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What I Have Seen and Heard (October 29, 2009)
October 29, 2009The great missionary Apostle Paul urged the church communities that he founded to aid one another. In many respects, Paul is the founder of the “second collection” as we now know it since he urged his disciples to be generous in assisting the needs of the other churches. The church communities that occupied Paul’s world […]
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On Making The Best Of What We Have
October 29, 2009I once stayed for several months with my sister and her family in a small town in Switzerland. Her kids were very young, and it was not easy for them to find other young playmates. There was a small group of kids that they eventually found through school. A young friend I remember especially was […]
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Flood Of ‘Biblical Proportion’ Submerges Home
October 29, 2009As Sweetwater Creek started to rise, Jim Skelton moved the valuable items from the ground floor upstairs. The player piano was put on top of 5-gallon buckets, the refrigerator too. But when the flooding swept into his home, it wasn’t nearly enough. “This time it was moving six to eight inches in 10 minutes,” he […]
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Family In Disbelief At Rising Creek Waters
October 29, 2009Rudy Pierre-Paul, his wife, Amie, and their three children, never really thought about the creek hundreds of yards behind their house in a Powder Springs subdivision. A tall fence marks the edge of their back yard, which slopes downhill away from the house. The creek is not even visible beyond the fence, but is 300 […]
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Lourdes Sustains Saint’s Founding Work
October 29, 2009Stand outside the three-story red brick and Stone Mountain granite building near the intersection of Auburn Avenue and Boulevard, in the heart of the Sweet Auburn neighborhood, to see what a canonized saint who visited here help build. The school-turned-parish center at Our Lady of Lourdes was paid for by St. Katharine Drexel, the heiress […]
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Shrine Is City Of Atlanta’s Oldest Parish
October 29, 2009On Martin Luther King Jr. Drive near the state Capitol, visitors to Atlanta will most likely pass another building of importance—a church that has a significant place in Catholic history and in the history of Georgia. Atlanta Catholics completed their first church building in 1848. Not yet named, it was known simply as “the Catholic […]
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Milledgeville church offers engrossing literary story
October 29, 2009Unassumingly positioned at the corner of North Jefferson and Hancock streets in downtown Milledgeville is a simple, quaint building that has served as a place of worship and ministry for Catholics for more than 135 years. Matching the look and feel of the rest of Milledgeville’s historic district, the brick building, along with the Milledgeville […]
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Notable
October 29, 2009Our Lady of Victory School, Tyrone, welcomed Claudia Munoz as a new faculty member this school year. An experienced educator, Munoz is the new Spanish teacher at the primary school. Born in Bogota, Colombia, Munoz graduated from the Universidad Externado de Colombia with a bachelor’s degree in education. She is certified in the state of […]
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St. Martin De Porres Mass To Be Held At Mission
October 29, 2009On Sunday, Nov. 8, Our Lady of the Americas Mission will host a special Mass and procession honoring St. Martin de Porres. All are invited to the 4 p.m. Mass and procession, which will be followed by a reception. The event is sponsored by the Brotherhood of St. Martin de Porres of Atlanta. St. Martin […]
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Southside Casino Night To Help St. Vincent De Paul
October 29, 2009For a trio of Southside Catholic parishes, Las Vegas will be arriving on Nov. 7 with “Fun at the Falcon.” This annual gala, held at the hangar at Peachtree City’s Airport Dixie Wing Commemorative Air Force at Falcon Field, provides funding for the outreach efforts to the community through the St. Vincent de Paul conferences. […]