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A Gift More Precious Than Jewels
May 8, 2008I dig into my wallet and carefully extract the crumpled bills. I have just enough to buy the glittering and gorgeous necklace that I have spotted in the store. It has rubies elegantly encrusted with diamonds, and all the gems are set in solid gold. And, fortunately, it is just the price that I can […]
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Covington Parish To Host Healing Mission
May 8, 2008The St. Augustine Chapter of the International Order of St. Luke (OSL) the Physician is sponsoring a healing mission on Saturday, May 17, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at St. Augustine Church. Sister Barbara Young, a member of the Cenacle Sisters, will present “Open your Heart to Receive Healing,” addressing Jesus’ teaching, forgiveness, fear, prayer and […]
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Parish Status Comes To Historic St. Mary’s, Jackson
May 8, 2008From early Lebanese families settling in this rural Southern town to converts who have found their spiritual home here, St. Mary Church is adapting to urban sprawl while retaining traces of its early heritage through those still around to share its tales. Msgr. Terry Young came to the area initially in 2001 as pastor of […]
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Speaker Recommends Spiritual Connections For Elderly
May 8, 2008A person’s faith and religious life may change as he or she enters into old age, but that doesn’t diminish the need for spiritual connections to nourish mental health. Finding out how to spark those connections in elderly populations was the topic of the second annual Spirituality in Aging Partnership series, a half-day conference sponsored […]
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Archdiocese Sizes Up Senior Population To Provide Guidance
May 8, 2008In a telephone interview after the second annual Spirituality in Aging Partnership series, Joseph Krygiel, CEO of Catholic Charities Atlanta, and Regina Harris, Catholic Charities senior resources coordinator, shared that Catholic Charities is currently building up its ministry to the elderly population by putting together a housing and services informational database for the archdiocese. In […]
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Donovan High School Is State Tennis Runner-Up
May 8, 2008For the second consecutive year, Monsignor Donovan High School sophomore Eric Diaz has won the Georgia Independent School Association (GISA) Region 1A Boys Singles Championship by defeating Nathan Aldridge of Curtis Baptist School, Augusta, 6-0, 6-0 in the final round April 21. As a team Monsignor Donovan defeated David Emmanuel Academy in the semifinal round […]
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Surgeon Finds Medical Ministry In Guatemala
May 8, 2008The 60-year-old Guatemalan businessman reached over, held Dr. Henry Zielinski’s hand and kissed it in thanks. Domingo Gonzalez had just had surgery to repair a hernia he had been suffering with for more than two years. Diagnosed by a Guatemalan doctor, Gonzalez had not been able to receive the surgery until a visiting Georgia team […] Full Story
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After Tragedy, Holy Land Speakers Pursue Peace
May 8, 2008As young men, the two could not have been more different: a battle-hardened former Israeli soldier, a rock-throwing Palestinian jailed for protesting the occupation of the West Bank. But through shared sorrows, Mazen Faraj and Rami Elhanan now call each other brothers. “We are not competing with the size of our pain. We do not […]
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What I Have Seen And Heard (May 1, 2008)
May 1, 2008I have been directly engaged in the occurrence of a marriage proposal only on one occasion. I was the Bishop of Belleville at the time, when a nervous young man asked me if he could visit the Blessed Sacrament Chapel in the cathedral at the conclusion of the Christmas midnight Mass. I assured him that […]
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Living Stones
May 1, 2008In our community, we recently were given our annual retreat. Our retreat master this year was Damien Thompson, the abbot of our monastery in Gethsemani, Kentucky. He is a warm, friendly man and impresses me as being much at peace with life, with what it means to be human in an ever-changing world. He is […]