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Christ Our Hope Church Will Hold Lenten Revival
February 26, 2004Pastor Father Jack Durkin and parishioners of Christ Our Hope Church in Lithonia invite all to the Lenten Revival series “I Will Arise and Return to My Father” beginning on Sunday, March 7 and ending on Tuesday, March 9. The event for the family will be held at 7 p.m. nightly. Ursula Bleasdell, better known […]
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Archdiocese Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary Of Perpetual Adoration By Hosting Eucharistic Congress
February 26, 2004Ten years since Archbishop John F. Donoghue instituted perpetual adoration, the Archdiocese of Atlanta is preparing to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi by hosting its ninth annual Eucharistic Congress on June 12 at the Georgia International Convention Center. “I have been in this archdiocese for 55 years, and this is the most spectacular religious […]
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It’s Time To Amend The Blaine Amendment – Commentary
February 19, 2004The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States declares, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of […]
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Ash Wednesday Prayer Evokes Nuns’ Humility
February 19, 2004Ash Wednesday is a humbling day. We walk to the altar and hear the rather dismal words, “Thou art dust, and to dust thou shall return” while the priest makes a smudgy black cross on our foreheads. We sit down and hear the words repeated hundreds of times, until everyone in church has a smudge. […]
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Shooting Arrows At Cupid
February 19, 2004Valentine’s Day is a day that just doesn’t seem to go away. It keeps returning year after year, only to put holes in the wallets of great men everywhere. Contrary to popular belief, February 14 is not a day of love. It is a day of sorrow. Consider the following. Every year on Valentine’s Day, […]
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March Novena Dedicated To Themes Of Hope
February 19, 2004St. Michael the Archangel Church will offer a Nine-Day Novena of Hope March 1-9. The program will feature various themes dedicated to causes for social justice. Father Paul Flood, pastor of St. Michael, said that he wanted to offer “something special for our Lenten season.” “It has been a big undertaking,” he said. “It promises […]
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Adoration Helps Teens Build Relationship With Jesus
February 19, 2004Every Monday at 5 p.m., 17-year-old Sara Stecki spends an hour with her best friend. She tells him about her week, about her worries and fears, about her joys and triumphs. And, she said, he restores and a sense of peace to her sometimes chaotic life. As a guardian in the perpetual adoration chapel at […]
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‘Ociee Nash’ Demonstrates 19th-Century Girl Power
February 19, 2004“The Adventures of Ociee Nash,” the story of a young girl growing up in the South, is an enjoyable film with a message that is suitable for the entire family. Set in 1898 and based upon the novel “A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street” by Georgia writer Milam McGraw Propst, “The Adventures of Ociee Nash” […]
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Catholic Author, Filmmakers Realize Dream In ‘Ociee’
February 19, 2004Milam McGraw Propst’s love and respect for her grandmother is forever written on her heart. That love was captured in her first award-winning novel “A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street” and now in the novel’s screenplay adaptation entitled “The Adventures of Ociee Nash,” which opened in metro Atlanta theaters on Valentine’s Day weekend. As a […]
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Blaine Amendment Discussed At Historic Meeting
February 19, 2004On Dec. 22, 2003, Archbishop John F. Donoghue and Bishop J. Kevin Boland, Bishop of Savannah, met at the State Capitol with Gov. Sonny Perdue. The bishops discussed their support for the Faith and Family Services Amendment, which the governor introduced at the 2004 session of the Georgia General Assembly. The resolution is intended to […]