The Angelus Monthly Publication of the Church of Our Saviour

December 2017

“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teach-ing and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers…Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:43-47) Community, breaking of bread, and the prayers; these make up the heartbeat of who we are at the Church of Our Saviour. We are sacra-mental Christians, with glad and generous hearts, willing to give to others from the gratitude found within our hearts; seeking to share Christ and share his love with every person we encounter, no matter what and no matter who. I believe that the Church of Our Saviour is poised to embody this text in a new and fresh way. I think this because the charism we possess, or rather, the charism that has been entrusted to us, is the means to change the world. What is this charism you ask? I believe it is none other than what Father Martin Thornton, a twentieth-century Anglican priest and theologian, called the regula, the rule: The Daily Office, the Mass, and Devotion. When speaking of the threefold regula, Father Thornton says: “It is the foundation of all Christian life, the essential work of the Church, the supreme inter-cession, and the power of evangelism.” (Martin Thornton, English Spirituality, Chapter 6.) The Church of Our Saviour has been built upon this threefold rule. The prayers of genera-tions upon generations continue to envelop us the moment we gather together to celebrate the Mass in this holy place, and the devotion to our Lord found within the hearts and minds of those who gather here, is solid as a rock.

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Dear Faithful of the Church of Our Saviour, I am elated and beyond grateful to share, with you, the joy of accepting the call to be the twelfth rector of the Church of Our Saviour. As I begin this next chapter with you, it is important to say that the Church of Our Saviour has always held a place at the center of my heart. When my wife Jenn and I first moved to Atlanta five years ago, it was the Church of Our Saviour and the generous hospitality found within these hallowed walls, that welcomed us on a Palm Sunday morning. It was the Church of Our Saviour who answered the call to sponsor me throughout the ordination process, forming me with a profound incarnational and sacra-mental faith. Moreover, it is the Church of Our Saviour who has served for 93 years and continues to serve, as a bulwark of beauty and truth in the Virginia-Highland community and beyond. When I think of Our Saviour, I am reminded of the words found in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles:

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Events and Feast Days

Advent Wreath Making December 3, 2017

We will NOT be having our regular first Sun-day Parish Luncheon. Instead, join us in Pettway Hall for an Advent Wreath Making Workshop on Sunday, December 3, 2017, from 9:45-10:45am. Come learn more about Advent, have fun and fellowship, and make a beautiful Advent wreath for your own home. All parishioners are invited to take part in this intergenerational workshop, which will replace our regularly scheduled children’s and adult formation classes for this morning. Festive refresh-ments will be served. This workshop will include a demonstration of how to make the wreaths, as well as information about how to use them at home throughout Advent. All supplies will be provided, including candles, fresh greenery, decorations, and wreath forms. Feel free to bring greens from your yard or any other special items you’d like to add to your own wreath. Contact Amy Wells at 404-436-4522 or formation@coosatl.org with any questions or for more information.

Epiphany Celebration 5:30pm January 6, 2018

On January 6, at 5:30pm, we’ll have a special service to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. The service will follow a lessons and carols format, in-cluding a pageant in which parishioners (children and adults) will depict the scenes described in our scrip-ture readings, and will conclude with a candlelight procession outside [and burning of the greens]. A Wassail Party, with festive supper and carol sing, will follow the service at 6:30pm. [Bring along a small branch from your Christmas tree to include in our Epiphany fire]. If you or your child(ren)—or any child(ren) in your life--are interested in participating in the pag-eant, please contact Amy Wells at 404-436-4522 or formation@coosatl.org. We’re in need of readers, actors, costume/set designers, choristers, instrumen-talists, snack chefs, and general assistants, so there’s definitely something for everyone! We’ll have one rehearsal immediately prior to the service, at 4pm (snacks included).

Annual Parish Meeting January 28, 2018

On January 28, 2018, we will be having our annual parish meeting as required by the canons of the church. The only business absolutely required is the election of vestry members. We will meet after the 11:00am mass downstairs for brunch followed by the meeting.

Nominations The vestry will make nominations and mem-bers of the congregation may also make nomina-tions. We will now be electing three people to three-year terms. Forms for this will be available in Pettway Hall. Remember you must have the consent of the person you are nominating. In accordance with our By-Laws, all nominations must be submit-ted at least thirty days in advance of the meeting—this year, on or before December 29, 2017. Please give these nominations to a member of the Vestry.

