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Welcome to our Parish!
We are happy you have joined us today and want you
to know that you are always welcome at Christ the Divine Shepherd Parish. We invite you to participate
in our many parish activities and ministries mentioned in this bulletin. We all have different gifts and talents that we can use to serve God and each
other.
The Catholic Community of Penn Hills and Monroeville
Monday, Wednesday, Friday St. Bernadette 9:30am
Tuesday, Thursday
St. Susanna 9:30am
Saturday St. Bernadette 4:00pm St. Susanna 5:00pm
Sunday St. Bernadette 8:00am St. Susanna 9:00am St. Bernadette 11:00am St. Susanna 11:30am
Mass Schedule
To Save your Seat for Mass log on to our website at cdsmph.org/rsvp or call the office at 412-373-0050.
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From Father Larry
It’s an exciting and challenging time here at Christ the Divine Shepherd Parish! Here are a few things that we’ve been working on:
• Our school, Divine Mercy Academy, has been celebrating Catholic Schools Week this week, and they’ve been publicizing a lot of fun activities for the students! Please keep the students, faculty, and staff of Divine Mercy Academy in your prayers!
• As we look forward, we see that St Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching! This year, it falls on a Sunday. As you look through this bulletin, you’ll see that we’re inviting married couples to share photos of themselves – perhaps your own wedding photo, or a photo of you today, holding your wedding photo! – to give us the opportunity to celebrate your anniversaries this year! In addition, at our Masses on Valentine’s Day, we’ll offer a special blessing for all married couples attending in-person and through our livestream!
• Ash Wednesday falls on February 17 this year. Our schedule at CDS includes a Mass in Monroeville, a Mass in Penn Hills, and an evening Liturgy of the Word. We expect that there may be a larger-than-normal number of “walk-in” attendees, so if you’d like to participate in one of our liturgies, please ensure that we “save a seat” for you by signing up at cdsmph.org/rsvp or by calling our office at 412-373-0050 between 10am and 1pm on weekdays!
• Our Resource Planning Advisory Committee continues its diligent work of discerning how we might utilize our resources in the best way possible, in order to ensure that our parish is on firm financial footing and is sustainable in the long term! This week, they’re meeting with Fr Thom, myself, and diocesan representatives, to review the results of their visits to each of our parish buildings, and discuss their impressions of how we might create an environment that allows us stabilize our situation and position ourselves for future growth. (The next step after that will be a joint meeting of our pastoral and finance councils, to discuss this information. Then, early this Spring, we hope to hold a parish assembly, at which we’ll invite you to participate so that we can discuss our situation and plans, and provide your input in the process.) One of the important questions that we are attempting to discern in this process is how to utilize our resources – buildings, programs, liturgies, staff – in order to improve our ability to serve our community through ministry and evangelization. Please keep this committee, our councils, and our parish leadership team in your prayers!
Please continue to support our parish through your prayers and generosity! Christ the Divine Shepherd, have mercy on us! St Bartholomew, St Bernadette, St Gerard Majella, St John de Brebeuf and companions (the North American martyrs), St Michael, and St Susanna, pray for us!
Blessings,
Fr Larry
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Our Parish Community
We’ve begun sending reports of 2020 contributions to those who have contacted the office, requesting them. If you’d like us to send you such a report of your annual giving totals, please send us an email at [email protected] or call our parish office at 412-373-0050. We’d like to suggest that we send you this report via email, but if you’re unable to receive an email, please let us know!
Year End Statements
Did you make a New Year's resolution to learn more about the Catholic faith, maybe to honor Blessed Mother more? Do you want to be ready for the start of Lent?
Legion of Mary Meeting St. Gerard Majella Prayer Garden
11AM Saturdays
Legion of Mary Meetings
Each year in February, the Church celebrates the Holy Sacrament of Marriage. In this time of Virtual Events, we invite you to email or call the Office at 412-373-0050 and register. We invite you to email us a picture of you from your wedding, or have your family take a photo of you holding your picture and include in the email the number of years married. We will post them to our website. Since the Diocese had to suspend its annual Golden Wedding celebration at the cathedral, we want to especially highlight those who are married 50 years or MORE!
“Virtual” World Marriage Day Celebration
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Our Parish Community
VIRTUAL MEN’S GROUP MEETING STARTS SATURDAY MORNINGS FOR SPRING How is God telling you what kind of man He wants you to be in 2021? We have all experienced unprecedented events in the past 12 months that has pushed our emotional and spiritual well-being limits. To get a new start in 2021, join the new and refreshed CMF CDS men’s parish group meeting - Virtual Catholic Men’s Fellowship TMIY Group Meeting - starting this Saturday morning and every Saturday through the Lenten season! “That Man Is You” will help men find strength and support as we go through these challenging times. Please don’t miss this opportunity – it’s free! Join us by the ZOOM Link below - at 7:00 AM. We listen to insightful video reflections followed by small group breakout discussions.
