Daily Reflections for Lent and Easter Week, ‘Daybreaks’ booklet are available from the office.
Baptisms:  We welcome into our parish community: Maria Jose Villegas daughter of Luis Villegas and Carolina Jimenez; Derek Yip-Wy Jolliffe, son of Sean and Nancy Jolliffe; Kiran George Kenneth Smith, son of Richard and Sonia Smith; Ian Hugh Beddie, son of Chad Beddie & Emily Hollink; Sidney Jaden Tremblay Campbell, son of Stephen & Danielle Campbell.
Please note that no Baptisms are celebrated in Lent as it is a time of Penance.  April 13 is our next date for Baptism.
Building Reconciling Communities” events during Lent
Last summer, our pastor and nine parishioners attended an Institute on the theme of “Building Reconciling Communities” organized by the Archdiocese of Ottawa. You are invited to participate in several events that explore this theme in our parish and our world:
Lenten Evening Prayer & Exposition evening prayer at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday Feb. 20 & 27. The half-hour evening prayer service will be followed by exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 8:00 p.m.
Retreat with Morning Prayer, screening of the film “The Imam and the Pastor”, and group reflection on Saturday, March 1 from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Free, but registration required. Contact Ron McRae at ronald.mcrae@sympatico.ca
Evening Prayer, Wednesday, March 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Adoration, Wednesday, March 5 from 8:00 p.m. to Thursday, March 6 at 6:00 p.m.
Liturgy of Lament and Sacrament of Reconciliation, Thursday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, 5 to 6 March, 2008
Volunteers are requested to place their name and phone number on the sign-up sheet that is available in the gathering space.

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (R.C.I.A.) News From RCIA.  On the third, fourth and fifth Sundays of Lent, the RCIA offers special rites called ‘scrutinies’ during one of the masses each of these weekends.  This offers all of us as a welcoming community the opportunity to unite with those who are seeking the Sacraments of Initiation at Easter.  In each scrutiny, we as a community pray that the elect will be enlightened and purified and that any evil influences within their hearts will be removed by the grace of God as the gospel stories promise.  We ask the same for ourselves.  The First Scrutiny will be celebrated next weekend during the 5:00 pm Mass on Saturday.  In this Gospel for the third Sunday of Lent, Jesus meets the woman at the well.  Like this woman who, in the presence of Jesus, faced all of the falsehood about herself, the elect and the faithful are called to reflect on personal sin in their lives and are invited to conversion of heart.
REMINDER to children receiving Confirmation & First Eucharist this year. The next Parent & Child meeting is Tues. Feb. 19 and Thurs. Feb. 21 at 7:00 PM.  Both parent and child are required to attend one of these meeting dates and bring the completed workbook "Come Join Us at the Table" along with the address of church where child was baptized and name and complete address of your child's sponsor.
 
New to the Parish?  Welcome!  Please fill in a registration form, or call the office, and take a box of envelopes or consider using a cheque, Visa/MC or pre-authorized contribution plan for Sunday contribution. Our financial requirements are approx. $7,000 per week to support our approx. $2,000 a week mortgage payment.  Thank you for your generous weekly support of Good Shepherd Parish.  2008 Envelopes are available in the gathering space. Making a Will – A Lasting Legacy:  Please consider a gift to your Parish in your will as a lasting and beneficial testimony of faith.
Tax receipts for the 2007 year are available this weekend in the gathering space.  Please pick yours up to avoid the parish having to mail them out.  This saves us the expensive postage.

