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Atlanta Church Honors Senior ‘Trailblazers’
April 20, 2006St. Paul of the Cross Church will bestow their seventh annual “Trailblazer” awards on Sunday, April 30, during 11:30 a.m. Mass. At this year’s ceremony, the parish will honor all senior members, recognizing with special awards five members who have demonstrated outstanding service in the parish stewardship program and community. The theme of the award […]
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Faith Journey Culminates At Easter Vigil
April 20, 2006Bradley Buzard, 47, knelt in a shallow pool of water at St. Philip Benizi Church Saturday evening April 15 and was baptized into the Catholic faith. Water drenched him as the baptismal prayer “in the name of the Father—and of the Son—and of the Holy Spirit” was proclaimed. The only man among nine people baptized […]
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Archdiocese To Close St. Teresa, St. Thomas Manors
April 20, 2006With the growing demand for many of their frail elderly residents to receive a more technical level of care, coupled with the fact that resources are not available for those types of services, the Archdiocese of Atlanta has decided to close its two personal care homes: St. Teresa Manor in Riverdale and St. Thomas Manor […]
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Home Missions Need Support Of Atlanta Catholics
April 20, 2006Dear Friends in Christ, On the weekend of April 29-30, Catholics in parishes across the nation are being asked to contribute to the Catholic Home Missions Appeal. But what is a ‘home mission’? And why should we support it? If you have ever visited eastern Kentucky or Tennessee, driven through rural Georgia, Alabama, or Mississippi, […]
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Polish Catholic’s Holocaust Memories Preserved In Book
April 20, 2006Throughout his 40-year career as a physicist in the United States, Mathew “Maciej” Sikorski, Ph.D., rarely mentioned his tormented past as a youth in Warsaw, Poland, under Nazi besiegement and his deportation from the blazing city to a labor camp. After emigrating to the United States in 1951, the Polish Catholic married his wife Barbara, […]
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From The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
April 20, 2006Published: April 20, 2006 German forces invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, as part of Hitler’s quest to expand Germany. The Poles fought valiantly against the vastly better equipped forces but fighting by regular Polish army units ended by early October, when more than 50,000 civilians died. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland in September […]
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St. George Village Offers Some Assisted Living Spaces
April 20, 2006While a waiting list exists for apartments in the independent living area of the newly opened St. George Village, a unique opportunity exists for a limited number of individuals to move directly into its assisted living and memory support areas. Residents are being sought to move directly into Wellington Court, the two-story assisted living area […]
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Elyse O’Kane Will Speak At Magnificat May 13
April 20, 2006Elyse O’Kane will be the May speaker at the Magnificat breakfast for women held at Killian Hall in Lilburn. While she is known for her singing voice and her leadership of liturgical music groups in the archdiocese, O’Kane only recently stepped out in faith with the support and encouragement of others to record her first […]
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Fashion Show To Focus On Modesty, Style
April 20, 2006A fashion revolution has taken over the country. Teenagers seeking modest, stylish clothing have spoken out, and their voices have been heard by the corporate world. The seventh annual Pure Fashion Show will be held Sunday, April 30, in the Thomas Murphy Ballroom of the Georgia World Congress Center. Popular Christian recording artist Rebecca St. […]
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Chrism Mass Brings Blessings To Priests, Parishioners
April 20, 2006Each year, on the Tuesday of Holy Week, the Cathedral of Christ the King becomes a sea of white vestments as the priests of the archdiocese fill the pews for the Chrism Mass. On April 11, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated the annual Mass, during which he blessed the oils to be used for the […]