Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – January 23, 2022

Christian Unity Week is celebrated each year in the middle of January to stress how all Christian churches can pray to work together. This weekend Good Shepherd Parish welcomes Reverend Rebecca Cho from Community Methodist Church in Wayland to offer a reflection on the Scripture readings at our 4PM Mass. And on Sunday morning I will offer a reflection on the readings at Community Methodist Church. It is a small gesture, but important one helping to foster Christian Unity.

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This Sunday’s Second reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the early Church at Corinth is very powerful. This reading shows us that we all have something to contribute and give back to our parish family of Good Shepherd Parish. We are all called to service and ministry using our God given gifts and talents to build up the community. Please see in this reading your own call to help our Parish. For instance, there are tasks as simple as being a greeter welcoming folks into our church and holding open the door. There are tasks behind the scenes such as doing the linens for Mass, watering the flowers, preparing mailings, writing cards and simple office help. There are simple tasks picking up after Mass and straightening the hymnals for the next Mass. And then there are public roles such as choir members, musicians, teachers and teacher’s aids, Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers at Mass and bringing Communion to the Sick and home bound. We are all called to build up the Body of Christ. Please see or contact me if you want to answer this call to serve.

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I am very happy to announce that Mr. Jay Maenhout will be our new Director of Music Ministries at Good Shepherd Parish. He will start on February 7th. Jay earned his B.M. in Music Theory/Composition (voice concentration) Summa Cum Laude in 2016 from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. He then went on to earn his M.A. in Musicology in 2018 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has been a voice and piano instructor in Sudbury, Director of Summer Performing Arts in Hudson, Director of Music at St. Bernadette Parish in Northborough and at St. Matthias in Marlborough. We are pleased as Jay joins us and brings his many gifts and talents to us at Good Shepherd Parish to help make our liturgies the best prayer to God.

Pax Christi,
Fr. Dave O’Leary - Pastor

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Read the January 23rd Bulletin Here

New mask mandate for all parish activities effective December 18th.  Click here for a link to the full text from the Archdiocese of Boston.  

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•   ​MASS SCHEDULE 

WEEKDAY MASS: 9:00am

Monday & Tuesday at St. Ann

Wednesday-Friday at St. Zepherin

WEEKEND MASS:

Saturday 4:00pm at St. Ann

Sunday   8:30am at St. Zepherin

Sunday  10:30am at St. Ann 

Sunday   6:00pm at St. Zepherin         

** Please note that Communion will be distributed outside after all of the weekend  Masses.

Listen in the parking lot on 88.7 FM Radio for our regular weekend Masses.

St Zepherin will have Communion at the  North door of the church 

St Ann Church will have Communion at the curb along the very front doors

Both opportunities will be offered at the conclusion of Mass.

CONFESSION:

Saturdays 3pm-3:45pm  St Ann Church . 

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Wayland, MA 01778

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134 Cochituate Road
Wayland, MA 01778

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