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All Saints Fifth-Graders Pray For Vocations
March 30, 2006A fifth-grade CCD class at All Saints Church, Dunwoody, focuses on prayer for vocations. The class went to 7:30 a.m. Mass together on Sunday, March 26, and at the end of Mass accepted the Elijah Cup, the chalice used during Mass. Each of their families will have a chance during the week to keep the […]
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Lent A Time To Ask Forgiveness
March 30, 2006“Forgive me, for I am a sinner.” These words are spoken by each member of our Byzantine Catholic congregation to every other member, at the start of the Lenten journey. After the initial, sometimes tearful, admission, each person says to the other, “May God forgive us both.” As you might imagine, this is a very […]
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Father Luis Zarama Named Second Vicar General; Msgr. Paul Reynolds To Pastor St. Brigid Church
March 30, 2006Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced several changes in the senior administrative staff for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, effective April 28. Father Joseph Corbett, who has served as both vicar general of the archdiocese and as pastor of St. Brigid Church, Alpharetta, since April 2005, will assume the role of vicar general on a full-time […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (March 30, 2006)
March 30, 2006I visited one of our Marist priests this past weekend who was in the hospital. When I entered his room, he told me, “It’s a good thing you arrived now rather than an hour ago; there would not have been space for you in the room.” It was filled with members of a family that […]
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Sacred Images A Shared Blessing Between Churches
March 23, 2006Some weeks before beginning the holy season of Lent, we put away the tender Nativity scenes, centered on the lovely images of the Holy Family, the newborn Infant, Joseph, Mary, the shepherds, and the Magi. As the beautiful preface of the Christmas Mass marvelously proclaims, “In the wonder of the Incarnation … a new and […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (March 23, 2006)
March 23, 2006As many of you may know, I spent four wonderful years of my early priesthood in Rome studying liturgy at the Benedictine University of Saint Anselm. There I personally discovered the great gift that the Benedictine community has been for the Church for more than 15 centuries. This past week—on two separate occasions—I had the […]
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Catholic Preschools Blend Joy, Faith, Learning
March 23, 2006The 2-year-olds are in the movement room at St. Thomas Aquinas Church Preschool. Their laughter echoes throughout the spacious room as their teachers toss small plastic balls onto the multicolored parachute that the children are holding. As a teacher counts down to “go time,” the children twitch with anticipation. As soon as they hear the […]
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Catholics Urged To Contact Legislators This Week
March 23, 2006The leaders of the Justice for Immigrants Campaign, sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, are sending a message urging Catholics to contact their U.S. senators this week in support of legislation most closely matching the provisions of the McCain-Kennedy Bill, as the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to meet the morning of […]
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Missionaries Join Hands With Nicaragua’s Poor
March 23, 2006Published: March 23, 2006 ATLANTA—The trash truck rumbled into the city dump in Managua, Nicaragua, and men and boys living in surrounding metal shacks ran up to it to scavenge frantically for food to sell, eat or use, as dirt softly rose and enveloped them in a cloud of dust. Daphne Nordone observed the putrid […]
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Several Groups Plan Trips To Mustard Seed Sites
March 23, 2006Various churches and schools in the Archdiocese of Atlanta are participating in Mustard Seed Communities mission trips in the Caribbean and Nicaragua to serve at their orphanages for children with disabilities who were abandoned and others in great need. On their spring breaks, Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, students will return to Kingston, Jamaica, and […]