It is the purpose of St. John Neumann Parish, a gathered people, to act in word, sacrament, witness and service toward all, in gratitude to God our Father, through Jesus Christ our Brother with the Holy Spirit, as our Guide. A Pennsylvania Charitable Trust July 27, 2014 17th Sunday in Ord. Time Catholic Heart Workcamp Mission Trip @ Champaign, IL Week of July 6th 2230 Rochester Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15237 (412) 366-2020 www.stjohnneumannpgh.org
CALENDAR Sunday, July 27 1:00 PM Baptisms 4:00 PM Light of Life Conf. Service Project 6:30 PM Volleyball Monday, July 28 7:00 PM 1st Sacraments Parent/Child Mt. Tues. July 29 Weds. July 30 Hoagie Sale 7:00 PM Centering Prayer 7:00 PM RCIA Inquiry 7:00 PM Good Shepherd Materials Workshop Thurs, July 31 9:45 AM Scripture Study 11:30 AM Good Shepherd Materials Workshop 4:00 PM Light of Life Conf. Service Project 6:00 PM Men s Cookout Friday, Aug. 1 Young Adult Camping Retreat 8:00 PM Pleasant Valley Meal Prep Sat. Aug. 2 Young Adult Camping Retreat Parish Office 412-366-2020, ext. 10 Religious Education Office 412-366-5885 Reverend Albin C. McGinnis, Ext. 20 Pastor and Trust Administrator Pastor2@stjohnneumannpgh.org Richard Caruso, Ext. 16, Permanent Deacon Barbara Stokes, Ext.13 Director for Rel. Education, Family & Sac. Ministries Barbara Matera, Ext. 18 Dir. for Rel. Ed, Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Julie Amatangelo, Ext. 14 Director of Youth Ministry Daniel Ficarri, Ext. 10, Music Minister Andrew James, Ext. 11, Facilities Manager Larry Badaczewski, Ext. 56, Pastoral Counselor Jeanette Pappert, Ext. 15, Protecting God s Child Victim Assistance Hotline: 1-888-808-1235 Pastoral Council: sjnpc@stjohnneumannpgh.org READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Jer 13:1-11; Dt 32:18-21; Mt 13:31-35 Tuesday: Jer 14:17-22; Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13; Jn 11:19-27 or Lk 10:38-42 Wednesday:Jer 15:10, 16-21; Ps 59:2-4, 10-11, 17-18; Mt 13:44-46 Thursday:Jer 18:1-6; Ps 146:1b-6ab; Mt 13:47-53 Friday: Jer 26:1-9; Ps 69:5, 8-10, 14; Mt 13:54-58 Saturday: Jer 26:11-16, 24; Ps 69:15-16, 30-31, 33-34; Mt 14:1-12 Sunday: Is 55:1-3; Ps 145:8-9, 15-18; Rom 8:35, 37-39; Mt 14:13-21 THE WEEK AHEAD MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, July 26, St. James, Apostle 9:00 AM Paul Krepp (John & Nancy Edmundson) 5:30 PM Ken Wagner (Peggy & George Nagy) Sunday, July 27, 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 AM For the People of SJN Parish 9:30 AM Mary O Lare (Connie) 11:30 AM Frank Furiga (Mark & Barbara Matera) Monday, July 28 9:00 AM Michael Chieffe (Jeanette Pappert) Tuesday, July 29 9:00 AM Frances Emark (Mike Conroy) Wednesday, July 30 6:30 PM Dave Nabuda (Paul Lang) Thursday, July 31 9:00 AM Patty Sproule (Mark & Barbara Matera) Friday, August 1 9:00 AM Bobbi Loiacano (Cheri Moraca) Saturday, August 2 9:00 AM Carl A. Balucha (Susan & Tom Tutchko) 5:30 PM Frank Mandl (George & Elisabeth Mandl) Sunday, Aug. 3, 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 AM Dolores Lang (Jack & Mary McCluskey) 9:30 AM For the People of SJN Parish 11:30 AM Anne Greco (Mr & Mrs Andy Hvizgyak) EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Sat. Aug. 2-5:30 PM E. Marshall, A. McCafferty, C. Hatcher, C. Battista, T. Hart, A. Janosco, L. Emark Sun. Aug. 3-8:00 AM J. & I. McClenahan, K. Miller, M. McCluskey, P. Lang, B. Pugh, C. Balsley 9:30 AM - M. & M. Scheerbaum, J. Mack, C. & M. Shepard, M. Turo, K. Deken 11:30 AM - B. Chufo, A. Guzzetti, A. & P. Skorupka, D. Turo, B. Furiga, D. Huber LECTORS Sat. Aug. 2-5:30 PM S. Burkes, L. Young Sun. Aug. 3-8:00 AM V. Sheridan, D. Chappel 9:30 AM E. Cavanaugh, M. Davison 11:30 AM C. Browne, M. Petrasek ALTAR SERVERS Sat. Aug. 2-5:30 PM M. & J. Dosch, P. Mallampalli Sun. Aug. 3-8:00 AM T. Davison, A. Siclari, N. Bridges 9:30 AM T. & D. Antonelli, I. Cavanaugh 11:30 AM Cottone Family July 20 Operating $7,206.00 Camp. Alive 4,683.50 Parish Share 4,020.00 Faith Formation 2,110.00 Misc. 223.34 $18,242.84 Thank you for your generous support of our parish!
