September 12, 2010 24Th Sunday Ordinary Time

September 12, 2010 24th Sunday Ordinary Time

St. Catherine of Siena R.C. Parish 199 McGovern Boulevard • Crescent, PA 15046

MASS SCHEDULE

Daily Mass: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday ~ 8:30 AM (No Wednesday 8:30 AM Mass)

Saturday Vigil Mass: 4:00 P.M.

Sunday Morning: 9:00 A.M., 11:30 A.M.

Holy Days as Scheduled See inside for Daily, Holiday and Special Events

PARISH CLERGY SACRAMENTS Fr. Lou Vallone ...... Fr. Robert Zajdel CONFESSIONS: Saturdays: 3:15 P.M. to 3:45P.M. & 5:00 PM; also by appointment TELEPHONE NUMBERS & EMAIL ADDRESSES BAPTISM: By Appointment. Parish Office ...... 724-457-7026 WEDDINGS: Call the Parish Office 6 months Fax ...... 724-457-3292 in advance of the prospective date. Sue Tranter, CCD Director ...... 412-327-3337 Marriage Classes Required. Jennifer Persuitte-Organist...... 412-596-8511

John Galzarano, Maintenance ...... 724-457-7026 ANOINTING OF THE SICK: After every Mass Mary Ann Jones, Bookkeeper ...... 412-771-5646 (please ask the priest) and by request. Jennifer Persuitte, Parish Secretary.... 724-457-7026 (Bulletin submission deadline is Tuesday at noon. PARISH OFFICE HOURS Please put submissions in writing.) Monday, through Thursday 9:30 A.M. to 4:00 PM Friday: 9:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M

PARISH E-MAIL ADDRESS: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE HOURS [email protected] Parish Email Beginning August 3 5:30 – 6:30 Tuesday evenings [email protected] Father Vallone Email September 12th 10:00 – 11:15 Sundays [email protected] Sue Tranter, CCD Director PARISH WEB-SITE: www.scatparish.com

Mission Statement We of St. Catherine of Siena Parish, have a commitment to meeting the spiritual needs of our members and community by building a strong bond through worship. It is in mutual understanding and commitment to our baptismal call that we will grow in faith bringing Christ’s love and peace to those we encounter. In this we also commit ourselves to the Catholic Church’s Mission of Evangelization. 1910 - 2010 100th Year St. Catherine of Siena Parish Crescent, PA

PRAYER REQUESTS In your kindness will you please pray for the TWENTY-FOURTH following : Catherine & Harry Bittner, Dee Farelli, John Kish, SUNDAY IN Ray M., Betty A., Lenore Hoovler, John K., Bill ORDINARY TIME Murphy, John, John Jr., Maria, Faith, Anna, Mary, Becky, Cavanaugh Family,\

Please Note: Prayer intentions will now only be published for a 2 week period. If you wish to fill out another intention slip after that time, you are more Saturday September 11th than welcome to do so, but the list will be updated 4:00 PM Nick Santilli (Mario & Carolina Santilli) every week and, again, each intention slip will only Sunday, September 12th be printed for 2 weeks. Thank you. 9:00 AM Raymond Keczmer (Family & Friends)

11:30 AM Parish Family Thank you Monday, September 13th Bishop Zubik extended a very gracious thank you to 8:30 AM Parish Family Fr. Lou and the parishioners of St. Catherine’s. He Tuesday, September 14th was honored to help us celebrate our 100th 8:00 AM Rosary Anniversary and was very impressed with our celebration and hospitality. We thank him, too, for 8:30 AM Mark Baldinger (M/M McNeilly) making our day so special. Thursday, September 16th 8:30 AM Parish Family Friday, September 17th RCIA Classes St. Catherine’s will offer RCIA classes to adults 8:30 AM Parish Family beginning Wednesday Sept. 22nd. Classes will be Saturday September 18th held weekly for those wishing to come into the 4:00 PM Joe & Berta Lepore Church or to enter into full communion with the (Mario & Carolina Santilli) Church, starting at 6:30 p.m. Please contact the Sunday, September 19th Parish office at 724-457-7026 to register. Classes 9:00 AM Mario Santilli (Carolina & Family) will be held in Siena Hall. 11:30 AM Parish Family

