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Birthday Girls Collect Library Items, Not Birthday Gifts
October 25, 2012Second-grade students at Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Atlanta, Annalise O’Connell, Bailey Apgar and Sofia Arboleda share the same birthday so they decided to share the same party as well. Instead of gifts, they asked friends to bring an item to benefit the school library. With three laundry baskets full of books and other materials, […]
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Footballers And Fans Dress In “Baby Blue”
October 25, 2012Pinecrest Academy’s high school student government hosted its first-ever “Go Baby Blue” theme night for Friday’s football game against George Walton Academy Oct. 19. As many of the NFL and school football teams are wearing pink in October in support of finding a cure for cancer, Pinecrest athletes and fans celebrated “the gift of life” […]
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Advocate For Homeless Dies
October 25, 2012Friends and family remembered William “Brother Sean” Rogers, the founder of Deep Waters Ministry. He passed away on Sunday, Oct. 7. “His physical form may be gone, but the good he has done to this earth is everlasting. May he rest in peace. Now we must carry on the work he shouldered for us,” said […]
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Youngsters Paint School Doors, Honoring Their Faith, Their School
October 25, 2012Our Lady of the Assumption School, Atlanta, held its art show, known as Art in the Park(ing Lot), which is a family festival and student art show. As part of the project, students, staff and volunteers worked together to decorate homeroom doors. Designs for each of the homeroom doors were created by a student from […]
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Pets Blessed On St. Francis Feast Day
October 25, 2012Sophia Academy, Atlanta, hosted the school’s first “Blessing of the Pets” on Oct. 4 as dogs, cats, reptiles and guinea pigs were blessed. Marist Father David Musso, the school chaplain, spoke to the school community about St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, and of his care and compassion for animals. After talking […]
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Spanish Catechists Can Enroll In Online Program
October 25, 2012In this “Year of Faith” called for by Pope Benedict XVI, the Archdiocese of Atlanta invites Hispanic catechetical leaders and other faithful Spanish speakers to enroll in an online pastoral theology certificate program through a new partnership with the University of Dallas School of Ministry. The program aims to enrich formation of ministry leaders catechizing […]
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Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ Tops Sight and Sound Poll
October 25, 2012Since 1952, Sight and Sound magazine, a venerable publication of the British Film Institute, has published a once-a-decade list of the greatest films ever made. For many years, the poll was determined by a panel of esteemed film critics, but beginning in 1992, renowned directors have also been allowed to cast votes. It is no […]
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Lo Que He Visto Y He Oido
October 25, 2012Posiblemente, vivimos en la nación más privilegiada en la historia del mundo. Somos bendecidos, no simplemente por la abundancia de nuestros recursos ni por la inmensidad de nuestro territorio ni por la estabilidad de nuestras instituciones, sino también porque cada cuatro años podemos decidir una vez más, la dirección que esta nación tomará en su […]
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Uncle Johnny And The Secret Of Strawberry Jam
October 25, 2012I will never dip a spoon into a jar of strawberry jam without remembering him. He was a bit on the stout side with chocolate-brown eyes and a big easy grin. He was my Uncle Johnny—married to my mom’s youngest sister—and he was the first man to pay any real attention to me. As a […]
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SVdP And Sullivan Center Join Similar Missions
October 25, 2012The merger of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Georgia and the Sullivan Center brings together two organizations with similar missions of helping people achieve self-sufficiency by providing financial, material and educational support. The Sullivan Center was founded 30 years ago by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Marie Sullivan as an expansion of the Christian Emergency […]