Reports Every recognized parish organization is asked to submit a written report of its activities. If it holds funds which are not under the Treasurer’s control, it must include a financial summary. Please have a copy for the secretary.

Who May Vote Every person who worships at Our Saviour is encouraged to attend the Annual Meeting. Voting members of the parish are those who are baptized, 18 years of age or older, attend the church and re-ceive communion regularly, and who contribute to the mission and ministry of the parish. A preliminary list of qualified voters will be posted in Pettway Hall by Sunday, December 24, 2017. Please check it, and speak with the rector if you believe your name was wrongly omitted. On the day of the Meeting, the tellers will re-fer to the Chairman/Rector any person who believes him- or herself eligible to vote whose name does not appear on the final list. We thank those vestry members who have completed their terms for their service to the church.

-Dowman Wilson, Parish Registrar

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Readings for December Please note - With Sunday, December 3, 2017 we begin a new church year and thus a new lectionary —Year B.

December 3, 2017 Isaiah 64:1-9 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:24-37 Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 December 10, 2017 Isaiah 40:1-11 2 Peter 3:8-15a Mark 1:1-8 Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 December 17, 2017 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 Psalm 126 or Canticle 15 (or 3) December 24, 2017 (Family Mass 4:30) Isaiah 9:2-7 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-14(15-20) Psalm 96 December 24, 2017 (Midnight Mass) Isaiah 62:6-12 Titus 3:4-7 Luke 2:(1-7)8-20 Psalm 97 December 25, 2017 (Christmas Day) Isaiah 52:7-10 Hebrews 1:1-4(5-12) John 1:1-14 Psalm 98 December 31, 2017 Christmas Lessons and Carols Readings TBD

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This threefold rule is who we are, and what we must continue to live into, embody, and radiate out to this parish community, the Virginia-Highland area, and beyond. It is how we can and will change the world, and how we will realize God's dreams for this parish, this community, and the world. In the weeks and months ahead, I invite you to begin discerning what this ancient pat-tern of living means for you individually, and what it means for Our Saviour collectively. My vision is that we find new ways to engage our shared life of Prayer, Mass, and Devotion, and how the Church of Our Saviour will live out this rule of life in the 21st century. How will we allow it to shape, mold, and transform us more profoundly and more intentionally in ways that we may have never before imagined? As we move forward together in this next chapter as a parish family, let us each find ways to intentionally and deliberately enter into con-versation with this rule. To explore new means by which we can enter into dialogue with the individuals and families of the Virginia-Highland community and beyond, to be the light in this community by continually pointing to the light of the world through the lens of a beautiful, ancient, and authentic faith. As Jenn, Gabriel, and I settle into the rec-tory and the Virginia-Highlands community, please hold each of us in your prayers. We are excited about our shared future together, and I am looking forward to meeting each of you, hearing your stories, and discerning together how we can partner and live our shared life of Prayer, Mass, and Devotion.

Grace and Peace, Father Christopher Miller

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Message from Our New Organist-Choirmaster

I am thrilled to be here with you at the Church of Our Saviour! What a time to be a part of this vibrant community. The office is buzzing with excitement for all that is and is to come. In my short time with you, I have immediately felt at home here. The choir is going full-tilt in prepa-ration for Advent and Christmas. When I think of Advent, I think of prepara-tion. You have been preparing for many months now to call a new Rector. You have been

preparing to call a new Parish Administrator. You’ve been preparing to call a new Organist-

Choirmaster. And now, Father Miller, Kateryna, and I are preparing to serve this parish and be in community with you. I feel fortunate to be called to this parish. Your commitment to liturgy and the Anglican choral tradition resonate with me deeply. As we move forward, we’ll work to figure out what it means to live into our Anglican heritage from a musical standpoint and how to move forward. In this organist’s admittedly biased opinion, we have the richest liturgical musical tradition to draw on from the past 500 years. As the psalms express every human emotion, so does our unique music. My guiding principal is the theology of excellence–whatever we do, we should strive to offer our very best to God. As we move through the season of Advent and then into the Nativity of our Lord, I hope you’ll find a “thin place” between this world and the next through music.

