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New Education Building Blessed At Kennesaw Parish
January 5, 2006Parents, students, faculty and a parish community celebrated as the new school and parish educational facility at St. Catherine of Siena Church was dedicated by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory on Dec. 20, 2005. The dedication came three months after it was originally scheduled, after Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue canceled school to conserve fuel in late […]
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All Saints Parish Mission Begins Sunday, Jan. 30
December 27, 2005Conventual Franciscan Friar Father Jude Michael Krill will lead a mission at All Saints Church in Dunwoody from Sunday, Jan. 30, through Tuesday, Feb. 1. The theme of the mission is “Finding Our Security in God.” A description of the mission’s focus states that, as Christians “we are called to hear the voice of God […] Full Story
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At Christmas, Celebrating The Blessings Of Children
December 22, 2005My Aunt Rita told me the doctors suspect she may have cancer. Her daughter, of course, will accompany her for the biopsy and other procedures. How frightened I was to think of anything happening to my very last aunt, the one who used to paint flowers in iodine on my skinned knees. After these thoughts […]
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What I Have Seen And Heard (December 22, 2005)
December 22, 2005Some great Hollywood pictures are identified as much by their soundtrack as they are for their storyline. A movie famously linked to Atlanta is the epic “Gone with the Wind”! Tara’s theme conjures up the tragic events that are portrayed in this now famous Hollywood saga. Then there are the themes for “The Godfather,” “The […]
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Nativity Pieces Stir Awareness Of God’s Coming
December 22, 2005At the age of 17, I was not thrilled with the gift. My mother had been going on for over a month that my sister and I were getting expensive Christmas presents, and in my delusional mind that meant a car, so imagine my disappointment when I woke on Christmas morning to a large cardboard […]
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Overflowing Mission Starts Building Fund
December 22, 2005Our Lady of the Americas Mission this year could only accept some 700 children in its religious education program and had to turn hundreds more away due to the lack of space in their converted warehouse church facility. So when Father Fernando Molina-Restrepo was assigned to the mission this summer, he immediately knew what he […] Full Story
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Deacon Leaves Multifaceted Legacy Of Love
December 22, 2005One wouldn’t have to go far to find someone in the Archdiocese of Atlanta who has attended a retreat at Marian Meadows, a short drive from Atlanta in Dawsonville. Not many, however, may know of the beautiful love story and the test of faith for the man and his family that gave life to the […]
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Prayers Raised For A World Living With AIDS
December 22, 2005“Comfort my people.” This is the message that Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory conveyed to Catholic AIDS ministers of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in his homily during the Mass for a World Living With AIDS celebrated Dec. 4 at Sacred Heart Church in Atlanta. The Mass ended the “Week of Prayer for a World Living With […]
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AIDS Ministry Is Elevated To Archdiocesan Office
December 22, 2005During the Mass for a World Living With AIDS, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory announced that he had established the Office of HIV/AIDS Ministry to serve as the official agency of the local church for the pastoral care of persons living with and affected by the disease. AIDS ministry in the archdiocese started in the early […]
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Catholics Pray For A World With AIDS
December 22, 2005For the first time since HIV/AIDS ministries were established in the archdiocese, the Catholic community in North Georgia was invited to join AIDS ministers in prayer for all who have died from AIDS-related complications, as well as for those around the world who live with or are affected by the disease. From Nov. 26 to […]