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During this time of transition, please take an opportunity to attend Mass at St. Mary of the Mount Parish (403 Grandview Avenue, Pgh., PA  15211), who is in our On Mission Parish Grouping.  Below is their current mass schedule:

Our parish is hosting its 9th annual "Night at the Races" on Saturday, September 22, 2018, at the parish center (81 S. 13th Street).  Doors open:  5:30 p.m., Food Served:  6:15 p.m., Races Begin:  7:00 p.m.

As most of you know Fr. Mike will be retiring in October, and has been given permission to continue residing at St. Adalbert Rectory. The Pastoral Council will be sponsoring a Retirement Open House for Fr. Mike on Sunday, October 14, 2018, from 12:00 Noon23:00 p.m. at the Parish Center. Everyone is welcome.

On the first Sunday of every month at St. Peter’s Church, there is a special hour of prayer, worship and si- lence before the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Join us Sunday, October 7, 2018, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The Christian Mothers & Women’s Guild will hold their next business/social meeting on Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 7:00 p.m. in the Parish Center. There will be no meeting in September.

For the diocesan webpage on clergy abuse response with its various links to the Grand Jury Report, diocesan repsonse, list of clergy, how to report abuse etc., click here

For a link to homilies and enlightening articles click here

For detail of Mass and Confession times for our On Mission Parish Grouping of Saint Mary of the Mount and Prince of Peace Parishes click here

My Mom raised me right.  “You always tell people thank you,” she said.  Then she said “Try and do it with more than those small already printed cards in which you only sign your name.”

The first edition of this column came out June of 1990. The folks of a small parish in Monongahela didn't know what hit them. Their bulletin was a one page summary of basically nothing printed on a mimeo machine in which you had to correct mistakes (sic) by putting a purple liquid over the mistake and then typing over. The pastor whom I replaced was a sickly, saintly old soul who never put the collection total in the bulletin. I don't know which item stunned the parish more: The Sunday collection was now in the bulletin or P&WFW. Let's call it a toss-up.

Notes I wrote to myself then lost, then found when looking under the cushions of my couch for money to buy new address labels since I now have about, oh...3,000 that say 403 Grandview Ave and will soon be obsolete.  Maybe I can get Michael or Fr. Peter to buy them at a discount and just cross out my name and write theirs over mine.  Michael?  Nah, but if I toss in a set of Ginsu knives for Peter, he'll fall for anything...

I have only three columns left, but this is still one of my favorites for a lot of reasons.  It's an almost annual.  A “Classic.”  So I run it again for your reading pleasure.

Since my last three columns are all planned out, while cleaning out my office and packing up, I found these letters (anonymous of course) in my desk and decided to respond.  I wonder how many Michael has received?  So with all the compassion, kindness, brotherly love I can muster to someone I don't know, I offer you these...

Notes I wrote to myself, then lost, then found when looking under the cushions of my couch for money to buy salve and aloe to put on all my wounds from the punches I took from people who like the movies I don't like and I happened to make insulting (but hilarious) comments about...And from all of you grammar purists, yeah, I know you don't end a sentence with a preposition.

Notes I wrote to myself then lost, then found when looking under the cushions of my couch for money to buy more bubble wrap to surround my statue of John Wayne so nothing happens to “The Duke” during my move…

After a couple weeks of just sad and tough news, I thought I needed to get back to some of the usual stuff of this column and share with you the following...

It was not a good week around the world. I had the funeral of Peggy Taylor on Tuesday. Long time parishioner. Peggy's family had to think long and hard about having their Mom's funeral because Peggy was the Grandma of Nicholas (12) and Dylan (7) Taylor, the two young boys who died in the house fire on Sorrell Street in the Marshall-Shadeland area of Pittsburgh on Monday. Without their brother Raymond and his wife Jennifer present, siblings Renee, Michelle and David mourned their Mom's death along with family and friends.

I know people who don’t watch the news or read newspapers because the news is all bad. They think that by ignoring it the problem will go away, but all they do is become more inclined to anger and depression. I have news for them. There are more good people out there than bad folks. I see them more than they do. I experience them more than they do. They just don’t make the newspapers. Did you see the article in the Pittsburgh Catholic about the number of kids from the diocese going to World Youth Day?