The Parish of Good Shepherd & St. Joseph March 24th, 2019 3rd Sunday of Lent

  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: 9:30am   Saturday: 4:004:55pm • Monday thru Friday: 8:308:55am (except Tuesdays)   Eucharistic Adoration every Friday from 9:30am until 12:00pm from September thru June   Miraculous Medal Novena after 9:00am Mass on Mondays • Daily Rosary 8:30am   Baptisms 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.=    



Fr. Douglas Crawford Ms. Eileen Doyle,   Coordinator of Religious Education 8458767298, Mrs. Hillary GaddisClegg,  [email protected]   Mrs. Kathleen Doxtader, Director/Teacher 8458764583, [email protected] [email protected] 

Mr. Timothy Williams, [email protected] 

Mr. Erik Cardwell, [email protected]    FebF

March 17, 2019...….…...... …..….…$4957. March 18, 2018……..……...……....$5055.   Saturday March 23 Lenten Weekday LEAVING A GIFT TO 9:00AM Antonino Incorvaia + GOOD SHEPHERD-SAINT JOSEPH req. PreSchool Have you ever considered leaving something to Good 5:00PM Raymond, Gary & Barry Lutz  Shepherd-St. Joseph in your Last Will & Testament? If req. Betty Lutz  we have added to your spiritual growth, then perhaps Sunday March 24 3rd Sunday of Lent you may wish to show your gratitude. Your monetary  gift will help ensure that our Parish will continue to 8:00AM Gayle Thew + req. Kellea Scagnelli  exist & thrive well into the future 11:15AM Henry Ingber +  req. Alan & Debbie Shaffer  9:30AM Angelina Putorti +   Req. Anthony & Dolores Putorti CATHOLIC TV EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network)  is seen in Rhinebeck on Cable Channel #97, digital channel Monday March 25 The Annunciation of The Lord  #135 system, Direct TV #370, Dish #261. Mass is broadcast 9:00AM Eugene Riordan + daily 8 am, Noon, 7 pm and Midnight.  req. Daughter Peggy  DAYTOP FOR A DRUG FREE WORLD. Call the numbers Tuesday March 26 Lenten Weekday  listed below if a loved one has a serious drug or alcohol prob-  lem: 8458763789 or Fax 8458763276.  NO MASS    Crisis Pregnancy? For help contact Care Net Pregnancy Cen- Wednesday March 27 Lenten Weekday  9:00AM Edwina Godfrey + ter of the Hudson Valley, Poughkeepsie (845) 471 9284 • Life  Options Center, Yonkers (914) 6204464. req. Alex & Linda Sabo   Thursday March 28 Lenten Weekday  BIRTHRIGHT has opened a new office on Main Street in  Poughkeepsie, near Holy Trinity Church. The organization 9:00AM Stephen Esposito + req. Sturm Family provides, “love, support and hope to women facing unplanned  pregnancies”. For counseling, referrals, to volunteer or to learn more about their services, please call 8454731300. Friday March 29 Lenten Weekday  9:00AM Thersa Wang +   req. Clare & Augustine Wang FILM RATINGS: Is this film suitable for children? Find the  moral rating on the web: http://www.usccb.org/movies/. Spon-  sored by the U.S. Catholic ’s Office of Film and Broad- Saturday March 30 Lenten Weekday   casting. 9:00AM Maria Ceglio Miglino +  req. Ceglio Family  ENCOURAGE is a Catholic Apostolate for those who have 5:00PM Gayle Thew + family members with same sex attraction. A new website has req. Prayer Shawl Ministry been created to help the faithful who are searching for infor-  mation about Encourage, the Church’s teachings on same sex  Next Sunday March 31 4th Sunday of Lent attraction and spiritual support. www.encourageny.com  8:00AM Jane Melia +  req. Bill & Donna McGann Please continue to save Boxtops for Education logos from 11:15AM John Grady +  General Mills products for Youth Religious Education. req. John & Mary O’Haire  9:30AM Deceased Members of The Holsapple Family req. Browne Family  Parishioner Update NAME ______ ADDRESS______  PHONE______ SANCTUARY LAMP EMAIL: ______ at Good Shepherd Church  __ Change of Address __ Moving out of Parish Will be lit in memory of the Panasci/ __ Home Visit Requested __ Want Envelopes Tacopino Families Please fill out this form, cut out and return it through the Collec- Req. by Trudy Halbert on Basket or by mail to the Parish Office. New registrants are at St. Joseph Church invited to visit the Rectory during office hours to receive the reg- Will be lit in memory of James Dentico istraon form and informaon on parish acvies. Req. by Fr. Crawford The Happiness of the Soul member of various Roman dicasteries. At- tentive to the challenges of the contempo- by Bl. John Henry Newman rary Church, Cardinal Danneels also took an active role in various Synods of , The happiness of the soul consists in the exercise of the including those of 2014 and 2015 on the family. affections; not in sensual pleasures, not in activity, not in excitement, not in self esteem, not in the consciousness of Cardinal Danneels was Archbishop of Brussels for more power, not in knowledge; in none of these things lies our than 30 years. In all that time, did he do nothing more happiness, but in our affections being elicited, employed, memorable than serve as president of the episcopal con- supplied … God alone is the happiness of our souls … Created natures cannot open us, or elicit the ten thousand ference and participate in Synod meetings? And why mental senses which belong to us, and through which we does the Pope make a special mention of those very con- really live. None but the presence of our Maker can enter troversial Synod meetings in 2014 and 2015? If Cardinal us; for to none besides can the whole heart in all its Danneels made any noteworthy statement during those thoughts and feelings be unlocked and subjected … The sessions, it escaped my notice. consciousness of a perfect and enduring Presence, and it alone, keeps the heart open … He who is infinite can The Vatican News service, in its coverage of the cardi- alone be its measure; He alone can answer to the mysteri- ous assemblage of feelings and thoughts which it has with- nal’s death, also put a special focus on his attendance at in it. Synods, methodically listing all eleven (!) of the Synod

