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St. Jude To Host Annual Music Symposium
July 19, 2012Sponsored by the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the Southeastern Liturgical Music Symposium is an annual gathering of musicians who share an interest in advancing the quality of Catholic liturgical music. This year’s symposium will be hosted by St. Jude the Apostle Church on August 24–25 and will focus on how to select appropriate music for the […]
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How ‘The Catholics Next Door’ Found NFP
July 19, 2012It’s inevitable that once you crack the door open looking for God, he can’t help but enter in. Such was the case for Greg and Jennifer Willits, parishioners at St. Pius X Church in Conyers and co-hosts of SiriusXM’s radio program, “The Catholics Next Door.” Well into their marriage and en route to a deeper […]
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Good Shepherd Sister Anita Marks 60 Years A Nun
July 19, 2012Sister Anita Kristofco found herself as a young adult challenged by teenaged girls and youngsters from poor neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Coming from a small town in the western part of the state, she knew little about their homes or life, things like the special hair care needed for black girls was foreign to her. But […]
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Adrian Dominican Sister Celebrates Golden Jubilee
July 19, 2012As a young child, Dominican Sister Sharon McGuire decided that she either wanted to be a nun or a nurse. And for the last few decades, Sister McGuire has answered God’s call to both vocations, serving people in a medical and spiritual capacity as part of the Adrian Dominican order. Celebrating her golden jubilee this […]
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Lessons I Failed To Learn In My Younger Years
July 19, 2012I was in high school when the advent of the birth-control pill was announced to the world, and it was declared by secular society to be a wondrously liberating device. For married women, the pill was touted as offering freedom from a string of pregnancies. For single women, the pill was hailed as a way […]
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Tilting At Windmills
July 19, 2012In Miguel de Cervantes’ masterpiece, “Don Quixote,” the title character famously attacks some windmills, which he mistakes for “ferocious giants”: “Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, ‘Fortune is guiding our affairs […]
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Finding God Right At Your Feet
July 19, 2012Scriptures reveal ample evidence of the traces of God and his ways, as these are found in the most commonplace things. Jesus often spoke of harvests and seeds, pearls and trees, the birds of the air, wineskins and more to share with his hearers what God is like, what he does for us, how much […]
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Priest Assignments
July 19, 2012Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following priest assignments. Upon the recommendation of Bishop Benoît Alowonou of the Diocese of Kpalimé, Togo (Africa), Archbishop Gregory has confirmed the appointment of Father Agbeko (Daniel) Gbadji as chaplain for the Francophone community in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The appointment is effective beginning June 18 for a […]
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Cristina Zakis To Speak At Magnificat Meal Aug. 18
July 19, 2012Cristina Zakis, of St. Stephen the Martyr Church, Lilburn, will be the guest speaker at the Magnificat breakfast for women to be held on Saturday, Aug. 18, at Holy Cross Church, Atlanta. The local chapter of the international Catholic women’s ministry sponsors the breakfast. All women are invited to attend this morning of faith-sharing and […]
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Then And Now: Siblings Share Love Of Faith, Arts
July 19, 2012It’s been almost 10 years since I took this photograph of Angela Rodriguez and her younger brother, Javier Rivera, as they were lining up for a procession at Mass celebrating the canonization of St. Juan Diego. It was held outdoors at St. Pius X High School in Atlanta. Angela was 13 and Juan was 4. […]