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Epiphany Church Saint Mary of Mercy Church 184 Washington Place 202 Stanwix St Pitsburgh PA 15219 Pitsburgh PA 15222 ADMINISTRATION OFFICE To request a intenton, please call 164 Washington Place Pitsburgh, PA 15219 or email the Parish Ofce at [email protected] or visit www.divinemercypgh.org [email protected] www.divinemercypgh.org to complete 412-471-0257 an online form. CLERGY TEAM PARISH STAFF

Pastor To Join our Parish family please visit our Music Minister website at www.divinemercypgh.org Reverend Christopher D. Donley Ian Brown [email protected] [email protected]

Deacon Candidate Social Media Specialist To be added to our prayer request board (Our Lady of Mt. Carmel) Marisa D’Amico please contact the Parish Ofce at John P. Corcoran [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ofce Manager Cynthia Goetz In Residence [email protected] If you would like to have informaton Reverend Edward Bryce Reverend Edward Muge Wedding Coordinator included in the bulletn, please contact Renew the ‘I do’ Reverend Joseph Freedy the Parish Ofce at Dolores Shipe [email protected] [email protected]. [email protected]

Seminarians Director of Evangelizaton Xavier Engle Dave VanVickle Interested in becoming Catholic, please [email protected] [email protected] contact Fr. Chris at Peter Mallampalli [email protected] THE RED DOOR: [email protected] Anthony Pampena Assistant Coordinators [email protected] Sister Emily Lepage ZSJM Join us on Flocknote’s! Stay up to date (Saint John XXIII) Sister Pawla Witula ZSJM Noah Pepmeyer [email protected] with announcements and news about [email protected] [email protected] Parish and our ministries. Sign up at www.divinemercypgh.org or Established on January 6, 2020 and rooted in Catholic Traditon and , scan the QR code below. Divine Mercy Parish aims to be a community rooted in the and in service to the most vulnerable among us. Devoted to serving parishioners and non-parishioners alike, we that we can ofer you both spiritual and physical nourishment during these difcult tmes through beautful and prayer-flled Liturgy, Adoraton of the Blessed , service to the poor, spiritual directon, spiritual resources, prayer encounters and much more. We are very excited that the Lord has graced us with the protecton of His Divine Mercy and look forward to serving you and serving alongside you in the coming weeks, months, and years. Do not hesitate to reach out to any of our clergy or staf members for assistance. May the Merciful Heart of and the be with you this day.

TV MINISTRY THE RED DOOR MINISTRY Saint Faustna 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 Pitsburgh’s Faith and Family channel 40.9 Friday www.christanassociatestv.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 Schedule and Intentons Saturday, July 10 Noon William A. Spitzig + (Rev. Christopher D. Donley) 4:00 PM People of Divine Mercy Parish Sunday, July 11 10:00 AM James Capodanno + (Sam and Marilyn Manfredi) Noon John C. and Mary Rose Gaita + (Theresa Bronowicz) Monday, July 12 Noon Louise Condon + (Mary Lawrence) Good Health for all Health workers at Providence Point Tuesday, July 13 Noon (Andrew Hanovik) Wednesday, July 14 Noon Pete Dimperio + (Family) Thursday, July 15 Noon Kimberly Ann Webber (John F. Webber) Friday, July 16 Noon Ree Mitra and Family (Judy Abbs) Saturday, July 17 Noon Stephen Barkey + (Rev. Christopher D. Donley) 4:00 PM End of Aborton Sunday, July 18 10:00 AM Mary Gaita + (Debbie DiBucci and Dino Ciabatoni) Noon People of Divine Mercy Parish READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Ex 1:8-14, 22; Ps 124:1b-8; Mt 10:34 — 11:1 Tuesday: Ex 2:1-15a; Ps 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34; "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, Mt 11:20-24 and I will give you rest." - Mat 11:28 Wednesday: Ex 3:1-6, 9-12; Ps 103:1b-4, 6-7; Mt Weekday Masses 11:25-27

Saint Mary of Mercy Church Epiphany Church Thursday: Ex 3:13-20; Ps 105:1, 5, 8-9, 24-27; Monday-Saturday Sunday-9:15AM Mt 11:28-30 Noon Saint Mary of Mercy Church Friday: Ex 11:10 — 12:14; Ps 116:12-13, 15, Monday-Friday Afer Noon Mass 16bc, 17-18; Mt 12:1-8 Weekend Masses Saturday: Ex 12:37-42; Ps 136:1, 23-24, 10-15; Eucharistc Adoraton Saint Mary of Mercy Church Mt 12:14-21 Saturday-4PM Saint Mary of Mercy Church Sunday: Jer 23:1-6; Ps 23:1-6; Eph 2:13-18; Epiphany Church Monday-Friday Sunday-10AM Afer Noon Mass Mk 6:30-34

