Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania

08/26/2026

David Poecking is a very active supporter of Christian Associates and will be speaking for Bishop Eckman as we celebrate Bishop Emeriti Zubik and Kusserow at this weekend's John 17 Awards!

📬 Pittsburgh Catholic magazine welcomes submissions for our “Good Shepherds” feature. Please email ➡️[email protected]⬅️ to share your favorite story about one of our priests!

Our most recently featured Good Shepherd is Father Dave Poecking: "Michael and Kiersten reconnected with Father Dave while preparing for marriage. Because of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, their wedding was postponed until 2021, when Father Dave celebrated the couple’s marriage. Michael especially remembered Father Dave’s encouragement during marriage preparation: husband and wife should serve one another as they would serve Christ. Michael had no idea how deeply those words would shape the years ahead."

Read the full feature in the August/September issue of Pittsburgh Catholic magazine: https://catholicmagazines.org/magazine-archive/pittsburgh-catholic/pit0826.

08/24/2026

From: ReadingtheWord Today's Scripture Readings:

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, abides under the shadow of the Almighty." - Psalm 91:1

https://thenalc.org/readings/

08/23/2026

What a beautiful day for an open house at Washington Presbytery’s new Presbytery Center, the beautifully renovated former parsonage of Laboratory Presbyterian Church in Washington. The new center has a high-tech-equipped meeting room, offices, a full kitchen, and a wide front porch for fellowship.

08/20/2026

The relationships nurtured through Christian Associates are real and long-lasting. This group of retired bishops and executives continues to meet regularly for fellowship. Blessed be the ties that bind our hearts in Christian love!

Left to right: Dr. Sheldon Sorge, Pittsburgh Presbytery; Dr. Don Wilson and Dr. Wayne Yost, Presbytery of Kiskiminetas; Bishop David Zubik, Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh; Bishop Kurt Kusserow, SWPA Lutheran Synod; Rev. Skip Noftzger, Presbytery of Redstone; Rev. Craig Kephart, Washington Presbytery.

08/19/2026

We thank the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh for their Platinum Sponsorship of the John 17 Awards! Led by Bishop Ketlen Solak (pictured below with Rev. Barlow), the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh is a collective fellowship of communities alive in the love of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, seeking and serving Jesus Christ in all persons and in all of God’s creation.

08/17/2026

We are so grateful to Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation for their Platinum Sponsorship of the John 17 Awards Tea Party. Sponsorship information and tickets are available in the link in the comments below - but space is limited, so don't wait!

08/16/2026

Happy birthday, Diocese of Greensburg! Today the diocese celebrated its 75th anniversary on its patronal feast, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. May God continue to bless the Catholic faithful in Armstrong, Fayette, Indiana, and Westmoreland counties!

08/14/2026

August 15: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic)/Mary, Mother of Our Lord

11 "Hear, O daughter; consider and | listen closely;*
forget your people and your | father's house.
12 The king will have pleasure | in your beauty;*
he is your master; therefore | do him honor.
13 The people of Tyre are here | with a gift;*
the rich among the people | seek your favor."
14 All glorious is the princess | as she enters;*
her gown is | cloth-of-gold.
15 In embroidered apparel she is brought | to the king;*
after her the bridesmaids follow | in procession.
16 With joy and gladness | they are brought,*
and enter into the palace | of the king.

(From Psalm 45)

Attribution
Senlis; Assumption of the Virgin; lintel, central portal, west facade, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt University Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://act.library.vanderbilt.edu/artworks/28142 [retrieved August 12, 2026]. Original source: image donated by Jim Womack and Anne Richardson.

08/14/2026

For a full year, through sunshine, snow, and rain, people of faith have gathered every Friday morning at the ICE headquarters on Pittsburgh’s South Side to pray for our immigrant neighbors. Thanks to Pax Christi Pittsburgh, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, and Casa San José for organizing our community and keeping this ecumenical, interfaith witness strong.

08/13/2026

We join with his family, with the faithful of Ss. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church in Carnegie, and with the entire Orthodox community of Greater Pittsburgh in mourning the death of The Rev. Fr. John Charest, looking forward in faith and hope to the resurrection of the dead in Jesus Christ our Lord. We pray for his wife Matushka Laryssa Charest and their three children.

In addition to his pastoral duties, Fr. Charest was the President of the Orthodox Clergy Brotherhood of Greater Pittsburgh.

Memory eternal! Вічная Пам’ять!