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MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK OF August 7– August 15

Saturday August 7th St. Sixtus II & companions St. Cajetan Mem. of Blessed Virgin Mary This Week at Good Shepherd 9:00 am ♥Jim & Rosemary Schmidt ♥Gabriela Alberto 5:00 pm † Mary Joan Peek Boy Scout Troop 3740

♥Ray & Ann Jones Meeting Monday 7 pm – 9 pm. Eternal rest grant unto them, Sunday August 8th 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:00 am † Poor Souls in Purgatory O Lord. And let the perpetual † William Lenard Barkley Hispanic Young Adult Group 7:00 am † Ilario Villeda light shine upon them. And Monday 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm ♥Wayne McCullough may the souls of all the 9:00 am ♥Richard & Rhonda Abreu (34 th. Wedding Anniversary) ♥Steve & Eileen Pankow (Wedding Anniversary) faithful departed, through the Scout Troop 11:00 am † Joann Welsh mercy of God, rest in peace. † Benedetta Scavone Tuesday 6 pm – 9 pm 1:00 pm † Jose Maria & Petra Martinez Amen. † Tina Marquez Ramirez 1:00 pm ♥Janett Godinez † Angel & Estela Alvarado Marcelo Serenity Al-Anon Family meeting 5:30 pm † Talley Power Wednesday 7pm – 8 pm † Beverly Longshore Good Shepherd Women Monday August 9th St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross 9:00 am † Rev. Joseph Michael Peek Small Faith Group † Clarence Offerman Thursday 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Tuesday August 10th St. Lawrence Knowing Jesus as My Friend 9:00 am † John McDowell Thursday 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm ♥Lisa Turner

Wednesday August 11th St. Clare 9:00 am ♥Natalia Alberto During this time of National ♥Scott Turner 7:00 pm ♥Rudy & Patricia Velasco (Wedding Anniversary) Crisis, the Anointing of the

Thursday August 12th St. Jane Frances de Chantal Sick can only be administered 9:00 am † JoAn Welsh under certain strict ♥Joey Supple circumstances. Please call the Friday August 13thSs. Pontian & Hippolytus Office at 770-887-9861 9:00 am ♥Recipients of a Prayer Blanket † Tom Nix for specific instructions.

Our Lady of Lourdes Help of the sick

Pray for us

Armando Robles, Deborah Wrazin, Eric Gose, Charles O’Connor, Bart Inmings, Audrey Rohm, John Heuser, Mathew Ross, Diane Hanson, Walter Spencer

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August 8, 2021

Established as a Mission in 1975 and a parish in 1977, Good Shepherd has

been an important influence in the CLERGY lives of those who live in Forsyth Rev. Diosmar A. Natad County for over 40 years. (Pastor) Rev. Bradley Starr (Parochial Vicar) Deacon Donald Nadeau Deacon Jack Campbell Deacon Stick Thibodeaux

MASS AND RECONCILIATION SCHEDULES

WEEKEND MASS SATURDAY VIGIL 5:00 p.m.

SUNDAY 7:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. (Español en el gimnasio) 9:00 a.m. (Livestreamed as well as in Church) 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. (Español en la Iglesia) 1:00 pm (Español en el gimnasio)

SUNDAY EVENING 5:30 p.m.

WEEKDAY MASS MONDAY - SATURDAY 9:00 a.m.

Our Good Shepherd Flock Is Growing WEDNESDAY (Español) 7:00 p.m.

RECONCILIATION: SATURDAY 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY (Español) Father Diosmar and Father Bradley are pleased to welcome our newest members to our parish family, as well as those visiting us for the first time. Please welcome those around you when you are 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. here at Good Shepherd. We look forward to seeing more new faces as our parish shares the Good News of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Page 4 The Shepherd Times Liturgical Ministries August 21st, 2021 - 9:00am MINISTRY TO THE SICK AND Elementary Super Saturday HOMEBOUND

