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Christmas Concert To Offer Music From Many Cultures
November 30, 2006The Archbishop James P. Lyke Memorial Mass Choir will sponsor an archdiocesan Christmas concert, “Joyfully United by Our Faith,” on Sunday, Dec. 17, at 5 p.m. at the Sisters Chapel of Spelman College. The event, which is also co-sponsored by the archdiocesan Office for Black Catholic Ministry and the Office for Hispanic Ministry, will feature […]
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Homecoming Set For Alums Of 4 Catholic Schools
November 30, 2006St. Peter Claver Regional Catholic School will hold an alumni homecoming celebration on Saturday, Dec. 16, from 12 noon until 5 p.m. in the school gymnasium. Graduates of St. Peter Claver and of the foundation schools—Our Lady of Lourdes School, Atlanta, St. Anthony of Padua School, Atlanta, and Sts. Peter and Paul School, Decatur—will be […]
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Celtic Christmas Concert Features Grammy Winners
November 30, 2006Moya Brennan and Alison Brown, two Grammy Award winning stars of the international world of Celtic music, are featured in the 14th annual Atlanta Celtic Christmas Concert along with a host of well-known regional musicians, dancers, singers and storytellers. The concert takes place at Emory’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. […]
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Marist, Pius Advance In Class AAAA Football Playoffs
November 30, 2006Marist School, Atlanta, was held scoreless for three quarters by Dacula High School, but two fourth-quarter touchdowns were just enough to pull out a 14-7 second-round playoff game. With 9:31 left in the final quarter, senior fullback Preston Lyons ran 55 yards for the first score. Lyons finished the game with 141 yards rushing on […]
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Archbishop To Celebrate Athens Guadalupe Mass; 58 Parishes Will Hold Feast Day Liturgies
November 30, 2006Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will celebrate a bilingual Mass on Tuesday, Dec. 12, for the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Church in Athens. The Mass in Spanish and English will be followed by representations of the apparitions of the Virgin to Mexican Indian […]
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Hartwell Parish To Hold Christmas Concert
November 30, 2006Sacred Heart of Jesus Church will hold a Christmas musical celebration at the parish on Dec. 17 at 3 p.m. The hour-long program, based on the theme “One Small Child,” will feature music from Sacred Heart’s Vietnamese choir and the church’s main choir, directed by Nancy Emhart. To commemorate the Gospel reading for Dec. 17, […]
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Chinese Catholics Sense Time Of Evangelization
November 30, 2006Although the Chinese government monitors everything Catholic, from seminary size to book publishing, a growing number of Chinese are catching religious fever, more universities are establishing religious studies programs, more intellectuals are becoming “cultural Christians,” and more students are celebrating Christmas. These were some of the observations made at the National Catholic China Conference held […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (November 23, 2006)
November 23, 2006I took a nostalgic trip last Sunday when I went to visit the Mission of St. Elizabeth Seton in Warm Springs for the first time and to celebrate their 10th anniversary as a community. Although I had not visited Warm Springs previously, the trip was so reminiscent of my travels throughout the Diocese of Belleville […]
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IHM School Gives Rousing Salute To Veterans
November 23, 2006The students and faculty of Immaculate Heart of Mary School came together for the school’s fifth annual tribute to American veterans on Thursday, Nov. 9. Members of the Atlanta Veterans Affairs’ honor guard conducted the posting of the colors to begin the school-wide Mass. Father James Schillinger, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, was […]
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Province Bishops Send Congress Immigration Letter
November 23, 2006In conjunction with the other bishops of the Province of Atlanta, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory sent a letter this week to those working in Congress, urging their continuing focus on the passage of “comprehensive and fair” immigration reform at a national level. Bishop Robert J. Baker of the Diocese of Charleston, S.C., Bishop J. Kevin […]