“With God All Things Are Possible!” The Catholic Community of the East End of Pittsburgh

July 14, 2019 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Pastoral Staff Rev. Thomas J. Burke, Administrator [email protected] Rev. David Taylor, Senior Parochial Vicar [email protected]

In Residence Rev. James Adeoye [email protected] Rev. Cajetan Anyanwu [email protected] Rev. Augustine Temu [email protected]

Office Staff Mass Schedule Christine Pacifico [email protected] Saturday 4 pm St. Bede & St. James Terri Price [email protected] Joyce Broadus [email protected] Sunday 8 am St. Bede 9 am St. Charles Lwanga, Director of Religious Education Mother of Good Counsel Church Teresa Maynor [email protected] 10 am St. James 11 am St. Bede Music Ministry Jennifer Gorske 412.370.2638; [email protected] Monday-Saturday Carla LaRocca DiDonato 412.422.2460; [email protected] 9 am St. Bede Pat Morgan 412.425.3834; [email protected] Gerard Rohlf 412.657.7570; [email protected]

Confession Communications Saturday 9:30 am - 10:30 am St. Bede Cathy Raffaele 412.241.1392; [email protected] Glennen Lloyd [email protected] 9:30 am St. Bede Novenas Bulletin [email protected] Monday Miraculous Medal Perpetual Novena Wednesday Mother of Perpetual Help Novena Housekeeping/Maintenance Thursday St. John XXIII Novena for the Sick Paul Denk, Matthew Denk, Annette Shunk, Jim Speranza, Eucharistic Adoration Melissa Viator

Saturday 9:30 am - 10:30 am St. Bede Principals CCD Sunday 9:45 am - 10:45 am St. Bede Sr. Thea Bowman Catholic Academy: Ms. Stephanie Michael Baptisms and Weddings 412.242.6615; [email protected] St. Bede School: Sr. Daniela Bronka By appointment only 412.661.9425; [email protected]

St. Bede St. Charles Lwanga St. James 509 S. Dallas Ave Church 7705 Bennett Street 718 Franklin Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15208 Office 7114 Kelly Street Pittsburgh, PA 15221 Pittsburgh, PA 15208 [email protected] [email protected] 412.661.7222 [email protected] 412-241.1392 412.731.3020 Monday-Wednesday 9 am-3:30 pm Monday-Friday 8:30 am-5 pm Monday - Wednesday 8:30 am -4 pm Thursday-Friday 10 am-2 pm

Website cceepgh.org @cceepgh All our churches are accessible. Mass Intentions July 13 - 21

SATURDAY Vigil Karlie Marie Weimer, granddaughter of Richard 4 pm (SB) Taylor Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time & Roseanne Stanizzo (Sissy & Bill Lieberman) 4 pm (SJ) David Aleva, Living Intention (Friends) Burke SUNDAY FIFTEENTH SUNDAY 8 am Rose Fitzgerald (Family) Burke IN ORDINARY TIME In Honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel 9 am Taylor (Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society) 10 am Charles Boggs (Jean Boggs) Burke 11 am Eleanor Ciocco (The Honan’s) Taylor MONDAY St. Bonaventure, 9 am Michael Camillus (Family) Burke Bishop & Doctor of the Church

TUESDAY 9 am Marlene Handrahan (Helen Daley) Taylor Our Lady of Mount Carmel

WEDNESDAY Weekday 9 am Anne Geffel (Nancy O’Brien) Burke

THURSDAY St. Camillus de Lellis, Priest 9 am Joan A. Durbeck (Elvira Durbeck) Taylor

FRIDAY Weekday 9 am Fr. Patrick Vergers, CR (Anjuna Thulung) Burke

SATURDAY St. Apollinaris, 9 am Fr. Paul Prabell (McEllistrem Family) Burke Bishop & Martyr

SATURDAY Vigil 4 pm Fr. Warren Metzler (Patty Manilla) Taylor Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:30 pm George McKinsey (The Greiner Family) Burke SUNDAY SIXTEENTH SUNDAY With Sincere Appreciation to St. Bede Parishion- 8 am Taylor IN ORDINARY TIME ers for All Their Prayers (Makenna Grace) 9 am Riggie Laus (St. Charles Lwanga Parish) Burke 10 am Bill Guy, Living Intention (Patty Manilla) Taylor 11 am Marlene Handrahan (Nancy O’Brien) Burke

Scripture Readings Protection of God’s Children Report suspected child abuse July 14 Childline: 800.932.0313

First Reading Deuteronomy 30:10-14 If a child is in imminent danger, call 911 The word of the Lord is very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts. Anointing of the Sick Second Reading Colossians 1:15-20 For those seriously ill, elderly, or preparing for surgery, Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God. please call Fr. Tom at 412.661.7222 Gospel Luke 10:25-37 or Fr. Taylor at 412. 731.3020.