-Austin Clark

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Advent By Brian Mullaney

“Advent: The first season of the church year, beginning with the fourth Sunday before Christmas and continuing through the day before Christmas. The name is derived from a Latin word for ‘coming.’ The season is a time of preparation and expectation for the coming celebration of our Lord’s nativity and for the final coming of Christ in power and glory.” (Armentrout, Donald S., and Robert B. Slocum, editors. An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church. Church Publishing, 2000. 3.) “Episcopalians don’t often hear much about Christ’s coming again in sermons, even though two of our most frequently repeated Prayer Book texts always include it,” notes the Reverend Andrew Mead. “Every time we say the Apostles or Nicene creeds, we acknowledge that Jesus Christ, crucified, dead and buried, raised on the third day, will come again in glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. Every time we celebrate the Eucharist, we hear that Jesus instituted Holy Communion for us to have a perpetual sacramental memorial of him, until his coming again.” Allusions to Jesus’ return are found through-out scripture, liturgy, and hymnody. The collect for the First Sunday of Advent prays “...that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious maj-esty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal.” The Gospel according to Saint Mark, which we read on the same Sunday: “And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory” (13:26). And we sing the hope of Christ returning in a favorite advent hymn: “Lo, he comes with clouds descending, once for our salvation slain…. Christ the Lord returns to reign.” “(The) tension between the already and the not yet, which apparently existed in Jesus’ teaching, reflects the reality of Christian experience,” says the Very Reverend John Dobson. “Jesus of Nazareth did make a difference. In his life and ministry, the king-dom of God did come near.

“To pray and hope for the return of Christ on the clouds of heaven is not to expect Jesus to come in to land at Heathrow. But it is to pray and hope for the day when Christ’s work in us and his world will be complete, when he will be king and God’s kingdom will be a universal reality.” Advent invites each of us to invest our lives in the kingdom of God. “All that we have in life comes from God and can assist us on our journey home to the Father,” said Harry Verhily, formerly director of the Secretariat for Stewardship and Development of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. “Even as people … recognizing God’s generosity and our stew-ardship responsibility, we still experience tension between the spiritual and the temporal. The invest-ment into the kingdom of God is a difficult struggle to put the spiritual before the temporal. This struggle is exemplified by our thoughts and activities in prepara-tion for Christmas – our thoughts and actions are not always focused on the birth of our Savior, rather, all that needs to get done before December 25th.” “Time is short; eternity is long. Whether we appreciate this or not, it is true; and this is not a call to be morbid, but rather to wake up and live,” Father Mead challenges us. “For those of us who believe that waking up and living has to do with preparing the way for the Lord Jesus Christ in our lives and living in his Kingdom, Advent season is our annual alarm clock. … It is a season of preparing, of awakening, and of living, so that at Christmas, we can accept the invita-tion to come and see – in the words of the Most Rev-erend and Right Honorable Michael Ramsey: “Come to Bethlehem once again. See the stable, see the child. And knowing that he is God and Man, knowing that he who was rich has become poor for us, we can kneel in the darkness and the cold which is the sym-bol of our blind and chilly human race and say with a grasp we may never have had before the doxology at the end of the Lord's Prayer: ‘yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever.’” (Canterbury Cathedral, Christmas Day, 1973.)

* * * The Every Member Canvass for 2017-18 culmi-nated with Ingathering on Sunday, November 5, when all of the pledge cards that had been returned or were placed in the offering plates were blessed and offered in thanksgiving to God during mass. Our pledges are an outward demonstration of our commitment to “preparing the way for the Lord Jesus Christ in our lives and living in his Kingdom.”

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We offer gifts of time and talent and of treasure to support the mission and ministry of the Church of Our Saviour. These are, for us, a statement of thanks-giving. Our pledges also inform the leaders of various guilds of your commitment to share your time and talents, and inform the treasurer, finance committee, and vestry of our financial intentions for the coming year. If you completed your pledge cards and returned them to the parish, thank you. If you haven’t done so yet, please prayerfully consider your commitment and return your completed cards as soon as you can. Your participation matters because you are a part of the Church and of the parish family of the Church of Our Saviour. Every gift – no matter how big or small – is important to this parish. Thank you for it!

