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St. John the Evangelist
668 Clearfield Road,
Fenelton, PA 16034-9743
Phone: 724-287-7590
Fax: 724-287-3550
Parish Office Email:
St. Joseph
315 Stoney Hollow Road
Cabot PA 16023
Parish Office: 724-352-2149
Fax : 724-352-7174
St. Joseph Email:
Parish Office Email:
St. Mary of the Assumption
821 Herman Road
Butler, PA 16002
Phone: 724-285-3285
Fax: 724-285-4715
Parish Office Email:
Saintmaryinherman
@zoominternet.net
Pastor: Fr. Ward Stakem, OFM, Cap.
724-777-9432
Parochial Vicar: Fr. James Kurtz,
OFM, Cap. 412-421-3962
Parish Grouping Website
stsjjmcatholic.org
St. John
St. Joseph
St. Mary of the Assumption
April 12, 2020
April 12, 2020 Easter Sunday Page 2
April 12, 2020 Easter Sunday Page 3
Though regularly scheduled Masses are not being celebrated at our 3 parish locations, they are continuing to be celebrated daily by Father Ward and Father Jim at the Friary. Scheduled Mass intentions will continue to be celebrated as scheduled. Below are this weeks Mass intentions:
Saturday, April 12, Easter Vigil in the Holy Night– Robert Lawton by Eugene & Karol Mennow Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of Our Lord, April 12: Parishioner’s of St. John, St. Joseph, and St. Mary Parishes & Priest’s Intention Tuesday, April 14-Robert Yenick by Theresa Cox & Family Wednesday within the Octave of Easter, April 15– Kim Giobbi by Mike & Shelley Giobbi Friday within the Octave of Easter, April 17-George Hyek by Ron & Darlene Geibel Saturday within the Octave of Easter, April 18 James Ruediger by Nancy Ruediger Art Limbacher & Donna Trettel by Families Dean Schnur by Family 2nd Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, April 19- Agnes Osche by Family Parishioners of St. John, St. Joseph and St. Mary Parishes Paul Cypher by Joanne Meehan John Yenick by Theresa Cox & Family
When, for any reason, we cannot participate in Mass, the Church invites us to unite with Christ through this prayer of Spiritual Communion. Praying this
prayer is a beautiful way to unite our hearts to Christ's when we cannot receive him physically in the Eucharist.
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April 12, 2020 Easter Sunday Page 5
Stay up to date on the latest information
from The Diocese of Pittsburgh by
visiting their website at
diopitt.org. There are many
wonderful resources for guiding
your spiritual needs in these
times accessible on the website
as well. Visit our Grouping website at
stsjjmcatholic.org to stay up to date on
the latest updates for our grouping, sign
up for online giving, and to find links to
upcoming livestreams.
St. Vincent de Paul & Butler Food Bank
The food bank is abundantly stocked and anyone is invited to
take advantage of this amazing supply. If you are in need or know of someone in need, please encourage them to accept this assistance. The pickup is a no contact drive up system and no paperwork is required The Food Bank is located at 146 North Monroe Street in Butler and is open from 8-10 AM, Monday thru Friday.
Many of you have asked how you can get your contributions, your envelopes to the church. One option is to drop envelopes off at the
parish office. Though all 3 offices are closed, envelopes can be left in the drop boxes outside the offices of St. John or St. Joseph, and slid under the office door at St. Mary. You can also mail any contributions directly to the parish. Mail and drop boxes will continue to be checked and taken care of. Another option is to sign up for online giving. All 3 churches now have online giving available (see above). We appreciate every sacrifice you make to support all facets of our day-to-day parish operations. We realize also that in these difficult times of layoffs and unemployment that you may need our help. Please reach out to us. Let us pray for each other daily. God bless you all. Father Ward & Father Jim
St. Joseph Vacation Bible School Needs A Leader
How About YOU?
Call 724-355-5403 to find out more
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Follow the simple steps below and you will
receive the weekly bulletin via email from
LPi, our bulletin publisher.
1. Go to www.parishesonline.com
2. On the home page, enter your
parish name and city, state, or ZIP.
Click the search icon.
3. Click on your parish name on the
results screen.
4. On the parish page, go to Recent
Publications and click Subscribe.
5. In the pop-up window, enter your
email, first name, and last name,
then click Subscribe.
The parish grouping bulletin will not be
printed until the suspension of Masses has
been lifted. A publication will be completed
and submitted to LPi, they will post it for
viewing on Parishes Online, and those signed
up will continue to receive it via email
(instructions to sign up below). It will also be
uploaded to our parish grouping website,
[email protected], under the BULLETINS
tab. Content will obviously be limited due to
the current situation, updates will continue.
St. Michael, the Archangel,
Defend Us In Battle….
Michael Fritz Tylor Grant White Matthew McCandless Jimmy Adley Russell Bauer Brandon Bauer
Trevor Cottage Jordan Cottage Nicholas Cottage Stephen Konyha Dustin Michel
Please call your Parish Office or email Jenn at [email protected] to add or remove
names from the grouping prayer lists.
Please remember in your prayers the sick, suffering, and homebound of our parish community, especially
those listed below from our parish grouping.