The Zoom link is still: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88933717016?pwd=Wm1aRTZRUDZCeHYvZnEvT2hZNGxsZz09
Meeting ID: 889 3371 7016
Passcode: Lourdes If you questions, please email Joe Birsa at [email protected]
CDS Weekly Financial Update
TMIY Spring Session
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Ash Wednesday Notes
Ash Wednesday is not a Holyday of Obligation, nor is the reception of ashes required of Catholics. Still, attendance at a Mass or Liturgy on Ash Wednesday is a dearly-held tradition of many Catholics. At Christ the Divine Shepherd Parish, we will conduct a number of liturgies on Ash Wednesday (February 17, 2021), in order to allow the faithful to gather for prayer and the distribution of ashes.
Recently, the Holy See in Rome addressed the question of the method of the distribution of ashes for 2021 on Ash Wednesday. They made a couple of modifications for this year, in light of the pandemic: • Here in America, we’re accustomed to receiving ashes on our forehead, in the form of a cross. Elsewhere
in the world (including in Rome!), ashes are sprinkled directly on the head on Ash Wednesday. This is an approach that is ancient in its origins, and is found in the Bible:
“Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth upon their heads.” (Nehemiah 9:1)
“Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long tunic in which she was clothed. Then, putting her hands to her head, she went away crying loudly.” (2 Samuel 13:19)
In baptism, we are washed clean from original sin and anointed as “priest, prophet, and king” on the top of our head. It is fitting that ashes, a reminder of our sin and of baptism into death, be sprinkled on the crown of our heads, because at Easter, we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, the conquering of sin and death, and baptism into life.
This year, ashes will be sprinkled on the top of the head. We would ask that, as you approach the
minister, you bow your head so as to allow the sprinkling of ashes.
• Typically, as the ashes are being imposed on each person, the minister says “repent and believe in the Gospel” or “remember that you are dust and unto dust you shall return.” This year, the minister will pronounce this reminder once, to the entire congregation – prior to the beginning of the distribution of ashes – and will distribute ashes in silence.
Christ the Divine Shepherd - Ash Wednesday Schedule
9:30 am Mass at St. Bernadette (In-person and Online via Live-Stream ) 4:00 pm Mass at St. Susanna (In- Person and Online via Live-Stream) 7:00 pm Liturgy of the Word at St. Bernadette
Ashes will be distributed at each of our liturgies. Please RSVP for an Ash Wednesday service at cdsmph.org/rsvp.
There will be NO PRIVATE PRAYER at St. Susanna on Ash Wednesday.
Stations of the Cross will begin on Friday February 19, 2021. This year Stations of the Cross will be held at 4:00 pm and alternate between Monroeville and Penn Hills. We will also broadcast Stations of the Cross via on our website and media platforms each Friday at 6:00pm.
In-Person Stations of the Cross Schedule
February 19, 2021 4:00pm St. Susanna February 26, 2021 4:00pm St. Bernadette March 5, 2021 4:00pm St. Susanna March 12, 2021 4:00pm St. Bernadette March 19, 2021 4:00pm St. Susanna March 26, 2021 4:00pm St. Bernadette
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Divine Mercy Academy
Valentines for Retired Religious
As a part of Catholic School’s Week, February 2, 2021 was St. Patrick Day and our students wore green attire and enjoyed. Pictured above our third and fourth grade leprechauns made Valentines for the retired religious of the Pittsburgh and Greensburg Diocese!
Support Divine Mercy Academy Texas Roadhouse Fundraiser Thursday, February 18, 2021
4pm-8pm 10% Percent of your total food purchases will be
donated to the school. Watch next weeks bulletin for the flyer.
PreK-3 loves winter! They have been practicing their colors and counting with numbered mittens and marshmallows! They also had fun dressing penguins in matching colored hats and scarves.