The faithful who are ill are August 22nd, 2021 - 2:30pm Elementary Sunday deprived of their rightful and FLIPS accustomed place in the Faith Formation First Day of Classes: Eucharistic community. In August 15th, 2021 - 6:30pm August 25th, 2021 - 5:30pm Elementary bringing Communion to them the High School Life Nights Wednesday Nights Extraordinary Minister of Communion [EMHC] represents August 15th, 2021 - 6:30pm Middle School Christ and manifests faith and Gathering Nights charity on behalf of the whole community toward those who cannot be present at the Eucharist. For the sick, the drives. The American Red reception of Communion is not American Red Cross at Cross has an URGENT only a privilege but also a sign of 1-800-RED-CROSS support and concern shown by NEED for blood. We hope the Christian community for its you will be able to join us That is 1-800-733-2767 members who are ill. Please and the American Red Cross contact You can also sign up online at at the next Blood Drive on www.RedCrossBlood.org Monday, August 16th, ➢ CARLENE UDAS our sponsor keyword is cogs: 678-513-3248 2021. or you can call 706-224-6610

to make an appointment.

We will conduct the Blood Thank you from the Good Shepherd Men’s Group and It has been several months Drive in the Parish Life Cen- since we sponsored the ter Gymnasium. Please join the American Red Cross. American Red Cross Blood us so we can help others Drive because of Covid 19 who need blood. You can Pandemic. We are incredibly register with the American Please consider volunteering Red Cross at the following for this special ministry or the grateful to those who donat- following ministries: ed blood at previous blood number:

➢ ALTAR SERVERS Emily and John Vaughan 770-375-1233 [email protected]

➢ EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION Our Altar Flowers and Judy Guilfoil 678-771-5467 Blessed Sacrament Chapel Flowers [email protected]

➢ LECTORS Janet Day 678-696-5614 Last weekend’s flowers were donated by: [email protected]. Eileen and Steve Pankow ➢ MUSIC MINISTRY Michael Abreu in honor of their 50th Wedding Anniversary. 470-695-7715 [email protected]

➢ USHERS Did you know that you can donate flowers in honor of a wedding Don Mouledoux 504-455-8323 [email protected] anniversary, birthday, etc. or in memory of a loved one? Advance

➢ SACRISTANS notice of at least one month is required. For additional infor- Scott Day 678-858-1347 [email protected] mation, please call: Eileen Pankow 770-597-3563

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CREDIBLE WITNESES herself to Jesus on his cross and The Catholic author Flannery offered her intense pain and O’Connor was once asked by the Charlene Marie Richards suffering for others.” Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne to Heather King She was confined to Our Lady of write the introduction to a book Lourdes Hospital in Lafayette, about another purportedly saintly Please support the . Father Joseph Brennan, young girl, Mary Ann, who had died 2021 Archbishop's the newly ordained hospital of a cancer that hideously disfigured Servant of God Charlene Marie chaplain, was deeply impressed by part of her face. O’Connor, Annual Appeal. We Richard (1947–1959), the “little her calm acceptance and her desire notoriously unsentimental, balked at appreciate your Cajun ” who died at the age of to give what remained of her life for the task, noting: “Bad children are support. More twelve, is a popular southern the redemption of the world. “OK, harder to endure than good ones, Louisiana folk hero to whom a Father, who am I suffering for but they are easier to read about.” information is available number of have been today?” she would reportedly ask. But after reading the sisters’ on the archdiocese's attributed. Sister Theresita Crowley, director of account, she came around, website at archatl.com. Charlene was born on January 13, pediatrics at Lourdes Hospital, observing that many of us can look 1947, in Richard, Louisiana, a likewise testified to the girl’s heroic evil in the face—and see our own farming community thirty-five miles suffering. “grinning reflections”—but that the northwest of Lafayette. The second She died only two weeks after face of goodness too “is grotesque,” oldest of ten children in a devout receiving her terminal diagnosis. for “in us the good is something Catholic family, she attended Mass, By 1972 xeroxed prayer cards under construction.” prayed the , and was otherwise bearing Charlene’s photo and a Charlene Richards is a mystery and a fairly unremarkable: a “normal” girl. prayer for her intercession were in grace—and in some way a response Nonetheless, upon reading a wide circulation. Word-of-mouth to the tendency of our age “to use biography of Saint Thérèse of testimonies of conversions and the suffering of children to discredit Lisieux, she wondered whether she healings made the rounds of the goodness of God,” in O’Connor’s too might someday become a saint. southern Louisiana and beyond. A words. As a middle-schooler, she was booklet entitled Charlene, a Saint Her cause for was visited by a “lady in black” who from Southwest Louisiana was opened on January 11, 2020. vanished, and soon afterward she published in 1979. Devotion to her began to feel unwell. Taken to a began to grow. doctor, she was diagnosed with Thousands of people visited her Heather King (heather-king.com) is grave each year. Four thousand an award-winning author of acute lymphatic leukemia and told several books. She speaks nationwide, that she would soon die. worshipers showed up to the Mass leads writing workshops, and According to Bonnie Broussard, a commemorating the thirtieth writes a weekly column on arts and representative of the organization, anniversary of her death. Bishop culture for Angelus News, the Friends of Charlene Richard, the girl Harry Flynn of Lafayette observed on archdiocesan newspaper of Los Stewardship Angeles. received the diagnosis with a “faith the occasion: “A little girl walked July 12– July 18 beyond the ability of most adults, among us. She taught us how to and determined not to waste the accept disappointment and sufferings she would face, she joined suffering.” Offertory $15,479.00 Online $7,202.45

