Pastor Rev. Robert L. Ruston

Sts. Gregory & Barnabas Parish Welcome to 

Daily Mass: (See inside for locations)

8:00AM Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Friday

6:30PM Thursday

Weekend Liturgy:

Saturday: 4:00PM (Daisytown)

Sunday: 8:00AM (Bon Air)

10:00AM (Daisytown)

120 Boltz Street 408 Luzon Avenue

Johnstown, PA 15902

Phone: 814-536-6818

Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00AM - 2:00PM

Visit us on the WEB!

www.ssgregbar.org

Join us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/groups/SSGregoryBarnabas/

Reconciliation: No schedule at this time.

Sacrament of Baptism: Parents are to be examples to their children by being regis-tered, active members of the Parish. Please call the rectory office to make arrangements.

Sacrament of Marriage: Couples planning to marry are to make arrangements at least nine months prior to their wedding date. Diocesan Guidelines regarding Marriage Prep-aration must be followed. The Catholic party/parties is/are to be registered, active members in the parish.

Anointing of the Sick: Please call the church office if you have a family member or friend in the hospital who would like to receive the Sacraments. The homebound and parishioners in nursing homes should also receive the Sacrament of the Sick and Holy Communion.

Parish Membership: New members are always welcome! If you are moving into, within, or out of the Parish, please call the Rectory Office and let us know.

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA): All who would like more information about membership in the Roman Catholic Church are invited to call the Church Office.

EMAIL: stsgregbar@dioceseaj.org

United In Christ MISSION STATEMENT

As Catholic Christians, we will live to serve God and each other. And do His will as one family united in Faith. We will teach, serve, and be an example to the youth of the parish that they will come to a full understanding of Christ and His plan for their lives. We will nurture the gifts and talents of all parish members and use them wisely for the glory of God. We will compassionately implement the Spiritual and Corporal works of Mercy for those in our Parish, Diocese and throughout the world. Through the celebration of the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist, we affirm our Communion with Christ and each other. All are welcome.

20 S O T A 16, 2020

Sts. Gregory & Barnabas Parish

MASS SCHEDULE (Mass Stipend $10)

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

Sunday, August 16th 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Wednesday, Fr. Bob’s Day off Next Sunday, August 23rd 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Family members are asked to present Offertory Gifts at weekend masses being offered for their loved ones.

August 16, 2020

RELIGIOUS ED INFORMATION

CHOIR PRACTICE

No Meetings at this time.

IN STITCHES

No Meetings at this time.

Missalettes will not be available for mass. Here are the following Hymns for the next couple of months (copies will be available at mass if you need one): Beginning August 1st Hymns will be the following (copies in vestibule that weekend) ENTRANCE HYMN: 204–WE GATHER TOGETHER OFFERTORY HYMN: 333–TASTE AND SEE EXIT HYMN: 200–NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD USING MASS OF CREATION

M (SG) 8:00AM

T (SB) 8:00AM

W (SG) 8:00AM

T (SG) 6:30PM

F (SB) 8:00AM

S (SG) 4:00PM

S (SB) 8:00AM

(SG) 10:00AM

R S C , L , J R

M S M G B P

B R T K R F

E S B B M P

D M M L P

M D S D , D

R R –B 8/24 T J P

F P

CCD: Watch for informa on

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Mission CO‐OP 

 

We will be taking up a collec on for the Mission Coopera ve the week‐end of August 23rd. Since we are social distancing and to help the missionaries stay safe we will be inser ng a flyer in next weekends bulle n to learn about their mis‐sion. Envelopes will be out for you to give back to the mission. If you are not a ending mass, you are welcome to mail in a dona on and label it “Mission Co‐op 2020”.  Thank you! 

To our  

2020 Confirma on  

George Rozum, Jr. Dylan Chontas

Cody Reese Jordan Slavick

F H C

To our  

2020 1st Holy Communion   

Paeton Bizjak, Gemma Studer

Kaleb Krawczyk, Logan Weingart, Owen MacEwan

Do you know someone who needs pray-ers? Please contact Debbie Washington at 536-3616 or dlwashi@hotmail.com to place a name on the parish Prayer Chain! Boxes for requests are also located in the vestibules of our worship sites.

PRAYER CHAIN

 

Ryan Wood, Army; CDR. Nathan S. Brezovic, US Navy; Fr. Frantisek Hal-ka, Army; Lieutenant Colonel David Dietz, Army; Petty Officer Tony Pinkas, Navy; PVT Neisner Tyler, Ar-my National Guard, Fort Leonard Wood Missouri (Neisner being deployed to Afghanistan Jan 2020). Please contact the parish office (536-6818) if we need to add or re-move any of our military personnel from this list. Thank you.

PRAYERFUL REMEMBRANCE FOR

ALL SERVING IN THE MILITARY

PLEASE, if you have a loved one ad-mitted to the hospital or nursing home contact the office. The hospital may take your church information, but we are not always notified. Fr. Bob likes to get to the hospital in a timely man-ner, but cannot if he doesn’t know. Thanks for your help.

