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Coming Thanks, home Mr. Eisert Bishop Mark Bartchak to OLCS Legacy Gala preside at St. Stan’s Corpus raises $100,000, Christi celebration, page 3. honors longtime teacher Mark Eisert, page 4. www.ErieRCD.org BI-WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN OF THE DIOCESE OF ERIE June 19, 2011 Church Calendar Events of the local, American and universal church Feast days Father Jason Feigh ordained to the priesthood By Jason Koshinskie as a sign of their approval of FaithLife editor his ordination. “You have answered the ERIE – On June 10, Bishop Lord’s call to serve God and Sacred Heart Blessed Kateri Donald Trautman ordained to serve God’s people,” Bishop of Jesus Tekakwitha Father Jason Feigh, a native Trautman said. of St. Basil the Great Parish The bishop then directed his June 19 Most Holy Trinity in Coalport, to the priesthood homily toward Deacon Feigh for the Diocese of Erie in who was seated in front of the June 24 Nativity of St. John the Baptist front of a gathered crowd of bishop’s cathedra chair. He June 26 Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ priests, deacons, women reli- noted that in the Gospel read- gious, family, friends and well ing (John 21:15-17), Jesus asks (Corpus Christi) wishers at St. Peter Cathedral Peter three times, “Do you love June 29 Ss. Peter and St. Paul in Erie. me?” After Peter responds yes Prior to the ordination rite, each time, Jesus tells him to July 1 Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Father Michael Kesicki, rec- “Feed my lambs” and “Feed tor of St. Mark Seminary in my sheep.” Clockwise from left: Through the im- July 2 Immaculate Heart of Blessed Virgin Erie, presented Deacon Feigh “Jason, Jesus feeds you position of Bishop Donald Trautman's Mary as priesthood candidate to the these same words tonight,” hands, Father Jason Feigh receives the bishop and the assembly. The Bishop Trautman said. “‘Feed gift of priesthood; laying prostrate in July 11 St. Benedict congregation offered an en- front of the altar during the litany of saints; distributing Communion. July 14 Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha thusiastic and joyful applause See FEIGH, page 3 July 15 St. Bonaventure July 16 Our Lady of Mount Carmel St. Basil the Great Parish in Coalport producing priests Confi rmation Small parish sees three native St. Joseph, Force – Sunday, June 26 at 11 sons ordained in five years a.m. Confirmation classes include St. Boniface, Kersey, and St. Joseph, Force. By Jason Koshinskie ish its size. In the past five FaithLife editor years, three vocations to the priesthood have come from COALPORT – St. Basil this parish of 280 families. Peter’s Pence collection – June 25-26 the Great Parish in Coalport Father Pino was ordained in 2007, followed by Father Every year near the feast of Ss. Peter and Paul is a small community with (June 29), the church throughout the world takes up big faith. Johnathan Schmolt in 2008. the annual Peter’s Pence collection. Coalport is little town Father Jason Feigh’s ordina- This collection supports the charitable works of America—a small town tion this year rounds out the the Holy Father, the successor of St. Peter, as he re- that’s seen its share of de- trio. sponds to some of the most urgent needs on earth. pression and loss of industry. “It is a great parish,” said These needs include Father Justin Pino, a native Father Alex Amico, who sending relief to vic- son of the parish, likens it served as pastor of St. Basil tims of earthquakes, to Bedford Falls from “It’s a the Great from 1984 to 2006. floods and other natu- Wonderful Life.” Father Amico is now the pas- ral disasters. The Holy “It’s a little country church tor of St. Paul Parish in Erie. Father also supports that really hasn’t changed “I was there for 23 years. I had seminaries and reli- much in 100 years,” Father these young men who were gious houses, orphan- Pino said. “Everyone knows open to the will of God. We St. Basil the Great Parish in Coalport has son Feigh (2011), Bishop Donald Trautman, ages, AIDS treatment everybody.” got three vocations out of this given three priests to the Diocese of Erie Father Alex Amico (pastor from 1984 to 2006) centers and other It’s also a place where a small parish, so the Spirit is in the past fi ve years. Pictured from left to and Father Justin Pino (1997) following Fa- medical facilities in vocation can grow. In the last alive and well there.” right are: Father Johnathan Schmolt (2008), ther Feigh’s ordination June 10. developing nations, few years, something extraor- The three recently ordained