monthly publication of the church of our saviour may 2017

The Angelus Monthly Publication of the Church of Our Saviour

May 2017

I have shared a quote with you several times during my time here, and I want to leave it with you in this letter, as I think it clearly expresses the gift you have implanted in my soul: “For this was a church with open doors, with seats for all classes and colors alike—a church of zealous worshippers after their faith, of charitable and ser-viceable men and women; one that took care of its children and never forgot its poor and whose people were much more occupied with looking out for their own souls than in attacking the faith of their neighbors.” Amy and I, along with Rowan and Ezra, thank you for loving us and for showing us Christ. We ask for your prayers during this time of transi-tion. My last Sunday will be May 28, although I will be in the office through the end of the month. You are a remarkable people. It has been a deep honor to serve in your midst and your next priest will be blessed to serve here. Thank you for your love and prayers and support. You have been a gift to us.

Yours in Christ, Father Zachary R. Thompson+

Dear People of Our Saviour, With mixed emotions and feelings, I announce that I have accepted the call to be an Associate Rector at Saint James Church, in Manhattan. Saint James is a vibrant parish, on the Upper East Side, with a few thousand pa-rishioners. I will be chiefly responsible for the incorporation of new members into the parish and for pastoral oversight. This call and transition comes sooner than I anticipated, but it is a unique and excit-ing opportunity for my family and me. I have happily served in your midst the last few years, and the spiritual depth and authenticity of this parish will forever shape my priesthood. The Church of Our Saviour is a gem in this great city. Our Saviour keeps the worship of the triune God at the heart of all things, and because of the clarity of this vision, the future of the parish will continue to be bright. It has been amazing to watch newcomers join in the life of the parish and assume leader-ship roles alongside faithful members who have been here for decades. The development of the Sunday School, the renovation of the nursery, the clear-eyed attention to the needs of the physical plant, increased pledging, faithful leadership, and the commitment to serve the neighborhood and the poor, all suggest that the Church of Our Saviour is in the middle of a resurgence.

Farewell Reception

In order to give Father Thompson, Amy, Rowan and Ezra a proper send-off, we will be hav-ing one combined service on Sunday, May 21, at 10 am followed by a farewell reception. We are having a combined service that day so those who usually attend the early service don’t need to come back for the reception and so that we don’t need to stop to have our usual later service. Everyone is encour-aged to make plans to attend. More details as to what assistance is needed will be forthcoming. Please pass the word along to anyone you think might be interested in attending.

May 2017 THE ANGELUS

From the Senior Warden

Last Tuesday, Father Zack and I met at Manuel's Tavern - the longtime epicenter of Atlanta politics with front-door clergy parking. Over the course of conversation, I learned that Father Zack will be leaving the Church of Our Saviour at the end of May, answering a call to Saint James, New York. I have to admit that this wasn’t the con-versation that I was expecting, but it’s one that I understand, and the news brought to mind the text from Ecclesiastes (and popular 1965 single by the Byrds): “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” It was four years ago when we first gath-ered together a discernment committee to search for a new priest. It was through this pro-cess that we learned it’s not necessarily about what we want as individuals, but rather what is important to our fellow parishioners, future members, neighborhood, and how we want to share the love of Christ throughout our commu-nity. It was through this discernment we found Father Zack Thompson. This young priest, in his first rectorate, brought a new energy to help us continue our resurgence and to grow, and our new season began. Under Father Zack, our current and past vestries and many dedicated parishioners, we have begun transforming the life, appearance, and reputation of this little church on the corner of North Highland and Los Angeles. Just take a moment to look around. Do you see the changes? We’re continuing to reach new num-bers in participants and donations. We have a growing children’s program – a vibrant Godly Play class and a brand new nursery! The grounds are looking more beautiful than ever. For the first time in years, the parish hall has completely been reinvented with new floors, lights, paint, and bathrooms with – “gasp” – motion-activated hand dryers. Even our out-reach programs have gained new momentum. These are just a few of the outward signs of

