DIVINE MERCY PARISH Sunday, February 28, 2021 Second Sunday of lent

Epiphany Church Saint Mary of Mercy Church 184 Washington Place 202 Stanwix St Pittsburgh PA 15219 Pittsburgh PA 15222 ADMINISTRATION OFFICE Intentions 164 Washington Place Pittsburgh, PA 15219 To request a Mass intention, please call www.divinemercypgh.org [email protected] or email the Parish Office at 412-471-0257 [email protected] or visit divinemercypgh.org to complete an online form. CLERGY TEAM PARISH STAFF Join our Parish Family Pastor Coordinator of Communication Visit our website at Reverend Christopher D. Donley And Special Events www.divinemercypgh.org or call the [email protected] Renée Driscoll parish office. [email protected] Deacon Samuel Toney Director of Operations Requests [email protected] Charles Goetz If you would like to be added to our [email protected] Deacon Candidate prayer request board please contact (Our Lady of Mt. Carmel) Music Minister/Director of Liturgy the office or email John P. Corcoran Matthew Radican [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Bulletin Requests In Residence Office Manager Reverend Edward Bryce Cynthia Goetz If you would like to have information Reverend Edward Muge [email protected] included in the bulletin, please contact Reverend Augustine Wayii the Parish Office at Wedding Coordinator [email protected]. Seminarians Renew the ‘I do’ Dolores Shipe Xavier Engle [email protected] Schedule a Meeting [email protected] To make an appointment with Fr. Chris, THE RED DOOR: Peter Mallampalli contact Cindy at [email protected] Assistant Coordinator to the Red Door [email protected] Sister Emily Lepage ZSJM Anthony Pampena [email protected] Join us on Flocknote [email protected] [email protected] Stay up to date with announcements and (Saint John XXIII) news about Divine Mercy Parish and our Assistant Coordinator to the Red Door Noah Pepmeyer ministries by choosing a group to join on Sister Pawla Witula ZSJM Flocknote! [email protected] [email protected] Sign up at www.divinemercypgh.org or text DivineMercyPgh to 84576 to join.

Welcome Center

Please visit us, as we have been pleased to be a “very little tiny” channel of ’s mercy to everyone who enters the church of Saint Mary of Mercy through the opening of the Welcome Center. With Divine Mercy materials and with the presence of one of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus from the congregation desired by Jesus Himself, the Welcome Center We continue to have our parish office remain has already been an amazing source of hope, consolation, closed to the public. and blessing to so many people! If you would like to visit our new facility at the entrance of Saint Mary of Mercy Church, Our staff is still working and will return calls and emails in a please email [email protected]. timely manner.

TV MINISTRY THE RED DOOR MINISTRY Saint Faustina Gate

Daily noon Mass at Saint Mary of Mercy can be live streamed or viewed on: Lunch Monday through Thursday Comcast channel 95 Monday through Saturday 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Verizon Fios channel 472 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM Pittsburgh’s Faith and Family channel 40.9 Friday www.christianassociatestv.org. Dinner 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM Monday through Friday Mass can also be accessed through our 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM website at www.divinemercypgh.org. Weekly Mass Intentions Saturday, February 27 Noon Mark A. Zywan + (Chuck and Cindy Goetz) 4:00 PM Henry M. Anna + (Anna Family) Sunday, February 28 10:00 AM People of Divine Mercy Parish Noon Dr. Steven Theiss + (Brian and Allison Dolan) Monday, March 1 Noon David Pascarella + (Loving wife, Missy) Tuesday, March 2 Noon John Urban + (Sam and Marilyn Manfredi) Wednesday, March 3 Noon Doyle Eugene Ogg + (Mary Angela Ogg) Thursday, March 4 Noon JoAnn Whalen + (Rev. Christopher D. Donley) Friday, March 5 Noon Theresa Counihan + ( Rev. Christopher D. Donley) Saturday, March 6 Noon Rev. Garry G. Patriquin + (Rev. Christohpher D. Donley) 4:00 PM William Wingertsahn + (Children) Sunday, March 7 10:00 AM Yolanda Glasso Sweenie + (Family) Noon People of Divine Mercy Parish Schedule Important Reminder The bank will no longer accept checks that are written to Epiphany Church, Saint Mary of Mercy Church, or the Red Door. All checks must be payable to DIVINE MERCY PARISH. Please use the memo line to designate a specific ministry if you are not using a parish envelope. Contribution Totals "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, 2.15.21 to 2.21.21 and I will give you rest." - Matt 11:28 Includes Faith Direct

Weekday Masses Confession FIRST COLLECTION $5,086.25 Saint Mary of Mercy Church Saint Mary of Mercy Church Monday-Saturday Monday-Friday PARISH SHARE Noon 12:30PM-1:00PM $452.00

