Thanks, Dr. I am cautiously optimistic, as is my mother who is a parishoner at St Benedict’s. I do believe the new bishop will be saying Mass there soon (or maybe St John’s in JOhnstown - I get the two mixed up as I have family at both). Anyway, I will most likely be in town for the Easter weekend & I hope to see him.
Bishop Bartchak is scheduled to offer mass at Saint John Gualbert Cathedral in Johnstown on Easter Sunday at 11:00 a.m., and at St. Benedict’s in Johnstown on Divine Mercy Sunday, I think at 2:00 pm.
By the way, St. Benedict’s Youth Group is performing the Stations of the Cross tomorrow at 7:00pm in their parish hall. There are 23 teens involved, including ten of our local Catholic homeschoolers (which includes my three children.) Fr. Mike Wolfe has done a fantastic job pulling together this youth group, and this presentation of the Stations is nicely done. They call Fr. Wolfe “Miracle Mike” because he comes up with all these big, elaborate plans and activities that no one thinks he can possibly pull off, but somehow he always pulls it together at the last minute. He’s a really great, holy, zealous and kind young priest, and he’s really doing a good job with these youth.