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342 Normal Avenue

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Phone: 724-794-2880 Fax: 724-794-1255

Website:

www.stfaustinaparish.org

Email:

[email protected]

Jesus,

I trust in you!

October 10, 2021

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St. Faustina Parish

Parish Directory

Staff

Reverend Adam M. Verona, S.T.L. ………...Pastor

[email protected]

Reverend Sean M. Francis, …………………Parochial Vicar

[email protected]

Rev. Dr. Edwin P. Christmann, Ph.D. ………Deacon

[email protected]

Mrs. Christin Miller………………………….Business Manager

[email protected]

Mrs. Diane Magliocca……..................Catholic Campus Ministry, SRU

[email protected]

Mrs. Katie Boosel………………...Director Religious Education/RCIA

[email protected]

Mrs. Connie Malinski…………………..Safe Environment Coordinator

[email protected]

Mrs. Pamela Flynn…………………………..Social Media Coordinator

[email protected]

Ms. Emma Magliocca…………………………..Youth Minister

[email protected]

Mrs. Judy Grossman………………………...Secretary

[email protected]

Mrs. MaryJo Chappel…... ………………….Housekeeping/Outreach

[email protected]

Mrs. Peggy Lambert………………………..Housekeeping

Bill Smith…………………………………...Maintenance Coordinator

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St. Faustina Parish

September 26, 2021

Offertory…………………..$6,780.18

Parish Share……………….$3,569.75

Sunshine…………………...$365.25

Facilities/Utilities………...$150.00

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CANTORS NEEDED!!!

St. Peter Church in Slippery Rock

is in need of cantors to lead the

congregation in song for Sunday’s

11:30 am Mass.

Also needed are instrumentalists

to enhance our liturgy. Flute,

violin, guitar, keyboard, brass, or

woodwind can all be utilized on

certain days. Again auditions and

training are available.

Contact your music minister

Jim Schaefer at (call/text)

724-8222564 or email:

[email protected]

Give back to God the talents he

gave to you.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP We welcome all

cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers to discussions

in a relaxed atmosphere where you will gain support, talk

about treatments, survivor-ship, offer encouragement,

and be able to express your thoughts and feelings.

Light refreshments are offered.

Where: St. Christopher at the Lake

229 North Franklin Street, Prospect, PA 16052

* Handicapped accessible with elevator access *

When: October 26, 2021 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Please call or text MaryJo at 724-822-3360 if you plan on attending.

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28th Sunday in Ordinary Time OCTOBER 10, 2021

Mass Intentions

Time Location Intention Offered by

Saturday,

October 9

Vigil Mass

4:00 PM St. Peter

Amelia Harding+ John Harding

4:30 PM St. Christopher

For the People

Sunday,

October 10

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

8:15 AM St. Anthony

Jim/Julia Ross+ Mike/Donna Ross

9:00 AM St. Louis

Bill Daubenspeck+ Susan Grossman

Monday,

October 11

8:30 AM St. Louis

Caroline Kale+ Ron Ferrere

9:00 AM St. Christopher

Charles Swank+ Ladies Guild

Tuesday,

October 12

9:00 AM St. Anthony

Cyndy Ciochetto+ Greg/Diane Merkle

Wednesday,

October 13

7:00 PM Newman Center

William L. Barnett+ Beverly Barnett


Martha Tretnik+

Friday,

October 15

7:00 PM St. Louis

Theresa Lewandowski+ Mother

Saturday,

October 16

Vigil Mass

4:00 PM St. Peter

For the People

4:30 PM St. Christopher

Bonnie Kobylinski+ Ladies Guild

Sunday,

October 17

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

8:15 AM St. Anthony

Veronica Dobson+

Regis Ferrere/

Janet Candle

9:00 AM St. Louis

Merle Craig+ Family


Jim Snyder+ Fred/Antonetta Bell

11:30 AM St. Peter

Gary Lee Brinker+ Tokar Family

Thursday,

October 14

8:30 AM St. Peter

Matthew Paul Brinker+ Tokar Family


Jim Snyder+ Scott/Rose Hepfl

11:30 AM St. Peter

Susan Smochek+ Family


Caroline Kale+ Dan/Kathy Vukich


NO MASS

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Thoughts from Fr. Sean

CONFESSIONS

EVERY Wednesday at 5:30 pm in the Newman Center Chapel

EVERY Saturday AFTER the 4:30 pm Mass at St. Christopher Church.

