Welcome Back!
The ladies of Good Shepherd and St. Robert Bellarmine are invited to SAVE THE DATE for a very special Welcome Retreat in the Fall. September 17-18 at Good Shepherd Parish in Montrose.
Fr. Anthony Car Show
St. Robert School Raffle & Fr. Anthony 4th Annual Car Show
Friday June 10 ~ 12:00 Noon – 7:00 PM
1st Prize : $15,000.00
2nd Prize: $ 5,000.00
3-7 Prizes: $ 1,000.00
Tickets are $20.00 each
Get your tickets from any St. Robert School family or at the St. Robert Parish office.
New this year: Kiddie Kourt Bounce House & More Food and Refreshments.
Raffle Drawing, Friday, June 10 at 6:00 p.m.
Youth Group News
The Youth Group will be meeting on Sunday, May 22 from 6-8 p.m. in the Family Life Center. Hope you can join us! This will be our last meeting for the school year.
We will have a Mass for our graduates on Sunday, May 22. All high school seniors are invited to participate. There will be cake and punch in the Family Life Center following the Mass. Everyone in the parish is invited to attend.
Youth Group will continue to take donations of pop cans to help fund their activities. Pop cans can be dropped off at the parish office during the week. Thanks for your support.
Please check out the Youth Group website for other articles and events.
Religious Ed News
Please keep the following children in your prayers who will be receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation on Wednesday, May 18 at St. John Vianney Catholic Church:
Sabrina Deloney, Laura Sharpe, Brailey Stroup, Kylee Stroup and Vinnae Stroup.
Have you ever considered becoming a catechist? Are you interested in learning more about Catechesis of the Good Shepherd? St. Robert is hosting Catechesis of the Good Shepherd training for level 1 catechists this summer. Classes run June 3-4, 6-9 for part one and will finish up with part two in June of 2023. For more information, please contact Jackie through the parish office or by email:
Religious Ed Registration Form (print and fill out)
2022 Diocesan Services Appeal
Thank you to everyone who has made a gift or pledge commitment to our Diocesan Services Appeal.
If you have not yet made a gift or pledge, envelopes are available in the church or the parish office. Or you may submit your gift online at www.dioceseoflansing.org/appeal. Your DSA gift will support the vital services and ministries that help bring the love of Christ to all we encounter.
Parish Goal: $ 15,467.00 – Amount Pledged: $ 12,853.00
20th Anniversary of Ordination Celebration for Fr. Prabhu
Celebrate Easter’s 50 Days!
Family Activities to Celebrate the Easter Season
Easter is the most important feast of the Christian year—so important that the Church sets aside a seven-week season to rejoice in Christ’s victory over sin and death.
1. Use a special candle at family meals to recall the light of Christ.
2. Every day, read together from the Easter story: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21.
3. Plan fun family activities—one for every week of Easter.
4. Put up a sign or banner that proclaims, “He is risen!”
5. Was anyone received into the Church during your parish Easter Vigil? Have them over.
6. Add an “alleluia” song—or three alleluias—to your grace before meals.
7. Put on an Easter play. Invite relatives and friends to a performance.
8. Make a poster of a life-giving cross. Add paper flowers and leaves to it throughout Easter.
9. Celebrate new life by doing something as a family to support unborn children and their parents.
10. Keep fresh flowers around.
11. Use the old Easter greeting and response: “Christ is risen! – He is risen indeed!”
12. Visit a lonely neighbor or do some other family act of kindness to express thanks for the resurrection.
13. Talk about baptism. Tell stories of family members’ baptisms.
14. Plan a family outing to a river, lake, stream, or ocean.
15. Drape your crucifixes and crosses with a strip of white cloth.
16. Make cookies in the shapes of Easter symbols. Freeze some to serve throughout the season.
17. Learn how other cultures celebrate Easter. Try out some of their customs and foods.
18. Make cards announcing the good news of the resurrection.
19. Use a special container for newly blessed water from church. Show your kids how to use holy water.
20. Throw some water balloons!
21. Listen to Handel’s Messiah and other Easter music.
22. Read about the Emmaus disciples (Luke 24:13-35); take a family walk.
23. What about a short trip to an interesting shrine or church?
24. Place a resurrection icon or picture in a place of honor.
25. Discuss what it means to be Christ’s “witnesses” (Luke 24:48)? Help each family member to see that their witness matters.