HOSPITALIZED

Readings for August 16th 1st Reading – – Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 1 Thus says the LORD: Observe what is right, do what is just; for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about to be revealed. 6 The foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, ministering to him, loving the name of the LORD, and becoming his servants all who keep the sabbath free from profanation and hold to my covenant, 7 them I will bring to my holy mountain and make joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm – Psalms 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 R. (4) O God, let all the nations praise you! 2 May God have pity on us and bless us; may he let his face shine upon us. 3 So may your way be known upon earth; among all nations, your salvation. R. O God, let all the nations praise you! 5 May the nations be glad and exult because you rule the peoples in equity; the nations on the earth you guide. R. O God, let all the nations praise you! 6 May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you! 8 May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him! R. O God, let all the nations praise you!

2nd Reading – Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 Brothers and sisters: 13 I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I glo-ry in my ministry 14 in order to make my race jealous and thus save some of them. 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 29 For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. 30 Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, 31 so they have now disobeyed in order that, by virtue of the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. 32 For God delivered all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Alleluia: CF. Matthew 4:23 R. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. 23 Jesus proclaimed the Gospel of the kingdom and cured every disease among the people. R. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel – – Matthew 15:21-28 —Continued on next page

Excepted with permission from Dynamic Catholic

“Let us not say that things are harder today; they are simply different. But let us also learn from the saints who have gone before us, who confronted the difficulties of their own day. So I propose that we pause to rediscover some of the reasons which can help us to imitate them today.”

Pope Francis, The Joy of the Gospel (2014)

FINANCIAL NEWS Fiscal Year July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2021

Offertory Totals for the week of August 9, 2020

Weekly Needs $5,000

8/9/2020 $3,269

(Over/under) $1,731

Weekly Offering $2,780

Misc. Income $154

Votive Candles $39

Building Fund $162

Fuel $36

Assumption $98

Total $3,269

TV M $71

L F / H C H D N E $89

O R

$40

CMD 2021: $138.50

Gospel Meditation—20th Sunday in Ordinary Time We are hardwired for wholeness and crave it. When something is broken, we want it fixed. If a part of our body is not working properly, we want it healed. How often do we find ourselves say-ing, “I’m tired of struggling with this cold, I can’t wait for my surgery to heal, or I want my treatments to make me better.” Wholeness and healing restore our relationships and make us free to love as we desire. We know very well how our limitations, im-perfections, and brokenness really limit us. They can easily pre-vent us from being and doing what we want to do.

Our physical and emotional wounds and maladies are easier to identify. If my back hurts, I feel it and know what part of my body needs attention. If I am feeling intense anger, I can identify the emotion and take necessary steps to uncover its cause. Being per-sistent often brings greater and quicker results. But will pursuing and even achieving our physical and emotional healings really be enough? We forget that there is a deeper healing that we seek and desperately need. As we look around at humanity, there are some physical and emotional wounds and scars that cannot be made whole. They are limitations that must remain and, for one reason or another, cannot be rectified. Does this mean that the wholeness and healing that my being longs for is not possible for me? Must I settle with less than what God promises?

The answer is no. Ultimately, there is a desire that goes deeper than the physical and emotional. It is a desire that resides in our soul. What we really seek and thirst for is healing and wholeness for our soul. Inner strength, conviction, focus, grounding, love, hope, faith, courage, determination, peace, and connectedness are all words that center us on eternity. They direct us to a presence we discover in our core, which is none other than the presence of God. In God, we are healed. When we are persistent in reaching out to and establishing our relationship with God, real healing and wholeness begin to happen.

There are some limitations and some of our brokenness with which we may simply have to live. This does not mean that we have to abandon our journey to wholeness and healing. If we have done our inner soul work, we have worked toward and acquired what and who we ultimately need and desire. ©LPI

In The Community: COVER HILL Ladies Auxiliary Subs & Pizza Fundraiser: Subs $6 & Pizza $5. To order call Elsie 535-4963.

Dates corrected for PICK UP Pre-Order by 5PM: Pick Up By 8:30AM

Aug. 29th Sept 5th Sept. 26th Oct 3rd

at Cover Hill Volunteer Fire Co. Benefits the Cover Hill Ladies Aux.

ST. GREGORY & BARNABAS LAY MINISTRIES

Ministers are expected to take the responsibility to find a substi-tute if they cannot fulfill their assignment.

Liturgy August 15/16 August 22/23 August 29/30

4:00 PM Lector: D. Stroz

D EM: B Servers:

10:00AM Lector: S. Rosenbaum

D EM: B M. Krawczyk R. Rosenbaum

Servers:

8:00AM Lector:

BA EM: B

Servers:

Gospel – Matthew 15:21-28 21 At that time, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.” 23 But Jesus did not say a word in answer to her. Jesus’ disciples came and asked him, “Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us.” 24 He said in reply, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 But the woman came and did Jesus homage, saying, “Lord, help me.” 26 He said in reply, “It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs.” 27 She said, “Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.” 28 Then Jesus said to her in reply, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And the woman’s daughter was healed from that hour. The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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