Saturday: 5:00pm • Sunday: 8:00am & 11:15am • Monday through Saturday: 9:00am (except Tuesdays)Good Shepherd Church is fully accessible for the disabled.Sunday Mass: 9:30amSaturday: 4:004:55pm • Monday thru Friday: 8:308:55am (except Tuesdays)Eucharistic Adoration every Friday from 9:30am until 12:00pm from September thru JuneMiraculous Medal Novena after 9:00am Mass on Mondays • Daily Rosary 8:30amBaptisms are conducted on the weekend. Parents who have not previously attended instruction in the sacrament must do so prior to the child's Baptism.Those seeking to marry must meet with the Pastor at least 6 months prior to the proposed wedding date. The time is needed for attending premarriage programs, gathering appropriate documents, and securing any dispensation from ecclesial authorities.The Parish of Good Shepherd & St. Joseph April 28, 2019 Sunday of Divine Mercy Ms. Eileen Doyle, Coordinator of Religious Education8458767298,Mrs. Kathleen Doxtader,Director/Teacher 8458764583,[email protected]Fr. Douglas CrawfordMrs. Hillary GaddisClegg,[email protected][email protected]Mr. Timothy Williams, [email protected]Mr. Erik Cardwell, [email protected]
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Saturday: 5:00pm • Sunday: 8:00am & 11:15am • Monday through Saturday: 9:00am (except Tuesdays)!Good Shepherd Church is fully !accessible for the disabled.!
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ENCOURAGE is a Catholic Apostolate for those who have family members with same sex attraction. A new website has been created to help the faithful who are searching for infor-mation about Encourage, the Church’s teachings on same sex !attraction and spiritual support. www.encourageny.com !!
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Saturday April 27 Saturday within the Octave of Easter!9:00AM John Grady +! req. Joan Grady & Family !5:00PM Deceased Members of the ! Mathe/Campbell Family! req. Dan & Doreen Campbell!�
Sunday April 28 Sunday of Divine Mercy!8:00AM Mary Williams & Cosimo Tacopino +! req. Trudy Halbert!11:15AM Souls of the Faithful Departed! req. Kevin McCloskey!9:30AM Mary & Gerard Kipp +! req. Browne Family!3:00PM Holy Hour!!
Monday April 29 St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin & Doc.!9:00AM Louise Rodak Roberts +! req. Ed Roberts!!
Tuesday April 30 Easter Weekday!9:00AM NO MASS!!
Wednesday May 1 Easter Weekday !9:00AM John Grady + ! req. Joan Grady & Family!!
Thursday May 2 St. Athanasius, Bsp & Doc. !9:00AM Carol Setten +! req. Patrick Young! !Friday May 3 Sts. Philip & James, Apostles 9:00AM Pro Populo! !Saturday May 4 Easter Weekday!9:00AM Jared Adams +! req. Kathy Golden!5:00PM Gayle Thew +! req. Alan & Debbie Shaffer!!
Next Sunday May 5 Third Sunday of Easter!8:00AM Billy Earley + ! req. Bruce & Linda Tripp! 11:15AM Stephen Yarnell + ! req. Dentico Family!9:30AM William & Elizabeth Browne +! req. Browne Family!!
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SANCTUARY LAMP!at Good Shepherd Church �
Will be lit in memory of Bridget Luffman!Req. by Mary Bradford!
! at St. Joseph Church�
Will be lit in memory of Emery Ruger! Req. by Barbara Ruger !
Restore Notre Dame as the Spiritual
Center of Paris
by Joseph & Marie Meaney
Notre Dame brûle! (“Our Lady is burning!”)
News flashes and sirens spread this horrible news Monday
night at the start of Holy Week 2019. One of the most
beautiful and iconic cathedrals in the world, visited by
more people than any other monument in Europe or the
world, was engulfed in flames during the most sacred
week of the Christian calendar. Paris is unimaginable with-
out Notre Dame since building started in the twelfth cen-
tury. Generations of laborers spanning centuries erected
stone by stone this shrine of the Catholic Faith. In a few
hours, hellish flames brought the roof crashing down.
