THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2018 WEEKDAY 5:00 p.m. Thomas Kellagher SUNDAY, MARCH 4 THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT 7:30 a.m. People of the Parish 9:30 a.m. Mary Thomas 11:30 a.m. Dorothy Krall 5:00 p.m. Special Intention of Tina Guarnieri MONDAY, MARCH 5 WEEKDAY 8:30 a.m. Dr. Richard Fencel TUESDAY, MARCH 6 WEEKDAY 6:30 a.m. Special Intention of Rev. Thomas Rozman 8:30 a.m. Katie Talbot WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 WEEKDAY 6:30 a.m. Ronald Calpadi 8:30 a.m. Hazel and Herbert Cosgrove THURSDAY, MARCH 8 WEEKDAY 6:30 a.m. Special Intention of Marty Carr 8:30 a.m. Julieta Valencia FRIDAY, MARCH 9 WEEKDAY 6:30 a.m. Special Intention of Patricia Chiesa 8:30 a.m. Special Intention of Jill Aversa SATURDAY, MARCH 10 WEEKDAY 5:00 p.m. Knovel Lamberti SUNDAY, MARCH 11 FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT 7:30 a.m. Jacqueline Alfery 9:30 a.m. Valerie Carrolus 11:30 a.m. People of the Parish 5:00 p.m. Special Intention of Rev. Benedict Faneye DATES AVAILABLE FOR SANCTUARY FLOWERS: April 9 (Confirmation, $125); May 6, 27; June 3, 10, 24, 2018 (Offering $50) DATES AVAILABLE FOR FLOWERS AT THE BLESSED MOTHER SHRINE: April 29; May 6, 20, 27, June 3, 10, 24, 2018 (Offering $30) DATES AVAILABLE FOR CHAPEL FLOWERS: April 22; May 6, 20, 27; June 3, 10, 24, 2018 (Offering $30) CANDLES AT THE BLESSED MOTHER SHRINE are lighted in loving memory of Claire Lamberti, donated by her family (1); in honor of the 80th birthday of Dorothy Sebastian, donated by Angela Loiodice (1); for the special intention of Rita Geraci (1); in loving memory of Emma Breznican, donated by her daughter, Carol Bayster (2); for the special intention of Elayne Viani, donated by Kathy and Mike Moore (2). DATES AVAILABLE FOR CANDLES AT THE BLESSED MOTHER SHRINE: March 18; April 8, 15, 22, 29; May 6, 13, 20, 27, June 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018 (Offering $5 per candle) CANDLES AT THE ST. JOSEPH SHRINE are in loving memory of Knovel Lamberti, donated by his sister, Madeline Cherundulo (1); in loving memory of Claire Lamberti, donated by her family (1); in loving memory of Philip Mulvihill, donated by his family (5). DATES AVAILABLE FOR CANDLES AT THE ST. JOSEPH SHRINE: March 11, 25; April 8, 15, 29; May 6, 13, 20, 27; June 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018 (Offering $5 per candle) Daylight Savings Time Begins next Sunday March 11, 2018 Turn Clocks Ahead! THIS WEEK IN OUR PARISH SATURDAY GIRL SCOUT COOKIE SALE PARISH HALL 3:00-4:15 p.m. Confessions Chapel 5:00 p.m. Vigil Mass First Scrutiny (RCIA) Church SUNDAY, GIRL SCOUT COOKIE SALE PARISH HALL FORTY HOURS BEGINS AFTER THE 11:30 P.M. MASS 9:30 a.m. Pre-K/K Religious Ed Class 10:30 a.m. Blood Pressure Screening Parish Hall A 2:00 4:00 p.m. Daisies / Brownies Parish Hall 5:00 p.m. Life Teen Mass 6:00-7:30 p.m. Life Teen Night Parish Hall MONDAY 2:00 p.m. Mass at Gardens at Camp Hill 7:00 p.m. Rel. Ed. Gr. 1, 3-7 Attend Forty Hours Church TUESDAY 10:00 a.m.-noon EPIC: A Journey thru Church History Hall A 7:00 p.m. Rel. Ed Gr. 2 and 8 Attend Forty Hours Church WEDNESDAY 9:00 a.m. Marian Prayer Group All Purpose Room 9:00 a.m. Divine Mercy Chaplet Chapel 6:00-7:00 p.m. Cub Scouts Pack 197 Parish Hall C 6:30-8:30 p.m. Prayer and Life Workshop All Purpose Room 7:00-8:00 p.m. Boy Scouts Troop 58 Parish Hall C THURSDAY 2:00 p.m. Flame of Love Rosary Chapel 3:00 p.m. Legion of Mary All Purpose Room 6:15-7:00 p.m. Junior Choir Rehearsal Choir Loft 6:30-8:30 p.m. EPIC: A Journey thru Church History Hall A 7:30-9:00 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal Choir Loft FRIDAY 8:30 a.m. Mass at School 1:00 p.m. Sing Hymns & Divine Mercy Chaplet Chapel 6:00-8:00 p.m. Junior Girl Scouts School 6:00 p.m. Soup and Bread Sponsored by PTO Parish Hall 7:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross Church SATURDAY 6:30-8:00 a.m. TMIY Parish Hall A 3:00-4:15 p.m. Confessions Chapel SUNDAY, March 11, 2018 COFFEE AND DONUTS HOSTED BY THE GIRL SCOUTS 9:30 a.m. Girl Scout Sunday Church 9:30 a.m. Pre-K/K Religious Education Parish Hall 10:30 a.m. Blood Pressure Screening Parish Hall A 11:30 a.m. 2nd Scrutiny Church 12:30 p.m. Baptisms 1:30-4:00 p.m. Diocesan Youth Council Parish Hall 5:00 p.m. Life Teen Mass 6:00-7:30 p.m. Life Teen Night Parish Hall The Rosary is recited every weekday at 8:00 a.m. in the Chapel and at 8:00 a.m. before Mass when Mass is celebrated at the School. IN YOUR CHARITY, please pray for the repose of the souls of MARY POKLEMBA, a parishioner and mother of Joan Trees; HELEN DOYLE, sister of Anne Boyle. May the Lord comfort all those who have suffered the loss of a loved one. TODAY S READINGS NEXT SUNDAY S READINGS () (March 11, 2018) 29: Ex 20:1-17 32: 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23 Ps 19:8-11 Ps 137:1-6 1 Cor 1:22-25 Eph 2:4-10 Jn 2:13-25 Jn 3:14-21
