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Another Fall Friday Night Of Football
October 12, 2006Pinecrest Academy in Cumming extended their consecutive winning streak to four games with a 37-14 win over Monroe Academy and gave the school’s first graduating class a senior night to remember. With a well-balanced offensive attack, Pinecrest sophomore quarterback Michael Metz threw two touchdown passes to Michael Boulanger, and running backs Luis Domenge and Tom […]
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Roswell Parish ‘Digs’ For New Worship Space
October 12, 2006Guided by a construction worker, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory manned a backhoe loader and extended its mighty claw to scoop out a big chunk of dirt during a groundbreaking ceremony for permanent worship space at St. Peter Chanel Church, and then little boys ran up to rake their fingers through the raw earth. The archbishop […] Full Story
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Sitting In Cars, Talking—A Memory Made New
October 5, 2006Augustine flew in from Utah, where he spent a week on retreat at our monastery in Huntsville. His flight was right on time, and on the way to the car he said that he was hungry, so we stopped at a “Wendy’s” here in Conyers for a late-night snack. Only the drive-in service was available, […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (October 5, 2006)
October 5, 2006I spent a bit of quality time last week with some of our young people. For openers, last Sunday, I visited the Cathedral Parish school of religion. There are more than 600 youngsters enrolled in religious education classes at the Cathedral Parish, and they are a source of great joy and a lot of energy […]
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The Beauty Of Following The Lord
October 5, 2006For the last few months, I have had the privilege of serving as the chaplain at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cancer Home, just south of Turner Field, in the Summerhill neighborhood of Atlanta. I’ve found a great grace in serving here—it is beautiful to see the hope and joy brought to the terminal cancer […]
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Monastery Classical Concert Series Begins Oct. 8
October 5, 2006A fall season of classical choral music will open at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit on Sunday, Oct. 8, with a program by the combined choruses from Paideia and Westminster Schools. Two of the best youth choruses in the Atlanta area will collaborate to form a 90-member combined chorus for the […]
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Atlanta Priests ‘Warmed’ By Joys Of Pet Ownership
October 5, 2006Father Patrick Kingery … fell in love the instant he laid eyes on her. Eleven years later, their devotion to one another has not waned. She’s there every day when he gets home from his daily responsibilities as pastor of Holy Cross Church, ready to jump into his arms. One week after he began his […]
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Students Plant Pinwheels, Whirl For Peace
October 5, 2006St. John the Evangelist School held a prayer service for peace in their hearts and in the world on Sept. 21 as part of an international art and literacy project called Pinwheels for Peace, where they planted pinwheels with messages of peace near the school’s entrance. During the service on the International Day of Peace, […]
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Going Deep With Mercy Football Coach
October 5, 2006Bryan Pinabell is the new head football coach at Our Lady of Mercy High School, Fairburn. Pinabell, 35, came over from St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, where he served as the assistant defensive coordinator. He inherited a Mercy football program that was 0-10 in 2005 and 1-9 in 2004. Pinabell is a coach who […]
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Churches Join To Present ‘Titanic’ Production
October 5, 2006In a unique ecumenical collaboration, performers from St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Alpharetta and Kingswood United Methodist Church in Dunwoody will present “Titanic the Musical” at Kingswood Oct. 12-15 and at St. Thomas Oct. 19-22. “Titanic the Musical” opened on Broadway in 1997, months before the blockbuster movie of the same name appeared. Enjoying a […]