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Valentine’s Day Ball Sponsored By Marriage Encounter
February 19, 2004On Feb. 7, couples from the Marriage Encounter organization celebrated their marriages at the World Marriage Day Valentine Ball, held at the Chamblee-Dunwoody Holiday Inn. This year’s event was the 19th annual such event celebrated in Atlanta to honor the institution of marriage. World Marriage Day, the second Sunday in February, focuses on the uplifting […]
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Rite Of Election To Gather Candidates, Catechumens
February 19, 2004Children, men and women preparing to be initiated into the Catholic Church at Easter will take one of their final steps on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Georgia International Convention Center at 10:30 a.m. during the annual Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion. The celebration, sponsored by the Atlanta Forum on the Catechumenate, […]
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Media with a Message: ‘The Wedding’ By Nicholas Sparks
February 19, 2004Nicholas Sparks’ latest novel “The Wedding,” the sequel to his first published novel “The Notebook,” explores the theme of whether a man can consciously change himself and rekindle the sparks of love he once had in his marriage. Wilson Lewis is the son-in-law of Noah and Ali Calhoun, the protagonists in “The Notebook.” After he […]
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Spotlight On A Saint: St. Valentine
February 19, 2004At least two, and possibly three different St. Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies (books containing information on the martyrs of the church) under the date of Feb. 14. One is described as a priest in Rome, another as the bishop of Interamna (now Terni, a city in central Italy). […]
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Archbishop Urges Catholics To See The Passion
February 19, 2004To the Catholics of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, And to All People of Good Faith Dear Friends in Christ, On Wednesday February 25th, we will celebrate Ash Wednesday, and the beginning of the Lenten Season for the year of our Lord, 2004. As good Catholics do every year, we will undertake during the ensuing forty […]
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11 New Deacons, Rest Of 2004 Class, Ordained
February 19, 2004As their 11 classmates, ordained the previous weekend, served as acolytes, the remaining 11 men of the class of 2004 were ordained to the permanent diaconate on Feb. 7 at the Cathedral of Christ the King. Friends and family of the men packed into the church, where they expressed joy in seeing the men make […]
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Archbishop’s Visit Highlights Holy Spirit Prep Celebration
February 5, 2004Holy Spirit Preparatory School kicked off Catholic Schools Week by sponsoring the annual Msgr. Edward J. Dillon Catholic Trivia Bowl. On Monday morning, Jan. 25, 14 students in second to fifth grade and eight students in sixth to 10th grade answered questions that were far more advanced than trivial. Lower school students assembled first to […]
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2004 World Day For Consecrated Religious Life: They Left Everything and Followed Jesus
February 5, 2004With help from the Benedictine Sisters at Queen of Angels Monastery, Sara Feick, an outgoing 37-year-old, is opening up spiritually, hoping to serve the people of God and embrace the intense depth of monastic life. A Benedictine novice in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, farming town of Mount Angel since 2001, Feick plans to profess promises […]
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2004 World Day For Consecrated Religious Life
February 5, 2004Baptism calls each of us as Christians to proclaim God’s greatness, to accomplish God’s will, and to actively participate in solidarity with one human family. We each accomplish these mandates moving along different paths. Young people and some “not-so-young” people, both men and women, are called to a path known as Religious life. Those who […]
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Program Gives Middle-Schoolers Chance To Rise Up
February 5, 2004It’s an age group not often singled out by the church, but the Archdiocese of Atlanta is trying to change that with a new ministry for middle-school students. Lynn Ory, youth minister at St. Oliver Plunkett Church in Snellville, and Brian Walsh, youth minister at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Smyrna, now serve as […] Full Story