Misc. he had signs placed throughout bear the guilt of that act. SAINT WHO? the countryside declaring Shortly beforehand, José had GRAND TOTAL

Christ the “King of Mexico.” penned a poem anticipating his $22,681.45 A native of Mascot in Jalisco, After this, the authorities death: “I want to love you until Mexico, José was ordained a began to put increasing martyrdom…./ With my soul I priest at twenty-four and two pressure on José to curtail his bless you, my Sacred Heart./ years later founded the Sisters work. He was forced into Tell me: is the instant of my of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, hiding, but he continued to eternal union near?/ Stretch out with a focus on Eucharistic minister to his parishioners in your arms, O Jesus,/ Because I devotion. After several years secret. On the feast of the am your ‘little one.’” in mission work, he was Sacred Heart, June 25, 1927, assigned to a parish. Although he was arrested when he was a new Mexican constitution Loving Father, through the about to say a private Mass in intercession of Saint José outlawed public devotions, a family home. The next day, José went forward nevertheless María Robles Hurtado, take he was taken to a large oak me at the moment of my with a bold plan to erect a tree outside a nearby village giant cross devoted to Christ and hanged. José placed the death into your eternal St. Jose Maria Robles Hurtado the King in the geographic noose on his own neck so that embrace. Martir ( 1927) center of Mexico. To announce none of his executioners would † the laying of the cornerstone,

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Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

We are truly blessed to have the opportunity to be in the true presence of Our Lord within our Church. If you are interested in committing to one hour of Adoration, please contact Bill McDowell at 404-906-1598 or [email protected].

making is said to have been honed by the Bread: Sign of God’s ancient Egyptians. That heritage is honored in Egypt, where bread is called “aish,” meaning love for humankind life.

In biblical lands around the time of Christ, By NANCY WIECHEC, Catholic News Service bread was made from wheat, barley, millet and Published June 25, 2021 spelt. Women took on the intensive process of

making bread daily. It involved harvesting the grain, threshing, winnowing, milling it by hand Bread is among the earliest prepared foods, into flour and preparing the dough. They might A Single Mass Offered for with archeological evidence of it dating back oneself during life may be have taken their dough to “bakers’ street” (Jer worth more than a thousand more than 10,000 years. A primary source of 37:21) for professional baking. Otherwise, celebrated for the same nourishment for humankind, bread is replete intention after death. dough was baked or fried at home. with mythology, tradition and ritual. Scripture St. Anselm. offers some fine examples. Jesus’ breaking of the bread at the Last Supper is a Jewish tradition. At the start of a meal, the Bread is mentioned hundreds of times in the head of household blesses the bread with this Bible and appears as a life-giving spiritual food, prayer: “Blessed are you, Lord our God, king of GOOD SHEPHERD a sacrifice and a sign of God’s love for the universe, who brings forth bread from the GARDEN ANGELS humankind. The most significant expression of earth.” The bread is broken and then shared that love is found in the Eucharist, when we with all at the table. share in the breaking of the bread, the sacrifice made so that we might have eternal life. Usually, when we think about bread in the Bible, the unleavened variety comes to mind Even before the Last Supper, Christ foretells because of its essential presence at Passover this saving grace when he tells a crowd, “I am and the Last Supper. But bread leavened with the bread of life” (Jn 6:35). “I am the living wild yeast or ferments was common. bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus compares the that I will give is my flesh for the life of the action of expanding dough to heaven: “The The Good Shepherd Garden Angels world” (Jn 6:51). kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman help beautify the church grounds took and mixed with three measures of wheat throughout the year. You do not When we consume bread, we have the energy to flour until the whole batch was leavened” (Mt have to be a professional landscaper live on earth. When we partake in the 13:33). or master gardener. The Garden Eucharist, we have the sustenance necessary to Angels is a small way to give back to transcend the world and live forever with God. the parish with your time and This recipe makes a type of leavened flatbread talent. that people in the Middle East have eaten for at If you are interested in joining this Made from two essential ingredients, grain and least 4,000 years. Pita takes less time to make ministry to maintain around the water, bread has a long and fascinating history. than a loaf of bread and is an excellent vehicle church and the rectory and the Its earliest form was likely a paste that was for on-the-go meals. grounds, please contact our parish thrown on a hot rock to cook. The art of bread office. Thank You.

