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The Parish of Good Shepherd & St. Joseph April 19th, 2020 Second Sunday of Easter - Divine Mercy Sunday Good Shepherd is open for private prayer everyday 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Please remember to support your Parish during this unprecedented time. We need your weekly support to meet our payroll and operating expenses. You may mail your donation to the Rectory. Thank you and God’s blessings to you. Eucharistic Adoration every Friday from 9:30 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. (September through June) Miraculous Medal Novena immediately following 9:00 a.m. Mass on Monday Daily Rosary at 8:30 a.m. (except Tuesday) Baptisms are conducted on weekends. 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 to allow time for pre-marriage program attendance, gathering of appropriate documents, and securing any dispensation from ecclesial authorities. 3 Mulberry Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Phone: 845.876.4583 Fax: 845.876.7884 Email: [email protected] Website: www.gsrhinebeck.com Pastor Catechetical Program Rev. Douglas Crawford Ms. Eileen Doyle Assistant to the Pastor Coordinator of Religious Education ; 845.876.7298 Mrs. Hillary Gaddis-Clegg [email protected] Good Shepherd Pre-School Parish Secretary Mrs. Kathleen Doxtader Director/Teacher 845.876.4583 [email protected] [email protected] Parish Lay Trustees Operations Manager Mr. Timothy Williams Parish Finance Council Music Director Mr. Erik Cardwell, [email protected] Your Sustaining Support Is Crucial PRIVATE MASS INTENTIONS Sunday Parish Offering Envelopes may be mailed to Saturday April 18 Saturday of the Octave of Easter the Rectory. We still need and appreciate your NO MASS support to meet our payroll and operating needs. Joan Haege (L) req by Maureen Haege Denis Deng † req Claire & Augustine Wang Thank you so much for your prayers for those affected by COVID-19 and for our Church during Second Week of Easter this most difficult time. Sunday April 19 Divine Mercy Sunday NO MASS Deceased members of the Mathe/Campbell Family† req by Dan & Doreen Campbell Michael Quagliano† req by Tom Florio & Jean Rossman Shaffer† req by the Seidler Family It's simple. It's safe. It's convenient. Monday April 20 Easter Weekday NO MASS Online Giving is now available. Please make your Nicholas He† req by Claire & Augustine Wang contribution today by visiting: Tuesday April 21 Easter Weekday https://gsrhinebeck.churchgiving.com/ NO MASS St. Anselm, Bishop & Doctor of the Church (under “Regular” click on “Make a Donation”) Wednesday April 22 Easter Weekday NO MASS Thank you for your support! Kathryn Daly† req by Pat Daly Thursday April 23 Easter Weekday NO MASS St. George, Martyr Daytop for a Drug Free World If a loved one has a serious substance abuse issue, St. Adalbert, Bishop & Martyr please call 845.876.3789. Vincent He† req by Claire & Augustine Wang Crisis Pregnancy Friday April 24 Easter Weekday For help, contact: Care Net Pregnancy Center of the NO MASS St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest & Martyr Hudson Valley, Poughkeepsie 845.471.9284 or Life Options Center, Yonkers 914.620.4464. Kathleen Lovett† req by Michelle Dougherty Birthright Saturday April 25 Easter Weekday Provides love, support, and hope to women facing unplanned pregnancies. Located on Main Street in NO MASS Feast of St. Mark, Evangelist Poughkeepsie near Holy Trinity Church. Susan Tucker† req by Susie Sausto For information, please call 845.473.1300. Raymond, Gary & Barry Lutz† EnCourage req by Betty Lutz EnCourage is a Catholic Apostolate for those who have family members with same-sex attraction. EnCourage Sunday April 26 Third Sunday of Easter provides the faithful with information about the NO MASS Gary LaBelle† req by Bill McGann Church’s teachings as well as spiritual support. Visit: www.encourageny.com Jesus Flores† req by the Alvarez Family John Nielsen† req by Nancy Nielsen Parishioner Update The Sanctuary Lamp Name Address CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD Phone Fayleen Legg Email in memoriam ___Change of Address ___Moving out of Parish Requested by Father Crawford ___Home Visit Requested ___Need Envelopes Please fill out and cut form. Return it through the ST. JOSEPH CHURCH Collection Basket or by mail to the Rectory Office. New registrants are invited to visit the Rectory during Gary LaBelle office hours to receive the registration form and in memoriam information on parish activities. Requested by Father Crawford A Catholic America Would Be Worth Conserving by Charles Coulombe istory is a funny thing in that it takes no prisoners. ter and better solution. One thing American Conservatives have wrestled with H However, as his biographer, Michael Jay Tucker, has since the foundation of the republic is just what it is they