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GOOD SHEPHERD The Diocese of Charleston 1401 Greenwood Hwy, P. O. Box 1468, McCormick, SC 29835-1468

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MISSION STATEMENT Most Rev. Robert E. Guglielmone, Bishop of Charleston “Good Shepherd Catholic Church is passionately committed to Rev. Robert Sayer, Pastor work, in accordance with the pastoral vision of the Diocese of Pastor office Phone: 864-852-3149 Charleston, to being servants of God and good stewards of the Email: [email protected] Sacred Mysteries. We strive to be a holy and God-centered Emergency only Phone 843-957-2198 community growing in joyful righteousness and living without fear Church Address: 1401 Greenwood Hwy, by the of Christ. Empowered by the Spirit, we will P. O. Box 1468, help inspire, educate, and support our community and work for McCormick, SC 29835-1468 unity among the Churches.” Phone: 864-852-4722

Web Page: http://goodshepherdmccormick.com Office Manager: Jeff Bolte Email: [email protected] SUNDAY Parish Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday: 10:00am – 3:00pm May 24, 2015 Good Shepherd Mass Schedule: Wednesday & Friday – 9 AM First Friday : 9am with Adoration following Saturday: 5:00 pm Sunday: 11:00 am Confession Saturday: 3:30-4:30 pm or by appointment Sacred Heart Mass Schedule: Tuesday & Thursday 6 pm; First Friday Mass 6 PM Sunday – 8:00 am Confession: After the Daily Masses or by appointment Baptism: Please call Fr. Sayer for an appointment Marriage Preparation: Call the parish office at least six months prior to the wedding to schedule an appointment with the Pastor. Pastoral Care: Holy Communion may be received at home, in a nursing home or in the hospital. If you find yourself unable to attend Mass and want to receive Communion, either you or an immediate family member may call the office to make the necessary arrangements. Anointing of the Sick: Anyone in danger of death from a serious illness, an emergency situation or from advanced age ought to receive the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. If you know, in advance, that you will be entering the hospital for a procedure, it is preferred that you receive the Anointing prior to entering the hospital. To arrange the reception of the Sacrament, please call Fr. Bob’s “Emergency” phone number.

R.C.I.A. & R.C.I.C – Call office for class times Columbarium Sales: Please contact the office. LITURGY OF THE WORD DIOCESAN OFFICE OF CHILD PROTECTION First Reading.…………………Acts 2:1-11 Good Shepherd and the Diocese of Charleston are committed to Response.....Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 ensuring a safe environment for children and vulnerable adults. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Father Sayer, the Second Reading…...... 1Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 Diocesan Office of Child Protection Services at 843-853-2130 Gospel……...... John 20:19-23 ext. 206 or the Victims Assistance Minster at 800-921-8122.

MILITARY MEMBERS LIST PRAY FOR OUR SICK & HOME-BOUND: PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY MEMBERS Cliff Inman, Brad Bumber, Dave Cook, Mary James Hauser Jamel A. Mosley Brian Hauser Tucker, Charles Fisher, George Goodwin and those Ryan Chemelewski Case Richmond Peter M Rogers intentions written in our Community book of Prayer. Sprague Scott Bishop Daniel O’Donnell Names will remain on the list for one month if more time Whitener Thomas Wulforst Ashley Wulforst is needed please renew your request Stephen Balogh Christopher Hale Benjamin Peters C.J. Pollick Andrew Jones Thomas Lamb Bryan Ebell Brent Ebell Josh Brose Tiffany Laing Bobby Watral, Jr. Jamie Hastings FINANCIALS ACTUAL BUDGET Troy Nelson Chris Brandon Tracy Banister Sunday Collection May 17 $3695. $3077. Lord, hold our troops in your loving Catholic Charities 235. hands. Protect them as they protect us. Miscellany 145. Registered Families 165 Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen. Worldwide Marriage Encounter Today is Pentecost Sunday. Is there evidence that WELCOME: the Holy Spirit is working through us; are the fruits We welcome all our visitors and invite you to join us again for of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, worship. Please sign our guest book and feel free to write faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in our lives your prayer intentions in our Community Book of Prayer. and marriage? Sign up today to attend the next If you would like to help us with the support of our Church campus please place your offering in the ―Welcome‖ Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend in SC on Oct. 9- envelopes located in the pews and place in the offertory 11th, 2015 in Myrtle Beach. Please apply early. collection basket. Thank you for your support. For more information, go to scmarriagematters.org or call 803-810-9602. NEW OR MOVING PARISHIONERS: New parishioners may register by calling the Parish Office or picking up a registration form located in the back of church Upcoming Diocesan Collections and placing the completed form in the collection basket. Please notify the Parish Office of any change in family status, Communications Campaign June 7 address, telephone number, or e-mail address