©TheCatholicThing.org. Reprinted with Permission. meetings he attended. But Vatican News, too, paid par- ticular attention to the 2014 and 2015 meetings on the family, setting them apart in a separate paragraph, and mentioning that in these cases, rather than beting elected Shows No Regret Over by his brother bishops as a delegate, “he was appointed A Shocking Appointment. by Pope Francis himself.” by Phil Lawler Which is—or should be—a sore point. Cardinal Dan- neels was chosen by the Pope to participate in the Syn- Was Pope Francis sending a subtle message to his critics ods on the Family after he was caught on tape advising a this week? Or have I become a bit paranoid about papal man who had been sexually abused by another Belgian statements? You decide. bishop to keep quiet about the crime. It was shocking then, and is still shocking today, that the Pontiff would In a statement of condolence after the death of Cardinal have chosen to bring a prelate out of retirement—to dis- Godfried Danneels, Pope Francis summed up the ecclesi- cuss the problems facing the family, no less—after he astical career of the Belgian prelate in two sentences. Pay had been exposed to public disgrace. Even while loudly particular attention to the second sentence: insisting that bishops should be held responsible for cov- This zealous pastor served the Church with ering up abuse, the Pope bestowed this honor on a cardi- dedication, not only in his diocese, but also at nal who was widely recognized as one of his key sup- the national level as president of the Confer- ence of Bishops of , while being a porters: as a member of the “St. Gallen mafia” that had backed his election. PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Yet now, when Cardinal Danneels died, Pope Francis Good Shepherd Prayer Shawl Ministry chose to call attention to that shocking appointment. If you would like to create a Prayer Shawl but are unable to come to our meetings (on the last Sunday of each And Vatican News—which presumably seeks to follow month), contact Bette Sturm, 233-1201, the Pontiff’s wishes—did the same. And again, notice or [email protected] for information. Please pray for our ministry and for those we serve! that neither the papal statement nor the Vatican News   story suggested that Cardinal Danneels had contributed Add Your Voice To The Choir anything of unusual significance to the Synods’ discus- Good Shepherd Church Choir, under its new Director, Erik Cardwell, seeks to grow its membership. sions. They mentioned only that he was there—at the The time commitment is twice a week, Wednesdays at Pope’s invitation. 7:00pm and Sundays at 10:45am. If you are interested please contact Erik at [email protected].

