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What I Have Seen and Heard for April 12, 2012
April 12, 2012“Teach your children to observe these customs.” (Dt 6:4) Our Jewish friends and neighbors this year began their observance of Passover on the same day that we Catholics celebrated Good Friday last week, and both of our religious families were called back to the admonition that we find in the Book of Deuteronomy that charges […]
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Dominican Sees Vitality In Church Roots, Frontiers
April 12, 2012Father Timothy Radcliffe stood out on the Emory University campus in his white robe, rosary beads looped around his belt, his white hair appearing unbrushed. He sat in a chair in the Modern Catholicism class, the kind of chair with a small stationary desk, but he stood up to stand closer to students as he […]
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Archdiocesan Festival Choir Celebrates 10th Anniversary
April 12, 2012The Archdiocesan Festival Choir of Atlanta will celebrate its 10th anniversary concert on Saturday, April 21. The concert will feature music from its previous seasons and will be highlighted by the Festival Choir’s first performance of Giovanni da Palestrina’s “Missa Brevis.” “Now the Festival Choir has become a part of the musical fabric of the […]
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Aquinas Center Vision Recharging In 25th Year
April 12, 2012The Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University is marking its 25th anniversary with a renewed vision. “Transforming lives through the search for God’s wisdom” is its new logo as it looks to its future. Executive Director Phillip Thompson said the center’s goal is to “represent the breadth and depth of the Catholic intellectual and […]
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Spring Hill Summer Institute Announces New Format
April 12, 2012Spring Hill College’s department of theology and ministry has announced a new format and class schedules for this year’s Summer Institute of Christian Spirituality in Atlanta. Beginning this year, courses will be offered in an intensive weekend format at Ignatius Retreat House along with additional online options. The new format has been designed to provide […]
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St. Francis Of Assisi, Cartersville, Dedicates New Church
April 12, 2012Hundreds of parishioners, friends and neighbors of St. Francis of Assisi Church crowded the sanctuary of their new church during a Mass of Dedication celebrated by Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory on March 28. The Mass marked the end of years of hard work, capital campaigns and the fulfillment of a dream held by parishioners for […]
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OLA Second-Graders Raise $1,051 For Heifer Project
April 12, 2012The second-grade classes at Our Lady of the Assumption School presented Heifer International president Pierre U. Ferrari with a check in the amount of $1,051 when he visited the Atlanta school March 26. Back in February second-grade teacher Teri Camp read “Beatrice’s Goat” to her class to start a discussion on problem solving. “Beatrice’s Goat” is […]
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Regional Stewardship Conference To Renew Message
April 12, 2012The 11th annual Regional Stewardship Day Conference will be held on Saturday, April 28, in the historic southern city of Charleston, S.C. The conference will take place at the Embassy Suites Airport Convention Center. Pastors, pastoral administrators, associates, deacons, school principals, directors of religious education, parish and finance council members, stewardship committee members, youth and […] Full Story
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April 12, 2012Students in Emory University’s Modern Catholicism class visited the Trappist Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers recently to participate in sext, the midday prayer service, tour the Monastic Heritage Center and spend almost two hours asking questions of the monks, including Brother Callistus and Brother Elias. Phillip Thompson, the course instructor and the executive […]
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GRACE Scholars Encourages Earlier Gifts, Corporate Gifts
April 12, 2012While individuals and married couples can donate to the GRACE Scholars program and receive a state tax credit for doing so, corporate giving is being promoted as a much needed and significant way to help more children receive their education at Georgia’s Catholic schools. GRACE Scholars, a program that was introduced in 2008, provides children […]