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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 “I AM THE BEAD OF LIFE” - JN 6:48 “YO SOY EL PAN DE LA VIDA” JN 6, 48 SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 2021 | XIX SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 1 MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK OF August 7– August 15 Saturday August 7th St. Sixtus II & companions St. Cajetan Mem. of Blessed Virgin Mary This Week at Good Shepherd 9:00 am ♥Jim & Rosemary Schmidt ♥Gabriela Alberto 5:00 pm † Mary Joan Peek Boy Scout Troop 3740 ♥Ray & Ann Jones Meeting Monday 7 pm – 9 pm. Eternal rest grant unto them, Sunday August 8th 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:00 am † Poor Souls in Purgatory O Lord. And let the perpetual † William Lenard Barkley Hispanic Young Adult Group 7:00 am † Ilario Villeda light shine upon them. And Monday 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm ♥Wayne McCullough may the souls of all the 9:00 am ♥Richard & Rhonda Abreu (34 th. Wedding Anniversary) ♥Steve & Eileen Pankow (Wedding Anniversary) faithful departed, through the Scout Troop 11:00 am † Joann Welsh mercy of God, rest in peace. † Benedetta Scavone Tuesday 6 pm – 9 pm 1:00 pm † Jose Maria & Petra Martinez Amen. † Tina Marquez Ramirez 1:00 pm ♥Janett Godinez † Angel & Estela Alvarado Marcelo Serenity Al-Anon Family meeting 5:30 pm † Talley Power Wednesday 7pm – 8 pm † Beverly Longshore Good Shepherd Women Monday August 9th St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross 9:00 am † Rev. Joseph Michael Peek Small Faith Group † Clarence Offerman Thursday 9:30 am – 11:30 am Tuesday August 10th St. Lawrence Knowing Jesus as My Friend 9:00 am † John McDowell Thursday 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm ♥Lisa Turner Wednesday August 11th St. Clare 9:00 am ♥Natalia Alberto During this time of National ♥Scott Turner 7:00 pm ♥Rudy & Patricia Velasco (Wedding Anniversary) Crisis, the Anointing of the Thursday August 12th St. Jane Frances de Chantal Sick can only be administered 9:00 am † JoAn Welsh under certain strict ♥Joey Supple circumstances. Please call the Friday August 13thSs. Pontian & Hippolytus Parish Office at 770-887-9861 9:00 am ♥Recipients of a Prayer Blanket † Tom Nix for specific instructions. Our Lady of Lourdes Help of the sick Pray for us Armando Robles, Deborah Wrazin, Eric Gose, Charles O’Connor, Bart Inmings, Audrey Rohm, John Heuser, Mathew Ross, Diane Hanson, Walter Spencer SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 2021 | XIX SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 2 August 8, 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 Deacon Stick Thibodeaux 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) 7:00 p.m. RECONCILIATION: SATURDAY 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. WEDNESDAY (Español) Father Diosmar and Father Bradley are pleased to welcome our newest members to our parish family, as well as those visiting us for the first time. Please welcome those around you when you are 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. here at Good Shepherd. We look forward to seeing more new faces as our parish shares the Good News of Our Lord Jesus Christ. SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 2021 | XIX SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 3 Page 4 The Shepherd Times Liturgical Ministries August 21st, 2021 - 9:00am MINISTRY TO THE SICK AND Elementary Super Saturday HOMEBOUND The faithful who are ill are August 22nd, 2021 - 2:30pm Elementary Sunday deprived of their rightful and FLIPS accustomed place in the Faith Formation First Day of Classes: Eucharistic community. In August 15th, 2021 - 6:30pm August 25th, 2021 - 5:30pm Elementary bringing Communion to them the High School Life Nights Wednesday Nights Extraordinary Minister of Communion [EMHC] represents August 15th, 2021 - 6:30pm Middle School Christ and manifests faith and Gathering Nights charity on behalf of the whole community toward those who cannot be present at the Eucharist. For the sick, the drives. The American Red reception of Communion is not American Red Cross at Cross has an URGENT only a privilege but also a sign of 1-800-RED-CROSS support and concern shown by NEED for blood. We hope the Christian community for its you will be able to join us That is 1-800-733-2767 members who are ill. Please and the American Red Cross contact You can also sign up online at at the next Blood Drive on www.RedCrossBlood.org Monday, August 16th, ➢ CARLENE UDAS our