Reading first the Pope’s statement and then the Vatican

News story, I had the impression that they were crafted Good Shepherd Preschool Fall Registration to include an implicit challenge to papal critics: a bold If you have a child who will be 3, 4,or 5 years old by December 30th & are looking for a program that fosters affirmation that the Pope hs no regrets, no second spiritual growth & academic readiness, please come & thoughts, about rewarding an old ally. visit Good Shepherd’s Preschool. Registration for Sep- tember 2019 is now being accepted. Please contact Kathy Doxtader, Director/Teacher, at 876-4583. Maybe that message was sent unintentionally. But even on a more benign reading, the statements from Rome show that the howls of protest about the Danneels ap- pointment made no lasting impression on the Pope and Readings for the week of March 24, 2019 Sunday: Ex 3:18a, 1315/Ps 103:12, 34, 67, 8, his media team. 11 [8a]/1 Cor 10:16, 1012/Lk 13:19  Monday: Is 7:1014; 8:10/Ps 40:78, 8b9, 10, 11 [8a, 9a]/Heb 10:410/Lk 1:2638 In other words, the message from Rome could be inter- Tuesday: Dn 3:25, 3443/Ps 25:45ab, 6 and 7bc, 8 9 [6a]/Mt 18:2135 preted in one of two ways: Wednesday: Dt 4:1, 59/Ps 147:1213, 1516, 19 20 [12a]/Mt 5:1719 Thursday: Jer 7:2328/Ps 95:12, 67, 89 [8]/Lk   We know that you were outraged by the ap- 11:14 23 Friday: Hos 14:210/Ps 81:6c8a, 8bc9, 1011ab, pointment, and we don’t care. 14 and 17 [cf. 11 and 9a]/Mk 12:2834 Saturday: Hos 6:16/Ps 51:34, 1819, 2021ab [cf. Hos 6:6]/Lk 18:914 Next Sunday: Jos 5:9a, 1012/Ps 34:23, 45, 67 —or— [9a]/2 Cor 5:1721/Lk 15:13, 1132 

You were outraged, and we didn’t even no- tice. Pray for the Sick •Margaret & Michael Apa •Carolyn Detweiler I’m not sure which is worse. •Julie Harding •Edward Menti •Zachary Williams •Renee Van Wagner ©CatholicCulture.org. Reprinted with Permission. •Catie Sorrentino

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“Were You There?” Antique Appraisal Day  Antique Appraisal Day - To Benefit G. S. Women’s Socie- ty, Saturday, April 6 from 10am to 4 pm in the Father Bro- gan Center. All types of Antiques, Collectibles and Vintage items appraised. No appointment nec- essary. Cost $10/item or $25 for 3 items. Lunch and refreshments available. For further infor- mation call Good Shepherd Rec- tory at 876-4583 or Astor Galler- ies at 800-784-7876.

Don’t Miss It…. Fr. Marc Oliver will be a guest presenter of A Day of Tuesday, March 12th saw spirited Parishioner partici- Recollection on Tuesday, April, 2nd, here at Good Shep- pation for Fr. John Shimkus’ “Our 40 Day Adven- herd Church from 9:00am-3:00pm. Please bring a bag ture”. This was the first of four Lenten presentations lunch, beverages will be provided by the Women’s Society. that Good Shepherd is hosting . Don’t miss the op- portunity to grow spiritually. Human Suffering & the Mass Fr. Kenny will be our Guest Speaker, here in Good Shep- herd Church, on Sunday, April 7th at 7:00pm. Topic: “Human Suffering and the Mass”- How the Mass brings meaning to suffering, death & sacrifice. A Lenten meditation.  Good Shepherd Annual Lenten Soup Supper Will be held on Friday, March 29th from 5:00pm. to 7:00pm in the Brogan Center gym. Reservations can be made by calling the rectory at 876-4583.

Lenten Retreat at Linwood Spiritual Center: In Pursuit of Paul

Sr. Carol Perry, SU will guide us in through the end of Lent into Holy Week. No one in the New Testament is more maddening or complex than Paul of Tarsus. Tie on your sandals as we journey with him to some of the great cities of the Roman Empire proclaiming his message of Good News drawn from his epistles and the Acts of the Apostles. Monday Evenings: 7-8:30PM (Gratefully sunset is later.) March 25, April 1, 8, 15. $55 for the entire series. For all spring and summer programs please go to: www. linwoodspiritual.org Linwood Spiritual Center 50 Linwood Rd, Rhinebeck, 876 4178