Partner of the Diocese St. Joseph St. Martin of Greensburg A Pennsylvania Charitable Trust

125 SOUTH LIGONIER ST. DERRY PA 15627 Partner Office 724-694-5359 St. Martin Rectory 724-739-0769 Fax: 724-694-6215

Partner Parish Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday : 9AM to 3PM Closed Wednesday & Friday WEBSITE: www.stmartinstjoseph.org

New Derry, Pa. 15671 Derry, Pa. 15627

Aug. 2, 2020 Welcome to All 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 2, 2020 Page 2

Benedict The Moor St Benedict’s parents were African slaves, having been captured and forcefully taken to a place near , Italy. There they converted to Catholicism and, because of their many years of loyal service as slaves, when Benedict was born (1526 – 1589) he was given naturalized citizenship.

Stain Glass Window image of St Benedict the Moor In his youth, St Benedict worked with his parents, receiving a “Slave Wage,” which he often gave to people he believed were, “more needy,” than himself. His early education was, by today’s western standards, “Nil,” but his racial tolerance, generosity and respect for those around him attracted others attention.

St Benedict was invited to join a religious group, who followed the rules of St . There he happily enriched his spiritual life, initially as a Lay Brother and later as the group leader.

St Benedict’s Feast Day is 4th April. St Benedict is the of African and black missions, black people, ; San Fratello, and, with St , Patron Saint of .

St Benedict: Pray for us that we will be generous in our service of the poor and marginalized. August 2, 2020 Page 3 In other business: Confessions are now being heard at the church in the Things to Remember When Hard Times Come sacristy at the previously scheduled times as listed in 1. Remember to help others in their hard times. the bulletin. - It is often in giving away what you need that you position yourself to receive it yourself. Selfless acts In order to provide adequate social distancing, every of love always carry a note of victory that strike at other pew has been taped off. Lines indicating a 6- discouragement. foot space have been taped onto the pews that are open. Each individual or family should use these 2. Remember to rehearse the testimonies of god’s lines to maintain distance from others. faithfulness in previous situations you have gone through. . - When you celebrate a past victory it cultivates your Hymnals have been removed from the pews at both faith and fills the atmosphere with the truth that can Partner Parishes. At St. Joseph, Worship Aides are birth a new testimony in your current situation. availabe each Sunday. Upon entering the church, you are invited to take one from the table they are on. 3. Remember that when you are suffering in the temporal realm think on the truth of the eternal After Mass, please do not put the program back or realm. leave it in your pew. There will be recycling bins by the tables. Please put the programs in the recycling - What you are going through is not all there is. The bin so that no one else will need to touch them. light afflictions of your present difficulty is not worthy to be compared to the glory that will come. Please note! The weekly bulletin is available on-line and posted on our parish website. 4. Remember that God is with you and that he is www.stmartinstjoseph.org. Please pass the word to always enough. fellow parishioners and friends. - He has promised never to leave you nor forsake you. He has promised to supply all your need May God Bless Us All, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Fr. Sam 5. Remember that we are stronger together than we are apart. Pastor’s Pun: Have you heard the joke about the - The enemy wants to separate you from your peach? sources of encouragement. It’s pitiful - One can put a thousand to flight, two can put ten thousand to flight. - When two agree in prayer it shall be done. - There is a glory of God on unity of believers.

6. Remember to call upon the Lord. - Jeremiah 33:3 is a potent promise for hard times. Call upon the Lord and watch the great and mighty things He will do. This was given Jeremiah when God’s people were in really hard times.

7. Remember that God has not forgotten you. - Hebrews 13:4-6 gives us some great truth and encourages us to remember He is with you whether you think He is or not.