Was it an accident? Some see a terrible symbol amid the
burning wreckage of the Church’s current disarray caused
by clerics inflamed with lust and forsaking their vows of
chastity. Many churches have been vandalized recently
(about two acts of vandalism per day in France in 2017
alone—something barely covered by the news). In Paris,
since the beginning of 2019, the church of St. Sulpice was
set on fire and St. Denis (where most French kings were
buried) was seriously damaged. Hosts were glued to a
cross made from excrement at Notre Dame des Enfants in
Nîmes, ciboriums filled with consecrated hosts were sto-
len in Lusignan and Talmon, etc.
Certainly, it is one more wake up call for the eldest daugh-
ter of the Church, the land where Our Lady has appeared
more often than anywhere else. Incredible Gothic cathe-
drals and magnificent ancient churches are almost taken
for granted in France. Now, we have graphic proof of
how quickly it can all go up in flames. Brave men nonethe-
less saved the relics of the Passion of Christ, St. Louis’s
hair shirt, and other precious items from the inferno. The
rooster on the steeple containing part of the Crown of
Thorns as well as relics of St. Denis and St. Genevieve, the
patron saints of Paris, has been found in the ruins, but it is
not clear if the relics are still inside. It is considered the
“spiritual lightening rod” of the city and on it is written
“A fulgur et tempestate et omni malo libera me Domine” (“From
lightening, storm and all evil deliver me, O Lord”).
People in the crowds watching the flames prayed in the
streets, standing as close as they could to Notre Dame. A
few weeks ago over 100 young men came to a private
meeting with the Archbishop of Paris, Monseigneur
Aupetit, to explore the priesthood when only 30 were
expected—and this in the midst of the sexual abuse scan-
dals. There are even martyrs today in France. Father
Jacques Hamel, an 86-year-old priest, was knifed to death
by Jihadists on the altar while celebrating Mass in a small
French village in 2016. Colonel Arnaud Beltrame was
killed in 2018 after offering to exchange places with a
mother held hostage by an Islamic terrorist in southern
France.
Yet Catholicism is in crisis, and not just in France. But
the past can give us hope. Few remember that the faith
seemed destroyed after the French Revolution; for dec-
ades the majority of people no longer married in church
nor had their children baptized. Then the Curé d’Ars en-
tered the stage, new religious congregations founded
schools that evangelized the middle and upper classes, the
miraculous medal and Lourdes left their mark such that
France was sending out half of the world’s Catholic mis-
sionaries by the end of the nineteenth century. When vir-
ulently anti-Catholic Freemasons ran the government at
the turn of the twentieth century, there was a vibrant
Church for them to persecute. They drove out all con-
templative religious orders, yet thousands of monks came
back for the First World War to give spiritual succor to
the soldiers in the trenches and then refounded their
monasteries. They successfully defied the government to
try and exile them again. The Renouveau Catholique in the
first half of the twentieth century made an impact on the
culture and vocations flourished until the Sexual Revolu-
tion and the rejection of Humanae Vitae started its corrod-
ing effects, bringing about the spiritual wasteland we see
today.
Surrounded by pain and tremendous loss, a choice awaits
the French and all of us. The burning Cathedral of Notre
Dame reminds me of Christ telling the weeping women
of Jerusalem that they should not cry over him, but over
their own children. Notre Dame is a symbol of the Chris-
tianity that Europe has been trying to forget and even
destroy; yet worse awaits us if we don’t convert. The
“gilets jaunes” demonstrations and acts of vandalism mani-
fest the deep anger in a society that—for all of its many
material comforts—could easily cascade into a revolu-
tion, something to which this people is prone. A society
which kills its own children cannot be at peace, as Saint
Mother Teresa stated often. Did not Marie-Julie Jahenny
(1850-1941) receive private revelations from Christ that
Paris would burn down, torched by its inhabitants
(something confirmed by other modern mystics), if it did
not convert?
The choice is ours. On a practical, human level, much
effort will be made to rebuild Notre Dame just as there
were desperate attempts to save the cathedral (400 fire-
fighters were on the scene within 15 minutes). Within 24
hours, €750 million were pledged, mainly from major
French companies. As President Emmanuel Macron said
on Monday evening in front of the burning church: “We
will rebuild this cathedral again all together.” Yet art his-
torian Alexandre Gardy added: “We will not reconstruct
Notre Dame; we will repair it. But we have lost it.” Notre
Dame Cathedral will never be the same. But the only way
to make its heart beat again will not be its reconstruc-
tion—however important that may be—but if Parisians
and pilgrims from everywhere come back to pray in it.
