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Learning Comes To Life On Student Trip To Rome
March 29, 2007Julie Derucki’s eyes filled with tears as she watched history come to life for her students. The six students from Notre Dame Academy were a part of what assistant principal Derucki called a “traveling classroom.” But this wasn’t just any classroom. The eighth-grade students spent March 10-16 in Rome, Italy, where the lessons they’d learned […]
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St. Brigid To Offer Mass For Pregnancy, Newborn Loss
March 29, 2007A Mass will be celebrated at St. Brigid Church on Tuesday, April 17, for all those who have suffered a pregnancy or newborn loss and for the infants who died. The Mass will be celebrated at 7 p.m., preceded by the rosary at 6:30 p.m. The Mass of the Tiny Innocents recognizes that every child […]
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Polish Lent Mission, Holy Week Liturgies Planned
March 29, 2007The Polish Catholic Apostolate in the Archdiocese of Atlanta is holding a Lenten mission and special liturgies for Holy Week and Easter in Polish. The Lenten mission will be presented by Father Piotr Lichacz, OP, at St. Marguerite d’Youville Church, 85 Gloster Road, Lawrenceville, from Friday, March 30, through Sunday, April 1. On March 30, […]
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Country Parish Offers Up Down-Home Goodness
March 29, 2007If you’re in town Wednesday evenings during Lent you’re invited to the soup suppers at Queen of Angels Church, but don’t forget to bring your soup bowl. Clam chowder, chicken noodle, gumbo—and meatless soups on Ash Wednesday—are the fare at the gatherings of the small community in the country. Parishioner Bob Kiel came to Queen […] Full Story
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Monk’s Writings Invite Readers To Encounter God
March 29, 2007ANGELS: Our Guides to Contemplation for the Third Millennium: Trinitarian and Cosmic by Thomas Francis Smith, OCSO, (Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Conyers, 2006), 68 pp., $5.95. This compact book by a Cistercian monk at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers challenges Christians to be more open to the presence of our cosmic […]
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‘Reign Over Me’ Connects Friends After Tragedy
March 29, 2007The new film “Reign Over Me” opens with a shot of a man zooming through the streets of New York City on a motorized scooter. It is notable for the emptiness of the streets and the grace of the rider. The man is profoundly alone in the midst of a bustling metropolis of millions of […]
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Soccer Springs Forth In Local Schools
March 29, 2007Our Lady of Mercy High School’s girls soccer team lost to The Galloway School, Atlanta, in a hard-fought match that went into two overtimes. After a scoreless first period, Galloway scored first on a goal by sophomore forward Danielle Haik with 21:30 left in the second period. Mercy’s Catie Palmer scored a goal with 14:52 […]
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Journalists Travel As Pilgrims To Holy Land Sites
March 29, 2007Descend from the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem on the “Passover Walk,” the route Jesus took to enter the city before He was crucified, and meditate in the Garden of Gethsemane by the ancient, gnarled olive trees where Jesus anguished before his arrest. Then prayerfully walk the Stations of the Cross up the streets of […] Full Story
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Catholic Schools Fare Well In State Spelling Bee
March 22, 2007Several students from schools located in the Archdiocese of Atlanta participated in the Georgia Independent Schools Association Spelling Bee in February. The first round of competition was held Feb. 8 at various locations around Georgia. Round one was a written competition devised of 110 words in which students were required to write in ink without […] Full Story
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Mystery Surrounding Heroic Priest Recalled
March 22, 2007It’s the stuff of legends … a story passed down throughout generations. A young Irish priest serving in the midst of a war-torn Atlanta hears of the impending doom his city is to suffer. With only his faith as a shield, he makes his way to speak to Union forces and pleads with Gen. William […]