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At Mercy, Innovations Grant Makes Garden Grow
September 17, 2009At Our Lady of Mercy High School, students use state-of-the-art computers to design windmills to provide electricity for a new waterfall. In biology classes, students are investigating rates of photosynthesis on high-powered calculators. The school’s chaplain is teaching a course called “Theology of the Garden.” The young people and faculty here are turning a section […]
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Priest Assignment
September 17, 2009Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following change in priest assignment. Father John M. Matejek has been assigned as pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Church, Kennesaw, effective Sept. 9.
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Deacon Assignments
September 17, 2009Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has announced the following changes in deacon assignments. Deacon Michael Balfour has been restored to active ministry as a deacon and has been assigned to serve at Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, effective Sept. 2. Deacon Marino Gonzalez has been assigned to serve at Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, effective Sept. 2.
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Chamblee Sweets Store To Hold ‘Food Bank’ Day
September 17, 2009The Frosty Caboose, an ice cream store located in the Old Town section of Chamblee, is holding a fundraiser to benefit the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the Atlanta Community Food Bank. On Sunday, Sept. 20, from 12 noon to 10 p.m., 10 percent of sales will be donated to the Atlanta Community Food […]
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Archdiocese To Host Black Catholic Administrators Event
September 17, 2009The National Association of Black Catholic Administrators (NABCA) will meet at the Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, on Sept. 24-26, for a professional development clinic and recognition banquet, hosted by the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Office for Black Catholic Ministry. On Thursday, Sept. 24, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will celebrate Mass at the Lyke House, […]
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Ministry Forming To Aid Military Personnel, Families
September 17, 2009Catholic Charities Atlanta is holding a meeting for those interested in forming a ministry in their parish to respond to the emotional and mental health needs of military service members active and returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families. The meeting will be held in Nolan Hall at St. Ann Church, Marietta, on Wednesday, […]
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Music Symposium Gives Tools To Ministers
September 17, 2009Music ministers know just how difficult it is to get everyone to sing in church on Sunday mornings. That’s why it came as a surprise to a few of them when the opening Mass for the second annual Southeastern Liturgical Music Symposium was alive with powerful, booming voices. The focus of the symposium this year, […]
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Red Mass Brings Legal Community Together In Prayer
September 17, 2009The accomplished St. Thomas More Schola and the Atlanta Brass Society led a crowd of nearly 200 in song as Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Archbishop-emeritus John F. Donoghue and Bishop-designate Luis R. Zarama processed into Sacred Heart Church to a crowd of distinguished members of the Atlanta judiciary, legal and civic community. The annual […]
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GRACE Can Now Link Donor’s Gift To A School
September 17, 2009St. Ann Church is some 37 miles from Our Lady of Mercy High School, but a budding relationship between the affluent suburban parish on the north side of Atlanta and the Catholic high school where one in five student families lives below the poverty line is what organizers of the GRACE Scholars program hope to […]
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Four Catholic schools awarded Blue Ribbon title
September 17, 2009The Atlanta archdiocesan Office of Catholic Schools joined educators and parents throughout the archdiocese in welcoming exciting news on Tuesday, Sept. 15, when four Catholic elementary schools in metro Atlanta were awarded the prestigious Blue Ribbon School of Excellence title. The schools are Holy Redeemer, Johns Creek, Holy Spirit Preparatory, Atlanta, Immaculate Heart of Mary, […]