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Paul’s Conversion Shows Hope for All Sinners
January 25, 2007God sometimes does dramatic things to get our attention. Maybe we come down with some strange, out-of-the-blue illness. Maybe we lose our jobs. For Saul, the drama involved being blinded for three days. This Saul fellow was quite the scoundrel. He was trying to destroy the early Christian church, arresting Christians and arranging for their […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (January 25, 2007)
January 25, 2007Last Saturday I was inducted into the Order of St. Lazarus, an international fraternal military and hospital order that is nearly nine centuries old. This association, like many other ecclesial groups, was initially founded to perform works of charity—in the case of St. Lazarus they were caregivers for those people with leprosy. In addition they […]
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Police Seek To Identify Man Killed In Church Lot
January 25, 2007The pastor of St. Patrick Church, Father Tom Hennessy, said he will bless and re-consecrate the property and grounds of the church this week as he guides his parish community in the wake of the killing of an unknown man in a back church parking lot Jan. 21. The blessing “will be done privately” and […]
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Duluth Mission Burns, Church Hastens To Help
January 25, 2007The call came into the Gwinnett fire department on Thursday, Jan. 18, just before 6:30 a.m.—a small strip shopping center on Buford Highway was on fire. Fire trucks were dispatched minutes later to the building, which houses, among the small businesses, the Catholic mission of Duluth, church home to approximately 1,200 Hispanic Catholics in the […]
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Passionist Father Joseph Fahy Dies
January 25, 2007Father Joseph Fahy, CP, Ph.D., parochial vicar at St. Paul of the Cross Church and long-time priest in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, died Monday, Jan. 22, after a brief illness. He was 78. A vigil and rosary in memory of Father Fahy was planned for Thursday, Jan. 25, from 7 to 9:30 p.m., at St. […]
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Deacon David Higgins Of Carrollton Dies
January 25, 2007Deacon David Higgins, who served at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, died suddenly Jan. 21. A member of OLPH since 1966, Deacon Higgins was ordained to the permanent diaconate in 1987. He helped to start the religious education program there, and continued to serve in the area of adult education. In addition to his […]
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Convert’s Faith Blooms Into Religious Vocation
January 25, 2007A then “firmly pro-choice” philosophy major at Agnes Scott College, Joy Payton wrote her senior thesis on medical ethics to defend euthanasia. But during her research she came to realize that she couldn’t make a cogent argument to justify it and shifted the focus of the paper to refute it—and became pro-life. Payton was raised […]
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Archdiocesan Programs Help To Discern One’s Calling
January 25, 2007The Archdiocese of Atlanta is sponsoring the new Our Lady of Grace Discernment Group at Holy Spirit Church to help women discern how God is calling them to holiness, whether through married, single or religious life. It will begin in February and will be held from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. in Holy Spirit’s St. Mary’s […]
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Olga Myers, Chapter Foundress, Is Magnificat Speaker
January 25, 2007On the 15th anniversary of the Magnificat chapter in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the ministry invites women to come and hear how God called Olga Myers, an ordinary housewife and mother, to this ministry of evangelization in 1991 while seeking Him in prayer and quiet, at a silent retreat. She founded the Joyful Visitation chapter […]
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Lilburn School Marks 13 Years Serving Homeless
January 25, 2007Students at St. John Neumann Regional School have served the poor and homeless in downtown Atlanta each month during the school year for the past 13 years. In conjunction with Crossroads Community Ministries, housed at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, eighth-grade students collect fresh fruit from the student body at […]