BLESSED SACRAMENT CATHEDRAL PARISH A Pennsylvania Charitable Trust 300 North Main Street, Greensburg, Pennsylvania 15601

THE THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT March 24, 2019

Mass to Honor The of Blessed Clelia Merloni

This Sunday, at the 11:30 AM Mass, Bishop Malesic will celebrate Mass at Blessed Sacrament honoring the Beatification of Blessed Clelia Merloni, foundress of the Apostles of the of congregation.

The sisters currently serve at: Clelian Heights, Blessed Sacrament Cathedral, Mother of Sorrows and Greensburg Central Catholic High School. The sisters also ministered at Geibel Catholic High School, St. Rita and parishes, Connellsville and schools and parishes in Brookline, Butler, Brushton, New Castle, Oakmont, McKees Rocks and Pittsburgh.

Please join the sisters in celebrating this special Mass honoring Blessed Clelia Merloni. And as always, continue to keep all the sisters in your prayers.

There will be a reception immediately following Mass in the Social Hall which everyone is invite to attend.

As we enter more fully into our Come join us for our Lenten season, learn visually about Times are: monthly film study! the most holiest days of our 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

or Church year Holy Thursday, Good “The Jesus Story: Friday, and Easter Sunday. 6:30 PM -8:30 PM.

Holy Thursday through On Monday, March 25, we Easter Sunday” Contact Sister Jeanne Marie at will be watching the film: 724-834-3710 if you are interested “The Jesus Story: Holy Thursday in attending this film study. though Easter Sunday.”

The Reverend Sister Jeanne Marie Vonder Haar A.S.C.J. Parish Office Hours Monsignor Raymond E. Riffle Director of Faith Formation ext. 35 Monday - Friday 9 AM - 4:30 PM Rector ext. 12 [email protected] Phone (724) 834-3710 Fax (724) 834-1518 [email protected] Linda DeFrancesco Website: www.blessedsacramentcathedral.org The Reverend Matthew J. Morelli Financial Secretary ext. 23 Greensburg Catholic Cemetery Hours Parochial Vicar ext. 25 [email protected] Monday-Friday 8 AM – 4 PM [email protected] Julie Stauffer - Receptionist ext. 10 Phone (724) 836-4384 The Reverend Mr. William J. Hisker [email protected] Aquinas Academy: Phone (724) 834-7940 Permanent Deacon ext. 27 Cindy Cope [email protected] Reconciliation Times: Saturday at 11 AM till Coordinator of Cemetery Services ext. 16 completion or call the for an appointment. Katie Zuzik [email protected] Pastoral Associate ext. 11 Daily Mass Times Bill Wilson - Maintenance ext. 24 [email protected] Mon. - Fri.: 12:10 PM and Saturday: 8 AM [email protected] Christopher Pardini Weekend Mass Times Jan Brubaker - Custodian Director of Liturgy and Music ext. 21 Saturday Vigil: 5:30 PM Contact the Parish Office [email protected] Sunday: 7 AM, 9 AM, 11:30 AM, 7 PM [email protected] Holy Day Vigil Mass: 5:30 PM

Sunday Readings, March 24, 2019 WEEKLY MASS SCHEDULE Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15 sees a remarkable fire and learns Saturday, March 23, 2019 -Lenten Weekday the name of . 8:00 AM Blase J. Caranese III (Family)

Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11 God is slow to anger and swift to 11:00 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation 5:30 PM Robert F. Kulik ( Bessick and Family) bless.

1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12 Miracles carried the Israelites Sunday, March 24, 2019 –The Third Sunday of Lent through the desert and prefigured the Christ. 7:00 AM For the Living and Deceased Members of the

Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Luke 13:1-9 Jesus reveals the ways of God and interprets the 9:00 AM Rudolph Kolbosky Jr. (Mary Jean - Wife) times. 11:30 AM All the Living and Deceased Members of the

Apostle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 7:00 PM and Mary Smith (Daughter) In Sympathy

Monday, March 25, 2019 –The Annunciation of the Lord Keeping in our prayers and trusting that God 12:10 PM Bill and Mary Nauman (Bill Nauman - Son) will bring to their families comfort in the days ahead, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 –Lenten Weekday we commend to your prayer the souls of :

12:10 PM Rita Sleowsky (Gloria Vucinich)

Lynn Hoak Wednesday, March 27, 2019 -Lenten Weekday and 12:10 PM Louis Geary (Family)