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT Stewardship, A Way of Life Tithing God s Plan for Giving Tithing Income for February 25, 2018 In-pew Collection $14,791.00 (from 412 households) Loose Cash $ 1,044.00 Online Giving $ 2,711.00 (from 58 households) Total Collection $18,546.00 February 28, 2017 $15,443.00 Currently, we have 1824 households. Thank you for your continued generosity! 2018 BISHOP S LENTEN APPEAL REPORT Thank you to all who have contributed to the Lenten Appeal so far. Our Parish Assessment: $180,600.00 We must have everyone s help to meet our parish assessment. I invite each family to pledge at least $250 to help us reach our goal. Pledge envelopes will be mailed to those who have not yet responded to the appeal. Kindly return your Lenten Appeal Envelope in the Sunday Collection or to the Parish Office. Reminder: If you indicated a pledge by Credit Card, please complete the process. The Diocese will notify us of your pledge. To pledge by Credit Card, please visit www.hbgdiocese.org/blacc or call 657-4804, ext. 336. May God bless you for your generosity to the Bishop s Annual Lenten Appeal and to the Parish. Father Phil Reminder: Brochures for the Diocesan Men s Conference, which will be held on Saturday, March 10, are available in the narthexes of the Church. ANNUAL SOLEMN EUCHARISTIC DEVOTIONS Forty Hours will be celebrated at Good Shepherd Parish this weekend March 4, 5, with Closing on Tuesday, March 6. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed after the last morning Mass each day and will be reposed at a closing service each evening at 7:00 p.m. Father John Kemper will be preaching each evening. Monday evening the Religious Education students in grade 1 and grades 3 thru 7 will attend the service. On Tuesday evening the First Communion and Confirmation Students will attend. Liturgical Ministers (Altar Servers, Lectors, and Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion) are invited to vest and join the procession on Tuesday evening. Participation in these devotions, taking time during the day to make a visit, and spending some reflective time with sacred scripture and spiritual reading are ways of acknowledging the Lord s presence in our midst in the Eucharist and special opportunities to grow deeper in God s grace and wisdom during the Lenten season. Take advantage of this blessing for the parish. Sign-up Sheets (to spend a little extra time with our Lord) are available in the side Narthexes of the Church. Good Shepherd Track & Field Sign Ups Registration is underway for the 2018 Good Shepherd Track and Field season. The team is open to students in 3 rd through 8 th grade who attend Good Shepherd School or the Catholic Religious Ed Program. Practices will be Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Our first practice will be Monday, March 12, at Trinity High School. Students can bring their registration forms to school to the attention of Mrs. Scanish by Friday, March 9. For more information about the team or registration, please contact head coach Mike Scanish at gstrack@gsschpa.org ATTENTION EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS, LECTORS AND ALTAR SERVERS For our celebration of Holy Week and Easter, we are still very much in need of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, Lectorsn and Altar Servers as follows: 7:00 p.m. Holy Thursday: 5 Altar Server and 2 Extraordinary Ministers 3:00 p.m. Good Friday: 2 Altar Servers and 3 Extraordinary Ministers 8:00 p.m. Easter Vigil: 4 Altar Servers and 1 Extraordinary Minister 7:30 a.m. Easter Sunday: 3 Altar Servers and 4 Extraordinary Ministers 9:30 a.m. Easter Sunday: 4 Extraordinary Ministers 11:30 a.m. Easter Sunday: 3 Altar Servers and 1 Extraordinary Ministers Your help would be greatly appreciated. If you would like to volunteer to serve, please call the Parish Office as soon as possible at 717-761-1167. Thank you. Fr. Phil, Fr. Ben and Fr. Sterner