August 2, 2020 Page Father Sam will continue to offer Mass privately for the following intentions that are scheduled on Thursday, Aug. 6th and Friday Aug. 7th. SATURDAY - August 1, - St. Joseph 5:00 PM - St. Joseph - Louise Steffani, birthday Thursday, Aug. 6, Erwin Crocker (Fred & Marie) Friday, Aug. 7, Albert Bridge, Anniversary SUNDAY - Aug. 2, 18th Sunday in OrdinaryTime 9:00 AM - St. Martin - Deceased Members of the Knights of Columbus & St. Martin Rosary Altar Society Please hold in your hearts and prayers those who are 10:30 AM - St. Joseph - Deceased Members of St. sick, aging or homebound: Joseph Altar Rosary Society Rich Batsa, Shirley Boring, Steve Gaul, Beverly Heiple, MONDAY - Aug. 3, - St. Martin Celeste Stoltz-Jones, Deora Matvey, Gene & Gloria 6:00 PM - Elizabeth Pennesi (Dante & Lindsey Paouncic, Selma Patterson, Louise Reffo, Abby Rose, Helen Stercho, Braxton Strianna, Sue Tommasini, Zoey DeCario) Tommasini TUESDAY - Aug 4, - St. Joseph 8:00 AM - Theresa Mastrorocco (Janet DeGlau &Tom Also, pray for all the lonely and homeless, and all & Dee Sylvester) THURSDAY - Aug 6, - St. Joseph 8:00 AM - Erwin Crocker (Jerri Menzie)

FRIDAY - Aug 7, - St. Martin St. Martin Sanctuary Candle 8:00 AM - Albert Bridge, anniversary (Roger & In acknowledging the Real Presence of Christ, Patty) the Sanctuary Candle will burn from SATURDAY - Aug. 8, - St. Joseph Aug 1 through Aug. 8 in loving memory of 5:00 PM - St. Joseph - Joseph Franzi (Callendrella Donald Schmucker, birthday family) Requested by his family SUNDAY - Aug. 9, 19th Sunday in OrdinaryTime 9:00 AM - St. Martin - Mary Lou Hamacher (Linda St. Joseph Sanctuary Candle & Joe Angus In acknowledging the Real Presence of Christ, 10:30 AM - St. Joseph - Martha Kozar (Bernard & the Sanctuary Candle will burn from Ruth Ann Morelli) Aug 1 through Aug. 8 in loving memory of Erwin Crocker EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Requested by Jerri Menzie Saturday, August 8: St. Joseph, 5:00 pm Eucharistic Minister: Bill Robertson Lector: Sharon Ritenour Our Partner Parishes would like to Sunday, August 9: St. Martin, 9:00 am wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all Eucharistic Minister: Bobby Joe who are celebrating birthdays from Lector: Suzanne Skacel 08/02/20 - 08/08/20

Sunday, August 9: St. Joseph, 10:30 am ST. MARTIN: Craig Bollinger, Janet Esposito, Eucharistic Minister: Marie Giotto Patricia McCaully, Jayce Robertson, Matt Silvis, Lector: Theresa Bundy John Stahovec, Jr., Luke Stanley and Jenna Vargulish

Correction ST. JOSEPH: Michael Cmar, Timothy Dalton, ***Last weeks bulletin listed a 100th birthday for Helen Laura Hamrock, Beth Hlavsa, Michelle Klim, Minni on Aug. 26, 2020. It should have been Teresa Jennifer Mullen and Mike Reitz Minni. If you are sending her a card please be sure to put Teresa and not Helen Minni. Any questions, call the Office. Her address is St. Anne Home, 685 Angela Dr. Room 111C, Greensburg, Pa. 15601. August 2, 2020 Page 5 Stewardship of Treasure 07/1/20 - 07/26/20 New Fiscal Year2020-2021

St. Joseph Offertory Weekly Budget Need $ 3,700.00 Actual Weekly Offering 07/26 $ 1,869.00 Other Income $ 99.00 Difference this week $ (1,732.00) Fiscal Year to Date Budget Need $ 14,800.00 Fiscal Year to Date Actual $ 13,842.00 Year to date difference $ (958.00)

