BLESSED SACRAMENT CATHEDRAL Mother Church and Parish of the Diocese of Greensburg Coat of Arms of The Most Reverend Edward C. Malesic, J.C.L. Bishop of Greensburg The of the Lord, January 13, 2019

The Reverend Monsignor Raymond E. Riffle Rector ext. 12 The [email protected]

The Reverend Matthew J. Morelli Parochial Vicar ext. 25 Baptism [email protected]

The Reverend Mr. William J. Hisker of Permanent Deacon ext. 27 [email protected]

Katie Zuzik the Pastoral Associate ext. 11 [email protected] Lord Christopher Pardini Director of Liturgy and Music ext. 21 [email protected]

Sister Jeanne Marie Vonder Haar A.S.C.J. Director of Faith Formation ext. 35 [email protected]

Linda DeFrancesco Financial Secretary ext. 23 Almighty ever-living , [email protected]

Julie Stauffer who, when Christ had been Receptionist ext. 10 [email protected] baptized in the River Jordan

Cindy Cope and as the Holy Spirit descended upon him, Coordinator of Cemetery Services ext. 16 [email protected] solemnly declared him your beloved Son, Bill Wilson Maintenance ext. 24 grant that your children by adoption, [email protected] reborn of water and the Holy Spirit, Jan Brubaker Custodian Contact the Parish Office [email protected] may always be well pleasing to you. Through our Lord Christ, your Son, Parish Office Hours Monday- Friday Sacrament of who lives and reigns with you 9 AM - 4:30 PM Reconciliation Phone (724) 834-3710 Saturday at 11 AM till in the unity of the Holy Spirit, Fax (724) 834-1518 completion or call the parish office for an one God, for ever and ever. Greensburg Catholic appointment. Cemetery Office Hours Daily Mass Times Amen. Monday-Friday Mon. - Fri.: 12:10 PM 8 AM – 4 PM Saturday: 8 AM Phone (724) 836-4384 Weekend Mass Bible Study Resumes Aquinas Academy Schedules Phone (724) 834-7940 Saturday Vigil: 5:30 PM Sunday: 7 AM, 9 AM, Bible Study with Deacon Bill Hisker Website 11:30 AM, 7 PM www.blessedsacrament will resume on Wednesday, January 16. cathedral.org Holy Day Vigil The bible study times are: 9 -10:30 AM and 7- 8:30 PM. Daily Rosary Vigil Mass: 5:30 PM Mon. - Fri. at 11:30 AM Both sessions are in the Social Hall.

READINGS FOR SUNDAY, WEEKLY MASS SCHEDULE January 13, 2019 Sunday, January 13, 2019 -The Baptism of the Lord 42:1-4, 6-7 or 40:1-5, 9-11 Every valley is filled, 7:00 AM For the Living and Deceased Members of the every hill brought low to prepare the way of the Lord. Blessed Sacrament Cathedral 9:00 AM Frances Cunningham (Wilkinson) 10:30 AM Baptism Psalm 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 11:30 AM Bernard J. Morelli (Morelli and Family) 27-28, 29-30 The majesty of God can be seen in light Baptism during Mass and water, wind and fire. 1:00 PM Baptism

7:00 PM Frances Grevish (Patty and Tricia Egry)

Acts of the Apostles 10:34-38 or Titus 2:11-14; Monday, January 14, 2019 – Weekday 3:4-7 God’s generous love and rich kindness are revealed 12:10 PM Nancy Onusko (Mary Hollis) in Christ our hope. Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - Weekday Luke 3:15-16, 21-22 The people are hopeful that John 12:10 PM Deceased members of the Mascherma Family might be the Christ, but he waits for another. (Lou Mascherma Family)

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 - Weekday 12:10 PM Albert and Olga Raimondo ( and Andrea Wedding Congratulations Raimondo)

Thursday, January 17, 2019 - Weekday Congratulations to 12:10 PM Susan Lucas (Louis and Vilma Cecconi)

Ryan Krouse Friday, January 18, 2019 – Weekday and 12:10 PM Ruth and Charles V. Conley (Daughter) Rachel (Tuggy) Krouse

who were married here on December 29, 2018. Saturday, January 19, 2019 – Weekday May the Lord bless our newly married couple 8:00 AM Eleanor Petrosky (Mary and Gano) as they begin their new lives together and 11:00 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation deepen their love for one another. 5:30 PM Helen Zagar (Raimondo) (Kathy Belcastro -

