BENEDICT

  A Pennsylvania Charitable Trust A Parish of the Diocese of Greensburg     260 Bruno Road • Greensburg, PA 15601   PHONE: 7248349045 FAX: 7248341880  EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: http://www.stbenchurch.org 

MARCH 24, 2019 SERVED BY  Administrator……………………………..Father Daniel L. Blout Parochial Vicar………………………… Father Marlon Libre Pates Parish Secretary………………………………………...Aurelia Sabol Director of Faith Formation………………...... Steven LoCascio Coordinator of Pre K5th Faith Formation…………Julie Teslevich Coordinator of Sacramental Preparation...... Renie Prengaman Coordinator of Middle/High School Youth Ministry.....Michelle Ruby  Coordinator of Adult Formation………………...... Paula Aiello Coordinator Facilities Manager……………………….Jerry Davis Director of Music………………………………...... Tim Kuhar Sacristan……………………………………………….Sue Kosker Minister Scheduler…………………………………...Sue Leonard  OFFICE (in front of Parish Center) HOURS  Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.  Thursday: 9 a.m. to Noon   MORNING PRAYER (Lauds)  Tuesday and Thursday: 8:15 a.m.   MASS SCHEDULE  Tuesday and Thursday: 8:30 a.m. Saturday Vigil: 5:30 p.m. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Holy Days: 9 a.m. & 7 p.m.  SACRAMENT of  EUCHARISTIC ADORATION  Available to active, that is, regularly attending, registered Thursday: 9  10:00 a.m. parishioners by prearrangement. A baptismal preparation class is  offered quarterly and is required to highlight the parents’ sacred SACRAMENT of RECONCILIATION (Confession) commitment to practicing the Catholic faith, to familiarize them Saturday at 5:00 p.m. or by appointment. with the Rite of Baptism, and to instruct them on parental  requirements so that they can serve as fitting role models and good SACRAMENT of MATRIMONY  examples of the practice of the Catholic faith for the newly baptized. Engaged couples, one of whom must be an active, registered,  parishioner, should contact the Parish Office at least six MISSION STATEMENT  months in advance of the intended wedding; a date should Our Saint Benedict Parish family unites to follow the example of not be set before this contact. Premarriage formation is Christ by sharing our time, talent, and treasure within and required to prepare for this serious, lifelong commitment. beyond our community.   ST. BENEDICT CATHOLIC CHURCH

