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CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD 3740 HOLTZCLAW RD. CUMMING, GA. 30041 | 770-887-9861 | WWW.GSRCC.NET SACRAMENTAL EMERGENCY LINE 678-294-0212 SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2021 | XIV SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 1 MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK OF July 3– July 9 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Saturday July 3rd St. Thomas the Apostle 9:00 am ♥Jim & Rosemary Schmidt 5:00 pm ♥Parishioners of Good Shepherd Kathleen Hayden Sunday July 4th 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Eternal rest grant unto her, O ♥ 7:30 am Natalia Alberto Lord. And let the perpetual † Joan Kyle 7:30 am † Bernard Kearney light shine upon her. And ♥Filiberto Rostro may the souls of all the 9:00 am † Pat Wood faithful departed, through the † Dennis Byczynski mercy of God, rest in peace. 11:00 am † Jeff Wood Amen. † Donald Denhoff 1:00 pm † Demetria Vidal Arroyo † Angel Sanchez Salinas 1:00 pm † Salvador & Soledad Garcia Martinez † Abundio & Maria Garcia Franco Stewardship 5:30 pm † Charles Hahner † Thomas Lupo June 7– June 13 Monday July 5th St. Anthony Zaccaria During this time of National 9:00 am All Souls in Purgatory Offertory $ 13,829.28 Crisis, the Anointing of the Tuesday July 6th St. Maria Goretti Sick can only be administered Online Giving $ 5,111.00 9:00 am † Michael Luscre under certain strict † JoAn Welsh Miscellaneous $ 0.00 circumstances. Please call the Wednesday July 7th Parish Office at 770-887-9861 9:00 amI ♥Intentions of St. Monica Sodality GRAND TOTAL 7:00 pm † Barbara Starr for specific instructions. $ 18,940.28 Thursday July 8th 9:00 am † Bong and Leony Natad † JoAn Welsh In this Issue Friday July 9th Ss. Augustine Zhao Rong/companions 9:00 am ♥Recipients of a Prayer Blanket Welcome to Good Shepherd | 3 Our Lady of Preschool & Faith Formation | 4 Lourdes Lectors Workshop | 4 Help of the sick 2021 Vacation Bible School | 4 Meditation of the Day | 5 Saint Who? | 5 Pray for us 2021 VBS Experience | 6 Denise Robertson, Bart Inmings, Quinn Vaughan, Also on this Issue Cameron Sayer, John Heuser, Mathew Ross, Tim Mathews, Diane Hanson, Jocelyn Saldivar, Theresa Fajardo, Meditacion | 7 Walter Spencer Santos de Ayer y de Hoy | 7 Experiencia 2021 VBS | 8 SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2021 | XIV SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 2 July 4, 2021 Established as a Mission in 1975 and a parish in 1977, Good Shepherd has been an important influence in the CLERGY lives of those who live in Forsyth Rev. Diosmar A. Natad County for over 40 years. (Pastor) Rev. Bradley Starr (Parochial Vicar) Deacon Donald Nadeau Deacon Jack Campbell MASS AND RECONCILIATION SCHEDULES WEEKEND MASS SATURDAY VIGIL 5:00 p.m. SUNDAY 7:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. (Español en el gimnasio) 9:00 a.m. (Livestreamed as well as in Church) 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. (Español en la Iglesia) 1:00 pm (Español en el gimnasio) SUNDAY EVENING 5:30 p.m. WEEKDAY MASS MONDAY - SATURDAY 9:00 a.m. Our Good Shepherd Flock Is Growing WEDNESDAY (Español) Father Diosmar and Father Bradley are pleased to welcome 7:00 p.m. our newest members to our parish family, as well as those RECONCILIATION: visiting us for the first time. Please welcome those around you SATURDAY when you are here at Good Shepherd. We look forward to 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. seeing more new faces as our parish shares the Good News of WEDNESDAY (Español) 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Our Lord Jesus Christ. SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2021 | XIV SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 3 Page 4 The Shepherd Times Liturgical Ministries Attention All Lectors MINISTRY TO THE SICK AND We will be having a lector training/retreat on Saturday, HOMEBOUND The faithful who are ill are July 10, 2020 following the 9:00am Mass. Please make deprived of their rightful and accustomed place in the every effort to attend this important meeting. We will be Eucharistic community. In reviewing proper etiquettes and procedures. If you have bringing Communion to them the Extraordinary Minister of any questions, please contact Janet Day at Communion [EMHC] represents Christ and manifests faith and 678-696-5614 or email at [email protected]. charity on behalf of the whole community toward those who cannot be present at the Eucharist. For the sick, the Our children will develop spiritually, reception of Communion is not only a privilege but also a sign of emotionally, physically, socially, and support and concern shown by cognitively in a trusting, secure and warm the Christian community for its environment. We celebrate the uniqueness