Niece) Congratulations Ryan and Rachel! Sunday, January 20, 2019 -The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:00 AM Keith Roth (Joan Roth - Mother) Sanctuary Candles 9:00 AM Jim Coletti Jr. (Sandy - Wife) 11:30 AM Dowling - Vinci Family (Gwen Dowling) 7:00 PM For the Living and Deceased Members of the

Blessed Sacrament Cathedral In acknowledging the Real Presence of Christ, the Tabernacle Candle burned from The rosary is prayed daily at 11:30 AM January 5 - through January 11 Monday - Friday. All are welcomed to join us! in memory of Frances Cunningham from Carolyn Rodish-Sims Help Us To Help Others

We are in need of Ministers take communion to those who are

either in Redstone and Greensburg Care Nursing Homes. Your The Tabernacle will continue to burn from only would be to administer the communion and it would January 12 - January 18 only be asked of you to do this 1x a month. If you are in memory of interested in helping, please give Katie a call in parish office at Margaret Kostelnik Chesnick 724-834-3710 ext. 35 or: [email protected] from the Kostelnik Family to find out more about this ministry. We hope you will show an interest in this very rewarding experience.

Parish Support, December 23, 2018 Parish Support, December 30, 2018

In order to meet our budgetary needs, Blessed Sacrament In order to meet our budgetary needs, Blessed Sacrament Cathedral requires an average of $18,000 per week in the Cathedral requires an average of $18,000 per week in the regular offertory collection. regular offertory collection.

Sunday Offertory $24,724.00 Sunday Offertory $14,345.00 Christmas Offertory $22,868.00 Votive Candles $377.00 Votive Candles $413.00 Children Services $5,251.00 Families receiving envelopes 1, 630 Families receiving envelopes 1, 630 Envelopes used this week 310 Envelopes used this week 339 Parishioners using Online Giving 124 Parishioners using Online Giving 124

Parish Support, January 6, 2019 In order to meet our budgetary needs, Blessed Sacrament Cathedral requires an average of $18,000 per week in the regular offertory collection.

Sunday Offertory $14,686.00 2019 Book Study Votive Candles $217.00

Parish Social Ministry $2,021.00 Come and join us for a new book study Families receiving envelopes 1, 630 beginning Monday, January 7. The book we Envelopes used this week 347 will be studying is: Like a Grain of Wheat. This Parishioners using Online Giving 124 is a biography of recently beatified, Blessed Mother Clelia Merloni, foundress of the Thank you for your generosity and support of Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Parish! Apostles of the of Jesus. Book Online Giving is an easy way to make your weekly contributions will be provided. Please call Sister Jeanne (www.osvonlinegiving.com/584). If Online Giving is not an Marie at 724-834-3710 ext. 35 to register, its not too late! option for you, please consider writing a check for added security as opposed to putting cash in your weekly envelope. Dates for the book study: Jan 14, 21, Feb 4, Feb, 11 (Feb. 11 is morning session only),

Mar 4, and concluding with March 11.

Times: 9:30-11:30 AM or 6:30-8:30 PM.

All sessions will be in the Social Hall.

March for Life Christmas Decoration January Film Study: St. Removal -Greensburg Come learn more about the and how their way of Catholic Cemetery life changed so many people. The first of these studies will be Monday, January 28. The first we will be On Friday, January 18, Holy Family Church will take a bus to If you wish to retain your studying will be St. Thomas Aquinas, who lived during the March for Life in Washington, Christmas decorations from your the Middle Ages. Learn about this radical saint of his DC. Round trip cost is only $25. loved ones graves, please remove times and how we today can also be called radical by our Contact Shari Lewis to RSVP at the decorations by February 15. culture by following his example. Call Sister Jeanne 724-689-8967. Anything left in the cemetery past February 15, as a courtesy Marie in the parish office to register. Dates For additional information on to you, will be for future film studies: February 25, March events, prayers and websites discarded by 25, April 29, and May 20 and June 10. Saints email Mary Ellen Pellegrino: cemetery staff. [email protected] will be published closer to the upcoming Thank you for your Help yourself to March for Life dates. Times are: 9:30-11:30 AM or cooperation. flyers located in the vestibule of 6:30-8:30 PM in the Social Hall. the Church.