The Samaritan traveler was moved with compassion at Those who are in hospitals or nursing homes may the sight of the man stripped and beaten by robbers. request the Catholic Chaplain on duty for the Sacrament.

July 21 Hospitalized and Homebound If you, a family First Reading Genesis 18:1-10a member or if you know a parishioner who is unable to Second Reading Colossians 1:24-28 get to church and would like to receive Communion, Gospel Luke 10:38-42 please contact us at 412.241.1392.

Pastor’s Note New weekend Mass Schedule begins next weekend! Effective next Saturday, July 20, the new Mass schedule Love God, Love Neighbor! will be: Saturday Vigil: 4 pm St. James Growing up on Sinton Avenue in 5:30 pm St. Bede Carrick, I was very blessed to have Sunday: 8 am St. Bede good neighbors: the Winschel, Paff, 9 am Mother of Good Counsel Ruhling and Burke families all 10 am St. James looked after one another as our 11 am St. Bede back yards all connected. There were many times during the summer we would have a CCD Religious Education Block Party and had great food, games and rode our Sundays 9:45 am - 10:45 am St. Bede bikes out in the street. Parish Improvements Our maintenance department This weekend we celebrate the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordi- continues to do summer projects including painting nary Time. The readings focus on love and service, not around the St. Bede Campus. Several outdoor hand rails just to God, but to others. In the first reading from Deu- have a new fresh coat of paint on them and the Pre- teronomy, we read part of Moses farewell speech. He school Room and Kindergarten hallway at St. Bede has an important message for his people that they must School has a fresh coat of paint. never forget to serve the Lord. In the Gospel of Luke we Several areas of the St. James Church roof are leaking read the famous Gospel of the Good Samaritan. In the and we will be working with Welte to repair them. Work parable, as an injured man lays on the side of the road continues on the St. Bede Rectory roof. the first two travelers, a priest and a Levite see the man and walk right past him. The third man, a Samaritan, **We appreciate your offertory envelope donations considered an outcast and enemy to the Jewish people, and giving online. It is very important to continue approached the injured man, poured oil, bandaged him to financially support your CCEEP parishes and took care of him. Luke wants to extend Jesus’ teach- so that we can continue to have funds to upgrade ing to proclaim that a neighbor is not determined solely the renovations that are needed at our campuses.** by racial, cultural, or religious heritage. As Jesus clearly shows, a neighbor is anyone who acts out of love for CCEEP Blood Drive Please join us next Sunday, July God and meets people’s needs with love. We need to 21, from 9 am to 2 pm in St. Bede Activity Room or St. love and service our neighbor’s especially in difficult and James Chapel for our CCEEP Blood Drive. If you are inconvenient times and put our faith into action. able to donate blood it would be greatly appreciated.

Love God, Love Neighbor! Happy Anniversary! Fr. Augustine celebrated his 12th Anniversary of Priesthood Ordination last Sunday, CCEEP Social Ministries Center It gives me great July 7. Congratulations! pleasure to welcome Anne Scheuermann as our new Coordinator of Social Services and Community Action for Congratulations to Graham Robert Cooney, son of the Catholic Community of the East End of Pittsburgh. Greg and Monica Firment Cooney who was baptized last Anne has extensive background in social ministry work- Sunday. ing for Jeremiah’s Place in East Liberty which is a Center that assists families in crisis, Financial Development Happy Birthday to our Director of Religious Education, Committee Volunteer at the Deer Valley YMCA Camp in Teresa Maynor, who is celebrating her birthday on Sat- Fort Hill, PA, and previously volunteered in the St. Bede urday, July 13! Religious Education Program. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon. She will Welcome Home A special St. Bede Welcome to John, oversee the Ministry Center in Wilkinsburg and also the Angela, and Sophia Rondia who recently registered at Food Bank in Homewood and will begin her employment CCEEP. on August 1. Welcome Anne! Something to Think About… For St. Bede and St. James parishioners, be sure to use You give but little when you give of your possessions. your July offertory envelope packets for a new envelope It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. for “Social Ministries and Community Outreach.” St. Kahlil Gibran Charles Lwanga Parishioners will receive their new en- velope in the August packet. 100% of the donations will go to fund our Social Ministries Center. We thank you for With God All Things Are Possible! your generosity. Fr. Tom Burke, Administrator [email protected] Father Taylor’s Reflection

