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What I Have Seen And Heard
April 28, 2011The joyful celebration of Holy Week is made possible in our parishes because of the great and generous kindness of so many parishioners, who pitch in to help their community of faith achieve all of the projects and plans needed to have beautiful ceremonies that mark that most important time of the Christian year. Thanks […]
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Lo Que He Visto Y He Oído
April 28, 2011No podríamos tener una feliz celebración de Semana Santa en nuestras parroquias si no fuera por la gran generosidad de tantos feligreses que ofrecen su ayuda para que sus comunidades de fe puedan realizar todos sus proyectos y planes necesarios para tener hermosas ceremonias que marcan la época más importante del año cristiano. Agradezco a […]
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Faith Of Catholics, New And Old, Lights Up Vigil
April 28, 2011St. Patrick’s Church was a flurry of activity on the night of the Easter Vigil. Cars turned into the parking lot. Outside, where a prayer of St. Patrick adorns the façade, parents let dressed-up kids vent energy outdoors before corralling them for the lengthy Mass to come. Inside, 30 or so people, soon to become […]
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Christian Ministers Join Priests In Passion Reflections
April 28, 2011A standing-room-only crowd packed the Gothic Christ the King Cathedral at noon on Good Friday to listen to seven Christian ministers reflect on the final words of Jesus. Each of the men, dressed in different styles of vestments from their Christian traditions, spoke from the stone pulpit overlooking the audience of Protestants and Catholics in […]
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Brazilian Catholics Vividly Bring Crucifixion To Life
April 28, 2011The Brazilian Catholic community conducted its fifth annual outdoor depiction of the Stations of the Cross on Friday, April 22, at St. Jude the Apostle Church, Sandy Springs. The Good Friday service, led by Father Roger do Carmo Araujo, parochial vicar at St. Jude, along with Jesuit Father Edd Salazar, began inside the church. Once […]
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St. Peter Chanel Statue Vandalized, Restored
April 28, 2011The Welcoming Christ statue, an eight-foot marble sculpture of Jesus that greets visitors and parishioners at St. Peter Chanel Church, was vandalized on Easter Sunday, apparently in the early morning hours before Sunday Masses. Pink paint covered the hands and face of the statue, worth approximately $80,000, with other obscene images painted on the chest […]
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Mercy Sister Mary Brian Anderson Dies
April 28, 2011Sister Mary Brian Anderson, a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, who was a nurse and administrator of several health care institutions in Baltimore and Atlanta, died April 16 at Saint Joseph Medical Center in Baltimore. She was 87. Born in Madison, Lillian Anderson was the daughter of the late Allen J. and Odessa […]
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Attention Valedictorians And Salutatorians
April 28, 2011Are you a 2011 high school valedictorian or salutatorian in North Georgia? The Georgia Bulletin would like to acknowledge members of the Archdiocese of Atlanta who are being honored as class valedictorians or salutatorians at public or private high schools. If you have a parish high school senior so honored, please send the student’s name, […]
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Our Lady of Mercy Girls Embark On Historic Tennis Run
April 28, 2011Our Lady of Mercy High School’s Lady Bobcats tennis team continued its post-season run on Tuesday, April 26, with a 3-2 victory over George Walton Academy, Monroe, in the first round of the Class A state tournament. The girls are making school history by becoming the first Mercy tennis team to reach the “Sweet 16” of the state tournament. […]
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Bob Dylan In China
April 28, 2011Knowing my interest in all things Bob Dylan, a friend sent me an article recently penned by Maureen Dowd, columnist for The New York Times (“Blowin’ in the Idiot Wind,” April 9). It had to do with the maestro’s recent (and unprecedented) appearance in China, but it was far from an encomium. Dowd took Bob […]