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Youth Volunteers: Completed 6th Grade - age 17 Adult Volunteers age 18 & up! We need: Group Leaders & Assistants Music Leader & Assistants Craft Assistants Service Assistants Games Leader & Assistants Snack Assistants Bible Story Assistants Babysitters Sign up to volunteer or register kids to attend at our parish website or email katiegrella@gmail.comRead More -
SIGN UP HERE!! http://forms.gle/NWTEbpkGsWBV8f6B8 Vacation Bible School is coming to your Catholic Community! Mon June 24 to Thurs June 27 PS-5th Grade MS, HS, & Adult Volunteers Needed!!Read More
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Wednesday, June 19, 9:30 AM
Barre Exercise at Holy Child Gym LIFT - Tone - Burn Bring your own mat & 1-5 LB weights $10 per person Come join Katie Logan, a parishioner and certified Barre instructor, to get fit for Jesus. Contact Katie to sign up! SFworkout99@gmail.comRead More -
Tuesday, June 25, 9:30 AMSt Mary Church HallRead More
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Wednesday, June 26, 9:30 AM
Barre Exercise at Holy Child Gym LIFT - Tone - Burn Bring your own mat & 1-5 LB weights $10 per person Come join Katie Logan, a parishioner and certified Barre instructor, to get fit for Jesus. Contact Katie to sign up! SFworkout99@gmail.comRead More
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There is still time to register to attend or volunteer for Vacation Bible School! Click the image above! Don't miss out on the chance to travel with St. Paul to Athens and learn to spread the Gospel! Happening This Week!
Click to register for Vacation Bible School - attendees and/or volunteers. June 24th-27th.
St. Anthony Feast Day Mass & Festa! Thursday, June 13th, Mass 5:30pm @ Holy Child, Food to follow
Be Extraordinary 
Ordinary...it seems so boring. We've just finished celebrating Easter - 50 days of a liturgical "high", and now we've entered into Ordinary Time. But far from being boring or ordinary, this is the time of the year when the rubber hits the road so to speak.
We've set aside the time of Lent for a conscious return to the practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving; we've celebrated the New Life that those disciplines yield in us; we've welcomed the Holy Spirit and His Gifts into our hearts, now we live it out - day-to-day.
So far from being ordinary, this time is an extraordinary opportunity to live the life we've been called and graced to live. We can practice using the Gifts of the Spirit, we can bask in the Grace of the Resurrection, we can feed on the fruits of our prayer life knowing we are not alone.
This summer, as you're playing with the kids and doing all of those fun things that summer has to offer, make it a point to interact in an extraordinary way. Take the time to point out the beauty of God's creation; spend some time reading Scripture stories in the sunshine; with the extra free time, look for opportunities to serve the poor among us.
Know that you're in my prayers and if we can serve your family in any way - please reach out!
This Week in the Church:
- Thursday, June 13th: Feast of St. Anthony of Padua
- Learn about this saint, one of the Doctors of the Church. For a saint to be proclaimed a Doctor of the Church, the Pope must decide that their body of writing and preaching helps Christians in any age to more fully understand and life the Gospel.
- Join us for the Festa! 5:30pm Mass, dinner to follow.
- Make plans to visit St. Anthony's chapel on Troy Hill. This beautiful church is home to the single largest collection of saint relics outside of the Vatican (over 5000)! And it's right here in Pittsburgh. Visit www.stanthonyschapel.org for more information. (When I take my kids, we visit the church, the gift shop and then the Troy Hill spray park nearby for some afternoon fun!)
- Sunday, June 16th: Trinity Sunday, Solemnity
- Yep, you read that right, another Solemnity! We may be back in Ordinary Time, but we're still celebrating big time!
- This Solemnity honors one of the great pillars and mysteries of our faith, the Trinity. While we can use many examples (the shamrock, triangle, states of water etc.) to better understand the Truth of 3 distinct persons in 1 God, at the end of the day, we have to accept this on Faith. We will never prove the Trinity, we believe.
- Make a special "Tri" dinner using any of the following (many of which I'm sure the dads will love - seeing as it's also Father's Day!):
- Tri-color pasta
Neapolitan ice cream
Tri-tip roast
Cloverleaf rolls
Tres Leche cake
Triple ChocolateAnything,
Triple Sec can be an ingredient for moms & dads
Three Cheese Macaroni and Cheese
- Tri-color pasta
- Look for the different names for God/Trinity in the Scriptures
- Search for these: builder, Jeremiah 31:4; eagle, Deuteronomy 32:11; father, Psalm 103:13; healer, Jeremiah 30:17; helper, Psalm 54:4; king, Psalm 47:6-7; lamp, 2 Samuel 22:29; mother, Isaiah 66:13 and Psalm 131; rock, Deuteronomy 32:4; shepherd, Psalm 23; teacher, Isaiah 28:26; tower, Proverbs 18:10; wisdom, Proverbs 9:11. Let your children tell you what those names mean to them
Coming Up in Your Catholic Community!
- Thursday, June 13th: Feast of St. Anthony of Padua