sponsor keyword is cogs: 678-513-3248 2021. or you can call 706-224-6610 to make an appointment. We will conduct the Blood Thank you from the Good Shepherd Men’s Group and It has been several months Drive in the Parish Life Cen- since we sponsored the ter Gymnasium. Please join the American Red Cross. American Red Cross Blood us so we can help others Drive because of Covid 19 who need blood. You can Pandemic. We are incredibly register with the American Please consider volunteering Red Cross at the following for this special ministry or the grateful to those who donat- following ministries: ed blood at previous blood number: ➢ ALTAR SERVERS Emily and John Vaughan 770-375-1233 [email protected] ➢ EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION Our Altar Flowers and Judy Guilfoil 678-771-5467 Blessed Sacrament Chapel Flowers [email protected] ➢ LECTORS Janet Day 678-696-5614 Last weekend’s flowers were donated by: [email protected]. Eileen and Steve Pankow ➢ MUSIC MINISTRY Michael Abreu in honor of their 50th Wedding Anniversary. 470-695-7715 [email protected] ➢ USHERS Did you know that you can donate flowers in honor of a wedding Don Mouledoux 504-455-8323 [email protected] anniversary, birthday, etc. or in memory of a loved one? Advance ➢ SACRISTANS notice of at least one month is required. For additional infor- Scott Day 678-858-1347 [email protected] mation, please call: Eileen Pankow 770-597-3563 SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 2021 | XIX SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 4 CREDIBLE WITNESES herself to Jesus on his cross and The Catholic author Flannery Servant of God offered her intense pain and O’Connor was once asked by the Charlene Marie Richards suffering for others.” Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne to Heather King She was confined to Our Lady of write the introduction to a book Lourdes Hospital in Lafayette, about another purportedly saintly Please support the Louisiana. Father Joseph Brennan, young girl, Mary Ann, who had died 2021 Archbishop's the newly ordained hospital of a cancer that hideously disfigured Servant of God Charlene Marie chaplain, was deeply impressed by part of her face. O’Connor, Annual Appeal. We Richard (1947–1959), the “little her calm acceptance and her desire notoriously unsentimental, balked at appreciate your Cajun saint” who died at the age of to give what remained of her life for the task, noting: “Bad children are support. More twelve, is a popular southern the redemption of the world. “OK, harder to endure than good ones, Louisiana folk hero to whom a Father, who am I suffering for but they are easier to read about.” information is available number of miracles have been today?” she would reportedly ask. But after reading the sisters’ on the archdiocese's attributed. Sister Theresita Crowley, director of account, she came around, website at archatl.com. Charlene was born on January 13, pediatrics at Lourdes Hospital, observing that many of us can look 1947, in Richard, Louisiana, a likewise testified to the girl’s heroic evil in the face—and see our own farming community thirty-five miles suffering. “grinning reflections”—but that the northwest of Lafayette. The second She died only two weeks after face of goodness too “is grotesque,” oldest of ten children in a devout receiving her terminal diagnosis. for “in us the good is something Catholic family, she attended Mass, By 1972 xeroxed prayer cards under construction.” prayed the rosary, and was otherwise bearing Charlene’s photo and a Charlene Richards is a mystery and a fairly unremarkable: a “normal” girl. prayer for her intercession were in grace—and in some way a response Nonetheless, upon reading a wide circulation. Word-of-mouth to the tendency of our age “to use biography of Saint Thérèse of testimonies of conversions and the suffering of children to discredit Lisieux, she wondered whether she healings made the rounds of the goodness of God,” in O’Connor’s too might someday become a saint. southern Louisiana and beyond. A words. As a middle-schooler, she was booklet entitled Charlene, a Saint Her cause for canonization was visited by a “lady in black” who from Southwest Louisiana was opened on January 11, 2020. vanished, and soon afterward she published in 1979. Devotion to her began to feel unwell. Taken to a began to grow. doctor, she was diagnosed with Thousands of people visited her Heather King (heather-king.com) is grave each year. Four thousand an award-winning author of acute lymphatic leukemia and told several books.