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GOOD SHEPHERD

AMERICAN NATIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH


1890 WHITESVILLE RD, TOMS RIVER, NJ 08755
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732-279-6837

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January 22, 2017

Mass Schedule
Saturday 5PM
Sunday 8AM & 10AM
Served by:
Fr. Anthony R. Lipari, FCM
Pastor

Fr. Drew Miller


Associate Pastor

Sr. Donna Lombardi, N/FCM


Pastoral Associate

Karen Suter

Parish Administrator

Mike & Fran Krol


Parish Council Leaders

An All Inclusive Independent Catholic Community,


Dedicated to Making the World a Better Place

From the desk of


Father Drew:
Adult Faith Formation
with Fr. Anthony

Will resume on Monday 2/6/17


Monday evenings at 7PM - downstairs
Bible Study
with Fr. Drew
Friday evenings 7PM
DownstairsAll are welcome!
Family Faith Formation
with Sr. Donna
Meets the 4th Sunday of each month
Our Family Faith Formation program is for all families with children. Please join us! If you have any
questions or want more information, see Sr. Donna
after Mass or call her
at 732-597-2273.
Weekly Justice Challenge
3rd Week in Ordinary Time
This week we celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Francis
de Sales (Jan. 24). Legend has it that Francis was so
holy that his reputation spread across the land. He
was once approached by a stranger who asked him
to share the secret of a holy life. Francis replied,
Would you please close the door more gently?
Francis wanted the stranger to understand that it is in
the ordinary, day-to-day events and actions of our
lives that we truly live good and faithful lives.
Your challenge this week is to look at the little ways
in which you tolerate or practice injustice. If someone
tells a racist joke, do you laugh or remain silent? If
someone advocates for laws which benefit the rich
and the middle class but hurt the poor, do you support those laws? If someone is bullying someone
smaller or weaker, do you just watch? Track the dayto-day ways in which you practice justice and a special option for the poor; also track when you practice
injustice or tolerate it in others. Then choose one way
in which you are unjust and work this week on becoming a more faithful person or family.

Lessons from Eckhart Tolle


Over the course of the next several weeks, Good
Shepherd is going to provide you with a series of lessons from Eckhart Tolle, a great spiritual teacher. As
you read and implement these teachings into your
life, you will not only increase the quality of your experience of being alive but also encounter the living
God.

Lesson #1:
Treasure the Present Moment:
Neither the past nor the future is in your hands, both
are just illusions, The past is just memories, while the
future is anticipation and anxiety. Now is all you
have. Life is always and only Now. The name of
God is I AM which is
present tense. We can only experience God in the
present moment.
Coming next week:
Wherever you are and whatever you do, be there fully
and give your 100% to it.

Walking Meditation
There is a Buddhist exercise that teaches us to appreciate the
sacramentality of nature and living in the present moment. It
is called walking meditation. It is designed to stop us from
hurrying, pacing, dashing, and rushing, when our steps print
anxiety and sorrow on the Earth. In this meditation we walk
slowly, alone or with a friend, preferably in a beautiful place.
We walk as though we were the happiest person on earth. We
walk, not thinking about the past or worrying about the future. We walk, not trying to get from here to there. We stop
our minds from darting around. We transform our walking
path to a field for meditationour feet taking every step in
full awareness. Breathing and stepping are in harmony. Then
we can pray, perhaps, with the poet, Gerard Manly Hopkins:
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil:
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil . . .
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep
down things . . .
Copyright 2001 Archdiocese of Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1800
North Hermitage Avenue, Chicago IL 606221101; 18009331800; www.ltp.org.
Text and art by Gertrud Mueller Nelson. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

A Shepherd's View

January 22:
5PM: People of the Parish
8AM: People of the Parish
10AM: People of the Parish

February 5:
5pm
8am
10am

MASS INTENTIONS / MASS CARDS


If you are interested in obtaining a Mass Card or placing an intention, please see Karen or Donna after mass OR send an email to:
GoodShepherdANCC.TR@gmail.com
with your request or with any questions. The cost is $10. Cash or
checks can be given to Donna or Karen at the time of your request or payment can be made by credit card or Paypal via our
website: GoodShepherdANCC.org

Saints of the Week


January 23:
St. Vincent, Deacon and Martyr (+304)
St. Marianne Cope, Virgin (+1918)
January 24:
St. Francis de Sales, Bishop & Doctor of the
Church (+1622)
January 26:
St. Timothy, Bishop (+97)
St. Titus, Bishop (+96)
January 27:
St. Angela Merici, Virgin (+1540)
January 28:
St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of
the Church (+1274)

It doesn't take long for us in


this time of winter to see
grayness, gloom, and weariness.
It's also in our news, on TV, and
for some of us, in our daily lives.
Winter lacks the light, the
flowers. the hope. In a radical
change, though, Jesus (our Light) comes to us in
this ORDINARY TIME and calls us to change our
lives...That WE must become the change, the
transformation within our world. He uses the
word "repent" (in Greek, METANOIA). This word
doesn't just invite us, but there's a sense of
urgency...and we see that in the apostles'
actions when they drop EVERYTHING to follow
Him. Each of us is called to this metanoia....we
can choose to make Christianity a social thing, a
convenient idea, a comfort in difficult times, or to
really make the following of Christ the only thing
that makes sense in our darkened lives. What
happened on that seashore so long ago is
occurring today in our own lives. Christ's call is
radical, life changing, and perhaps will strike a
chord within us....it's an invitation to play our part
in God's new world symphony.

Live Jesus in our hearts,


forever!

Franciscan Reflections
"Preach the Gospel at all
times.....Use Words when
necessary."

~ St Francis of Assisi

January Birthday wishes to:

FISH and CHIPS DINNER


(or chicken)

Fat TuesdayFebruary 28th

Fr. Anthony
Bob W.
Fran K
Rocco I.
Rich U.
Ulysses B.
We would like to add your name to
our Birthday list!

Sponsored by :
Holiday City Berkeley First Aid
Auxiliary
catered by Argyle of Kearny
Where: Holiday City West Clubhouse
45 Cabrillo Blvd
Time: Dinner served anytime between
5:30 and 7:30

Please send a message via email to:


GoodShepherdANCC.TR@gmail.com
With your name, birth month and day only

Cost: $17 per person (children $8) includes


dinner, dessert, coffee/tea, water, soda.

BUS TRIP
Sight and Sound Theater

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TICKETS CALL:


MAD at 732-797-0686

Lancaster, PA.

7-night Cruise to Bermuda September 2017


Ship name: Celebrity Summit
2017 Sail Date: September 3rd
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Cost: $100 per person
(all inclusive)
Round trip transportation from Good Shepherd
Lunch at Shady Maple Smorgasbord
Ticket to afternoon performance
Tip for bus driver

$10 non-refundable deposit required at time of


reservation. Limit: 32 people
Contact Rocco Ianelli @ ROC1340@gmail.com or
732-998-8820 for tickets.

Destination: Bermuda
Departure Port: Cape Liberty, NJ
Pricing: (per person):
Inside
$799.00

Ocean View Concierge Veranda


$939.00
$1319

Taxes, fees and port expenses: $195.10 not included in price.


Contact Donna Lombardi at 732-597-2273 or email:
donna@sailsipsavor.com for questions or reservations!
Prices are per person, based on double occupancy, for cruise only on select sailings and stateroom categories. Taxes, fees and port expenses are additional. For new reservations only.
Subject to availability. Certain restrictions apply. Prices include Non Commissionable Cruise
Fare and are quoted in US Dollars. All itineraries and prices are subject to change without
notice. 2016 Celebrity Cruises Inc.

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