Weekend Masses CHURCH BUILDING UPKEEP $284.00 Saint Mary of Mercy Church Saint Mary of Mercy Church Saturday-4PM TV MINISTRY Monday-Friday $208.00 Epiphany Church 12:30PM-1:00PM Sunday-10AM RED DOOR $5,834.00 Saint Mary of Mercy Church Sunday-Noon ASH WEDNESDAY $636.10 Private Prayer Epiphany Church Saint Mary of Mercy Church EPIPHANY ROOF REPAIR $325.00 Monday-Friday Monday-Friday 9:00AM-1:00PM 9:00AM-1:00PM TOTAL $12,825.25

PARISH NEWS

Epiphany Low Roof Replacement

You will notice that scaffolding has been installed in the upper parking lot at Epiphany Church. The lower roofs on both sides of the building will be replaced and minor masonry repairs will be done. While we did receive a bequest which will help us pay for this crucial repair project, more financial assistance is needed! Please consider making a donation if you are able. Simply mark "Epiphany Church Roof Project" on your envelope or on the memo line of your check.

Mark your calendars for the next Return to the Lord! 40 Days for Life Scheduled Prayer Join us for a night of Adoration, confession, and Lectio Divina. Join Divine Mercy Parish during this season of Lent, in Where: Saint Mary of Mercy Church praying outside of Planned Parenthood on Liberty Ave. When: March 6th on Thursday’s from 1pm to 3pm on the following dates:

Time: 6:30 PM March 4, 11, 18 and 25

Looking for a silent retreat to contemplate the Passion of Our Lord?

Spend your in prayer at The Ark and The Dove in Gibsonia! Holy Week liturgies and Confessions will be available. Retreat priest will be Father Stephen Mary, TOR with spiritual accompaniment from Sister Marie Fidelis, DLJC.

Cost includes meals and individual rooms. Mask required in public spaces. Questions, concerns, registration: Call the office at 724-444-8055.

Dates: Holy Thursday, April 1 to Holy Saturday, April 3

Cost: $200

Register by: Friday, March 26 Lenten Reflections

Prayer as an Ongoing Relationship in Lent

Bishop Robert Barron in a recent homily noted that prayer is a friendly dialog with God. There are two types of prayer: (1) vocal prayer, and (2) mental prayer. Vocal prayer is the most common type of prayer. For example, vocal prayer includes recitation of the Our Father, , the Divine Office, and the speaking parts of the Holy Mass. Mental prayer is a focus on and contemplation commonly associated with monastic communities. The purest form of the intermingling of vocal prayer and mental prayer, besides the Holy Mass, is the Holy . In the Holy Rosary, we recite the Our Father and Hail Mary and at the same time meditate on the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous mysteries. As we travel through Lent, I would like to propose some suggestions for vocal prayer and mental prayer to reinforce our Lenten discipline. As a wise priest once said about suggestions during a retreat, “take what you want and leave the rest”. There is a long-standing tradition of praying the Seven Sorrows of our Blessed Mother Chaplet. The Chaplet is similar to the Holy Rosary, but instead of the mysteries we meditate on the Seven Sorrows of our Blessed Mother, while praying seven Hail Mary’s between each of the Seven Sorrows. Another practical tool for keeping our minds and hearts on our Blessed Mother during Lent is a “tenner rosary.” The tenner rosary is a single decade of the rosary that fits easily in the front pocket or purse. When walking down a street or waiting in a line, you can pull out this small rosary and pray a decade of the rosary for a family member or a friend. This small practice can catch on even after Lent. I have spent a significant amount of time in the line at Trader Joe’s praying my tenner rosary and the line moves faster! Also, a prayer that can be recited throughout the day is the . The Jesus Prayer is “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Ever-Living God. Have Mercy on Me a Sinner.” In sum, vocal to try this Lent are repetition of the Jesus Prayer, the recitation of the Divine Mercy or Seven Sorrows Chaplet, variations of the and any one of a plethora of . The act of mental prayer is a meditation on the deep love and mystery of God. A well-known practice of mental prayer is Lectio Divina which has been promoted by the Benedictine Order since the middle ages. Lectio Divina is a slow reading of a Bible passage and meditating on the meaning of the words or placing yourself in the scene from the Bible. The Carmelite method of mental prayer envisions an intimate conversation with our Lord. St. Teresa of Avila when speaking of mental prayer noted: “He dwells in the human heart in a special manner. Close your eyes then look at Him, present there with you. This gaze is already a prayer.” I once asked a Carmelite Nun, what is the basis of her spirituality. She said, “We stand with our Blessed Mother at the foot of the cross, gazing at our Crucified Lord.” There are a ton of books to assist with meditation. Mental prayer is a discipline that becomes easier with regularity and practice and can start gradually at just five or ten minutes a day. As Saint Teresa of Calcutta said, “We have only today. Let us begin.” The Heart of the Mass Thursday March 11 and 18, 2021 7:00 PM to 9:00 pm