 
Office hours: The office is temporarily staffed during the time of transition to a new administrative assistant.  Please call before coming in to ensure there is someone at the office.
DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE, which is the international development agency of the Catholic Church of Canada, supports projects that attack the root causes of poverty and injustice - projects that encourage social change to help people become self sufficient.  Examples of the kind of initiatives that are funded include housing and farm cooperatives, training for community organizers, human rights improvements and adult education.  There will be a special Share Lent collection on Solidarity Sunday, March 9.
ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE. We are preparing to celebrate the church’s major Feast of the Liturgical year – Easter and the subsequent 50 Days of Easter. Your generosity in the past has been very much appreciated and we thank you. You can help us beautify our church with a cash donation in the specially marked envelopes which will be in the bulletin next weekend February 23rd. If you wish to remember a loved one or to commemorate a special event in your lives, please note that on your envelope. We thank you for your continued support which enables us to do what we do. Patricia Clément, chair
A Huge Thank You to the parish for making the youth Bake Sale a Success!
Thinkfast: Global issues, local solutions. 25 hour famine, fundraiser for D&P. 12-18 year olds, March 7-8, call Kat to register.
School Info: Parent Information Night at Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School for parents with children who are entering Grade  9, 10 , 11and 12 in September 2008. Date:  February 21, 2008 Time:  7:00 P.M. Place:  Caf Gym
LENTEN ADVISORY - TELEVISED MISSION 2008: Keeping a Mellow Heart in a Bitter Time. Guest Preacher: Father Ron Rolheiser, O.M.I. On VISIONTV, Mon., Mar. 3 & Tues., Mar. 4, 7:00 p.m. (repeated 11:00 p.m.).

 
Announced Masses
Saturday, February 16
5:00 pm  For our Parishioners  
Sunday, February 17
9:00 am †Kelvin Ramsaran, req by Jennifer Ramsaran  †Christine O’Shaughnessy, req by Karen & Kevin Saville
11:15 am †Steve Hall, req by the Barry family
 †Joseph & Elizabeth & James Gillespie, req by
      Margaret & Bob Roy
 †John MacPhee, & Caroline MacPhee, req by
     John & Lorraine MacPhee
Tuesday, February 19
9:00 am  †Jim Shaw, req by Monique & Joe Byrnes
Wednesday, February 20  
9:00 am   Special Intention, req by Frank & Carol Faure
Thursday, February 21  
9:00 am  †Doug Winder, req by Mary Winder
Friday, February 22 Chair of St. Peter, apostle
9:00 am   Intentions of Rev. Richard Siok, req by the MacDonald family
Saturday, February 23
5:00 pm  For our Parishioners  
Sunday, February 24
9:00 am †Raoul Tremblay, req by Danielle, Brian & Nicholas Peters
 †Edith Beauregard, req by Roger & Madeleine Landry
11:15 am †John Kingston, req by Frank & Carol Faure
 †PJ Kennedy, req by the Dumont family
 †Bernard Scott, req by Joann McEvoy
Please pray for our sick: Monique Byrnes, Monica Groulx, John McDonald, Claire Harris, Baby Marcus Keable-John, Helen Ramsay, and John Dunn
Please pray for our deceased:  Bill Colfer, father of Anne Harris
ADULT FAITH DEVELOPMENT – What does it mean for me to be a Catholic in the world today as someone engaged in spiritual discernment about his or her life?. Presenter: Fr. Michael Knox, S.J.; Sat., Feb. 23. Cost: $15. 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Diocesan Centre, 1247 Kilborn. Info: Carol (738-5025 X 251); (ckuzmochka@ecclesia-ottawa.org). Registrations: (abrown@ecclesia-ottawa.org); (738-5025 X 217).
Excerpt from Letter from Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J. to the Faithful for Lent 2008
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Would you join me in renewing our journey as Catholic Christians on the path to holiness this Lent which begins on Ash Wednesday, February 6? Holiness means being like God the Father, who is merciful. Holiness means being lovingly obedient like Jesus. Holiness means to live as someone guided by the Holy Spirit.
Holiness for everyone: St. Francis de Sales teaches that the path to holiness will be different according to one’s state in life: Holiness will be exercised today in different ways by the investment broker, the scientist, the minimum wage worker, by the politician and the teacher, by those widowed, young people, parents of young children and the clergy. So, the quest for holiness needs to be adapted to the strength, activities, and duties of each particular person. With this in mind, we find Lent offers us three traditional means suggested by Jesus to draw near to God: prayer, fasting and almsgiving (Matthew 6:1-20).