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1313 Fifth Ave., East McKeesport, PA 15035 Phone: 412-824-2644 • Fax: 412-824-4786

JULY 29, 2018 ● SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Office Hours: Monday–Thursday 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM Friday 7-11:30 AM Website: www.saintrobertbellarmine.org Email: [email protected]

PARISH STAFF Rev. John Brennan, Pastor, Reynold Wilmer Denise Lorenchick, Administrative Assistant

CHRISTIAN FORMATION Anita Holland, Manager Phone: 412-824-3688 Email: [email protected]

MUSIC MINISTRY Terry Skelley, Director 412-351-3863 • Email: [email protected]

YOUTH MINISTRY Kelly Weaver, Director • Phone: 412-527-6200

Maintenance Staff: Frank Carulli

SCHEDULE OF LITURGIES Saturday: 4 PM • Sunday: 8:45 AM {St. Jude 11:30 AM} {St. , Monday & Wednesday : 10 AM} Tuesday: 7 PM • Friday: 10 AM • Saturday: 9:30 AM Holy Days: {St. Jude 10 AM} St. Robert 7 PM

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Tuesday 6:30–6:55 PM • Saturday 11 AM–12 Noon First Friday 10:30--11 AM • Upon request or appointment.

DEVOTIONS: Novena - Tuesday before 7 PM Mass. Rosary - Friday 2:40 PM & Tuesday 6:30 PM. Divine Mercy Chaplet & Prayer every Friday 3 PM.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT: St. is a Roman Catholic Community built on a foundation of faith in God, family values, and a strong work ethic. We desire a deeper relationship with God and each other through the , the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and knowledge of Sacred Scripture. We are called to love God and serve others.

INSTRUCTIONS IN THE FAITH: The Rite of Christian MINISTRY TO THE SICK & SHUT-INS: Extraordinary Ministers & Ladies of Initiation of Adults (RCIA) and the Christian Initiation of Charity are available for home visitations & for the Sacraments. Please call if Children (CIC) Programs are offered for those interested in you know of anyone who may need assistance. the Catholic Faith. Programs are ongoing throughout the year. For specific information, contact the Parish Office or RESURRECTION MINISTRY: The Father Scanlon Lounge is available for the Christian Formation Office. funeral lunches. Volunteers will arrange for the catering, set up the room & serve the lunch. Contact Mary Smialek (412-823-3701). BAPTISM: Held the 3rd Sunday of each month at 10 AM or during any Sunday Mass as scheduled. One preparation NEW PARISHIONERS: We welcome new members at St. Robert's session is required. Pre-registration is necessary. Please Parish. Those wishing to join our community are invited to introduce see bulletin for class schedule. yourself to Fr. Brennan and complete a Census Form at the Parish Office. MARRIAGE: The prospective bride and groom are required to make arrangements at least 6 months prior to the BULLETIN DEADLINE: All information must be received at the Parish anticipated wedding. All couples are required to attend a pre- Office by MONDAY AT NOON in written form or via email. marriage preparation program. Unplanned pregnancy? For confidential assistance call 1-800-550-4900. PRAYER CHAIN: The Prayer Chain is available to pray for special intentions. Print your request and put it into the collection basket marked “Prayer Chain”. For emergency CHILD ABUSE HOTLINE: 1-888-808-1235 requests call 412-824-2644. Priscilla Kent, Safe Environment Coordinator Message from Fr. Brennan Greetings in the One who invites us into unity with his Father and their Holy Spirit (Eph 4:3). Thank you for your efforts to preserve MASS TIMES this unity both at St. Jude’s and St. Robert’s these days—your Mass Monday, St. Peter Chrysologus attendance, festival support, “Meet & Greet” gatherings, prayers, Jer 13:1-11, Mt 13:31-35 visiting the sick, etc. May we be open to God’s Spirit who makes us 10:00 AM—St. Jude the Apostle one in Jesus. Tuesday, St. Parents and guardians, please note our Vacation Bible School for Jer 14:17-22, Mt 13:36-43 both St. Jude’s and St. Robert’s—Monday - Friday, August 6-10, 7:00 PM 6:30-8:30 PM. All 5 year olds to 5th graders are welcome. The Helen Kmetz, Anniversary older children help. By: Daughter, Gerry Knapp & Granddaughter, Becky Caruso