.MINISTRY TO THE SICK & HOMEBOUND If you or someone you know is admitted to the hospital, assisted For Traveling Catholics… living facility or nursing home, or has become homebound, please For nationwide Mass times and locations: Call call the Parish Office with the information. We can then make arrangements for reception of communion and the Sacrament of 1-410-676-6000 or go to www.MassTimes.org Healing.

LECTORS & E.M. TRAINING PASTORAL CARE VISITS Because of the Right to Privacy Laws, Good Shepherd is not notified CURRENT AND NEW LECTORS AND of parishioners who are hospitalized, homebound, or have entered a EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS WILL HAVE health care facility. We must hear from you or a family member if you would like to be visited by someone. Please call the office with TRAINING/REFRESHING SESSIONS WITH the necessary information and our pastor will be alerted. FATHER BOB AND DICK OBERMEYER ON

WEDNESDAY MAY 27 AT 9:30AM AND ASSISTANCE MINISTRY If you or someone you know needs meals provided or transportation AGAIN AT 6:00PM, PLEASE MAKE AN to and from doctor appointments or therapy appointments please call Donna Cone at 391-3188 or the Parish Office at 852-4722 to arrange EFFORT TO ATTEND. for assistance. We can’t help if we are not notified. MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK: SATURDAY, MAY 23, 5:00 PM MASS is for a Special Intention for Amanda Cavanaugh, requested by Mary & Lary Domas who will take up the gifts SUNDAY, MAY 24, 11:00 AM MASS is in memory of Annie Obermeyer, requested by Ruth & Dick Obermeyer who will take up the gifts WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 9:00 AM MASS is in Re-Order Polo Shirts memory of Thaddeus & Cecilia Chemelewski, requested by Ken & Joyce Chemelewski Good Shepherd Men's Club will be placing FRIDAY MAY 29, 9:00 AM MASS Missa Pro another order for Polo shirts next week. If Populo ―Mass for the People‖ you wish to order a shirt, please call Dave SATURDAY, MAY 30, 5:00 PM MASS is in McKloskey (391-4445) or Bill Peters (391- memory of Don Graham, requested by Paul & 5505). Colors are White and Gray, and Karen Faaborg who will take up the gifts available in Men's and Women's sizes Small SUNDAY, MAY 31, 11:00 AM MASS is in memory of Vivian Cook, requested by Bob & Karen Porst to 3XL. Don't miss out - this may be the last who will take up the gifts order for a while. WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 9:00AM MASS is in memory of Jean Frizell, requested by her Red Bud Sisters Calling for more EM’s, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 9:00 AM MASS is in memory of Mary & Ted Oberle, requested by Kris & Steve Lectors and money counters Adden If you would like to give of your time and

talent to be a lector or Eucharistic Minister EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS & LECTORS Sat. May 23, Lector: Pat O’Haire please contact Father Bob. Also we can 5:00 Mass EM: Jerry O’Haire always use more money counters, please Sun. May 24, Lector: Steve LaPonte contact Jeff for this. 11:00 Mass EM: Carol LaPonte Sat. May 30 Lector: Sandy Townsend , 5:00 Mass EM: Frank Townsend Catholic communications month Sun. May 31 Lector: John Atwell a time when we ask if you would like to 11:00 Mass EM: Ruth Obermeyer receive the Diocesan bi-weekly newspaper, The Miscellany, please USHERS/GREETERS contact Jeff in the office or leave a May 23 5:00 pm Art & Cheryl Olsen message or e-mail if you DO NOT want to May 24 11:00 am Ray & Billie Tarnosky receive the paper. Please use the envelope May 30 5:00 pm Joe & Ellen Jankowski May 31 11:00 am Jack & Sharren Nickol in you packet if you would like to help defray the subscription expense the cost is Pray for (and give to) Nepal $17.50 for the year. Catholic Relief Services is assisting the victims of the recent Nepal earthquake. Anyone wanting to make a donation can call: 877-435-7277 Or mail to: Catholic Relief Services PO Box 17090 Baltimore Maryland, 21297–0303 God Bless America, In God We Trust DO YOUR OWN PENTERCOST THING

