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RECONCILIATION Saturday at 11:00 am or you may call

the office to make an appointment.

BAPTISM We baptize during all Masses. Parents are required to attend a Pre-Baptism session

prior to the Baptism. Please call the office for more information.

MARRIAGE Arrangements must be made at

least six months in advance.

MINISTRY OF THE SICK If you know of anyone who is sick and cannot get to Mass, and they wish to receive the Eucharist, please call the office so arrangements can be made.

PARISH STAFF Pastor: Rev. Michael Crookston mcrookston@dioceseofgreensburg.org Parochial Vicar: Rev. Elmer Alforque ealforque@dioceseofgreensburg.org Music Director: Gina Covelli gcovelli@dioceseofgreensburg.org Director of Faith Formation: Scott Martin smartin@dioceseofgreensburg.org Bulletin Sec.: Tara Manderino tmanderino@dioceseofhgreensburg.org Maintenance: Patr ick Freder ick

BULLETIN DEADLINE Any article for the bulletin must be

in the office by Monday noon.

October 16, 2016

MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday: 4:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:30 a.m.; 10:30 a.m.

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday& Friday: 8:00 a.m. Wednesday NO MASS

May 19, 2019

LITURGIES FOR THE WEEK

Saturday, May 18 — Vigil4:00 PM † Donald E. Frolo by Wife, Alice & Family

Sunday, May 19 —5th Sunday of Easter 8:30 AM † Jessie Balogh by John Zawicki

10:30 AM † VirginiaYuschak by Ronald & Ritamarie Neff Monday, May 20

8:00 AM † Doris Kukler by Husband, Alex & Children Tuesday, May 21

8:00 AM † Steven Furio by Jim & Mary Earl Wednesday, May 22

No Mass Thursday, May 23

8:00 AM † Evelyn Kowell by Daughter, Paula Friday, May 24

8:00 AM † John Mikan by Wayne & Kathy Vlasic Saturday, May 25 — Vigil

4:00 PM † Kirk Danko by Danko Family Sunday, May 26 — 6th Sunday of Easter

8:30 AM † Metro Petrosky by Wife, Flo 10:30 AM † Mary Sue Patronella by Antoinetta Fiorillo

Parish Office: 44 PENNSYLVANIA BLVD

MONESSEN, PA 15062 Parish Office: 724-684-7661 • Fax: 724-684-8981

Church Hall: 724-684-5512 Religious Education: 724-929-9300

OFFICE HOURS Monday –Thursday: 8:30 a.m. –12; 1 p.m.– 3 p.m.

Friday: 8:30 a.m.—1:00 p.m.

How do you love?

Time Lector Eucharistic Altar Servers

4:00 p.m. S. Surdyn K. Byron J. Gigliotti Volunteer

B. Rizzuto A. Mauro

8:30 a.m. F. Petrosky J. Petritis D. Pastella A. Pastella

T. Todd Z. Tokar

10:30 a.m. M. Sacco LWC- S. Beneccio

S. Polomoscanik K. Imbrescia M. Gigliotti

J. Sacco Volunteer

Ministry Schedule — May 25 & 26

Money Counters - Monday, May 20 —Team #3 K. Byron

We are certainly not getting anything new from our scriptures today. They echo the same message that resounds throughout the teachings of Jesus; namely that we are simply to “have love for one another.” It is somewhat ironic that such a simple message be repeated over and over again, but this sums up Jesus’ entire ministry. If we were to take apart everything that Jesus did and taught it could be seen through this simple command of loving one another. I think that the question we need to ask ourselves is how something so simple can be so hard…but it is! We need to be clear in our understanding that Jesus is not ex-pecting us to do this alone; we will have His divine guidance and strength throughout our lives. If we listen to what is being told to us in our readings today, this certainly proves his point. The first reading once again informs us of the issues that the early church was having, along with the personal struggles of the disciples. This was no easy battle and it certainly would have been hard to make this command of Jesus a part of their everyday life. To love as Jesus commands is not easy; it requires a great deal of reserve on our part. Our reading from Revelation reminds us that there is a great reward awaiting all of those who follow the law of love. We are given a picture of what it will be like at the end of time. The great battle between good and evil, between the powers of this world and Christ are over. Christ now reigns over his kingdom. This vision gives all who believe a vision of hope. The old world of grief, pain, and mourning has ended and God is prom-ising his eternal presence in the midst of the old city of Jerusa-lem. All of this awaits those who “love.” These passages of reassurance offer a vision of joy and promise, now free from fear of enemies. Everything is new. The old order has passed away. It is the culmination of every hopeful promise made in the Scriptures and unites believers everywhere with God. All good things will come to those who love as we are being asked. This new command that Jesus gives is all about the pas-chal transformation that challenges us. We are to make the self-sacrificing love of Jesus a part of who we are and what we pro-fess to be. Our Easter joy is not found in avoiding the costs it makes on our lives, rather we are to embrace life for the sake of the new heaven and earth that it promises. By our own self-sacrificing love, we are the presence of the risen Christ for oth-ers. We are all drawn to give of ourselves in love. The problem is we all seem to define love to fit our needs and wants. We are all well aware of the fact that true love in the way that Jesus com-mands is hard. It is not just in words that we live this command; we must make it a part of our everyday living. The question we need to ask ourselves is: How do we love? How do we experience love and what do we do to reflect Christ’s commandment “to love one another”? This is what it means to be a follower of Christ. It is not what we say that is so important rather it is how we live and how we love that makes the real difference.

Game Night You asked for it, and you got it! Another Game Night. Save the date, Friday, June 28 at 6:30 p.m. We’re plan-ning on a fun evening of board games, trivia and Minute to Win it. There will be more details as we get closer to the event. If anyone would like to help, please call the office.

Memorial Day Mass on Monday, May 27 will be at Epiphany Church at 9:00 am

Faith DLA Well I think that we finally met our Diocesan goal of $41,539! This goal was met by about 265 of our parishioners and I am grateful to you for that. From this point on everything that is given will stay 100% in our parish. If the other 70% would only support the DLA we would be in wonderful shape. With the money that comes in beyond this point we will use to update and beautify our church. There are many things that we can do to make the church feel warm-er and more welcoming. I am asking that if you have not yet made a contribution to DLA, won’t you consider doing so. We are all in this together and it is only when we work to-gether that we will achieve success.

Votive Candles: Utility & Energy: Ascension Thurs.

Children & Adult Collection:

Total Collection:

205 135

17

$5,595

$5,954

Weekly Collection May 12

Stewardship

Groups CDA Mother/Child Dinner Meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 21st, in the Church Hall, at 6:00 p.m. For additional information contact Regent Genemore at 724-708-8335.

Around the Diocese FamilyFest June 9 FamilyFest, a day of fun, food, music and worship, will be held June 9 at the Christ Our Shepherd Center. It beings at 11 a.m. with an outdoor Mass celebrated by Bishop Malesic. The day will include parish food vendors, a children’s tent, teen café, bounce house, balloon artist, face painting, a rock painting ex-travaganza and more. Indoor bingo is at 2 p.m. Free parking and admission. Go to FamilyFestGreensburg.org for updated infor-mation and to register.

St. Sebastian Annual Junque Sale The dates have been set for the Annual Junque Sale: July 26 & 27. It’s time to clean out that attic, closets and drawers. Collections are every Monday and Wednesday from 10-12 and 6-8 pm at St. Sebastian Parish garage beginning on May 20. Follow the donation sign. Call Bonnie Halinka at 724-322-0355 if you would like a personal appointment to deliver your treas-ures. Volunteers are needed.

GCC Alumni Mass on June 2 The Greensburg Central Catholic Alumni Association invites alumni, family and friends of the school to a Mass celebrated by Bishop Malesic on June 2 at 2 p.m. at Blessed Sacrament Ca-thedral. Reception follows. Respond to GCCHS.org/AlumniMassRSVP.

St. Edward Church Golf Outing St. Edward Parish Golf Outing is scheduled to take place on Friday, June 14th at the Madison Club in Madison with a shotgun start at 9:00am. This is a 4-person scramble. Fee is $90 per person/$360 per foursome. Register by calling the par -ish office at 724-446-5197 or e-mail stedwardgolfout-ing@gmail.com

Car Show This weekend we had our first car show and I am grateful to everyone who worked to make it such a success. I would like to thank Randy Marino for the work he did in putting this togeth-er. All of his committee members did a wonderful job. This is just one more way that we open ourselves to the community with a spirit of welcome and for that we all need to be thankful.

Parish Picnic Looking ahead at our Parish Picnic… June 23 is the date set for our annual par ish picnic held at Cedar Creek Park. This has always been a relaxing day just to come out and enjoy each other’s company. We are going to have a meeting about the picnic this Thursday, May 23 at 6:00 p.m. in the church hall. Anyone who would like to help in

any way with the picnic is most welcome. Some of the needs for the picnic deals with children’s games, adult games, transporta-tion and coordinating the food at the pavil-ion. If you are able to help, I hope to see you on Thursday!

The Boys’ Choir that have shared sacred music in some of the world’s most famous churches – Notre Dame in Paris, Sagrada Família in Barcelona, and Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin — will be at Epiphany of Our Lord Church on Saturday, June 8. They will sing at Mass and hold a concert immediately following. James Brian Smith is the organist.

We all love Fr. Mike’s homilies and wish we could hear them again. Some of his homilies are posted on the Epiph-any of Our Lord Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/

Epiphany-of-Our-Lord-165220990523049/). An easy way to get to the page the first time is to go to the website (www.eolparish.com) and click on the Facebook link. The homilies are hosted on Ser-mon.net. Once you are on that site, you will have the opportunity to listen or download.

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