St. Benedict the Moor Parish-PGH

09/06/2026

09/05/2026

The bulletin for September 6, 2026, the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, is on our website.

https://sbtmparishpgh.com/bulletins

09/04/2026

“Worship as Participation Part One: Gathered — Called Out of Scattered Lives” by Fr. Matthew Hawkins

Before a single word of the Mass is spoken, something has already happened. You have left your kitchen table, your car radio, your unfinished argument or your unread text messages, and you have walked through a door into a room full of other people who did the same thing. That walk is not incidental to worship. It is the first act of it.

https://sbtmparishpgh.com/worship-as-participation-by-fr-matthew-hawkins

09/04/2026

“The Church in the City Part II: Beyond Parish Boundaries” by Fr. Matthew Hawkins

"Let us pray that in large cities often marked by anonymity and loneliness we find new ways to proclaim the Gospel, discovering creative paths to build community." — Pope Leo XIV, August 2026

The second question Pope Leo's intention presses on us is harder for any single parish to answer alone: which pastoral needs transcend our boundaries entirely? Loneliness does not carry a parish membership card. The isolated elderly widower in the East End, the international graduate student near Pitt with no Catholic community in his own language, the discharged psychiatric patient with nowhere to go on a Sunday morning — none of these needs stops conveniently at a parish boundary line drawn on a diocesan map decades ago for reasons that had little to do with how people actually move through Pittsburgh today.

https://sbtmparishpgh.com/the-church-in-the-city-by-fr-matthew-hawkins

08/31/2026

“A Pastoral Letter on Tactical Nuclear Weapons and the Christian Conscience” by Fr. Matthew Hawkins

In recent months, our headlines have carried a word many of us thought belonged to a darker era: "tactical nuclear weapons." Military planners now speak of low-yield warheads as if they were simply another tool of statecraft — precise, contained, "usable." I write to you because the Church has something clear and urgent to say about this, and because our own consciences are implicated in it, not only the consciences of generals and heads of state.

St. Benedict The Moor Parish is a Christ-centered, Spirit-filled Roman Catholic parish located on Freedom Corner in the Hill District of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. After being asked by parishioners, Bishop David Zubik established St. Benedict the Moor as a Personal Parish for Black Catholics in Pittsb...

08/29/2026

The bulletin for August 30, 2026, the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, is on our website.

https://sbtmparishpgh.com/bulletins

08/28/2026

“Church in the City Part I: The City as Mission Territory — Where St. Benedict the Moor Stands” by Fr. Matthew Hawkins

"Let us pray that in large cities often marked by anonymity and loneliness we find new ways to proclaim the Gospel, discovering creative paths to build community." — Pope Leo XIV, August 2026

https://sbtmparishpgh.com/the-church-in-the-city-by-fr-matthew-hawkins

08/28/2026

“Series on the Eucharist: Communion” by Fr. Matthew Hawkins

"Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf." 1 Corinthians 10:17

https://sbtmparishpgh.com/series-on-the-eucharist-by-fr-matthew-hawkins

08/27/2026