Receiving Envelopes 318 Diocesan Lenten Appeal Update Using Envelopes 65 St. Martin - 7/01/20 Diocesan Goal $12,120.00 St. Martin Offertory Pledges $20,485.00 Weekly Budget Need $ 2,500.00 Amount Over Goal $ 8,365.00 Actual Weekly Offering 07/26 $ 1,218.00 Number of Households 274 Other Income $ 360.00 Number of Donors 96 Difference This Week $ (922.00) Fiscal Year to Date Budget Need $ 10,000.00 Participation % 34.3% Fiscal Year to Date Actual $ 9,796.00 Year to Date Difference $ (204.00) St. Joseph - 7/01/20 Diocesan Goal $21,289.00 Receiving Envelopes 252 Pledges $23,360.00 Using Envelopes 46 Amount Over Goal $ 2,071.00 Number of Households 413 Budget needs are based on projected expenses. Need will be reviewed periodically. Number of Donors 114 CURRENT NEED IS BASED ON LAST Participation % 27.3 % FISCAL YEAR

Thank you for your stewardship! The Church cannot survive without your financial support! Please continue to support the church during these trying times. You can drop off your contributions at the parish mailboxes; Counters for Sunday August 9 , 2020 they can be mailed to the Parish Office. You can contribute through on-line giving ~ the link ST. JOSEPH -TEAM 2 ST. MARTIN -TEAM 2 is on the front page of our parish website Ami Akins Jean McDowell www.stmartinstjoseph.org. Thank you! Marie Balzer Doris Eaglehouse Stephanie Pearce

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DERRY August 2, 2020 Page 6 Pastor: Rev. Salvatore Lamendola Maintenance Supervisor: [email protected] Rich Hamrock

Secretary: Joanne Gaul Custodians: [email protected] St. Martin: Ted Watkins St. Joseph: Becky Ellenberger Financial Secretary: Karen Novello [email protected] Sacrament of Baptism: Contact Betty Wechtenhiser Faith Formation Director: Betty Wechtenhiser [email protected] Sacrament of Marriage: C:724-989-5725 H:724-539-9799 Contact the Pastor a minimum of six months prior to wedding date Music Directors: Dolly Stiffler (St. Martin) Sacrament of Reconciliation: Madlyn DeRito (St. Joseph) St. Martin: Monday 5:30 pm [email protected] St. Joseph: Saturday 4:15-4:40 pm and by Appointment Partner Parish Web Coordinator: Theresa Miedel, [email protected] St. Vincent de Paul Society Hot Line 724-694-5359 Sacristan: Tish Rossi (St. Joseph) **************************************************************************************** PARTNER PARISH NEWS AREA HAPPENINGS Knights of Columbus Sheets Gas Ticket St. Benedict Parish Cash Give-A-Way The Knights of Columbus are going to be selling their St. Benedicts Parish is selling a new $6,000 Cash Sheetz Gas Ticket this weekend. If you buy one please Give-A-Way ticket this year. It is set to go off on take the ticket, give the seller the money and take the Saturday, September 5, 2020 with the PA Lottery ticket with you to fill out and drop in the collection Pick 3. Cost of each ticket is $10.00. Tickets are basket. There is to be no one standing at the table due to available to purchase and sell. Please contact the Parish social distancing. Thank you for your cooperation. Office at 724-834-9045 or call Cheryl on her cell phone The tickets are $5.00 for 2 chances at $750.00 in gas. at 724-396-9227.

