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HOLY FAMILY PARISH St. Irenaeus, Oakmont St. Januarius, St. John the Baptist, Plum St. Joseph, Verona, Our Lady of Joy, Plum www.holyfamilypgh.org The only official website for our parishes. School sites can also be accessed from this website. CLERGY Parish Email: [email protected] Rev. Kevin G. Poecking Pastor Rev. George Dalton Senior Parochial Vicar Rev. David DeWitt Senior Parochial Vicar Deacon Joseph Vannucci Deacon Timothy Noca Deacon Frank Bursic Weekend Mass Times Saturday Vigil: 4:00 PM St. Irenaeus 4:00 PM St. John the Baptist 5:30 PM St. Joseph 6:00 PM Our Lady of Joy Sunday: 8:00 AM Our Lady of Joy 8:30 AM St Joseph 9:00 AM St. John the Baptist 10:00 AM Our Lady of Joy 11:00 AM St. Januarius 11:00 AM St. Irenaeus 11:30 AM St. John the Baptist 6:00 PM St. John the Baptist Confessions: Monday 6:00-6:20 PM St . Januarius Wednesday 6:00-6:20 PM St. Irenaeus Saturday 9:30-10:00 AM St. John the Baptist - Or By Appointment - To say the past year, with the unprecedented pandemic, From thethe Desk Of….Of…. was a challenge would be a huge understatement. It was indeed a dynamic year filled with many challenges, but we David Hall also had many blessings too! It was ONLY by the BusinessMeredith Manager Fraschi generosity of our faithful parishioners, the two rounds of PPP grants ($449,207), and our prior cost saving efforts that allowed us to weather this storm and remain on solid Dear Fellow Parishioners, financial ground. We thank God and our parishioners for How well do you listen and follow? providing everything we needed. We are truly blessed! Well, that is the underlying theme of our readings today. I am very fortunate to have had the unique perspective and God is calling each of us to listen to Him and to follow Him. Be prepared! He may be trying to reach us through the opportunity of watching our parish grow and transition prophets, complete strangers, clergy, or maybe even our together into one parish. It has been wonderful to observe own family members. In the first reading, God sent the how so many of our parishioners are willing to step up and prophets to preach to a stubborn group of his Jewish serve as faithful volunteers. We are indeed “One Body” with followers even though he knew that they would not likely many parts, none of which we could do without. Our listen to him. In the second reading, St. Paul speaks about volunteers, guided by the Holy Spirit, are the life-blood and his own weakness and the troubles he faced, but still trusted strength of our parish. With so many amazing and selfless that God would use them for HIS glory. In our gospel individuals, that regularly give of their time and talents, we reading, Jesus was amazed by the lack of faith and the are able to serve our parish and surrounding communities rejection by his own family members and the people of his with such joy. Working closely with so many of these great home town. Today’s readings call us to open our hearts, people certainly makes my job much easier and much more our minds, and our whole self to the presence of God in enjoyable. Thank you all. others. When you look at those around you, do you see God in them? I am still working on that. But thanks to all of MORE FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL NEEDED!! you who make it very easy for me to see God through your With that being said...HELP! Our Annual Festival is quickly terrific attitudes, charity, and faithfulness. approaching and we STILL need more of our faithful volunteers to lend a hand and help us make this a huge HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY HOLY FAMILY PARISH!!! success. It is our most important fundraiser of the next fiscal On July 1st, we just celebrated year. We have something for everyone: Setup, food our 1st birthday as the new preparation, phone orders, games, raffles, food booths, Holy Family Parish, and our cleanup, and more. Please consider joining us and first fiscal year (July-June) experience the opportunity of working with some of our also ended on June 30th. great parishioners. Sign-up online or call the parish office. I believe that our first year together was a tremendous success! HAPPY 4th OF JULY! Some great news….Our income exceeded budget Have a safe and happy 4th of July expectations, while our expenses were under budget! That holiday weekend! Continue to pray made for a healthy year end balance sheet. We are for our nation and for the protection definitely stronger together as one parish than we were as of our religious freedoms. five separate ones. The official financial statement will be In humble service, released in the coming months. Dave Hall 2 SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR THE FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME READING 1 EZ 2:2-5 took offense at Him. Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in His native place and among his own As the Lord spoke to me, the spirit entered into me and set kin and in his own house.” So He was not able to perform any me on my feet, and I heard the one who was speaking say to mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by me: Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, rebels laying His hands on them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. who have rebelled against Me; they and their ancestors have revolted against me to this very day. Hard of face and VACACIONES, UN TIEMPO PARA SER UNA MEJOR obstinate of heart are they to whom I am sending you. But FAMILIA you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God! And whether Hemos llegado rápidamente a la mitad de este año, y junto a they heed or resist—for they are a rebellious house—they esto llega el periodo de vacaciones, un don de Dios y una opor- shall know that a prophet has been among them. tunidad que nos ayuda a fortalecer el cuerpo y el espíritu. En esta época del año, las familias tienen la posibilidad de descan- RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 123:1-2, 2, 3-4 sar, convivir más, pero sobre todo, tienen la oportunidad de R. Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for His mercy. mejorar. To you I lift up my eyes who are enthroned in heaven—As the El Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica nos enseña que “El descan- eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters. so abre al hombre, sujeto a la necesidad del trabajo, la pers- R. Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for His mercy. pectiva de una libertad más plena. (…) El descanso permite a As the eyes of a maid are on the hands of her mistress, so are los hombres recordar y revivir las obras de Dios, desde la crea- our eyes on the Lord, our God, till He have pity on us. ción hasta la Redención, reconocerse a sí mismos como obra suya, y dar gracias a Dios por su vida (…)”. R. Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for His mercy. Have pity on us, O Lord, have pity on us, for we are more than Cuando Jesús visitó a las hermanas Martha y María; la primera sated with contempt; our souls are more than sated with the no dejaba de trabajar y la segunda se sentó a los pies de Jesús mockery of the arrogant, with the contempt of the proud. para escuchar sus enseñanzas. Él le dice a María que ha esco- gido la mejor parte (Lucas 10, 38-42). Algo muy importante que R. Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for His mercy. nos enseña este pasaje es que una de las mejores formas de READING 2 2 COR 12:7-10 aprovechar nuestro tiempo es dedicándolo a nuestra relación con Dios y dejando que Él nos acompañe y nos enseñe a ser Brothers and sisters: That I, Paul, might not become too mejores personas. elated, because of the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, to beat me, Te recomiendo algunas ideas para convivir como familia y cre- to keep me from being too elated. Three times I begged the cer en la fe. Puedes realizarlo en un ambiente de silencio, ora- Lord about this, that it might leave me, but He said to me, “My ción o frente al Santísimo y escribir las ideas o propósitos más grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in importantes. weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, 1. Mi persona. ¿Busco ser una mujer o un hombre de bien? ¿Cuido in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. mi trabajo y doy mi mejor esfuerzo? ¿Cuido mi salud? ¿Trato de cum- Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, plir mis propósitos, mis metas, mis sueños? persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ; for when 2. Mi vida espiritual. ¿Vamos a Misa los domingos mi familia y yo? I am weak, then I am strong. ¿Tenemos algún momento de oración en el día? ¿Tratamos de hacer CF. LK 4:18 obras de caridad o misericordia hacia las personas más necesitadas? R. Alleluia, alleluia 3. Mi matrimonio.
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