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Diario El Pastor Page 7 UNA LUZ EN MI CAMINO Palabr de Dios para el Domingo P. Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ Padre» (Jn 6,44). El término atraer humana suya. Toda la situación humana pertenece al lenguaje amoroso y Juan de Cristo que tienen ante sus ojos es lo emplea solo otra vez cuando dice: este alimento, es esta vida, aquella zoè E DICE QUE LOS JUDÍOS «Cuando yo sea levantado de la tierra, que es la vida filial, la vida de Dios. MURMURABAN (Jn 6,41) pero suena S atraeré a todos hacia mí» (Jn 12,32). Es Entender la Eucaristía como una «cosa» extraño, porque estamos en Cafarnaún este amor el que atraerá este don. El sagrada, una presencia de Dios ante la y allí están los galileos: Juan quiere Padre que atrae es precisamente cual nos encontramos y nos ponemos precisar inmediatamente que se refiere contrapuesto a la autoridad de la ley. en una actitud religiosa, es un a aquellos que pertenecen al núcleo Cristo hace emerger un Dios que es reduccionismo que empobrece duro de la tradición y del régimen Padre, que da y que se dona. Él es este tremendamente el Sacramento y toda religioso, que es lo que resiste a Cristo. don que bajó del cielo porque el Padre nuestra vida espiritual y eclesial, que El término murmurar es el mismo que le ha enviado. Por ello, no se conoce a crecen y se realizan precisamente en la en los LXX se utiliza para expresar la Cristo sin el Padre y no se conoce al Eucaristía. revuelta del pueblo a Moisés (Éx 16,2) Padre sin el Hijo: «No me conocéis ni a Cabasilas es insuperable diciendo que y que ahora está mejor traducido como mí ni a mi Padre; si me conocierais, «nos convertimos en carne de la carne, «criticar», que recoge la rabia y la conoceríais también a mi Padre» (Jn en sangre de su sangre». Es decir, su oposición de los que lo escuchan 8,19). ver dadera vida. Pero esto supone una mientras dice que él es el Pan bajado El conocimiento es la relación de amor. visión trinitaria donde la vida de Dios del cielo. En la tradición hebrea, en la Fuera de esta relación, todo se hace no es una energía, sino que es la escuela de los escribas, el Pan bajado problemático, por eso se quejan, comunión del Hijo y del Padre en el del cielo es la Torá y ahora Jesús viene critican y no aceptan. No se colma el Espíritu Santo. a decir que este pan es él. La Torá es abismo realizando la ley. Es el Padre el Nosotros estamos acostumbrados a que para la vida de los hombres, por eso que colma la distancia entregando a su la comida alimente al cuerpo, pero la muchas veces se leen expresiones Hijo, que, en la encarnación, ha vida divina, que es amor, se nutre con como «comerse» el libro o la palabra, asumido toda la humanidad y ha el amor. Cristo alimenta, se convierte como por ejemplo: «Cuando tu palabra superado el abismo, abriendo al en este pan y este pan es don «cuando me vino al encuentro la devoré con hombre la participación en la vida sea exaltado», cuando sea su sacrificio. avidez…» (Jer 15,16). divina. Es la persona de Cristo la que El cuerpo asume, la vida divina se da. Ahora Cristo se identifica a sí mismo hace con nosotros lo que el Padre hace El cuerpo, para vivir, con este pan y dice que desciende. Y con él. No se trata de hacer algo para debe asumir, pero la vida divina se es lógico que surja la objeción del volver a Dios, sino de acoger a aquel a alimenta donándose, convirtiéndose en versículo 42: «Pero ¿no es este Jesús, el quien el Padre nos ha enviado y unirse don. Esta es la Eucaristía. Por eso, hay hijo de José, cuyo padre y madre a él, que es el pan de la vida. No es pan unidad entre las dos mesas de la conocemos?» Aquí aparece evidente la para la vida, sino pan de vida; cuando Eucaristía y de la caridad, porque no se dificultad de una mentalidad en el Juan lo repite en griego (cf. Jn 6,51), puede comer la Eucaristía si no es orden de la naturaleza, que no logra cambia el término de modo que hay llegando a ser lo que se come. Uno se captar el orden del Espíritu, que es la que traducirlo como el pan viviente, el convierte así en parte de su humanidad comunión, que es la filiación con el pan que vivifica, pan que está vivo, que reconciliada en el Hijo con el Padre, se Padre, es decir, de su ser que expresa es vida. Se nos da a comer el pan entra en la comunión de su cuerpo. Se la Persona divina, la relación del vivificante, el pan que es la vida, y conoce al Padre en el Cuerpo del Hijo Padre, y no la simple y aislada aquel que lo come asimila la vida del junto a sus hermanos y hermanas. Se naturaleza humana. Viviente, la vida como amor, y vive de conoce al Padre como Iglesia, como El problema es la divina humanidad de esta vida. No se usa aquí el término comunión de personas. Cristo, la filiación. La ley domina soma, cuerpo, como en la Última Cena, porque es intocable, es de Dios, por sino que se dice «quien come mi tanto, lo sagrado se identifica con la carne», para expresar la situación autoridad. Cristo es «atraído por el SANTOS DE AYER Y DE HOY de santo Domingo de Henares, Francisco no escondía su vocación a quien siguió valientemente en por Cristo, y una vez detenido por San Juan Pablo II canonizó el 19 de diversos viajes pastorales marcados no aceptar pisar los crucifijos que junio de 1988 a 117 mártires por las dificultades, por no decir sus victimarios ponían en las calles, vietnamitas. Entre ellos está por el peligro. Los enemigos de la fue instado a apostatar, algo a lo Francisco, que vino al mundo en religión salían en búsqueda de que se negó enérgicamente. Lo SAN FRANCISOCO DO MINH CHIEU 1808; siendo joven, encaminó sus cristianos y en cuanto daban con decapitaron junto a Domingo en pasos hacia Cristo como catequista alguno de ellos lo ajusticiaban. NamDinh el 25 de junio de 1838. MARTIR († 1808-1838)

