2012 12-02 Update on Improvements
Update on improvements This column is an update on how the staff and I continue to address the comments that parishioners offered in our February – March 2012 Parish Survey. I read the results of the Survey and every individual comment offered, and hope to address each of these issues…with the desire that Saint Brigid…
2012 12-09 Love Came Down on Christmas
Love Came Down on Christmas On Tuesday of this week, the 11th of December, you will be offered a great gift…a blessing for this Advent season of anticipation and preparation and waiting. On the 11th of December….this Tuesday…in the Nave of Saint Brigid…Dr. Allen Hunt will begin our three day Mission…entitled Love Came Down at…
2012 12-16 Caring For One Of Our Own
Caring for one of our own On the 8th of June in 2013, one of our own will be ordained into the ministerial priesthood of Christ. On that summer day, Dennis Dorner Jr. will be ordained for service in the Archdiocese. He will become Father Dennis for us. The following day, his traditional “first…
2012 12-23 A Season of Light
A season of light The holy days of Christmas begin with tomorrow’s first Vigil…and we will celebrate the Nativity of the Lord with such joy! This season of light, these holy days of remembering the Gift given to us at Bethlehem…these days continue until the Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord, on the 13th…
2012 09-09 The Bread of Life, the Chalice of Salvation
The Bread of Life, the Chalice of Salvation In his pastoral letter to the Church at Corinth (in present day Greece), St. Paul reminded the community of faith of the truth that he had taught them, the truth about the Bread of Life, about the Chalice of Salvation. Written in about 54 A.D., St. Paul wrote: …
2012 09-30 Ongoing Response to Your Suggestions
Ongoing response to your suggestions The professional parish-wide Survey that was completed in March of this year continues to guide the staff, in acting to the suggestions offered in the Survey results, about ways to improve our life together as a parish family. As I mentioned some months ago, I hope to respond to every…
2012 09-23 Who Do You Say That I Am?
September 23rd, 2012 Who do you say that I am? After months and months of traveling with Him and after witnessing healings and extraordinary signs of God’s providence through Him, the disciples had this question posed to them…by Jesus: OK…I get what others have said, that I’m one of the prophets come back to…
2012 09-16 Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord
Guest Columnist from our Music Director: Meredith Kane Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord. How many of us like to sing in the shower,…
2012 09-02 Update on Proposed Building Project
September 2nd, 2012 Update on our proposed building project As most of you will remember, I sent a letter to every registered parishioner in January of this year, summarizing what I discovered when I was appointed pastor of Saint Brigid (February 24, 2011). I found that the second pastor of Saint Brigid, the beloved Msgr….
2012 08-21 Joel Gray
August 21, 2012 Joel Gray I have known Joel and Lisa Gray for twenty three years. We first met when the three of us called St. Jude in Sandy Springs our parish home. When I arrived at Saint Brigid to begin my new…
2012 08-19 Moral Reflections of Job by Saint Gregory
August 19th, 2012 From the Moral Reflections of Job By Saint Gregory the Great , Pope (590– 604 AD) …… The Church moves forward like the advancing dawn Since the daybreak or the dawn is changed gradually from darkness into light, the Church, which comprises the elect, is fittingly styled daybreak or…
2012 08-12 Sponsor Couples
August 12, 2012 Couples teaching Couples Preparing for a lifetime of married love We are blessed to have lots of weddings at Saint Brigid; and I hope that all of you hoping to be married (and parents of adult children on the way to marriage) will consider having the wedding here. We do weddings very…
2012 08-05 Why Is This Happening at Saint Brigid?
August 5, 2012 Why is this Happening at Saint Brigid? Though many of the parishes in the Archdiocese deal with these troubling behaviors, it seems to many of us that our parish has been bit doubly hard with these unflattering trends. Arriving late to Mass: We all know about the traffic. Traffic is terrible, but…
2012 07-29 Christ Renews His Parish (CRHP)
July 29, 2012 From Guest columnist:Deacon Tom Huff “I give you a new commandment: love one another” Once again, St. Brigid is offering a Christ Renews His Parish retreat weekend for our parishioners. The following comments are from five St. Brigid parishioners who attended past CRHP weekends: “After my CRHP weekend, my life has not been the same…
2012 07-22 Christ Renews His Parish (CRHP)
July 22, 2012 From Guest columnist: Deacon Tom Huff “Come Away By Yourselves to a Deserted Place and Rest For Awhile” In Mark’s Gospel this Sunday, Jesus instructs his apostles to go away to a deserted place and rest for a while. In His love for His brothers, He wants them to take some time to…
2012 07-15 Couples Teaching Couples
July 15, 2012 Couples teaching Couples Preparing for a lifetime of married love We are blessed to have lots of weddings at Saint Brigid; and I hope that all of you hoping to be married (and parents of adult children on the way to marriage) will consider having the wedding here. We do weddings very…
2012 07-08 Father Joshua Allen
July 8, 2012 Eight years ago, I remember praying the Rosary in St. Theresa’s in Douglasville, GA. I remember it clearly because it was the first time I had prayed the entire thing…all twenty decades. I was in the middle of a crucial moment in discernment…that moment every man who enters the seminary experiences: I…
2012 07-01 Our Declaration of Independance
July 1, 2012 The 4th of July…2012 Our declaration of independence Last week, I re-watched the HBO series John Adams. In this multi-part series, the history of the birth of our beloved nation was presented to us through the perspective of one of the founding fathers…husband and father, farmer, author, representative, Vice President and President…John…
2012 06-24 Why Is This Happening at Saint Brigid?