If you would like to contribute to the parish from your IRA or to give appreciated stock, there may be tax benefits for you. IRAs: If you are required to take minimum distri-

butions from your IRA, consider making it tax-free by directing it to the Church of Our Saviour. A qualified charitable distribution (QCD) provides an opportunity to give to the church and to man-age your tax liabilities. Please contact your IRA custodian for specific requirements, including ini-tiating a distribution directly to the parish. The deadline for a QCD from an IRA is December 31.

Stock Transfers: Transfers of stock can also pro-vide an opportunity to give to the church, while avoiding taxes on capital gains. Please contact your broker to initiate a transfer.

The treasurer is available to assist, but recom-mends a professional advisor for specific guidance on your individual financial and tax circumstances.

“In every thing give thanks” (1 Thessalonians 5:18)

Birthdays and Anniversaries

Birthdays: Dec. 5: Scott Roberts, III 6: Jamie Bolton Austin Clark 8: Tom Cornelius 11: Billy Krape 12: Kathleen Spotts Henry Henken 13: Cliff Johnson 16: Carmen Thompson 17: Michael Palmer 18: Oreta Hinamon Campbell Andrea Shepherd 19: Jane-Elizabeth Margaret Hudson 21: John Trout 22: Eric Sampson 24: Connie Moon Sehat 27: Catherine McAfee 29: Afton Warner 30: Ann Harris Doyle The Parish Registrar is not aware of any anniversaries this month.

Opportunities for Giving While shopping this holiday season, consider these opportunities to have a portion of your purchase go to the Saint Vincent’s Fund, which is used to assist the poor and people in need (e.g., with food, clothing, bus fare). Shopping on Amazon: Visit our webpage (oursaviouratlanta.org) and look for the link to AmazonSmile or go to smile.amazon.com and register your account with the parish. (In the “pick your own charitable organization” search box, enter “Church of Our Saviour Atlanta.”) The parish receives a 0.5% donation of eligible purchases and provides you “the same selection of products, prices, and shopping features as on Amazon.com.” Shopping at Kroger: Visit our webpage (oursaviouratlanta.org) and look for the link to Kroger or go to kroger.com/communityrewards (click “enroll”); find “Church of Our Saviour” and link your Kroger Plus Card. After registering, use your Kroger Plus Card at checkout; the bottom of your receipt will note “At your request, Kroger is donating to Church of Our Saviour.” The parish earns a percentage of Kroger’s charitable giving based on total shopping each quarter.

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for altar flowers is $50 per Sunday. To sponsor altar flowers, contact Mary Hallenberg or the Parish Ad-ministrator (404 872 4169 or admin@coosatl.org). If you were wondering, St. Bernadette (1844-1879) was the first child of an extremely poor miller in the town of Lourdes in southern France. Berna-dette grew into a virtuous girl though a dull student; unfortunately, she suffered from asthma. When she was 14, Bernadette received a vision of the Virgin Mary in a grotto above the banks of the Gave River near Lourdes, France. According to Ber-nadette, the Lady of her visions was 16 or 17, wore a white robe with blue sash, and yellow roses covered her feet. This vision, just one in a series of eighteen, served to demonstrate the mercy, love, and concern for the salvation of souls Our Lady has for all people. Though St. Bernadette was ridiculed – many people believed she was crazy – she was strong enough in her faith and love of God that she suffered the harsh treatment to testify what Our Lady had revealed to her. Bernadette Soubirous was canonized in 1933. She is remembered by the Roman Church on April 16. (Adapted from “Saint Bernadette Soubirous.” The Reverend Don Miller, OFM. franciscanmedia. org. Retrieved November 8, 2017.)

Each month, the Stewardship Committee is highlight-ing various ministries that the Church of Our Saviour

is engaged in or supports, using our time, talents, and treasure. This month’s ministry is the flower

