We are pleased to announce that the Mass Book will open for 2025 on September 30, 2024. Canon law does not permit us to keep Mass intentions beyond those we are able to schedule in a year’s time therefore, some parishioner and all non-parishioner requests will be sent out to be celebrated at a different location (i.e. retired priests, Monastery, Missions, Seminary, etc.).  In order to allow as many families of the parish as possible to schedule Mass intentions, the following guidelines will apply:

• All Mass Intention requests must be in writing.  Therefore, no requests can be taken over the phone.  Forms are available in the Narthex and on the Parish Website.  

  • Mass Intentions are available for 

    • Saturdays:

      • 4:00 pm @ St. Catherine of Sweden

      • 5:00 pm @ St. Richard

    • Sundays:

      • 7:30 am @ St. Richard

      • 9:15 am @ St. Catherine of Sweden

      • 10:00 am @ St. Richard

      • 11:30 am @ St. Catherine of Sweden

    • Weekdays

      • 9:00 am @ St. Catherine of Sweden (Monday, Wednesday & Friday)

      • 9:00 am @ St. Richard (Tuesdays & Thursdays)

      • 9:30 am @ St. Barnabas Retirement Village (First Fridays)

• The stipend for each Mass Intention is $10.00 (checks payable to Sts. Martha and Mary Parish).

• Mass requests will be limited to a total of three (3) for the entire 2025 calendar year - 1 weekend Mass and 2 weekday Masses that can be scheduled at either church location.

• Please place your completed form and payment in an envelope marked “2025 Mass Intentions” in the collection box, drop-off box or mail to Sts. Martha and Mary Parish, 2554 Wildwood Road, Allison Park, PA  15101.

• Mass requests will be taken on a first come, first serve basis.  We will try and accommodate all requests.

  • More than three Mass Intentions per family will be accepted for the year; however, they may not be fulfilled at our parish, but would be sent out as indicated above.

Mass Intention Form

The holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord’s own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist.

“At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet ‘in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.'”

The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.” “The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.”

“The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God’s action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit.”

Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all.

In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: “Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking.” (Source: The Vatican)