change that have occurred over the last three years. I am mindful that these changes weren’t accomplished by our priest alone. I also want to thank each of you for your dedication to our par-ish. I am confident that we are moving from strength to strength and that there will be more good things to come. Sunday, after mass, some-one asked what the future will hold after Father Zack leaves. Honestly, I did not have a prepared remark. I made a quick quip that we’ve been a parish since 1924 – in times of prosperity and times of bleakness, in times of decline and times of rebirth. I know how resilient we are and how much the Church of Our Saviour means to each and every one of us. For it’s not any one person that makes this parish… it is all of us, together. There is a path for us to follow in calling a new rector. During the next week, I’ll meet with the Bishop’s assistant who will outline the steps we will take, and I will continue to communicate the path forward to you. There will be a time of interim and time for discernment. Our work in preparing to call Father Zack is still recent, how-ever, and it is my hope and the hope of the vestry that the interim should be no longer than neces-sary to find the best person to serve and lead our parish into the future. Meanwhile, I ask you to continue your commitment and to pray for the parish. We have a bright future ahead, and we are on an upward trajectory. With all of the growth and love and dedication of each and every one of us, I know that we will continue building a strong ministry within the City of Atlanta, within our community, and within this parish. For we have a wonderful opportunity ahead, and our new season is about to begin. In closing, Father Zack, I would like to say, personally and on behalf of the parish, “Thank you.” Thanks, also, to your family: Amy, Ro-wan, and Ezra. We are a better place and a better people because of your time with us. Godspeed in New York.

Bert Smith, Senior Warden


Events and Feast Days in May

Parish Luncheon May 7, 2017

Our regular First Sunday luncheon will be held on May 7, 2017, after the 11:00 service. Those with last names beginning in A-H are asked to bring a vegetable or side dish, I-R a dessert, and S-Z a main dish.

Ascension Day Thursday, May 25, 2017

Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in the Church at 7:30 pm. Ascension Day is a traditional Holy Day of Obligation, on which the faithful are expected to participate in the Lord’s Sacrament. There will be no 12:10 pm Mass on this day.

Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Father in heaven, by whose grace the virgin mother of thy incarnate Son was blessed in bearing him, but still more blessed in keeping thy word: Grant us who honor the exaltation of her lowliness to follow the example of her devotion to thy will; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

The Day of Pentecost, Whitsunday

Sunday, June 4, 2017 Sunday, June 4, 2017, is the Feast of Pente-cost. There will be services in the Church at 8:30 am and 11:00 am. This is the last Sunday of the Easter Season and celebrates the gift of the Holy Spirit bestowed upon the Apostles 50 days after the Resurrection of Jesus. Pentecost is sometimes called the birthday of the Church because on this day the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles and inspired them to go, preach, and DO the work of the gospel.

Memorial Day

This year, Memorial Day will be observed on May 29, 2017. Please note that the church office

will be closed on this day.

“O God and Father of us all, we gather in sincere gratitude for all those, who, at their coun-try’s call, have met the rude shock of battle and have surrendered their lives amid the ruthless brutalities of war. Forbid that their suffering and death should be in vain. We beseech you that, through their devotion to duty and suffering, the horrors of war may pass from earth and that your kingdom of right and honor, of peace and brother-hood, may be established among men. Comfort, O Lord, all who mourn the loss of those near and dear to them, especially the families of our de-parted brothers. Support them by your love. Give them faith to look beyond the trials of the present and know that neither life nor death can separate us from the love and care of Christ Jesus, in whose name we pray. Amen.” (Book of Worship for United States Forces, #760.)

In Flanders Fields

by Lt. Col. John McCrae, M.D. (1872-1918) Canadian Army

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.


“It is more blessed to give than to receive,” said Saint Paul, quoting our Lord (Acts 20:35). How can this be? Jesus and His disciples withdrew to a mountain by the shore of the Sea of Galilee. The crowds followed them, for the Lord had just showered upon them the gift of His teaching, the gift of His Word. But the day was waning; the sun was setting, and it was getting late. Looking upon the crowds, Jesus had compassion on them and asked, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” (John 6:5) Philip said that two hundred denarii (a day’s wages for two hun-dred men) could not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little. But Andrew, Peter’s brother, brought a young boy forward, who had five barley loaves and two small fish. “But,” Andrew asked, “what are they for so many?” (John 6:9) Jesus replied, “Have the people sit down.” (John 6:10) Then Jesus, the Son of God, gave them a second gift, a gift from what only He could give – a gift from above. He took the bread and the fish, gave thanks, blessed them, and distributed them to the crowd. Then came the miracle. As these five loaves and two fish were given out, they multiplied. He fed the hungry crowd until they were all full. And twelve baskets full were left over. But Jesus was not the only one who gave that day. There is one person who also gave from what he had. It was the boy with the five loaves and the two fish. All the others, including the boy, received the gift of a miraculous feast. And they would look back on it with wonder. But the boy, when he would look back on it, would look back and remember not just what he received. He would look back with wonder and delight when the Son of God made his gift into something mi-raculous. For it is more blessed to give than to receive.