26. Wear more white, or even gold! They’re the season’s special colors.
27. Pray the Liturgy of the Hours together in the morning or evening (www.liturgyhours.org).
28. If your family likes to sing and play instruments, have people over for a musical Easter celebration.
29. Read about the disciples’ amazing catch of fish (John 21:1-14). Then go fishing together.
30. Or imitate Peter, and go swimming (John 21:7).
31. The Sunday after Easter is Divine Mercy Sunday. Explore this relatively new devotion (www.marian.org/divinemercy).
32. Talk about how the disciples hid (John 20:19) until the Spirit’s coming at Pentecost. Follow up by playing hide and seek.
33. Plant some seeds.
34. Honor the risen Lord’s mother by learning about “Mary gardens” (www.mgardens.org).
35. Read Luke 24:50-53 or Acts 1:6-11. Ask family members to imagine themselves present at Jesus’ ascension. How would they have felt about it?
36. Watch a movie with an Easter theme (For ideas, see the list from the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference: www.uscbb.org/ movies/filmsforlent.htm).
37. Just before his ascension, Jesus blessed the disciples. Pray Numbers 6:24-26 together as a way of communicating his blessing to one another.
38. On Ascension Thursday, choose a family intention. Make the nine days till Pentecost a novena to the Holy Spirit.
39. Add some Pentecost red (for fire) to your Easter decorations.
40. Read Acts 2, the Spirit’s coming at Pentecost. Read it in all the languages family members speak! (See the Bible translations at www.biblegateway.com/languages).
41. Decorate a cake with Pentecost flames and other symbols to celebrate the birthday of the church.
42. Talk about the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit (see Isaiah 11 and 1 Corinthians 12; also the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1830-1832).
43. Make a Pentecost hanging or mobile that features a dove and tongues of fire.
44. Learn a prayer to the Holy Spirit to use in your family prayer time.
45. Play “twenty questions”: Have someone choose a Bible character or thing from the Easter and Pentecost stories. The group gets twenty questions (yes or no answers only) to guess the right answer.
46. List the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23; Catechism, 1832) on separate slips of paper. Have each family member randomly select a fruit to cultivate.
47. Fly a kite to celebrate the wind of the Holy Spirit.
48. Find ways to make Sunday meals special during the Easter season.
49. Continue the “special Sunday meal” tradition to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection all year.
50. Discuss why Sunday is holy (see John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter, On Keeping the Lord’s Day Holy; Catechism, 2174-2195). Decide how you can keep the Lord’s Day as a family.
Job Opening
Good Shepherd Parish is looking for a part-time Coordinator of Youth Ministry (CYM) to oversee youth activities and lead our high school students into a deeper relationship with Christ and His Church.
Candidate must be a practicing Catholic, active in a parish. Prior experience is preferred.
For a complete copy of the job description click here.
Interested individuals may submit a resume to goodshepherdofmontrose@gmail.com.
Resumes will be accepted through May 31.
Blessing of the Bikes
The Knights of Columbus will host the Blessing of the Bikes on Saturday, June 4, 2022, sign in starts at 10 a.m., Blessing at 11 a.m. See the below flyer for all the details.
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
St. Robert Bellarmine will be offering the Level One Catechist Formation Course. The facilities allow for both classroom space and access to a full 3-6 atrium. Breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided. Class is closed at 30 participants.
Part One will be offered on June 3-4, 6-9 and Part Two will be offered on June 5-10 in 2023.
Registration forms can be found in the parish office.
If you would like more information contact Hannah Turchi at (810) 659-8556 or email her at hturchi@strobertschool.com.