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Good Shepherd & St. Joseph The Parish of Good Shepherd & St. Joseph May 3rd, 2020 Fourth Sunday of Easter 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 May 2 First Saturday St. Athanasius, the Rectory. We still need and appreciate your NO MASS Bishop & Doctor of the Church support to meet our payroll and operating needs. Joan Haege† req by Maureen Haege Thank you so much for your prayers for those Evan Hodge† req by Marybeth Sweeney & affected by COVID-19 and for our Church during Family this most difficult time. Fourth Week of Easter Sunday May 3 Fourth Sunday of Easter NO MASS Gertrude & Arthur Grumbach† req by Dan and Doreen Campbell Michael Quaglino† req by Tom & Jean Florio Deceased Members of the Holsapple Family† It's simple. It's safe. It's convenient. req by the Browne Family Online Giving is now available. Please make your Monday May 4 Easter Weekday contribution today by visiting: NO MASS Jerry Crum† req by Marybeth Sweeney and https://gsrhinebeck.churchgiving.com/ Family (under “Regular” click on “Make a Donation”) Tuesday May 5 Easter Weekday Thank you for your support! NO MASS ———— Wednesday May 6 Easter Weekday Daytop for a Drug Free World NO MASS Mrs. Mahoney† req by Claire & Augustine Wang If a loved one has a serious substance abuse issue, please call 845.876.3789. Thursday May 7 Easter Weekday Crisis Pregnancy NO MASS Christine Pereira† req by a Friend For help, contact: Care Net Pregnancy Center of the Hudson Valley, Poughkeepsie 845.471.9284 or Life Friday May 8 Easter Weekday Options Center, Yonkers 914.620.4464. NO MASS Cora Hackett† req by Anne LeHane Birthright Provides love, support, and hope to women facing Saturday May 9 Easter Weekday unplanned pregnancies. Located on Main Street in NO MASS Billy Earley† req by Bruce & Linda Tripp Poughkeepsie near Holy Trinity Church. For information, please call 845.473.1300. Donald Nameth† req by Victoria Nameth EnCourage Sunday May 10 Fifth Sunday of Easter EnCourage is a Catholic Apostolate for those who have family members with same-sex attraction. EnCourage NO MASS Mother’s Day Novena provides the faithful with information about the Church’s teachings as well as spiritual support. Visit: www.encourageny.com Parishioner Update The Sanctuary Lamp Name Address CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD Phone Joan Haege 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. John Seidler New registrants are invited to visit the Rectory during office hours to receive the registration form and in memoriam information on parish activities. Requested by Father Crawford China’s first saint was martyred on a cross in Wuhan by Courtney Mares Saint Jean-Gabriel Perboyre hina’s first canonized saint was martyred by Hubei. In 1886 he invited the Canossian Daughters of C suffocation on a cross in Wuhan, the epicenter of Charity to Wuhan to provide social service and in 1880 today’s coronavirus pandemic. established the Hankou Catholic Hospital, which laid the foundation for the development of the Wuhan No. 2 St. Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, a Vincentian missionary Hospital (1955) and subsequently the Central Hospital of priest from France, was betrayed by one of his Wuhan (1999).” catechumens for money, bound in chains, tortured, tied to a wooden cross and strangled to death in Wuhan in 1840. Another nearby coronavirus facility, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, can trace its roots back to an infectious Dr. Anthony Clark, a professor of Chinese history, diseases hospital founded by Franciscan missionaries in spent time in Wuhan researching the life of Perboyre and 1926, the Father Mei Memorial Catholic Hospital of St. Francis Regis Clet, another 19th-century Vincentian Hankou. priest martyred in Wuhan. It was named for Fr. Pascal Angelicus Melotto Clark told CNA that Wuhan’s martyr saints are (1864-1923), a Franciscan missionary friar from Italy particularly suitable intercessors for those suffering from martyred in Wuhan, who took Fr. Mei Zhanchun as his COVID-19 today. Chinese name. He was kidnapped for ransom and then “Sts. Perboyre and Clet were both killed by shot in the stomach with a poisoned bullet in 1923. strangulation; they died because they could not breathe,” “I am happy to die for the Chinese,” the mission- he said. “How could they not be appropriate intercessors ary priest said at his death, according to the Franciscan for this particular illness?” Order’s website. “I lived in China for the Chinese and now “Among the torments against Perboyre were I am happy to die for them.” continued beatings on his lower back and he was forced to The Father Mei Memorial Catholic Hospital of kneel on broken glass. He certainly knew the agonies of Hankou was staffed by Franciscan Sisters of Christian physical suffering, and would be a good comfort for those Doctrine until missionaries were expelled from China in who now suffer from this virus.” 1952 after the Chinese Communist Revolution. Wuhan, now infamous as the origin of the “The Catholic community of Wuhan has suffered coronavirus, was once an outpost for Catholic missionaries greatly during the era of Chairman Mao and the Cultural who founded Catholic hospitals in the city. Revolution, and through that time they hid the tombstones Outside of Wuhan Central Hospital, where of Saints Perboyre and Clet to protect them, because of coronavirus whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang died, is a statue their deep devotion to those martyrs,” Clark said. of Italian missionary, Msgr. Eustachius Zanoli, “While I was there I visited the seminary where photographed by New York Times correspondent, Chris the two tombstones are now displayed for veneration; the Buckley. Catholics of Wuhan have a great devotion to the Eucharist The plaque beneath the bust reads in Chinese and and to the Vincentians, such as Perboyre and Clet, who English: “Monsignor Eustachius Zanoli, from Italy, was died for them, and shed their blood on the soil of that the first Bishop of Roman Catholic Church in Eastern city,” he added. cont’d Many missionaries left for China in the 19th centu- The first “patriotic bishop” named by the ry with the knowledge that they would never return. Communist government in China in 1958 was from Wuhan. Dong Guangqing, who died in 2007, was president “I don't know what awaits me on the path that of Patriotic Catholic Association of Wuhan and vice opens before me: without a doubt the cross, which is the president of the National Administrative Committee of the daily bread of the missionary. What can we hope for better, Chinese Catholic Church. going to preach a crucified God?" St. Perboyre wrote in a letter during his journey to China. Today, Catholics in Wuhan have a particular devotion to St. Francis and the Sacrament of Penance, Perboyre’s remains were eventually moved to Paris Clark observed. to the Vincentian motherhouse. Today his tomb is located in a side chapel in the same church where St. Vincent de Catholics in Wuhan are “known to make long lines Paul’s incorrupt body is located. He was beatified in 1889 near the confessionals of priests who are most faithful to by Pope Leo XIII. the authentic teachings of the Church; they are a beautiful witness,” he said. “St. Thérèse of Lisieux had a special devotion to Perboyre and kept a holy card dedicated to him in her “It is rare to find a church without a statue of St. personal prayerbook,” Dr. Clark pointed out. Francis, and sometimes a devotion to St. Vincent de Paul. The faith there is strong, and has even flourished especially At Perboyre’s canonization in 1996, St. John Paul during times of persecution,” Clark added. II said: “Along the streets where he had been sent he found the Cross of Christ. Through the daily imitation of his “I have indeed heard from some Catholics during Lord, with humility and gentleness, he fully identified with this time, and they are, like all of us, turning to the Lord him. … After being tortured and condemned, reproducing and his mercy as we all confront our own frailty,” he said.
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