 2020: $191

Families and the Gospel March 31 Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

We may feel like the Prodigal Son but the gospel wants us to focus on the father who was forgiving and understanding. We all make mistakes and need forgiveness. Who in your family needs your forgiveness and acceptance this Lent?

In The Community:

SAVE THE DATE! Parish Mission Presents Inspirational Speaker Dr. John Bergsma at St. Benedict Parish, 2310 Bedford St. Johnstown, will be hosting Dr. John Bergsma March 31, April 1-2 from 7:00-8:30 PM each evening. This event is open to all in the Altoona-Johnstown Dio-cese. A Full Professor of Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Dr. Bergsma served as a Protestant pastor for four years before entering the Catholic Church in 2001. Dr. Bergsma has a PH.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the Old Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls. In his presentations, Dr. Bergsma will be exploring how Sacred Scripture supports Catholic teaching, how the Bible leads us to the Eucharist and how as Catholics we can better understand the New Testament. Tickets are not required. A love offering will be taken. For more information please contact Deacon Michael Rus-so at 814-288-3036 or by email at michael.russo@atlanticbb.net.

St Patrick's Church DAY TRIP: has planned a day trip to Holocaust Museum in Washington for Monday April 8th via Lodestar Charter bus. Bus leaves 6AM from the church parking lot located at the corner of Park Avenue & Village Street in Moxham and returns at 8:30PM. The cost is $70. There are 55 seats available. To reserve please call 255-9797 or 241-3736 no later than March 20th.

BUS TRIP TO SALAMANCA NEW YORK CASINO The Mount Car-mel Social & Administration Committee is sponsoring a bus trip to Sene-ca Casino in Salamanca on Saturday, April 27th. We will be leaving the Church Parking lot at 9 am and departing from the Casino at 8 pm. The cost of the trip is $35.00 per person. To receive the Casino bonuses please bring a valid photo ID. For reservations please call the Parish Of-fice (942-8501) during the week.

Join us Sunday morning

April 7th for Donut Sunday in Bon Air after 8AM Mass!

We look forward to seeing you!

Sponsored by the 9th Grade Confirmation Class

LAY MINISTRY SCHEDULE—NO CUP Liturgy Mar 30/31 April 6/7

4PM Lector: S. Hall D EM: B P. Harteis Servers:

8AM Lector: MB Deitke BA EM: B D. Slavick Servers:

11AM Lector: T. Studer D EM: B R. Rosenbaum Servers:

The 7th and 8th graders are hosting the Easter Egg Hunt this year for their Spring service pro-ject. Students are asking for donations of candy (age appropriate-no hard candy please), prizes, and monetary donations by April 6th. Baskets

will be set at the back of each church. Donations can also be dropped off at the church office. Thanks in advance for all your help and hope to see you there.

The Egg Hunt will be on Sat. April 13th 11AM.

This week, we are taking up The Catholic Relief Services Collection to respond to Jesus in disguise. This collection helps six Catholic agencies to provide relief and sup-port to struggling communities and to work toward peace and reconciliation among our marginalized brothers and sisters here and

around the world. Please prayerfully consider how you can support the collection. Learn more at www.usccb.org/catholic-relief.

Hello, I am Lydia Sorchilla. I am making my confirmation this year and my confirmation project is Pennies for Power. My pro-ject will help support and fund heat and electricity for our CCD classes in the parish. I will have containers at both worship sites during the month of March starting March 9th. Any change would be appreciated to help aid my project. Thank in advance for your support. -Lydia Sorchilla

A parishioner has asked that the church hold a Cash Bash 

fundraiser.  If someone would like to organize this, please contact the Parish or Finance council to proceed. 

CAMP Z for Youth Grades 4-9: Week 1: July 21-26–once first week is full

then Week 2 will open: July 29– Aug 3

CAMP T for High school Grades 10-12: June 16-20

Brochures were handed out in CCD and on our web-site. A $50 deposit and application for each child

should be turned in to the office or Mary Helen. If you have any questions please call the office 536-6818.

Thank you!

Family Ritual

For several months now, new Christians have been preparing to be entered into the Church Family in your parish at the Easter Vigil. Welcome them by making a card, crafting a cross, or

by some other kind deed to let them know you and your family are thinking of them.

Get their names from the parish office and pray for them daily.