Catholic Engaged Encounter is an opportunity for Christian couples to prepare for a lifetime commitment. If you Are You desire a loving, faithful, permanent and life-giving marriage consider attending a Catholic Engaged Encounter weekend. This marriage preparation program presents a comprehensive, up-close and personal look at marriage. Getting For information, please call George and Pat Ziringer at 724-335-4966 or email: [email protected] or Married? www.greensburgcee.com The next scheduled weekends will be held in Greensburg on February 1-3, and April 26-28.

Why did Jesus need to be

Why baptized?

was Certainly he had nothing to repent, and he was already Saturday, January 12, 2019 Jesus filled with the Spirit. 6:45 AM Men’s faith Sharing [Social Hall] 11:00 AM Reconciliation [Church] Baptized? So why did he bother?

Sunday, January 13, 2019 Perhaps it was for the same reason that doctors-in-training 10:10 AM Faith Formation Classes record their experiences as patients and lawyers in mock trials 6:00 PM Youth Ministry with law students serve as judge and jury. Those with knowledge and power are trying to empathize with those who Monday, January 14, 2019 are on the receiving end of their authority. 9:30 AM Book Study [Social Hall] 6:30 PM Book Study [Social Hall] But Jesus can’t possibly walk in our guilt and shame, and how can he know what it feels like to turn from God? Perhaps, then, Tuesday, January 15, 2019 the reason Jesus is baptized is to show us that our call to new 7:00 PM RCIA Meeting [FC-EAS] life is not about being released from shame and guilt but being washed in love. Through that process, we move from sin into Wednesday, January 16, 2019 grace. Love leads us to new life, but it doesn’t say the old never 9:00 AM Bible Study [Social Hall] existed. The mountains made low with love were mountains 7:00 PM Choir Rehearsal [Church] once. And without the constant renewal of love, they can 7:00 PM Bible Study [Social Hall] become mountains again.

Thursday, January 17, 2019 1:30 PM Threads of Love [Social Hall] Our Baptism reminds us that we are worthy of love and more 7:00 PM Women’s Faith Sharing [Formation Center] important we are capable of love. Our past sins do not define

who we are in this present moment. We can choose love over Saturday, January 19, 2019 hate, courage over cowardice, integrity over ambiguity. Live in 6:45 AM Men’s Faith Sharing [Social Hall] this new Spirit and you will be true to your Baptism and Christ’s. 11:00 AM Reconciliation [Church]

FIRST COMMUNION

th On Tuesday, January 22 there will be a Preparation Parents of 7 grade students who will be Meeting for PARENTS preparing their children for First receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Eucharist. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM in the Social Fall of 2019 are required to attend a Parent Hall. Preparation Meeting on Tuesday, January 29.

We are looking forward to assisting you and your children The meeting will take place at 7:00 PM in the Social prepare to receive Jesus in Holy Communion this May. Hall. We look forward to working with you and your family as your teen prepares to complete their This is a required meeting for all second grade parents. initiation sacraments.

We bring the Christmas season to a close with the Baptism of the Lord. If you would be interested in taking a poinsettia plant from the Church they will be available in the vestibule of the Church beginning on Tuesday, January 15. The plants held up beautifully this year so please help yourself to a plant and share with others. Thank you again to everyone who assisted in making our Church so look so stunning this Christmas season.

The Greensburg Chapter of Magnificat-A Ministry to Catholic Women is holding a Breakfast at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center, Rt. 30 East, Greensburg on Saturday, January 26, 2019 from 9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon. Guest speaker will be Carolyn Cannizzaro of Fayette City, whose story of faith and trust in God during some of life’s most difficult trials will leave you inspired. The cost is $20 and student rates are $15. To register, please call Brenda by January 20 at 724-836-2094 or visit www.magnificatgreensburg.com to download a registration form. Please note that there is no online registration.

