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Monk’s Writings Invite Readers To Encounter God
March 29, 2007ANGELS: Our Guides to Contemplation for the Third Millennium: Trinitarian and Cosmic by Thomas Francis Smith, OCSO, (Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Conyers, 2006), 68 pp., $5.95. This compact book by a Cistercian monk at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers challenges Christians to be more open to the presence of our cosmic […]
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‘Reign Over Me’ Connects Friends After Tragedy
March 29, 2007The new film “Reign Over Me” opens with a shot of a man zooming through the streets of New York City on a motorized scooter. It is notable for the emptiness of the streets and the grace of the rider. The man is profoundly alone in the midst of a bustling metropolis of millions of […]
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Soccer Springs Forth In Local Schools
March 29, 2007Our Lady of Mercy High School’s girls soccer team lost to The Galloway School, Atlanta, in a hard-fought match that went into two overtimes. After a scoreless first period, Galloway scored first on a goal by sophomore forward Danielle Haik with 21:30 left in the second period. Mercy’s Catie Palmer scored a goal with 14:52 […]
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Journalists Travel As Pilgrims To Holy Land Sites
March 29, 2007Descend from the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem on the “Passover Walk,” the route Jesus took to enter the city before He was crucified, and meditate in the Garden of Gethsemane by the ancient, gnarled olive trees where Jesus anguished before his arrest. Then prayerfully walk the Stations of the Cross up the streets of […]
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Catholic Schools Fare Well In State Spelling Bee
March 22, 2007Several students from schools located in the Archdiocese of Atlanta participated in the Georgia Independent Schools Association Spelling Bee in February. The first round of competition was held Feb. 8 at various locations around Georgia. Round one was a written competition devised of 110 words in which students were required to write in ink without […]
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Mystery Surrounding Heroic Priest Recalled
March 22, 2007It’s the stuff of legends … a story passed down throughout generations. A young Irish priest serving in the midst of a war-torn Atlanta hears of the impending doom his city is to suffer. With only his faith as a shield, he makes his way to speak to Union forces and pleads with Gen. William […]
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St. Patrick ‘Used All He Had’ To Spread Faith In God
March 22, 2007What does St. Patrick have to say to his spiritual descendants today? Father Frank McNamee said the missionary who converted Ireland to the Christian faith “used all that he had, while respecting a people and yet challenging a people in the Way of our Lord.” With the personal knowledge of one from County Galway who […]
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Will Easter Happen This Year?
March 22, 2007Don’t be surprised if there is no Easter this year. The very idea scares me, but it’s not farfetched. In our world there are millions who have not had and will not have an Easter experience—that experience of journeying through a dying that leads us into new life, that experience of “yes” triumphing over “no” […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (March 22, 2007)
March 22, 2007“Everything that Rises Must Converge,” the name of Flannery O’Connor’s 1965 collection of short stories, which had also served as the title of her award-winning 1963 short story, has always been a fascinating phrase for me. It refers to the convergence of things past and present that result in a new reality. It is the […]
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Nonprofit Receives Grant For Health Care In Haiti
March 22, 2007Dr. Charmaine Lewis was completing a residency at Emory University in 2004 when she noticed a bulletin blurb at Sacred Heart Church about a mission trip to Haiti through the ServeHAITI nonprofit that grew out of the parish. The internist, who is from Louisiana, speaks French fluently and had always been interested in medical missions. […]