ST. BENEDICT PARISH NEWS PRAY FOR…Parishioners and friends who are infirmed and in need of prayer:  OFFERTORY COLLECTION  This weekend, March 23/24,  Jerad Bortz   there will be a regular collection only. Next weekend, March Matt Burnsworth 30/31, there will be a regular collection only. Campo James Colaianni  Justin & Kim Dawson IN SYMPATHY  Keeping in our prayers and trusting that God Walter Falatovich will bring to his family comfort in the days ahead, we commend to Blaze Forish  your prayer the soul of T. Richard (Dick) Campbell. Know Dotty Goodlin that the Lord has welcomed our loved ones into the home of Graham Heaven. Our parish community extends its deepest sympathies to George Graham his family and relatives on their loss. Jerry Gumbita  Barbara A. Hoffmann 2019 DIOCESAN LENTEN APPEAL  “Open your heart to Lora Johnson  HOPE,” the 2019 Diocesan Lenten Appeal has begun. At St. Mary Karazsia Benedict, we have a goal of $43,724. The first $23,724 raised will Sandy Kernicky Ray Keyser help to support our diocese and thousands in our community who Mary Elizabeth Kmetz are served through a variety of diocesan ministries. An additional Greg Kuhar  $20,000 is needed to pay for the renovation of the sanctuary and Deborah Lindsey interior of our church. Your prayers and participation are always John Dante Liska appreciated.  Bill & Joanne Lozier   Patricia Luther  DONATIONS for EASTER FLOWERS in memory of the Darlene McElhaney deceased or in honor of someone living can be made using the Louise Mirolli special envelope marked Easter Flower Offering, dated Jillian Newcaster  March 2019, and including the name(s) to be remembered/ Helen Novotny honored. Please print the names on the envelope so that they may Betty Palinkas Agnes Passmore be transcribed accurately. Such requests will be published as an Max Read insert in the Easter (April 21) bulletin, so please submit your Darlene Reich requests by Sunday, April 14, for publication. Earl Rice   Catherine Rocker  Jesus did not solely die on the cross O He Linda Santone died for you. EVERY drop of His blood was shed for Sr. M. Therese Sass, O.S.B. YOU. Every step, every humiliation, every strike, Elizabeth Shinsky every whip, every mocking, every piercing nail...YOU Kay Stranko  WERE ALWAYS ON HIS MIND. Matthew Svidron  Betty Lou Svonavec & Special Observances  Anna Ulishney Judy Valencia  For the Week of March 24, 2019  Phyllis Winchell  Sunday:  3rd Sunday of Lent Monday:  The Annunciation of the Lord ST. BENEDICT SOCIAL CARE MINISTRY helps the Next Sunday:  4th Sunday of Lent  elderly of our parish family stay connected to the St. Benedict  community.  If you know anyone in a nursing /assisted living   facility, will have an extended hospital/rehabilitation stay who  Stations of the Cross at St. Benedict during would appreciate a visit from our Social Care Ministry team, call Lent: Every Friday evening at 7:00 PM  the office at 7248349045. If you are interested in joining our Social Care Ministry team, have any questions or need more in- formation, call Tina Krivoniak at 7248340159.  Readings for the Week of March 24, 2019    ST. BENEDICT CHURCH MEAL TRAIN: Are you due to Sunday:   Ex 3:18a, 1315/Ps 103:12, 34, 67, 8, 11 [8a]/1 deliver a baby or scheduled for a surgical procedure which will   Cor 10:16, 1012/Lk 13:19 require recovery time of a week or two or more? Would you like Monday:  Is 7:1014; 8:10/Ps 40:78, 8b9, 10, 11 [8a, 9a]/ help with some meals during that time? Our ministry would love   Heb 10:410/Lk 1:2638 Tuesday:  Dn 3:25, 3443/Ps 25:45ab, 6 and 7bc, 89 [6a]/Mt to provide you (a St. Benedict parishioner) and your family with   18:2135 meals delivered to your home during your early recovery. Please Wednesday:  Dt 4:1, 59/Ps 147:1213, 1516, 1920 [12a]/Mt  contact us at [email protected] or by calling Janey   5:1719 DeBacco at 7248342217 or Sharon Metz at (724) 8375246 for Thursday:  Jer 7:2328/Ps 95:12, 67, 89 [8]/Lk 11:1423 details. Friday:   Hos 14:210/Ps 81:6c8a, 8bc9, 1011ab, 14 and     17 [cf. 11 and 9a]/Mk 12:2834 Saturday:  Hos 6:16/Ps 51:34, 1819, 2021ab [cf. Hos 6:6]/  In my distress I called to the LORD,   Lk 18:914 and  HE ANSWERED ME! Next Sunday:  Jos 5:9a, 1012/Ps 34:23, 45, 67 [9a]/2 Cor 5:17    21/Lk 15:13, 1132   WWW.STBEN.CATHOLICWEB.COM

