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Patriarch Urges People Of Faith To Care For Environment
November 12, 2009The spiritual leader of the world’s 300-million Orthodox Christians traveled here to spread his concern about a Christian’s responsibility to the environment. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I spoke at the crowded Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, 2500 Clairmont Road, at an “ecumenical gathering of peace” on Thursday, Oct. 29. “We are not users but guardians […]
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Lyke House An Oasis For Students At Six Colleges
November 12, 2009Beneath towering pine trees and with a cold fall breeze blowing, college students, alumni and supporters from the Lyke House huddled in a horseshoe shape at the bronze grave marker of its namesake, Archbishop James P. Lyke. The crowd recited the morning prayer of Liturgy of the Hours with its ancient prayers and Scripture readings […]
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‘Small Seed’ Of Faith Generates Thriving Calhoun Parish
November 12, 2009St. Clement Church joins three other parishes in the Archdiocese of Atlanta celebrating silver anniversaries in 2009. However, the Calhoun community celebrated a double milestone, also marking 50 golden years since it began as a mission. Nearly 700 people filled the Calhoun Civic Center as Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory presided over an anniversary Mass there […]
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2009 A Jubilee Year In Canton, Jasper, Lithonia
November 12, 2009Three churches in the Atlanta Archdiocese mark their silver jubilee as faith communities this year. They are Christ Our Hope Church, Lithonia; Jasper’s Our Lady of the Mountains Church; and Our Lady of LaSalette Church, Canton. Christ Our Hope, Lithonia Parishioners who stream into this Atlanta area church come from more than 50 countries, from […]
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Lengthy Marriages Celebrated At Annual Mass
November 12, 2009Couples repeated their “I do’s” at the annual archdiocesan Mass to celebrate marriage. St. Brigid Church, Johns Creek, hosted the brides and grooms, many years after they first walked down the aisle as young married couples. Certainly, there would have been more hair and fewer pounds the first time, but now there were grown children […]
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Notable
November 12, 2009For 12 hours, some 175 Marist School students, faculty, staff and administrators read aloud Vergil’s epic poem “The Aeneid” in English translation. “My favorite part was reading by candlelight when it was still dark,” said Joseph Monardo, president of the Latin Honor Society at Marist. The read-a-thon on Friday, Oct. 16, raised more than $900 […]
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St. Mary Magdalene Relic To Visit Local Parishes
November 12, 2009From the foot of the cross at Calvary to Frejus-Toulon, France, to Atlanta, Holy Spirit Church is excited and honored to participate in an historic event as the parish hosts a relic of St. Mary Magdalene later this month. The relic, a large piece of St. Mary Magdalene’s tibia, will be available for veneration in […]
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Local Author Delivers Mystery With Catholic Twist
November 12, 2009“DEATH IN THE CHOIR” by Lorraine V. Murray. Tumblar House (Arcadia, Calif., 2009). 186 pp., $12.95. Some mysteries are not all murder and mayhem—you will find feuding sopranos, interparish politics, and the challenges of building a new social life in “Death in the Choir,” an enjoyable new novel from Georgia Bulletin columnist Lorraine V. Murray. […]
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BT, St. Pius Leap To State Competition Heights
November 12, 2009Cheerleaders from Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, and St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, danced, flipped, leaped and vaulted their way to Columbus, where they will compete against some of the best cheerleading squads in all of Georgia Nov. 13-14. This is after the two schools vied for the coveted spots during the Georgia High […]
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Aquinas Center Welcomes New Board Members
November 10, 2009The Aquinas Center of Theology announced six new board members at an Oct. 21 board meeting on the Emory University campus. They are Patricia Allgood, chair at Vistage in Atlanta; David Blumenthal, professor of Judaic studies at Emory University; Stephen Crim, chief executive officer of American Safety Insurance; Randy Hain, managing partner of Bell Oaks; […]