Dorothy Alwine Thursday, March 28, 2019 -Lenten Weekday

12:10 PM Bernd (Russell and Jamie Bernd - Brother) Know that the Lord has welcomed our loved ones into the home of Heaven. Our parish community extends its deepest Friday, March 29, 2019 -Lenten Weekday

sympathies to their families on their loss. 12:10 PM Josephine L. Zadylak (Family)

2:00 PM Aquinas Academy Stations of the Cross Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls rest in peace. NO 5:30 PM STATIONS OF THE CROSS SCHEDULED Amen. 7:30 PM Westmoreland Choral Society Concert

Saturday, March 30, 2019 -Lenten Weekday 8:00 AM Charles A. Cravotta (Wife) 11:00 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation Faith 5:30 PM Michael D. Pezze (David and Barbara Pezze) It makes things possible, not easy…. Sunday, March 31, 2019 –The Fourth Sunday of Lent 7:00 AM Mary Jane Palmer (Peg Ritz)

9:00 AM Kellner Sr. (Paula Korber - Daughter)

11:30 AM Patricia Cox (Lyn Emrick) Sanctuary Candle 7:00 PM For the Living and Deceased Members of the

Blessed Sacrament Cathedral

In acknowledging the Real Presence of Christ, the Tabernacle Candle will burn from The Rosary is prayed daily Monday - Friday March 23 through March 29 at 11:30 AM prior to Mass. Please join us!

in memory of

Carol Bothel Paschal Candle Donation from her loving family.

The Paschal candle, which is blessed at the Easter Vigil and used throughout the You are cordially invited : Easter season, as well as for and funerals throughout the year, has in Westmoreland Choral Society the past been donated by either a Thomas Octave parish family or individual parishioners. Music Director and Conductor The more donations received in a loved

ones memory, the lower the cost for all.

Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Friday, March 29, 2019 at 7:30 PM If you are interested in donating in memory of a loved one please contact Join the Westmoreland Choral Society and Children's Chorus Julie in the parish office. Information for a celebration of the music of Mozart. The Choral Society about cost and other details can be is under the direction of Thomas Octave, featuring obtained at that time. Christopher Pardini on organ. Free Admission / free will offering will be taken.

Weekly Parish Finances Mark your Calendars...

We need your help to make our

Resurrection Celebration a success!

The Weekly Parish Finances and Join us on Sunday, April 28,2019 updated DLA report from 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM will appear in the 3-31-19 bulletin. in the Social Hall to celebrate as a parish family “The Good News of the Resurrection”.

A light luncheon will be provided for all to enjoy. May we celebrate with great joy and have an afternoon of fellowship and togetherness as a parish family.

Save the date and look for the sign up sheets in the vestibule Resurrection Celebration of the Church or call the parish office so that you can participate in helping at the celebration!

DON’T FORGET TO BRING A DESSERT FOR OUR PARISH DESSRT TABLE! A huge hit especially after Lent!

April’s

Second /Special Collections

April 7: Parish Social Ministry

April 18: Holy Thursday

April 19: Holy Land / Good Friday

Liturgical Ministers, Readers and Altar Servers: PLEASE READ!

It is time to begin preparing the May - June liturgical Schedules.

Please let us know when you w ill not be available to be scheduled for May and June. Include the Mass time

you serve when sending your information to: [email protected]

Due to Holy Week and Easter, please have your requests emailed no later than the end of the workday on April 9.

Keep in mind that the schedules are prepared by different volunteer schedulers according to Mass times. It is important to respond to this request in a timely fashion so there are no scheduling conflicts. Everyone scheduled is responsible for finding their own replacements if you miss this deadline. Schedules will be emailed to you and can also be found on the BSC website or outside of the working sacristy. Please let Julie know of any email address which needs updated if you are not receiving a schedule by email.

Meetings This Week At Blessed Sacrament Cathedral

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 3-24-19 3-25-19 3-26-19 3-27-19 3-28-19 3-29-19 3-30-19

10:10 AM Faith 9:30 PM Film 6:30 PM 9 AM Bible Study 1:30 PM Threads of 2 PM 6:45 AM Catholic

Formation Study [Social Hall] RCIA [Formation [Social Hall] Love [Social Hall] Aquinas Stations of Men’s Fellowship

Center] the Cross [Social Hall] 7 PM Bible Study 7 PM Women’s Faith 11:30 AM 6:30 PM Film Celebration Mass for [Social Hall] Sharing [FC-EAS] 11:00 AM Study [Social Hall] 7:30 PM BSC Blessed Clelia Merloni Reconciliation 7 PM Choir Westmoreland [Church] 6 PM Youth Rehearsal [Church] Choral Concert

Ministry [Church]

As we begin to look toward the Easter Season, it is time to begin planning and preparation for Holy Week and Easter. As parishioners of this beautiful Cathedral, we all have much to offer the parish in anticipation of this glorious season.