Counting and Colors
Upcoming Fundraiser
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FEAST OF FAITH: The Gloria
The Gloria, or Glory to God, follows the penitential rite. Both are acts of praise. In the penitential rite, we sing of the mercy of Christ. In the Gloria we praise God’s saving action in the universe. The Gloria is a relatively late addition to the Mass. It first appeared in the Roman liturgy in the sixth century, and then it was sung only by the pope—and only on Christmas! With time, the hymn came to be sung by bishops on major feasts, and then by priests; finally, it became
the song of the entire assembly. With the advent of more elaborate musical settings, the people gradually stopped singing the Gloria, until this song of the people became the exclusive domain of the priest and the choir. But the
liturgical reforms have restored it to its place as primarily the song of the assembly. The language of the Gloria echoes the New Testament canticles. It may be begun by the priest, the cantor, and the entire assembly in varied
combinations. The Gloria is sometimes called the “greater doxology,” and in some ways it is like an extended, ecstatic version of the familiar doxology (“Glory be to the Father”) prayed in the Divine Office and the rosary.
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Pray for the Repose of Souls
Rosa Pasqualino
Visit cdsmph.org/funerals for a regularly updated listing with links
to obituaries.
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Monday: Gn 1:1-19; Ps 104:1-2a, 5-6, 10, 12, 24, 35c; Mk 6:53-56 Tuesday: Gn 1:20 — 2:4a; Ps 8:4-9; Mk 7:1-13 Wednesday: Gn 2:4b-9, 15-17; Ps 104:1-2a, 27-28, 29bc-
30; Mk 7:14-23 Thursday: Gn 2:18-25; Ps 128:1-5; Mk 7:24-30 Friday: Gn 3:1-8; Ps 32:1-2, 5-7; Mk 7:31-37 Saturday: Gn 3:9-24; Ps 90:2-6, 12-13; Mk 8:1-10
Readings for the Week
Sunday, February 7, 2021 8:00AM, St Bernadette, (RT), Jay Bahr -- Lois & Ray Weaver 9:00AM, St Susanna, (LA)*, For the People of our Parish 11:00AM, St Bernadette, (TM), Steven Prazenica -- Mom & Dad 11:30AM, St Susanna, (RT ), Bill Storch -- Linda & Lauren Ciccarelli Monday, February 8, 2021 9:30AM, St Bernadette, (RT ), Albert Vogel -- Family Tuesday, February 9, 2021 9:30AM, St Susanna, (TM ), In Honor of the Holy Face of Jesus -- Carolyn Wednesday, February 10, 2021 9:30AM, St Bernadette, (LA ), Joyce Burke -- Husband, Joe Thursday, February 11, 2021 9:30AM, St Susanna, (RT), Mary Luther -- Marion Kereker Friday, February 12, 2021 9:30AM, St Bernadette, (TM), Matthew Jacko -- Family Saturday, February 13, 2021 4:00PM, St Bernadette, (RT), Fr. Bede Hasso -- Mary Kendi 5:00PM, St Susanna, (LA), Sam & Muffie DeStefano -- Family Sunday, February 14, 2021 8:00AM, St Bernadette, (RT), Adam, Aiden, Daniel, Paul, & Joe -- Grammy 9:00AM, St Susanna, (TM), Lorraine McCarthy -- Floyd & MaryAnn Hunkele 11:00AM, St Bernadette, (LA)*, For the People of our Parish 11:30AM, St Susanna, (TM), Marcella Gisi -- Michele Walko
Legend LA Fr Larry Adams TM Fr Thom Miller RT Fr Rick Thompson
* Incense will be used at
Mass.
Mass Intentions
Our Live-stream Masses continue every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, at 9:30am.
Sunday we live-stream at 9:00am and 11:00am.
Please like us on Facebook @
ChristTheDivineShepherd, we post important updates on Facebook along with on our website at
www.ChristtheDivineShepherd.org.
A reminder that our Church Buildings open a half-hour
prior to the start of Mass.
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Rev. Larry Adams, Moderator of Team Ministry
Rev. Thomas Miller, Team Ministry
Rev. Richard Thompson, Parish Chaplain
Deacon Michael W. Kelly, Pastoral Associate
Deacon Richard M. Tucek
Mrs. Bess Biamonte, Pastoral Associate
Mr. Joshua Bandish, Director of Music Ministry
Ms. Mary Lou Bender, Assist. Dir. of Music
Mrs. Cindy Karell, Organist
Mr. Jerry Brandl, Business Manager
Mrs. Cathy Cowan, Bookkeeper
Deacon Lee Miles, Dir. Faith Formation
Ms. Irene Swackhammer, Assist. Dir. Faith Formation
Ms. Kathy DeStefano, Secretary
Mrs. Sandy Palmieri, Secretary
Ms. Ginny Beck, Secretary
Mr. Tim Jacob, Maintenance Coordinator
Mrs. Eileen Almeter, Maintenance
Ms. Nanette Iorio, Maintenance
Office Hours
The Parish Office located at 245 Azalea Dr, Monroeville PA. Is currently closed for all walk-in business. For assistance please call the office at 412-373-0050 between 10am and 1pm, Monday through Friday or email us at [email protected].