EVERY Friday at 6:00 pm at St. Louis Church.

WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY

For the Fall, Women’s Bible Study will move to St. Anthony Church Hall on the 2

nd

and 4

th

Tuesdays of the month at 10:00 am.

This Fall we will focus on the Biblical Prophets. St. Anthony site is handicap accessible. If you have

any questions, please contact Katie Boosel at 724-953-1669.

CAMPUS MINISTRY

SRU students… join Rock Catholic each Wednesday at 8:00 pm at the Newman Center. This

week’s meeting (10/13) will be scripture reflection and small group discussion.

Upcoming events include: Oct. 16

th

Homecoming Parade (10:00 am) and Tailgate (11:00 am -

1:00 pm), Oct. 17

th

Steeler game watch party (8:00 pm) – check our Instagram rockcatholicsru for

details!

Prayer should always be a vital part of our lives. While there are various ways to pray I’d like to cover one

practice that I learned years ago that I feel always makes my prayer time a little bit more effective.

First of all, we should always think of prayer as simply spending time with a friend. If we try too hard to

concentrate, or we think thoughts like, “Am I doing this right,” then the focus is not exactly like spending time with a

friend.

One practice that I found helps is to first, find a specific place to pray, a place that your mind and heart thinks

of as “that’s where I encounter Jesus,” or “that’s where I spend time with God.” Then sit in silence for a little while

and try to let your distractions go. Don’t “force them out.” Just try to see them as not being important right now.

Then every time you exhale simply, inaudibly, say the word, “Jesus,” and keep your focus on him. You’re not thinking

of what to say to him or you’re not “listening really hard,” just keep your focus upon him and desire to be in his

presence.

If you can do that practice for about four or five minutes when you begin to pray you might find the time you

spend with your friend to be a little more fruitful.

God Bless,

Fr. Sean

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St. Faustina Parish

Parish News

Evan Andreyo

Melissa Cessar

Mark DeMatteis

Patricia Hortert

Cathy Maser

Joseph Mayer

Lesley McGregor

Denise Phipps

Charles Plinta

William Spencer

Robert Clouse

George Pry

Marcus Schellinger

George Snyder

Ronald Wadowsky

Pat Whalen

The Knights will be meeting on

Tuesday, October 12 at 7:00 pm at

the Newman Center in the Knights

Room. All welcome!

Interested in joining an

email prayer chain?

Receive weekly

updates on prayers

needed in our parish.

Contact MaryJo Chappel:

[email protected]

CHECK OUT OUR

ST. FAUSTINA

FACEBOOK PAGE!!!

(Search St. FaustinaParish)

BIBLE STUDY

Would you like to

join us as we study

the Bible? We are a

mixed group of men

and women, various ages, that meet

at 10:00 am on Sundays at

St. Peter Church Hall. A study

book is provided. Any questions,

please call Deb at 724-272-6787.

Let’s hear your story!

There is a new project in the parish!

One where you can tell your “WHY”

Why do you attend church?

Why is God important to your life?

If you feel as though you are called to be a part of this project, please feel

free to contact Lesley McGregor at either the cell or email listed below to

learn more. (724) 290-7139 [email protected]

We would like everyone to welcome

Bill Smith as our new Maintenance

Coordinator for St. Faustina Parish!

Bill comes to us with over 20 years

experience in contracting, building,

maintenance and everything in

between. We are very grateful to have Bill as our newest addition to our

St. Faustina family!

ST. CHRISTOPHER RECTORY Over the past year, we have been

purging and boxing up all old records from St. Christopher Rectory. We

have now had the house appraised and will be putting the house on the

market in the coming weeks.

ST. FAUSTINA PARISH ANNUAL

FINANCIAL LETTER

Please be sure to review the enclosed

letter from Fr. Adam including a

breakdown of the parish financials for

St. Faustina Parish. If you have any

questions, please contact Christin Miller.

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Parish News

Youth Ministry will be meeting

on Monday October 11th from

7:00 -9:00 pm at Saint Anthony

Church for Father Adam’s

Halloween talk!

We will try to hold this event

around a fire outside if it’s not

raining. Please bring whatever is

necessary for being outside.

(Chairs, blankets, hoodies, etc.)

There will be s’mores!

Please bring friends and I hope to

see you there!

Contact Info:

[email protected]

call/text 724-421-4550

SCRIPTURE-CISE IS BACK AT ST. PETER CHURCH!!

