Epiphany Church 184 Washington Place Pittsburgh PA 15219

Saint Mary of Mercy Church 202 Stanwix Street

Pittsburgh PA 15222

DIVINE MERCY PARISH Sunday, November 29, 2020

First Sunday of Advent

Mass Intentions To request a Mass intention, please call or email the Parish Office at office@divinemercypgh.org or visit divinemercypgh.org to complete an online form.

Join our Parish Family Visit our website at www.divinemercypgh.org or call the parish office.

Prayer Requests If you would like to be added to our prayer request board please contact the office or email office@divinemercypgh.org

Bulletin Requests If you would like to have information included in the bulletin, please contact the Parish Office at office@divinemercypgh.org.

Schedule a Meeting To make an appointment with Fr. Chris, contact Cindy at cagoetz@divinemercypgh.org

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Welcome Center

Please visit us, as we have been pleased to be a “very little tiny” channel of God’s mercy to everyone who enters the church of Saint Mary of Mercy through the opening of the Welcome Center. With Divine Mercy materials and with the presence of one of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus from the congregation desired by Jesus Himself, the Welcome Center has already been an amazing source of hope, consolation, and blessing to so many people! If you would like to visit our new facility at the entrance of Saint Mary of Mercy Church, please email thereddoor@divinemercypgh.org.

CLERGY TEAM Pastor Reverend Christopher D. Donley cdonley@divinemercypgh.org Deacon Samuel Toney stoney@diopitt.org Deacon Candidate (Our Lady of Mt. Carmel) John P. Corcoran jcorcoran@diopitt.org In Residence Reverend Edward Bryce Monsignor Ronald Lengwin Reverend Edward Muge Reverend Augustine Wayii Seminarians Xavier Engle xengle@diopitt.org Peter Mallampalli pmallampalli@diopitt.org Noah Pepmeyer npepmeyer@diopitt.org

PARISH STAFF Coordinator of Communication And Special Events Renée Driscoll rdriscoll@divinemercypgh.org Director of Operations Charles Goetz cgoetz@divinemercypgh.org Music Minister/Director of Liturgy Matthew Radican mradican@divinemercypgh.org Music/Outreach Minister Cassandra Acree cacree@divinemercypgh.org Office Manager Cynthia Goetz cagoetz@divinemercypgh.org Wedding Coordinator Renew the ‘I do’ Dolores Shipe dshipe28@gmail.com

THE RED DOOR Assistant Coordinator to the Red Door Sister Emily Lepage ZSJM thereddoor@divinemercypgh.org thegate@divinemercypgh.org Assistant Coordinator to the Red Door Sister Pawla Witula ZSJM thereddoor@divinemercypgh.org

We continue to have our parish office remain closed to the public. Our staff is still working and

will return calls and emails in a timely

manner.

TV MINISTRY

Daily noon Mass at Saint Mary of Mercy can be live streamed or viewed on:

Comcast channel 95 Verizon Fios channel 472

Pittsburgh’s Faith and Family channel 40.9 www.christianassociatestv.org.

Mass can also be accessed through our website at www.divinemercypgh.org.

THE RED DOOR MINISTRY

Lunch Monday through Saturday

10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Dinner Monday through Friday

5:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Saint Faustina Gate

Friday 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

ADMINISTRATION OFFICE 164 Washington Place Pittsburgh, PA 15219

www.divinemercypgh.org office@divinemercypgh.org 412-471-0257

mailto:Red-Door@divinemercypgh.orgmailto:Red-Door@divinemercypgh.org

Contribution Totals

FIRST COLLECTION

PARISH SHARE

CHURCH BUILDING UPKEEP

TV MINISTRY

RED DOOR

CHRISTMAS FLOWERS

ALL SAINTS DAY

TOTAL

Giving to Our Parish

Giving to the Divine Mercy Parish through your will is a great way to continue your support beyond your

lifetime. When your estate is prepared, consider a gift to Divine Mercy Parish.