This our Lord does for each of us. He press-es our gifts, no matter how big or how small, into His service and works wonders with them. He provides through what we give: water for bap-tism, bread and wine for the Lord’s Supper, a man called and sent for the preaching of the Gos-pel and Absolution. He provides a building in which we can gather as His children, lights so that we might not gather in darkness. He provides funds for the care of the poor and struggling, for missionaries who preach and teach beyond our borders. He makes Christians, disciples of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ in our midst by bringing them to faith and nurturing them in that faith. He takes our gifts and turns them into something miraculous. Indeed, it is more blessed to give than to receive. Thus we give. We give of what we have. And the Lord works His wonders. Reprinted from StewardCAST, published by the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, with permis-sion.

Treasurer’s Quarterly Report For the quarter ending March 31, Operat-ing Fund revenue substantially exceeded expens-es. Revenue was 27% above budgeted levels for the first three months of the year. Expenses were about 9% below the budget, year-to-date. The annual budget and comparative reve-nue and expenses for the operating fund for the first quarter are summarized in the table on the next page and illustrated in the chart at the top of page five. The higher level of revenue is attributable to a major gift received early in the year that rep-resents a change in pattern. Historically, in our parish, revenue lags expenses until the 12th month of the year, when pledges are fulfilled and more visitors are present.


Expenses are in line with patterns in the prior year and typically lag the budget, in part, due to timing of accounting cycles (e.g., an annual expense that has not yet been billed or paid). Our budget seeks to balance the obligations of maintaining an ageing physical plant with our mandate to proclaim the Gospel and show God’s love in the world. Every parish, large or small, must go through a process to make choices in doing the same. The budget for this year was adopted with a small operating deficit, even though the level of expense was generally maintained without expan-sion, except for certain uncontrollable costs (e.g., increases in insurance expense). This is something that the finance committee, vestry, and I made with prayerful consideration, seeking to balance the responsibility of being fiscally prudent against the optimism of growth in our parish. As the year continues, these same two groups and myself will continue to monitor the revenue and expenses of the parish. The purpose of doing so is to ensure that we are faithful stew-ards – and that we are about the work that we are called to do. Stewardship is not about “making ends meet” but is about using everything entrusted to us to transform the world around us. The Rev’d Mi-chael Carlisle connects stewardship to thanksgiv-ing for all that God has given and that connects to the Eucharist, our Great Thanksgiving: “Just as the priest takes the bread, blesses it, and breaks it,

so Christ takes our lives, blesses our lives, and breaks our lives so they can be given away….” Thank you, all, for the gifts of everyone who supports this parish and its ministry in what-ever way he or she can. “Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.”

II Corinthians 9:7-9

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Contribution Income 79,942$ 59,222$ 20,720$ 236,887$

Non-Contribution Income 4,864 7,750 (2,886) 31,000

Total, Operating Revenue 84,806$ 66,972$ 17,835$ 267,887$

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Personnel 37,074$ 37,479$ (405)$ 149,915$

Programs 2,218 2,188 31 8,750

Administration 2,340 5,050 (2,710) 20,200

Physical Plant 16,160 19,178 (3,018) 76,712

Outreach 6,621 6,817 (196) 27,269

Total, Operating Expenses 64,413$ 70,712$ (6,299)$ 282,846$

Net Revenue (Expense) 20,393$ (3,740)$ 24,133$ (14,959)$


At morn - at noon - at twilight dim - Maria! thou hast heard my hymn! In joy and woe - in good and ill - Mother of God, be with me still! When the Hours flew brightly by, And not a cloud obscured the sky, My soul, lest it should truant be, Thy grace did guide to thine and thee; Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast Darkly my Present and my Past, Let my Future radiant shine With sweet hopes of thee and thine!

