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Deacons To Lead Parish Mission For St. Pius X
September 22, 2005St. Pius X Church will present a parish mission Oct. 3-5 featuring two permanent deacons from the Diocese of Savannah. The mission will be held each night at 7 p.m. Deacons Robert Herrmann and Eddie Ensley will lead the mission, which will take participants on a contemplative journey, helping them to learn to pray as […]
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St. Brigid Church Wins $2,000 Scholarship
September 22, 2005St. Brigid Church in Alpharetta has been chosen to receive a $2,000 scholarship to the International Catholic Stewardship Council’s annual meeting this October in San Francisco. Each June, Our Sunday Visitor selects five parishes from a drawing to send to the ICSC annual meeting. Scholarships must be used to cover conference registration, ICSC membership dues […]
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Life Chains To Be Held Around North Georgia Oct. 2
September 22, 2005The Pro-Life Office of the Archdiocese of Atlanta is coordinating the Atlanta Life Chain, which will be held on Sunday, Oct. 2, at the Cathedral of Christ the King and other sites around the archdiocese. A Life Chain is a one-hour peaceful, prayerful, silent witness for life. Held on the first Sunday in October each […]
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Live Music Performance To Benefit Seamless Garment
September 22, 2005On Friday, Oct. 7, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at The Art Place-Mountain View, 3330 Sandy Plains Road, Marietta, there will be an evening of live music, plus a silent auction, to benefit Seamless Garment, a local home for pregnant women in crisis. Seamless Garment was founded and opened in April 2002 by Brian and […]
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Archbishop Donoghue To Celebrate Mass For Annual Rosary Rally
September 22, 2005The annual Archdiocesan Rosary Rally will be held on Sunday, Oct. 16, at Holy Spirit Church and will include an outdoor procession and recitation of the rosary, followed by a Mass inside the church celebrated by Archbishop-emeritus John F. Donoghue. The rosary rally will begin at 3 p.m. outside the church at 4465 Northside Drive, […]
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Faith Lives Bloom From 40 Years Of Cursillo Weekends
September 22, 2005When Father David Smith of Miami made a Cursillo weekend, he was a layman who heard his own divine calling after witnessing the transforming power of God in ordinary people’s lives. After the weekend the bilingual Floridian, who worked in exporting, discerned through his Cursillo “brothers” in 1976 his calling to the priesthood for the […]
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Lessons About Life From A Seashell
September 15, 2005I stopped dead in my tracks. I was walking along the shore at Neptune Beach, when I spotted a truly gorgeous shell. When I picked it up, I saw that the surf had worn away its ridges. Evidently the shell had been pushed and pulled by the persistent tides, and buffed by the sand, and […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (September 15, 2005)
September 15, 2005T.S. Eliot begins his poem “The Wasteland” with the proposition that “April is the cruelest month.” Many Americans would have to disagree with the poet and say that September, at least recently, has been the far crueler month. This past Sunday we all paused to remember the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attack on our […]
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Cenacle Sisters Honor Foundress With Prayer Institute
September 15, 2005The Cenacle Sisters are commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of the foundress of their order, St. Therese Couderc, by offering The Couderc Institute of Prayer, on Saturday, Oct. 8, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Alpharetta. This day-long seminar features the following workshops: “Praying with Scripture,” “Rediscovering Lectio Divina,” […]
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Catholic Charities Team Is Welcome Sight In Biloxi
September 15, 2005More than anything else, people wanted bleach. That’s what the Catholic Charities USA disaster relief team found as it drove its caravan of vehicles through Biloxi and the surrounding area hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina. Victims of the hurricane were happy to get food and water, but above all they wanted bleach and other cleaning supplies […]