Altar Servers, Readers, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion and Ushers All ministers are asked to sign up as needed at the liturgies during Holy Week. Both weekday ministers as well as homebound ministers are invited to sign up for any of the liturgies celebrated during Holy Week and Easter. For this purpose, sign up sheets for Holy Week are located in the sacristy and the ushers room. Sign up sheets will be out next weekend.

As St. Theresa of Avila reminds us: “God has no hands or feet on earth but ours”…..

We gratefully welcome anyone who would like to help The volunteers who decorate always enjoy watching the Church prepare our worship space for the Easter Season. To transform into such a beautiful worship space for the Easter volunteer, please call Julie in the Parish Office to donate your Vigil! No more than two hours are required and youth are more time and talents. We need volunteers to help set up the Social than welcome! Hall for the Chapel of Repose after the Chrism luncheon on What a great tradition to begin as a family! Thursday afternoon, March 18. An estimated time would be Please give of your time and talents, two very priceless gifts that 1PM. Please consider volunteering to prepare our worship space contribute to the beauty of this season. Let us prepare for this for the Easter Vigil on Saturday, March 20 at 9:00 AM. glorious celebration together as a parish family.

First Eucharistic Just a reminder for the second grade families from our school and parish Faith Formation who are preparing their children for reception of Holy Eucharist in May. We will be holding our Family Retreat Retreat Day on Saturday, April 6 from 9:00 am -12:00 pm. The day will begin with a Pot-luck

breakfast. April 6, 2019 The day should prove beneficial for the entire family as we take time to reflect on the meaning of 9:00 AM — the Eucharist in our lives through prayer, song and different craft activities. The retreat will be based on the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand. We look forward to sharing this morning 12 Noon with you and your children. More information will be sent home with your children.

Grounded in Good… Baptismal Preparation Classes We stand on holy ground when we receive Jesus in the Eucharist. But, in a way, we are on holy ground ourselves at Mass, because We will be having a Preparation Christ is present in his gathered body, the Church. All this can be Session on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 1 PM in tough to contemplate while you’re wrangling little ones in, around, the Parish Office Conference Room. Parents and underneath the pews. But remember that God is pleased with and expectant parents who would like to your efforts to cultivate the ground and fertilize the soil, as Jesus have their child baptized after the Lenten tells us in the parable. Remember, too, that even if you don’t hear season should plan to attend this session. much at Mass (because you are so focused on helping your children Our Parish Guidelines for Infant Baptism can listen), you still receive Jesus - body, blood, soul, and divinity - in be found on our website under “Sacramental Preparation.” Holy Communion. What more could we For more information, or to sign up to attend the session, need? please call Katie Zuzik at 724-834-3710 x11 or email: An activity for all: Invite your children (or [email protected] you, yourself) to look around prior to Mass

and select one person to pray silently for “I have held thee in the palm of my hand ” 51:16 during Mass, preferably someone you do not know. A good habit for all of us to develop!

PARISH INFORMATION Neighbors Sharing and Coming Together Parish Finance Council Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish will be The Annual St. John’s & St. Mary’s Partner John Kline Ed Nemanic holding a 2 day Lenten Conference on Parish “All You Can Eat’ Spaghetti Judy Komarinski Nancy Rottler Saint Peregrine, the of cancer Dinner” will be held at St. John’s in Delmont Nazzi Zola patients. The conference begins on Sunday, on Sunday, April 7 from 12:00 NN to 4 PM. Parish Pastoral Council March 24 at 6:30 PM in the Church with a talk Cost: $8.00 Adults; $5.00 Children ages 10 Mark Bartels Judy McChesney on Saint Peregrine, followed by a novena and and under. Dinner will include spaghetti, Andy Benedict John Mickinack concluding with reverence of a relic of St. meatballs, salad, dessert and drinks. There Peregrine. The conference continues on will be a Chinese Auction, 50/50 raffle, and Linda Cooper Paul Niemiec Monday, March 25 at 6:30 PM with an raffle tickets to purchase (2 cash prizes on David Fidazzo Betty Rua anointing Mass for cancer patients. This raffle ticket: $1,000 & $600)

