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Saint John Gualbert Cathedral PO Box 807 Johnstown Glory to the Father, 15907-0807 the Son, and the Office Holy Spirit; 539-2611 536-0117 to God who is, who was, Cemetery and who is to come. 536-0117 FAX 536-6771 Sunday May 30 Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Readings: Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 / Romans 8:14-17 / Matthew 28:16-20 8:00 am Peter Vizza Birthday Celebration (Friends & Family) [email protected] 11:00 am Proclaim TV Ministry Mass 5:00 pm People of the Parish Most Rev Bishop Monday May 31 Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mark L. Bartchak, JDC Readings: Zephaniah 3:14-18a / Luke 1:39-56 9:00 am Louise Aust (Lou & Lea Aust) Mass @ St. Benedict’s Rector & Pastor Very Rev James F. Crookston Tuesday June 1 St. Justin, Martyr Readings: Sirach 35:1-12 / Mark 10:28-31 7:00 am Michael Serafin, Sr. Anniversary June 2nd (Family) SUNDAY LITURGIES 12:05 pm Deacon John Concannon Anniv. of Ordination (Family) Saturday Evening 5:00 pm th Wednesday June 2 Wednesday of the 9 Week of Ordinary TIme Sundays Readings: Tobias 3:1-11a, 16-17a / Mark 12:18-27 8:00 am 7:00 am Jack Leonard Birthday Remembrance (Wife & Family) 11:00 am 12:05 pm Deceased Members of Woefel Family (Dianne O’Shea) 5:00 pm Thursday June 3 St. Charles Lwanga & Companions, Martyrs OUTDOOR COMMUNION Readings: Tobias 6:10-11; 7:1bcde, 9-17; 8:4-9a / Mark 12:28-34 Wedding Anniversary June 2 Sundays 7:00 am Eugene Ritter (Irene Ritter) 12:05 pm Irene Yanko (George Kopach Family) 12:30-1:00 pm St John Activities Center th Friday June 4 Friday of the 9 Week of Ordinary TIme DAILY MASS Readings: Tobias 11:5-17 / Mark 12:35-37 Monday through Friday 7:00 am St. Anne Society 12:05 pm Jim & Helen Farley (Son-Jimmie) 7:00 am 12:05 pm Saturday June 5 St. Boniface, Bishop & Martyr Readings: Tobias 12:1, 5-15, 20 / Mark 12:38-44 Saturday 8:00 am Mary Ann Gregorchik (Loren & Pamela Hauman) 8:00 am 5:00 pm Joseph Arcuri, Sr. (Nunzio & Nancy Johncola) Sunday June 6 Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ Readings: Exodus 24:3-8 / Hebrews 9:11-15 / Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 CONFESSION Thursday before 1st Friday 3:00 pm 8:00 am Marie Gianotti (Oliveros Family) Saturday 3:00 pm @ the Cathedral 11:00 am William Winter (James & Marlene Winter) 5:00 pm People of the Parish The Holy Trinity to love or hate Him, do good or evil. However, is it fair for a loving God to sit “Make disciples of all on His throne in Heaven and let us struggle nations, baptizing them in and suffer on our own? Would any good the name of the Father, father abandon his children this way? It and of the Son, and of the makes perfect sense to me that God decided Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28: to come among us, live like us, and die a 16-20 horribly painful death after being tortured. This is a God I can love with all my “Prisoner of Tehran” heart. A God who sets an example. A God who has bled and whose heart has been In 1982, a Russian Orthodox Christian, broken. This is who Jesus is to me. I do not Marina Nemat, age 16 and high school pretend that I understand the Holy newspaper contributor, was taken from her Trinity. Nevertheless, I understand love and parents in Tehran when she found herself sacrifice. I understand faithfulness.” swept up in the cruel political reprisals of the Saint Ignatius Islamic revolution in her country. Charged proposes the Infancy with betraying the revolution for articles she Contemplation to wrote for her high school newspaper, Marina accentuate the themes of spent more than two years in Iran’s poverty and humiliation. notorious Evin Prison, where she was He presents poverty and tortured, threatened with execution, lost humiliation now not as many friends to state-sponsored violence. abstractions but as She was rescued by a prison guard, who also embodied in the persons of Jesus and his obtained commutation of her sentence to life parents and their challenging and precarious imprisonment. However, after five months of circumstances. In these circumstances, the imprisonment, it became clear that Ali had Infancy Contemplation (Journey to developed an attachment to Nemat and Bethlehem, Manger Birth, Deaths of the Holy intended to force her to marry him. Nemat Innocents, Flight into Egypt, Delayed Return did eventually marry the guard and was to Nazareth) invites