St Mary's Romanian Byzantine Catholic Church

St Mary's Romanian Byzantine Catholic Church Divine Liturgy: Sunday 10:00AM We are a small parish. Located at 318 26th Street, McKeesport, Pennsylvania 15132. Romanian Byzantine Rite.

We are in Communion with Rome. The inside is a little taste of Heaven.

Bring your children to celebrate the birth of our Savior!
12/21/2025

Bring your children to celebrate the birth of our Savior!

A Letter to Those Who Bring Small Children to Church: There you are at church. Your baby or toddler is restless. Perhaps...
09/13/2024

A Letter to Those Who Bring Small Children to Church:

There you are at church. Your baby or toddler is restless. Perhaps even a little cheeky. You try to silence them, and nothing. You try to pacify them with food or toys, and nothing. Eventually, you resort to the last thing you wanted to do: you pick them up, and before a watching audience, you make the march out of the church. All the while you’re a little embarrassed, maybe a little frustrated too. You might even think to yourself, “There’s no point in coming to church. I get nothing out of it because I have to constantly care for my kid.”

We want you - mothers and/or fathers - to know just how encouraging you are to so many. The elderly woman who often feels alone beams with a smile at the sight of you wrestling with your little one. She’s been there before. She knows how hard it can be, but she smiles because to hear that brings back precious memories. Seeing young parents and their small children brighten her day; she may have just received bad news about her health but seeing the vitality of young ones removes - if but for a moment - her fears. The older man who always seems to be grouchy notices you too. He’s always talking about how children in this day have no respect or sense of goodness. But he sees you - a young family - in church every week. Like clockwork, he can depend on the sight of you and your young family. You give him hope that maybe the Church isn’t doomed after all, because there are still young parents who love God enough to bring their restless children to church.

Bring your children to church!

If we don’t hear crying, the church is dying!

As hard as it might be for you as a parent who’s half-asleep, keep on doing what you’re doing. You are an encouragement, and you’re starting off your children’s lives as you should.

Every Sunday they run to the back when it is time to ring the bells. Such great helpers.
08/06/2023

Every Sunday they run to the back when it is time to ring the bells. Such great helpers.

Bring them to church. Saturate their lives with the Word of God. Even if they lay on the floor. Even if they need 437 go...
06/05/2023

Bring them to church. Saturate their lives with the Word of God. Even if they lay on the floor. Even if they need 437 goldfish and a sucker to be quiet. Even if you stand in the back swaying back and forth holding them. Even when it’s hard. Even when when your row looks like a small hurricane just came through. Bring them to church. Let them see you worship. Let them see you pray. Let them see you running toward the Savior ... because if they don’t see and learn these things from you, who are they going to learn them from?
The world will teach them it’s not a priority. The world will teach them it’s okay to lay out, not to pick up their Bibles. The world will direct them so far off course, confuse them, and misinform them that just being “good” is enough. The world won’t teach them about Jesus. That’s our job.
Bring them to church.
Matthew 18:5-6 And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me. But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. Teaching kids is a huge responsibility. We must take it seriously and do it well. Prepare well, speak truth, and remember they are God’s kids first.

Always a group effort and such a beautiful display. Thank you to everyone for helping.
04/08/2023

Always a group effort and such a beautiful display. Thank you to everyone for helping.

We are truly blessed to have such a wonderful church family. Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends.
12/25/2022

We are truly blessed to have such a wonderful church family. Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends.

Emma got to hang with two of her favorite people today at the Romanian festival in Canton. We had a wonderful time!
08/28/2022

Emma got to hang with two of her favorite people today at the Romanian festival in Canton. We had a wonderful time!

01/26/2022

Sunday’s (January 30th) liturgy will start at 11:00 am. Father Will Rupp will be officiating. Hope to see you on Sunday.

01/07/2022

This Sunday, January 9, 2022, liturgy will begin at 11:15 am. Please check back for any other announcements.
Thank you!

Today Elijah Michael Kastriba was Chrismated into the Byzantine Catholic Faith and welcomed to the St. Mary’s family. M...
12/11/2021

Today Elijah Michael Kastriba was Chrismated into the Byzantine Catholic Faith and welcomed to the St. Mary’s family. May God Bless Elijah ❤️

Address

318 26th Street
McKeesport, PA
15132

Telephone

(412) 673-5552

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