Father Zab Amar (current pastor), Father Ja- as well as many other dinary has been happening at priests from the parish credit charitable works. this nearly 125-year-old faith Father Amico and Father Zab simple. going to seminary, he did “We’d go down to the Parishes in the Dio- community. It has been giv- Amar, St. Basil the Great’s “I was just myself,” he what his pastor—Msgr. Geno church every night after din- cese of Erie will take up the Peter’s Pence collection ing priests to the church in current pastor, with fostering said. J. Monti—did with him. He ner and he’d say, ‘I need the at Masses June 25-26. the Diocese of Erie in abun- their vocations. As soon as the young men started out with some of the dance, particularly for a par- For Father Amico, it was began to show an interest in more ordinary jobs. See COALPORT, page 3 New translation of Roman Missal Sixty hours for 60 years Church to observe pope’s provides new insights, speaker says 60th anniversary of ordination By Jason Koshinskie His afternoon session was Vox Clara, a committee FaithLife editor tailored for priests of the appointed by the Vati- Diocese of Erie and the can in 2001 to advise the DUBOIS – According evening session was open Congregation for Divine to Msgr. James Moroney, to lay liturgy leaders and Worship and the Sacra- the new translation of the the public. ments on matters related Roman Missal can be a to the translation of Latin guide to help the Catholic liturgical texts into Eng- Church reconnect with lish. her past and the Mass of The third edition of the saints. the Roman Missal will be “The most important implemented in parishes thing for people to be able throughout the United to gain in the new trans- States beginning with the Catholics worldwide are asked offering one hour of prayer before lations is a contact with first Sunday of Advent, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Blessed Sacrament between the prayer that the church Nov. 27. Pope Benedict XVI’s ordination to June 29, the feast of Ss. Peter and has been praying for over As a member of Vox the priesthood with 60 hours of Eu- Paul, and July 1, the solemnity of 2,000 years,” Msgr. Mo- Clara, he presented Pope charistic prayer for vocations. the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the roney said, “to pray in the Benedict XVI with the The pope will celebrate his anni- World Day of Prayer for Priests. same voice and the same first copy of the third edi- versary June 29, the Solemnity of Parishioners are also invited to words as St. Francis, as Msgr. James Moroney tion of the Roman Missal Ss. Peter and Paul. In honor of his join in this effort either by gather- St. Clare, as St. Dominic in English in April 2010. anniversary, the Vatican Congrega- ing with local priests or by offering and St. Scholastica, as all Msgr. Moroney served “The Roman Catholic tion for Clergy suggested Catholic a period of adoration at a separate of the saints with whom as executive director of Church does liturgy in a clergy and faithful be invited to par- time. we are one in heaven, to the U.S. bishops’ Sec- radically different way ticipate in Eucharistic Adoration The results of this effort will be pray in the same words, retariat for the Liturgy than any other Christian with the intention of praying for sent to Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the same prayer from the from 1996 to 2007. Pope church because we do the sanctification of the clergy and the apostolic nuncio to the United depth of our hearts.” John Paul II appointed liturgy by translation,” for the gift of new and holy priestly States, so that the Holy Father may Msgr. Moroney, a fre- him as a consulter to the Msgr. Moroney said. “It’s vocations. receive it as a spiritual bouquet of quent lecturer on liturgi- Congregation for Divine one of the things we’ve Dioceses nationwide are plan- prayer and spiritual union on the cal matters and a priest of Worship and the Disci- done well.” ning special prayers before the day of his anniversary. the Diocese of Worcester, pline of the Sacraments. And, he said, the cent of the verses of the There have been Blessed Sacrament in June, offered For this occasion, the U.S. bish- Mass., presented two talks Pope Benedict XVI reap- church keeps improving. New Testament during theological differences continuously or across various days ops’ Secretariat of Clergy, Con- May 17 on the Roman pointed to the congrega- For example, with the the three-year lectionary among the three editions in the month. secrated Life and Vocations has Missal at St. Catherine of tion. He also serves as 1962 missal, people in the cycle.