The following is from http://www.flt93memorialchapel.org/MissionStatement.htm
Flight 93 Memorial Chapel is a spiritual memorial and perpetual tribute in honor of the Heroes of Flight 93, and all others who perished September 11, 2001. The founder and Director-Curator is Reverend Alphonse T. Mascherino, an ordained Catholic priest for twenty-six years.
The Chapel is a secular non-denominational Chapel, and serves as a spiritual refuge and place of meditation and prayer. The Chapel is open to people of all faiths and is available for individual faith groups to worship together under the direction of their respective religious leaders. Prayer and worship services will be conducted on a regular basis to honor the Heroes who have fallen, to pray for our Nation, our President, public officials and religious leaders. The theme of the Chapel is One Nation Under God. Appropriate ceremonies on national holidays will celebrate the religious diversity of America and the unity of the American people.
The Chapel will present multi-media programs to the public celebrating the Memory of the Heroes of Flight 93, The Spirit of America, and the theme of One Nation Under God. A program of lectures and addresses by professionals in the fields of Religion, Education, Psychology and Public Service will be presented. Chorales, and Concerts by performing groups and visiting Church choirs centered on the theme of the American Spirit, with audience participation are planned in the Chapel and on the Chapel grounds.
The church building was first dedicated in 1902, and is recognized to be one hundred years old. The church was used for services for seventy years. In recent years the building served as a seed warehouse of the Servos Seed Corporation. The building was purchased privately from the Kurt Servos Family in January, 2002 and is currently under reconstruction as the Memorial Chapel.
Non-profit status for the Chapel is currently being investigated.
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From http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_90855.html
Chapel grows out of tragedy
By Robb Frederick
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
The windows of the UAL Flt 93 Memorial Chapel blend blues and greens that belong on a Monet lily pad.
At dusk Tuesday, with the light behind them gone, the preacher, in his country-western cut suit, looked to another source.
"This is what we do as Americans," the Rev. Alphonse Mascherino said. "We gather together, we observe, and we talk to each other. And in that way we try to figure out what it all means for us."
For Mascherino, the Sept. 11 crash of United Airlines Flight 93 was a calling, loud and clear. He would build this chapel, a white-sided shrine in Stonycreek Township. He would raise a bell 34 feet above the front door. And he would fill this room, with a service, on the 11th of each month.
He expects 700 people today, for hymns and half-hour concerts. There will be barbershoppers and brass, pipes and drums.
He had almost 50 visitors yesterday. They sat in folding chairs, smelling fresh paint. They prayed the rosary, beginning a vigil that will continue through today. They took photographs in a room lined with picture frames, one for each of the 40 passengers and crew members who died on the flight.
"The gifts we have here do not come freely," Mascherino said, "but have been bought at a great price."
Mary Tomczak brought another, a remarkable wood sculpture of Our Lady of Fatima. The glass-eyed piece was carved in Portugal; in the base was a piece of the tree where, in 1917, the mother of God is said to have appeared.
Tomczak, a member of St. Alphonse in Wexford, Allegheny County, set the piece at the front of the church, next to a wreath of white carnations, with a card dedicated to "The Heroes of Flight 93."
"Father wanted her here to bring a great healing to the area," she said. "She'll bless this whole area ."
She took strength in that, and in the prayers that rose up around her.
Mascherino, too, was buoyed by the small crowd, and the boys taking turns ringing the bell. He stepped back from the altar and smiled, his arms raised, a bronze plaque on either side. One names the 40 victims — "those heroes who have inspired we few," in his words.
The other, on his left, lists a mission statement of sorts, a can-do pledge that draws much from the mythology that has built up around Flight 93.
"We shall not falter," it read. "We shall not waver. We shall not fail."
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