As a way to strengthen our Spiritual Life this Lenten Season, please join us to learn about the growth and development of the Holy Mass throughout the last 2,000 years, the critical importance of the various rituals, and the meaning and the deep spiritual significance of the prayers and actions of the Clergy and Laity during the Holy Mass. The first session will focus on the Liturgy of the Word, the second, the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Power Point presentation and handouts will be provided. John P. Corcoran, Jr. will be Facilitator. Where: Epiphany Church next to PPG Arena PIZZA at 6 : 00 PM on second floor of Rectory before seminar (to feed hungry college students and others) please email [email protected] so I have a count. Thanks.

The Order of the Mass - Second Sunday of Lent | Year B Music reprinted under One License A-735911 Open- Tis Good, Lord to Be Here

Kyrie of the Saints I. eleison I. Christe eleison I. Kyrie eleison II. Congregation: II. Congregation: II. Congregation:

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The Liturgy of the Word First Reading Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 God put Abraham to the test. He called to him, beloved son.” As Abraham looked about, he spied a “Abraham!” “Here I am!” he replied. Then God said: ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So he went and “Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, took the ram and offered it up as a holocaust in place and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him of his son. Again the LORD’s messenger called to up as a holocaust on a height that I will point out to Abraham from heaven and said: “I swear by myself, you.” When they came to the place of which God had declares the LORD, that because you acted as you did told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged in not withholding from me your beloved son, I will the wood on it. Then he reached out and took the bless you abundantly and make your descendants as knife to slaughter his son. But the LORD’s messenger countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” seashore; your descendants shall take possession of “Here I am!” he answered. “Do not lay your hand on the gates of their enemies, and in your descendants all the boy,” said the messenger. “Do not do the least the nations of the earth shall find blessing— thing to him. I know now how devoted you are to all this because you obeyed my command.” God, since you did not withhold from me your own Responsorial Psalm 116:10, 15, 16-17, 18-19 | Royce Nickel

Music: © 2015 Royce Nickel. Licensed in the Creative Commons by-nc-nd 3.0 Epistle Rom 8:31b-34 Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who against us? He who did not spare his own Son acquits us, who will condemn? Christ Jesus it is who but handed him over for us all, how will he not also died—or, rather, was raised— who also is at the right give us everything else along with him? Who will bring hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.

Gospel Acclamation Based on the Kyrie from the Missa Orbis Factor

From the shining cloud the Father’s voice is heard: This is my beloved Son, listen to him.

Gospel Mk 9:2-10 Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a were so terrified. Then a cloud came, casting a shadow high mountain apart by themselves. And he was over them; from the cloud came a voice, “This is my transfigured before them, and his clothes became beloved Son. Listen to him.” Suddenly, looking around, dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them. them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, As they were coming down from the mountain, he and they were conversing with Jesus. Then Peter said charged them not to relate what they had seen to to Jesus in reply, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here! anyone, except when the Son of Man had risen from Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, and one for Elijah.” He hardly knew what to say, they questioning what rising from the dead meant.

Homily Celebrant I believe in one God, the Father God from true God, begotten, not crucified under Pontius Pilate, he almighty, maker of heaven and made, consubstantial with the suffered death and was buried, and earth, of all things visible and Father; through him all things were rose again on the third day in invisible. made. For us men and for our accordance with the Scriptures. He salvation he came down from ascended into heaven and is seated I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was at the right hand of the Father. He the Only Begotten Son of God, born incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and will come again in glory to judge the of the Father before all ages. God became man. For our sake he was living and the dead and his from God, Light from Light, true

(Continued on next page > ) kingdom will have no end. the Father and the Son is adored apostolic Church. I confess one and glorified, who has spoken Baptism for the forgiveness of sins I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, through the prophets. and I look forward to the the giver of life, who proceeds from resurrection of the dead and the life the Father and the Son, who with I believe in one, holy, catholic and of the world to come. Amen. Universal Prayer The Liturgy of the Eucharist

Offertory Proper of the Mass— 2nd Sunday of Lent

Antiphon (Chanted - Organist)

I shall meditate up on your commandments* which I greatly love; I will extend my hands towards your commandments which I love.

Eucharistic Acclamations Mass XVIII Cantor: All:

“Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.”

Mysterium Fidei

“We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your resurrection, until you come again.” Amen The Lord’s Prayer

Communion Chant O Light of Light, Love Given Birth

Postcommunion Blessing and Dismissal Celebrant Closing There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy