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10 MAY 2020
THE PARISHES OF SACRED HEART & SAINT RAPHAEL
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Diocese Victim Assistance Abuse Hotline: 1-888-808-1235
SACRED HEART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
325 Emerson Street • Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Phone 412-441-1582
Fax 412-441-2798
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.sacredheartpgh.org
SAINT RAPHAEL PRESCHOOL
1154 Chislett St. • Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Phone 412-661-3100 x122
Fax 412-661-0428
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.straphaelphg.org/school
Rev. Joseph Mele, Administrator Sacred Heart 412-661-0187 ext. 122 Saint Raphael 412-661-3100 ext. 124
Rev. John Sweeney, Sr. Parochial Vicar 412-661-3100 ext. 128 or [email protected]
Rev. Steve Palsa, Parish Chaplain 412-720-3554 [email protected] Faith Formation: [email protected]
Dr. William Hahn, Deacon 412-661-3100 ext. 114 [email protected]
Mr. John Vaskov, Deacon 412-661-0187 ext. 117 [email protected]
Administrative Assistant Emily Pino 412-661-0187 ext. 111 [email protected]
Business Manager Michael McGrath 412-661-0187 ext. 118 [email protected]
Director of Music Ministries John Ronald “JR” Daniels 412-661-0187 ext. 226 [email protected]
Evangelization & Outreach Jack Shaw 412-508-5383 [email protected]
Secretary Sacred Heart Manon Proulx 412-661-0187 ext. 110 [email protected]
Secretary Saint Raphael Barb Melick 412-661-3100 ext 110 [email protected]
Assistant Music Minister Darlene Kiniry [email protected]
Part time Ministry to the Bereaved Sister Mary Elizabeth Schrei, SC [email protected]
Office Staff Gregory Caridi 412-661-0187 ext. 113 [email protected]
Safe Environment Coordinator Pam Matia [email protected]
Bulletin Editor Manon Proulx 412-661-0187 ext. 110 [email protected]
Saint Vincent de Paul Society 412-404-3524
SACRED HEART SAINT RAPHAEL
310 Shady Ave. 1118 Chislett St. Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Parish Office: 412-661-0187 Parish Office: 412-661-3100 Fax: 412-661-7932 Fax: 412-661-0428 [email protected] [email protected]
Office Hours: Weekdays Offices currently closed
Website: bestpghparish.org
Principal: Mrs. Kate Taylor
HAPPENING IN OUR GROUPING 2
Teacher Appreciation Week
V ocation: When we hear about vocation, what comes to our mind is priests, deacons, religious men and women and even lay consecrated. We can add to the list, in this time of pandemic, all
the heath care workers that are on the front line of the battle with this atrocious virus. But I would al-so add to the list all our beloved teachers and their assistants; they are the ones making sure that our children receive a good education. Yes, being a teacher is also a vocation, but who is our teachers' Teacher? The best teacher of our time is undoubtedly Jesus. By looking at Him, our teachers follow their plans in order to transmit knowledge to our children. The best way is not instructing or correct-ing but living their vocation as a teacher with total commitment. Together with them, we must imitate Jesus, or better, allow him to live in us, and by living in this way, Jesus becomes the Teacher.
In the Gospel, Jesus was called Teacher by his disciples no less than twelve times. On Holy Thursday Jesus told them: “You call me Teacher and Lord and rightly so because I am. So, if I, Lord and
Teacher have washed your feet, you also should wash one an-other’s feet”. The best lesson He gave us is giving His life for each one of us by dying on the Cross.
So, let’s reach out to our teachers in a special way, remembering them in our prayers and thanking them for their dedication to our children’s education. I will conclude with the words of Bishop Zubik who said: “I wouldn’t be here today; I couldn’t be doing what I’m doing if it weren’t for the people who are dedicated to helping not only develop the mind, but also the hearts and the souls of their students.”
Happy Birthday to Bishop Winter!
Bishop William J. Winter, former pas-tor of Sacred Heart Parish, will celebrate his 90th birthday on May 20, 2020.
Happy birthday to His Excellency!!!
If you wish to send him a birthday card, his current address is: Most Reverend Bishop William Winter St. John Vianney 2600 Morange Rd, #302 Pittsburgh, PA 15205
PRAYER FOR MOTHERS
Heavenly Father, from the beginning you have chosen to entrust the human person to mothers in a special way. We thank and praise you for the gift of mothers; for their tenderness, care, and compassion, for their intuition and encouragement, for commitment and sacrifice. Bless all mothers this day. Keep, strengthen, and refresh them in your loving care. May they be blessed by our open-hearted love and gratitude.
Amen.
3 HAPPENING IN OUR GROUPING
Announcing the Proposal for New Mass Times In order to accommodate all postponed weddings and to move forward with the Mass schedule changes when we become one parish, and after consultation with Pastoral Staff and Pastoral Council members, we want to present to all of our parishioners at Sacred Heart and Saint Raphael parishes a new weekend Mass schedule that will are planning to go into effect July 1, 2020 or as soon as public Masses are reinstated in the Diocese:
4:00 PM on Saturdays at Saint Raphael 8:30 AM on Sundays at Saint Raphael 11:00 AM on Sundays at Sacred Heart 7:45 PM on Sundays at Sacred Heart
In the spirit of On Mission for the Church Alive!, having four Masses per weekend will allow our churches to be fuller for more vibrant liturgies and it will accommo-date the reality of fewer priests being in this Grouping as time goes on. This proposal offers all our parishioners an opportunity to provide feedback. To do so, you can either submit your feedback through our website: https://bestpghparish.org/new-mass-schedule-proposal or by email at [email protected]. Parishioners will have three weeks to respond. Your feedback is very important to us before a final deci-sion can be made. Please note that we are obligated to submit a request for Mass Time Changes to our Re-gional Vicar, Bishop Waltersheid. As Regional Vicar, he will also review the surrounding parishes, taking into consideration their Mass times so that there are convenient times for our people to attend Masses elsewhere if these Mass times are not convenient. This proposal was planned according to the Pastoral Council Survey that was conducted during all Masses and online in January. It also provides for the large number of couples requesting to be married in both of our beautiful churches. Many couples were turned away because of the limited times Nuptial Masses could be scheduled on a given Saturday. Weddings will now be able to be scheduled between 10 am until 4:30 pm at Sacred Heart Church and between 10 am until 2 pm at Saint Raphael. Please note that schedul-ing weddings allows us an opportunity to minister to the wonderful couples choosing to be married in the grace of the Sacrament of Matrimony. Please let us know your opinion about the Mass Schedule we are proposing. You have every right for us to know your thoughts about this schedule. As in any proposal, if we do not hear from you, we can on-ly interpret that means you support these times.
To connect and enroll to eGiving with Faith Direct go to https://membership.faithdirect.net/PA723 for Saint Raphael https://membership.faithdirect.net/PA1027 for Sacred Heart.
HAPPENING IN OUR GROUPING 4
Family Rosary For the remainder of the month of May join us live stream in saying the Rosary
with the Families each evening Monday through Friday at 6:00 PM at the Marian Shrine in Saint Raphael’s rectory yard. Each evening a family from Saint Raphael or Sacred Heart
will join one of our clergy team to lead the Rosary. Click on the following link and connect to your own Facebook Account:
https://www.facebook.com/105616694431715/live/ Please note that only for those who do not have a Facebook account you can use this Facebook
Login information: User Name: pghstreaming, Password: shsr2020
Who is Our Lady of Fátima? The story begins about 70 miles north of Lisbon in the tiny village of Fátima, Portugal, on May 13, 1917. On that day, near the village, The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three young peasant children: Lucia and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta, ages 7, 10 and 9. The children described the Virgin Mary as "the Lady more brilliant than the Sun" and reported a prophecy that prayer would lead to an end to World War I. The Virgin Mary appeared every 13th of the following months near Fátima or Cova di Iria, until the 13th of October, when she would perform a miracle so that all may believe. On that day, a huge crowd, possibly between 30,000 and 100,000, including reporters and photographers, gathered at Fátima. What happened then became known as the "Miracle of the Sun". According to witnesses, after a period of rain, the dark clouds broke and the sun ap-peared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky, casting multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The Sun was then described to have danced before zigzagging back to its normal position. People reported that their previ-ously wet clothes suddenly became completely dry. It was not until May 1922 that Bishop Correia da Silva, in a pastoral letter, set up a com-mission of inquiry. In October 1930, he declared that the apparitions at Fátima were "worthy of belief," and approved public devotion to the Blessed Virgin under the title Our Lady of Fátima. Pope Pius XII, on December 8, 1942, in a ceremony in Saint Pe-ter’s Basilica in Rome, consecrated humanity to Mary’s Immaculate Heart. He carried out a similar consecration of Russia in 1952. On May 13, 1981, following an assassina-tion attempt, Pope John Paul II credited Our Lady of Fátima with saving his life. During the Jubilee Year, on May 13,2000, he beatified Jacinta and Francisco. It was during these beatification ceremonies that all the details of the third part of the Fátima secret were revealed, the third millennium was entrusted to Our Lady of Fátima. On May 13, 2017, during the centennial of the first apparition, Pope Francis canonized Jacinta and Francisco; they are the youngest non-martyr saints declared in the history of the Church. The Feast of Our Lady of Fátima is on May 13th.
St. Raphael & Sacred Heart Blood Drive
SAVE THE DATE: SATURDAY, JUNE 6
8:00 A.M. TO 1:30 P.M. St. Raphael’s School Cafeteria
1154 Chislett Street
To schedule your appointment, please: Visit vi-talant.org and click on the “Make an Appointment”, search with group code G0040160 If you have any questions, con-tact Jack Shaw at [email protected] or
SAINT ANTHONY NOVENA
Please consider joining us for five more weeks this Tuesday,
May 12, 2020. To Live Stream the Novena, you need to click on the following link and connect to your own Facebook Account: https://www.facebook.com/105616694431715/live/ If you do not have a Facebook account you can use this Facebook Login information: User Name: pghstream-ing, Password: shsr2020 You will find the Novena Prayers on our website at the following link: https://bestpghparish.org/saint-anthony-novena
5 CONCELEBRATED MASS INTENTIONS
SAINT RAPHAEL CHURCH 1154 CHISLETT ST.
PITTSBURGH, PA 15206
SACRED HEART CHURCH 310 SHADY AVE.
PITTSBURGH, PA 15206
Saturday, May 9 - Easter Weekday 4:00PM Lois Marshalek Carr by Patty Resutko
Sunday, May 10 - Fifth Sunday of Easter 9:00AM Giuseppina Parente by Family 11:00AM For the People of the Parish
Monday, May 11 - Easter Weekday Angela Santucci by Anthony and Stacey Costa
Tuesday, May 12 – Saints Nereus & Achilleus, Martyrs; Saint Pancras, Martyr
Victoria Magnone by Lorraine Magnone
Wednesday, May 13 – Our Lady of Fatima Rosaria and Giuseppe Castellano by Candida Castellano Family
Thursday, May 14 - Saint Matthias, Apostle Stella Zambrano by Dennis and Estelle Flannigan
Friday, May 15 - Saint Isidore Angela Santucci by Caterina Marcello
Saturday, May 16 - Easter Weekday 4:00PM Living and Ddeceased members of Coraluppi and Tonzig Families by Luisa Coraluppi
Sunday, May 17 - Sixth Sunday of Easter 9:00AM For the People 11:00AM James Walsh, Sr. by Fran Sorg
Readings for the week of May 10, 2020
Sunday: Acts 6:1-7/Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19 [22]/1 Pt 2:4-9/Jn 14:1-12
Monday: Acts 14:5-18/Ps 115:1-2, 3-4, 15-16 [1ab]/Jn 14:21-26
Tuesday: Acts 14:19-28/Ps 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 21 [cf. 12]/Jn 14:27-31a
Wednesday: Acts 15:1-6/Ps 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5 [cf. 1]/Jn 15:1-8
Thursday: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26/Ps 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 [8]/Jn 15:9-17
Friday: Acts 15:22-31/Ps 57:8-9, 10 and 12 [10a]/Jn 15:12-17
Saturday: Acts 16:1-10/Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 5 [2a]/Jn 15:18-21
Sanctuary Candles - May 10 to May 16
Saint Raphael Donato and Eleanor Coluccio by daughter,Chris Sa cred Heart Mary Chirico by Family
Please pray for our recently deceased and
their beloved families
Stanley Slomberg
(beloved husband of Patricia)
If you need to schedule a Mass Intention, please call Barb at
412-661-3100, ext 110.
Father Joe and Father John want to thank
everyone for all the surprises on the 47th Anniversary of their Ordination on May 5th!!
They said it was one of the best anniversaries ever.
Birth Announcements
We would like to celebrate births during the time of the lockdown by posting birth announcements in the bulletin for all parishioners to see.
If you know of anyone who has had a baby, please let us know by calling Barb at 412-661-3100, ext 110.