Those who heal are also wounded. It S June 30 July 7 is a fact of life that there are many occasions when we have to call upon T others for a helping hand. This is true ST. BEDE

whether it be family, co-workers, E will be reported next week. neighbors, the church or friends. By doing this, not only do we come in touch with the fact that we need others, but also that others need us. W

I have learned just how true this is after a couple of A ST. CHARLES LWANGA major surgeries. Being a priest I am always called Offertory $2,635 $2,102 upon to be of help to others both physically and spiri- tually, but to learn that the flock you serve is always R PSP 2019 ready to help you as well means a whole lot. The song Goal $15,000 Received $3,451 Lean On Me is a good reminder that it is okay to be in D the situation where you cannot help yourself and must rely on others S ST. JAMES The story of the Good Samaritan is not only about Offertory $2,043 $2,645 reaching out to others in need, but being readily will- H ing and able to accept care from others. The fact that Online Giving June: $7,806 two other spiritual leaders walked on by without offer- ing a helping hand is difficult and distressful, but it cer- I PSP 2019 tainly can happen. Goal $46,190 Received $25,701 P The gospel is full of these kinds of stories. They are human stories. They are our stories as we are forming a new Parish Community. We will have many more : Put enve- opportunities to both serve and be served. Who Online Giving knows tomorrow we may be that person on the road. lopes on a permanent summer vacation and make the switch to eGiving for St. Bede and St. James. You can start your sum- Joint Advisory Councils mer vacation and still support our parishes! During the summer months your generosity through online Each of our parishes have four people serving giving can help provide the consistent resources on the CCEEP Joint Pastoral and Finance Councils. needed to operate our parishes and ministries.

Pastoral Council Finance Council See the homepage of our website: cceepgh.org for online giving information. Thank you for sharing not St. Bede only your treasure, but your time and talent. Denise Charron-Prochownik Stefanie Bonavita Joan Price Linda Burke Dante Romito Jerry Conner Eric Setzler Joseph Gartner St. Charles Lwanga Linda Atkins Michael Polite Teresa Maynor Judy Prata Janice Reed Bill Rawlings Geloria White Victor Thorpe St. James Patricia Albacete Martin Albacete Lois Campbell David Aleva Anne Kovalan-Santoni Michael Myers Bulletin content is due no later than 9 am Peter Lahoda Mara Sullivan on Mondays. Larger announcements must be submitted a week prior to the Monday deadline. Schedule July 13 - 21 Next Sunday First SAT Adoration & Confession St. Bede 9:30 am CCEEP Community

Feast of Our Lady MOGC 9 am Blood Drive The blood drive SUN of Mount Carmel will be at two locations on Sunday, July 21, in the Activities Room at Miraculous Medal Novena SB 9:30 am MON SCL Food Bank Packing Holy Rosary 10 am St. Bede’s and in the Chapel at St. James. Information and sign up SCL Food Bank Pick Up Holy Rosary TUE sheets for appointments to give blood will be available Wilkinsburg Solidarity Vigil SJ Chapel 7 pm at all three campuses. Please mark the date on your SJ Food Bank Pick Up Ministry Ctr 8:30 am calendar and consider becoming a blood donor on WED SCL Food Bank Holy Rosary 9 am that day. Mother of Perpetual Help Novena St. Bede 9:30 am Information and sign up sheets for appointments to SJ Food Bank Packing Ministry Ctr 9 am give blood are in the vestibules of all the churches. THURS St. John XXIII Novena St. Bede 9:30 am for the Sick Volunteers are needed! To make an appointment on FRI line, visit vitalant.org, click on the orange Donate but- ton and search with our group codes: St. Bede - Coffee Cookie Hospitality SJ Chapel 8 am G0040055 or St. James - G0040285. SAT SJ Food Bank Distribution Ministry Ctr 9 am Adoration & Confession St. Bede 9:30 am For more information: 877.25VITAL CCEEP Community SB Activities Room 9 am or St. Bede’s office: 412.661.7222, ext. 205 SUN Blood Drive SJ Chapel 9 am The Feast of St. James will be celebrated on Sunday, July 28, after the 10 am Mass with a cake, cookies and beverages.