Saint Mary of Mercy Church Sunday-Noon SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Fifeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Tuesday: St. Henry Wednesday: St. Kateri Tekakwitha Epiphany Church Saint Mary of Mercy Church Monday-Friday Monday-Friday Thursday: St. Bonaventure 9:00AM-1:00PM 9:00AM-1:00PM Friday: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary Contributon Totals June 28 through July 4

Loose cash/checks $1,110.77 Ofertory $1,759.00 Church Building Upkeep $105.00 Parish Share $105.00 Giving to Our Parish Red Door $1,405.00 TV Ministry $232.00 Giving to the Divine Mercy Parish through your will is a great way to contnue your Peter’s Pence Collecton $23.00 support beyond your lifetme. When your Total Contributon $4,739.77 estate is prepared, consider a gif to the Divine Mercy Parish. Thank You!

Adoraton Join us Monday- Friday afer Noon Mass. All ages are welcomed and encouraged to atend.

Safe Environment Compliance RETURN TO THE LORD Thank you for your interest in becoming a volunteer Saturday, July 17th — 6:30pm-8:00pm at Divine Mercy Parish! The tme you contribute as a volunteer is greatly valued. However, before you Saturday, August 7th — 6:30pm-8:00pm can begin to serve our parish and its ministries, you Saturday, August 21st — 6:30pm-8:00pm must understand the Safe Environment Policy and complete the necessary steps to become safe It is a night of readings, meditatve music, environment compliant. as well as movement of the faithful into Please contact [email protected] for confession and quiet prayer. more informaton. All are welcome to atend! Saint Mary of Mercy Church. July Schedule July 14th 11am-4:30pm July 18th afer the 10am mass July 21st 11am-4:30pm June 28th 11am-4:30pm

DIVINE MERCY PARISH SUMMER BOOK CLUB For the next two weeks we are ofering the ffh book on Fr. Chris’s summer book club list. The Path To Holiness Becoming a Living Sacrifce of Love by John Paul Thomas. The goal of this book is to ofer you an invitaton to look more deeply at the path to holiness and to discover the way in which you can travel it in your own life. This invitaton is not simply given to help you grasp the theology of holiness; rather, it is an invitaton to live it. You are called to become holy. But what is "holiness" and how do you obtain it? The path to holiness centers on the virtues of humility and trust. By embracing those virtues you will begin to see transform your life in such a way that you begin to live the very sacrifcial love of Christ. Furthermore, living a life of sacrifcial love requires you to become a beacon of mercy in this world. Unfortunately, we live in a world that is in many ways void of mercy. It is a world in which harshness and judgment are the norm. However, one of the primary reasons so many people lack mercy in our day and age is because they lack humility and trust. We also live in a world flled with sufering. But sadly, sufering is rarely understood as an opportunity to achieve the highest level of holiness. Sufering is rarely transformed into sacrifcial living. Instead, it is ofen experienced only as a burden to be avoided.

“ORDINARY TIME” THOUGHTS Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, July 16 (Wearing of a ) Last week we discussed how “Ordinary Time” is not ordinary and there are many beautful feasts during this tme. One of the oldest feasts that celebrates Our Blessed Mother is on July 16, the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. “Sacred Scripture celebrated the beauty of Carmel where the prophet Elijah defended the purity of Israel’s faith in the living God. In the twelve century, hermits withdrew to the mountain and later founded the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Carmelites) devoted to the contemplatve life under the patronage of Mary, the holy Mother of God.” (Liturgy of Hours, July 16) St. Simon Stock, an early Prior of the Carmelite Order, had a of our Blessed Mother and she provided him a brown scapular, which was to be worn by members of the Carmelite Order. Scapular comes from the Latn word scapula for “shoulder”, and forms a part of the monastc habit. It is a large cloth that goes over the shoulders and down the back and front. For lay persons, a small scapular connected with a cord and two small rectangle squares of brown cloth consttutes a scapular. This sacramental is a long-standing devoton which connects us as Catholics to our Blessed Mother, when we place the scapular on our shoulders each day. It also refects the taking on of the Cross. Carmelite spirituality at its essence is a pilgrimage in the presence of God on the way to the eternal embrace of the Most Holy Trinity. The wearing of a scapular reminds us of this pilgrimage. Please pick up a scapular located in the basket at the doors of the Epiphany Church. Congratulatons and Blessings... Welcome to Divine Mercy Parish To Our Newly Married Couples:

Nick and Melissa Bataglia Bradley Jasin and Kristen Kuron Mason Jackson and Gina Senatore And Ryan Helfrich and Camblin Leonard

Stephanie L. Dolan To Our Newly Baptzed:

George Douglas Barton Son of Benjamin and Whitney Barton

Jacob Paton Killeen Son of James and Margareta Killeen

Two statues of Saint Faustna were shipped from Italy and has been donated to Divine Mercy Parish by a generous donor, God Is Good! All are welcome to visit her and ask for her intercession.