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Diario El Pastor

Primer día de clases de Adoración al Santísimo Sacramento Educación Religiosa 15 de Agosto, 2021 - 6:30pm High School Life Nights Somos verdaderamente bendecidos por tener la oportunidad de estar en la verdadera presencia de Nuestro Señor dentro de 15 de agosto, 2021 - 6:30pm nuestra Iglesia. Si está interesado en comprometerse con una Middle School Gathering Nights hora de Adoración, comuníquese con

21 de agosto, 2021 - 9:00am Bill McDowell at 404-906-1598 or [email protected]. Elementary Super sábados

22 de agosto, 2021 - 2:30pm Elementary Sunday FLIPS SACRAMENTOS/ UNCION DE LOS ENFERMOS 25 de agosto, 2021 - 5:30pm Elementary miércoles por la tarde. El Sacramento de la Unción de Enfermos ¿Qué es la Unción de Enfermos? confiere al cristiano una gracia especial para Es el sacramento que da la Iglesia para atraer enfrentar las dificultades propias de una la salud de alma, espíritu y cuerpo al cristiano enfermedad grave o vejez. Se le conoce en estado de enfermedad grave o vejez. también como el "sagrado viático", porque es ¿Cuántas veces puede recibir el sacramento el recurso, el "refrigerio" que lleva el cristiano un cristiano? para poder sobrellevar con fortaleza y en Las veces que sea necesaria, siempre que sea estado de gracia un momento de tránsito, en estado grave. Puede recibirlo incluso especialmente el tránsito a la Casa del Padre a cuando el estado grave se produce como través de la muerte. recaída de un estado anterior por el que ya

