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Mosaic Of Israeli Life Screens At Transfiguration
October 19, 2006One film invites viewers to journey to Israel and experience the sublime and earthly elements of Jerusalem from the Old City and Western Wall to the market and the soccer field. Another is a story of human solidarity about thousands of Bulgarian Jews who were saved from the Holocaust and will be followed by a […]
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St. Paul’s Hosts Festival, Salute To Heroes Cook-Off
October 19, 2006As the competition heats up between Cleveland Police Chief John Foster and White County Sheriff Neal Walden for the upcoming St. Paul’s “Salute to Heroes” chili cook-off, a new partnership has emerged. The Cleveland police department has appointed Father Thad Rudd of St. Paul the Apostle Church as its newest police chaplain. Over the past […]
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Paul Wilkes To Speak On Empowering Catholics
October 19, 2006Paul Wilkes, best-selling author, film director and guest lecturer, will offer a daylong Saturday workshop for church leaders and a two-day parish mission at Our Lady of the Valley Church Oct. 28-30. Wilkes has spent the past seven years traveling the country, researching and writing about the traits of excellence found in American churches. As […]
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Spring Hill Campus Hosts Extension Students
October 19, 2006Spring Hill College theology students and theology alumni of the college and its extension sites in Atlanta, Birmingham, Ala., and Jackson, Miss., will take part in the annual Spring Hill Day celebration on the Mobile campus Oct. 28. Those who are pursuing or who have already received master’s degrees or certificates in theology will meet […]
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Blessed Sacrament Hosts ‘Fair Trade’ Market
October 19, 2006The St. Katharine Drexel Book Store and Gift Shop at Most Blessed Sacrament Church, Atlanta, will hold a “fair trade” marketplace from Sunday to Sunday, Nov. 5-19 in the parish center. All are welcome. The bookstore is working with Catholic Relief Services and A Greater Gift, a nonprofit program of SERRV International, to provide handmade […]
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Special Mass Offered For Peace, Safety In Schools
October 19, 2006St. Mark Church will hold a Mass to pray for peace and safety in North Georgia schools on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m. During the celebration of the Mass, pastor Father Abel Guerrero-Orta will confer a blessing on all schoolteachers, paraprofessionals, students and school administrators. Participants are invited to prepare cards of sympathy and […]
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Mass Celebrates Diverse Cultures Of Catholicism
October 19, 2006Native African, Latin American, Asian and European heritage parishioners processed down the church aisle as choristers sang “We Are Marching” in Ibo, Polish, Tagalog, Spanish and English, enlivening the congregation as the celebration began. During the Mass, Filipino, Spanish and African choirs sang praise to God in their native tongues, and parishioners prayed for peace […]
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What I Have Seen and Heard (October 12, 2006)
October 12, 2006Last Thursday Jaime Rivera, one of our Atlanta seminarians studying at the Pontifical North American College, was ordained a deacon at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. He sent me pictures of the ceremony on the Internet and told me how proud he was that about 50 people from the Archdiocese of Atlanta made the trip […]
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Blessed Alphonsa Mission Builds Church In Loganville
October 12, 2006Catholics who belong to a rite extending back to the missionary time of the apostle St. Thomas are building their first church in North Georgia in Loganville. The community, Blessed Alphonsa Catholic Mission of Georgia, is part of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago. They are building on six acres of land on […]
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Catholics Support Vocations Through Annual Appeal
October 12, 2006Creating holy priests for the archdiocese is not only the responsibility of the archdiocesan vocations director, but also that of the entire Catholic community of North Georgia. That is the message that Father Brian Higgins, vocations director, hopes to relay to parishioners of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. And as the vocations program in the archdiocese […]