Remember to consider the D.C. Pilgrimage to our National Shrine of the on Saturday, September 15. Call St. Wednesday, St. Angela Merici to register. Jer 15:10, 16-21, Mt 13:44-46 10:00 AM—St. Jude the Apostle

Note, too, the 50th Wedding Anniversary Mass Sunday, October 7, 2:30 PM at St. Paul Cathedral with Bishop Zubik. Call the office to Thursday, SS of Vercelli & register. Peter Julian Eymard Jer 18:1-6, Mt 13:47-53 Please recruit for our Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults No Mass (R.C.I.A.). If anyone is interested in our R.C.I.A. program beginning in September and leading up to the Easter Vigil First Friday celebration Saturday, April 20, 2019, please contact our offices at Jer 26:1-9, Mt 13:54-58 either St. Jude’s or St. Robert’s. Anyone interested in looking into 10:00 AM the Catholic faith-community, or making their First Communion, or Grace Varlotta, Anniversary By: Daughter, Connie being confirmed in God’s Spirt, please let us know.

We are hoping to train new servers for both parishes—St. Jude’s First Saturday, St. John Vianney and St. Robert’s. All 4th graders through juniors in high school are Jer 26:11-16, 24, Mt 14:1-12 9:30 AM welcome. Hopefully we will have some new servers to add to our John Beaudin, Jr., Anniversary experienced veterans for our new clergy team at each parish. By: Kitty Donohue 4:00 PM Have a blest week preserving Jesus’ gift of unity for your family, Brian Rittko faith-family, and neighborhood. Love and By: Janice Dzuricsko & Family

Best of God’s Spirit, Sunday Ex 16:2-4, 12-15, Eph 4:17, 20-24, Jn 6:24 Fr. Brennan -35 8:45 AM Peregrine Novena—The Novena in honor of Saint Peregrine, patron Maria Melocchi By: Gaetano Melocchi & Family of cancer paents, will begin Tuesday, July 31 with nine consecuve 11:30 AM—St. Jude the Apostle Tuesday evenings at Corpus Chris Parish [2515 Versailles Avenue, McKeesport]. Holy Mass will be celebrated at 7:00 pm and the novena prayers will be prayed a er the Mass. Before Mass, the Sacrament of Please pray for the family and friends of Reconciliaon will be available. Each week there will be another insight Lawrence & Therese Beck into the life of Saint Peregrine. The Mass intenon for each week of the (mother of incoming novena will be for all those who are in the hospital or nursing home or sick Chaplain Fr. at home, especially those suffering with cancer. For more informaon, Beck) who have recently please call 412-672-0765. passed to the Lord. DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES? SAM – Substance Addiction Ministry

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT OUR The next Substance Addiction Ministry Rosary for MIRACLES! Recovery will be Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at Our Lady of Joy, 2000 O’Block Rd., Plum, PA DATES TO REMEMBER: 15239. We will meet in Fr. Marchukonis Hall September 9: Catechetical Sunday September 16: Parish Picnic downstairs of the Church at 7:00PM for the Rosary September 23: First Mass and Family Breakfast followed by an informal gathering for all who are afflicted or affected by addiction. It will be a safe, Save the Date: confidential place for people to seek education, ST. ROBERT BELLARMINE referral and support. For more information please DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES contact Noreen at 412-296-1709. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL August 6 - 10 Diocesan Pilgrimage to the 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM ALL ARE WELCOME National Shrine in Washington, D.C.: STORIES - SNACKS - CRAFTS - GAMES SONGS - PLAYS - TALENT SHOW - MASS Join Deacon Dale DiSanto of St. Angela Merici MONDAY: LOAVES AND FISHES & BURNING parish and other pilgrims from the eight parishes BUSH here in the McKeesport area as we travel to the TUESDAY: National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in WEDNESDAY: WALK ON WATER Washington, D.C. This pilgrimage will be on Saturday, September 15. The bus for the entire district will pick up passengers at St. Angela Merici Religious Education materials for the upcoming in White Oak and St. Robert Bellarmine in East year have been sent home. If you have any McKeesport. Buses usually depart around 6AM and questions, please call or text me at 412 874 3423. return home around 10PM. The cost of the trip if $70. This amount covers the cost of the bus, a St. Robert Bellarmine Volunteer Moment: breakfast treat bag, and a box lunch which will be "Volunteering at St. Robert's has given me a family provided on the bus for our return trip home. that loves and supports me throughout all of life's Reservations can be made by calling Call St. Angela challenges. I've learned wisdom from the Men's Merici Office at 412-672-9641. Club, and I've seen the face of God in the youth. I've learned how to love and be loved because of Saint Genesius of Rome Theater Group Presents: my experiences with all of you." - Tori Fedora Champion at Tyburn, The Heroic Story of Saint Edmund Campion, Written by Clare Young. Come MA’S PANTRY—The next distribution is August 4, 2018, 9:30 learn the true story of one of the most talented men -11:30 AM at Broadway Alliance. Call 412-824-3198 with any of the sixteenth century. Saint Paul Seminary, questions. First time applicants must bring the following: Bishop McDowell Auditorium, 2900 Noblestown