Thank You!

Weekly Mass Intentions

SCHEDULE

Weekday Masses Saint Mary of Mercy Church

Monday-Saturday Noon

Confessions in Advent Saint Mary of Mercy Church

Monday-Friday 12:30PM-1:00PM

Weekend Masses Saint Mary of Mercy Church

Saturday 4PM

Epiphany Church Sunday 10AM

Saint Mary of Mercy Church Sunday Noon

Eucharistic Adoration in Advent

Saint Mary of Mercy Church Monday-Friday

12:30PM-1:00PM

Private Prayer

Epiphany Church Monday-Friday

9:00AM-1:00PM

Saint Mary of Mercy Church Monday-Friday 9AM-1:00PM

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." - Matt 11:28

Date Time Mass Intention

Saturday, November 28 Noon James Flavin + (Carole Clifford)

4:00 PM Edward Muldowney + (Molinaro's)

Sunday, November 29 10:00 AM For the People of Divine Mercy Parish

Noon Leo Breegie (Loving wife, Rita)

Monday, November 30 Noon Ethel DeMasi, Mother (Lisa, Jessica, and Mackenzie)

Tuesday, December 1 Noon Eleanor Legath + (Nieces)

Wednesday, December 2 Noon Deceased of John P. Harris Family (Cynthia Hahn Yothers)

Thursday, December 3 Noon Marion Caridi + (Reynolds Family)

Friday, December 4 Noon Pablito Contreras + (LePage Family)

Saturday, December 5 Noon Thomas Rowader + (The Hayden Family)

4:00 PM Edward Muldowney + (Molinaro's)

Sunday, December 6 10:00 AM Rev. Christopher Downey (Joan Skweres)

Noon George F. Sebal Sr. + (Family)

2021 Mass Intentions

Our 2021 Mass Book is now open. Due to the fluidity of COVID-19 changes,

we will do our best to accommodate your requests.

Due to early submission of the bulletin, the

contribution totals for this week are not

available.

PARISH NEWS

Seton LaSalle Catholic High School Honors Congratulations to Louis Dutkowski for his outstanding academic achievements! Liam received Honor Roll status at Seton LaSalle High School for the First Quarter.

Thank you for the 2020 World Mission Sunday/MCP contribution of $1,193.00. This year, October 18th marked a very different Mission Sunday as our annual appeal for the worldwide Eucharistic celebration of our shared call to mission was combined with our assigned MCP mission. It takes place during these unprecedented times of the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19. This money will help care for the poorest of the poor. I am grateful to you for your missionary spirit of prayer and sacrifice. During this month of October, Pope Francis reminds us that all baptized Christians are called to a personal encounter with Jesus Christ through prayer, meditation on the Word of God, and pilgrimage. Pope Francis reminds us to respond to the call "Here I Am Lord; Send Me"; we are all the "Church of Christ in the Mission World." World Mission Sunday provides us with an opportunity to revitalize our ardor, passion, and zeal for the faith and loving missionary hearts. More information about this collection and how you can have a year round connection with the mission church can be found through MISSIO at www.missio.org. Thank you for all you do to promote World Mission Sunday and the Mission Cooperation Plan!

2020 Retirement Fund for Religious retiredreligious.org

Thanks for giving! “We are conscious of the great generosity of the many benefactors who support the Retirement Fund for Religious each year,” says a Catholic sister. “Support from the fund has been a tremendous blessing to our retired sisters.” Thank you for donating to last week’s second collection!