Parish Office Hours St. Florian School looking for a Teacher Due to the current situations with the CO-VID-19 St. Florian Pre-School is accepting applications for 2 epidemic the Parish office is closed on Friday as part-time teacher aide positions for the 2020-21 school well as Wednesday. Sorry for any inconvenience. term. One position is for Monday-Wednesday-Friday The office is still open on Monday, Tuesday and from 7:45-3pm and one position for Tuesday & Thursday Thursday 9-3. Please wear a mask if you need to from 7:45-12 noon. The schedule coincides with the come in. school year and is a season position. Candidates must be practicing Catholics and would be under the guidance and direction of Mrs. Lottie Hirak, Pre-School teacher. Resumes should be sent to St. Florian Church 4263 Rte. 981, P. O. Box 187, United, Pa. 15689 to the attention of Dr. Joseph Dreliszak. Once resumes are received individuals will be called for an interview. August 2, 2020 Page 7 OUR DEEPEST NEEDS The word of God serves up a tremendous feast for us today. Isaiah beckons all who hunger and thirst to come to the Lord for satisfaction. The psalmist cries out, “The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs” (Psalm 145:16). Saint Paul tells us that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Finally, in the Gospel, we hear the story of the miraculous feeding of over five thousand people from a mere five loaves and two fish. Most of us have our material needs met on a day-to-day basis. These scriptures, nevertheless, have much to say to the contemporary believer. We must ask ourselves, “Where are my deepest hungers? Where are my thirsts?” After material needs are satisfied and, in some cases, over-satisfied, many people still experience a deep longing for spiritual balance and well-being. As the loaves and fish are multiplied in today’s Gospel, perhaps our prayer can be a longing for the satisfaction of the deepest needs that only God can fill. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — All you who thirst, come to the water! You without money, come to the feast! (Isaiah 55:1-3). Psalm — The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs (Psalm 145). Second Reading — Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ (Romans 8:35, 37-39). Gospel — All ate until satisfied; they collected twelve baskets of what was left over (Matthew 14:13-21). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Jer 28:1-17; Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95, 102; SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Mt 14:22-36 Sunday: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Tuesday: Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Ps 102:16-21, 29, Tuesday: St. John Vianney 22-23; Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14 Wednesday: Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major Wednesday: Jer 31:1-7; Jer 31:10-12ab, 13; Mt 15:21-28 Thursday: The Transfiguration of the Lord; Thursday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; Hiroshima Memorial Day 2 Pt 1:16-19; Mt 17:1-9 Friday: St. Sixtus II and Companions; St. Cajetan; Friday: Na 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7; Dt 32:35cd-36ab, First Friday 39abcd, 41; Mt 16:24-28 Saturday: St. Dominic Saturday: Hb 1:12 — 2:4; Ps 9:8-13; Mt 17:14-20 Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a; Ps 85:9-14; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33

SAINT JOHN MARY VIANNEY (1786-1859) August 4 A busy pastor jokingly suggests the secret of John Vianney’s holiness: “He died seventeen years before telephones!” Call they didn’t, but visit they did, keeping Vianney eighteen hours a day in the confessional. Stories abound of reading hearts and exorcisms, but Vianney’s first miracle was getting ordained. Difficulty with studies delayed him, prompting the rector’s apology to the bishop, “So far to ordain just one, especially this one!” The bishop, who could not know he was ordaining the future patron saint of parish priests, replied, “No burden to ordain one good priest!” In Ars, only an elderly handful attended Mass, “praying,” one told Vianney, “for a priest with brains.” But he stayed forty-two years, fulfilling the promise he made the day he arrived. In a sculpture just outside the village Vianney points skyward: “Show me the way to Ars,” he tells a boy, “and I’ll show you the way to heaven.” To someone who feared there was no heaven beyond the grave, Vianney smiled, “My child, it would have been heaven enough to have lived as Jesus’ disciple on earth.” —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

PRAYER AND HUMILITY Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword; wear humility rather than fine clothes. —St. Dominic

THIRST You have put salt in our mouths that we may thirst for you. —St. Augustine

All you who are thirsty, come to the water! — Isaiah 55:1a

CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS St. Joseph Church #436450 125 S. Ligonier Street Derry, PA 15627

TELEPHONE 724 694-5359

CONTACT PERSON Joanne Gaul

EMAIL: [email protected]

TRANSMISSION TIME Wednesday 11:45

SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION Aug. 2, 2020

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