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A Monk For The Ages
August 5, 2011Last week writer Andrew Nelson and I went out to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Conyers, to interview and photograph Father Luke Kot, someone I would only describe as a real gem and living legend in monastic circles. It was a week before his 100th birthday. I arrived about 40 minutes ahead of our […]
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Transcription Project Brings Priest’s Writings To Light
August 4, 2011This article was corrected for spelling errors on November 22, 2011. In the late 1700s, Father James Archer inked his thoughts on thin paper about faith during a time when Catholics in England were persecuted—or worse, killed. Now, more than 200 years later, people can transcribe the aged pages bound together with a thread to […]
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100-Year-Old Monk Sees History Preserved
August 4, 2011Father Luke Kot sits in the midst of the barn-turned-museum at Holy Spirit Monastery and reminisces. Stairs in the corner once led to the second-floor “cells,” as bedrooms for monks are called. Here was the abbot’s office. And over against that wall he had a close encounter with a chicken. “She sat close by me. […]
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The Lion At The Foot Of The Altar
August 4, 2011I sink down into the blissful silence of the adoration chapel, where I’ve been promising myself to spend more time. It’s just me and the Lord today, and the silence is enticingly delicious. And then suddenly prayers come to a screeching halt as my thoughts travel to my car parked outside. Did I turn off […]
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A Gifted Singer Lost
August 4, 2011When someone dies young, the loss of youth adds to the grief felt by those who knew and loved the one who has die. This was true of Amy Winehouse, the British singer who died over this past weekend. I liked her music. She was a gifted, sensitive person who sang in the traditions of […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard August 4, 2011
August 4, 2011During the past couple of weeks, I have run into a number of folks at the grocery store, the cleaners, and the gas station—usually I was in casual attire and garnered a few quizzical glances before we identified one another as a member of a parish or from a school in the Archdiocese. Summertime is […]
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Lo Que He Visto Y He Oído
August 4, 2011Durante las últimas semanas, me he encontrado con muchas personas en el supermercado, en la tintorería y en la gasolinera. En estas ocasiones, normalmente iba de vestimenta casual y recibía miradas curiosas antes de ser identificado por feligreses de las parroquias o por gente involucrada con las escuelas de la Arquidiócesis. En el verano, existen […]
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Pilot For Catholic Sitcom Filmed In Conyers
August 4, 2011The kitchen table where the Willits family usually eats is covered this morning with cables, batteries, audio and recording paraphernalia—equipment to start filming a possible Catholic sitcom. A crew of six and Father Robert Reed, president of CatholicTV, have flown in from Boston, turning the Willits’ home into a set for the pilot of the […]
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Unity, Not Uniformity, At Hispanic Ministry Encounter
August 4, 2011“Unity without uniformity” was the broad theme of this year’s Encounter of Hispanic Ministries, as organizers intentionally left the Encuentro untitled this year to explore how to serve the growing and complex community of Latino Catholics. Conventual Franciscan Father Kenneth G. Davis, a preacher and bilingual author specializing in Hispanic ministry, led the workshop July […]
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CRS Rep Speaks On Experience In Eastern Europe
August 4, 2011Catholic Relief Services Country Representative Jacob Hershman recently spoke to a group of local Catholics about his experiences and the programs the international humanitarian agency is implementing in a struggling area of Eastern Europe. Hershman, the country representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, came back to the United States for a few weeks to visit his […]