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Monastery To Host Annual Concert With Atlanta Boy Choir
November 17, 2005The Atlanta Boy Choir will continue a 25-year local Christmas tradition when the group performs again in December at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit. The concert will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10. Hailed as one of the world’s finest boy choirs, the Atlanta Boy Choir has performed […]
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Spring Hill Expands Degrees, Programs Offered In Atlanta Area
November 17, 2005Spring Hill College, a Jesuit college located in Mobile, Ala., has expanded its presence in Atlanta by offering accelerated undergraduate and advanced degrees for working adults. Since 1997, Spring Hill has offered degrees in theology at Holy Spirit Church in Atlanta. The success of this program prompted the college to expand the range of degrees […] Full Story
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HIV/AIDS Ministry Plans ‘Week Of Prayer’ For Archdiocese
November 17, 2005The Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Office of HIV/AIDS Ministry will sponsor a “Week of Prayer for a World Living with AIDS,” Nov. 26-Dec.3. Various parishes in the archdiocese will participate in the week, which includes World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, by holding prayer services and other events, and the entire archdiocesan community is […]
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Mass Embraces Gulf Area Students In Georgia
November 17, 2005A familiar tune echoed through the Our Lady of Mercy High School gymnasium on Tuesday, Nov. 8. For many in the room, it was a song heard many times in the city they once called home, hundreds of miles away from the red and white gym with the snarling bobcat painted on the wall. But […]
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The Stewardship Challenge: Give Prayerfully
November 10, 2005Uh oh, here comes the collection basket. As I fumble in my purse to extract the envelope, I always feel a wee bit guilty. No matter how much I’ve written the check for, I always wonder if it should be more. Like many Catholics, I struggle day to day with deciding how much to give […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (November 10, 2005)
November 10, 2005I celebrated Mass this week in two different cemeteries, which at face value may not be all that earthshaking because after all we did observe All Souls Day on Nov. 2. But one of the cemeteries happens to be the oldest Catholic cemetery in Georgia dating back to 1790, and so it was a real […]
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St. Pius X Announces Christmas Classic Tournament
November 10, 2005The sixth annual “Christmas Classic Basketball Tournament” sponsored by St. Pius X High School will be held Dec. 27-29 at the school. The tournament draws boys and girls varsity basketball teams from across the country to play in this holiday season event. In a short amount of time, the St. Pius X “Christmas Classic” has […]
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Prisoners Find ‘Something Bigger Than Themselves’
November 10, 2005LeThicia Davis, a counselor who coordinates the Faith and Character-Based Dormitory at Hays State Prison, is already seeing positive signs of change among prisoners from the state’s pilot initiative. She recalled one inmate, who had severe behavioral problems and had been in and out of prison since the age of 17, who was transformed through […]
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North Georgians Help Christians In Holy Land
November 10, 2005The vocation of Father Peter Vasko, OFM, crystallized when he saw the fivefold cross of Jerusalem. “It was like an ax slicing me in two.” While on retreat some 25 years ago at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit in Conyers the successful businessman was seeking the next step in his life. […]
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Women And Christ Make ‘Mighty Great Combination’
November 10, 2005The 49th annual convention of the Atlanta Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women (AACCW) was held at St. Joseph Church on Saturday, Oct. 1. The convention, dedicated to Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, was a one-day event as the AACCW had also hosted the national convention of the National Council of Catholic Women in Atlanta in September. […]