us to see the first steps released from prison; he was later of a descending journey of love which begins assassinated. In two memoirs, Prisoner of in the heart of the Trinity and will conclude Tehran and After Tehran, Marina recounts on the Cross. her experience in Evin and the long road to When it comes to a description of reclaiming her life. God, even the most significant theologians are left babbling, for human In her second memoir, language can never ultimately capture Marina Nemat God’s essence. Our less-than-perfect recounts her struggle metaphors do help us begin to grasp to build a new life for that Love is the heart of our Trinitarian herself in Canada as a faith: the Love who created our world wife and mother. She and fashioned it with care; the Love who writes how, in prison and now as an adult, passionately desired to become one of her Christian understanding of God has been us; the Love who could never leave us an anchor for her. but remains with us, “The way I see Jesus has not changed illuminating every much at all since I was a child, but my moment of our imprisonment and all that followed made me existence. Love enables love Him even more. His being the Son of Marina Nemat to reclaim God makes sense because I believe God to her life after her cruel be loving, just, forgiving, and merciful. I also imprisonment; it is that believe that He respects free will. After all, Love who enables us to He has given it to us so that we can choose reclaim our own constantly. Farewell reception for Fr. Jim We would like to invite the parishioners of St. John Gualbert Cathedral to an Open House on June 6, 2021 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm at the activity center on Railroad St. We want to take this opportunity to thank Fr. Crookston for everything he has done and to wish him “Good Luck” on his new adventures. Light refreshments will be served. Religious Education News: The Diocese is sponsoring three upcoming youth events. These events present a wonderful opportunity for the youth to have an encounter with Christ. Camp Zacchaeus Day Camp – July 26, 27 and 28th. Camp is being held at Resurrection Picnic Grove from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. All students entering 3-9th grade are eligible to attend. Staff members will ensure everyone is following COVID protocols. Please join us for three great days of Faith, Fun and Friendship. Please register by June 25th. Camp Timothy- for youth in grades 10-12th and newly graduated seniors. Camp will be held at the Resurrection Picnic Grove June 21, 22 and 23rd. There are 3 options for Camp T … Day camp, Overnight Camp and Virtual. Pease register by June 14th. For more information on any of the events please contact the DRE or Francine Swope. Fatima Devotions are back: The Franciscan Friars, T.O.R., from Loretto, invite you to participate with them in celebrating Fatima Devotions on Sunday, June 13 in the gardens at Mount Assisi at 6:30 pm. (In case of inclement weather, they will be held at the Immaculate Conception Chapel at Saint Francis University.) We are really looking forward to seeing you. Memorial Day Mass Now Indoors Our special remembrance Mass is annually celebrated with St. Benedict’s parishioners at 9:00 AM on Memorial Day. Wet weather and soggy ground have caused the Mass to move to St. Benedict Church. We encourage your participation in our honoring of deceased loved ones who rest in the Lord. Holy Ground Gifts Gratitude and Requests We are most appreciative of your providing us with your family’s internment information and your gifts this past year. We continue to seek financial gifts and interment information to properly care for the Holy Ground and Mausoleum of our two cemeteries. Thank you for your cooperation. Communion visits, funerals, and watching over two parish families have moved the printing and mailing of progress information letters about our Holy Ground Project for our Saint John Gualbert and Saint Joseph Cemeteries to mid-June. Readers, Eucharist Minister, Servers & Audio Operators: June 5th & 6th Frank Duca Funeral Home, Inc. Saturday June 5 5:00 pm Westmont Chapel East Hills Chapel & Readers: Dixie Lochrie Crematory 1622 Menoher Blvd 404 Walters Avenue Karen Pavlosky Frank Duca, Funeral Director Frank D. Duca, Funeral Director Eucharistic Minister: Elizabeth Gramlich Bradley Duca, Supervisor Alexis A. 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