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Return To The Hidden Beauty Of Ordinary Time
January 17, 2008A short time ago, we changed the Psalters in our choir stalls and thus started the liturgical cycle of ordinary time. On the morning the change took place, I reached down to the shelf in front of my place at choir and pulled out the large Ordinary Time Psalter, dusted it off a bit, and […]
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Wise Men Visit Cartersville
January 17, 2008Each year the members of St. Francis of Assisi Church observe the feast of the Epiphany with the arrival of three wise men and their caravan. This year’s Epiphany, which was celebrated Sunday, Jan. 6, included a caravan of “wise” volunteers from the parish family, as well as camels, sheep and doves provided by the […]
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Kathy MacInnis, Magnificat Leader, To Speak Feb. 9
January 17, 2008A morning of prayer and friendship for women will be hosted by the Atlanta Joyful Visitation chapter of Magnificat on Saturday, Feb. 9, as the Magnificat breakfast is held from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. All women are invited. The breakfast speaker will be Kathy MacInnis, who serves as an associate member of the Magnificat central service […]
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Marist School President, Father Richmond Egan, Dies
January 17, 2008Marist Father Richmond J. Egan, who, as a leader at Atlanta’s Marist School, reached out to students from modest backgrounds and grew its campus in northeast Atlanta, died Saturday, Jan. 12, at Saint Joseph’s Hospital. He was 67. The cause was a result of an embolism he suffered Jan. 2, said a statement from the […]
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St. Pius Knitters Wrap Young Patients In Love
January 17, 2008Ana Pariselli’s own bout with cancer has led her to create “Afghans for Angels,” a blanket ministry for children tackling the illness. Family members as well as colleagues and friends from the St. Pius X High School community bolster her efforts. “I am an ovarian cancer survivor,” said Pariselli, who was diagnosed March 21, 2003, […]
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Catholic Day At The Capitol
January 17, 2008Tuesday, Feb. 5 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. There will be a legislative briefing at 8:30 a.m., which will be repeated at 11 a.m., at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 48 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, SW, Atlanta. The program is sponsored by the Catholic Communications Office of the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Georgia Catholic […]
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Statement Of Georgia Bishops Regarding HR 536
January 17, 2008As the Catholic bishops of Georgia, we, along with our brother bishops throughout the world, have unceasingly advocated for the sanctity of human life and continually supported legislative efforts to increase the protection of human life. While we agree with the objective of HR 536 to defend human life at all stages and share the […]
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‘Sincere Heart’ Should Guide Decision On Family Size
January 17, 2008Few things are as life changing as the arrival of a first child: the equipment involved, the middle-of-the-night wake-up calls, the Friday night dates with baby in tow—or with baby at home. Even given these demands, parents are quick to say they would never return to life before their offspring arrived on the scene and […]
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Reversing Sterilization, Couple Rejoices In Youngest Son
January 17, 2008Etched into David Hanson’s memory is the image of his wife, Catherine, having just delivered their sixth child by emergency C-section, being wheeled on a gurney away from the Catholic hospital in the state where they then lived to a nearby clinic that offered the sterilization procedure of a tubal ligation. “It’s shocking to think […]
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Filipino Community To Celebrate Annual Fiesta
January 17, 2008This Sunday, Jan. 20, the Filipino community in the Atlanta area will celebrate the 16th annual Santo Niño Sinulog at Corpus Christi Church. The event, which will be held in the church’s gym, begins at 2 p.m. with a Mass concelebrated by Father Diosmar Natad and Father Chito Palang. Also planned for the celebration is […]