are pointed out: “Collins’ utopia is not that of the jack-booted SS supposed to be conserving. Europeans and Latin Americans man, but rather that of the rural life, the local squire, the par- were fairly clear on the point, with a rejection of the princi- ish priest, and the general paternalism of pre-industrial civili- ples of the French Revolution and concomitant adherence to zation… Nowhere in Collins do we find a cult of person- altar and throne. The religious patterns of our early settlement ality, nor a call for a militarized society, nor an organized plan and the revolutionary origins of our government, however, for the imperial expansion made any such easy definition of a revitalized nation. All impossible. Complex argu- that we do have is a vague ments have been made both anti-modernism. Or, to put for and against the supposed it rather more simply, if “Conservatism” of the Federal- Collins was a fascist, then ists and the Anti-Federalists, of he was a poor one indeed, Hamilton and Jefferson, of the though he would have Whig Party and the Democrat- made a rather good Hob- ic, of the Union and the Con- bit.” Nevertheless, howev- federacy, and of the gold er confused about fascism standard supporters and the he might have been, he was Silverites. Perhaps these con- resolved that an American tradictions have never been so version of it was necessary glaring as during the Great Photo Credit: Montenegro/Shutterstock if the United States were to es- Depression, with the work of a cape their downward path. To man named Seward Collins (1899–1952). that end, in 1933 he wound up The Bookman and replaced it Heir to a national chain of tobacco shops, Collins’s with The American Review. privileged upbringing and education culminated in his stint at He opened its first issue with this description: “The Princeton where, as an undergraduate, he became friendly American Review is founded to give greater currency to the ide- with F. Scott Fitzgerald. After graduation, he threw him- as of a number of groups and individuals who are radically self into the New York literary highlife of the Roaring Twen- critical of conditions prevalent in the modern world, but ties. At this stage of his life, he held to the fashionable Leftist launch their criticism from a ‘traditionalist’ basis: from the Modernism in political and literary matters affected by his basis of a firm grasp on the immense body of experience friends. Wanting to do something serious to encourage litera- accumulated by men in the past, and the insight which this ture in the United States, in 1927 Collins purchased The Book- knowledge affords. The magazine is a response to the wide- man. He continued its tradition of publishing both new fiction spread and growing feeling that the forces and principles and literary criticism by some of the best-known writers of which have produced the modern chaos are incapable of the time—including Sherlock Holmes’s creator, Sir Arthur yielding any solution; that the only hope is a return to funda- Conan Doyle. mentals and tested principles which have been largely pushed During his association with this magazine, Collins aside.” gradually moved away from his liberal views, and came in- The result was a magazine that featured articles by a creasingly to embrace the style of literary criticism originated who’s who of what was considered the Anglo-American by Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, dubbed the “New Right: English Distributists (G.K. Chesterton and Belloc Humanism.” As the 1920s ended and the Great Depression wrote for it), Southern Agrarians, monarchists of various descended upon the United States, Collins increasingly cri- stripes, corporatists, Jeffersonians, fascists, followers of Fa- tiqued both capitalism, which in his view had created the cri- ther Coughlin, and such rare birds as T.S. Eliot and Ralph sis, and communism, which sought to treat the evil with an Adams Cram. Its pages are well worth reading even today, even worse medicine. He also noted—as did many other due to the high caliber of the writing. But it was an unstable American commentators at the time—that Mussolini’s Italy mix of folk who were united purely in what they opposed— was seemingly sailing through the Depression with minimal communism and monopoly capitalism—and, unsurprisingly, apparent distress. This Collins came to attribute to Italian it blew apart in 1937 when several key players parted ways corporatism and to Mussolini’s strong leadership exercised with Collins over his continued naïveté regarding Hitler. for the common good. The “Dirty Thirties” commenced, and Collins opened up a bookshop and, after the war, “fascism” as Collins understood it seemed to him to be a bet- cont’d studied psychical research until his own entry into the Great cal warts and all: its diverse peoples and customs and its real Beyond.