the Catholic Parishes of New Kensington April 5, 2020
Mount Saint Peter 100 Freeport Road New Kensington, PA 15068 (724) 335-9877
Saint Joseph 1125 Leishman Avenue New Kensington, PA 15068 (724) 337-6412
Saint Mary of Czestochowa 857 Kenneth Avenue New Kensington, PA 15068 (724) 335-8212
Each a parish of the Diocese of Greensburg + Each a Pennsylvania Charitable Trust Directory Staff Pastoral Life
Monsignor Michael J. Begolly, D.Min. Pastor + 724-335-9877 ext. 6205 Addolorata Society Janet Casper [email protected] 724-337-9085 Altar Servers Msgr. Begolly - MSP/SJ Father Rodel D. Molina 724-335-9877 X 6205 Parochial Vicar + 724-335-9877 ext. 6204 George Pecoraro - SM [email protected] 724-335-8212 Christian Mothers Charlotte Polak - SM Father John Pavlik, OFM, Cap. CALL PARISH OFFICE Weekend Assistance Choirs David Leo - MSP
724-858-9630 Diane Painter - SJ Pastoral Ministry 724-337-6412 George Pecoraro - SM Mrs. Pat Policastro 724-335-8212 Pastoral Associate for Ministry to the Sick, Comfort Blanket Ministry Joyce Rapsinski Homebound and Care Facilities 724-335-7492 724-335-9877 ext. 6210 Disciples of Vincent de Paul Vinnie Hannon [email protected] CALL PARISH OFFICE
Environment & Art Monica Pallone Mrs. Jamie Dillon, MA, MS 724-335-6733 Pastoral Associate for Faith Formation Faith First Coordinator Linda Banas-Reno 724-335-9877 ext. 6207 + [email protected] 412-491-8636
Mrs. Sara Octave Festa Committee Sherri Baker Pastoral Associate for Youth and Young Adult Ministries 724-335-9877 X 6201 724-335-9877 ext. 6206 + [email protected] Fish Fry Maria Tallarico 724- 335-6591
Foodbank Maria Guzzo CALL PARISH OFFICE Music Ministry Gardeners of Eden Ann Grogno 724-335-0789 Mr. David Leo, Mount St. Peter Greeters Kellie Abbott 724-335-9877 ext. 6213 + [email protected] 724-902-9121 Harvest for Haiti Mitch Farrell Mrs. Diane Painter, St. Joseph 724-994-0844 724-337-6412 + [email protected] Holy Name Society Larry Martin - MSP 724-727-2203 Mr. George Pecoraro, St. Mary Edward Bloch - SM 724-335-8212 + [email protected] CALL PARISH OFFICE
Homebound Ministry Pat Policastro 724-335-9877 x 6210 Support Staff Liturgical Ministry Schedules Kellie Abbott - MSP 724-902-9121 Mr. William Staniszewski Shirley Makuta - SJ Human Resources/Business Manager CALL PARISH OFFICE 724-335-9877 ext. 6203 J & C McNally - SM [email protected] CALL PARISH OFFICE
Mrs. Kathy Waltonbaugh Men’s Bowling League John DelVecchio Financial Secretary/Safe Environment Coordinator 724-339-7252 724-335-9877 ext. 6202 Mercy Meals Janet Casper [email protected] CALL PARISH OFFICE Soup for the Soul Charlene Rosati Mrs. Sherri Baker + Secretary, Mount Saint Peter 724-335-1070 724-335-9877 ext. 6201 + [email protected] St. Anthony Guild Anita Tuskan 412-480-2271 Mrs. Deborah Hilliard + Secretary, St. Joseph St. Vincent de Paul Society William Englert, Sr. - SJ 724-337-6412 ext. 6223 CALL PARISH OFFICE [email protected] John McNally - SM CALL PARISH OFFICE Mrs. Rebecca Planavsky + Secretary, St. Mary Trash & Treasure Larry Martin 724-335-8212 + [email protected] 724-727-2203 P S + A 5 - A 11, 2020
Saturday, April 4
Michael Sladisky (Friends)
Migliorisi Family (The Muto Family)
Sunday, April 5 - Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
For All Living & Deceased Parishioners
Delbert & Agnes Yohe (Daughter, Charlotte)
Anthony & Elvira Ginocchi and Father Francis Ginocchi (Family & Friends))
Monday, April 6
Judith Bowersox (St. Joseph Mens Choir)
In Honor of Jack Bellone and In Memory of Linda Bellone (Suzanne & Leo Bielenberg)
Tuesday, April 7
John Kowalski (Lena Chakan)
John Discello (John & Joan Runco) Effective April 4, the church will no longer be open Wednesday, April 8 for public prayer.
