JANUARY 29,
2012
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
THIS WEEK AT HOLY WISDOM
SUNDAY,
JANUARY 29, 2012
RELIGIOUS
EDUCATION CLASSES
12:00
Noon—Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church
TUESDAY,
JANUARY 31, 2012
MASS
& SAINT JUDE NOVENA
8:00 AM—Administrative
Center Chapel
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
CHOIR
REHEARSAL
7:00 PM—Administrative Center Library
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
MASS
WITH BLESSING OF CANDLES
8:00
AM—Administrative Center Chapel
FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY, 3, 2012
FIRST
FRIDAY MASS WITH BLESSING OF THROATS
9:00 AM—St. Ambrose
Manor
SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 4, 2012
MASS
& DEVOTIONS TO THE
IMMACULATE
HEART OF MARY
8:00
AM—St. Boniface Rectory Chapel
SUNDAY,
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
COFFEE
& DONUTS
After
11:00 AM Mass—Merz Hall
RELIGIOUS
EDUCATION CLASSES
12:00
Noon—Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church
UPCOMING
EVENTS:
MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
FESTIVAL
CORE COMMITTEE
6:30 PM—Archives Room
SATURDAY,
APRIL 14, 2012
FLEA
MARKET/THRIFT STORE
8:00 AM to 3:00 PM—Norbert Hall
WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY,
AUGUST 15-18, 2012
NORTHSIDE
SUMMER CELEBRATION
Festival
Grounds
PARISHIONER
INFORMATION UPDATE
In order to keep
our parish records current, we are requesting all parishioners who are moving
within or out of the parish, who may have had any change due to any
circumstance regarding name, address, phone numbers, or e-mail address, to
please notify the parish.
FLEA MARKET/THRIFT STORE DONATIONS
Our annual flea market/thrift store will be held on Saturday, April
14, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Norbert Hall. Anyone wishing to donate
usuable items should bring any furnishings, toys, appliances, and other
household goods to the former baptistry areas behind the iron gates off the
vestibules in the back of both churches before or after weekend Masses. No
clothing, books, televisions or computers will be accepted.
BE INFORMED; NOT SURPRISED!
READ THE PARISH BULLETIN!
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK
Catholic Schools Week is being celebrated in the Diocese of Pittsburgh
and across the country this week. Many schools have special liturgies and
events this week. Contact them for specific details regarding their
celebrations. Please continue to support Catholic schools and education with
your financial contributions and prayers. Your support helps to give students
the great beginnings that last a lifetime.
PRESENTATION OF THE LORD (CANDLEMAS DAY)
Observed annually on
February 2, the Presentation of the Lord commemorates the Presentation
of the Lord in the temple forty days after his birth. Candles have been blessed
on this day since the twelfth century. Candles will be blessed at the 8:00 AM
Mass. The offering for a set of two beeswax candles is $5.00. The offering for
a five-day vigil light is $3.00.
BLESSING OF THROATS
The practice of blessing throats originated with Saint Blaise. As legend
has it, a mother came to the saint because her son had a fish bone lodged in
his throat. At Blaise's command, the child was able to cough up the bone. The
traditional blessing of throats will take place only at the 9:00 AM Mass at
Saint Ambrose Manor on Friday, February 3, 2012.
CONTRIBUTION REPORTS FOR YEAR 2011
Anyone wishing to
receive a report of their contributions to Holy Wisdom Parish for the calendar
year 2011 should submit a written request. Please include your name,
address, phone number, E-mail address and envelope number. No requests will be
taken by phone.
BAPTISMAL PREPARATION CLASSES
Baptismal
Preparation Classes will be held on Sunday, February 12, and March 11, 2012 at 2:00 PM
and Monday, April 16. May 7, and June 4, 2012 at 7:00 PM in the
meeting room of Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church. This class is to be attended
before arrangements can be made for Baptism. No classes will be held in July or
August. For information and registration, call 412-321-3186.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN...
CORVETTE RAFFLE TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
Corvette Raffle
Tickets are now available for $10.00 each or 3 for $20.00! If you wish to sell
additional tickets on the car raffle at your place of employment or business,
tickets and pictures of the 1993 Competition Yellow Corvette Convertible are
now available from the Administrative Center. Remember, the seller of the
winning ticket will receive $500.00!
Support from all
parishioners and friends of the parish in purchasing and/or selling tickets is
needed for the success of this raffle. Thanks to all in advance for your
support of this important project!
REMEMBER THOSE NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
Keeping them can help you be a better person.
PROTECTING GOD'S CHILDREN
This is a mandatory workshop, required by the United States Catholic
Bishops Conference, for all adults who have regular contact with children under
the age of 18. If you have not attended a class, visit the diocesan website at www.diopitt.org
for a list of dates and times. Participants must register in advance. To
register online, visit www.virtusonline.org.