1. Proof of residence—East McKeesport or North Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15205 Versailles 2. Current, government-issued photo ID such as a Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 7:00 pm driver’s license Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 2:00 pm 3. Proof of income Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 7:00 pm 4. Names and birthdates of household family members Adult (ages 18+): $5.00 suggested donation

MONTH OF JULY MA’S IS REQUESTING CEREALS (BIN Youth (ages 11-17): $3.00 suggested donation LOCATED IN CHURCH VESTIBULE). Clergy, Religious, Seminarians as well as Children 10 and under free MA’S PANTRY GREATLY APPRECIATES YOUR For more information, please call 724-933-7837, 412- SUPPORT AND GENEROSITY!! 491-4415 or visit www.sgrtheatergroup.yolasite.com Preserve the Unity of the Spirit Saturday, August 14, 2018, the Stephen P. Barry Assembly #940, Fourth Degree, Knights of through the Bond of Peace Columbus, is hosting a "Night at the Races" at St. Ukrainian Catholic Church, Eden Saint Paul’s letter to the Park Blvd., across from the McKeesport High Ephesians from which the second reading at Mass School. Doors open at 6:00 pm and the Races start this weekend is taken, emphasizes the unity of the at 7:00 pm. BYOB! Light Buffet, and Setups Church. It is not written solely to the Christian included in the ticket price. Tickets are $10 Per community in Ephesus, but to the worldwide Person in Advance, $15 at door. You must be at Church united to Jesus Christ her head and least 21 years of age. To purchase tickets or horses, shepherd. Yet this focus on unity is not out of call Race Chairman David Palcsey at (412) 672- concern for the Church herself, but instead as the 6222 or mail your check made payable to "Stephen means for making God’s plan of salvation known P. Barry Assembly 940" to Stephen P. Barry throughout the world. Some ask how the changes Assembly, C / O David Palcsey 422 26th Street, the On Mission for The Church Alive! initiative is McKeesport, PA 15132. bringing about can lead to growth and strength for the Church of Pittsburgh. The answer is that Retrouvaille: A Lifeline for Married Couples. we are being invited to work hard and pray even Retrouvaille offers help to couples experiencing harder to be united in faith as we come together trouble in their marriage. The weekend and post to form new parish communities. There will be sessions focus on rebuilding marriage through challenges ahead, but let us listen to the wisdom of better communication, listening, and Saint Paul as we “bear with one another through understanding. Call today to begin the healing love” and focus our hearts on what unites us in process beginning with a weekend on September faith: “one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God 7, 2018. Contact Retrouvaille at 412-277-3434. and Father of all, who is over all and through all More information is available at and in all. Visit onmissionchurchalive.org to www.retrouvailleofpittsburghinc.org. learn more and to stay informed.

Meals on Wheels has asked St. Robert’s to Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament takes place provide desserts the weeks of August 6-10 and every First Friday in the Chapel beginning at August 13-17. Remember no nuts and not too sweet. Donations may be taken to Linway 3 PM and ending with Benediction usually at Presbyterian Church by 9:00 AM each day. 7 PM. The Divine Mercy Devotion coincides Monetary donations also accepted. with Adoration until 3:30 PM. Please come. Saint Mark Parish, 3210 Liberty Way, Liberty Borough is holding their annual festival on August PLEASE JOIN US FOR 2, 3, & 4, 2018. The food booth opens each evening Prayer, Praise and Song Gathering. at 5PM. There will be a 4PM Polka Mass featuring Jack Tady and the Tadybears on Saturday, The next gathering is August 4. The festival hours are 6 PM to 11 PM on Tuesday, July 31 at Thursday and Friday, and 5 PM to 11 PM on Saturday. We hope to see you there! 7:45PM in the Prayer Chapel.

