Georgia
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Marist Celebrates 25th ‘Holiday Traditions’ Event
Published October 20, 2005
The Holiday Traditions Arts and Crafts Show, held annually at the Marist School on Ashford-Dunwoody Road, is especially celebratory this year as the event on Saturday, Oct. 29, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. marks the show’s 25th anniversary. A juried craft show that is an annual fall attraction, Holiday Traditions is still a homegrown […]
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Rome School Marks Sixty Years As Family Of Faith
Published October 20, 2005
A hallway in St. Mary’s School is lined with the handprints of alumni in varying shades of blue, the school’s color. There are alumni from the 1950s all the way to 2005. The tradition of the eighth-grade students leaving their mark on the last day of school did not begin the same year as the […] Full Story
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Kennesaw Parish To Hold Fall Arts And Crafts Show
Published October 13, 2005
St. Catherine of Siena Church will hold its 24th annual Harvest Festival Arts and Crafts Show on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in St. Catherine’s church hall. Sponsored by the St. Catherine of Siena Women’s Club, the show will bring together a group of artisans and crafters from around the Southeast. […] Full Story
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Prayers Requested For Teens Attending NCYC
Published October 13, 2005
From ancient traditions to praise and worship gatherings, teens attending the National Catholic Youth Conference at the end of the month will have the opportunity to experience a wide spectrum of the church. Father Theodore Book, parochial vicar at St. Brigid Church in Alpharetta, is the liturgy coordinator for the conference, which will be held […]
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Marietta Parish Looks Forward To New Building
Published October 13, 2005
Holy Family Church recently broke ground for a new parish center after nearly three years of dedicated fundraising. In the summer of 2004, a group of parishioners formed a steering committee to take the Holy Family Parish to the “next level.” The Building Faith, Family, Future campaign was born, and that October the church kicked […]
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Pinecrest Honors Archbishop With Prayers, Racquet
Published October 13, 2005
Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory recently visited students of Pinecrest Academy for the first time, celebrating Mass with the faculty and more than 700 students. On Sept. 19, Archbishop Gregory arrived at Pinecrest to the sounds of a cheering crowd. Then, while Pinecrest High School “secret service” members escorted him, the archbishop was chauffeured in a […]
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Nursing Tradition Integral To Hospital’s Reputation
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published October 13, 2005Through the decades, nurses have worked from the bedside to the boardroom and the classroom to stay in touch with and ahead of the changing times and to assure Saint Joseph Hospital’s leadership position in health care. At the same time, they’ve followed the hospital’s Mercy mission—compassionate health care in a Catholic environment. And now […]
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Nursing School Reflects Wealth Of History, Mission
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published October 13, 2005An early bulletin from Saint Joseph Hospital’s School of Nursing, one of the first established in Georgia, indicated that the school was “to form young women possessed of the necessary qualifications to the noble, self-sacrificing and delicate duty of caring for the sick in an intelligent manner.” A list of rules forbade nurses to loiter […]
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Writer Lorraine Murray To Speak At Magnificat
Published October 13, 2005
Lorraine V. Murray will be the speaker on Saturday morning, Nov. 12, at the Catholic women’s ministry of Magnificat held at Killian Hall. At the gathering, which includes a breakfast, she will talk about her journey of faith. A newspaper and magazine columnist and an author, Murray says it was through her vocation of writing […] Full Story
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Parish Marks End Of Year Of Eucharist With Prayer
Published October 13, 2005
To commemorate the close of the Year of the Eucharist proclaimed by the late Pope John Paul II, St. Peter Chanel Church will begin a Forty Hours devotion on Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 4 p.m., continuing until 8 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 21. A special Mass will follow at 8:30 a.m. Forty Hours devotion is […] Full Story
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Annual ‘Scott’s Sprint’ To Benefit Children’s Project
Published October 13, 2005
Catholic Social Services will hold the fourth annual Scott’s Sprint Memorial Fun Run (5K run and one-mile walk) at Freedom Parkway Path at the Carter Center on Saturday, Oct. 22, beginning at 8 a.m. This year CSS invites the public to participate and to compete for the newly created trophy called “Mei Mei’s Trophy.” This … Continue reading Annual ‘Scott’s Sprint’ To Benefit Children’s Project
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Holy Cross Holds Fair
Published October 13, 2005
The Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary of Holy Cross Church will host a craft fair on Saturday, Oct. 22, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., while the Knights will host a vintage and modern automobile show from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. in the parking lot behind the church. Holy Cross is located at 3773 […]
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Interfaith Trip Brings Vivid Content To Teachers’ Classes
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published October 13, 2005What Catholic educators—including two from St. Pius X High School in Atlanta—experienced this summer could not be learned in a book. They walked the streets of Nazareth, traveled along the Jordan River in the Judean wilderness, and as they reached the Mount of Olives grew awestruck as they beheld Jerusalem. At sunset they celebrated Shabbat, […] Full Story
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At Long Last, OLA’s New Church Nears Completion
By MARY ANNE CASTRANIO, Staff Writer
Published October 13, 2005The cupola was raised gently by crane to the top of Our Lady of the Assumption Church’s new church building on a sunlit day at the end of August. Students and teachers at OLA School came to the windows for brief moments to view the exciting happenings outside, as the base of the cupola, the […] Full Story
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With Help From CRS, Solidarity Comes In A Cup
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published October 6, 2005Socially-conscious Catholics who savor their morning cup of java can now sip in solidarity with farmers hand-picking organic coffee beans in the rich mountain soil of Nicaragua and around the world through a Catholic Relief Services Fair Trade program. CRS has supported over 300 Nicaraguan coffee farmers since 2002 in seeking to enter into the […]
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Mountain Church Gives Archbishop Warm Welcome
By BUD and JOAN ATTONITO, Special Contributors
Published October 6, 2005On Sunday, Aug. 28, on a beautiful, clear day in the northeast Georgia mountain town of Clayton, nearly 400 people gathered for a truly special occasion. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated an outdoor bilingual Mass for the parishioners of St. Helena Church and their visitors. The setting for this, the fifth annual outdoor Mass, was […] Full Story
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Queen Of Angels Students Open Hearts To Help
Published October 6, 2005
“What if it happened to you?” This is the question Queen of Angels School students asked in the wake of the ruin and despair brought on by Hurricane Katrina last month in the Gulf Coast states. The students at the Roswell school coped with their emotions by organizing school supply drives, sponsoring a devastated New […] Full Story
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School’s Food Drive, Mass Aid Hurricane Victims
By Victims
Published October 6, 2005Holy Redeemer School held a food drive on Monday, Sept. 12, to benefit the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB). Touched by the stories of the victims of Hurricane Katrina and told that the food bank could provide these victims with food they needed, the fourth-graders came together in just one week to put together a […]
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Thematic Park Sure To Amaze At ‘Winds Of Change’
By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
Published October 6, 2005It’s not every day that a teenager gets a chance to play nine holes of putt-putt with Catholic leaders from across the country, but at the National Catholic Youth Conference set for Atlanta at the end of October, attendees will have the opportunity to test their skills against Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and other bishops […] Full Story
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Craft Supplies, Prizes, Donations Needed for Youth Event
Published October 6, 2005
Donations are needed for various projects for the National Catholic Youth Conference, especially in the Thematic (Interactive) Park. Donations are especially needed for the arts and crafts area, including scissors, hole punchers, construction paper, black poster board, pens, foam core, glue sticks and religious art (old cards, etc.) for covers of prayer journals. General supplies […]