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• Cenacle Sisters Honor Foundress With Prayer Institute

  Published September 15, 2005

  The Cenacle Sisters are commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of the foundress of their order, St. Therese Couderc, by offering The Couderc Institute of Prayer, on Saturday, Oct. 8, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Alpharetta. This day-long seminar features the following workshops: “Praying with Scripture,” “Rediscovering Lectio Divina,” […] Full Story

• CSS, Vietnamese Parish, Catholic School Need Essentials

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published September 15, 2005

  Various Catholic and faith-based organizations assisting people displaced by Hurricane Katrina in the metro area need everything from phone cards to money for school children’s lunches, and are asking for support from the North Georgia Catholic community. Catholic Social Services, St. Peter Claver Regional Catholic School, Our Lady of Vietnam Church and MUST Ministries, a […]

• New Orleans Priest Says Resurrection Church Will Rise

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published September 15, 2005

  At St. Peter Chanel Church on Sept. 7, Father Michael Joseph Vinh Nguyen of Resurrection of Our Lord Church in New Orleans spoke to the congregation of his determination to repair his damaged parish, which had just undergone a major restoration last year, and to strengthen hope for his scattered flock in Christ. The Vietnamese […] Full Story

• Great-Grandmother Lives To Tell Her ‘Survivor’ Story

  Published September 15, 2005

  As 76-year-old Patricia Farrell lay on her back “like Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel” in the attic of her one-story New Orleans home with two flashlights, a radio and some tools, she prayed to God for her life and thought often of her beloved pastor Father Mike. She had seen Father Michael Joseph Vinh Nguyen … Continue reading Great-Grandmother Lives To Tell Her ‘Survivor’ Story

• Football In Full Swing At Catholic High Schools

  Published September 15, 2005

  The local high school football season is going full tilt. On Aug. 26 St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, was victorious in the first all-Catholic gridiron showdown of the regular season against Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, 31-7. The following week both teams lost by a 3-point margin. St. Pius rebounded in week four beating […] Full Story

• Atlanta Stands With Survivors In ‘Faith And Hope’

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published September 15, 2005

  While Catholics around the archdiocese continue to make fervent and prayerful donations to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory has been asked to take an official role in the recovery of the Gulf Coast region by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Spokane Bishop William S. Skylstad, president of the USCCB, has […]

• Families Expand Rapidly As Relatives Need Shelter

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published September 8, 2005

  North Georgia Catholics are pulling together, opening their homes and taking action to help those evacuated from New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast slammed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner Marion Orr picked up her sister, Lisa Moran, a nurse in the intensive care unit at Tulane […]

• NCCW Convention Planned For Atlanta

  Published September 8, 2005

  The National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW) will hold its 2005 national convention at the Hilton Atlanta Sept. 15-18. Nearly 1,200 council members and guests are expected to attend. Hosted this year by the Atlanta Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, assisted by the Savannah and South Carolina Councils of Catholic Women, the biennial convention will […]

• Georgia Catholics Respond To Gulf Coast Crisis

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published September 8, 2005

  Immediate actions being taken by the Archdiocese of Atlanta in the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina include a special financial collection in every parish and the opening of archdiocesan Catholic schools to displaced children in an effort to alleviate victims’ suffering and help them rebuild their lives. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory asked every parish to […]

• HIV/AIDS Group Marks 10 Years Of Helping

  Published September 8, 2005

  Living Room will celebrate its 10th anniversary of helping people with HIV/AIDS to find and maintain affordable housing on Sept. 25 with a celebration at the Cathedral of St. Philip. A reception and award ceremony will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Great Hall. Preceding the celebration will be an Evensong prayer […]

• Archbishop To Celebrate Red Mass For Lawyers

  Published September 1, 2005

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will celebrate the annual Red Mass for the St. Thomas More Society, the Catholic lawyers guild of Atlanta, at Sacred Heart Church on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 6:30 p.m. The Mass will be followed by a reception and casual dinner in the parish hall. The history of the Red Mass for […]

• Brazilian Catholics Celebrate Foothold At St. Jude’s

  

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published September 1, 2005

  Members of an emerging Brazilian Catholic community savored their cultural traditions at a festival July 15 and 16 outside their home at St. Jude the Apostle Church, chatting in Portuguese, biting grilled barbecue meats called churrasquinho off skewers, and joining arm-in-arm for traditional folkloric dances. Donning ruffled dresses, ladies attired as farm girls prepared and […]

• ‘Jesus 2000’ Caribbean Drama To Be Performed At Blessed Trinity By Father HoLung & Friends

  Published September 1, 2005

  Father Richard HoLung and a Caribbean cast will perform an epic musical drama about the life of Jesus Christ entitled “Jesus 2000” at Blessed Trinity High School Theater in Roswell Sept. 30 and Oct. 1-2. Prepared for the millennial birthday of the Savior of the world, “Jesus 2000” is a joyous and spectacular celebration of […]

• School Hosts Lecture On Catholic Church Music

  Published September 1, 2005

  Dr. Albert Ahlstrom, music director at Holy Spirit Church in Atlanta, will discuss “Catholic Church Music—The Legacy, Our Future” on Thursday, Sept. 15, at Holy Spirit Preparatory School as part of the school’s lecture series. The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Liberal Arts Building on the Upper School campus located at 4449 Northside […]

• Legion Of Mary Retreat Offered Oct. 15

  Published September 1, 2005

  In the Year of the Eucharist the annual Legion of Mary retreat of the Atlanta South Curia will take place at St. Peter’s Church in LaGrange on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. After recitation of opening prayers and the rosary, Father Balappa Selva Raj, pastor, will celebrate Mass. Coffee, light refreshments, […]

• Catholic Hospital Commemorates 125 Years Of Healing

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published September 1, 2005

  In 1880, the year Thomas Edison’s electric street lamps were first installed commercially, sisters from Savannah lit an enduring light of healing mercy for the sick in Atlanta. Sister of Mercy Cecilia Carroll and three other sisters were called by Bishop William Gross from their convent in Savannah with a mission to minister to the […]

• Cologne Trip Memorable For Atlanta Hispanic Group

  Published August 29, 2005

  Over a period of nine months, a group of Hispanic young adults from 25 parishes, led by the Atlanta Office of Hispanic Youth and Young Adult Ministry, joyfully prepared to experience World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, Germany. They gathered monthly to study the various messages that Pope John Paul II had given since the […]

• Crisis At Local Hospital Elicits Pastoral Response

  Published August 18, 2005

  At about 6 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 15, at Saint Joseph’s Hospital a man shot and killed his wife, who was a patient in an intensive care unit, and then turned his gun on himself and committed suicide, prompting a swift medical and pastoral crisis response by the Catholic health-care institution. Fulton County Police Department […]

• Atlanta Conference Expected To Draw 20,000 Teens

  Published August 18, 2005

  Catholics from the Archdiocese of Atlanta and throughout the country are busy in preparation, prayer and planning for the National Catholic Youth Conference, which will be held in Atlanta Oct. 27-30. Archdiocesan officials and steering committee members for NCYC have been meeting for the past several months to plan for the biennial event, which is […]

• Fundraiser For Cancer Home To Be Held Oct. 1

  Published August 18, 2005

  The Auxiliary of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home will hold its annual fundraiser to benefit the revered, long-established Atlanta institution on Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel. This luncheon, held for the 49th time this year, is the major fundraiser for the home, which has given free aid to those stricken with […]