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August 7, 2016 | 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time SAINT THOMAS MORE CHURCH & SCHOOL WELCOME BACK STUDENTS! 636 W Ponce de Leon Ave Decatur, Georgia 30030 www.stmgaparish.org STM School will reopen on Monday, August 8th. Our theme PARISH OFFICE for this year is again, “Jump In- A 404-378-4588 Ripple Today Can Become a Wave of Fax 404-378-0506 Mon. - Fri. 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Change Tomorrow.” All year we will Sun 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM be talking about ways that we can bring about positive change at SCHOOL 404-373-8456 school, in our homes and in the world at large. We have all been EMERGENCY NUMBER instructed by Jesus to take care of 678-337-8910 one another: “Whatever you do for SCHEDULE OF MASSES one of these least brothers of mine, SATURDAY you do for me.” (Matthew 5:30 pm (Vigil) 25:40) Throughout the school year we will have activities planned that will teach our students how to put their faith into action. SUNDAY 8:00 AM (continued on page 7) 9:30 AM 12:00 Noon 5:30 PM MON—FRI NEW PARISH STAFF 5:30 PM TUE & THURS We are pleased to announce that Richard D. 5:30 PM Clawson has agreed to become STM’s Director RECONCILIATION of Liturgical Music. As Director, Richard will be Saturday 4:00 to 5:00 PM responsible for planning, developing, and or by appointment directing our parish’s liturgical music program, including working with our parish musicians, cantors, and choirs. This is a new position at STM and represents a major parish investment in our parish worship, made possible through your generous support. Our hiring of Richard will allow Joseph Messina, our present Director of Worship, to focus his attention and energies on planning and developing the non-musical aspects of our parish worship. Richard and Joseph will form a strong team that will undoubtedly help us to praise and worship God even better. Richard’s previous position was Director of Liturgy and Music at St. Lawrence Church in Lawrenceville GA. He served there since 2008. Richard will begin service at STM on August 29. Please welcome him. PRAYER REQUESTS STAFF Rev. Mark Horak, S. J., Pastor [email protected] At the weekday Masses this coming week, the people of St. Thomas More will remember the following persons Rev. Pat Earl, S. J., Parochial Vicar along with all the living and dead. We encourage pa- [email protected] rishioners to say the names of deceased loved ones Carol Palmer, Financial Administrator aloud during the “General Intercessions” if invited to do [email protected] so by the presider. Elaine Phillips, Co-Director of Religious Ed SUNDAY, August 7, 2016 Lifeteen [email protected] 9:30 AM Unborn Religious Ed [email protected] MONDAY, August 8, 2016 Michele McHale Pickard, Co-Director of Religious Ed 5:30 PM John and Pat Murphey † EDGE [email protected] Adult Faith [email protected] TUESDAY, August 9, 2016 5:30 PM St. Edwidges † Joe Messina, Director of Music & Liturgy [email protected] WEDNESDAY, August 10, 2016 5:30 PM Anne Barr Marie Diebold, Parish Secretary [email protected] THURSDAY, August 11, 2016 5:30 PM Mathai Kariveliel † Vince DeSantis, Plant Manager [email protected] FRIDAY, August 12, 2016 Charlotte Collins, Receptionist 5:30 PM Milagros Lopez † [email protected] SATURDAY, August 13, 2016 Corky Pagoria, Receptionist 5:30 PM Jewelene T. Smith † [email protected] Pray for those who have died: Jerry Raymond, Principal, STM School Michael Souza [email protected] Bob McKinnon Karyl Davis, Financial Administrator, STM School Pray for those who are sick: [email protected] Michael Allain Kenneth Taylor Shelly and Shon Stafford, Communications [email protected] Pray for those recently baptized: Hannah Mariel Zahui, daughter of Simon Pierre Carl and Fran McColman, RCIA Coordinators Zahui and Diane Françoise Dirabou [email protected] Julian O’Connell, son of Daniela and Daniel O’Connell To add a name to these prayer lists, contact KEEP IN MIND Charlotte Collins at: [email protected], or 404-378-4588. In order to add a name to these lists, SUNDAY BULLETIN you must be either the person seeking prayers, an Deadline for bulletin notices is Friday the week prior to immediate relative of the one to be remembered, or printing by 9:00 AM in written form or via email to have the express permission of the one to be [email protected]. remembered. PARISH MEMBERSHIP The names on the list of the sick and the dead will be We invite you to join our parish community. Registration mentioned aloud at Sunday Masses during the General forms are available online at stmgaparish.org and in the Intercessions and will be published in the parish eLetter and bulletin as soon as possible after we receive the pamphlet racks in the narthex of the church. Complete request. the