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Drawing Closer To Christ’s Light In The New Year
January 5, 2006Published: January 5, 2006 The party hats are back in the closet, the tree has seen better days, and the scale indicates that yours truly had one eggnog latte too many during her Christmas break. Welcome to January, the month of dreaded resolutions. Over the years, my resolutions have tended to be fairly me-centered. I […]
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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Get Support
January 5, 2006Every Tuesday a group of men and women gathers in a small classroom at Transfiguration Church. As the members greet each other, the small talk quickly centers around the children in their lives. “Where’s your lovely wife, Joe?” one asks another. “She’s at home,” he replies. “We’ve got two sick little ones.” “Tell me about […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (January 5, 2006)
January 5, 2006During the course of the past year, I heard many of the stories of the Faith legacy of our Archdiocese. In various situations, people have shared with me some of the rich history of this local Church. A lovely lady from the Cathedral parish gave me a book several months ago about Archbishop Hallinan. Our […]
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New Education Building Blessed At Kennesaw Parish
January 5, 2006Parents, students, faculty and a parish community celebrated as the new school and parish educational facility at St. Catherine of Siena Church was dedicated by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory on Dec. 20, 2005. The dedication came three months after it was originally scheduled, after Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue canceled school to conserve fuel in late […]
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All Saints Parish Mission Begins Sunday, Jan. 30
December 27, 2005Conventual Franciscan Friar Father Jude Michael Krill will lead a mission at All Saints Church in Dunwoody from Sunday, Jan. 30, through Tuesday, Feb. 1. The theme of the mission is “Finding Our Security in God.” A description of the mission’s focus states that, as Christians “we are called to hear the voice of God […]
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At Christmas, Celebrating The Blessings Of Children
December 22, 2005My Aunt Rita told me the doctors suspect she may have cancer. Her daughter, of course, will accompany her for the biopsy and other procedures. How frightened I was to think of anything happening to my very last aunt, the one who used to paint flowers in iodine on my skinned knees. After these thoughts […]
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What I Have Seen And Heard (December 22, 2005)
December 22, 2005Some great Hollywood pictures are identified as much by their soundtrack as they are for their storyline. A movie famously linked to Atlanta is the epic “Gone with the Wind”! Tara’s theme conjures up the tragic events that are portrayed in this now famous Hollywood saga. Then there are the themes for “The Godfather,” “The […]
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Nativity Pieces Stir Awareness Of God’s Coming
December 22, 2005At the age of 17, I was not thrilled with the gift. My mother had been going on for over a month that my sister and I were getting expensive Christmas presents, and in my delusional mind that meant a car, so imagine my disappointment when I woke on Christmas morning to a large cardboard […]
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Overflowing Mission Starts Building Fund
December 22, 2005Our Lady of the Americas Mission this year could only accept some 700 children in its religious education program and had to turn hundreds more away due to the lack of space in their converted warehouse church facility. So when Father Fernando Molina-Restrepo was assigned to the mission this summer, he immediately knew what he […]
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Deacon Leaves Multifaceted Legacy Of Love
December 22, 2005One wouldn’t have to go far to find someone in the Archdiocese of Atlanta who has attended a retreat at Marian Meadows, a short drive from Atlanta in Dawsonville. Not many, however, may know of the beautiful love story and the test of faith for the man and his family that gave life to the […]