PARISH NEWS Please welcome to St. John Neumann, Julie Amatangelo who is our new Youth Minister. Julie grew up in the North Hills, graduated from North Allegheny & is coming from St. Valentine Parish in Bethel Park. She will be speaking at all Masses this week-end. Please welcome her! MOSES TRIP The bus isn t full yet.waiting for you! Hope you checked your calendar...so you can plan now to see a spectacular production of Moses at the Sight and Sound Theater in Lancaster, PA on Oct. 17 & 18. Trip includes Lenzner motor coach, one night lodging at Cork Factory Hotel, 2 meals - 1 breakfast and 1 dinner, reserved seat at Moses, shopping at outlets and Amish Farmer s Market plus meal and driver gratuities and taxes. Price options are: single- $321, double - $258, triple - $237 and quad- $226. $50 non-refundable deposit (made out to SJN) holds your seat. Could be a parent/child trip, BFF trip, family trip for anyone over 10 yrs. old. You decide then make the plan. Look at our website for registration forms. Don t procrastinate - seats go fast! PS - this could qualify for excused absence from school for your child or teen. MEN S COOK-OUT AT SJN RECTORY All the men of the parish are invited to a Cook-Out at the SJN Rectory on Thursday, July 31 st at 6:00 pm. We ll have lots of time to meet, make new friends, socialize and play games (if you wish) and enjoy some picnic fare. Please contact Andrew James at 412-366-5885 x11 or ajames@stjohnneumannpgh.org to let us know you are coming. Invite a friend and swell the crowd. If you would like to help, let Andy know when you RSVP. Extra hands always make the preparations easier. Let s spend a great summer evening together. SAVE THE DATE! Daniel Ficarri @SJN: A Retrospective Concert Thursday, August 7 6:30-8:00 pm St. John Neumann Parish Join Danny as he reflects on how our parish family has inspired him to love and serve God through music. Wish him well as he prepares to pursue his passion for sacred music at Juilliard this fall. A reception will follow the concert in Bovard Hall. HOAGIES Make lunch or dinner easy on Wednesday, July 30. Order an Italian, Roast Beef or Turkey hoagies for $6 and take a break from the kitchen. Pepperoni rolls are also available - 2 for $6. Call the Rel. Ed. Office to place your order by Monday, July 28. GOLDEN WEDDING CELEBRATION The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh is again planning its annual Golden Wedding Celebration for the couples who have been married for 50 years. This year s celebration will take place on Sunday, October 12, 2014 beginning with a Mass at 2:30 PM at St. Paul Cathedral. Bishop Zubik will be the celebrant. A reception will follow in the lower hall at the Cathedral. If you are a parishioner celebrating your 50 th wedding anniversary in 2014, and would be interested in attending the celebration along with the other jubilarian couples, please call the parish office (ext. 10) or drop a note in the weekly collection basket no later than August 10. Invitations will be sent out after responses have been received. APPALACHIA CLOTHING DRIVE Last week! Accepting all clothes which are clean and in good repair. Any gender, season, and age are appropriate. The clothes will be delivered early Monday morning, August 4th. Thank you for your generosity. RCIA - RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION Share your joy and your faith. Now is the time to think and pray and discern if the Lord is calling you to our Catholic Way of following Him. The RCIA process is a learning and sharing environment and it begins with a Period of Inquiry. During this period anyone unbaptized, baptized in another Christian tradition or baptized Catholic who has not completed the sacraments of initiation (Baptism, Eucharist and Confirmation) come together to ask faith questions. If any of these circumstances apply to you, we would love to walk this journey of inquiry with you. If you know someone who might be interested, please extend the invitation to them. Then come with them on Wednesday, July 30 at 7 pm. The door is open in Conf. Room A. A MEDICARE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AT SJN YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS AUGUST 13 @ 7 PM - More info to follow Questions: Call Fran Lehman at 412 366 3520
SACRAMENTAL CONFIRMATION Our next service at Light of Life is TO- DAY, July 27 and another on Thursday, July 31. We leave SJN at 4 pm and finish at 8 pm. You must be pre-registered to participate in this experience. Please check your calendars to make sure you have at least one Light of Life service time scheduled. AND ADD Sunday, Sept. 14 at the Martina Center for our formal Confirmation Retreat with Fr. Joe Freedy. Reserve the date! It is important! (P.S. We don t have an official Confirmation date yet!) But we need the prayers of this parish community to be ready for Confirmation. Other Info: Make-up sessions for those who missed any of our weeks in May for Confirmation Prep will be: Monday, July 28 and Monday, August 4 from 9 am to 11:30 am. ****Please note: We also have a list of 8 people who we think missed most of 7th or 8th grade. If you think you might be one this list, please call the education office (ext. 12) now. We can still help you get ready for Confirmation if we start now! BAPTISM PREP How wonderful to be baptized! Baptism is the beginning of a life time journey with the Lord in a Catholic community. To help you reflect on this awesome sacrament, we offer a Baptism prep session before you schedule the Baptism of your child. Our next session is Sunday, August 17. Call the Rel. Ed. office to register (Ext. 12) WHILE ON VACATION Visit www.masstimes.org to locate a church to attend Mass when you are traveling. ANOINTING OF THE SICK Anyone in need of the power of the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is invited to come to the 9 AM Mass on Sat. Aug. 2. This sacrament offers strength to us in body, mind or spirit. If you are in need of this sacrament immediately, please call Fr. Al to make arrangements. MARRIAGE PREP Weddings take a lot of planning but they only last a day. Help your marriage last a lifetime by setting time aside now for a marriage prep class. October 25, Saturday, is the next all day session we have scheduled at SJN. You do not have to belong to SJN to come to this marriage prep session. Please put it on your schedule and register for the class. Call the Religious Education office to register 412-366-5885 X12 Form and info can be found online. Thanks for including the church in your "big event". FIRST COMMUNION - SPRING 2015 Our next and last meeting for information and prayer to begin the journey toward 1st Reconciliation and 1st Communion (Spring 2015) will be held MONDAY, July 28 at 7 pm in the chapel. It is a meeting for parent and child. If you think your son/daughter (age 7 or older) is ready to prepare for these sacraments and you have not attended a previous orientation in June, then please accept this invitation and join us on Monday, July 28 at 7 pm for an hour. SPIRITUAL PASSION & PURPOSE FOR MARRIAGE GET YOUR TICKET NOW! Make a date with your spouse Saturday, September 27, from 9 am to 1:30 pm at Sts. John & Paul Parish to renew the Passion and Purpose for Marriage. This is not a typical church event. It is an incredibly powerful opportunity for all married couples! Tickets are $25 per person and include exciting speakers, music and more. Tickets are limited and this is a diocesan sponsored event. Call the parish office (ext. 10) if you are interested in purchasing tickets. You can also order your tickets online at www.dynamidcatholic.com. Don t miss it! Keep the date open for the most important person in your life - your spouse! SCRIPTURE STUDY Join our informal adult group around the table in Conf. Room A from 9:45 till 11:15 on Thursday as we begin to read and study the Sunday Scriptures for next week - the 17th Sunday in Ordinary time. Coffee is on but we feast on the Word of God together. Come and See! Summer is a great time for Scripture! LOWC Last week at 9:30 Mass we had LOWC because Sara Hammel volunteered to lead it. Every Sunday we could invite the children IF we had more help! Consider this Sunday ministry this summer. Resources are available and training is provided. Call Barb Stokes for info. CENTERING PRAYER...continues to meet during the summer in the Good Shepherd Atrium. Their next session is Weds. July 30 at 7 pm. MAGNIFICAT, A MINISTRY TO CATHOLIC WOMEN Sat. Aug 16, 9 am to Noon Sheraton Warrendale, Cost is $20 Speaker: Kathy Wabick, who founded a ministry that prays at the bedside of the sick and dying. Register (by Aug. 8) at www.magnificatpittsburgh.org or call the parish office.
YOUNG ADULT CAMPING RETREAT Are you a college student? Do you like camping? If you said yes, then you should consider signing up for We Are Called- a young adults camping retreat. The retreat is planned by college students for college students to create an atmosphere of discussion about the challenges of taking responsibility for our own faith. The retreat is Friday, August 1st - Sunday, August 3rd at Pymatuning State Park (we will be carpooling there from the church). The cost to sign up is $28 for a weekend full of fun and faith. Please contact Sarah Fritsch at scf24@pitt.edu for more details. MISC. FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH?? LIGHT OF LIFE COLLECTION?? BLESSING OF EXPECTANT PARENTS?? BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENING THANKS Your donation for delicious bread last week helped hundreds to eat. All money is sent to Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to feed the hungry in far off lands. SUMMER BLOOD DRIVE Our summer drive for Central Blood Bank is scheduled for Sunday, August 24 th. Veteran and new donors will have the opportunity to make an appointment after Masses during the weekends of August 10 th and 17 th. Include a blood donation with all your other summer activities. Remember it is a gift that saves lives. DID YOU LOSE SOMETHING? There will be the last weekend for people to claim found items (jackets, sweaters, etc) from our Lost and Found box. They will be on display in Bovard Hall. Everything unclaimed will be turned over to the Appalachia clothing drive. Be sure to check it out. JACKPOT In our lottery and sweepstakes obsessed culture, it is common to ask ourselves or others what they would do if they won. In today s first reading, Solomon certainly hits the jackpot. What prize could be greater than having God Almighty agree to give you whatever you ask for? Out of all the things he could have asked for, Solomon chose to ask for understanding, and was rewarded with it. We would do well to wonder what we would ask for if God made us the same offer. Actually God does make us the same offer each and every day, by granting us another day of life, a bit of the earth s goods, some gift or ability, some call to goodness, some portion of the divine will. Each of these is a prize. We should stop and examine what we are going to do with our prize: keep it or use it selfishly, or put it at the service of the spread of the gospel? Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. PRAYER LIST Please pray for the new additions to our prayer list. If you would like to add someone to the list, instructions are provided at http://stjohnneumannpghprayer.blogspot.com. You can also contact the parish office, Kathy Buzzard at 412-366-0781 or send an email to sjnprayer@gmail.com. Jack Cook Bernice Pivirotto Bob Lupi Madeleine Jablonski Don Arnone SOCIAL Over 50 s club The Annual Picnic will be held on Aug. 18 at 3 pm. Bingo will start at 3:30 until 4:30 pm. Dinner will be served at 5, cost is $2 per person. Please contact Flora Ermlich at 412-366-0610 by August 11 to confirm that you are attending. OUTREACH PLEASANT VALLEY MENS SHELTER The next dinner is Friday, August 1st. If you would be willing to provide a side dish, casserole, dessert, salad, fruit or beverage, pleases contact Phyllis Huber (412-367-1437) or Cathy Gillis (412-548-3646). If you would prefer to donate an item (coffee, tea, creamers, granola bars, breakfast items which are always welcomed), be sure to let us know so that we do not miss picking up those items. VOLUNTEERS WELCOME TO JOIN FOOD BANK CREW AUGUST 12 Volunteer with SJN at the Greater Pgh. Community Food Bank on Tuesday, August 12. We will be working in the repack area to sort food donations and fill boxes for distribution to food banks, shelters, soup kitchens, etc. throughout 11 counties. Meet at the church's back doors at 8:00 AM to carpool; return approx. 2:00 PM after lunch out together. Limit: 12 volunteers. Register at 412-366-5638, ext. 12 with your name, phone #, email address by noon, Friday, August 8. During 2013, 8100 volunteers worked in the repack area to enable 5.4 million pounds to be distributed PACK ITEMS FOR THE STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES AT WORLD VISION RELIEF Volunteer at World Vision the second Wednesday of every month (next date August 13) from 9-12 noon. Call the SJN office at 412-366-5638, ext. 12 to sign up. Most volunteers drive directly to the site but anyone needing a ride should meet at the church at 9 am. We primarily sort and pack donated clothing for distribution to families and individuals in need both in the United States and internationally. Bring a friend! WV is located in a hilltop industrial park at 210 Overlook Dr, Sewickley, PA 15143 (above Glenfield or next exit south on I-79).