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Following the Christ Child into the new year
January 12, 2024It’s always fun to watch a toddler unwrap gifts at Christmas. The first gift is enormously interesting, and the second one is also fine, but after that, the fascination starts waning, and soon the child is mesmerized by bows and boxes.
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Growing in grace and cherishing life
January 12, 2024How we value life will determine the culture in which our children are being formed. We champion the cause for life when we preach a consistent life ethic that values each person created in the image and likeness of God no matter how small or how guilty.
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A tribute to a Catholic education leader
January 12, 2024Catholic education leader Julie Broom, who had a big heart for the overlooked, died on Dec. 25 at the age of 63. “She took collaboration to the next level,” said the superintendent of schools about her colleague.
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Sharing stories of faith draws Christians closer to one another, pope says
January 12, 2024A key step in the search for Christian unity is getting to know people of other churches and denominations and coming to appreciate their faith and spirituality, Pope Francis told a group of Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox students. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins Jan. 18.
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Remembering Sister Rezan Mehanzel
January 11, 2024Sister Rezan Abraham Mehanzel, FSA, died Sunday, Jan. 7 in Maryland. A Daughter of St. Anne, Sister Rezan served the Archdiocese of Atlanta as a delegate for religious.
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The year 2023 in review
January 11, 2024From the ordination of a third auxiliary bishop to a continued focus on the Eucharist ahead of a national revival, The Georgia Bulletin looks at the stories of 2023 that shaped life in Atlanta’s Catholic community.
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Bread from Heaven
January 10, 2024We have heard the story of how Jesus was born in Bethlehem, which in Hebrew means house (bêth) of bread (lehem). Christ was laid in a manger, a feeding trough and presented to the world. Similarly, he is laid on a ciborium at every Mass, each day around the world.
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Seeing heaven in a wild bird
January 3, 2024I saw him on his back, lying on the sidewalk. He was trying to turn himself over, but was having no success. I stopped my car, got out and took a closer look, which made him flap around more violently, no doubt from fear.
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Archbishop Hartmayer’s greetings for the new year
January 3, 2024Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., extends his greetings for the new year to the community of the Archdiocese of Atlanta and shares the prayer focus of 2024.
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Bring Mary’s gratitude and hope into the new year, Pope Francis says
January 1, 2024Believers and non-believers alike give thanks for all they have received in the last 12 months and express hopes for the coming year, but Christians are called to cultivate gratitude and hope following the example of Mary, Pope Francis said.