Sancta Maria By Edgar Allan Poe

Sancta Maria! turn thine eyes - Upon the sinner's sacrifice, Of fervent prayer and humble love, From thy holy throne above.


Birthdays and Anniversaries

Birthdays: May 1: Vivian Barksdale 3: Adeline Rountree 6: Kathleen McDermott 7: Ariel Cook 11: Rowan Thompson 19: Autumn Skye Battersby Robert Joseph Battersby Trinity Eden Battersby India Rose Amara Warner 20: Gregory Paul Vaughn Eric Strange James Hamilton 21: Alyda Merritt 22: Lark Simone Vincent Averitt 23: Lawrence Bailey, III Connor Michael Gabriel Stabler Christopher Alvin Murray, III 24: Edgar Randolph 29: Naaman Taylor Christopher Rodie 31: Mary Burgess

Anniversaries: May 19: Jamie Lin & Mark Keener

Readings for May

May 7, 2017 Acts 2:42-47 1 Peter 2:19-25 John 10:1-10 Psalm 23 May 14, 2017 Acts 7:55-60 1 Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14 Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 May 21, 2017 Acts 17:22-31 1 Peter 3:13-22 John 14:15-21 Psalm 66:7-18 May 25, 2017 (Ascension Day) Acts 1:1-11 Ephesians 1:15-23 Luke 24:44-53 Psalm 93 May 28, 2017 Acts 1:6-14 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 John 17:1-11 Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36


in the Hymnal at nos. 25 and 26. Both are settings of the hymn text “O gracious Light.” No. 25 is a song with a regular beat and measure pattern, —what we have thought of as normal for the last 600 years. No. 26, which has no stems on the note heads, is a plainchant melody from the Middle Ages.

The first music which was used by the ancient church was the chanting of Psalms, something that we still do in both the services for the Eucharist and in the Offices. The chanted Psalms, however, are not really what we would think of as songs, but rather speech that is intensi-fied by the use of melodic formulas, only slightly more elaborate than the chanting formulas that are used for the Gospel reading in our Masses, or the Passion as we chant it on Palm Sunday and Good Friday. The chants that we use for the Propers of the Mass (those pieces which change according to the Lectionary: the Introit, the Alleluia or Tract, the Offertory, and the Communion) are very much similar to the Psalms. They are not songs so much as melodic formulas for chanting the texts. There are some exceptions to be found in the Hymnal, however; one example of which we sang recently, in the High Mass for Maundy Thursday. The piece which appears in the Hymnal at no. 606, “Where true charity and love dwell,” is an Offertory chant, in principle just like the ones that we sing every Sunday immediately before the choir's anthem. There is a refrain (known as an “antiphon”), which is sung first, between each verse, and after the final verse, in just the same way as we chant the Gradual Psalm, and the same pattern holds true for our Introit and Alleluia chants.

The Rhythm of Plainchant The characteristic of plainchant that modern

churchgoers find most foreign is the rhythm. This should come as no surprise, since most trained musicians find it difficult (at least they do at first), and—even more to the point— modern scholars are not agreed on how the rhythm of plainchant ought to sound.

The reason for this is that the music was composed long before, even centuries before, European musicians developed a way to notate rhythm. (Actually, the oldest chants are older than any system of notation.) In our musi-cal notation we use the staff, the five parallel, horizontal lines on which the notes are written, to show the pitches, how high or low the notes are; and we use vertical lines drawn from top to bottom of the staff (these are called bar-lines or measure-lines) to mark off the passage of time. It is very much like reading a graph. But we also use the shape and color of the notes to indicate their time-value. Round white notes are twice as long as white notes which have a stem; and white notes with a stem are twice as long as black notes with a stem; and black notes with a stem are twice as long as black notes with a stem and a flag; and so on….

However, in the Middle Ages (when plainchant was being created), musical notation was just beginning to evolve in monastic communities to help them learn and

Plainchant, Medieval Hymns and Sequences By Dr. Daniel Pyle

(This is the second of Dr. Pyle’s series of articles on the history of our hymnody.)

Our consideration of the Episcopal tradition of

hymnody moves on now from nuts-and-bolts to the actu-al hymns and music themselves, which we will consider by historical periods.