SOUP AND STATIONS OF THE CROSS Please join us and nourish the body and spirit with Soup & Bread at 6:00 p.m. and Stations at 7:00 p.m. on Fridays during Lent. We thank the PTO for hosting this Friday Night. Living Stations of the Cross Participating in Living Stations is a great way for you to enter into the Lenten Season and for us to come together as a parish. Practices are Sundays from 1:30-3:00 p.m. through Lent. There is no practice this weekend due to Forty Hours. We are still looking for someone to play keyboard. Call Amanda Spahr at 717-737- 8216 or email aspahr@gsschpa.org for more information and the schedule. To sign up, please go to: https://ttsu.me/livingstations2018 March 16 Soup and Stations to be sponsored by Religious Ed, Edge, and Life Teen Volunteers Everyone please consider donating a non-meat soup, bread, or macaroni & cheese on Friday, March 16. We also need help setting up, serving and cleaning up. We would appreciate any time you can give us. Donations should be dropped off at the Parish Hall between 4:00-5:00 p.m. If it is a soup, we ask that you bring it warm in a crockpot labeled with your name. When you drop it off, please specify when you will pick it up. We will wash the crockpots. We will save any leftover soup for you in the crockpot if you would like us to. To sign up and for more details, visit https://ttsu.me/march16snssignup or you may call Dr. Amanda Spahr at 717-737-8216. Confirmation Retreat Recruitment Time: Again this year, we are in need of host families on April 3 and 4, food donations for dinners on both nights, and some other pampered items for the Retreat Team Volunteers. These volunteers are a delight to have in your home. I love working with them and can obtain more references if needed. Please do not hesitate to ask for more information. Please call Dr. Amanda Spahr at 717-737-8216 or visit the following link to sign up: https://ttsu.me/confirmationretreat One Choice Join Life Teen this Sunday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall for the start of our new Life Night series on the human person, One Choice. Life Teen is for teens in grades 9-12. All are welcome to join us for Mass at 5:00 p.m. For more information, contact Liz Heckman at eheckman@hbgdiocese.org or 717-761-1167. Looking Ahead with Life Teen Join us next week as we explore the sometimes hard choices that often go along with Prom with Will You Go to Prom With Me? PARENT NOTE: There will be a discussion on chastity this night. If you or your teen are uncomfortable with discussing this subject matter, this may not be the best night for you. For more information, contact Liz Heckman at eheckman@hbgdiocese.org or 717-761-1167. Life Teen Needs Your Help! We are excited to be growing as a program and are grateful for those who have made contributions of time, talent, and treasure to serve our teens! We invite you to share in our ministry and help this program to continue to grow and thrive. Please contact Liz Heckman at eheckman@hbgdiocese.org or 717-761-1167 if you are able to assist in any of the following areas: Donation Needs: Plastic Sheet Protectors (will be used to make reusable songbooks for our Life Teen Mass) Meals: We are in need of individuals, families, and organizations to donate meals for our teens and volunteers Monetary Donations: To assist in purchasing supplies for our Life Nights and music for our Life Teen Mass Volunteer Needs: Most are not a weekly commitment Core Team Members Hospitality Volunteers Music Ministers (piano, guitar, vocals, drums, or other instruments) Eucharistic Ministers Altar Servers in Grades 8 to 12 Ushers Come see what EDGE is all about: The parish heard a lot about Edge last year as we were preparing to get the program up and running. The program is thriving. The program goes through the Catechism of the Catholic Church in three years. The students are loving it! Just ask them! Due to the fact that the program is thriving and we are gaining more participants weekly we need more CORE Members. Would you please consider joining us for a night to find out what we are all about and discern whether being a CORE Member is something you might be interested in. Be prepared watching a room full of teenagers pray is powerful! Thank you!! Pray for us! To sign up for a night to come see EDGE contact Dr. Spahr at 717-737-8216 or sign up at https://ttsu.me/dnc9wd Cases of Water are Needed!!! Please consider picking up a case of water this week at the grocery store and donating it to the Edge/Life Teen Programs. We have around 130 participants each week at Edge and up to 30 at Life Teen!! We go through water fast! Please contact Dr. Spahr at 717-737-8216 or aspahr@gsschpa.org. Thank you to those who have already contributed. It is greatly appreciated!