Joseph Meaney is the new President of the National
Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. He earned his
doctorate in bioethics from the Catholic University of the
Sacred Heart in Rome in 2015. Marie Meaney received
her doctorate and an M. Phil. in Modern Languages from
the University of Oxford. She is the author of Simone
Weil’s Apologetic Use of Literature: Her Christological Interpreta-
tions of Classic Greek Texts (Oxford University Press,
2007). Before returning to the United States in 2019, the
Meaney family lived for several years in Paris, France.
Readings for the week of April 28, 2019!Sunday: Acts 5:12�16/Ps 118:2�4, 13�15, 22�24 [1]/Rv 1:9�11a, 12�13, 17�19/Jn 20:19�31!Monday: Acts 4:23�31/Ps 2:1�3, 4�7a, 7b�9 [cf. 11d]/Jn 3:1�8 !Tuesday: Acts 4:32�37/Ps 93:1ab, 1cd�2, 5 [1a]/Jn 3:7b�15!Wednesday: Acts 5:17�26/Ps 34:2�3, 4�5, 6�7, 8�9 [7a]/Jn 3:16�21!St. Joseph the Worker: Gn 1:26��2:3 or Col 3:14�15, 17, 23�24/Ps 90:2, 3�4, 12�13, 14 and 16 [cf.17b]/Mt 13:54�58!Thursday: Acts 5:27�33/Ps 34:2 and 9, 17�18, 19�20 [7a]/Jn 3:31�36!Friday: 1 Cor 15:1�8/Ps 19:2�3, 4�5 [5]/Jn 14:6�14!Saturday: Acts 6:1�7/Ps 33:1�2, 4�5, 18�19 [22]/Jn 6:16�21!Next Sunday: Acts 5:27�32, 40b�41/Ps 30:2, 4, 5�6, 11�12, 13 [2a]/Rv 5:11�14/Jn 21:1�19 or 21:1�14!!!
PARISH EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Prayer Shawl Ministry �Will meet this Sunday, April 28, at 1:00pm in the church hall. We are a group of knitters and crocheters who come together for an hour or two to prayerfully knit/crochet an individual shawl for someone in need of God's love and mercy. All are wel-come! Please pray for our Ministry and for those we serve.!!
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Religious Education News Please keep in your prayers our First Holy Communion class and our Confirmation class as they continue to complete their preparations for reception of the sacra-ments. First Holy Communion is Saturday, May 4th and Confirmation is Monday, May 13th. Thank you for your continued support of the children in our religious edu-cation program! Registration for 2019-2020 Religious Education will begin shortly. Parents will receive re-registration information on April 10th. Anyone new to the parish may contact the Religious Education office or the Rectory. No Religious Education Classes on Wednesday, April 17 . Classes resume on Wednesday, April 24th. Rice bowls should be returned on 4/24.
Pray for the Sick
•Margaret & Michael Apa •Ozzie Beichert •Carolyn Detweiler•John Deyo •John Finch •Julie Harding •Sr. Dorothy Haughney
•Mary Jacoby •Edward Menti •Catie Sorrentino •Renee Van Wagner •Zachary Williams
PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Spring Cleaning
Nick Karchmer and Tim Williams, pictured below, tidying up and power washing the Brogan Center and campus grounds.
PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Pieta Shrine Repair Work Completed In Time For Holy Week
Billman Ross and Associates was contracted recently to do essential repair on the church wing roof (above the shrine), after serious water intrusion this past winter.
Lourdes Virtual Pilgrimage Experience At St. Christopher’s Church in Red Hook on Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 7:00pm. For more information please con-tact St. Christopher’s parish office at 845-758-3732.
Good Shepherd Preschool
Fall Registration If you have a child who will be 3, 4,or 5 years old by De-cember 30th and are looking for a program that fosters spiritual growth and academic readiness, please come and visit Good Shepherd’s Preschool. Registration for Septem-ber 2019 is now being accepted. Please contact Kathy Doxtader, Director/Teacher, at 876-4583