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 6:00 — 7:00 pm AND Saturday

7:00 — 8:00 am.

Scripture to support your weight loss goals and spiritual wellbeing

with a 50 minute Kettlebell workout to meet your strength training AND cardio

requirements!

NO experience with Kettlebells necessary! Equipment/

instruction provided. Led by: Wendy Bosch-Allison/ASFA

Kettlebell certified instructor.

Please call or text; 724-421-7150 for questions OR just show up!

Hope to see you there! And it’s FREE!!

As a reminder, there are no �

classes on Sunday, October 10

th

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We will see everyone again on

Sunday, October 17

th

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PRAYER FOR THE UNBORN

Heavenly Father, you create us in your own image and you desire that not even

the least among us should perish. In your love for us,

you entrusted your only Son to the

holy Virgin Mary. Now, in your love,

protect the unborn to whom you have given the gift of life.

Our Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) meetings have begun, but it is

not too late to join us! RCIA is for individuals who are not Catholic but are

interested in learning more about the Catholic faith. Also welcome are those

who were Baptized Catholic but did not receive some or any of their other

Sacraments. Those who go through the RCIA process and would like to receive

the Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist) would do

so at the Easter Vigil Mass in April. If you are interested or would like to learn

more, please contact Katie Boosel at [email protected] or on her

cell at 724-953-1669.

PRAYER TO

ST.

PEREGRINE

Join us in saying

a litany prayer to

St. Peregrine,

Patron Saint of

cancer patients,

Tuesday, October 26th from

6:00-6:30 pm at

St. Christopher Church.

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St. Faustina Parish

Please remember in your prayers the sick, suffering, and homebound of

our parish community.

Renee Alcorn

Rich Baldo

Dawson Emery Beattie

Jan Beck

Mark Bonanni

Kayla Brooks

Leighann Brucker

Desiree Burtner

Deanna Calderone

Richard Calderone

MaryJo Chappel

Cheryl Clifford

Rick Coast

Jeanne McGuire-Conlon

Anthony Conti

Bernie Cunningham

Marty Davidson

Debbie Decann

Tina DeMatteis

Connie Erdlen

Hans Fellner

Judy Fellner

Jeanne Fornadley

Gene Gales

Rose Marie Gibelein

Beth Grossman

Judy Grossman

Marvin Grossman

Mary Hambley

Stephen Hambley

Joan Hart

Virginia Hockenberry

Lillian Jeffrey

Karl Kelly

Jocelyn Kondos

Barb Kristufek

David Lambert

Jim Leone

MaryLou Leigh

Iola Lewandowski

Mark Massella

Robert McCarl

Drew McCoy

Megan McHenry

Ed Osburn

Wendy Petrakos

Roger Rettig

Jim Scott

Trevor Shaffer

Marcy Middendorf-Silardi

Bill Sommers

Ed Sommers

Theo Stewart

Darla Stoughton

Jim Then

Katherine Tiche

Madeline Tripodi

Bob Updegraph

Nora Voytko

Norman Young

Betty Watson

Jen Wright

Please remember,

intentions stay on the

prayer list for

3 months. If you

would like to have the

intention continue, please

call the office.

Please Pray For...

Confession Schedule

EVERY Wednesday at 5:30 at

the Newman Center.

EVERY Friday at 6:00 at

St. Louis.

EVERY Saturday after Mass at

St. Christopher.

Baptism

Please call the parish office to

schedule.

Marriage

Please call the parish office to

speak with Fr. Adam.

Funeral

Please call the parish office.

�� Call the Parish Office at

724-794-2880, to add/remove

an intention.

� State who is requesting the

prayers and a phone number at

which you can be reached.

� Prayer Requests will only stay

on the prayer list for 3 months; if

you would like your intention to

stay on longer, please call the

Parish Office and ask to extend

the prayer request.

Sacraments

Diocesan Victim Assistance Hotline: 1-888-808-1235; Office: 412-456-3093

PA Child Line: 1-800-932-0313; Call 911 immediately if a child is in danger.

DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET

Please join us EVERY Thursday at

8:15 am at St. Peter Church for the

Divine Mercy Chaplet. Prayer time

will conclude prior to 8:30 am daily

Mass. There are Divine Mercy Prayer pamphlets available in the parish office

and the churches. If you would prefer to pray from home, call the office,

724-794-2880, to have one mailed to you.

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