Congratulations to Justin Tranter and Brandy Smitsky who were married here last Saturday. May God bless you both NEIGHBORING CHURCHES and grant you many happy, healthy years WEDNESDAY MORNING MASSES together! Our Lady of Fatima in Hopewell Twp. 9:00 AM St. James in Sewickley 6:45 AM & Noon St. Titus in Aliquippa 7:00 AM St. Margaret Mary 8:30 AM SAFETY Good Samaritan M, T, H, F, 8:00 AM - No one is safe by their own strength, but Wednesday, 6:30 PM they are safe by grace and mercy of God. —St. Cyprian

St. Catherine of Siena Parish - Crescent, PA 15046 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 12, 2010

Marriage Enrichment Dinner Sunday Evening Mass Make plans to bring your spouse to the Marriage Holy Trinity Church, Robinson Enrichment Dinner at Gilmary Center on Friday, Township, is pleased to announce September 17th at 7:00PM. Enjoy a six course the addition of a Sunday evening dinner and hear a talk that will strengthen your Mass to its weekly schedule. marriage. Guest speakers are Stephen and Sharon Starting September 12,2010, Mass Graham. Call 412-264-8400 for complete will be celebrated every Sunday at information or email: [email protected]. 7:00 PM Registration forms can be downloaded from our website at www.gilmarycenter.org under the “Upcoming Events” tab. Deadline is September 14th Father/Son(s) Day of Recollection Boys ages 10 and up are welcomed with their fathers for a Day of Recollection on Saturday, Forty hours of continuous adoration October 2, 2010 from 9:00am to 4:00 pm. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will be held Relationship building, spiritual encouraging, and fun from 6:30 AM Monday September 27th through 10 activities are planned. Registration is necessary by PM Tuesday September 28th at Saint Paul Tuesday, Sept. 28th. The fee is $25.00. Contact the Seminary, O'Connor Auditorium, 2900 Noblestown Gilmary Catholic Retreat Center by calling 412-264- Road, Pittsburgh PA 15205. The timing coincides 8400, emailing [email protected], or visiting with the Pittsburgh Diocesan Priest Convocation in our website at www.gilmarycenter.org Oglebay, West Virginia. Bishop Zubik will preside at the 6:30 AM Mass on Monday September 27th. Bishop Winter will preside “Elizabeth Seton: Prayer of Her Heart” at the 10 PM Benediction on Tuesday September “Elizabeth Seton: Prayer of Her Heart”, is a 40 28th. minute dramatic monologue which, as it tells her This 40 Hour devotion is cosponsored by Catholic story, reflects especially on Elizabeth’s prayer at Men's Fellowship, Legion of Mary, Magnificat, Serra different stages of her life. With simple staging and Club, St Pio Prayer Group, People Concerned for costume, Sister Mary Clark, SC, presents this the Unborn Child, and other lay original monologue, accompanied by professional Catholic apostolates. For more information visit musician, Henry Caruso, of Pittsburgh. www.cmfpitt.org, call 724-782-0076, or email [email protected]. This dramatic presentation is sponsored by St. Paul’s Cathedral’s Ladies of Charity and will be Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine, Euclid, performed at Synod Hall Auditorium off North Craig Ohio on Sunday, Oct. 3rd. The bus trip is leaving Street on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010 at 2:00PM. A from Aliquippa and the cost is $20.00.For more donation of $5.00 is suggested. For reservations, information call Antonietta DeSantis at 724-375- please make your check payable to “St. Paul 0169 Cathedral Ladies of Charity” and mail to 108 North Dithridge Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 by Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Please mark your envelope “LOC- Women’s Bible Sharing Group 9/26”. St. James, Sewickley announces its fall course “The Name of Jesus”. This 8 week course will run from Free parking is available at the Cathedral parking Monday, September 27 - November 15. Classes will lot, off North Dithridge Street; at Oakland Catholic meet Mondays in the Gathering Space at St. James High School parking lot, off North Craig Street; and Church from 9:30 - 11:00 am. Registration and on the streets around Synod Hall. study guide books are available at the St. James Rectory. The class fee is $20.00 per person. Child Light refreshments will be served following this care will be provided!. For more information, call performance. Nan at 412-741-1547. ALL ARE WELCOME! For more information call 412-681-0440.