Grief Self-Help Meeting—The next group ST. VINCENT DE PAUL COLLECTION meeting is Wednesday, August 15 in the Parish Center (Father Scanlon Lounge) from 7 to 9 PM. There will be a special collection for our Volunteers from the parish will facilitate the local St. Vincent de Paul today. meeting. There is no fee or pre-registration required. All in need are welcome—please join Thank you for your generosity. us. FALL PRE-CANA CLASS—This instruction is for Magnificat Pittsburgh Prayer Breakfast—Ladies, engaged couples planning weddings. The class will come to the Magnificat Pittsburgh prayer be at Saint Robert Bellarmine in the Parish Center breakfast on August 25, from 9 am to Noon at the on Saturday, November 10, 2018 from 9 AM to 3 Double Tree by Hilton, Cranberry Twp. Hear PM. Registration is $35 and includes lunch and dynamic speaker Dr. Carol Razza who will materials. For more information, call the Parish minister to you and tell her story of God’s work to Office at 412-824-2644. free her from the lies that put her in a place of fear and shame. Through God she broke free to live His LADIES OF CHARITY: Members who will be purpose and plan for her. She will remind you that attending the diocesan Workshop on August 11 the Father speaks freedom into our lives and that must send in reservation with $15.00 before August is our dwelling place. Carol is a psychotherapist, 1. Those attending the National Assembly on author, and on faculty at a seminary in Florida. September 20-22 must make reservations, including Cost of the breakfast is $23. To register, call Kay, proper fees by August 1. Contact Lois 412-751- 724-772-6749 or Pam, 412-461-8906 or go to 2724 if you need forms and to arrange www.magnificatpittsburgh.org. Registration transportation. deadline is August 17.

Catholic Charities is in dire need of diapers for our GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Pregnancy and Parenting Program. This annual drive collects diapers and wipes for low-income, The Diocese of Pittsburgh is once again planning its struggling parents of infants under two who we Golden Wedding Celebration for couples serve through our Pregnancy and Parenting celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this Program. You can help the moms, dads, and year. A special Mass will be celebrated by Bishop babies we serve by collecting diapers (sizes 2-5) Zubik on Sunday, October 7, at 2:30 PM at St. Paul and wipes. There is a box in the vestibule for your Cathedral. A light reception will follow in the donations which we will be accepting until Cathedral hall. All couples celebrating their 50th August 21. Thank you for your donations.. wedding anniversary any time this year and wishing to receive an invitation to this event should I want to THANK Lois and all of those dedicated call the rectory or drop a note in the collection women who worked timelessly to make the Parish basket no later than Sunday, August 5. Flea Market a success this year in my absence. I THANK YOU for your service to the Parish. FR. BRENNAN'S CELEBRATION:

May God bless you all. —Mary Smialek PLEASE SEE INSERT! THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE! July 1, 2018 DATES TO REMEMBER: First Collection—$3,347.00 July 31, Tues., 7:45 PM—Prayer & Praise Peter’s Pence Collection—$900.00 Gathering Aug. 3, First Fri., 3 PM—Adoration & July 8, 2018 Benediction at St. Robert’s Aug. 5, Sun., 12:30-2 PM—Holy Hour at St. First Collection—$3,286.00 Jude’s Second Collection—$358.00 Aug. 6-10, 6:30-8:30 PM—Vacation Bible School

Aug. 9, Thurs., 7 PM—International Fraternity July 15, 2018 Healing Mass at Saint Paul Cathedral

First Collection—$3,365.00 ***Don’t forget to buy our monthly raffle tickets, lotto Second Collection—$378.00 calendar, and 50/50 each month. Please remember Saint Robert’s Parish Share Program in your will. Thank Thank you for your generosity! you.*** 644 THIRD STREET REAR

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