While contemplating the awesome Pentecost story, why not be an Apostle yourself and help add to the numbers of those who converted to THE FAITH You can do this by sharing your enthusiasm you have for your Catholic Faith with a friend, loved one or whoever is no longer a practicing Catholic for whatever reason. And inviting that person to have another look at The Church and what it offers. Make an appointment take along a copy of Pancake time the pamphlet (in Narthex) accompanied by Good Shepherd Men's Club will your enthusiasm and have at it. Chances are be hosting one of its locally excellent you will be well received. famous Pancake Breakfasts This venture is not unlike recommending a on Sunday, May 31, from 9:00 restaurant, vacation place, movie or AM until 1:00 PM. Come join whatever else you might have thought to be us for sausage, regular, a great thing and you want your friend to blueberry, or chocolate chip experience the joy you did. pancakes, peaches, orange The more you enjoy being Catholic, the juice and coffee. Admission is better able you might prepare the soil in still only $6.00 for adults and which you are planting the seed of renewal $3.00 for children. in the Faith. Remember success in this type of mission is not determined by your friend’s acceptance of what you shared, but the fact that you made the call and planted the seed, for the Holy Spirit to do the rest…in God’s time.

May God Bless all your endeavors done in His Name. Ed Zeaser, Chairman 864 602 9128

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then it necessarily follows that this woman, Mary, is central to his salvific plan. Blessed Paul VI, in his homily of April 24, 1970, at the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Bonaria in Cagliari, Sardinia, put it beautifully: ―If we want to be Christian, we must also be Marian — that is, we must recognize the essential, vital, providential bond which unites Our Lady to Jesus and which opens to us the way that leads us to him.‖Down through the centuries, there have been numerous reports of appearances or apparitions of Mary. Some of these apparitions have been accepted as worthy of belief by Church authority, most especially the apparitions of Guadalupe (in 1531), (1858) and Fatima (1917).Q: How can Catholics believe Mary was conceived without original sin when Romans 3:23 tells us that ―all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God‖? mavkate/Shutterstock.com A: St. Paul is making a general statement about the condition of humanity after the fall. He