Since its very earliest beginnings the Church has used music in its worship. Because the earliest churches were established and populated with members who were Jewish by birth and upbringing, the patterns of worship that they started with were those of the synagogue. A major part of the worship of the synagogue was the chanting of Psalms, along with the chanting of prayers and the reading of lessons from the Holy Scriptures. This is not fundamentally different from our Offices of Morn-ing and Evening Prayer.

We still use music of this sort, generally lumped under the designation “Gregorian chant,” but more properly known as “plainchant.” The defining character-istics of plainchant are that it is (originally) unaccompa-nied, unharmonized, consisting solely of melody, and that it is rhythmically irregular, more like prose than like poetry. Instead of having a regular beat, like the music with which we are most familiar (and like the poetry which we find in our hymns), the rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables is unpredictable and irregular — musicians call it “additive” rhythm.

We sing music like this for the Ordinaries of the Mass: The Missa Deus genitor alme which we sing during Lent, the Missa marialis which we sing during Epiphanytide and for Marian feasts, and for the Lord’s Prayer every week. (Ordinaries are those pieces of music which are the same week after week: the Kyrie or Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and Lord’s Prayer.) In the Hymnal 1982 you can spot the plainchant immediately because the notes have no stems, only the elliptical spots which musicians refer to as the note heads. For example, look


memorize the huge number of songs they had to know for the Daily Offices. The first musical dimension which was figured out was how to show the rise and fall of the melodic lines, resulting in the musical staff which we still use (although the Medieval version had only four lines instead of five). But they did not create a way of showing rhythm accurately until about 1400, by which time the Middle Ages were over and plainchant was no longer being composed. And as the Middle Ages became more and more distant in time from that of the church musicians, they for-got how the plainchant songs moved. By 1700 nobody knew what the music sounded like and nobody wanted to hear or sing it anyway.

In the second half of the 19th century, there was a movement within the Roman church to turn away from the operatic style that had come to dominate their church music and return to their musical roots in Gregorian chant (these reformers called themselves the Cecilian Movement, named for the patron saint of music, Saint Cecilia). The monks of the Abbey of Solesmes in France were entrusted with the task of restoring and reconstructing the vast body of plainchant that was to be used in the worship of the Church.

The monks of Solesmes decided that the basic rhythm in their reconstructed chant would consist of two lengths of notes, one to be twice as long as the other. You can see this in most of the plainchant melodies in our Hymnal, as in no. 329 “Now my tongue, the mystery tell-ing.” There are black notes (without stems) which are the shorter ones, and the white notes which are twice as long as the black ones. That’s all. When it is sung, the rhythm moves in the same irregular way the rhythm of prose (as opposed to poetry) moves. This is what gives plainchant its otherworldly feel, because it does not flow in the regular, repetitive, measured patterns of our more modern music.

But not all musical scholars agree with the decisions from the Abbey of Solesmes. Many think that the Medieval melodies had a “beat” much like more modern music, even though the Medieval monks did not know how to write it down. Hymn no. 202 “The Lamb’s high banquet called to share” is also a plainchant melody but musical scholars (not from Solesmes) have given it a rhythmic interpretation that is in essence a modern four-beat pattern.

Who is right? We can never know, but I suspect both. The Middle Ages covered a long time, almost a thou-sand years. There have not been even 600 years since that period ended (musically speaking). To me it is inconceiva-ble that plainchant was sung the same way in every place over that long expanse of time. There must have been great variety, and we are the beneficiaries.

Hymns and Sequences The plainchants which we sing at the Church of Our

Saviour have four different basic forms. Some are just a single constantly evolving melody from beginning to end: these are most often found in the Ordinary chants of the Mass; “Gloria in excelsis,” “Sanctus,” and “Agnus Dei.” Many consist of one or more verses of scripture (almost always from a Psalm) sandwiched in between a refrain: this

is the form of the chants which we use for the Introit and the Alleluia. The remaining two forms are used as con-gregational songs, and these are found in our hymnal: hymns and sequences. For example, in the celebration for Corpus Christi, we will sing one example of each: no. 320 “Zion praise the Savior singing” (a sequence) and no. 329 “Now, my tongue, the mystery telling” (a hymn).