Kirsten Lieberum Mike Rzempoluch conference is open to anyone who is battling “24 Hours for the Lord” at St. Thomas cancer are they are encouraged and most SVdP Membership: More University Parish April 5-6 welcome to attend. The parish is located at “24 Hours for the Lord” was started in 2014 Betty Rua 724-454-7107 200 Leger Rd, North Huntingdon. For more by Francis as a way of encouraging local information, contact the parish office at SVdP Food Pantry: churches to make the sacrament of 724-864-6364. 724-836-0175 reconciliation, along with Eucharistic

Prayer Chain: The Diocesan Heritage Center will host Adoration, available for a continuous period of Mass followed by a soup and bread 24 hours. “24 for the Lord” will be held at St. Joanne Hudock 724-834-1718 lunch on the University Parish, Indiana,

remaining Saturdays in Lent (March 30; April beginning at 1PM Friday, April 5, through 1PM SACRAMENTAL 6 and 13). Mass is at 10:30 AM in St. Joseph Saturday, April 6, featuring praise and Chapel at the Christ Our Shepherd Center. worship April 5 from 8:30-10 PM. For more The Heritage Center’s Lenten exhibition will information, visit www.stmup.org. INFORMATION be open on Saturdays in Lent from 9 AM— Relic pilgrimage of St. Jean Vianney at 1 PM. Our Lady of Grace Parish April 17 THE WELL Men’s Conference to be held The national relic pilgrimage of St. Jean March 30. The diocese’s Men’s Ministry Vianney’s incorrupt heart, sponsored by the Team will host THE WELL Men’s Conference Knights of Columbus, will be at Our Lady of Forms for parish members to serve as on March 30 at Greensburg Central Catholic. Grace Parish, Greensburg, April 17. The day The event includes workshops, open begins at 9 AM with an opening procession sponsors for Baptism or Confirmation discussions, the sacrament of reconciliation and a Mass celebrated by Bishop Edward C. can be completed in the Parish Office or and adoration, and it concludes with Mass Malesic. The schedule includes confessions, with a priest at a weekend Mass. To act celebrated by Bishop Malesic. The keynote 10 AM noon and 1-7 p.m.; rosary, 11 AM speaker will be Mike McCoy, an Erie midday prayer, noon; Way of the Cross, 2 as a sponsor, you must be at least 16 native who is a former Notre Dame and PM.; Divine Mercy Chaplet, 3 PM; Holy Hour years old, a practicing Catholic who has NFL star. Pre-Registering $25 until March 25. for Vocations, 5:30 PM.; solemn vespers, received Baptism, Confirmation, and Walk-ins $40. Register at 7:30 PM and closing prayer and blessing by Holy Eucharist. If married, it must be www.dioceseofgreensburg.org/ Bishop Malesic, 8:30 PM. For information, go THEWELL to kofc.org/vianney. within the guidelines of the Catholic ST. BART'S ROSARY ALTAR SOCIETY GARAGE Church. Call the parish Office to make SALE: March 30, in Marian Hall at Crabtree an appointment. from 8 AM-1 PM. 79 tables of everything you need! Join us for fun, food and bargains! By appointment only. Contact Katie Zuzik in the Parish Office at least three HAVE YOU OR YOUR FAMILY REGISTERED AS A PARISH MEMBER? months in advance of the Baptism. A DO YOU OR YOUR FAMILY NEED TO MAKE CHANGES class for parents is required to reflect on TO YOUR MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION? the meaning of the sacrament, review Being a registered member of Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Parish gives you an the Ceremony and to highlight the official spiritual home. When you register, you become part of our parish family importance of family commitment to and Blessed Sacrament becomes your home community for worship and practicing the Catholic Faith. The celebrations of sacraments within the Body of Christ. Start the New Year off right requirements for Godparents are the by registering or updating your information. Doing this also allows us to get a same as for sponsors and can be found better picture of who belongs to our Parish, allows us to better serve our members. If you have recently moved into our area or still haven't registered, please stop by above and on the Parish website. the Parish Office to fill out a registration form or return this request in the offering Please contact Katie with any questions. basket at weekend Masses or to the Parish Office and we will mail you a registration

form. Please be assured that we keep all of your information confidential.

Contact Sister Jeanne Marie Vonder Name:______

Haar, A.S.C.J. in the Parish Office at Address:______

least six months in advance. Do not set Contact #: ______Cell #:______a date until contacting the Parish Office. Pre-marriage preparation classes are Email Address: ______required. ____ Changing Parishes /Canceling Envelopes ____ Change of Address ____ Change of Phone #