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT WOMEN S BIBLE STUDY This group is open to all women who are interested in deepening their relationship with the Lord through prayer and Scripture. We follow a text which includes Scripture, prayers, and reflection questions. This spring s text is The Call to Repentance. Books cost $11.00 and can be purchased at the Parish Office. This group meets on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the All Purpose Room. The Spring session will begin on March 14 and end on May 9. Sister Mary Ann Lawrence, M.S.C., will facilitate the group. Harrisburg Diocesan Council of Catholic Women s 93 rd Annual Convention Joined In Christ will be held on Monday, April 16, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Cardinal Keeler Center, 4800 Union Deposit Rd. Harrisburg. The principal Celebrant and Homilist will Bishop Ronald W. Gainer. The Keynote Speaker will be Rose Folsom, Founder of Virtue Connection and will talk about Cultivating the Garden of Your Soul. Afternoon Workshops: 1. Women Disciples: Sharing our Gifts with Others 2. Living as Catholic women in a Secular Society 3. Love Notes from God to Recovering Women 4. Service Project for the Homeless Cost is $25.00 and includes: registration fee, continental breakfast and lunch. Checks may be made payable to HDCCW. Registration deadline is April 2, 2018. COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN We cordially invite all women to attend our Friendship Tea on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall. Guests welcome: mother, daughter, sister, neighbor or friend to share in fellowship. Bring your favorite China tea cup to show the ladies and enjoy your tea. Father James Sterner will be our guest speaker this evening. We would like to thank Hilton. Diminick ORTHODONTIC ASSOCIATES this week for sponsoring an AD in our weekly bulletin. (SPONSORS DEFRAY THE COST OF PRINTNG THE BULLETIN) GIRL SCOUT COOKIES FOR SALE Girl Scout Cookies are for sale after all Masses this weekend in the Parish Hall. Your favorite flavors are available, along with gluten-free Toffee Tastic. Proceeds benefit Good Shepherd Girl Scout Troops. Donated boxes will benefit PA Wounded Warriors. Please stop by to support our girls! The Good Shepherd Knights of Columbus Council is sponsoring a French Toast and Sausage breakfast on Saturday morning, March 24, from 8:00 until 10:30 a.m., in the Parish Hall. Tickets will cost $5 for adults and $3 for children 10 and under. The adult breakfast will include two slices of French toast, sausage patties, orange juice, & coffee. The child breakfast will include one slice of French toast, sausage patty, orange juice, & milk. Tickets will be sold after the Masses, beginning this weekend of March 10/11 and in the Parish Office. We are hoping that many of the families who attend the hunt will also join us for breakfast. The breakfast is scheduled for the same morning as the parish Easter Egg Hunt. The hunt will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. for all children 10 years of age and younger on the Church lawn adjacent to the Parish Hall. The Easter Bunny will be available for pictures before and after the hunt, so bring your cameras. We are hoping that many of the families who attend the hunt will also join us for breakfast. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR RECENTLY BAPTIZED MADELYN ANNE MISHOE daughter of Kenneth Wes and Lauren (Merlie) COMMUNAL PENANCE SERVICES FOR WEST SHORE PARISHES Prepare to celebrate Easter with God s mercy and love by attending one of the West Shore Parishes Penance Services. At these services, multiple confessors will be available to hear confessions. Sun., March 4: St. Patrick, Carlisle, 7:00 p.m. Sun., March 11: St. Theresa, New Cumb., 7:00 p.m. Tues., March 20: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Mech., 7:00 p.m. Sun., March 25: St. Joseph, Mechanicsburg, 2:00 p.m. Tues., March 27: Our Lady of Lourdes, Enola, 7:00 p.m. Wed., March 28: Good Shepherd, 7:00 p.m.