St. Catherine of Siena Parish - Crescent, PA 15046 St. Catherine of Siena Parish Crescent, PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010 Weekend Attendance Regular Offertory Collection...... $2,504.00 SEPTEMBER 5, 2010 (This is ordinary income from contributions for the 4:00 pm Mass...... 309 general running of the parish. It is subject to a 9:00 am Mass...... 163 17.6% tax to the diocese of Pittsburgh.) 11:30 am Mass...... 168 Total...... 640

Parish Share Program Total of PSP Assessment 2010...... $35,484.00 Contribution to Date ...... $33,729.00 Remaining on goal ...... $1,755.00 STEEPLE CHASE STEELER This is our 2010 assessment. Please continue to FOOTBALL POOL UPDATE use your monthly envelopes at the same rate - it is a Thank you for supporting year round campaign for us. God bless you for your this fundraiser. We have cooperation. completed two (2) pools and by now you should have your copy. If you have not received Debt Reduction your copy, please call Total debt...... $137,000.00 Charlotte, 412-331-2453. Go Steelers! Contributions to date ...... 75,315.00 Unfortunately we were not able to complete the third Matched by diocese ...... 68,500.00 football pool all monies for the third pool will be EXCESS on goal...... +$6,815.00 returned. Thank you to all of you who sent in your monies for the third pool and to those of you who GREAT NEWS! We have EXCEEDED OUR GOAL said "if you need it I will get another one"...... You all and now have a surplus in our Debt Reduction. are so kind and generous, sorry we just couldn't do Thank you to everybody for all of your hard work the third one but be on the look out for the super and generosity. However, now what we collect in bowl pool. Debt Reduction is TAXABLE by the Diocese, but keep in mind Parish Share is not! Thank you again and God Bless! Beginning Experience: A Retreat for Grieving Singles Widowed, separated, or divorced? You are not Religious Education alone. There are others who must walk this hard Assessment 2010...... $4,400.00 road as well. Come be among us. We know the Contributions to date ...... 4,716.00 pain. No masks required. The Beginning EXCESS ...... +$316.00 Experience weekend program is presented by a team of people who have suffered the loss of a (This is an assessment by the diocese based on spouse through death, separation, or divorce, and between 2% to 10% of gross parish income. are willing to share their own experience to help Currently, by dispensation, we are at 2%. It is others. exempt from the PSP tax up to our assessment, and The next weekend will be held OCT 1-3, 2010 at the then the surplus is taxed.) Gilmary Center in Moon Twp, PA. Payment arrangements and possible financial assistance are Special Collection available. For more information, contact the Office for Adult and Family Faith Formation at 412-456- (These collections are mandated by the diocese for 3160, or [email protected] or make a confidential specific purposes. These moneys are remitted in call to Steve Smith at 412-367- 4948 or 412-720- total to the diocese and are not taxed.) 8694.

“Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: Rejoice!” Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 12, 2010

The more families that participate, the nicer our book Be a part of the will be so please sign up and encourage your fellow 2010 Pictorial parishioners to do the same. We realize everyone is busy but it only takes about 1 hour of your time and, Directory! again, there is no obligation to buy anything. Olan Mills has assured us that there will be no pressure to We are excited to announce make a sale, it is strictly voluntary. This is a service that our church will be putting they provide to all churches. There is no cost to the together a new pictorial direc- church either. If you choose to purchase portraits, tory! This directory will be a they come with a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. great tool for helping us to put The scheduled dates for photography are: faces with names and a wonderful way to com- Mon-Thurs Sept 20-23 from 2 PM until 9:20 PM memorate our 100 year Anniversary! Here’s how it Wed-Fri Oct 6-8 from 2 PM until 9:20 PM works: Sat Oct 9 from 9:30 AM until 5:10 PM