Email Contact Information
Parish Information
Parish Website: ChristTheDivineShepherd.org ChristTheDivineShepherd
Confessions
Baptisms will be celebrated following the Sunday 11:00 am Mass at St. Bernadette and the Sunday 11:30am Mass at St. Susanna. Please call Deacon Mike at the parish office at 412-373-0050 X112 to plan your celebration of Baptism!
Baptism
A Reminder that Private Prayer is held alternately in both Monroeville and Penn Hills.
• St. Bernadette will be open for Private Prayer Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a half-hour before and after the 9:30am Mass and Thursdays from 4pm-6pm
• St. Susanna will be open for Private Prayer Tuesday and Thursday for a half-hour before and after the 9:30am Mass and Wednesdays from 4pm-6pm
• Adoration will take place at St Susanna from 4pm till 5pm, and at St Bernadette from 5pm till 6pm, on their respective private prayer days.
Private Prayer
Diocesan Victim Assistance Coordinator: 412-456-3093 (Office) 1-888- 808-1235 (Hot Line) PA Child Line: 1-800-932-0313
St. Vincent dePaul assistance line: 412-436-9208
At Christ the Divine Shepherd Parish, the Sacrament of Reconciliation is celebrated on Saturday at noon at St Bartholomew Church. It is celebrated in “drive-up” style in your car (no confessions will be celebrated inside the church), following all applicable standards put in place by civil authority (i.e., social distancing, use of masks in public places, etc).
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The Order of Mass
Entrance Chant
Greeting Priest: The Lord be with you All: And with your spirit
Penitential Rite Glory to God Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Liturgy of the Word
First Reading : Job 7:1-4, 6-7 Responsorial Psalm : Praise the Lord, who heals the brokenhearted (Psalm 147). Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23 Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. Gospel: Mark 1:29-39 Priest: “The Lord be with you”
All: And with your spirit. Priest: “A reading from the holy Gospel according to ...”
All: Glory to you, O Lord. After the Gospel, the Priest says “The Gospel of the Lord”
All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ
1.) Bow down before the Lord, and worship Him alone. Come, kneel before the God who made us as His own. Within His hand we are like sheep, the flock within the Shepherd’s keep. 2.) Come sing in harmony and make a joyful sound! Let us approach the Rock and let your praise abound! With thankful lips and grateful soul, we come before our one and all. 3.)Give God the Father praise, and glory to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit equal praise be done. The God who was and is to be. For us into eternity.
I confess to almighty God and to you my brothers and sisters that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I ask Blessed Mary—ever virgin—all the angels and saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.
Lord Have Mercy, Christ Have Mercy, Lord Have Mercy
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The Order of Mass
Homily
Profession of Faith
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 (all bow) 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.
Prayer of the Faithful Offertory Be Not Afraid
Liturgy of the Eucharist
Invitation to Prayer
Priest: Pray, brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the almighty Father
All: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our good and the good of all his holy Church.
Priest: The Lord be with you. All: And with your spirit. Priest: Lift up your hearts. All: We lift them up to the Lord. Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God
All: It is right and just
(Refrain) Be not afraid. I go before you always. Come follow me, and I will give you rest.
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The Order of Mass
Sanctus
Mystery of Faith
All: Save us Savior of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free. Great Amen
The Lord’s Prayer
Sign of Peace At the present time, the optional “sign of peace” has been suspended at our liturgies.
Lamb of God
Priest: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those who are called to the supper of the Lamb.
All: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
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The Order of Mass
Spiritual Communion Prayer My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love you above all things and I de-
sire to receive you in my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally, come at least spir-itually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there, and unite myself wholly to you.
Never permit me to be separated from you. Amen.
Communion Chant A multitude with diseases, and those who were troubled by unclean spirits, came unto him, because a
power emanated from him which healed them all.
Final Blessing
Deacon: The Mass is ended, go in peace. All: Thanks be to God. Hymn at the Dismissal I Sing the Mighty Power of God
1.) I sing the mighty power of God that made the mountains rise. That spread the flowing seas abroad and
built the lofty skies. I sing the wisdom that ordained the sun to rule the day; the moon shines full at his command, and all the stars obey.
2.) I sing the goodness of the Lord that filled the earth with food; He formed the creatures with His word, and then pronounced them good. Lord how thy wonders are displayed wherever I turn my eye. If I survey the
ground I tread, or gaze upon the sky!
Communion Hymn Gift of Finest Wheat
(Refrain)
You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat, come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
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