This week, Bishop Zubik contacted all parishes in the Diocese of Pittsburgh with the following announcement: "As you might be aware, on March 1, 2020, the PA Department of Health issued new COVID mitigation regulations that increased the number allowed (20%) to gather indoors and outdoors and lifted the travel ban.  Given that we as Church have been operating with a 50% of occupancy for some time, the decisions announced yesterday DO NOT impact us.   At this time, the Diocese of Pittsburgh maintains its existing COVID mitigation efforts while it monitors the local impact of increasing occupancy."

At Christ the Divine Shepherd, we increased our capacity at Masses by 50% in October, so the new PA standard does not affect our seating capacity at Mass.  Since we have been seeing that our attendance at Masses has been increasing, we are continuing to make efforts to ensure that we are able to welcome everyone to Mass who wishes to attend in person.  If you would like to attend in person, we would ask you to utilize our “Save-a-Seat” program to guarantee that you’ll have a seat at Mass!  Please browse to  cdsmph.org/rsvp or call our office between 10am and 1pm, Monday through Friday, to save your seat for Mass.  See you in church!