Updated February 20, 2024

liturgical schedule for the coming week

Thursday, February 20 – Frederick Douglass, Social Reformer, 1895
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Friday, February 21 – Feria
Low Mass at 8 a.m.
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 22 – Margaret of Cortona, Monastic, 1297
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.

Sunday, February 23 – The Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany
Low Mass at 8 a.m.
Sung Mass at 10:30 a.m.

Monday, February 24 – Feria 
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, February 25 – Saint Matthias the Apostle, transferred (Major Holy Day)
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Low Mass at 12:05 p.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, February 26 – Photini, the Samaritan Woman, c. 67
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Low Mass at 12:05 p.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 27 – George Herbert, Priest and Poet, 1633
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Friday, February 28 – Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, Educator, 1964
Low Mass at 8 a.m.
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 1 – David of Wales, Bishop, c. 544
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.

Rosemont Community Retreat House

Help Needed with Food for Upcoming Retreats
Our retreat house ministry has flourished in its first full year of operation. It has proved to be a vital means of connecting this parish with the wider Church, and it has been a place of prayer and respite for people from across the country. But we need your help in continuing to sustain this valuable ministry! Would you consider making food (or making a financial donation for a meal) for one of our program retreats? If so, please contact Father Kyle. We will provide the recipes and reimburse you for food costs.

You can visit the link to our new online booking engine to view our rooms and availability.
To sustain this new ministry at Good Shepherd, we will need help with a variety of tasks, including keeping our pantries and refrigerators well-stocked, providing meals for Hosts for Hospital guests (which can be prepared and frozen ahead of time), and welcoming guests. This is one way in which we can serve as Christ’s hands and feet to the local community and offer a true ministry of hospitality. Are you interested in helping? If so, please contact Renee Barrick.

Our retreat house ministry is one of hospitality, in which we welcome all guests as Christ himself, in the Benedictine spirit. We’re currently working towards a sustainability plan for this vital outreach ministry. Part of that plan involves recruiting volunteers to help with various tasks. We’re asking for your help! We need volunteers to serve meals for group retreats, welcome guests, take laundry to the cleaners, ensure that rooms are set up properly, and publicize retreat house offerings. We will provide the instructions and training. If you’re interested in helping, please contact parish administrator Renee Barrick.

PARISH LIFE

Children’s Formation
Children’s formation meets on Sunday mornings from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. on the first floor of the Parish House. We have two classes: children ages 3 through 9 use the Godly Play curriculum, and children ages 10 and older use the Episcopal Weaving God’s Promises curriculum. We love welcoming new children to our classes! Registration is available online.

Adult Formation
Adult formation is offered monthly on the first Sunday of each month (September through May) after Sung Mass. This year’s sessions are centered around topics central to our life in community. On March 2, join Bonnie Hoffman-Adams for a discussion on “Life in Community.”

Lenten Quiet Day – Wholly Holy and Unholy: The Christian Life in Sonnets Old and New
March 8, 2025, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
As aids to quiet prayer, condensed and intense poetic expressions may charge up the mind and emotions on first reading. Then, as we dwell with them, they may lead through prayer to quiet contemplation. In this Lenten Quiet Day, led by parishioner Donald McCown, we will explore selections from the Holy Sonnets of John Donne and the Unholy Sonnets of Mark Jarman. This is not an English class! Rather, it’s a chance to connect our own lives with profound historical expressions, and to be helped along, perhaps, by contemporary takes on those same themes. We’ll have chances to share what we each find in the texts of the poems. No prior reading, scholarly knowledge, or biographical research is required. Come as you are! Join us as we create community through liturgy, meditative reading, and quiet prayer, as well as contemplative dialogue and a shared meal. We will begin with formal Morning Prayer in the church at 9 a.m., share lunch together at midday, and close with evening prayer before 3 p.m. Register today!

Ash Wednesday Masses
The season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, March 5. Low Mass will be offered at 8 a.m. in the Lady Chapel and Sung Mass at 7 p.m. The imposition of ashes will occur at both Masses. Please mark this date on your calendars. Our prayer book and tradition commend it as an important day of penitence and fasting as we begin our Lenten journey. 

MUSIC

The Good Shepherd Choristers
Although our chorister program for children ages 7 and older is going strong, it’s never too late to register to participate!

Choral Evensong and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament – Sunday, March 16
at 3 p.m.
Mark your calendars for our next service of Choral Evensong and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 3 p.m. on March 16. Music features works by Herbert Howells, Richard Lloyd, and Martin Neary. Please consider inviting a friend to attend with you!

OUTREACH

Serving Those in Need through the Ardmore Food Pantry
The Ardmore Food Pantry is a ministry based at St. Mary’s Church (Episcopal) in Ardmore and is entirely funded by individuals, congregations, and a few grants. The Pantry receives no government funding, which enables the Pantry to serve guests without having to collect sensitive information like address or income. There is a basket at the back of the church where you can drop off non-perishable, unexpired food items only for delivery to the Pantry. Especially welcome at this time are coffee, pasta sauce, mayonnaise, and granola bars.

PRAYER LIST

In the Anglican Communion cycle of prayer for Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil (Sunday), The Diocese of Madras – The Church of South India (United) (Monday), The Diocese of Madurai-Ramnad – The Church of South India (United) (Tuesday), The Diocese of Magwi – Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan (Wednesday), The Diocese of Mahajanga – The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean (Thursday), The Diocese of Maiduguri – The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) (Friday), and The Diocese of Maine – The Episcopal Church (Saturday).

For Sean, our Presiding Bishop, and Daniel, our bishop.

For peace across the world; for this nation and its elected leaders; for all who live and serve in this local community; for the poor, the homeless, the hungry, the lonely, the oppressed, those in prison, especially Dwayne and Michael, and all those who are suffering; for an end to injustice of all kinds, especially racial and economic injustice; for an end to gun violence, especially in our local community; for the good creation that God has entrusted to our care, that we may be faithful stewards of it; for this parish church, for all who worship and serve here: for our staff and vestry, for our Advancement and Finance Committees, for our campus ministry, for our chorister program, for our retreat house, for those who share space with us on this campus, for all yet unknown to us whom God will draw to this place to come to know and love our Lord Jesus, and for the growth of ministry here for the sake of the Gospel.

In our parish cycle of prayer: Bob Boyer & Linda Thiel (Sunday), Jim Davis & Joe Micucci (Monday), Bonnie Hoffman-Adams & Jonathan Adams (Tuesday), David Adah-Ogoh (Wednesday), Peter Riley (Thursday), Katelyn Stealey (Friday), and Amy Eshleman (Saturday).

In our Friends of Good Shepherd cycle of prayer:  Bob and Sharon Gray (Sunday), Doug Bowman (Monday), Christopher Hart (Tuesday), Fr. Stephen Morris (Wednesday), John Wallace (Thursday), Jerome Wells & Douglas King (Friday), and Dave & Betty Fish (Saturday).

For those in need, especially for Charles, Marcille, Carol, Norman, Rebekah, Shalimar, Maureen, Mr. and Mrs. Nyerick, Joannas, Gideon, George, Alev, Alex, Frank, Grace, Harold, Lucca, Lizzie, John, James, Tanya, Colleen, Dennis, Frederick, Doug, Veronica, Sue, John, Geoffrey, Rebecca, Renee, Nicola, Haviland, Molly, Holly, Stacee, Peter, Leslie, Steve, Gottfried, Carolyn, Brandon, Gary, John, Sue, André, Liliane, Clarice, Nanette, Justice, Jim, Deidre, and Sandra.

To add names and requests to the prayer list, please complete this form.