1. Every participating family will receive a FREE “Reasons I’m not signing up”… Pictorial directory as well as a FREE 8 x 10! 1.”I don’t like to have my picture taken.” 2. You will only have to make ONE VISIT to the So what! Maybe the rest of us would like to see you church, as you will be photographed and view in this historic book. We look at you at Mass, We like your poses after you are done being photo- the way you look! graphed. 2. “No one knows me.” 3. There is NO OBLIGATION to buy ANYTHING! Well, they will now. They’ll see your picture and say, If you CHOOSE to purchase pictures, be “Oh! That’s what their name is! Now I can say “hello” prepared to pay for them on the same day you and use their name!” Yippee! are photographed. 3. “I don’t need to be in the book.” 4. Please stop at the sign-up table THIS I can’t tell you how many times I’ve pulled the old WEEKEND to schedule your appointment! The book out looking up someone I wasn’t sure of. Half Sooner you sign up, the more times you’ll have the time I’m relieved to find them so I can put a To choose from! name with their familiar face .The other half, I’m dis-

appointed because they’re NOT IN THERE! How THIS IS THE LAST WEEKEND TO SIGN UP! frustrating! Please put all excuses aside and like the Don’t be left out! Just stop at the table on the Nike Slogan says: front porch before or after Mass, pick the time that works for you and/or your family, and take a brochure. WE NEED YOU! WE NEED EVERY- “JUST DO IT!” (please!) ONE! Thank you for your good nature and participation!

PARISH REGISTRATION We welcome all those who would like to become members of St. Catherine of Siena Parish community. To register as a parish- ioner, please complete the following information and return it to the Parish Office or drop it in the collection basket at Mass. If you need to update your parish info, use this form also.

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“Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: Rejoice!” St. Catherine of Siena Parish Crescent, PA CCD begins weekend of September 26th! World Wide Marriage Encounter Weekend We need your registrations ASAP so we can plan Don’t let “good enough” get in the way of the best. our year. CCD begins Sept. 25th for the Confirmation Join us for a for a Worldwide Marriage Encounter students and the 26th for grades 1-8. Only a handful weekend September 24-25 at the Four Points Shera- have registered. Please fill out the form and place it, ton Pittsburgh Airport and have the best marriage along with your check, in the collection basket you can. For more info or to register call Jay and marked CCD. Judy at (412) 635-7775 or visit us on the web at www.wwme-pittsburgh.org. Facebook: WWME SW Name:______PA! Grade ______Quigley Quest Gala Tickets on Sale Now!! Phone:______Ad- Quigley Catholic High School invites you to the 2010 dress:______Quigley Quest Gala Friday, October 8th at The Club Siblings and at Shadow Lakes, Hopewell Township 15001. Join grade:______us for an elegant evening of hors d'oeuvres, dinner, dessert, music, dancing, auctions and raffles. First student $35 each sibling $20 Tickets are $90/person. Reservations are requested by September 29. Semi-formal attire. DO NOT CALL the rectory or office .If you have questions Donations and program ads are still needed! To or- contact Sue Tranter 412-327-3337. Thank you der tickets, donate items, place a program ad or for