Andrew Jonczak (Wfe, Martie and Kyle & Family)
Leonard & Mary Sieracki (Daughter, Lynette & Family)
Thursday, April 9 - Holy Thursday
Friday, April 10 - Good Friday
Saturday, April 11 - Holy Saturday
Sunday, April 12 - Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
Saint Mary Candle Saint Joseph Candle April 5, 2020 - April 11, 2020 April 5, 2020 - April 11, 2020
In Memory of Frank & Anne Kovinsky
For Blessings Received
(Daughters)
Saint Mary Sanctuary Candle Saint Joseph Sanctuary Candle
April 5, 2020 - April 18, 2020 March 29, 2020 - April 11, 2020
In Memory of Frank Marchlewski In Memory of Rege and Mom & Dad
(Wife, Tish & Sons, Chad & Scott) (Barb) PALM SUNDAY PAGE FOUR
IN SYMPATHY
We commend to your prayers PALMS This is not just a reenactment of Jesus’ entry into Dolores Puhalla, St. Joseph Parish Jerusalem. When we accept the palm branches and hold them high, we are making a promise to accept who died recently. May God welcome her to the joys Christ everywhere, from the joy of Jerusalem to the of Paradise and bring comfort and peace to her cross on Calvary. family. The palm branches are blessed with Baptism’s water. Take the branches home and put them in a place of honor, where they can be a reminder Readings for the Week
throughout the year of our promise to follow the Monday: Is 42:1-7; Jn 12:1-11
Lord faithfully. Tuesday: Is 49:1-6; Jn 13:21-33, 36-38
Wednesday: Is 50:4-9a; Mt 26:14-25
Thursday: Chrism Mass: Is 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9; Rv 1:5-8; Lk 4:16-21 CLEARANCE RENEWAL FOR ALL VOLUNTEERS Lord’s Supper: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14; Mount Saint Peter Parish has begun sending out 1 Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15 notifications to those volunteers whose criminal clearances have expired or will be expiring in the Friday: Is 52:13 — 53:12; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1 — 19:42 near future. There will be 3 clearances Saturday: a) Gn 1:1 — 2:2 [1:1, 26-31a] to renew: PA State Police, PA Child b) Gn 22:1-18 [1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18] Abuse, and FBI Affidavit. Remember that clearances will need to be renewed c) Ex 14:15 — 15:1; Ex 15:1-6, 17-18 in order to continue volunteering in any d) Is 54:5-14; of the parishes. e) Is 55:1-11; Is 12:2-6
Notifications will be sent out according to your f) Bar 3:9-15, 32 — 4:4 parish and/or when your clearances will expire. Not g) Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28
Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 everyone will receive a notification at the same time, h) Rom 6:3-11; i) Mt 28:1-10 your patience is appreciated. If you have questions, please contact Kathy at 724-335-9877 or Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Col 3:1-4 or [email protected]. 1 Cor 5:6b-8; Jn 20:1-9 or Mt 28:1-10
KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFÉ OPEN FOR TAKE-OUT
Orders can be placed by calling the Café at 878-847-7997 on Tuesday - Friday from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM and Saturdays (for breakfast only) from 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM. An up-to-date take-out lunch menu, Saturday breakfast menu, and Friday Lenten menu can be found at www.kneadcommunitycafe.org/menu. Please note that the “Because of You” event originally scheduled for May 13 has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date. Take heart and keep the faith.
COLLECTION REPORT
Due to the early publication deadline the collection report for March 28/29 DIOCESAN LENTEN APPEAL will be published in a future bulletin. A sincere thank you to all who have responded to this year’s Diocesan Lenten Appeal thus far. If you PARISH OFFICES CLOSED OFFICE CLOSED haven’t had the opportunity to make a pledge, take The Parish Offices will be closed on some time this week to respond. Online pledges and Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Monday. gifts can be made at DLA.dioceseofgreensburg.org. PALM SUNDAY PAGE FIVE
HOW TO CELEBRATE HOLY WEEK
Let us resolve to keep Holy Week by claiming Christ’s redemptive grace and by living holy lives. The Word became flesh and redeemed us by His holy life and holy death. This Holy Week especially let us accept redemption by living grateful, faithful, prayerful, generous, just, and holy lives.