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
The protection of
young people is the primary concern of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. If you have
any questions concerning the policies and practices in the Diocese of
Pittsburgh on the protection of young people, contact the Victim Assistance
Coordinator at 1-888-808-1235.
MINISTERS OF THE LITURGY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012—4:00 PM (A)
Hospitality: Ed
Chrnart, Tom Murphy, Paul Petkovich,
Joe Scott, Frank Sladic
Cantor:
Mary Beth Joos
Server(s):
Paul & Brian Juracko
Lector:
Alisa Kenny
Communion: Darlene
Miller, Ted Motta, Jack Loebig
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012—6:30 PM (B)
Hospitality: Jack
Daman
Cantor:
Scheid
Server(s): Natasha & Sidney
Serena
Lector:
Nannette Grillette
Communion: Jay
& Carol Steele
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012—9:30 AM (B)
Hospitality: Carl
Monteleone, Frank Pribilovich, Rich Kielar,
Joe Gelpi
Cantor:
Scheid
Server(s):
Gordon Bolar
Lector:
Leon Godek
Communion: Dave
Fohl
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012—11:00 AM (A)
Hospitality: Bill
Kauffman
Cantor:
Choir
Server(s): David Dunn, Shawn Felsing
Lector:
Cathy Lenehan
Communion: Sr.
Judith Rotunda, Shirley Novak
OUR WEEKLY OFFERING
Last Sunday…………………………………………..$2,057.00
Latin Community……………………………………...2,966.00
Parish Share Program…………………………….…….…95.00
Parish Improvement……………………………………....45.00
Saint Anthony School…………………………………...104.00
296 envelopes used out of 724 issued.
INITIAL OFFERING ENVELOPE
Getting off to a good start is very important. At the beginning of the
new year, people make all sorts of new year resolutions. Why not include the
parish among your resolutions?
Inserted in your packet of envelopes you will find an Initial Offering
envelope. This offering helps defray the cost of the envelope system. Each
envelope holder is asked to contribute at least $10.00 to take care of this
necessary expense without taxing the parish budget. Your offering may be made
anytime throughout the month of January. Thank you for your continued support
of our parish.
PARISH SHARE PROGRAM
Final payments on all Parish Share Program pledges are now
due. We ask all parishioners to please return their payment no later than this
week. Please pay off your pledge from
last year as soon as possible. Thank you for your support.
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
Forty days after
Christmas, this week’s ancient feast of the Presentation of the Lord is an
extension of the shining days of Christ’s coming into the depths of winter.
This is the day when, for a thousand years, the Church has blessed a year’s
supply of candles. In many places, a procession forms outside the church. The
core memory is of Simeon and Anna’s meeting with the infant Jesus and his
parents outside the temple on the fortieth day after the child’s birth, and the
delight of going to the table of the Lord for the Eucharist, a foretaste of our
final meeting with Christ.
For some
Christians, today is known as “The Meeting,” suggesting not only the encounter
in the temple, but also our assembly at the Lord’s table
and our longing for the kingdom. One story suggests that the commotion made by
so many candle-bearing, hymn-singing faithful in the wintry fields of Germany
on their joyful way to Mass stirred the badger from hibernation to examine this
promise of springtime. The interrupted nap of the groundhog is amazingly linked
to the light of Christ driving away the shadows of the world’s darkness. This
beautiful feast only rarely falls on a Sunday. What better reason could there
be for candles at dinner tonight?
—James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
REBORN IN BAPTISM
Congratulations and
best wishes to Kinley Marie Duncan, child of Scott Stanley Duncan and
Mindy Anne Kopar Duncan, who will be baptized this Sunday into the community of
faith. May she continue to grow in wisdom, age, and grace.
BORN
TO ETERNAL LIFE
Our sympathy and assurance of prayers is
extended to the families and friends of John Pugliano who was buried
from our parish last week. May his soul and the souls of all
the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY APPEAL
This weekend at
all Masses, the collection for the work of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society
will be taken up to assist the society in aiding the poor and needy in your
name. The society welcomes your gifts at this time or throughout the year. In
addition to monetary offerings, the society accepts non-perishable food items
in the large wicker baskets in the rear of both parish churches. Please be as
generous as possible.
PARISH IMPROVEMENT
OFFERING
The monthly collection for parish
improvements will be taken next weekend at all Masses. Your generous offerings
given next week or throughout the coming month help us continue caring for and
maintaining the many buildings and facilities of Holy Wisdom Parish. Thank you
for your continued support.
REMEMBER THOSE NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
Keeping them can help you be a better person.
FALSE PROPHETS, TRUE PROPHETS
In Deuteronomy today we hear that God’s very words will
fill the mouth of a true prophet, but a false prophet will, in a manner of
speaking, put mere mortal words into God’s mouth. In Mark’s Gospel, we see
Jesus teaching and healing as a true prophet, one filled with the authority of
God’s own voice, the Holy One of God.