había recibido el sacramento. Lo esencial del sacramento consiste en ungir la frente y las manos del enfermo acompañada ¿Qué efectos tiene la Unción de enfermos? de una oración litúrgica realizada por el La unción une al enfermo a la Pasión de Cristo sacerdote o el obispos, únicos ministros que para su bien y el de toda la Iglesia; obtiene pueden administrar este sacramento. consuelo, paz y ánimo; obtiene el perdón de los pecados (si el enfermo no ha podido La Unción de enfermos se conocida antes obtenerlo por el sacramento de la Adoración Nocturna como "Extrema Unción", pues sólo se reconciliación), restablece la salud corporal (si Sábado, 14 de agosto administraba "in articulo mortis" (a punto de conviene a la salud espiritual) y prepara para 9:00 pm morir). Actualmente el sacramento se puede el paso a la vida eterna. administrar más de una vez, siempre que sea ATREVETE A SER UN en caso de enfermedad grave. Catecismo Básico-www.aciprensa.com SOLDADO DE DIOS

“La Iglesia y el mundo tienen una gran necesidad de culto eucarístico. Jesús nos espera en el Sacramento del Amor. No escatimemos tiempo para ir a encontrarlo en la adoración, en la contemplación llena de fe y abierta a reparar las grandes faltas y delitos del mundo.

Para mas información: Sergio Carrillo (770) 206-0759 o [email protected]

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Our Military - May God Protect and defend them as they protect and devend us OUT OF COUNTRY Michael Viskup (Major, Mark Hanson (1st Lt. AF) Marines) Camp Pendleton, CA Martin Alvarez (Cpl, Marines) Army) Afghanistan Shannen Dalton (Hanson) Fr. Kevin Peek (Chaplain Army) Norway (Capt. Army) Georgia Matthew Barnette (Staff Sgt. AF) STATESIDE Michael E. Hughes Matthew Pirrello (1st Lt, Air Force) Qatar Micah Aikens (1st Lt.) Brennan Jones (Private, Tyndall AFB, Panama City FL Eric Bueltel (Captain, AF) 8th. Taylor Anthony Aguirre (ESN Army) Ft. Bragg, NC Brian Pop (E-5 Airforce) Tyndall AF Fighter Wing– South Korea Coast Guard) Port Canaveral, FL Luke Jordan (Corp. Marines) Camp Base, FL Ransom Campbell (Army) Iraq John Archer (Staff Sgt. Army) GA Lejeune NC Tyler Rahn (Private) Camp Pendleton, Jonah McClain Casper (USAF) Iran Joanna Barnette (1st Class AF) Austin Kehres (E-2 Airman, Navy) CA Michael Chalkley (Airborne Barksdale AFB Norfolk, VA Elizabeth Roberts (SFC Army) Division Army) Iraq Ryan Bobenhausen (PFC Army) Michael Klooster (LTjg USS Sioux Samantha Robinett (1st Lt. Army) Daniel Cunningham (Navy Diver) Hawaii City) Louis P. Rognoni III (Lt. Col., USAF) Japan Daniel Bowers (Sgt. Army) William Knapp (LCpl, USMC ) NC Pentagon, Washington, DC John Connor (Cpl, Marines) Japan Dean Carr (Recruit) Palms Island, SC Peter Lagare (Pvt. Marines) Rudy Salinas (M.S. Marines) Michael Denkman (PFC Army Jonah McClain Casper (USAF) Allison Lancowitz Raymond Songer (LT, Navy) National Guard) Afghanistan Steven Chetcuti (Major, Army) West Mike Lind (Colonel, Army) DC California Steven J. Friedrich (Sgt.) Iraq Pointe Pentagon Michael Tyson Chase Strollo (Pvt. Josh Harrison (Army) Germany James Duffey (Chief Class Petty Cory Mack (2nd Lt. Army) Kansas GA Army National Guard) GA Justice Nathan Hobin (CPl, Officer/Navy Diver)Panama City FL Eddy Manriquez (Marines) NC Joseph Sullivan (Petty Officer—3rd Class, Navy) Marines) Cuba Patrick Ekhlas (2nd Lt. Marines) John Matlaga (1st Lt. Marines) Jacob Jordan (Lance Corporal, California Jody Martin (Army) Ft. Leonardwood William Sikes (Fireman, USCG) MO Portsmouth, VA Marines) Afghanistan Matthew Ekhlas (Master Sgt. Padraic McClusky (Cpl Marines) Fr. Fred Wendel (Chaplain Army) VA Kyle LeBlanc (2nd class, AF) Marines) California Japan Anthony Deprey-Willis (SRA, AF) Afghanistan Brian Steven Eddy (Capt. AF) Ryan McDowell (Sgt. Army) Washington State Marissa Marino (Army, PFC) Thomas Gregory Eddy (Sgt. Army) Richard Michael (Major Army) James M. Windsor (USN) Norfolk, Germany Quantico VA Samantha Michel (Lt. JG) VA Ryan McDowell (Sgt. Army) Geoff Franks ( Captain Marines) SC Afghanistan Jacksonville, FL NAS Russell Windsor olff (Sgt. Marines) Lawrence Franks (2nd Lt. Marines) Wyatt Moseley (Marines) Camp SC Jordan Moon (CPT Army) Poland Alex Hanson (TSGT, AF) Geiger, NC Jon-Paul Zeitouni (Army) Colorado George Mowbray (Army Steven Hernandez (Airman E3 Jared Morgan Andrew Steadman Paratrooper) Afghanistan (SPC Army) GA (Col. Army) CO. Navy) Nikk and Will Osprey Adam Stevenson (USN) Japan LL.JG. Keith Ovellette Jon Vanderhamm (US Army) Chad Peacock (Lance Corporal, Germany Prayer Blanket Ministry Mission Statement

