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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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St. Peter Parish Celebrates 75th Anniversary
November 10, 2011Friends, current and former parishioners, and neighbors from other faith communities came together Oct. 23 to recognize the ministry that St. Peter Church has provided to the city of LaGrange and Troup County for 75 years. Hundreds filled the sunlit church to capacity, even standing, as Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and Father Theodore Book, pastor, […] Full Story
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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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Mass, Veneration Mark Late Pope’s First Feast Day
November 10, 2011The Archdiocese of Atlanta commemorated the first feast day of Blessed John Paul II on Friday, Oct. 21, with a Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Luis R. Zarama at the Cathedral of Christ the King and veneration of a first-class relic of the late pope, who was beatified May 1. Prior to the Mass, many […]
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Monastery Doors ‘Opened’ For Readers, Pilgrims
November 10, 2011If you have barreled along Interstate 20 East, you may have been unaware that a serpentine route through what was once rural Rockdale County will bring you to a place of beauty and tranquility, the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, home to Cistercian monks who live a rule of life crafted some 1,500 years ago […]
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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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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 […]
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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. […]