Updated June 12, 2025

liturgical schedule for the coming week

Thursday, June 12 – Enmegahbowh, Priest and Missionary, 1902
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Friday, June 13 – Ember Day (commemoration: The First Book of Common Prayer, 1549)
Low Mass at 8 a.m.
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 14 – Ember Day (commemoration: Basil of Caesarea, Bishop and Theologian, 379)
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.

Monday, June 16 – Joseph Butler, Bishop and Theologian, 1752
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, June 17 – Marina the Monk, Monastic, 5th century
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 18 – Bernard Mizeki, Martyr, 1896
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
No Low Mass at 12:05 p.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 19 – Adelaide Teague Case, Educator, 1948
Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Friday, June 20 – Feria
No Low Mass at 8 a.m.
No Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.
No Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 21 – Feria
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

2025 Children’s Arts & Music Summer Camp
Registration is now open for our 2025 Children’s Arts and Music Summer Camp, which begins on Monday, August 11 and lasts through Friday, August 15. All children ages 4 and above are welcome to join us for this fun week full of Bible stories, art and crafts, games, music, and snacks. Children ages 7 and above will receive professional instruction in singing along with an introduction to the highly-respected Anglican choral tradition from Robert McCormick, a renowned expert in training children’s voices. This year, we’re offering an extended care option in the afternoons. Register here.

Summer Formation Series
This summer, from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. on Sundays, children and adults of all ages are invited to gather for a time of formation as we grow deeper in our love of Christ and of one another. Over the course of the summer months, while children’s and adult formation are on hiatus, we will explore central stories of our faith and important facets of our lives as Christians in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. In this summer formation series, children and adults will learn from each other, and get to know more about each other. Our first meeting will occur on Sunday, June 15 and the final meeting will be on Sunday, August 24. If you’re scheduled for a liturgical ministry on Sundays, you’re welcome to attend the first thirty minutes of these sessions. 

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! If you know of a child who might be interested in joining, please contact Robert McCormick, and please help us share information on this program with others in the local community.

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 cereal, pasta sauce, cooking oil, and snacks.

Parish Prayer List

In the Anglican Communion cycle of prayer for La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico (Sunday), The Diocese of the Murray – The Anglican Church of Australia (Monday), The Diocese of Muyinga – The Anglican Church of Burundi (Tuesday), The Diocese of Mytikyina – The Church of the Province of Myanmar (Burma) (Wednesday), The Diocese of Mzimvubu – The Anglican Church of Southern Africa (Thursday), The Diocese of Nagpur – The Church of North India (United) (Friday), and The Diocese of Nairobi – The Anglican Church of Kenya (Saturday).

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

For peace across the world, especially for those living in Israel and Palestine; 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 immigrants, refugees, and those in vulnerable communities; 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, Finance, and Social Concerns 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: Courtney Dalton (Sunday), Allen and Jason Crockett (Monday), Michael Mallon (Tuesday), Louise and Katie Hoehl (Wednesday), Angela Raymond and Warren Meyer (Thursday), Renee Barrick (Friday), and Will Hillegeist (Saturday).

In our Friends of Good Shepherd cycle of prayer: Davis d’Ambly and Nick Johnson (Sunday), Glenn Deibert (Monday), Linda Leighbody (Tuesday), Holly Lloyd (Wednesday), Jimmy and Avan Moore (Thursday), RD Slough (Friday), and Carol and Dave Lazorchak (Saturday).

For those in need, especially for Kathy, Angela, Phil, Shalimar, Maureen, Gideon, Alev, Kenny, Marina, Amanda, Richard, Don & Family, Laurie, Sackville, Jane, Phil, Laurie, Stacey, Bruce, Barry, Pat, Claire, Randy, Jesson, August, Elisabeth, Sarah, Angela, Doug, Gilbert, Marcille, Charles, Carol, Rebekah, Alex, Frank, Grace, Lizzie, James, Tanya, Doug, Sue, Geoffrey, Peter, Rebecca, Haviland, Molly, Brandon, Gary, André, Liliane, Nanette, Justice, Jim, Deidre, and Sandra.

✠ For the repose of the souls of Gene Conahan and Larry Reynolds.

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