Reporter Andrew Nelson shot this video at yesterday's Year of Faith Opening Mass.
You can learn more about the Year of Faith at our Web site, www.georgiabulletin.org.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Prayer to Saint Raphael
This prayer was recently discussed at a recent luncheon hosted by the Catholic Foundation of North Georgia. Professor Emeritus of English at Georgia State University William Sessions spoke about Flannery O’Conner and his writing her authorized biography.
Flannery O’Conner found this prayer by Ernest Hello in Dorothy Day’s “Catholic Worker” and quoted it in a letter dated 14 July 1964, less than a month before her death. The letter is included in “The Habit of Being,” edited by Sally Fitzgerald, 1979.
Prayer to Saint Raphael
O Raphael, lead us toward those we are waiting for,
those who are waiting for us: Raphael, Angel of happy
meeting, lead us by the hand toward those we are
looking for. May all our movements be guided by your
Light and transfigured with your joy.
Angle, guide of Tobias, lay the request we now
address to you at the feet of Him on whose unveiled
Face you are privileged to gaze. Lonely and tired,
crushed by the separations and the sorrows of life, we feel
the need of calling you and of pleading for the
protection of your wings, so that we may not be as
strangers in the provinces of joy, all ignorant of the
concerns of our country. Remember the weak, you
who are strong, you whose home lies beyond the
region of thunder, in a land that is always peaceful,
Always serene and bright with
Resplendent glory of God.
Flannery O’Conner found this prayer by Ernest Hello in Dorothy Day’s “Catholic Worker” and quoted it in a letter dated 14 July 1964, less than a month before her death. The letter is included in “The Habit of Being,” edited by Sally Fitzgerald, 1979.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
"Anti-scarecrow" St. Francis of Assisi Welcomes Birds
Clair Stallman, of the Georgia Tech Grad Students and Young Professionals group, puts a bird on the St. Francis of Assisi “anti-scarecrow” that is part of the Atlanta Botanical Garden's Scarecrows in the Garden.
Ga. Tech Students Plant St. Francis Scarecrow to Welcome the Birds
The Atlanta Botanical Garden's annual Scarecrows in the Garden in October features a notable Catholic scarecrow.
But since St Francis of Assisi has a reputation of loving all creatures, great and small, graduate students are calling him an anti-scarecrow. And as fate would have it, Thursday, Oct. 4, was the opening night for Scarecrows in the Garden exhibit, it was also the feast of St. Francis.
The Georgia Tech Grad Students and Young Professionals group put their brains together to build the scarecrow, including using birdseeds for its hands.
Michelle Ediger, a leader with the Graduate Student and Young Professional group, said she saw an email from the Atlanta Botanical Garden looking for organizations to participate so they did the work.
It was Christine Moran, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, who came up with St. Francis. She asked, "Wouldn’t a Catholic scarecrow be an anti-scarecrow… i.e. St. Francis of Assisi with birds flocking to him? "
The three-year old Graduate Student and Young Professional group is based at the Georgia Tech Catholic Center. It provides opportunities for Catholic graduate students to live their faith, from Bible study and building a home for Habitat for Humanity to an annual "pilgrimage" to a corn maze and carve pumpkins.
“Graduate student life is often busy and stressful, and our students connect with others that share the same situation. We also have an opportunity to help mentor and minister to the undergraduate students at Tech,” said Ediger, a graduate student at Georgia State University.
You can learn more about the Catholic graduate student group at its Web site, http://bit.ly/WuwnnV
But since St Francis of Assisi has a reputation of loving all creatures, great and small, graduate students are calling him an anti-scarecrow. And as fate would have it, Thursday, Oct. 4, was the opening night for Scarecrows in the Garden exhibit, it was also the feast of St. Francis.
The Georgia Tech Grad Students and Young Professionals group put their brains together to build the scarecrow, including using birdseeds for its hands.
Michelle Ediger, a leader with the Graduate Student and Young Professional group, said she saw an email from the Atlanta Botanical Garden looking for organizations to participate so they did the work.
It was Christine Moran, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, who came up with St. Francis. She asked, "Wouldn’t a Catholic scarecrow be an anti-scarecrow… i.e. St. Francis of Assisi with birds flocking to him? "
The three-year old Graduate Student and Young Professional group is based at the Georgia Tech Catholic Center. It provides opportunities for Catholic graduate students to live their faith, from Bible study and building a home for Habitat for Humanity to an annual "pilgrimage" to a corn maze and carve pumpkins.
“Graduate student life is often busy and stressful, and our students connect with others that share the same situation. We also have an opportunity to help mentor and minister to the undergraduate students at Tech,” said Ediger, a graduate student at Georgia State University.
You can learn more about the Catholic graduate student group at its Web site, http://bit.ly/WuwnnV
Friday, October 5, 2012
Red Mass: Finding the Balance of Justice and Mercy
ATLANTA - Here's a first report about the Oct. 4 Red Mass.
- Andrew
- Andrew
Monday, October 1, 2012
Leader of Pax Christi
Sister Patricia Chappell leads Pax Christi USA, the Catholic peace organization. She's been the executive director for nine months and as member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur for 35.
Sister Patricia spoke with the Georgia Bulletin about the organization and about her life as a religious sister.
The interactive photo above will give you links to Web sites and to her interview with Andrew Nelson.
Have a listen. Read more about Pax Christi in Georgia in the Georgia Bulletin.
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