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Holy Spirit Cross Country Team Excels, Coach Honored
November 10, 2011The boys and girls cross country teams at Holy Spirit Preparatory School competed in the Oct. 25 Georgia Independent School Association Region (GISA) 1AAA Championships at the Nash Farm Battlefield, Hampton. Ryan Doyle and Hannah Meadows claimed individual honors, while both teams earned wins, and first-year coach Andrew Shanks was named Region Coach of the Year […]
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Work Of Human Hands Sales Set For Three Dates
November 10, 2011In addition to charitable donations made during the holiday season, there is another way to help those in need to have a better life that does not involve their receiving charity. Consider shopping for beautiful and fairly traded decorations, gifts, jewelry, scarves, ornaments, nativity sets and other hand-crafted items as well as fair trade coffee, […]
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Volleyball Players Named To Senior All-Star Team
November 10, 2011Mary Carter Thornton of Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, Olivia Schmitz of Our Lady of Mercy High School, Fayetteville, and Alex Bidgood of St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, were named to the Georgia Volleyball Coaches Association senior all-star team. Thornton, a four-year varsity starter, played libero and served and was one of Blessed Trinity’s […]
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November 10, 2011A one-time storage room at St. Luke Church, Dahlonega, is a new chapel for Eucharistic Adoration. Parishioners in the North Georgia parish started 40 hours of weekly adoration at the chapel, which is named Blessed John Paul II Chapel, said Father Neil Dhabliwala. The chapel renovation was paid for by parishioners who wish to remain […]
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Parishes Collaborate To Find Ways To Save A Million
November 10, 2011You know those envelopes that come in your mail monthly? Well, here’s an idea: Try getting them every other month to save your parish money. That small change can save a few thousand dollars. That’s just one idea being offered to parishes to save cash in a lousy economy. And that’s not the only way. […]
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Young Adults Attend ‘Saved In Hope’ Retreat
November 10, 2011It was a weekend of searching, listening and dialogue, both internal and external. Nearly 100 young adults joined Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and Sisters of Life for the “Saved In Hope” retreat, held at Simpsonwood Retreat Center Oct. 14-16. The weekend encouraged the 20- to 40-year-olds to embrace their vulnerability and grow in their […]
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Monastery Doors ‘Opened’ For Readers, Pilgrims
November 10, 2011Open to the Spirit: Tradition and Continuity at Holy Spirit Monastery; by Dewey Weiss Kramer; (third edition, 2011); 102 pp.; paperback; $29.95. Available from the Abbey Store, Monastery of the Holy Spirit, 2625 Highway 212, SW, Conyers, GA 30094 (www.holyspiritmonasterygifts.com). If you have barreled along Interstate 20 East, you may have been unaware that a […]
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Catholic Charities Class Grows ‘Servant Leaders’
November 10, 2011“Servant leadership” may not be a term taught in business school, but it’s a foundation for the inaugural members of the Catholic Charities Atlanta Leadership Class. More than 40 women and men in middle-management positions at metro area businesses are participating in this new program at Catholic Charities Atlanta. They are drawn from a variety […]
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Work Of Human Hands Sales Set For Three Dates
November 10, 2011In addition to charitable donations made during the holiday season, there is another way to help those in need to have a better life that does not involve their receiving charity. Consider shopping for beautiful and fairly traded decorations, gifts, jewelry, scarves, ornaments, nativity sets and other hand-crafted items as well as fair trade coffee, […]
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Notable
November 10, 2011A one-time storage room at St. Luke Church, Dahlonega, is a new chapel for Eucharistic Adoration. Parishioners in the North Georgia parish started 40 hours of weekly adoration at the chapel, which is named Blessed John Paul II Chapel, said Father Neil Dhabliwala. The chapel renovation was paid for by parishioners who wish to remain […]