guild, named Saint Bernadette’s. Each week, the talented and creative members of the St. Bernadette’s Flower Guild bring the beauty of God’s world to adorn the sanctuary. Members are responsible for selecting and arranging the flowers placed on the retables behind the altar for the Sunday Masses and for special occasions, including wed-dings and funerals. In describing the work of flower and altar guilds, the Right Reverend Henry Nutt Parsley, Jr., Bishop of Alabama, said: “… Beauty is indispensa-ble. We need to cherish it in the church. The scrip-tures tell us tirelessly of the glory of God and the beauty of holiness. We worship and adore the creat-ing God who made a world filled with beauty and whose heavenly realm is ravishingly glorious. To be sure, our altars are but poor reflections of God’s vast, eternal glory, but they are reflections. They point beyond themselves to the great mystery and to the beauty at the heart of things. “Seeing a well-arrayed altar and sanctuary each Sunday morning and at weekday services fills us with a spirit of joy and gratitude. It lifts up our hearts. This vision of eternal reality through earthy things renews us for ministry and service in the world of great need and struggle. Such holy beauty inspires us to strive to make the world a more lovely and loving place.” Flower guild members work individually or in teams and usually rotate monthly. The time commit-ment required is between three and four hours once a month. No prior experience is required, and training is provided. To join or enquire further about St. Ber-nadette’s Guild, contact Mary Hallenberg (678 409 2939 or mary.hallenberg@harrynorman.com). Flowers may be sponsored on any Sunday (except in Advent or Lent) to honor events such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, baptisms or con-firmations; in memory of a loved one; or in thanks-giving for life’s blessings. The suggested donation

Some Thoughts About Christmas

By Oreta Hinamon Campbell “On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to

me...” It is probably safe to say that in modern America this song is the last remnant of the great twelve-day feast that once was Christmas, a liturgical season stretching from Christmas Day to the Feast of the Epiphany. The celebration of Christmas on December 25, although not as old as the celebration of Easter, is still a very old tradition in the Church. Perhaps the first mention we know of for the date of Jesus’ birth was written around 200 AD by Clement of Alexan-der, and he simply discusses several possible dates (none of them December 25). Yet by the early 300s (many scholars say earlier) the church seems to be celebrating Christmas on two dates; December 25 in the Western Church and January 6 in the Eastern Church. A Roman document called The Philocalian Calendar, dated 354 AD (and probably based on an

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older document dating to 336 AD), definitely states December 25 as Jesus’ birthday. Much has been written about why Christians settled on December 25 to celebrate Christ’s birth. The scriptures, after all, do not really say when during the year Jesus was born, although they do try to pin-point which year (“...at this time Caesar Augustus...”), nor is there any longstanding tradition or historical record to guide us. To the ancient church it seemed to be more important to celebrate Christ’s birth than to worry over the precise date of it. It is extremely unlikely that December 25 was picked because that was the actual date. There is simply no evidence to support this and much to refute it – like Clement of Alexander’s writings. Discussion over why December 25 was picked tends to follow two main lines of thought. The first reason and the one most commonly found in popular works, is that the date of Christmas was picked to conflict with or to copy various pagan festivities such as Saturnalia or Mithraicism’s Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (the birth of the Unconquered Sun). While this theory is very popular, many modern scholars reject it. Again, there is simply no evidence —none of the Christian writers at or after the time Christmas was established mention this theory. In fact, the earliest mention of Christmas being celebrated as a spin-off of pagan religions is a twelfth century manuscript by a Syriac biblical commentator named Dionysius bar-Salibi. The theory was popular-ized in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when scholars began to study comparative religions. The trend in sociology and anthropology at this time was to assume that ideas spread from culture to culture and were seldom independently invented. While this confusion of correlation and causation does seem log-ical, it does not seem to correspond to what we know of the early Christians. They were very interested in distancing themselves from pagan religions. It would have been most uncharacteristic of them to imitate the religious ceremonies of people who were persecuting and killing them. Yet the theory persists because the pagan festivals of Saturnalia and Mithra do indeed happen at about the same time. Another theory, and the one many modern scholars seem to favor, is that the date of Christmas is an outgrowth of the date of Easter. This theory was popularized in the 1950s by Thomas Talley who argued against the idea that all Christian holidays and customs were copied from earlier religions. Although the exact date of Jesus’ death and res-urrection is not certain, the Western church common-ly dates it to March 25 and the Eastern Church dates Jesus’ death to April 6. There was a strong belief that Jesus died on the same day he was conceived. Saint

