On Tuesday, September 21, St. Mary of the Mount Church, 403 Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington, will host the 2010 UN International Day Of Peace Celebration, featuring an interfaith service, flag ceremony and 24-hour vigil. The event, beginning at 7:00 p.m., includes: ♦  Rededication of the Peace Pole (May Peace Prevail On Earth) ♦  [...]

Duquesne University has chosen an Episcopal priest, the Rev. Dr. Robert D. Hughes III, as the first recipient of its des Places-Libermann Award in Pneumatology, which recognizes the most significant scholarly contribution to the study of the Holy Spirit in the last five years. Dr. Hughes will deliver the annual Holy Spirit Lecture and Colloquium [...]

Jazz at Emmanuel — where the spirited and the spiritual join together in a new kind of celebration — currently is in its 22th season at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on the Northside. Jazz @ E. was created as an ecumenical jazz service to provide people with an opportunity to worship in a different and very [...]

Join us on Saturday, September 18, 2010, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 335 Locust Street, Johnstown to hear our guest speaker and celebrant, the Rev. Canon Scott Quinn, our diocese's Canon to the Ordinary. Bring a copy of your favorite recipe for the ECW Cook Book, visit and participate in [...]

All members of the diocese are invited to join our youth and the Calvary Camp family for a day at the ballpark on Sunday afternoon, September 19, when the Pittsburgh Pirates host the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Game time is 1:35 p.m. The tickets are free!  The cost of admission is being provided as a gift to [...]

…then the photos below represent almost a million. What follows is a compilation of photos from the 74th season of Christian ministry at Sheldon Calvary Camp that have been featured throughout the summer in the diocese's Grace Happens newsletter. For even more photos from Calvary Camp's 2010 camping season, click here. To subscribe to the [...]

Taking a Hike Nearly 40 teens and youth leaders, representing a half-dozen parishes, spent the morning and early afternoon of August 21 walking, picnicking, and celebrating the Eucharist among the shady groves of North Park. Bishop Price shared reflections on the Gospel of Luke 10:1-9, concerning discipleship: "The Lord appointed seventy others and sent them [...]

The Dedication of the Sharpsburg house has finally been set for Saturday afternoon, September 18, at 3 p.m, at the house, 202 Tenth St., Sharpsburg.  The family receiving the home will be there, and our participating churches will be presented with certificates in appreciation of their work.  We hope representatives, volunteers, and as many as [...]