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St. Joseph Community In Athens Gathers
November 9, 2006More than 700 members of the St. Joseph Church and School family attended the parish picnic Oct. 15 at Sandy Creek Park in Athens. The event opened with an outdoor Mass and continued with an enormous picnic lunch. Games for the children, a petting zoo and pony rides also were part of the fun. Members […]
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Atlanta Boy Choir To Sing At Monastery
November 9, 2006A Christmas concert with the Atlanta Boy Choir will be held on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit, 2625 Highway 212, SW. Founded in 1957, the Atlanta Boy Choir has performed in many of the world’s great cathedrals and concert halls across North America and […]
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Sister Helen Prejean To Speak At Oglethorpe
November 9, 2006Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, will be a conference keynote speaker at Oglethorpe University on Thursday, Nov. 16, as part of a two-day university-sponsored “Dialogue on the Death Penalty.” Sister Helen will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Conant Performing Arts Center at the university, 4484 Peachtree Road, N.E. Her lecture will conclude with an audience […]
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New Archdiocesan Office To Assist With Worship
November 9, 2006For the past five months a new archdiocesan office has been quietly assisting parishes and the Archdiocese of Atlanta as a whole in creating rich, tradition-filled liturgies. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory officially established the archdiocesan Office of Divine Worship this past June and appointed Father Theodore Book as its director. The purpose of the office, […]
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Extraordinary Ministers Of Eucharist Will No Longer Purify Vessels At Mass
November 9, 2006At the direction of Pope Benedict XVI, extraordinary ministers of holy Communion will no longer be permitted to assist in the purification of the sacred vessels at Masses in the United States. In an Oct. 23 letter, Bishop William S. Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, asked his fellow bishops to inform […]
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Our Lady Of The Americas Church Dedicated
November 9, 2006The simple white wood cross with “misión católica” painted in red letters that beaconed many poor Spanish-speaking immigrants to the doors of Our Lady of the Americas Mission in Doraville now stands before its new home in Lilburn. The community moved to the Lawrenceville Highway building in June from the cramped converted warehouse in Doraville […]
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Considering The Eternal Value Of Life
November 2, 2006I have always felt sympathy for those in the medical profession: they face an impossible task. We have charged doctors with preserving life, but every patient a doctor sees will invariably die—the best he or she can hope for is to extend the life of the patient, making it more pleasant or full of greater […]
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Lighting Candles For The Poor Souls
November 2, 2006“Let’s not forget the poor souls in purgatory who have no one to pray for them,” said Sister Rosemond. I was in seventh grade in Ascension School in Elmhurst, N.Y., sitting quietly among the students on a chilly November day, the second day of the month. It was called All Souls’ Day. The thought that […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (November 2, 2006)
November 2, 2006There are more than 55 colleges and universities within an easy drive of these 69 North Georgia counties I learned last week. These institutions of higher learning serve a great many of our young adult Catholics. I visited three of those institutions last week as I continue to make my rounds to the places where […]
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St. Pius Streak Ends At Seven Straight
November 2, 2006St. Pius X High School was knocked from the ranks of the undefeated with a 21-13 loss to Mays High School, Atlanta. Both teams came into the game unbeaten through seven games, but St. Pius started the game out of sync. They fumbled on their first two possessions inside the 30-yard line, but the St. […]