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Oils Blessed For Sacraments, Priests Renew Promises
April 12, 2012A few days before the Easter Vigil, when over 2,000 new Catholics would enter the Church in North Georgia’s parishes and missions, the sacred oils that would be used in their sacraments of baptism and confirmation were blessed at the annual Chrism Mass. The Holy Week liturgy is a prelude each year to the renewal […]
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Chancery Staffer Enters Church Among Co-Workers
April 12, 2012It took me 40 years to find the Catholic Church. I was raised very religious as a primitive Baptist. We had Catholic neighbors and for all intents and purposes I was like a son to them. They were such wonderful people. They never tried to convert me, but I saw from them a way of […]
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‘We Have To Open The Door And Let The Lord In’
April 12, 2012Growing up, I always thought my religion was Buddhism. But as I grew older, I started to wonder why we did not go to the temple as much and why we did not follow certain practices as Buddhists. My parents explained to me that although we believed in Buddhism, we practiced more by praying to […]
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My Journey To The Roman Catholic Church
April 12, 2012Growing up in a small town in Alabama, I didn’t exactly see a Roman Catholic church that often. There was one Catholic church and I remember one person that I went to school with was Catholic. That was my very limited experience with the Catholic Church growing up. My family had a history of being […]
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Father Timothy Radcliffe Talks to the Georgia Bulletin
April 10, 2012Father Timothy Radcliffe talks to Modern Catholicism students Father Timothy Radcliffe visited Atlanta’s Emory University in late March as a guest of the Candler School of Theology and the Aquinas Center of Theology. I interviewed him before he met with students in the Modern Catholicism class and his public lecture to several hundred people. […]
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Youth Of The Year
March 29, 2012Alaina Abadie, Good Shepherd, Cumming; Chad Albers, St. Matthew, Tyrone; Ugo Anikpe, St. Paul of the Cross, Atlanta; Madison Bailey, St. Thomas the Apostle, Smyrna; Sydney Baker, St. Joseph, Marietta; Bridget Beaupre, St. Matthew, Winder; Ariel Buttram, Christ the Redeemer, Dawsonville; Meranda Cyr, St. Mary Magdalene, Newnan; Robin Davis, Sts. Peter and Paul, Decatur; Anastasia […]
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Office Of Formation, Discipleship Set On Renewal
March 29, 2012With new faces and a new focus, members of the Office of Formation and Discipleship aim to be of service to pastors and parish leaders as they reach out to the Catholic community. “The focus of the office is support of pastors and the parish leadership in the mission to catechize and form the faithful,” […]
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Reader’s Lenten Recipe: Pizza Fish
March 29, 2012Rose Levitan, of St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Smyrna, sent in this recipe for preparing fish that she’s used over the years. She said, “My husband is not a big fish eater, so I had to get creative during Lent. I came up with this recipe, and it has been a big hit with him […]
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Reader’s Lenten Recipe: Tuna Macaroni Salad
March 29, 2012Joy Stumpo, a parishioner of Mary Our Queen Church, Norcross, sent in this recipe for a salad that she cooks during Lent or “any time of year.” She notes that she also prepares this salad with canned salmon. Ingredients: 1 cup macaroni, uncooked 2 5-oz. cans of tuna (add more tuna, if you like it) […]
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Reader’s Lenten Recipe: Spinach Pie
March 29, 2012Mimi Arsenault offers this recipe for a meatless Lenten Friday from her retirement home in south Florida. She said that she usually makes at least two pies. “They freeze well,” she said. A resident of Monroe for 29 years, a Georgia educator and parishioner, she would bring this spinach pie to school for faculty gatherings, […]