Let us resolve to celebrate Holy Week by reading and meditating holy Scripture. So often we get caught up in the hurry of daily living. As individuals and as families, reserve prime time to be with Jesus, to hear the cries of the children waving palm branches, to see the Son of Man riding on an ass's colt, to feel the press of the crowd, to be caught up in the "Hosannas", to realize how the cries of acclamation will yield to the garden of suffering and to be there and watch as Jesus is sentenced by Pilate to Calvary, to see Him rejected, mocked, spat upon, beaten and forced to carry a heavy cross, to hear the echo of the hammer, to feel the agony of torn flesh and strained muscles, to know Mary's anguish as He hung three hours before He died. We recoil before the atrocities of war, gang crime, domestic violence, and catastrophic illness. Unless we personally and immediately are touched by suffering, it is easy to read Scripture and to walk away without contacting the redemptive suffering that makes us holy. The reality of the Word falls on deaf ears.
Let us take time during Holy Week to be present to someone who suffers. Sharing the pain of a fellow human will enliven Scripture and help us enter into the holy mystery of the redemptive suffering of Christ.
Let us sing, "Lord, have mercy," and "Hosanna." Let us praise the Lord with our whole heart and soul and mind and strength, uniting with the suffering Church throughout the world - in Rome and Northern Ireland, in Syria and Lebanon, in South Africa and Angola, India and China, Nicaragua and El Salvador, in Washington, D.C., and New Kensington, PA. Let us break bread together, let us relive the holy and redemptive mystery. Let us do it in memory of Him, acknowledging in faith His real presence upon our altars.
Let us resolve to keep Holy Week by sharing holy peace and joy within our families, sharing family prayer on a regular basis, making every meal a holy meal where loving conversations bond family members in unity, sharing family work without grumbling, making love not war, asking forgiveness for past hurts and forgiving one another from the heart, seeking to go all the way for love as Jesus went all the way for love.
Let us resolve to celebrate Holy Week by sharing holy peace and joy with the needy, the alienated, the lonely, the sick and afflicted, the untouchable. Let us unite our sufferings, inconveniences, and annoyances with the sufferings of Jesus. Let us stretch ourselves, going beyond our comfort zones to unite ourselves with Christ's redemptive work. We unite ourselves with Christ's redemptive work when we reconcile, when we make peace, when we share the good news that God is in our lives, when we reflect to our brothers and sisters God's healing, God's forgiveness, God's unconditional love.
Let us be practical, reaching out across the boundaries of race and class and status to help somebody, to encourage and affirm somebody, offering to the young an incentive to learn and grow, offering to the downtrodden resources to help themselves. May our fasting be the kind that saves and shares with the poor, that actually contacts the needy, that gives heart to heart that touches and nurtures and heals. During Holy Week when Jesus gave His life for love, let us truly love one another. PALM SUNDAY PAGE SIX
PRAYER DURING A PANDEMIC
Lord Jesus,
Hear our pleas, our Good Shepherd and Divine Physician.
We implore your mercy in the wake of an outbreak of serious illness and disease.
Guide our efforts to prevent contagion and make preparations to care for those most vulnerable.
Assist all professionals and volunteers who work to eradicate the pandemic now spreading.
May our actions be marked by your steadfast love and selfless service and never by panic or fear.
Bestow your comfort and healing to the sick, sustain and strengthen them by your grace.
May they know your closeness as they carry the cross of illness.
Any may all who have been called from this life, come to worship you eternally with all the saints, as you grant consolation and peace to their mourners. Amen.
Holy Mary, Health of the Sick, pray for us. St. Joseph, Hope of the Sick, pray for us. St. Rocco, protector against epidemics, pray for us.
PALM SUNDAY PAGE SEVEN Sacramental Life
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) Contact Jamie Dillon at 724-335-9877 ext. 207 for information about becoming a member of the Church.
Sacrament of Infant Baptism Contact Jamie Dillon at 724-335-9877 ext. 207 4 months before the child’s birth to begin the baptismal preparation process.
Sacrament of Marriage Contact Monsignor Begolly at least one year in advance of the anticipated date to begin the marriage preparation process.
Sacrament of Reconciliation Until further notice, by appointment only.
Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick Contact Monsignor Begolly to request the sacrament.
Keep up to date with what’s happening at our parish websites: www.mountsaintpeter.org and www.stjosephstmarynk.org. Also “like” Mount Saint Peter on Facebook.