About Good Shepherd Mission · Sheffield, Texas
Good Shepherd Mission is a small Catholic mission church serving the rural community of Sheffield in Pecos County, Texas. It is canonically attached to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in nearby Ozona, which supplies pastoral care and a shared parochial administrator. The mission brings the Eucharist and the sacraments to a sparsely populated stretch of West Texas along State Highway 290, celebrating Mass primarily in English with Spanish-speaking support available through its parent parish in the Diocese of San Angelo.
- Patron
- Good Shepherd
- Rector
- Rev. Carlos Felipe Rodriguez (Parochial Administrator)
- Diocese
- Diocese of San Angelo
Why belong here
Good Shepherd Mission is one of the few Catholic churches serving the eastern Pecos County area, and it offers Catholics along the Highway 290 corridor a regular Sunday Mass and Confession without the long drive into Ozona or San Angelo. Under the pastoral care of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Ozona, the mission combines the intimacy of a small country church with the support of a larger parish community, and its bilingual (English/Spanish) liturgical life welcomes the ranching and oilfield families who call this part of West Texas home.
Mass times at Good Shepherd Mission
Weekly Mass schedule
Confession times
- Sunday 8:40 AM – 8:55 AM (except 2nd Sundays)
Good Shepherd Mission — Overview
Good Shepherd Mission is a Catholic mission church in the Diocese of San Angelo that serves the small community of Sheffield in Pecos County, Texas. Its mailing, phone, and pastoral-administrator lines all run through its parent parish, Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) in Ozona, about 40 miles to the east. Because Sheffield is a rural ranching and oilfield community with no resident priest, the mission depends on OLPH to provide Sunday Mass, Confession, and sacramental care.
- Mission of the Parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Ozona
- Located at 1040 E. Main St. (TX-290), Sheffield, TX 79781
- Diocese of San Angelo — Roman (Latin) Rite
Clergy and Pastoral Care
Because Good Shepherd is a mission rather than a parish, it does not have its own resident priest. Pastoral care is provided by the parochial administrator of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Ozona. The Diocese of San Angelo, led by Bishop Michael J. Sis (bishop since 2013), reassigned Father Carlos Felipe Rodriguez to serve as parochial administrator of both OLPH and Good Shepherd Mission effective July 1, 2025.
- Parochial Administrator: Rev. Carlos Felipe Rodriguez (since July 1, 2025)
- Diocesan Bishop: Most Rev. Michael J. Sis, Diocese of San Angelo
- Sacramental care, anointings, and funerals coordinated through OLPH in Ozona
Parish Office and Contact
All mail, phone calls, and parish business for Good Shepherd Mission are handled through the parish office of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ozona. The parish office sits at 302 Vitela Street, on the south side of the OLPH Parish Hall.
- Phone: (325) 392-3353
- Email: [email protected]
- Mailing address: c/o OLPH Parish, PO Box 1069, Ozona, TX 76943-1069
- Parish office: 302 Vitela St., Ozona (south side of the Parish Hall)
Getting to Good Shepherd Mission
Sheffield is a tiny unincorporated community (census-designated place) at the intersection of State Highway 290 and State Highway 349, in eastern Pecos County. Travelers from Ozona head west on US 290 for roughly 40 miles; those coming from the Permian Basin approach from the north via Iraan.
- Address: 1040 E. Main St. (TX-290), Sheffield, TX 79781
- Located at the corner of Main St. and Avenue "C"
- About 18 miles south of Iraan and ~40 miles west of Ozona
The Diocese of San Angelo
Good Shepherd Mission belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Angelo, which covers a vast swath of West and Central Texas and includes around 70 churches and missions across cities such as San Angelo, Abilene, Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, and Ozona. The diocese is led by Bishop Michael J. Sis, who has served as ordinary since 2013. Within the diocese, Good Shepherd is grouped with the other rural Crockett–Pecos region missions that are pastorally tied to parishes in larger nearby towns — in this case, Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ozona.