The adult catechism course on our Blessed Virgin Mary complemented the Consecration to Jesus through Mary, because both forums enabled us as the Body of Christ to meditate on Our Blessed Mother and her intercessory role during the month of October. I was very grateful to the parishioners for all their assistance, support, and interest. The discussions inevitably lead to opportunities for future consideration of our Blessed Mother’s role in the Gospel and our lives today. Indeed, focusing on Our Blessed Mother during these difficult times in our society and the Church was enlightening and refreshing. Due to time constraints, we only touched upon some of the devotions to Our Lady with the hope that this initial invitation to discuss Our Blessed Mother will lead to further discovery through reading and discussion at home. I hope the adult catechism classes will spark an interest for us as members of the Church to learn and evangelize during these times. I plan to do more adult catechism courses when the COVID-19 crisis is further abated, so stay tuned! During the interim, I will seek to obtain a consensus from the members of the parish as to most convenient times for seminars as well as subject matter and types of forums as we grow together in faith. Thank you and have a Blessed Advent. -John Paul Corcoran

PARISH HIGHLIGHTS

Ignite Your Parish Start this Advent season off right and pick up your gift bundle after all Masses this weekend! Music from The Vigil Project, reflections by Fr. Dave Pivonka TOR, and a devotional

companion booklet are all part of the plan to help you celebrate these seasons in a deeper way. Bundles are available in hardcopy or digital formats. Have a blessed start to Advent as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior this Christmas!

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul’s encyclical “The Gospel of Life” (Evangelium Vitae). To commemorate this pivotal document, Birthright of Pittsburgh each month will offer excerpts... From the “Gospel of Life” #66 Euthanasia must be called a false mercy, and indeed a disturbing “perversion” of mercy. True “compassion” leads to sharing another’s pain; it does not kill the person whose suffering we cannot bear. - Pope St. John Paul

Brother Andre’s Café is Now Open Online! Never run out of coffee again! Coffee, baked

goods, and other products can be purchased online at www.brotherandres.org. You can even sign up for a coffee

subscription to have fresh beans delivered right to your door!

PARISH CALENDAR

Saint of the Week

By our devotion to the saints, our heavenly brothers and sisters in Christ who have gone before us, and by their prayers of intercession, fraternal charity is exercised, which contributes to the unity of the Church and aids us on our pilgrim journey.

PARISH COMMUNITY

Saint Nicholas Feast Day: December 6 St. Nicholas, also known as "Nikolaos of Myra," was a fourth century saint and Greek bishop of Myra. Nicholas was born in Asia Minor in the Roman Empire as an only child to Christian parents. Both of his parents tragically died during an epidemic when he was a young man, leaving him well off, but to be raised by his uncle, the Bishop of Patara. Nicholas was determined to devote his inheritance to works of charity, and his uncle mentored him as a reader and later ordained him as a presbyter (priest). A citizen of Patara had lost all his money, and needed to support his three daughters who could not find husbands because of their poverty. Nicholas became informed of this, and thus took a bag of gold and threw it into an open window of the man's house in the night. Here was a dowry for the eldest girl and she was soon duly married. At intervals Nicholas did the same for the second and the third. The Greek histories of his life agree he suffered an imprisonment of the faith and made a glorious confession in the latter part of the persecution raised by Dioletian, and that he was present at the Council of Nicaea and there condemned Arianism. It is said that St. Nicholas died in Myra and was buried in his cathedral.

Quote of the Week “The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic His giving, by grace, through faith, and this is not of ourselves.” ― St. Nicholas of Myra

THIS YEAR, ALL PROCEEDS FROM OUR GIVING TREE WILL HELP OUR FRIENDS WHO VISIT

THE RED DOOR MINISTRY.

BECAUSE OF THE ONGOING SAFETY PROTOCOLS WITH COVID-19, WE ARE ONLY ASKING FOR GIANT EAGLE GIFT CARDS OR MONETARY CONTRIBUTIONS

TO BE DONATED. OUR RED DOOR TEAM WILL PURCHASE THE NEEDED ITEMS FOR OUR FRIENDS.

WE SUGGEST DONATIONS OF $25.00, $50.00, OR $100.00.