“Through the gift of a prayer blanket, symbolizing Faith, Hope, Love and Peace and a commitment of daily prayer by its members, our Ministry seeks to obtain healing, protection, or strength and grace for those on our Prayer Blanket Ministry List.” We meet monthly during the school year on the Second Friday of each OUR FAITH OUR MISSION month, after the 9:00 a.m. Mass, in Room 203 in the Parish Life Center. If you are in need of a prayer blanket, please notify the Parish Office at 770-887-9861. Vicki Winslow, at 770-894-2277 or evdsw@outlook. Together, we’re Our goal is to help men, empowering Catholic men their families and their The Prayer Blanket Ministry of our Parish is a spiritual life giving force that to live their faith at home, in parishes grow closer to enables the recipients to feel at peace knowing that prayers and Masses are being their parish, at work and in Christ. Through our offered for their health intentions, whether it be physical, financial, psychological their community. programs and resources, or an ailment that cannot be explained. we provide opportunities to

If you or someone you know is in need of a Prayer Blanket, please contact the live and spread the Catholic Parish Office at 770-887-9861 faith.

Holy Family Counseling Center

If you feel you may need help with whatever your Rite of Cristian Initiation for Adults current struggles in life might be, consider ARE YOU SOMEONE OR DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO…Has contacting Holy Family expressed an interest in becoming Catholic? Has a child over the age Counseling Center at 678- of seven not been baptized? Were you baptized Catholic as a child 933-8494. Holy Family but have not celebrated the sacraments of Confirmation and Counseling Center has 14 Eucharist? Perhaps baptized in a different Christian denomination therapists seeing clients in and would like to join the ? 16 different locations. For more information, please call the parish office.

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CLERGY AND STAFF Tammy Cagle, Mid School/RCIC Coordinator PRIESTS [email protected]...... 470-695-7733 Fr. Diosmar Natad, Pastor Rudy Velasco, RCICCA and RCIA Coordinator [email protected] ………...... 770-887-9861x701 [email protected]...... 470-695-7710 Fr. Bradley Starr, Parochial Vicar Vicki Carney, Elementary School/First Eucharist Coordinator [email protected]……………..70-887-9861x702 [email protected]...... 770-695-7732 DEACONS Deacon DonNadeau…………[email protected] Deacon Jack Campbell…...... [email protected] FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Deacon [email protected] Joe Donnelly, Facilites Manager [email protected]…………...... 470-695-7721 PARISH OFFICE STAFF Mike Smith, Maintenance Supervisor [email protected]…………..470-695-7722 Laura Irvine, Parish Manager José Flores, Maintenance Associate [email protected]…………………470-695-7707 [email protected]………………….470-695-7722 Rudy Velasco, Administrative Assistant María Hernández, Maintenance Associate [email protected]………………470-695-7710

