Services & Events Scheduled at Good Shepherd Today
Morning Prayer 8:30 AM
AA Groups at 6:45 PM
Collect of the Day
Bless us, O God, in this holy season, in which our hearts seek your help and healing; and so purify us by your discipline that we may grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Year 1 Office Readings (RSV)
A Reading from Deuteronomy (DEUTERONOMY 9:13-21)
Moses summoned all Israel, and said to them, “Furthermore the LORD said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people; let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’ So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you. So I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin which you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure which the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened to me that time also. And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. Then I took the sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw the dust of it into the brook that descended out of the mountain.”
A Reading from the Letter to the Hebrews (HEBREWS 3:12-19)
Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end, while it is said, “Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
A Reading from the Gospel according to John (JOHN 2:23-3:15)
When Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs which he did; but Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men and needed no one to bear witness of man; for he himself knew what was in man. Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicode’mus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicode’mus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.” Nicode’mus said to him, “How can this be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand this? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen; but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.”
Coming Events AND Lent, Holy Week & Easter Service Schedule at Good Shepherd
Sundays in Lent
5:00 PM Stations of the Cross (5PM Saturday)
7:40 AM Morning Prayer
8:00 AM Said Holy Eucharist
10:00 AM Sung Holy Eucharist
Tuesdays through Fridays in Lent
8:30 AM Morning Prayer (unless otherwise announced)
March 19, Tuesday, St. Joseph’s Day
6:00 PM Said Holy Eucharist
March 24, Tuesday, Eve of the Annunciation
6:00 PM Sung Holy Eucharist
7:00 PM BREAK THE FAST with Stews & Chowders
March 29, Palm/Passion Sunday
5:00 PM Stations of the Cross (Saturday, March 28)
7:40 AM Morning Prayer
8:00 AM Palms & Said Holy Eucharist
10:00 AM Palms, Procession & Sung Holy Eucharist
April 2, Maundy Thursday
6:00 PM Agape Dinner: Mediterranean Potluck
7:30 PM Celebration of the Lord’s Supper
April 3, Good Friday
12:00 PM Said Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
6:00 PM Soup & Bread Potluck Dinner
7:30 PM Sung Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
April 4, Saturday, Easter Eve
6:00 PM Pizzafest
7:30 PM The Great Vigil of Easter
April 5, Easter Sunday
7:40 AM Morning Prayer
8:00 AM Said Holy Eucharist
10:00 AM Sung Holy Eucharist
11:00 AM Easter Egg Hunt & Festive Coffee Hour
May 8, Friday
7:00 PM Wine Tasting
May 14, Thursday, Ascension Day
6:00 PM Sung Eucharist with Guest Preacher Yejid Peters, Rector of All Saints, Briarcliff Manor.
7:00 PM Steak & Wine Dinner