Sacred Heart High School Class of 1975 Reunion on Saturday, September 28, 2019, at the Frick Pittsburgh Community Room and Courtyard, 7227 Reynolds Street 15208, from 5 to 10 pm. For more information, call or email Lynn Yocum: 724.344.2617 or [email protected]

Reflection on the Readings Our God is about relationships. In the first reading, Moses reminds the Israelites that the laws, which are already in their hearts, keep them in right relationship with the God who loves them so much that they always find forgive- ness.

Centuries later, along comes Jesus, whom Paul de- scribes to the Colossians as the image of the invisible God, the very embodiment of this God of love.

In his parable about the good Samaritan, Jesus ex- plains how the law of love overrules the letter of the law. Instead of answering the question Who is my neighbor? Jesus demonstrates that it is not about who St. Charles Lwanga’s celebration is worthy of being loved, but rather loving as God loves, about being neighbor, about being the good of Deacon Matthew Hawkins Samaritan. Jesus wants us to continue his work as ordination to the diaconate. images of this God of love by loving all people, even those who seem to be our enemies. ©J. S. Paluch Co. As a Faith Community Ways to Serve we remember parishioners in the Catholic Community who cannot be with us. of the East End of Pittsburgh

Lauretta Ashley, Barbara Bauknight, Myra Bilotto, Marie Boyle, Dominic Braithwaite, Paul Brecht, Gail Food Bank Volunteers

Britanik, Jane Burgess, Willa Campbell, Rosemary Ca- St. Charles Lwanga at Holy Rosary Rectory: pone, Linda Carr, Lillie Carter, Bruno Cassara, Eume- Mondays: packing at 10 am; Tuesday, July 16: food nia Castro, John Ceric, Leola Cook, John Davis, Ruth delivery, involves heavy lifting; Wednesday: July 17, Ann Donnelly, Jacqueline Dumond, Herbert Durbeck, distribution at 9 am. For more information of to volun- Judith Dyke, Donna Dzikowski, Cindy Farabaugh, teer: 412.731.4195. Butch Filter, Rosemary Fitzgerald, Frieda Farrell, Bob Fuchs, Audrey Fusco, Frances Galardi, Jack Gall, St. James at Ministry Center: Michael Gallagher, Makenna Grace, Pat Griffin, Every Wednesday: food pick up, involves heavy lifting; Esther Hackwelder, Estelle Hagerdorn, Joseph Thursday, July 18: packing; Saturday, July 20: distri- Hamm, Chris Hudak, Marlene Joseph, DiDi Joyce, bution; Friday, July 26: Senior Box distribution. All ac- Fran Kalinowski, Agnes Koppolovech, Pam Laico, tivities at 9 am. For more information or to volunteer: Florine Laus, Susan Loether, Paul Lydon, Jose- 412.241.1309. phine Major, Marianne Mangine, Fran McCarthy, Nadine McCoy, Ruth McGill, Dorothy Meyers, Aileen Minnock, Brendan Minnock, Giovanna Nistico, Judith Coffee, Cookies, Hospitality are offered to Nosling, Helen Nothwang, Kevin O’Brien, Charles Pa- clients at the St. James Food Bank on the third Satur- pale, Elizabeth Petnuch, Susan Petnuch, Libby day of the month. The coffee is set up and cookies are Regan, John Rettger, Joanne Schwarz, Susan provided. A team of 4 or 5 people are needed provide Schwochau, Judy Siewiorek, Doreen Simeone, Ar- a friendly welcome as participants wait in the Chapel thur Smith, James Smith, Rex Smith, Gregory Spech- at St. James for their turn. This is an excellent oppor- told, Sarah Stanfield, Terri Stevenson, Suzanne Steitz, tunity for family, friends or a committee to serve to- gether to listen, share and get to know the clients of Neil Stewart, DJ Stinelli, Laura Swain, John Temu, the food bank. For more information or to volunteer: Haley Thelen, Barbara Tierno, Mary Jane Tirk, Rose- 412.241.1392 or come on Saturday, July 20, to see marie Toliver, Arlene Trichtinger, Andrea Ventomil- and consider if this is a ministry for you! ler, Sandra Vesely, James Walsh, Jeff Witkowski,

