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BT Girls Runner-Up In State Tennis Finals
May 15, 2008The girls tennis team for Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, was unable to defend its 2007 state title as they lost to Region 5AAA champions Riverwood High School, Atlanta, 3-2 in the state tennis finals at Clayton County International Park. The number one singles player, sophomore Elizabeth Sims, played a four-hour, three-set match and lost […]
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Phillip Thompson Named Aquinas Center Director
May 15, 2008Phillip M. Thompson, Ph.D., has been named executive director of the Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University beginning in August, the Aquinas Center board has announced. “This position is a very exciting one for me because of the vital mission of the Aquinas Center as a nexus for exploring and celebrating the intellectual riches […]
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Father Mario Concludes Tech Ministry At 81
May 15, 2008The music group setting up for Mass had eight singers, five guitarists, a pianist, a flutist and a brass player, about four times more people than on a typical Sunday. They had practiced secretly in another location on the Georgia Tech campus. Downstairs, tables were surreptitiously prepared for a massive buffet of sandwiches, platters of […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (May 8, 2008)
May 8, 2008Six very charming ladies made an appointment to meet the Archbishop this past week, and I was very glad that they did. Like so many activities on my calendar, I did not know very much about the purpose of the encounter before it took place, but since they had introduced themselves by letter as members […]
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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 […]