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Mercy Student Wins State Heisman Award
December 8, 2005Brett Bartels, a student from Our Lady of Mercy High School in Fairburn, recently received recognition as the male state winner for the 2005 Wendy’s High School Heisman Award. Bartels, an active parishioner at Holy Trinity Church in Peachtree City, was chosen from the 592 nominated high school seniors in the state of Georgia as […]
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Archbishop Celebrates Mass At Oldest Cemetery
December 8, 2005Standing where Bishop John England and other bishops and priests have stood for two centuries, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory presided at Mass at Locust Grove Cemetery on Saturday, Nov. 5. The Mass for All Souls is a long tradition at Locust Grove Cemetery, which is the former site of Our Lady of Purification Church, a […]
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St. Anna Quilters Sew Help For Cancer Home
December 8, 2005A group from St. Anna Church has formed the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Quilters, raising nearly $1,000 with a quilt raffle benefiting Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cancer Home in Atlanta. The members of the group worked together on the quilt each week for five months and are challenging quilters at other churches to […]
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Archdiocese Celebrates Our Lady Of Guadalupe Feast
December 8, 2005The following is a list of churches around the archdiocese holding celebrations in Spanish in honor of the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12. The celebrations honor Mary as patroness of the Americas, a title arising from her appearances in 1531 to St. Juan Diego on Tepeyac hill outside Mexico City. […]
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Charities Scramble To Help Neediest Evacuees
December 8, 2005There’s no more rooms at the inn for Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Many of the poorest evacuees in Atlanta still call Catholic Charities daily, fearful of what comes next as they must vacate hotel and motel rooms by January that up till now were paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Catholic Charities office […]
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St. Peter Chanel Teen Group Raises Lenten Awareness
December 3, 2005Members of the 10:30 a.m. teen group at St. Peter Chanel Church, Roswell, began their Lenten journey in a personal way. In a class led by teacher Cathy Marbury, the teenagers used arts and crafts to raise awareness of historical and Christian dates during Lent. They created crosses bound by gold wire, sand art depicting Scripture scenes, […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (December 1, 2005)
December 1, 2005It came to pass last Saturday evening with much less fanfare and attention than the start of the shopping season received nationally only the day before. Few people even noticed its beginning. Advent more often than not begins quietly with a simple change of color of vestments, with the first display and lighting of the […]
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If God Is A Kind Of Light …
December 1, 2005There is an old barn here on our property at the monastery. I do not know what it was used for years ago. These days, it is used for storage, though that may be too fancy a term. A lot of things have been left there—things that ended up there because there was probably no […]
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Rotary Address Evokes Harvest As Call To Generosity
December 1, 2005Published: December 1, 2005 ATLANTA—Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory delivered the Thanksgiving address to the Atlanta Rotary Club, where he challenged community leaders to reflect upon the abundant harvest of blessings they’ve received and during Advent and beyond to bless others out of that gratitude, planting seeds of hope for those in need. He spoke on […]
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Exonerated Inmates To Expose Death Penalty Injustices
December 1, 2005Juan Roberto Melendez-Colon held a rope in his hands preparing to strangle himself in his Florida prison cell, but something held him back. He lay down and in his sleep he dreamed that he was swimming again as he loved to do as a boy in the tranquil aqua waters of the Caribbean. “The sun […]