The whole history
of our church is filled with both true and false prophets. But in today’s Gospel
we learn that Jesus’ fame spread because he taught with authority; he wasn’t an
authority because he was popular or famous. We also learn from him, in his
desert temptation confrontations with Satan, that anyone can quote scripture,
even against God’s purposes. And today we hear that his authority was not like
that of the scribes, who held the official positions of religious authority in
his day. Our work is to do our best to discern the true prophets in our midst,
and to be true prophets as well. The psalmist tells us how to do this: by not
hardening our hearts when God speaks. If we truly listen to God, it will be God’s
very words filling our mouths.
TODAY’S READINGS
First Reading —
Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise
up for you” (Deuteronomy 18:15-20).
Psalm — If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts (Psalm
95).
Second Reading —
Brothers and sisters: I should like you to be free of anxieties (1 Corinthians
7:32-35).
Gospel — The people were astonished at Jesus’ teaching
(Mark 1:21-28).
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: 2
Sm 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13; Mk 5:1-20
Tuesday: 2
Sm 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30 — 19:3;
Mk
5:21-43
Wednesday: 2
Sm 24:2, 9-17; Mk 6:1-6
Thursday: Mal 3:1-4; Heb 2:14-18; Lk 2:22-40 [22-32]
Friday: Sir
47:2-11; Mk 6:14-29
Saturday: 1
Kgs 3:4-13; Mk 6:30-34
Sunday: Jb
7:1-4, 6-7; Ps 147; 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23;
Mk
1:29-39
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES
Sunday: Fourth
Sunday in Ordinary Time;
Catholic
Schools Week
Tuesday: St.
John Bosco
Thursday: The
Presentation of the Lord;
Groundhog
Day
Friday: St.
Blaise; St. Ansgar; Blessing of Throats;
First
Friday
Saturday: Blessed
Virgin Mary; First Saturday
MASS INTENTIONS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2012
4:00 PM (A) Wylma
Lipp (Thomas Joos Family)
6:30 PM (B) Greg Bolar (Family)
SUNDAY,
JANUARY 29, 2012
9:30 AM (B) Bernard Sulkowski, Sr. (Family)
11:00 AM (A) Ted
Harame (Christmann Family)
MONDAY,
JANUARY 30, 2012
8:00 AM (B) Helen Draznak (Sisters of Alvernia Manor)
TUESDAY,
JANUARY 31, 2012
8:00 AM (A) Roseann
DeNinno
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012
8:00 AM (B) Virginia
Luft (Patrick and Rita Joyce)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012
8:00 AM (A) Richard
Stecklein (Marlene Stecklein)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012
9:00 AM (Manor) Joseph Chessic
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012
8:00 AM (B)
Theresa Haffey (Family)
4:00 PM
(A) Mary Murphy (Celine
Scott)
6:30 PM (B) Joseph & Elizabeth Burger (Family)
SUNDAY,
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
9:30 AM (B) Dorothy Gelpi (Emil Calomino)
11:00 AM (A)
St. Mary’s Lyceum (Members)
All
weekday Masses are celebrated in chapels at both churches. The chapel at St.
Ambrose is located in the Administrative Center. The chapel at St. Boniface is
located in the rectory and can be entered through the side front door off the
driveway between the church and rectory.
GIVE THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
Remember Holy Wisdom Parish in your will or trust. The parish has many
worthwhile programs that can benefit from your generosity, such as the Memorial
and Tribute Fund, the poor through the Food Pantry, the Capital Improvement
Fund and the Education Fund. Your memorial can be an everlasting gift to your
parish.
A WORD OF WELCOME
We
welcome those of you who may be joining us for the first time, whether you are
visiting from another parish or from out of town. We, as Catholics, throughout
the world are united through our faith. May you find your visit to Holy Wisdom
Parish to be spiritually rewarding and may you feel the warmth of our
hospitality.
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES AT NEIGHBORING
PARISHES
MASSES
Saint Peter Parish, Northside
Saturday: 4:00 PM—Our Lady, Queen of Peace (May-October)
Saint Peter (November-April)
Sunday: 8:30 AM—Our Lady, Queen of Peace
10:30
AM—Saint Peter
Monday, Wednesday, Friday:
12:05 PM—Saint Peter
Tuesday, Thursday: 12:05 PM—Our Lady, Queen of Peace
Most Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Troy Hill
Saturday: 6:00
PM—Most Holy Name
Sunday: 7:30
AM, 9:00 AM—Most Holy Name
Monday through Friday: 8:30 AM—St. Anthony Chapel
St. Aloysius Parish, Reserve Township
Saturday: 4:00 PM—St. Aloysius
Sunday: 11:00 AM—St.
Aloysius