Gloria Clavijo, Receptionist

[email protected]...... 770-887-9861 Emergencias sacramental: (678) 294-0212 Danny Amoyo, Data Entry/Donor Registry

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Kelly Rosenbalm, Accounting Clerk [email protected]…………...470-695-7708 SPANISH LEADERS Gerardo: Sacristanes……………..(678) 223-5060 DEPARTMENTAL STAFF LEADERS Martina Trejo: Comité Guadalupano Nadine Brabeau, Faith Formation Registrar [email protected]……………(678) 717-8636 [email protected]……………...470-695-7730 Angelica Guerrero: Lectores Anna Loyd, Preschool Director [email protected]…………...(706) 265-5184 [email protected]………………..470-695-7761 Yuri Lugunas: Ministros Extraordinarios Alison Toledano, Preschool Office Manager [email protected]……...... 470-695-7761 Michael Abreu, Music Director [email protected]...... 470-695-7715 Greg Case, Organist [email protected] Michael Gagnon, HS/Confirmation Coordinator [email protected]...... 470-695-7734

Altar Flowers: Please call Eileen Pankow at 770-597-3563 held on either the first or second Saturday of each month from If interested in donating flowers for the Altar. September through June in the Parish Life Center. Please contact John

Council of Catholic Women: : General meetings are held the Irvine at 404-518-0246 or [email protected] . second Tuesday of the month August through May, 7 P.M. in the PLC. Prayer Blanket Ministry: The Prayer Blanket Ministry meets Contact Lisa Pirrello at [email protected] monthly during the school year on the Second Friday of each Divine Mercy: The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy is recited Monday month after the 9:00 a.m. Mass, in Room 204-206, in the Parish through Friday mornings at 8:15 a.m. in the Church. Life Center. For additional information contact Vicki Winslow Holy Family Counseling Center: We provide counseling from a Catholic, Christian perspective. We are available to see clients on site 770-894-2277 or [email protected]. If you are in need of a here at Good Shepherd. We help individuals, couples, and families, as prayer blanket, please notify the Parish Office at 770-887-9861. well as teens and children. Take the first step and call our main St. Monica’s Sodality: Meets every Wednesday morning at 8:20 a.m. office at 678-993-8494 or visit our website at in the Church to pray for our loved ones to come back to our Catholic www.holyfamilycounselingcenter.com Faith and Church. The intentions of Holy Mass on the first Wednesday Homebound Minister Visitation: If you are homebound and would of every month will be for all those listed in our "Book of Intentions". like to have Holy Communion brought to you or if you are a If you have any questions or if you have someone to add to our commissioned Extraordinary Minister and feel a calling to bring the "Confidential Intentions Book", please contact Vicki Winslow at 770- Eucharist to the sick and homebound, please call Deacon Jack 894-2277 or [email protected]. Campbell and Carlene at 678-513-3248

Job Seekers: Meet every first and third Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Contact St. Vincent de Paul Society: If you are having financial difficulties or you wish to volunteer your time to our Society, please call 678-947- Steve Jenn at 404-915-5396. 0677. The Knights of Columbus: Our Parish has its own Council of the Walking with Purpose: Is a ladies bible study group. We have Knights of Columbus. If you are transferring in from another Parish or morning and evening sessions every Thursday. This group is active from you wish to belong to the Knights of Columbus, please contact Don September through May. For more information please contact Maggie Mouledoux at 504-455-8323 Also check the Narthex for information Edmiston at 770-656-5392 or [email protected] on the shelves.

The Men’s Club: All Men of The Church of Good Shepherd Parish Respect Life Ministry: If you are interested in learning about our are welcome to the Men's Club. Our mission is to promote fellowship, parish activities that value life from conception to natural death please provide support for the parish and other ministries, and offer spiritual contact Laura Nix at 404-242-9798 or [email protected] growth for all men. We invite you to our breakfast gatherings, usually

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