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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE ARCHEPARCHY OF PITTSBURGH
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columbarium at mount st. macrina
saluting our veterans
124 Niche Romanesque style Columbarium installed near Resurrection Garden Page 4
Parishes of the Archeparchy celebrate Veterans Day Page 7
VOL. 65 NO. 12
Up on the roof
DECEMBER 2020
year in review A look back at 2020 in photos Pages 12 to 13
eternal memory
Most Rev. Gerald Nicholas Dino jan. 11, 1940 ‑ nov. 14, 2020
Parishioner Dave Kormanik arranged for the roofing contractor to take Father Ivan Rusyn up in a crane –—127 feet high — Nov. 10 to bless the domes, crosses, and roof of St. Mary in Windber, Pa. For a story and more photos, see page 3.
A Vatican Christmas details of stamps, nativity scene, tree released
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Although the Vatican knows Christmas may be very different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it already has chosen its stamps and the Nativity scene and tree that will stand in St. Peter’s Square. The larger-than-life-sized ceramic figures in the Nativity scene will come from a high school in Castelli, a town in the ceramic-producing region of Teramo, northeast of Rome, the Vatican announced Oct. 30. The F.A. Grue Institute, a high school focused on art, will send only a handful of the 54 sculptures that students and teachers crafted for the scene between 1965 and 1975, the Vatican said. In addition
to the Holy Family, an angel and the three kings, there will be a bagpipe player, a panpipe player, a shepherdess and a little girl carrying a doll. The scene will be displayed next to a towering spruce tree from Slovenia. The tree, which is almost 92 feet tall, will come from an area outside the town of Kocevje, the Vatican said. “This year, more than ever, the staging of the traditional space dedicated to Christmas in St. Peter’s Square is meant to be a sign of hope and trust for the whole world,” the Vatican statement said. “It expresses the certainty that Jesus comes among his people to save and console them.”
The Nativity scene will be unveiled, and the tree will be lighted Dec. 11, the Vatican said. The Vatican also revealed the design for its 2020 Christmas stamps, which celebrate the birth of Jesus as a light of peace for the world. The 1.15-euro stamp features the Baby Jesus with the Church of the Christ Child in Steyr, Austria, in the background and a 1.10euro stamp shows Pope Francis holding a lantern with St. Peter’s Basilica in the background. As a joint issue with Austria, a single sheet with the two stamps pays tribute to an Austrian initiative called “Peace Light of Bethlehem.” Story continued on page 2
Most Rev. Gerald Nicholas Dino, D.D., O.E.S.L., fell asleep in the Lord on Nov. 14, the feast of St. Philip, the Apostle on the Byzantine Catholic Calendar, after suffering a series of strokes. He is survived by family, friends, and the Faithful of the Eparchy of Phoenix. Born in Binghamton, N.Y., in 1940, he attended Woodrow Wilson Elementary School and then Binghamton Central High School, from which he graduated with Honors in 1958. He continued his education at Duquesne University, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961. He then entered SS. Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh Pa., where he completed theological studies for priesthood in 1965, after which he was ordained a priest for the Eparchy of Passaic. In 1970, following three parish assignments, he was then sent to Rome to earn, in 1972, his licentiate in Oriental Ecclesiastical Sciences (O.E.S.L.). In 1973, following another year in a parish assignment, he was appointed Academic Dean and Professor of Dogma and Patrology at SS. Story continued on page 3
Bishop Gerald Nicholas Dino