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So Others May Live Eternally
November 9, 2006With the movie “The Guardian” recently showing in local theatres, I was reminded of my time in Class 8707 of the United States Navy Rescue Swimmer School in Pensacola, Fla. Training was more than intense as the instructors sought one answer, “If we jump you out of an aircraft on a cold moonless night in […]
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Jubilee Pilgrimage Links Old, New For Catholics
November 9, 2006A two-day pilgrimage recently retraced early Catholic history in Georgia, linking the past to the present as Catholics of the new millennium remembered and prayed for those who brought the faith to this region over 200 years ago. Pastors in each location welcomed the pilgrims, who traveled by bus to Locust Grove, Sharon, Washington, Milledgeville, […]
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Kennesaw School Gives Children Day To Serve
November 9, 2006On Oct. 27 students and parent volunteers from St. Catherine of Siena School in Kennesaw banded together to make a difference in their greater community. More than 100 students participated in the elementary school’s “Make-a-Difference Day,” serving at 15 different charities and reaching out to the elderly, the sick, the poor and to the community […]
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‘Flags’ Movie Examines Nature, Impetus Of Heroism
November 9, 2006In “Flags of Our Fathers,” director Clint Eastwood uses the story of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima to create a sober meditation on the nature of—and the need for—heroism. At the end of the film, a voiceover explains that the soldiers’ bravery was actually prompted more from a need to help and […]
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Four Enter Seminary
November 9, 2006St. Vincent Seminary welcomed 19 new students for the 2006-2007 school year. The students represent nine dioceses, including the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Dioceses of Charleston, S.C., and Savannah. The four seminarians from the Archdiocese of Atlanta are: Jasen Lee Blehm of Acworth, the son of Nicholas and Connie Blehm. He is a 1999 […]
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St. Joseph Community In Athens Gathers
November 9, 2006More than 700 members of the St. Joseph Church and School family attended the parish picnic Oct. 15 at Sandy Creek Park in Athens. The event opened with an outdoor Mass and continued with an enormous picnic lunch. Games for the children, a petting zoo and pony rides also were part of the fun. Members […]
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Atlanta Boy Choir To Sing At Monastery
November 9, 2006A Christmas concert with the Atlanta Boy Choir will be held on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit, 2625 Highway 212, SW. Founded in 1957, the Atlanta Boy Choir has performed in many of the world’s great cathedrals and concert halls across North America and […]
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Sister Helen Prejean To Speak At Oglethorpe
November 9, 2006Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, will be a conference keynote speaker at Oglethorpe University on Thursday, Nov. 16, as part of a two-day university-sponsored “Dialogue on the Death Penalty.” Sister Helen will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Conant Performing Arts Center at the university, 4484 Peachtree Road, N.E. Her lecture will conclude with an audience […]
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New Archdiocesan Office To Assist With Worship
November 9, 2006For the past five months a new archdiocesan office has been quietly assisting parishes and the Archdiocese of Atlanta as a whole in creating rich, tradition-filled liturgies. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory officially established the archdiocesan Office of Divine Worship this past June and appointed Father Theodore Book as its director. The purpose of the office, […]
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Extraordinary Ministers Of Eucharist Will No Longer Purify Vessels At Mass
November 9, 2006At the direction of Pope Benedict XVI, extraordinary ministers of holy Communion will no longer be permitted to assist in the purification of the sacred vessels at Masses in the United States. In an Oct. 23 letter, Bishop William S. Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, asked his fellow bishops to inform […]