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• Georgia Martyrs artwork raises awareness of canonization cause

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Editor
  Published December 9, 2021

  Several churches in the Archdiocese of Atlanta have commissioned original works of art depicting the Georgia Martyrs—five Franciscans who died on Georgia’s coast in the late 16th century. The Spanish friars ministered to the native people, the Guale.

• GRACE Scholars makes Catholic education reality for hundreds of families

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published December 9, 2021

  Thirty-four Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Diocese of Savannah accept GRACE scholarships. All students receiving GRACE Scholars awards receive money for their entire Catholic school matriculation as long as they show financial need.

• Youth and young adult writers needed

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published December 1, 2021

  High school youth and young adults in the Archdiocese of Atlanta are invited to contribute to The Georgia Bulletin beginning in January 2022.

• St. Anna Church honors clergy 

  

  Published December 1, 2021

  St. Anna Church, a rural parish in Walton County, held an appreciation weekend for its clergy after Masses Nov. 6-7.

• Knights host “Carry Your Cross” hike

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published November 30, 2021

  The Knights of Columbus at Transfiguration Church carried 40-pound wooden crosses up Kennesaw Mountain to raise money for seminarians.

• Singers needed for Eucharistic Congress choir

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published November 25, 2021

  Singers are needed for the Eucharistic Congress Choir, which will perform at the congress June 16-17, 2022.

• Archbishop Hartmayer offers statement following verdicts in Ahmaud Arbery case

  

  By GEORGIA BULLETIN STAFF
  Published November 24, 2021

  Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., has released a statement in response to the verdicts rendered today in the case of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick.

• A second COVID Thanksgiving of service

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 24, 2021

  Many working hands around the Archdiocese of Atlanta share with others around the Thanksgiving holiday, from loading food boxes in trunks of cars with the makings of a home-cooked meal to getting up before sunrise to prepare a hot turkey dinner for senior citizens.

• 40 years of Apple Annie Arts and Crafts Show

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published November 24, 2021

  A Christmas tradition for 40 years returns to St. Ann Church in December. The Apple Annie Arts and Craft Show is coming back to the Marietta parish after being cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Cristo Rey wins six medals in taekwondo championship

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published November 23, 2021

  The Cristo Rey Atlanta taekwondo team won six medals at the Southeast Open Taekwondo Championship on Nov. 6.

• Lyke House gallery uplifts contributions of Black Catholics

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 23, 2021

  A new exhibit at the Lyke House Catholic Center at the Atlanta University Center is honoring its namesake, the late Archbishop James P. Lyke. The gallery’s works teach about the gifts of the Black community to U.S. Catholicism and the universal church.

• New sculpture reimagines Christian-Jewish relations

  

  Published November 17, 2021

  Marist School hosted a blessing and dedication of a new sculpture celebrating the journey of friendship between Catholics and Jews on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 56 years after the landmark Nostra Aetate declaration by Pope Paul VI.

• Holy Spirit closes cross-country season in Macon

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2021

  Holy Spirit Preparatory School in Atlanta competed in the Georgia Independent School Association (GISA) State Championship on Nov. 6.

• Marist’s fall choral concert makes a comeback

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2021

  Marist student singers performed in the Senior High Fall Choral Concert on Oct. 26. The concert tradition returned after two years of performances without an audience due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Deacon Donald W. Marchildon remembered

  Published November 12, 2021

  Deacon Donald Wood Marchildon of Athens died peacefully and surrounded by family on Oct. 25. He was 84 years old.

• A new church home for Dawsonville Catholics

  

  By NICHOLE GOLDEN, Editor
  Published November 12, 2021

  Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv, consecrated a new church building for Christ the Redeemer Church in Dawsonville on the Feast of All Saints, Nov. 1.

• Sister Susan Arcaro’s decades-long ministry started with sharing meals 

  

  By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2021

  Sister Susan Arcaro has spent nearly three decades in the Archdiocese of Atlanta helping others get to the core of faith by seeing how God stirs their souls. Sister Susan, 78, has been a member of the Cenacle Sisters for 60 years.

• Advent season a time for reflection, preparation

  

  By SAMANTHA SMITH, Staff Writer
  Published November 12, 2021

  The season of Advent, “a time of expected waiting,” marks a new liturgical year and includes the four Sundays and weekdays leading up to Christmas. This year, Advent begins on Sunday, Nov. 28. 

• Cathedral of Christ the King hosts exact casting of Michelangelo’s Pietà

  

  Published November 11, 2021

  A life-size marble casting of Michelangelo’s ‘Pietà’ is on display at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta. The Carrara marble, exact casting of Pietà, is the 54th of only 100 authorized to be created and placed.

• St. Anna Church honors heroes who served

  

  Published November 11, 2021

  St. Anna Church’s Knights of Columbus Council 14425 paid tribute to service men and women for the fourth straight year with its Wall of Honor (WOH) at the Monroe parish.