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Want A Short Cut To Heaven? Follow A Happy Child
July 6, 2006We are in a restaurant in Jacksonville Beach, where the music is blaring, but the chips and salsa are fine. My great nephew, Noah, 1½ years old, is eating tidbits handed him by his mom. At the end of the meal, the waitress gives lollipops to everyone, and even though Noah is too young to […]
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The Road Of Joy
July 6, 2006There is a road that winds behind the main building of the monastery. Some years back someone planted a few bamboo shoots. Now there is a bamboo forest. The bamboo thrives here. Looking at them as I walk the road, I think of how such abundance arrives without the aid of formal prayer. Was anyone […]
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Sacred Heart, Hartwell, Honors 2006 Graduates
July 6, 2006The seven Sacred Heart Church young people who graduated from college or high school this spring were honored by the parish on Pentecost Sunday June 4. Pentecost is the celebration of the gift of the Holy Spirit and completes the Easter season. The Easter season began at the Easter Vigil with the lighting of the […] Full Story
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Father David Runnion Ordained In Charleston Diocese
July 6, 2006Father David A. Runnion, a member of the Atlanta Archdiocese and former assistant attorney general in Georgia, was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Charleston on June 3. Bishop Robert J. Baker ordained Father Runnion and Father Marcin Zahuta, a native of Poland, at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in the […]
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Our Lady Of The Americas Moves To New Lilburn Site
July 6, 2006After worshipping in a converted warehouse near the Doraville MARTA station for over 20 years, the all Spanish-speaking congregation of Our Lady of the Americas Mission finally moved into a larger brick church building on Lawrenceville Highway the week of June 19. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will dedicate the new building, located in increasingly multicultural […]
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‘Thank You For Being A Priest,’ Archbishop Says
July 6, 2006Over 60 priests of the archdiocese joined with Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory June 7 in honoring eight priest jubilarians celebrating 50 or 25 years of ordination. “May this year’s anniversary strengthen your hearts with the gratitude of those whom you have served with such devotion for 25 or 50 years,” the archbishop said to the […]
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Priests Rejoice In Rich Ministries To God’s People
July 6, 2006FATHER JOSEPH FAHY, CP Golden jubilarian Father Joseph Fahy, CP, has been ministering in Georgia for most of the last 20 years, particularly by extending the sacraments and the pastoral care of the church to Hispanic immigrants. The Passionist priest, a native of Washington, D.C., was invited to come to the archdiocese in 1983 by […]
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Five Priests Celebrate 25 Years Of Ministry
July 6, 2006FATHER AUSTIN FOGARTY Irish-born Father Austin Fogarty studied at All Hallows Seminary in Dublin and St. Peter’s College in Wexford before coming to the United States. An invitation from a Texas bishop brought him across the Atlantic where he completed his studies at Assumption-St. John’s Seminary in San Antonio, Texas. In 1976 he was accepted […]
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African-American Catholics To Convene
July 6, 2006Archdiocesan Catholics will have a unique opportunity to attend the International African-American Catholic Evangelization Conference, which will be held at the Atlanta Hilton Hotel Aug. 4-6. The biennial conference is a joint endeavor of the IAACEC and the National Black Catholic Congress Youth and Young Adult Commission. Its purpose is to empower all who attend, […]
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AACCW Raising Book Funds For Texas School
July 6, 2006The Atlanta Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women is supporting a commitment by the National Council of Catholic Women to purchase new math textbooks for Our Mother of Mercy School in Beaumont, Texas, which was devastated by Hurricane Rita last year. The small parochial school suffered severe roof and water damage from the hurricane; the building […]