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About the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
January 9, 2020Once again the prayer of Jesus “that they be one” (Jn 17:21) is revisited, repeated and celebrated during the fourth week of January. The worldwide prayer time, the International Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, was developed by Father Paul Wattson, SA, in Garrison, New York, and first observed Jan. 18-25, 1908.
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Unlocking the door to our hearts
January 9, 2020Maybe it’s the darkness, the steady rainfall, the dreary skies, but January has always seemed like the longest two months of the year. Yes, two months, because it seems to drag on forever.
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Georgia-based Radio Inmaculada celebrates anniversary
December 26, 2019Radio Inmaculada celebrated 14 years on the air Dec. 8 with a dinner and concert in Douglasville. That day they officially launched Inmaculada TV, a digital platform that broadcasts Catholic content to Spanish-speaking Catholics around the world.
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Talking to God
December 26, 2019A great many of us go through the annual ritual of making New Year’s resolutions, most of which are abandoned and quickly forgotten. Have you ever stopped and asked yourself why you forget it?
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Connections to Christmases past
December 26, 2019There is an angel, a snowman, a small present, clothespin Santas. Hardly an explosion of blinking, glowing Christmas cheer, but this collection of simple wooden ornaments is both my connection to Christmas past and a measure of the passage of time.
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The Christmas the dog ate the ornaments
December 26, 2019Many people strive to create the perfect Christmas experience for the family. The tree must be a symmetrical shape and the ornaments placed upon the limbs in a pleasing pattern. Each present is wrapped with precision and tied with large satin bows.
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‘A Hidden Life’ paints portrait of Blessed Franz Jagerstatter
December 26, 2019In 2007, Franz Jagerstatter, a devoutly Catholic Austrian farmer martyred by the Nazis for his stance as a conscientious objector, was declared blessed.
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International relief groups encourage Georgia Catholics to give
December 26, 2019Reaching families facing poverty, disease and disaster in the West’s most forgotten crevices, international charities Malteser International Americas (MIA) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) invite Georgians to give life and support humanitarian missions to their hemispheric neighbors in crisis.
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Prayer and painting go hand in hand for icon artists
December 26, 2019Every painting session at Emmanuel Studio begins in prayer. Austere faces of holy women and men hanging on the walls surround the artists.
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Father Timothy Ryan, a priest with varied career, dies December 13
December 26, 2019Father Timothy Ryan, a retired priest of the Diocese of Savannah, died peacefully in Roswell, on Dec. 13. He was 81.