PLEASE TAKE A BEAUTIFULLY HANDCRAFTED “RED DOOR” ORNAMENT FROM THE TREE AS OUR THANK YOU AND REMINDER OF YOUR GENEROSITY DURING THIS

CHRISTMAS SEASON.

PLACE YOUR DONATION IN THE WEEKEND OFFERTORY BASKETS OR MAIL IT TO THE PARISH OFFICE BY THE WEEKEND OF DECEMBER 5TH/6TH.

The Order of the Mass - 1st Sunday of Advent B

Missa de Angelis Kyrie

You, LORD, are our father, our redeemer you are named

forever. Why do you let us wander, O LORD, from your

ways, and harden our hearts so that we fear you not? Return

for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with

the mountains quaking before you, while you wrought

awesome deeds we could not hope for, such as they had not

heard of from of old. No ear has ever heard, no eye ever

seen, any God but you doing such deeds for those who wait

for him. Would that you might meet us doing right, that we

were mindful of you in our ways! Behold, you are angry, and

we are sinful; all of us have become like unclean people,

The Liturgy of the Word IS 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7 First Reading

Music reprinted under One License A-735911

Opening Hymn

To you, I lift up my soul, O my God. In you, I have trusted; let me not be put to shame. Nor let my enemies exult

I. Kyrie, eleison.

II

I. Christe, eleison.

II

I. Kyrie, eleison.

II

Collect

Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Cf. Ps 25 (24):1-3 Entrance Antiphon:

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1 COR 1:3-9 Epistle

Gospel Acclamation

MK 13:33-37 Gospel

Brothers and sisters: Grace to you and peace from God our

Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God

always on your account for the grace of God bestowed on

you in Christ Jesus, that in him you were enriched in every

way, with all discourse and all knowledge, as the testimony

to Christ was confirmed among you, so that you are not

lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of

our Lord Jesus Christ. He will keep you firm to the end,

irreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is

faithful, and by him you were called to fellowship with his

Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Jesus said to his disciples: “Be watchful! Be alert! You do not

know when the time will come. It is like a man traveling

abroad. He leaves home and places his servants in charge,

each with his own work, and orders the gatekeeper to be on

the watch. Watch, therefore; you do not know when the Lord

of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at

midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning. May he not

come suddenly and find you sleeping. What I say to you, I

say to all: ‘Watch!’”

Responsorial Psalm

Creed

PS 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19 | Owen Alstott

I believe in one God, the Father

almighty, maker of heaven and earth,

of all things visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the

Only Begotten Son of God, born of the

Father before all ages. God from God,

Light from Light, true God from true

God, begotten, not made,

consubstantial with the Father; through

him all things were made.

For us men and for our salvation he

came down from heaven, and by the

Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin

Mary, and became man.

For our sake he was crucified under

Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and

was buried, and rose again on the third

day in accordance with the Scriptures.

He ascended into heaven and is seated

at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the

living and the dead and his kingdom

will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the

giver of life, who proceeds from the

Father and the Son, who with the Father

and the Son is adored and glorified,

who has spoken through the prophets.

I believe in one, holy, catholic and

apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism

for the forgiveness of sins and I look

forward to the resurrection of the dead

and the life of the world to come.

Amen.

Show us Lord, your love; and grant us your salvation.

Homily Celebrant

all our good deeds are like polluted rags; we have all

withered like leaves, and our guilt carries us away like the

wind. There is none who calls upon your name, who rouses

himself to cling to you; for you have hidden your face from

us and have delivered us up to our guilt. Yet, O LORD, you

are our father; we are the clay and you the potter: we are all

the work of your hands.

The Liturgy of the Eucharist Offertory

Sanctus

Eucharistic Acclamations

Mysterium Fidei

Mass XVIII

Awaken,

Universal Prayer

Communion Antiphon

Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus Closing Hymn

Mass XVII Agnus Dei

Amen

Celebrant Blessing and Dismissal

Postcommunion

The Lord’s Prayer