of members who are ill. Please contact each child and encourage each to develop a sense of self-worth, a love of learning, love for ➢ CARLENE UDAS God and a respect for others. Tuition is set at 678-513-3248 very competitive prices. Hours are 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Days of enrollment vary depending on age. Children also enjoy Spanish classes and Music classes! For more information, please contact Anna Loyd, Director, [email protected] or Alison Toledano, Office Manager, [email protected] or by phone at Please consider volunteering 470-695-7761. for this special ministry or the following ministries: ➢ ALTAR SERVERS Emily and John Vaughan VBS 770-375-1233 [email protected] Vacation Bible School ➢ EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION Judy Guilfoil 2021 678-771-5467 [email protected] ➢ LECTORS On behalf of our pastor Fr. Janet Day Diosmar, Fr. Bradley our 678-696-5614 [email protected]. parochial Vicar, the entire staff and our parishioners ➢ MUSIC MINISTRY Michael Abreu at Good Shepherd Catholic 470-695-7715 [email protected] Church we would like to ➢ USHERS thank Mrs. Vicki Carney Don Mouledoux 504-455-8323 and the entire militia of [email protected] volunteers who worked so ➢ SACRISTANS hard to make this event a Scott Day 678-858-1347 [email protected] success. THANK YOU!!!! SUNDAY, JULY 4, 2021 | XIV SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 4 MEDITATION OF THE DAY and women of faith have found mediators of Faith in the Midst of light in those who suffer! So it was with Saint Affliction Francis of Assisi and the leper, or with Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her poor…. In drawing near to the suffering, they were certainly not To speak of faith often involves speaking of able to eliminate all their pain or to explain painful testing, yet it is precisely in such every evil. Faith is not a light which scatters testing that Saint Paul sees the most all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our convincing proclamation of the Gospel for it is steps in the night and suffices for the in weakness and suffering that we discover journey…. In Christ, God himself wishes to God’s power which triumphs over our share this path with us and to offer us his gaze “we discover God’s weakness and suffering…. Christians know so that we might see the light within it. Christ that suffering cannot be eliminated, yet it can is the one who, having endured suffering, is power which triumphs have meaning and become an act of love and over our weakness the pioneer and perfecter of our faith (Heb entrustment into the hands of God who does 12:2). Suffering reminds us that faith’s service and suffering.” not abandon us; in this way it can serve as a to the common good is always one of hope—a moment of growth in faith and love. By hope which looks ever ahead in the contemplating Christ’s union with the Father knowledge that only from God, from the even at the height of his sufferings on the future which comes from the risen Jesus, can cross, Christians learn to share in the same our society find solid and lasting gaze of Jesus. Even death is illumined and can foundations…. Even if our dwelling place be experienced as the ultimate call to faith, the here below is wasting away, we have an ultimate Go forth from your land (Gn 12:1), eternal dwelling place which God has already the ultimate “Come!” spoken by the Father, to prepared in Christ, in his body. whom we abandon ourselves in the confidence that he will keep us steadfast even in our final Pope Francis passage. Nor does the light of faith make us forget His Holiness Pope Francis was elected to the the sufferings of this world. How many men See of Saint Peter in 2013. SAINT WHO? tirelessly to clothe the poor and visit the war- wounded. In 1945, before Mussolini tried to Ildefonsus was born in Rome to a family of flee Italy, Ildefonsus urged him to surrender modest means. He entered the Benedictines, and do penance. Mussolini rejected the was ordained, and pursued studies in history, cardinal’s appeal, and was assassinated only art, and liturgy. He became an expert on the three days later. liturgy and authored an acclaimed study of the After the war, Ildefonsus worked to rebuild Roman Missal. the bonds of love and trust among his people In 1929, Ildefonsus was elected Archbishop of through Eucharistic and Marian devotion and Milan, which had about three million parish missions. To his seminarians on the inhabitants and nine hundred parishes. He very day he died, he offered this concise immediately set up a rigorous schedule to visit legacy: “You want something to remember me all of them over a three-year rotation, which by? All I can leave you is an invitation to holiness.” Blessed Ildefonsus he kept vigilantly in all seasons, often Schuster traveling on foot.