The Lady Irish capture the program’s second crown with a 4-3 victory in the finals The Notre Dame High School girls tennis team won the 2012 Class A-AA state title, finishing the season undefeated at 14-0. The title was the second overall for the Lady Irish program, which also won …
Parish Notes: August 2012
Chattanooga Deanery Holy Spirit, Soddy-Daisy The St. Vincent de Paul Society at Holy Spirit Church has been collecting school supplies for five Chattanooga-area elementary schools. Items can be placed in the designated containers in the narthex of the church and outside the parish office. St. Jude, Chattanooga The parish Good …
Brides of Christ
With the mystery of woman, we learn how to be better ‘turned toward’ our heavenly Bridegroom Often it seems that God speaks to me through my wife, Ann, the mother of our six children. Of course, I don’t mean that quite as literally as she would perhaps like me to …
Cali seminarian embraces challenges of priestly studies
Arthur Torres Barona served internship at St. Mary in Johnson City Arthur Torres Barona is a Theology III student at Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wis. He recently completed an internship at St. Mary Parish in Johnson City. He is the son of Duvan Torres Gil and …
IC assignment gives Paulist priest southern exposure
Father Gerard Tully embraces Mother Mary after leaving Ma Bell Father Gerard Tully, CSP, is the associate pastor at Immaculate Conception Church in Knoxville, his first assignment in the southern United States. He has served in Arizona, Texas, Oregon, Rome, and Canada. Father Tully was the elder of two sons …
The Bread of Life
In Christ, we have his Word and flesh in the liturgy and Eucharist August is a straight-forward month. Its four Sundays take the Gospel from the sixth chapter of the Gospel According to John and the New Testament reading from the fourth and fifth chapters of Paul’s Epistle to the …
Reflecting on the work of bishops
Lessons from great churchmen of the past bode well for U.S. Catholic Church in the future We had a priest in the Nashville diocese, Father Aaron T. Gildea, who was ordained to the sacred priesthood on June 8, 1929. Many of our readers have never heard about him as he …
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The anamnesis
Making present God’s saving power in keeping with liturgical actions and ritual traditions The Catechism (1106) teaches that two elements are “at the heart of each sacramental celebration”: the invocation of the Holy Spirit, known as the epiclesis (discussed in a previous column); and the anamnesis. The anamnesis is “the …
Protecting what we celebrate
The truths, rights and freedoms our country commemorates also are a summons to protect and defend Independence Day always reminds me of the Gateway Arch on the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. Louis. