Welcome to Sts. Gregory & Barnabas Parish United In Christ Pastor Rev. Robert L. Ruston Daily Mass: (See inside for locations) 8:00AM Monday 6 S O T F 11, 2018 MISSION STATEMENT As Catholic Christians, we will live to serve God and each other. And do His will as one family united in Faith. We will teach, serve, and be an example to the youth of the parish that they will come to a full understanding of Christ and His plan for their lives. We will nurture the gifts and talents of all parish members and use them wisely for the glory of God. We will compassionately implement the Spiritual and Corporal works of Mercy for those in our Parish, Diocese and throughout the world. Through the celebration of the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist, we affirm our Communion with Christ and each other. All are welcome. Tuesday Wednesday Friday 6:30PM Thursday Weekend Liturgy: Saturday: 4:00PM (Daisytown) Sunday: 8:00AM (Bon Air) 11:00AM (Daisytown) 120 Boltz Street 408 Luzon Avenue Johnstown, PA 15902 Phone: 814-536-6818 EMAIL: stsgregbar@dioceseaj.org Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00AM - 2:00PM Visit us on the WEB! www.ssgregbar.org Join us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/ groups/ssgregorybarnabas/ A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, If you wish, you can make me clean. Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, I do will it. Be made clean. Mk 1:40 41 Reconciliation: Saturday: Noon 12:30PM (Daisytown) Saturday: 3:15 3:45PM (Daisytown) Sacrament of Baptism: Parents are to be examples to their children by being registered, active members of the Parish. Please call the rectory office to make arrangements. Sacrament of Marriage: Couples planning to marry are to make arrangements at least nine months prior to their wedding date. Diocesan Guidelines regarding Marriage Preparation must be followed. The Catholic party/parties is/are to be registered, active members in the parish. Anointing of the Sick: Please call the church office if you have a family member or friend in the hospital who would like to receive the Sacraments. The homebound and parishioners in nursing homes should also receive the Sacrament of the Sick and Holy Communion. Parish Membership: New members are always welcome! If you are moving into, within, or out of the Parish, please call the Rectory Office and let us know. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA): All who would like more information about membership in the Roman Catholic Church are invited to call the Church Office.
Welcome to Sts. Gregory & Barnabas Parish February 11, 2018 WEEKLY SCHEDULE MASS SCHEDULE (Mass Stipend $10) Sunday, Feb. 11th K 11; Confessions 10th Grade Black & Indian Collec on Wednesday, Fr. Bob s Day off Ash Wednesday Thursday, FF Prep both loca ons Friday, FF Dinners both loca ons Next Sunday, Feb. 18th K 11; Confessions 4th & 5th Grade M T (SG) 8:00AM (SB) 8:00AM W (SG) 8:00AM (SG) N (SB) 6:30PM T (SB) 6:00PM F (SB) 8:00AM S (SG) 4:00PM S (SB) 8:00AM (SG) 11:00AM Family members are asked to present Offertory Gifts at weekend masses being offered for their loved ones. Catherine Huss by Becky & Jessy Santoyo Denise (Keytack) Boyer by Frances Middler Helene Goller by Family Phil Brunetto by Wayne Sutherland Violet Wieczorek by Mr. & Mrs. Hamula Michael & Mary Kohan Wedd. Anniv. by Children & Families Elizabeth Karan by Mike & Pat Petrunak Robert & Eileen Skelly Wedd. Anniv. by Family For the People James P. Keelen by Dana Dragotto RELIGIOUS ED SCHEDULE CLASS 9:30AM - 10:45AM 2/11 K 11; Confessions 10th Grade 2/18 K 11, Confessions 4 & 5 Grade 2/25 K 11; Confessions 6th grade Confirma on Sessions for both & 11th. Rite of Commitment 10 graders at 11AM Mass, includes sponsors Choir Prac ce is every Wednesday in Bon Air at 6:30PM. Please contact: Marlene Kotch 539 8292 A LOOK AT WHATS AHEAD 2/14 Ash Wednesday Valen nes Day 2/16 WEEKLY FF FRIDAYS D/BA MAKE NOTE: The following Thursday Masses will be at 6:00PM instead of 6:30PM: Feb. 15th & March 15th 6PM in Bon Air; April 19th 6PM in Daisytown. Liturgical Reflection When a Catholic dies, the community gathers with the family and friends of the deceased to give praise and thanks to God for Christ's victory over sin and death, to commend the deceased to God's tender mercy and compassion, and to seek strength in the proclamation of the paschal mystery, the dying and rising of the Lord. At death the Christian community is joined together in faith as one Body of Christ to reaffirm in sign and symbol, word and gesture that each believer through baptism shares in the death and resurrection and can look to the day when all the elect will be raised up and united in the kingdom of light and peace. Order of Christian Funerals, 1998-1989, Number 129. 2018, Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Liturgy Office The Weekend of the Collec on Today, our parish will take up the 134th annual Na onal Black and Indian Mission Collec on. Our support of this collec on helps build the Church in African American, Na ve American, and Alaska Na ve communi es from coast to coast, [including our diocese, which received $289 from the Black and Indian Mission Collec on last year]. Schools, parish religious educa on programs, and diocesan ministries depend on your generosity to help them spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ! You can help meet unmet needs with a generous contribu on today. Thank you for your support. The Week A er the Collec on Thank you to everyone who par cipated in the 134th annual Black and Indian Mission Collec on last weekend. Your prayerful support enables people to come to know Jesus Christ in African American, Na ve American, and Alaska Na ve communi es all over the U.S.A. Spreading the Gospel couldn t happen without your support! In your prayers please remember Vera Mae Sis Partsch Mother to Rebecca Berkebile, Raymond Jr. & Christine Leichliter; Grandmother & Great-Grandmother to several grandchildren; who died recently. May she rest in peace. May God bless and console her family. G H E F is attached! This is used to raise money to help pay for the kids going to Camp Z. Parents of Camp Z kids are asked to please help us in sending your child to Camp Z. Feel free to ask your neighbors, family members and coworkers. Orders need to be turned in by Tuesday, February 20th Orders will be at the church the week of TBD and placed in back of the church if you notate which church on top corner of the form (D or BA). Please keep the last page (pink) of the order form for your records (church gets the rest) and keep it in a safe place until the candy is delivered. Please make checks payable to SS Gregory and Barnabas Parish; (Do NOT make payable to Gertrude Hawk). You can pay now or when the candy order comes in. Please support this fundraiser; we make 50% of the profit! We all purchase Easter candy for our children s baskets, this would be for a good cause! Please do not hesitate to contact Andi at 266-2806 with any questions. Help send kids to CAMP
FROM THE DESK OF FATHER BOB This year Ash Wednesday falls on Valentine Day which is associated with love while the season of Lent that begins that same day brings to mind a need for repentance and renewal because we stray from that perfect love manifested by our God, the Creator, for us in the person of Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son. The relationships we form, the love we share, lasts beyond this earthly life, which is marked by the ashes placed upon our foreheads this week. Unfortunately there is a temptation in this practice to simply appear to be doing it right, which can then easily slip into selfrighteousness like the Pharisees of old. This sacramental sign of ashes on our forehead is an admission of our knowledge of our own personal deaths, not only to sin but to life as we know it on this earth. These ashes remind us of our end, when we will be face-to-face with our Creator. But there is also the temptation to keep this practice because we want others to know we went to church but perhaps have no intention of almsgiving, prayer, and fasting for the next 40 days. It is meant to be a symbolic cleansing of the temples of our soul so that the presence of the crucified and risen Lord might be more visible in our daily words and actions. Then on Easter Sunday we are sent forth from the tombs of human sin and selfishness to proclaim that Jesus is risen, that He is alive in our time and place in history through the likes of each of us. In Hebrew, the word for repentance is to turn, like the turning of the earth to the sun as we approach the season of Spring. Ashes can be made only from fire, the utter and nearly complete consumption of a thing into something entirely new. We recall through this ritual how fragile life is, that the refining fire of the Spirit of God will purify us and make us new as we continue our journey to the promised Kingdom. The ashes remind us of our end, when we will be face-to-face with our Maker, who indeed knows our hearts and our actions. At that point we stand alone with the bonds of love we have created throughout our lives on this earth. We have been graced into existence for only a short while. We will return to the earth from which we came, but something of God still remains, something eternal grasps for the infinite which we call our soul. These ashes are signs of such conversion, our promise to transform the ash heaps of destruction into lights of hope and fires of compassion. Though they will disappear tomorrow from our foreheads, my prayer is that they will then find a place in our hearts for the next 40 days. WEEKLY FISH FRIES begin Friday, Feb 16th at both halls. We need plenty of volunteers to insure we continue our tradition of good dinners and service with a smile. It is a lot of work but it can also be fun! HOSPITALIZED Tom Zepka PLEASE, if you have a loved one admitted to the hospital or nursing home contact the office. The hospital may take your church information, but we are not always notified. Fr. Bob likes to get to the hospital in a timely manner, but cannot if he doesn t know. Thanks for your help. PRAYER CHAIN Do you know someone who needs prayers? Please contact Debbie Washington at 536-3616 or dlwashi@hotmail.com to place a name on the parish Prayer Chain! Boxes for requests are also located in the vestibules of our worship sites. PRAYERFUL REMEMBRANCE FOR ALL SERVING IN THE MILITARY Ryan Wood, Army; Nathan Brezovic; Fr. Frantisek Halka, Army; Major David Dietz, Army; Petty Officer Tony Pinkas, Navy; Second Infantry Brigade & Det 1, Company C, 2nd 104th; Navy Corpsman Marina J. Sumrada, Annapolis (MD) Naval Academy Hospital Please contact the parish office (536-6818) if we need to add or remove any of our military personnel from this list. Thank you. Fish Fry Week in Daisytown: Fridays, February 16th-March 23rd; Good Friday, March 30th Thursdays fish is cut and packed. This process takes approximately two hours beginning at 8:00AM. It is also time to clean the shrimp. Again this process can be done in 2 hours if we have enough help. Thursdays at 5:30PM we will begin baking for the dessert counter. BAKING HELP NEEDED! During this Lenten Fish Fry Season, we will be baking everything Thursday evening starting at 5:30 PM. We could used extra help during this time. Please come lend a hand. First baking session will be February 15th. Friday mornings 8AM, is when we bread the shrimp & fish, cut cabbage and prepare the cole slaw. Friday afternoon we begin serving at 4PM, extra help is needed at 3:30PM to prepare. We also need extra help after the dinner is completed at 6:30PM to pack and store the leftovers and setup the Religious Education classrooms on Sunday March 4th & 25th, and April 1st. REMINDER: 11th Grade Spring Group Service Project is to reset hall 9:05AM Sunday mornings February 18th, 25th; March 11th, 18th. Fish Fry Week in Bon Air: Fridays, February 16th-March 23rd G F G P G T!!! Friday morning fish is cut and breaded. Friday afternoon we begin serving at 4PM. We also need extra help after the dinner is completed to pack and store the leftovers, and clean off counters/stove/fryers etc. 6:30PM. Guests are always amazed at the number of parishioners who are actively involved in making these dinners possible. Those remarks also speak volumes about the vibrancy and life of our faith community. Help us through the next seven weeks and we will give you the standard pink slips for unemployment compensation at Easter! Jr./Sr. high students are asked to fulfill their service requirement by assisting at either hall. Make this a part of your Lenten discipline and discover that it can also be an enjoyable experience.
Families and the Gospel February 11 Mark 1:40-45 Family life is about decisions. The leper in today s gospel knew this when he said to Jesus. If you will, you can make me clean. Jesus knew this when he said, I do will it. Love is not an emotion. It is a decision to be with and for another person in good times and bad, even when we don t feel like it. One Liners In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma but never let him be the period. Some people are kind, polite, and sweet, un l you try to sit in their pews. IN THE COMMUNITY: SPAGHETTI DINNER: at Cover Hill Volunteer Fire Dept. on Feb 18 & Mar 18 from 11:30PM-2:30PM. Cost $8 Adults; $5 Children 12 & under) Take out is available. NIGHT AT THE RACES: Hosted by Cover Hill Vol. Fire Dept. on Sat. Mar 10th Doors open 5:30. First race 6:30PM. Cost $15. includes admission for 1, Food & Beverages. $25 payout of your horse/jockey wins. For tickets contact 243-2987 or 539-3473 or see one of the local Vol. Fireman. RIVERS CASINO TRIP: The Church of the Transfiguration, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. $30.00 per person. Includes $20.00 slot play and $5.00 food voucher. Bus will leave The Church of the Transfiguration School Hall at 8:45AM and leave the Rivers to return home at 6:00PM. For more information, please contact Sharon Santichen @ 814-536-1732 or Andy Solomon @ 814-322- 3287. FINANCIAL NEWS Fiscal Year July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018 Offertory Totals for the week of February 4, 2018 Weekly Offering $3,147 Misc. Income $137 Votive Candles $44 Building Fund $382 Fuel $32 Ash Wednesday $35 Sol. of Mary/Imma. Conc. $10 / $5 First Offering $4 Total $3,796 Weekly Needs $5,000 2/4 $3,796 (Over/under) $1,204 TV Ministry $1 Black & Indian $42 CMD 2018: $416 LAY MINISTRY SCHEDULE Ministers are expected to take the responsibility to find a substitute if they cannot fulfill their assignment. Liturgy Feb 10/11 Feb 17/18 Feb 24/25 4PM Lector: D. Stroz T. Sorchilla D EM: B M. Krawczyk P. Harteis P. Harteis Servers: Sorchillas 8AM Lector: MB Rykala S. Rozum (BA) B MB Rykala S. Rozum Servers: Rozum Rozum Rozum 11AM Lector: J. Allison J. Allison D EM: B M. Krawczyk Servers J & J Dietz Sidas REMINDER: To receive a copy of your 2017 Giving Statement please contact the parish office at 536-6818 or via email: stsgregbar@dioceseaj.org If you have requested a statement in the past we will automatically email your statement by January 19th. Or if you prefer, I will gladly mail you a copy just let me know. Thanks Kristen Hi my name is Hannah McCombie and I am an 11th grader at Conemaugh Valley. For my individual confirmation service project I will be collecting soda/beer tabs for the Ronald McDonald House at Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh. The Ronald McDonald House is a place for families of seriously ill children receiving care from Children s Hospital, to say at with little to no cost. At the Ronald McDonald House the rooms that the families stay at are just like hotel rooms and are equipped with everyday objects the family may need during their stay. By collecting soda tabs the Ronald McDonald House turns the tabs into money by taking them to be recycled. With the money that is created, the Ronald McDonald House can buy food for the families, everyday objects that may be needed by the families or red wagons for the children to get back and forth from the hospital to the Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald House tries to be a home away from home and a comforting place for the families of seriously ill children to stay at while their child is in the hospital. In the back of the church there will be a red collection box that you can place tabs. I will be collecting the tabs from now until Sunday, March 25, 2018 Thanks Hannah The Catholic Campus Ministry students of Pitt-Johnstown will be going on a mission trip to Germantown, Pennsylvania during the first week in May. Students will spend the week serving in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, schools, nursing and retired priests homes, parks, and many other service facilities. This is the ministry's fourth annual mission trip, and 15-20 students normally participate. The trip is partially funded by UPJ however, a large portion of the expense falls on the students and on the ministry program. The ministry also takes donations at all times during the year to supplement our many events including three retreats each year and our yearly trip to Washington, DC to attend the March for Life. All donations are welcomed and will be greatly appreciated! Checks can be made payable to UPJ Catholic Campus Ministry or UPJ-CCM. Donations can be mailed to: Pitt-Johnstown Catholic Campus Ministry, 450 Schoolhouse Road, Johnstown, PA 15904 Thank you for your support and may God bless you! CCM Students & Becca LaBar, President Catholic Campus Ministry
I D www.dioceseaj.org N F P Does your method of family planning strengthen your emotional intimacy with your spouse?...work with (not against) the gift of your fertility?...nurture a loving relationship with God and the Church?...increase your self-respect and growth as a person/couple? The Billings Method of NFP (www.boma-usa.org or www.familyplanning.net) is the result of decades of scientific research by medical researchers. NFP honors the Church s respect for the unitive and procreative purpose of married love-making. If you haven t checked out NFP, you haven t made an informed choice. Certified diocesan instructors are located throughout our diocese. Introductory presentations to groups also available. Contact our diocesan Family Life Office, 814-886-5551; familylife@dioceseaj.org FAITH & LIGHT Sharing Faith & Friendship with Intellectual Disabled Persons A faith sharing group which also includes family members, caregivers, friends. Meets monthly, Sundays, 1:00-4:00 pm at a handicap accessible location. Call Gaye (814) 472-7317 or Family Life Office (814) 886-5551. www.faithandlight.org; www.faithandlightusaeast.org I? There is hope through Retrouvaille, a Christian peer ministry. Retrouvaille (French for rediscovery ) is Catholic, but open to all couples. See www.retrouvaille.org; for brochure or to talk to couples in our diocese who have used Retrouvaille contact diocesan Family Life Office (814) 886-5551 or familylife@dioceseaj.org Your marriage is meant to be a Sacrament a source of life and energy. You owe it to yourself to heal. K 5 10? A son or daughter, sibling, niece or nephew, or you yourselves...bishop Mark has a message for you! To receive this letter, send the couple s name, mailing address, email and whether married 5 or 10 years to the Family Life Office, 5379 Portage St., Lilly, PA 15938; 814-886-5551; familylife@dioceseaj.org. Be sure to indicate it is for the anniversary letter from Bishop Mark. MARRIAGE PREPARATION SERIES 2018 ~Pre-registration required. Early registration advised some series fill up months in advance. ~2018 COST: $70 per couple (includes all sessions in a series) Fee payable at the first session (check payable to Family Life Office ) Please come 15 minutes early to the first session for registration purposes. ~Cancellation due to weather: For classes in all locations, call the Family Life Office. A taped message will list cancellations. If you can t attend due to driving conditions, call the Family Life Office (814) 886-5551 during office hours (M-F 8:30-4:00) for make-up instructions. Register for a series through the Family Life Office by e-mail (familylife@dioceseaj.org) or call our office at (814-886-5551). https://www.dioceseaj.org/family-life/marriage-preparation/ 2018 dates January 6 and 20 (*Snow date: Feb. 3) Sat. 9:00 am-12:45 pm at Cathedral of the Blessed (Church Hall) One Cathedral Square Altoona January 13 and 27 (*Snow date: Feb. 3) Sat. 9:00 am-12:45 pm at Resurrection Church Hall 324 Chestnut St. Johnstown March 7 14 21 (*Snow date: April 4) Wed. 7:00-9:30 pm at St. Rose of Lima School 5514 Roselawn Ave. Altoona April 17 24 May 1 (*Snow date: May 8) Tues. 7:00-9:30 pm at St. John the Evangelist Church Hall 309 Lotz Ave., Lakemont Altoona May 2 9 16 Wed. 7:00-9:30 pm at Our Lady of the Alleghenies Church Hall 608 Main St. Lilly June 7 14 21 Thurs. 7:00-9:30 pm at Our Lady of Victory Activity Center 820 Westerly Pkwy. State College Sept. 12 19 26 Wed. 7:00-9:30 pm at St. Francis of Assisi Activity Center 134 Barron Ave. Johnstown Oct. 16 23 30 Tues. 7:00-9:30 pm at St. John the Evangelist School Auditorium 116 E. Bishop St. Bellefonte