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The spiritual side of retirement planning: the lagniappe step
March 2, 2023Several years ago, I had a rather serious surgery and was recuperating in intensive care. It was almost midnight, and it was very quiet in the ICU. I had tubes connected measuring my vital signs.
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St. Brendan’s shroud exhibit offers story of hope
March 2, 2023An exhibit examining the Shroud of Turin is expanding its collection, giving visitors another perspective on the mystery surrounding the burial cloth. A bronze sculpture of Jesus as he was laid in the tomb helps visitors imagine the man wrapped in the shroud.
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Make room in the pews as 1,800 new believers join the church
March 1, 2023On April 8, at Easter Vigil liturgies across the Archdiocese of Atlanta, 1,831 catechumens and candidates will receive the sacraments for the first time.
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Archbishop Hartmayer blesses tabernacle at world’s busiest airport
March 1, 2023Travelers going through Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport now have the Blessed Sacrament to pray with. Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., blessed a tabernacle for the airport in February.
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Christ will do the work
February 26, 2023I grew up during the changing landscape after the Second Vatican Council, and adoration wasn’t a practice that I came to know and love until well into my adult life as a wife and mother.
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Ethel Waters and ‘His Eye is on the Sparrow’
February 23, 2023Like the character she plays, Ethel Waters had a particularly hard, yet fascinating, life before she appeared on Broadway in what became her most famous role on either stage or screen.
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Meet the deacons of 2023
February 23, 2023Get to know Atlanta’s newly ordained deacons, serving in parishes across the archdiocese.
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Pope says Lent is time to let go of the frivolous, to choose truth, love
February 22, 2023What matters is the truth and the love that God sees, not what is superficial, showy and self-centered, Pope Francis said during a Mass to mark the beginning of Lent.
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Emotional LA sheriff details arrest in death of Bishop O’Connell; motive remains unclear
February 21, 2023A 65-year-old man was taken into custody Feb. 20 by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies as the prime suspect in the murder of Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell of Los Angeles. “My heart grieves,” said LA County Sheriff Robert G. Luna in an emotional press conference.
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Parents get first-hand experience of Jesus’ kind of love
February 20, 2023“Thanks be to God!” The little voice rang out in the church at the end of daily Mass. A family with three small children, and another on the way, was attending, and the girl’s enthusiasm brought smiles to the congregation’s faces.