Hymns are rhyming, strophic, and metrical po-ems. Rhyme in poetry is a familiar device which hardly needs explanation. The term “metrical” means that there is a regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables (but this refers only to the poem — in plainchant hymns the music is not metrical). It is the fact of being strophic that defines the hymn and makes it distinct from a se-quence. “Strophic” means that each verse (“strophe”) has the same number of lines, the same number of sylla-bles, the same pattern of accents as all the other verses in the song. If one looks at no. 329 on the page, one notices that the six verses are all lined up one under another. This is graphic evidence that it is a strophic hymn — likewise so is “Humbly I adore thee” (no. 314), and so is “O come, O come Emmanuel” (no 56). The singing of hymns was important as far back as the time of Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan in the fourth century.

A sequence is a completely different form, which is most easily seen through the schematic AA-BB-CC-DD-EE…. Or, in English, it consists of pairs of lines, couplets, the two lines in each pair having the same number of syllables and accents, but not necessarily the same as any other pair of lines. Obviously, therefore, the music for each pair of lines is also different. Thus, look-ing at no. 329, verse 1 (these verse numbers are placed there by the editors of the Hymnal in 1982, not by the Medieval composers) consists of a melody that is sung twice (that is the “A-A”), verse 2 likewise has a melody that is sung twice but is a different melody (“B-B”), fol-lowed by a pair which are numbered separately as vss. 3 and 4 (“C-C”), and another pair, vss. 5 and 6 (“D-D”). Other Medieval songs in this form include no. 183 “Christians, to the Paschal Victim,” no. 226 “Come, thou Holy Spirit bright,” and the “Dies irae” in the Requiem Mass.

During the Middle Ages, hundreds of sequences were written and added to the liturgy of the Mass. So many were added that the Council of Trent, seeking to counteract the Reformation, found it necessary to ban their use altogether except for four: the sequences for Easter (“Victimae paschali” — no. 183), Pentecost (“Veni sancte Spiritus” — no. 226), Corpus Christi (“Lauda Sion salvatorem” — no. 320), and the Mass for the Dead (“Dies irae” which we have used for the cele-bration of All Souls) — the very four sequences which we sing from our Hymnal. That is also why we sing those songs, even though they are somewhat more diffi-cult and less familiar than many, on those specific occa-sions.

© 2017 Daniel S. Pyle


Monthly Duties and Regular Meetings...

Saint Anne’s Altar Guild May 7 James Carvalho & Dan Grossman

May 14 Julie Roberts

May 21 William Gatlin & Kerry Lee Nichols

May 25 TBA

May 28 Donald Hinamon & Meg Richardson

Coordinators: Chris McGehee 404-873-3729 and

Alex Smith

Hosting After 11:00 Service May 7 Covered Dish Luncheon May 14 Catherine Hunt and Jim Hamilton May 21 Farewell Reception for the Thompsons following combined Sunday morning services May 28 Grant Glassbrook

Coordinator: Kathy Davis 404-874-4256

St. Bernadette's Flower Guild May 7 Julie Roberts & Kerry L.Henderson May 14 Soojeong Herring May 21 Mary Hallenberg May 28 Chris McGehee & Melissa Hamid

Coordinator: Mary Hallenberg 678-409-2939

Subdeacons and Chalice-Bearers

May 7: Eric Strange, subdeacon Leonard O'Brien, chalice-bearer Michael Miller, crucifer 14: Amy Dills-Moore, liturgical deacon Dowman Wilson, subdeacon 21: Amy Dills-Moore, liturgical deacon David Stabler, subdeacon 25: (Ascension Day) Amy Dills-Moore, liturgical deacon Dowman Wilson, subdeacon 28: Amy Dills-Moore, liturgical deacon Eric Strange, subdeacon Michael Miller, crucifer

Coordinator: Dowman Wilson 404-816-4374

Lectors Sunday, May 7 8:30 Eph McLean 11:00 Catherine Hunt Sunday, May 14 8:30 Suellen Henderson 11:00 Bill Gatlin Sunday, May 21 8:30 Derek Jones 11:00 Kathy Davis Thursday, May 25 (Ascension Day) 7:30 Oreta Campbell Sunday, May 28 8:30 Roger Press 11:00 Will Rountree

Coordinator: Roger Press 404-636-7654

Saint Fiacre’s Garden Guild The Guild gathers on the second Saturday

of each month to work on the grounds and gar-den of the parish. So, please come by between 9:30 am and noon on Saturday, May 13, 2017, and offer your skills for as much time as you can spare.

Coordinator: Kathie Spotts 770-216-9985

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