My dad, Bill Burke is a very humble, quiet man. He grew up in Hazelwood, attended St. Stephen’s Elementary School and graduated from Central Catholic in 1958. After high school he served in the Navy then came home and entered the Pittsburgh Police Academy. He served as a police officer for thirty years. My dad is a wonderful husband, father and grandfather.
Happy Father’s Day to all of our fathers, grandfathers, step-fathers, uncles or any man who holds father-like role to someone. Let us pray for all of our fathers, living and deceased, this Father’s Day weekend.
Today, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Trinity, a day we marvel at how fortunate we are to be in a relationship with God.
In the first reading from Proverbs, we read that God’s saving wisdom is apparent in the details of the created world. God the creator brings all things into being through his wisdom like a master craftsman. In the Second Reading from Romans, we read how Paul finds reason to boast of the hardships he must face in God’s service. In the Gospel of John we read how Jesus promises to send the disciples the spirit of truth who will guide them through the challenges of the future.
The Trinity is a communion of love: God’s love comes to us from the Father through his Son Jesus, and is communicated to us in the Holy Spirit. We all believe in one God, we believe there are three divine persons. We don’t have to understand everything about him in order to have a personal relationship with each of those three persons of the trinity.
Let us reflect on this great mystery and prepare ourselves for next week as we celebrate Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ.
Happy Father’s Day!
CCEEP Social Ministry Center It gives me great pleasure to announce the renaming of the St. James Ministry Center to the Social Ministries and Community Outreach Center of the Catholic Community of the East End of Pittsburgh. Since we are moving forward on merging into one parish in January 2020, we are combining our resources to serve the needy in our communities of Point Breeze, Homewood-Brushton, Lincoln-Lemington, and Wilkinsburg.
For St. Bede and St. James parishioners, be sure to look in your July offertory envelope packets for a new envelope for “Social Ministries and Community Outreach.” All of the donations, 100%, will go to fund our Social Ministries Center. We thank you for your generosity.
This coming week our Search Committee will be interviewing candidates for a new Part Time Coordinator of Social Services and Community Action. This new CCEEP Staff position will start July 1.
Summer Daily Mass Because Fr. James, Fr. Augustine and Fr. Cajetan are traveling most of the summer, we will only have 9 am Daily Mass Monday through Saturday at St. Bede through August. There will be no 8 am daily Mass at St. James or Mother of Good Counsel during the summer.
Summer Church Hours St. Bede Church is open daily for private prayer and meditation, Monday through Friday from 6 am to 3 pm, Saturday am until after the 4 pm Mass and Sunday morning 7 am until after the 11 am Mass. Mother of Good Counsel and St. James Churches are open one hour before Mass and locked after the final Mass on the weekends.
One Year Anniversary This past Tuesday, June 11, marked one year since I arrived as the Administrator of St. Bede. It is has been a true joy to work with Fr. Taylor bringing St. Bede, St. Charles Lwanga and St. James Parishes together. We have made many positive upgrades to all three of our campuses and I am honored to serve you. As we prepare to officially merge into one Parish in January 2020, let us continue walking this journey together to be the Church Alive!
TV Mass Tune into next Sunday, June 23 at 6am on PCNC for “The Mass” with Rev. Thomas J. Burke- celebrant and the St. Bede Children’s Choir.
Welcome A special welcome to John, Alexandria and Ava Hudak and Jane Desimone who recently registered at CCEEP.
Something to Think About… The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.We need men who candream of things that never were.