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• Hispanic Youth To Begin World Youth Day Trip With Bilingual Mass

  Published August 4, 2005

  Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will preside at a bilingual Mass on Tues., Aug. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Church to send forth the 48 Hispanic Catholics who will travel with the Office of Hispanic Ministry to World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, and to Rome this month. Leonardo Jaramillo, director of the […]

• Sold-Out Steubenville Atlanta Speaks To Teens

  By GRETCHEN KEISER, Staff Writer
  Published August 4, 2005

  Thirty years after the first Steubenville Youth Conference, a new generation of high school age Catholics is packing into arenas—like the Gwinnett Civic Center July 22-24—to be immersed in a faith environment all its own where it is cool to fall more and more in love with God. Jamming the Civic Center auditorium, over 1,800 […]

• Series Offers Speakers, Fellowship For Young Adults

  Published July 21, 2005

  YAM, the archdiocesan Young Adult Ministry, is sponsoring Theology on Tap for single and married adults ages 18-40 on Wednesday nights in September at the Three Dollar Café, 3002 Peachtree Road, NW, in Buckhead. Gathering for dinner and drinks begins at 7 p.m., the program starts at 7:30 p.m., and a social immediately follows at […]

• Music Enriches Parish

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published July 21, 2005

  Sacred organ music has resounded throughout Sacred Heart Church for more than a century, beautifying the liturgy and uplifting the congregation in prayer. Today its beautiful pipe organ combines the historic and the modern. The parish’s first pipe organ was installed in 1901, replaced in 1920 and again in 1975 and 1980, after which the […]

• Building New Church Strengthens Fayetteville Catholics

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published July 21, 2005

  On the hot summer evening of June 14, Teresa Caldwell greeted people arriving at the multipurpose building of St. Gabriel’s Church for the groundbreaking Mass and ceremony for the new church of this south-side congregation, marking a new chapter in the history of this parish and the nearly two-centuries old town of Fayetteville. They came […]

• Atlanta Will Host NCCW Convention Sept. 15-18

  Published July 21, 2005

  Atlanta will serve as host for the biennial national convention for the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW) Sept. 15-18, at the Hilton Atlanta. Approximately 1,500 attendees are expected to attend the four-day event. On Sept. 16, NCCW officers will present the biennial Distinguished Service Award, which is given to a woman “whose life and […]

• Rebecca Conaty Will Speak At August Magnificat

  Published July 21, 2005

  The Atlanta chapter of the Magnificat ministry to Catholic women will hold a breakfast on Saturday, Aug. 13, at which Rebecca Conaty, a member of the Magnificat advisory board and Eastern regional representative, will be the speaker. Her story of God’s mercy and her conversion to his will, rather than her own, is one of […]

• Certified Couples Teach NFP In English, Spanish

  By LYNN CRUTCHFIELD, Special Contributor
  Published July 21, 2005

  Teaching Natural Family Planning is a ministry in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Like other ministries in the church, people are drawn to minister in the area where the Lord has moved their own hearts, and this is true of the 25 certified couples teaching NFP in the archdiocese. The sincere way these couples share their […]

• Serra Clubs To Hold Annual Day Of Appreciation

  Published July 21, 2005

  The Serra Clubs of Atlanta will once again honor Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Archbishop-emeritus John F. Donoghue and the priests and Religious of the Archdiocese of Atlanta at their annual “Swing and a Prayer Golf and Tennis Classic.” This year’s clergy day of appreciation will be held at Indian Hills Country Club in Marietta, on […]

• Service To Honor Gifts Of Persons With Disabilities

  Published July 21, 2005

  On Tuesday, Aug. 2, St. Ann Church, Marietta, will host “Colors of Love,” an ecumenical prayer service celebrating the gifts that persons with disabilities bring to the community. The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with hospitality and refreshments in the parish center, after which attendees will go in procession and song into the church […]

• Historic Church Celebrates 125 Years Of Worship, Ministry

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published July 21, 2005

  Mary Alice Hearn was at her usual post at the front desk of Sacred Heart Church when Mother Teresa walked into the room. The church had been preparing for her visit for a long time, but nothing could prepare Hearn for the feelings that would wash over her as she met the diminutive nun. “There […]

• IHM Observes Earth Day With Tree Planting

  Published July 7, 2005

  Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish recognized Earth Day, April 22, by planting a pink dogwood tree on church grounds and providing parishioners with practical ways to care for God’s creation. The parish Social Justice Committee took seriously the statement of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding the Catholic faith and respect for God’s creation. […]

• Athens Community Bids Fond Farewell To Sisters

  By SUZANNE HAUGH, Special Contributor
  Published July 7, 2005

  In her final days before she and three other sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary order were to leave St. Joseph School, outgoing principal Sister Mary Glackin, IHM, quoted the words to Steve Green’s song, “Find Us Faithful.” “Oh, may all who come behind us find us faithful. May the fire of our devotion […]

• Pilgrimage Provides Chance To Renew Other Vows

  By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
  Published July 7, 2005

  Married for 43 years, Deacon Gary Womack and his wife Sharron have a gentle banter only shared between spouses who have known each other for decades. The pallium Mass pilgrimage was their third trip to Rome, but also one of the most special as they renewed their marriage vows just two days after their 43rd […]

• Three Who Meet Pope Find Experience Unforgettable

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published July 7, 2005

  On the Atlanta archdiocesan pilgrimage to Rome, three of the group of over 70 pilgrims learned one morning that they had been chosen by lot to be the ones introduced to Pope Benedict XVI during a general audience at the Vatican. It was a divine gift, and they were elated. Barbara Goeden of Holy Trinity […]

• New Spanish TV Channel To Broadcast Sunday Mass

  By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
  Published July 7, 2005

  Last year Rafael Ortiz-Guzman was busy planning to launch Georgia’s first locally owned and operated Spanish television channel when he felt chest pains, checked into Saint Joseph’s Hospital and learned that he must immediately have heart bypass surgery. While educated in Catholic schools and raised in the church, the Puerto Rico native, 54, had not […]

• Couples Teach Natural Family Planning

  Published July 7, 2005

  Two course series in Natural Family Planning offering instruction in the sympto-thermal method will begin in July. Each course is made up of four classes. To register call the course instructors listed below. For more information about Natural Family Planning call Lynn Crutchfield in the archdiocesan Family Life Office at (404) 885-7450. Location: St. Michael […]

• Divorce Support Group Begins At Holy Spirit

  Published July 7, 2005

  Divorce is never easy. It often changes lives in dramatic and painful ways. But it can help to share the experience with others who are also trying to work through their feelings, with those who understand. Beginning Wednesday, July 20, Holy Spirit Church, 4465 Northside Drive, NW, Atlanta, will introduce a confidential support group for […]

• Program Honors Our Lady Of Mount Carmel

  Published July 7, 2005

  On the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Holy Spirit Church is honoring her with a morning celebration of song, poetry and prayer, concluding with Marian devotions. During the program, to be held Saturday, July 16, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., music director Albert Ahlstrom, Ph.D., and singers from the Holy Spirit choirs […]

• Atlanta Lay Dominican Founder Honored

  Published July 7, 2005

  The lay Dominicans of the Holy Cross Pro-Chapter honored Elaine (Lanie) LeBlanc, OP, Ph.D., on May 14 at Holy Cross Church on her 10th anniversary as a professed lay Dominican. Included in her anniversary gifts and cards were messages of thanks from Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory and Father Marty Gleason, OP, Dominican Prior Provincial […]