SENIOR LUNCHEON All parishioners 55 years and over are cordially invited to the next Senior Luncheon which will be held Wednesday, April 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall. Come and join us for food, fun, and friendship. Please respond by dropping your name and phone in the collection basket or at the Parish Office along with the fee of $6 per person. Reservation Deadline is Wednesday, April 11. Dessert will be provided, however, if you would like to share a dessert, please let us know. We look forward to a wonderful luncheon and hope to see you there! Dr. Young, Parishioner and Internal Medicine Physician, will present: "Ten Things Your Doctor Wished You Knew About Your Medication. Participants will learn: 1. How medications are named, developed and marketed in the US 2. How to develop an accurate list of your own medications to carry in your wallet 3. How to avoid common mistakes when taking your medications 4. How your doctor decides which medications to prescribe for you. Date: Sunday, April 15, 2018 Time: 12:45 PM 2:30 PM at Good Shepherd Parish Hall Cost: Free-Donations accepted Light lunch will be served. To register, please complete the registration form below and place in offering plate or take to Parish office. A registration form is needed for each person attending. RSVP/Register by April 1, 2018 Questions: Contact Kim Sellers at (717) 448-1893 Registration: Name: Phone: Email: Attention: Healthcare Providers Are you seeking spiritual renewal, and an opportunity to mingle and pray with colleagues? If so, you are invited on Saturday, March 17, to Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital Auditorium in Camp Hill for Retreat commemorating World Day of the Sick. Registration: 8:30 a.m.; Retreat Program: 9:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. This is a free event and free parking. RSVP to: Arlene Bobonich, MD, abobonich@geisinger.edu OR Chinh Pham, MD, cnpham@geisinger.edu OR Kelly McCormick, CRNP, kmccormack2@geisinger.edu Hosted by: Mission Integration Committee of Geisinger Holy Spirit Sr. Mary Joseph Albright, SCC, MIO. The Anniversary of our Diocese Part I by Father Edward Quinlan This year we will observe the 150 th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Harrisburg. It is a good time to ask how we got here. In one sense the story always begins with Jesus call of the Apostles and the founding of the Church. But what about the Church in our country? The first parish in what will later become the United States is founded in the city of St. Augustine in Florida. With the arrival of Spanish settlers and accompanying priests, Mass is offered and a church built. Both the city and the church are named for the saint on whose feast day the voyagers first sighted land a little further down the Florida coast. The first Mass will be celebrated with land fall there on September 8, 1565, the birthday of Mary. In the original 13 colonies the story is different. Many early settlements were created by different Protestant groups fleeing persecution in England and Europe. The most familiar were the Pilgrims who settled in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, while seeking religious freedom for themselves they were not often prepared to extend it to others. Catholics were decidedly not welcome in these settlements, and the presence of the Catholic Church was formally forbidden by English law. The exceptions to this were in Maryland, the colony founded by the Calvert family, who were devout Catholics and other place Catholics were welcome was in our own state of Pennsylvania. William Penn and the Quakers who establish our state were very respectful and tolerated other faiths. In 1720 a Jesuit priest was sent to Maryland for Catholics in the central colonies. Eventually he will move to Philadelphia in order to establish missions for Catholic families in Pennsylvania and beyond. He will build what is affectionately called Old St. Josephs near Independence Hall in 1733. This is the first public Catholic Church in the colonies and remains in operation today. A few years later he will request the assistance of German speaking Jesuits to help with the significant German Catholic population in the state. St. Mary s Church in Lancaster and Sacred Heart Church in Conewago, both started as mission chapels, also date to the mid 1700 s and will serve as bases for the wide ranging missions extending throughout central and western Pennsylvania. Part II of Father Quinlan s article will be in next week s Bulletin; Part III the following week.