Joan Zankowski, Julian Zekan, and all in need of our prayers who wish to remain anonymous. CCEEP Social Ministry Center will have a part time coordinator beginning in August. Many vol- We ask those who have requested prayers, unteer opportunities are available and will expand. to please give us an update For more information or to volunteer at the CCEEP when your loved one is better. Social Ministry Center: 412.241.1309.

Radio Program, CCEEP Social Ministries requests toilet pa- with Fr. Tom Burke as per for the month of July. Items can be placed in con- host, highlights elemen- tainers provided at St. Bede, St Charles Lwanga and tary and secondary schools; colleges; youth ministry St. James. Thank you for your ongoing support. programs; and more, and is broadcast every other Sunday morning on KDKA-AM 1020 at 6:30 am.

The topic of the next broadcast, on July 21, is “Helping The United States Catholic First Graders Deepen Their Relationship with Jesus” Conference of Bishops with guest Jane Thimons from Our Lady of the Most recently awarded grants to support the Blessed Sacrament, Natrona Heights. pastoral work of the Church in Latin See the homepage of our website, cceepgh.org for the America, $3.5 million; the Church in link to podcasts of the programs. Africa, $1.5 million; the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, $5.2 million. Free Dental Clinic Mission of Mercy Pitts- These grants, made possible by the generosity of burgh, a free dental clinic for the underserved of the CCEEP parishioners and Catholics throughout the region, is offering a free dental clinic on July 26 and country, reflect the importance that we place on sup- 27 at PPG Paints Arena. To learn more or to sign up porting one another and the universal church. as a patient or volunteer: mompgh.org to graduates: Brianna Monet Cox, daughter of George and Yolanda, Our Schools from Arcadia University; Arianna Dunson, great-niece and god- daughter of Janice Reed, from Penn Hills High School and will be attending California University; Shaquira Sr. Thea Bowman Reed-Lawson, granddaughter of Janice Reed, from Catholic Academy University of Central Florida, Orlando; Kenya Warren, Slippery Rock University, magna cum laude. Principal Ms. Stephanie Michael 721 Rebecca Avenue

Wilkinsburg PA 15221 Oasis Intergenera- 412.242.6615; [email protected] tional Tutoring Pro- sistertheabowman.org gram An hour a week can change a child’s life! Be- STBCA is currently accepting registrations for aca- come an Oasis tutor and have the opportunity to give demic year 2019-2020 for grades Pre-K 3 to 8. back, have fun and make a difference.

Oasis is a non-profit organization that recruits and trains older adults, 50+, to tutor children in the Pitts- St. Bede School burgh Public, Wilkinsburg and Woodland Hills School Districts in grades K-4 in reading and writing. Oasis Principal Sr. Daniela Bronka has tutors in over 32 schools serving over 200 stu- 6920 Edgerton Avenue dents yearly. Pittsburgh PA 15208

All training, materials and clearances are free. Train- 412.661.9425; [email protected] ing sessions will be held on Tuesday, August 20, and Thursday, August 22, from 9 am to 2:30 pm at the Oa- saintbedeschool.com sis Office located in the Duquesne Light Building, 411 Seventh Avenue, Suite 525, downtown Pittsburgh. St. Bede School is currently accepting registrations for academic year 2019-2020 for grades Kindergarten For more information on how to become an Oasis tu- to 8. tor or other training sites and dates, call John D. Spe- har, Director, Pittsburgh Oasis Intergenerational Tu- toring Program, at 412. 393.7648 or by email at jdspe- [email protected]. Oasis is a program of Literacy From Our Archives Pittsburgh.

St. James Church under construction.