Good Shepherd Catholic Church Rib Lake

09/06/2026

A few summers ago, my family had a big reunion. It included my parents, my four siblings, and all their many children. One of my favorite moments was simply watching my parents’ contented faces as they took in all of us together, laughing, sharing food, singing, telling stories. They loved seeing their children happily together with each other.

That is something like the heart of God we see in today’s Gospel message about Christian reconciliation. These verses come right after Jesus’ parable of the lost sheep. He is not giving the disciples a cold formula for dealing with conflict. He is revealing the Father’s longing for children who love and reconcile with each other. His heart aches when his children are divided and isolated.

So when Jesus says, “Go and tell your brother his fault,” He is not deputizing us as morality police. He is inviting us into his mission of reconciliation. When he adds, “If he listens to you, you have won over your brother,” we glimpse the real goal. Not winning arguments, but reuniting a divided family.

These days, we often think religion is just between God and me. But the Father’s dream is about a lively family, one in which His children forgive, gather, and rejoice together.

Lord Jesus, give me the courage to seek reconciliation where it is needed. Make my heart resemble the Father’s heart, longing and working for unity among His children. Amen.

— Father John Muir

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09/06/2026

Jesus said to his disciples:
"If your brother sins against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.
If he does not listen,
take one or two others along with you,
so that 'every fact may be established
on the testimony of two or three witnesses.'
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church.
If he refuses to listen even to the church,
then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.
Amen, I say to you,
whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven,
and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Again, amen, I say to you,
if two of you agree on earth
about anything for which they are to pray,
it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them."

09/05/2026

09/05/2026

While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath,
his disciples were picking the heads of grain,
rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
Some Pharisees said,
“Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
Jesus said to them in reply,
“Have you not read what David did
when he and those who were with him were hungry?
How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering,
which only the priests could lawfully eat,
ate of it, and shared it with his companions?”
Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”

09/04/2026

09/04/2026

THE RELICS OF GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC CHURCH
St. Rose of Viterbo, Feast Day September 4, patron saint of florists, flower growers, people in exile, and people rejected by religious orders.
Saint Rose of Viterbo was born in 1235 of poor and honest parents. She died in 1252. She was remarkable for her holiness and miraculous powers from her earliest years. She miraculously cured herself of a dreadful disease by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lady then instructed her to join the third order of St. Francis and to preach penance to the people of Viterbo, which at the time was held by Frederick of Germany and prey to political strife and heresy. Rose secured conversion of many, including a powerful sorceress who had influenced the people, by standing unscathed for three hours in the flames of a burning pyre. She was canonized 1457.

09/04/2026

The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus,
“The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers,
and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same;
but yours eat and drink.”
Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast
while the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
then they will fast in those days.”
And he also told them a parable.
“No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one.
Otherwise, he will tear the new
and the piece from it will not match the old cloak.
Likewise, no one pours new w**e into old w**eskins.
Otherwise, the new w**e will burst the skins,
and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined.
Rather, new w**e must be poured into fresh w**eskins.
And no one who has been drinking old w**e desires new,
for he says, ‘The old is good.’”

09/03/2026

Happy birthday Andrew🎉

Birthday blessings to one of our Diocese of Superior Seminarians

09/03/2026

The Partners in Prayer will meet Friday at 3:00pm in Church to pray the Rosary for the sick, all are welcome to join.