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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; […]
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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 […]