Viola “Min” Green Kathy Miller Joe Krall Lois Davanzati Elizabet Rakarich Elizabeth Kriley Evelyn MacDonald Jeannie White Agnes Widenhofer Karen Matichko John Prokopchak John Regan Mike Spohn
Dick Leroy Carol Rowley Alice Spinneweber Dan Jonczak Jr. Judy Convery Nicholas Miller Mary and Victor Carbin Jim Edwards C.J. Kriley Loretta Schnur Janet Biscetlia Fr.Victor Kriley,OFM,Cap. Fr.Gary Stakem,OFM,Cap
Email Your Email We have been using every avenue available to us to keep you informed of “news.” Our census program has the capability to collectively email. That means that each household that has listed their email with us would receive news in a matter of seconds. Easy, right? Yes, except for the fact that we do not have every household’s email address. We ask you to send us your email. It will not be used for any other purpose than parish communication. A collective email would also be far more economical than a paper mailing. Please take a few minutes and add your email.
St. John Parishioners, send to: [email protected]
St. Joseph Parishioners, send to: [email protected]
St. Mary parishioners, send to: [email protected]
Grab ‘n Go Palm What a beautiful site to see so many people coming to the churches to pick up the palm
strips. Thank you for going out of your way to keep Catholic traditions alive. You make us proud!
Pictured is
the
Palm pickup
in front of
St. John.
The palm was
all claimed!
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A reminder to mail in or drop off your “Name the New Parish in our Grouping” form. There’s still time and we need your feedback. If you misplaced your form, or did not pick one up previously, forms can be downloaded by clicking the OnMission box on the website’s Home Page.
Thank You—Thank You Bob Hoffman and Mike Giobbi are the masterminds that made our live streaming possible. A million thanks to you. You have brought Holy Week a bit closer to us! We have enjoyed reading parishioner comments. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. Some 606 viewers tuned in to the Palm Sunday Mass. One parishioner commented: “We couldn’t reach out and shake hands or give a sign of peace, but there was definitely a bond that was felt knowing we were viewing and praying together.”
Pictured below are Father Jim, Father Ward and Father Lester
celebrating Palm Sunday Mass. Many thanks to all who made
the live streaming possible this past week.
Did You Know?
The tallest Easter egg chocolate was made in Italy in 2011. It stood at 10.39 meters and weighed an astounding 7,200 kg.
The art of painting eggs is called pysanka, which originated in Ukraine. It involves using wax and dyes to color the egg.
Peep peep . . . Americans buy more than 700 million marshmallow Peeps during Easter? This makes Peeps the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy.
Americans consume more than 16 million jelly beans during this holiday. That is enough jelly beans to circle the globe not once, not twice, but three times.
Are you an ears, arms or tail person? Seventy-six percent of people eat the ears on the chocolate bunny first, 5 percent go for the feet and 4 percent for the tail.
More than 90 million chocolate bunnies, 91.4 billion eggs and 700 million Peeps are produced each year in the United States.
The Easter egg is said to symbolize and represent joy, celebration and new life.
The White House of tradition of the Easter Egg Roll started back in 1878, with President Rutherford B. Hayes!
Workers in Birmingham, who make the famous Cadbury Creme Egg, produce more than 1.5 million egg delights a year.
In Switzerland, Easter eggs are delivered by a cuckoo and in parts of Germany by a fox.
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Page 9 St. John, St. Joseph, & St. Mary of the Assumption DID YOU KNOW? relics of Saint Victor and
she professed her Christian Faith during the persecution of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius around 165.
was arrested and tied by her feet to the tops of two palm trees which were bent to the ground. When the palms were
let loose she was torn apart. According to the Roman Martyrology, this happened in Syria.
and 1981, proved that the relics belong indeed to a man and a woman. Cedar pollen was found confirming an original
burial in Syria and then in Cyprus.
treasure hunters and against
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No Greater Love In August, 1968, the country was still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King four months earlier, and the race riots that followed on its heels. Nightly news showed burning cities, radicals and reactionaries snarling at each other across the cultural divide. A brand new children's show out of Pittsburgh, which had gone national the previous year, took a different ap-proach. Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood introduced Officer Clemmons, a black police officer who was a kindly, responsible authority figure, kept his neighborhood safe, and was Mr. Rogers’ equal, colleague and neighbor.
Around the first anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons to join him in soak-ing their tired feet in a plastic wading pool. And there they were, brown feet and pasty white feet, side by side in the water- silently, contemplatively. Twenty-five years later, when the actor playing Officer Clemmons retired, his last scene on the show revisited that same wading pool, this time reminiscing. Officer Clemmons asked Mr. Rogers what he'd been thinking during their si-lent interlude a quarter century before. Fred Rogers' answer was that he'd been thinking of the many ways people say ‘I love you.’” Saying those 3 little words—I love you– is a huge commitment and for some, the words never come out. Mr. Rogers didn’t say those words to Officer Clemmons. He just sat silently look-ing at their pasty white and brown feet together in the water.
Mr. Rogers was more than courageous to integrate “white and brown” on na-tional TV over 50 years ago. How could a little water and a lot of silence make such an impact? Love– that’s how—Love! Think about it– who loves us more than himself? Who loves us enough to lay down his life for us? Who forgives us with a merciful love time and time and time again- Jesus Christ, our Lord and Sav-ior!
Let’s imagine that Jesus is calling you to walk with him. No, you’re not going to Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. You are going on a different path—you are going on the road to Calvary. Jesus invites you to walk alongside of him. And you do. Jesus asks you to wait with him until “It is Finished.” And you do. In the silence of Easter morning Jesus asks you to leave the tomb with him. And you do. Jesus then invites you to sit with him and soak yourself in the new waters of Easter. And you do. In the pure silence of the moment . . . there is “No Greater Love.”