Confirmation Class (9th grade) will meet at SCAT Satur- more information, contact Mike Rubino at day’s from 4-6:15 beginning September 25th November 724.869.2188 ext. 26 or visit www.qchs.org. 13th . SJOG will hold the exact same class on Sundays from 6:30 – 8:45. If you can not come to SCAT you have LATIN MASS option to go to SJOG. A Latin Mass will be celebrated on Friday, Septem- ber 17th at 7:00pm. Votive Mass of the Most Pre- Grades 1-8 will meet on Sundays promptly at 10:05 am. cious Blood of Our Lord. Litany of the Most Precious Please be on time. We are encouraging CCD students Blood after Mass. Rosary at 6:30pm. Hosted by and their families to attend the 9 am mass each week as all classes will begin with discussion regarding that week’s Knights of Columbus Woodlawn Council. All are wel- homily. come. Additional info on line: http:// KnightsOfColumbusLatinMass.blogspot.com/ We are still in need of a 1st grade teacher as well as one time teachers for the Confirmation classes! All classes begin the weekend of Sept. 25th. Also needed Diocesan Pilgrimage St. Titus Parish has reserved are helpers for various projects. a bus for the Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in TEACHERS please meet after the Mass on Sept 19th Washington DC on Saturday October 9, 2010. The to make sure we have everything needed for the first bus will depart St. Titus Parish at 6:00am and return day of class. Not all teachers have turned in rosters from last year. These are needed ASAP! at approximately 11:00pm. Price is $40.00 per per- son, which includes a boxed meal and cold drinks. Packages will be mailed to all Confirmation students this Seating is limited, please contact Dave at 724-378- week. Anyone who is older than 9th grade and has not 8561 for further information. been confirmed, but would like to be, contact Sue Tranter. In order to make our program a success, we need the help Tamburitzans of the entire parish community. Please give one hour of Jadran Jr. Tamburitzans are accepting students be- your time to help with the Word of God. tween the ages of 5-20 interested in learning Songs and Dances from Eastern European regions. Open If you have not registered or taken the Protecting God’s House is Wed. Sept 29th at 7:00 p.m. at Croatian Children class you must do so this fall. Please register so you can continue to share God’s Word. Center 2365 Concord Street Aliquippa. Call 724-416- 6661 for more information.

“Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: Rejoice!” Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 12, 2010 ThePASTOR’S Pastor’s CORNER Corner ~ ~ Fr. Fr. Lou Lou Vallone Vallone September 11, 2001 will represent an unalterable demarcation. It ranks as a memorable date with There seems to be a mass hysteria going On this level of poverty, many of our brothers and As I write this on Wednesday, our area is about to things like the Flood, the birth of Jesus, the signing on in our country right now. There is the uproar sisters in the world live. Let us pray that what experience the G20 conference, a gathering of of the Declaration of Independence and the over building a cultural and prayer center for those happened in our city this past week can battle such world leaders to discuss economic and financial bombing of Pearl Harbor. There is a before and an who practice Islam near “Ground Zero” in New a bleak picture. strategies globally. Simultaneously, protestors of after for such events that are permanently affixed York. A significant number of people in a recent every ilk and cause are also descending on our in people’s consciousness. poll defy all fact and reality and continue to believe town to try to influence the discussions, or at least There are other ways that life in America our president is a follower of Islam, when nothing call attention to their own agenda. There is great has changed. Some are very apparent, such as is further from the truth. Someone who styles worry about the safety on many people if things get increased security in traveling, or a stricter himself a pastor and person of God is running out of hand. I am deliberately writing this now attention to identification cards. Some are more around threatening to burn the scripture of the before anything happens lest my thoughts be subtle, such as tentativeness in our dealings with Islamic faith as a sign of contempt. skewed by the events of the next few days. strangers, or a more aggressive form of patriotism Originally, this was published as a Lenten Somehow, there are those who think they in showing the flag. We are probably not even meditation Pastor’s Corner a couple of years ago, have been given license to violate the religious capable of analyzing or enumerating completely but it does make real what should be the focus of integrity and freedom of others here in the land how life had changed. But of one thing we are the G20 event, by participants, protesters, by- that was built on religious tolerance and freedom. certain: life in America has NOT ended. In this, the standers, in fact the whole global village that we MUSIC ON THE MOUNT A couple of years ago, I wrote the following terrorists have utterly failed. call earth. A concert partnership with Duquesne University Pastor’s Corner and I have been asked to update it There are many ways to assert this fact this week, and in our dailyand lives. But in particular andIMAGINE present HOW it again THE hopefully OTHER toHALF bring LIVES us to our we might wantSaint to Mary put ofaside the someMount extra Church time for senses. prayer, or evenSunday, attend October a weekday 4, 3:00 Mass. PM By re- To translate your life into the daily experience of "For your faithful people, life is changed, not emphasizingResounding the practice Brass of our with faith, Organ we can show one billion human beings today: ended.” that not only has life not ended, but in some