Augustine wrote about this in On the Trinity (c. 399–419) “For he [Jesus] is believed to have been conceived on the 25th of March, upon which day also he suffered; so the womb of the Virgin, in which he was conceived, where no one of mortals was begotten, corresponds to the new grave in which he was buried, wherein was never man laid, neither before him nor since. But he was born, according to tradition, upon December the 25th.” This notion that creation and redemption occur at the same time is an old rabbinical notion and would have been familiar to early Christians. Thus, if Jesus was conceived on March 25, then he would have been born nine months later, December 25. However the date was decided on, the important thing to the ancient church was not so much when Christmas was celebrated as that it was celebrated. As the church liturgical year developed, it became customary for all major feasts to continue for a week (called an octave — eight — since the first day was counted as well) or longer. Eventually the celebration of the most important feast of the church year, Easter, stretched over 50 days, from Easter Day to Pentecost. Likewise the celebration of the second most important feast, Christmas, gradually stretched to twelve days, spanning the time from the celebration of Christmas in the West-ern Church (December 25) to the celebration of Christmas in the Eastern Church (Epiphany, Jan 6). In time, the two branches of Christendom adopted each other’s holidays: the Eastern Church came to celebrate Christmas on December 25 (Julian calendar), and the Western Church came to celebrate another aspect of Jesus’ manifestation, specifically his manifestation to the Gentiles, Epiphany, on January 6. Even though our modern world no longer celebrates Christmas as a twelve-day feast, as Christians we should strive to remember that Christmas is a season and not merely a day, and make these twelve days special as our own celebra-tion of the Incarnation of Christ.

REFERENCES McGowan, Andrew. “How December 25 Became Christ-

mas,” Biblical Archaeological Review, Retrieved online November 3, 2010. http://www.bib-arch.org/e-features/christmas.asp.

Talley, Thomas J. The Origins of the Liturgical Y ear. Second Edition. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1986.

Weiser, Francis X. Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs. New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1952.

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Monthly Duties and Regular Meetings...

Saint Anne’s Altar Guild Dec. 2 James Carvalho & Dan Grossman

Dec. 9 Julie Roberts

Dec. 16 William Gatlin & Kerry L. Henderson

Dec. 23 Donald Hinamon & Meg Richardson

Dec. 24 TBA

Dec. 25 TBA

Dec. 30 TBA Coordinators: Chris McGehee 404-873-3729

Hosting After 11:00 Service December 3 Mary Sommers & Bill Gatlin December 10 Stephanie Fox & Charla Allen December 17 Laura & David Stabler December 24 Victoria Henken & Mary Sommers December 31 Kathy & Roger Davis

Coordinator: Kathy Davis 404-874-4256

St. Bernadette's Flower Guild Dec. 3 Julie Roberts & Kerry L. Henderson Dec. 10 Soojeong Herring Dec. 17 Mary Hallenberg Dec. 24 Chris McGehee & Melissa Hamid Dec. 31 TBA

Coordinator: Mary Hallenberg 678-409-2939

Serving at the Altar

Dec. 3: Amy Dills-Moore, liturgical deacon Dowman Wilson, subdeacon Mike Miller, crucifer 10: Amy Dills-Moore, liturgical deacon Dowman Wilson, subdeacon 17: Amy Dills-Moore, deacon David Stabler, subdeacon 24: Combined Sung Mass (10:00) Amy Dills-Moore, deacon Eric Strange, subdeacon Family Mass (4:30) David Stabler, subdeacon Midnight Mass (11:00) Amy Dills-Moore, deacon Dowman Wilson, subdeacon Mike Miller, crucifer 25: Dowman Wilson, server 31: Amy Dills-Moore, deacon David Stabler, subdeacon

Coordinator: Dowman Wilson 404-816-4374

Lectors December 3 - Advent 1 8:30 Roger Press 11:00 Roger Davis December 10 - Advent 2 8:30 Chris McGehee 11:00 Kathy Davis December 17 - Advent 3 8:30 Edgar Randolph 11:00 William Gatlin December 24 - Christmas Eve 10:00 Eric Henken 4:30 Alexis Leifermann 11:00 Oreta Hinamon Campbell December 25 - Christmas Day 10:00 Roger Press December 31 - First Sunday after Christmas 8:30 Julie Roberts 11:00 Will Rountree

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, December 9, 2017, and offer your skills for as much time as you can spare.

Coordinator: Kathie Spotts 770-216-9985

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