June 24, 2012 Why is this happening at Saint Brigid? Though many of the parishes in the Archdiocese deal with these troubling behaviors, it seems to many of us that our parish has been bit doubly hard with these unflattering trends. Arriving late to Mass: We all know about the traffic. Traffic is terrible, but…
2012 06-17 Father Gilbert Exume
June 17, 2012 Fr. Gilbert Exumé Our friend is leaving. This is probably the most difficult duty that a diocesan priest encounters in a lifetime of service… leaving a parish family that has become his family… leaving a home that has become his home. Fr. Gilbert Exumé is leaving the parish family of Saint Brigid,…
2012 06-10 Couples Teaching Couples
June 10, 2012 Couples teaching Couples Preparing for a lifetime of married love We are blessed to have lots of weddings at Saint Brigid; and I hope that all of you hoping to be married (and parents of adult children on the way to marriage) will consider having the wedding here. We do weddings very…
2012 06-03 Trinity Sunday
June 3, 2012 Let’s think for a minute or two about the English word “love”. When you think about the word, does your mind sense that this word “love” is a noun…a thing or an abstraction…or a verb…an action? The noun “love” describes an affection or emotional feeling of attraction; but I’m guessing that for…
2012 05-27 Saint Augustine on 1 John
May 27, 2012 From the Tractates on the first letter of John by Saint Augustine, bishop (Tract. 4: Pl 35, 2008-2009) Our heart longs for God We have been promised that we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. By these words, the tongue has done its best; now we…
2012 05-20 Eucharistic Congress
May 20, 2012 Family vacation!…Beach weekend with friends!…Trip to the Holy Land! All have three things in common: Group, Via, and Bonding. “Group” is what makes us a unit, our commonality, like the Disciples. “Via” is the journey we take, the path, like Jesus’ Via Crucis. “Bonding” is the result of Group + Via, cohesion,…
2012 05-13 Mother’s Day
May 13, 2012 MOTHER’S DAY What is your earliest memory of your mother? My earliest memory is of a temper tantrum I was having when my mom was heading off to work. I was about two and a half years of age. My mom was about twenty-two. She was a nurse and was heading off…
2012 05-06 Deacon Henry Hein
May 6, 2012 To The Saint Brigid Community From Deacon Henry and Maura Hein We were delighted to hear that I would be assigned as a Deacon to Saint Brigid Parish. It was very kind of Archbishop Gregory and Msgr. Tally to permit us to transfer here. It is equally kind to invite us to…
2012 04-29 Parking & Traffic
April 29, 2012 Concerns raised in our parish survey The number one “complaint – concern” seen in the personal comments given with the survey centered on our frustration with parking & traffic & illegal parking at the parish. It is frustrating; but in a way, it’s a good problem to have. By God’s grace, thousands…
2012 04-22 New Pastoral Council
April 22, 2012 The new Pastoral Council of Saint Brigid In July of this year, the new Pastoral Council of Saint Brigid will meet together for the first time. Who makes up this twelve-person council? It all depends on you! I am accepting applications for membership on this new Pastoral Council. The deadline for turning…
2012 04-15 Divine Mercy Sunday & Survey Results
April 15, 2012 Divine Mercy The gift…the divine mercy of the Lord…this is the blessed gift on this Octave day of Easter. For eight days, the Catholic Church has offered the Easter proclamation: the One who died…He lives! In Him…the Risen Lord, we have received the Lord’s divine mercy. Rejoice…and give thanks to God! Our…
2012 04-08 Easter Sunday
April 8, 2012 EASTER SUNDAY Springtime and the equinox: The Masters, Braves baseball, gardening, new life, new growth, warm weather, electricity bills on the rise, outdoor sports, hiking and fishing and swimming and camping, new “Sunday” clothes, sitting on the deck, cutting the grass, bunny rabbits and colored eggs, another holiday. All these things listed…