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Daily Mass - October 21, 2020
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From Father Larry Adams
This past week, over the course of four days, Fr Thom and I celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation for the ninth grade students of Christ the Divine Shepherd Parish! Although we anticipated celebrating this sacrament this past Spring, we were unable to do so, due to the pandemic. Since our bishops were unable to visit each parish this fall, Bishop Zubik authorized the pastors and administrators of our diocese to celebrate Confirmation in their place. In this bulletin, we’ve included the names of our confirmands and some photos from our celebrations. Please keep the young men and women of CDS who were confirmed this week in your prayers!
(We hope to return to a regular celebration of Confirmation this spring with our 8th graders. As the situation with the pandemic continues to unfold, we’ll be able to provide more information in the upcoming months.)
X X XBack in June, we returned to the publicly-attended celebration of the Mass in our parish, and things have gone pretty well up to this point! Since we did not have the resources to reopen all of our buildings for the weekly celebration of the Mass, our approach was to reopen in order to meet the expressed needs of our community. At the present, our six-Mass schedule (one Saturday Mass and two Sunday Masses each in Penn Hills and in Monroeville) is sufficiently meeting the needs of those who wish to attend Mass in person. (Our 11am and 11:30am Masses continue to have many spaces available in the pews; please consider joining us for these Masses!) In addition, our two live-streamed Masses on Sunday allow those who are unable to attend in person to pray along with us in our churches. As we move through autumn and head into winter, we’ll continue to monitor our Mass attendance, and make any adjustments necessary so that we continue to meet the needs of our parish community!X X XIn January, our youth minister resigned from his position on the staff of CDS. As we were discerning how best to fill his role, the COVID lockdown hit us, forcing us to cancel plans for the remainder of the youth ministry year, as well as our annual Mission Trip. We’d like to resume our discernment and our plans for the return to Youth Ministry activities for the students of Christ the Divine Shepherd Parish in Penn Hills, Pitcairn, and Monroeville. This requires us to contemplate two critical issues: the expansion of the Youth Ministry to all the neighborhoods of our parish (previously, the Youth Ministry program operated only in Monroeville), and the ways in which we can provide this ministry in a time when our financial resources are critically low.
We would like to invite you to be part of the solution! If you’re interested in participating in the planning for the resumption of Youth Ministry at CDS, please sign up for our Flocknote system to join the discussion! You may do so by creating a login at ChristTheDivineShepherd.Flocknote.com – when you sign up, please join the “Youth Ministry” group. In a few weeks, once you’ve had a chance to express your desire to see Youth Ministry flourish in our parish, we’ll set up meeting to begin to discern our approach for 2020-21.X X XPlease 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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29th Sunday in Ordinary Time - October 18, 202011:00am Mass
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9:00am
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CDS News
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Today's Readings
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Reading 1 EPH 3:14-21Responsorial Psalm PS 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19Gospel LK 12:49-53
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