does not intend to exclude exceptions to the ―all‖ who have sinned, because Jesus never sinned nor did the good angels. In 11 questions answered about Mary 1 Corinthians 4:5, St. Paul states that ―everyone will receive praise from God.‖ Does this ―everyone‖ include Satan, the During his visit to Naples in March, spoke to a demons and the damned? In fact, the Catholic dogma of gathering of priests, seminarians and religious women. In his Mary’s developed precisely because speech, he told them that a key way to make sure Jesus is at Mary is the mother of Jesus, who ―has similarly been tested in the center of their lives is to ―ask his mother to take you to every way, yet without sin‖ (Heb 4:15). The dogma of Mary’s him.‖This is the role of Mary in the Church and in our own plenitude of grace from the moment of her conception finds lives — for who is closer to the Son than his mother? As the support in the greeting of the angel in Luke 1:28. Mary is Church celebrates Mary throughout the month of May, this In spoken of as ―full of grace‖ (kekaritomene) which in Greek Focus, compiled by Dr. Robert Fastiggi, a professor of means one who has been and continues to be ―favored‖ or theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and ―graced‖ by God (alternate translations could be ―completely president of the Mariological Society of America, is designed graced‖ or ―thoroughly graced‖). Since Jesus is fully human to help readers more fully understand the Church’s teachings but without sin, it was necessary, then, that he take his human regarding the Mary and why she is truly the ―cause of nature from one who is ―full of grace‖ and thus free from all our joy.‖ As Pope Francis said in Naples, ―If you don’t love sin (original as well as personal sin). In the 13th century, the the mother, the mother will not give you the Son.‖ Renata Franciscan theologians William of Ware and Blessed John Sedmakova/Shutterstock.com Q: What are Marian apparitions, developed the idea of ―anticipatory redemption‖ and how can the Church decide if they are true? A: Marian or ―preredemption.‖ The merits of Christ were applied to apparitions are considered to be private revelations according Mary in anticipation of her future role as the mother of the to what is taught in the Catechism. They don’t ―improve or Word Incarnate. Thus, Mary was redeemed by Christ by being complete Christ’s definitive Revelation, but help to live more preserved from all stain of original sin. In 1854, Blessed Pius fully by it in a certain period of history‖ (No. 67). Marian IX defined the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception as a apparitions can be investigated and approved by the local truth revealed by God to be believed by all the faithful. Q: Do bishop, but in some cases, the takes over the inquiry. Catholics worship Mary? A: According to Catholic teaching, it In 1978, Paul VI approved a document of the Congregation for is forbidden to worship any creature, and Mary is created by the Doctrine of the Faith that lays out norms for discerning God — ―For no creature could ever be counted as equal with apparitions. Among the criteria used are the harmony of the the Incarnate Word and Redeemer‖ (Lumen Gentium, No. 62). messages with Catholic doctrine, the docility of the visionaries The in 787 made a clear distinction to Church authority and the signs of the supernatural. Q: Why between the worship due to and the veneration or do Catholics give so much attention to Mary? A: Blessed honor (often called dulia) that can be given to Mary, the of Kolkata is credited with a simple response to angels, the and sacred images. Because Mary is the this question: ―No Mary, no Jesus.‖ This reply gets to the heart ―Queen of the Saints‖ and the ―Queen of the Angels,‖ she can of the matter. Soldiers hold a canopy as the Eucharist is be accorded high veneration (hyperdulia). Mary, though, can carried in procession at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in never receive the worship due to God alone. Q: Why do southwestern . CNS photo St. Paul writes in Galatians Catholics call Mary ―the Mother of God‖? How could God that, ―when the fullness of time had come, God sent his son, have a mother? A: It’s not just Catholics who recognize Mary born of woman, born under the law‖ (4:4). This means that a as the Mother of God. Eastern Orthodox Christians also honor woman named Mary — the mother of the Incarnate Word of Mary as the , the God-bearer or birth-giver of God. God — is at the very center of salvation history. St. Thomas Even Luther and Calvin acknowledged that Mary was the Aquinas taught that God, in his omnipotent power, could have Mother of God (though Calvin did not wish people to use the restored human nature in many different ways, but he chose to title). lian_2011/Shutterstock.com Why, though, is Mary redeem us by becoming incarnate of the Blessed Virgin Mary. called ―the Mother of God‖? It is because she is the mother of If God freely chose to redeem us by ―being born of a woman,‖ the Word Incarnate who is divine. Numerous Scriptures identify Mary as the mother of Jesus (Jn 2:1; Mt 1:18, 2:11, 12:46). Since Jesus is God (cf. Jn 1:1), Mary must be recognized as the one who bore God in her womb. Mary, of course, is not the mother of the Trinity or the divine nature of Jesus. Nevertheless, the person of the Word of God was the child she conceived in her womb and the child to whom she gave birth. The prophecy of 7:14 is applied to Jesus and Mary in Matthew 1:23. Mary is the virgin who gives birth to Emmanuel (God is with us). Probably the strongest Scriptural support for Mary as the Mother of God is found in Luke 1:43, where Elizabeth speaks of Mary as ―mother of my Lord.‖ The Greek word for Lord used here, ―kyrios,‖ was used as a translation of the Hebrew word for God’s personal name, YHWH, spoken by Jews as ―Adonai‖ or ―Lord.‖ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 446). - See more at: https://www.osv.com/OSVNewsweekly/ByIssue/Article/TabI d/735/ArtMID/13636/ArticleID/17405/11-questions- answered-about- Mary.aspx?utm_source=OSV+eNewsweekly+051015&utm_c ampaign=OSVNW051015&utm_medium=email#sthash.gJGjf YdH.dpuf