Jesus said to Saint Faustna: “My daughter, I have inclined My heart to your requests. Your assignment and duty here on earth is to beg for mercy for the whole world. (Diary of Saint Faustna #570)

THE RED DOOR MINISTRY

Rev. Timothy J. Kruthaupt, pastor of St. Peter and St. Cecilia Church, Diocese of Greensburg; has been faithfully coming to downtown Pitsburgh since 2007. He parks his van near the Red Door to serve the homeless of our city. He is accompanied by amazing volunteers twice a month. Before COVID, they served homemade meals to the homeless, they are hoping to start that again! Its a blessing to have him around!

Weekend Retreat for Post-Aborton Healing Rachel’s Vineyard, a weekend retreat designed to address the emotonal and spiritual wounds of aborton, will be held August 13-15, 2021 at The Ark and the Dove. The retreat begins at 1PM on Friday. In a confdental and supportve atmos- phere, the Rachel’s Vineyard team demonstrates God’s love, mercy, and to women and men struggling in the afermath of aborton. To register or for more informaton, call Toni Jester 412-352-5348, or email [email protected] You can also visit our website www.rvofpgh.com The Order of the Mass - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B Music reprinted under One License A-735911

Processional Hymn Come, , Join to Sing

Introit As for me, in justice I shall behold your face; I shall be filled with the vision of your glory..

Gloria Missa Simplex | R. Proulx

First Reading Amos 7:12-15

Amaziah, priest of Bethel, said to Amos, “Off with you, I belonged to a company of prophets; I was a visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your shepherd and a dresser of sycamores. The Lord took bread by prophesying, but never again prophesy in me from following the flock, and said to me, Go, Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.” prophesy to my people Israel.” Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor have

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 Epistle Ephesians 1:3-14

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he set forth in him as a plan for the fullness of times, to who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth. in the heavens, as he chose us in him, before the In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish purpose of the One who accomplishes all things before him. In love he destined us for adoption to according to the intention of his will, so that we might himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace that he Christ. In him you also, who have heard the word of granted us in the beloved. In him we have redemption truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in him, were sealed with the promised holy Spirit, which is accord with the riches of his grace that he lavished the first installment of our inheritance toward upon us. In all wisdom and insight, he has made known redemption as God’s possession, to the praise of his to us the mystery of his will in accord with his favor that glory.

Alleluia Alleluia Solemnelle, Notre Dame

℣ May the Father of our Lord Je- sus Christ enlighten the eyes of our hearts, that we may know what is the hope that belongs to our call.

Gospel Mark 6:7-13 Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them leave. Whatever place does not welcome you or listen out two by two and gave them authority over unclean to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet in spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the testimony against them.: So they went off and journey but a walking stick — no food, no sack, no preached repentance. The Twelve drove out many money in their belts. They were, however, to wear demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sandals but not a second tunic. He said to them, wick and cured them. “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you

Nicene Creed I believe in one God, the Father Mary, and became man. For our sake the Father and the Son, who with the almighty, maker of heaven and earth, he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, Father and the Son is adored and of all things visible and invisible. he suffered death and was buried, glorified, who has spoken through the I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the and rose again on the third day in prophets. Only Begotten Son of God, born of accordance with the Scriptures. He I believe in one, holy, catholic and the Father before all ages. God from ascended into heaven and is seated apostolic Church. I confess one God, Light from Light, true God from at the right hand of the Father. He will for the forgiveness of sins true God, begotten, not made, come again in glory to judge the and I look forward to the resurrection consubstantial with the Father; living and the dead and his kingdom of the dead and the life of the world through him all things were made. For will have no end. to come. Amen. us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin the giver of life, who proceeds from Offertory Hymn Lord, You Give, the Great Commission

Sanctus Missa Simplex | R. Proulx Mysterium Fidei

Agnus Dei

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Communion He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, abides in me, and I in him, says the Lord.. Prayer to St. the Archangel Pope Leo XIII Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power our protection against the wickedness and snares of of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Recessional Hymn Holy God, We Praise Thy Name