PARISH INFORMATION

Parish Finance Council The public is invited to join the Notre Dame Days, for boys in grades 6-8 and their parents John Kline Ed Nemanic Club of Greensburg/Uniontown on Jan. 18 at Feb. 9 and April 13 from 9:30-11:30 AM at St. Judy Komarinski Nancy Rottler 7 PM for a visit to Congregation Emanu-El Barbara Parish, Harrison City. Contact Nazzi Zola Israel, 222 N Main St. Greensburg. The group [email protected] to will attend the 7 PM Sabbath service, followed register. by a conversation with Rabbi Staci Pedersohn. Parish Pastoral Council The diocese’s Men’s Ministry Team will host Reservations not required. Mark Bartels Judy McChesney THE WELL Men’s Conference on March 30 at Andy Benedict John Mickinack Natural Family Planning CM-BBT Greensburg Central Catholic. The event Linda Cooper Paul Niemiec instruction will be Feb. 4 at 6 PM in the includes workshops, open discussions, the David Fidazzo Betty Rua Catholic Charities office in Greensburg. Please sacrament of reconciliation and adoration, Kirsten Lieberum Mike Rzempoluch call at least one week prior to the instruction and it concludes with Mass celebrated by date to pre-register. Contact Mary Ann Bishop Malesic. The keynote speaker will be Mike McCoy, an Erie native who is a former SVdP Membership: Newhouse at Catholic Charities at 724-837-1840, ext. 1658 for additional Notre Dame and NFL football star. Look for Betty Rua 724-454-7107 information or to register for this or an registration forms that will soon be available upcoming class. For more information about at www.dioceseofgreensburg.org/ SVdP Food Pantry: Natural Family Planning visit: THEWELL 724-836-0175 www.ccharitiesgreensburg.org and link Catholic Charities offers counseling for into Natural Family Planning under “Services.” individuals, couples and families. Catholic

Prayer Chain: Charities of the Diocese of Greensburg offers Joanne Hudock 724-834-1718 Catholic Charities will host a fundraiser “Painting with a Purpose” Feb. 5 from 6-8 PM. faith-based assistance with anxiety, at Painting with a Twist, Greensburg. Doors depression, grief and loss, interpersonal open at 5:30 PM. The event is for people over conflicts, recovery support, parenting and the age of 18. Cost is $35. Register at family issues, anger management and other www.paintingwithatwist.com/studio/ personal and family issues. Counseling is Greensburg/event/1752133/ provided by licensed, professional and experienced therapists. Fees are low, and

Bishop Malesic will lead an evening for teens many insurances accepted. Offices are located and parents “How do I make my faith a in Greensburg, Indiana, Uniontown, Kittanning priority in this culture?” on Feb. 10 at Our and New Kensington. For more information or Lady of Grace Parish, Greensburg. Teens an appointment, call 724-837-1840 or email: will gather in the church at 6 PM. Teens and [email protected] parents will gather in the parish hall at 7:15. A The annual Flea Market sponsored by the social will follow. The event is open to Rosary Altar Society of Our Lady of students in grades 6-12 and their parents or Grace Church, Greensburg, will be held guardians and is sponsored by Our Lady of Saturday, April 27, from 7 AM to 1 PM in the Forms for parish members to serve as Grace, St. Benedict and Holy Cross parishes. parish halls. Table reservations are being sponsors for Baptism or Confirmation can be For information or to respond, call Katrina taken now by calling Debby at Coleman at 724-838-9480. completed in the Parish Office or with a 724-836-1019. Please leave a message with priest at a weekend Mass. To act as a The Office for Priestly Vocations is hosting your name and phone number and your call will be returned. Cost is $15 for one table; $25 sponsor, you must be at least 16 years old, vocations discernment sessions, a practicing Catholic who has received Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Eucharist. HAVE YOU REGISTERED AS A MEMBER? If married, it must be within the guidelines Being a registered member of Blessed Sacrament of the . Call the parish Office Cathedral Parish gives you an official spiritual home. to make an appointment.

When you register, you become part of our parish family and Blessed Sacrament becomes your home community for worship and celebrations of sacraments By appointment only. Contact Katie Zuzik in within the Body of Christ. Registering also allows us the Parish Office at least three months in to get a better picture of who belongs to our Parish, advance of the Baptism. A class for parents allowing us to better serve our members. If you have is required to reflect on the meaning of the recently moved into our area or still haven't registered, please stop by the Parish sacrament, review the Ceremony and to Office to fill out a registration form or return this request in the offering highlight the importance of family basket at weekend Masses or to the Parish Office and we will mail you a registration commitment to practicing the Catholic Faith. form. Please be assured that we keep all of your information confidential.

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