Mary, Mother of the Good Shepherd Institute

06/11/2026

Our summer interns recently gathered for an overnight retreat centered on prayer, reflection, and fellowship. Together, they explored how a deep relationship with Jesus Christ reveals our true identity and leads us to live out our unique mission.

We are grateful for these young adults and their desire to know, love, and serve the Lord. Please keep them in your prayers as they continue to grow in faith and share Christ’s love with their parish communities throughout the summer.

06/11/2026

Hey, westsiders! (And everybody else, too!) Are you curious about the role of the Church in contemporary society? Do you wish you had a deeper grasp of Vatican II and what it strove to accomplish? There's a terrific series kicking off next week at St. Ladislas in Westlake: Fr. Mark Latkovich, an expert on Vatican II, will be giving three talks on 𝐺𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑒𝑡 𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑠, one of the most important documents produced by the Council.

For more details and to register, visit www.mmgsi.org/events

06/10/2026

Pope Leo addressed the Spanish parliament on Monday, sharing powerful thoughts on morality, law, democracy, pluralism, and other perennially important topics. Check it out at the link below. And if you’re interested in thinking through topics like these with fellow Catholics here in northeast Ohio, note that our next MMGSI course, focusing on the nature of the Church, kicks off tonight at the Center for Pastoral Leadership in Wickliffe, and we have a three-part series on Gaudium et Spes (the Vatican II constitution on the Church in the modern world) beginning next Tuesday at St. Ladislas in Westlake. It’s all great stuff.. don’t miss it! For details and to register, visit www.mmgsi.org

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2026/giugno/documents/20260608-spagna-parlamento.html

06/04/2026

The MMGSI summer interns spent Wednesday morning at our diocesan seminary discussing worldviews, faith and reason, and the book *From Christendom to Apostolic Mission*, and then had a thought-provoking visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art, where they reflected on the significance of art and its role in a flourishing human life as well as its usefulness for Christians who seek to engage thoughtfully with the broader culture. Keep them in your prayers!

06/02/2026

Did you catch this recent piece on 60 Minutes? And what do you think? Are we witnessing an authentic Catholic revival? If so, what accounts for it?

As Pope Leo makes headlines for his outspoken views on global conflicts and immigration, a subtler transformation is unfolding in the pews: a surge of new co...

06/01/2026

What are we made for? How can we find true happiness? How does our embodied nature express the divine image and the divine plan? What, not to put too fine a point on it, is the meaning of human life?

Join MMGSI at St. Sebastian Parish in Akron for an eight-week deep dive into these questions, as Jen Ricard of Theology of the Body Cleveland leads us through Pope Saint John Paul II's 𝘔𝘢𝘯 & 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘏𝘦 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘮, Thursday evenings, June 25 through August 13!

Educators in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland can earn 6 CEUs through successful completion of this course, participants in the Lay Ecclesial Ministry program can count it toward satisfaction of their intellectual formation requirements, and any layperson at all can have 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁-𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵-𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲-𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝗣𝗜𝗜'𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 -- don't miss it!

Discounted rates are available; we don't want cost to be a barrier to participation for anyone. For more details and to register, follow the link in the comments!

05/27/2026