These words are from the first preface regards may have changed for the better. Reduce your annual income to $200 or less. for the Catholic Funeral Liturgy and are therefore Discard all furniture except for a few old blankets, familiar to all priests. Unfortunately, they have FALL MONTHLY LOTTERY TICKET a kitchen table, and one chair. been extremely familiar to me since we average St. Catherine’s will host a Fall Lottery Ticket for the Discard all clothing except for the oldest suit or about 160 funerals per year at St. John of God and entire month of November for $5.00 each, based dress for each member of the family. For the head 12 at St. Catherine. CHRISTIANupon the daily LADIES evening SOCIETY 3 digit number. NEWS Tickets will of the household, keep one pair of shoes. rd th In the context of the liturgy, they refer to our faith Ourbe available Lady of Fatima’sthis weekend Nifty 50October Plus is3 sponsoring and 4 for a Empty the cupboards, except for a small bag of that once God has called us into existence, we Vaticanindividual Splendors purchase. Tour Packages at Heinz of Museum multiple andtickets flour, some sugar and salt, a few moldy potatoes, a never cease, even if we physically die. The words Relicsto sell ofwill St. also Anthony’s be available Chapel to takein Troy home. Hill. YourThe bus handful of onions, and a dish of fried beans. tell us that life will continue eternally, even if it leaveshelp is atneeded 10:00AM in selling on Thursday the tickets October to ensure 7th from a Dismantle the bathroom, shut off the running transfigures to another form that we do not directly behindsuccess. the Hallmark store in the Hopewell water, and remove all electrical wiring. experience as yet. This is the supernatural ShoppingVolunteers Center. are also The needed cost is to $50.00 sell tickets which at the Abandon the house itself and move the family into meaning of the words. includeschurch prior/after bus fare, weekendentrance masses.fee and lunch. If interested in the tool shed, located next to the latrine pit dug in This week, however, I am reminded of a Membershelping or offor the additional Christian information, Ladies Society, please contact the yard. more proximate and natural application of that however,Bob Bittner can at 724-378-0903purchase a ticket or Corky for a Michalik at Cancel all subscriptions to newspapers, sentence. We are all aware that on Saturday, discounted724-266-5452. price of $30.00. Make checks magazines and book clubs. Tear up all library September 11, we marked the ninth anniversary of payable to George Ann Paladino and mail to 1209 cards. the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon in Ridgeway Avenue, Aliquippa, PA 15001. For more Move the nearest clinic or hospital at least ten Washington, D.C. and the World Trade Center in infor call 724-378-4087. miles away, and place a midwife in charge, instead New York City and Flight 93 in Somerset County, of a doctor. PA. Nine years have gone by since that horrific St. Catherine’s Christian Ladies Meeting is Throw out all bank books, stock certificates, assault on our nation by people who have Tuesday September 21st at 7:00 in Siena Hall. pension plans and insurance policies, and leave a perpetrated an incalculable evil. Their purpose was We encourage all members to attend so that we cash hoard of $5 for the whole family. to destroy the American way of life by destruction can take a group picture which will be included in Give the head of the family three tenant acres to of these targets. our pictorial directory so bring your best smile with cultivate, by hand and hand tools, where he or she There can be no doubt that a part of you! And don’t forget to sign yourself or your family can raise $300 in cash crops, of which 1/3 will go their goal was accomplished: at least in our up THIS weekend for an individual photo with Olan to the landlord, and 1/10 to pay off a money lender. lifetimes and probably for generations to come, Mills. Lop off 25 to 30 years of life expectancy for every member of the family. “Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: Rejoice!”