forms and mail it to STM, fax it to STM, scan and email it to STM at [email protected], drop it in the In addition, you may add names or special intentions in Offertory basket during any Sunday Mass, or bring it to the Book of Remembrance that is kept in the the parish offices during normal business hours. narthex. Parishioners will remember these each time we gather for Eucharist. FROM THE PASTOR From the Pastor… standing parishes within a diocesan structure, at least in the This is a reprint with certain additions of a pastor’s piece that United States and in recent years. At this point in our first appeared in the bulletin on 2/28/16 history, Jesuits have come to understand that parishes are wonderful bases from which we can offer more traditional The Jesuits are best known for two Jesuit services, like preaching, giving retreats, and promoting particular ministries: their schools, the Spiritual Exercises. In 1966, and again in 1995, a General especially their universities and high Congregation of the whole Society declared that “we affirm schools, and their parishes. The irony is that ‘the parish apostolate is not contrary to our that in the beginning, St. Ignatius Loyola, Constitutions,’ and…that, under certain circumstances, it is the founder of the Society of Jesus, did an appropriate apostolate for carrying out our mission of not want the Jesuits to be engaged in serving the faith and promoting justice.” either of these, which he thought were incompatible with the Jesuit vow of What are those “circumstances,” and what ought to poverty and would inhibit Jesuit characterize ministry in a parish for the Jesuits to see it as apostolic mobility. Indeed, neither of appropriate? In essence, a parish that is an appropriate these was part of the Pope’s original charge to the brand ministry of the Society is one that participates actively in the new Society. mission of the Society of Jesus and serves the apostolic priorities of the Society. When Pope Paul III formally instituted the Society in 1540, and when Pope Julius III later confirmed the Society’s According to a recent statement by American Jesuits existence in 1550, they asked the Jesuits to undertake only involved in parish ministry, first and foremost, a Jesuit parish limited and specific work: 1) preaching, including catechizing will celebrate the sacraments of the Church, especially young children and giving the Spiritual Exercises, a series of Eucharist, “in a spirit of creativity and with a willingness to meditations developed by Ignatius and intended to free one adapt to the cultural realities of the community it serves,” to make a whole-hearted choice to more fully serve God and e.g., racial, ethnic, economic, etc. Its liturgical celebrations God’s people; 2) offering the Sacraments, specifically will be characterized by “prophetic and spirit-filled preaching Eucharist and Reconciliation; and 3) “performing works of which consoles and challenges and which results in a charity (that) will seem expedient for the glory of God and deeper understanding of God’s love….” At STM, our Sunday the common good.” celebration of Eucharist is the most important thing we do, and we will work hard to make our celebrations lively, Notwithstanding this limited charge and Ignatius’ hesitation, inspiring, challenging, and faithful to the liturgical reforms of the Jesuits opened their first school for the general the Second Vatican Council. education of boys who were not Jesuits in training in 1548 in Messina in Sicily. The success of this venture captured the Second, a Jesuit parish will evangelize not only of those who imagination of Ignatius, and very soon the Jesuits began to have not yet heard the Good News of Jesus Christ, but also open other schools of general education. Today, there are those within our existing Catholic communities who may more than 3,700 Jesuit-sponsored universities, colleges, benefit from a new hearing of the Gospel. Such secondary, and pre-secondary schools throughout the evangelization will constructively and courageously critique world. Most contemporary Jesuits are engaged in the what is contrary to the Gospel in our modern culture. So at ministry of education STM, we will encourage one another to live lives faithful to the Gospel. While Ignatius may have been quickly convinced of the importance of schools to the success of the Society’s Third, Jesuit parishes will demonstrate in concrete ways a mission, he never warmed to the notion of Jesuits’ serving in “preferential love for the poor.” This love will extend beyond traditional, well-established parishes. In fact, the idea of almsgiving, and will include sharing directly in the lives of the Jesuits’ working in established parishes was officially poor and those others at the margins of society and working disfavored by the Society until recently.