Three Decades of TV Ministry Streaming Daily Mass, Prayer, Stations of the Cross

The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh is celebrating 31 years of TV ministry from the St. Paul Cathedral, and its outreach continues to grow.

The ministry enters its 32nd year offering of cablecasts that started as a means to reach the homebound and expanded to include livestream. Three decades later, during the pandemic, that same TV ministry became a great gift to an entire region.

Countless people who are homebound, in nursing homes and in hospitals, locally and internationally, are able to access daily Mass at the cathedral through their computers. It is also available on Comcast 95 in Pittsburgh. The diocese continually receives letters and emails from viewers expressing their appreciation.

“These televised Masses keep our cathedral parish community connected, joined in prayer as a faith family. While the pandemic kept us isolated in other ways, it brought new people to us, whether from around the corner or around the world,” said Father Kris Stubna, rector of St. Paul.

The late Father Leo Vanyo began the ministry when he was cathedral rector. Father Stubna has expanded it to include livestreaming on social media and more. Several years ago, thanks to a grant from Our Campaign for the Church Alive!, the equipment was upgraded to digital technology and remotely-operated cameras. A team of 11 volunteers makes the televised daily Mass possible.

The daily Mass is cablecast and livestreamed at 8:15 a.m. Monday-Saturday. The Sunday Mass is at 10 a.m. All are livestreamed at www.christianassociatestv.org.  

During Lent, Stations of the Cross are being livestreamed and cablecast on Friday evenings at 7:00 p.m. Every Wednesday evening throughout the year, the Novena to our Mother of Perpetual Help, together with Eucharistic exposition and benediction, is celebrated and livestreamed/cablecast from 7-8 p.m.

To join the broadcasts from the historic St. Paul’s Cathedral: Comcast Channel 95 in the city of Pittsburgh; www.christianassociatestv.org; the parish Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/stpaulpgh; and https://www.diopitt.org.