NEWS AROUND THE DIOCESE…... PRAYER  SATURDAY MASS, SOUP & BREAD LUNCH The Dioce- Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient,  san Heritage Center will host Mass followed by a Soup and Bread Lunch on the remaining Saturdays in Lent (March 23 and 30; ever new, late have I loved you!  April 6 and 13). Mass is at 10:30 a.m. at St. Chapel at the Christ Our Shepherd Center. The simple lunch follows. The Herit- You were within me, but I was outside,  age Center will host a Lenten Exhibition that will be open on Sat- urdays in Lent from 9 a.m.1 p.m.  and it was there that I searched for you.   In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which RELIC PILGRIMAGE OF ST. JEAN VIANNEY The na- you created.  tional relic pilgrimage of St. Jean Vianney’s incorrupt heart, spon- sored by the Knights of Columbus, will be at Our Lady of Grace You were with me, but I was not with you.  Parish, Greensburg, April 17. The day begins at 9 a.m. with an opening procession and a Mass celebrated by Bishop Edward C. Created things kept me from you;  Malesic. The schedule includes confessions, 10 a.m.noon and 17 p.m.; rosary, 11 a.m.; midday prayer, noon; Way of the Cross, 2 yet if they had not been in you they would not have been p.m.; Divine Mercy Chaplet, 3 p.m.; Holy Hour for Vocations, at all.  5:30 p.m.; solemn vespers, 7:30 p.m. and closing prayer and blessing by Bishop Malesic, 8:30 p.m. For information, go to You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deaf- kofc.org/vianney  ness.   “24 HOURS FOR THE LORD” “24 Hours for the Lord” was You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness.  started in 2014 by Francis as a way of encouraging each local church to make the sacrament of reconciliation, along with You breathed your fragrance on me;  Eucharistic Adoration, available for a continuous period of 24 hours. “24 for the Lord” will be held at St. I drew in breath and now I pant for you.  University Parish, Indiana, beginning at 1 p.m. Friday, April 5, I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more.  through 1 p.m. Saturday, April 6, featuring Praise and Worship Friday, April 5 from 8:3010 p.m. For more information, please You touched me, and I burned for your peace. O  visit www.stmup.org.  from the “Confessions of St. Augustine” SISTER MARY SCHMIDT LECTURE  Sister of Charity of Nazareth Teresa Kotturan, SCN, will present “Leave No One Be- ****************** hindNA Call to Preferential Option for the Poor through Sustain- able Development Goals” April 11 at 7 p.m. at Cecilian Hall in Monday, March 25  the Administration Building at Seton Hill University. The pro- gram is part of the Sister Mary Schmidt, SC, Lecture Series, a  joint project of the Sisters of Charity and Seton Hill University. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information,  call 7248360406, ext. 6613 or visit www.scsh.org.  MASS TO HONOR OF BLESSED CLELIA MERLONI Bishop Malesic will celebrate a Mass hon- oring the beatification of Blessed Clelia Merloni, foundress of the Apostles of the of Jesus congregation, March 24 at 11:30 a.m. at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral, Greensburg. A reception will follow. The sisters are inviting all former students, coworkers, friends and benefactors to join them. The sisters cur- rently serve at Clelian Heights in Greensburg. They have also ministered at Geibel Catholic High School and St. Rita and Im- maculate Conception parishes, Connellsville and at schools and parishes in Brookline, Butler, Brushton, New Castle, Oakmont, McKees Rocks and Pittsburgh. For more information or to reply, email [email protected] or call 7248378120.  SALT & LIGHT AWARDS DINNER Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Greensburg will host the 21st annual Communities of Salt and Light Awards Dinner April 25 at 6 p.m. at Stratigos Banquet Centre, North Huntingdon. Bishop Edward C. Malesic will present three awards N humanitarian, philanthropy and out- standing human service organization. All net proceeds benefit people in need in the diocese’s four counties. Contact Heather Rady, director of community relations and special events, at 724 8371840 for sponsorship and ticket information. Saturday, March 23, 2019  Lenten Weekday  5:30 p.m. +Josephine Yokopenic (Family)  Sunday, March 24, 2019  3rd Sunday of Lent  9:30 a.m. +Ruth & +Ed Polcha (Dan & Joyce Prettiman)   Tuesday, March 26, 2019  Lenten Weekday  8:30 a.m. +Nora Sabol (Peter J. Faletto & Family)  Thursday, March 28, 2019  Lenten Weekday 8:30 a.m. +Gen Gaia (Family)  Saturday, March 30, 2019  Lenten Weekday  5:30 p.m. +Josephine & +Frank Zadylak (Family)  Sunday, March 31, 2019  4th Sunday of Lent  9:30 a.m. For the Living & Deceased Members of St.   Benedict and Our Lady of Grace Parishes 

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FINANCIAL BLESSINGS 

 Fiscal Year 7/1/18  6/30/19  Report for March 17, 2019

Adult $ 2,136.00 Children $ 0.00 Loose $ 217.00

Automatic Withdrawal$ 275.00

   Total Offertory $ 2,628.00   New Crucifix  $ 4,250.00  Sanctuary/Church $ 1,131.00

In order to meet our ordinary expenses entirely from our Sunday collection, St. Benedict needs approximately $3,515.00 per week in the regular collection.

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