The Good Shepherd Knights of Columbus invites the parish, family and friends to a Super Bowl Party on Sunday, February 3 beginning at 4:00 p.m. Please bring a snack to pass. Refreshments will be provided.
Youth Group News
Happy New Year!
GSYG will be meeting January 13th and 20th. New calendars have been sent home. We will be going on our annual Subiaco Retreat January 25th-27th. Information & Permission forms will be coming home soon. The retreat cost is $110 per person but because of fundraising teens will be asked to only pay $55. This is a wonderful opportunity for teens to spend time away from their busy lives, where they can pursue a deeper relationship with God.
Please check out the Youth Group website for other articles and events.
Reflections from Fr. Jon
Dear brothers and sisters,
As we come to the end of the Christmas season on the feast of Jesus’ Baptism, I want to thank all of you who have been so generous with your time and your gifts and prayers to me this Christmas. Thank you to all of you for the cards, the Christmas gifts, the meals, the desserts and baked goods. Wow! Your kindness is a blessing to me. Having just arrived, such an outpouring of love speaks to me too of your love for the priesthood.
This being my first Christmas, it was encouraging to see how many gifts were brought for needy families. What a flood of gifts! May we all continue to be so generous throughout this year.
Thank you also to everyone who put in extra time and effort to make our Christmas season so beautiful and peaceful. We are blessed to have so many willing to help decorate, serve, clean, sing, and do what needed to be done. Thank you!
I would invite every member of our parish to get involved in making our parish a place of beauty, goodness, and worship; a place where we encounter God’s presence and love in the Sacraments and in one another, a place where we learn to fall in love with God and grow in following Jesus.
Every person is meant to contribute to the building up of the Church. We do this through our commitment to growing in holiness, through giving of ourselves in our time, our material resources and our abilities. Going to Sunday Mass is the first step; serving the community and helping announce the Gospel are the next. God has given you abilities and charism that are needed. If you didn’t find a way this past Christmas to help serve our parish community, or if you have never known what to do, I ask you to step out and get involved. If you don’t know where to go, come ask me!
May God bless our parishes abundantly this week.
– Fr. Jon
Novena: 9 Days for Life January 14-22
The protection of life is a sustained prayer intention of the Church, and in particular of the Knights of Columbus. Knights remain firmly committed to defending the right to life of every human being – from the moment of conception to natural death. To commemorate and bolster this important cause our council will promote a novena, nine days of sustained prayer, to build up a culture of life in our parish, home and wider community.
Join thousands of Catholics nationwide in the annual pro-life novena, 9 Days for Life, Monday, January 14 – Tuesday, January 22. Pray for the respect of all human life with daily intentions, brief reflections, and more. Download a free mobile app, or sign up to receive the novena through daily emails or text message. (A printable version is also available online.) Sign up at www.9daysforlife.com!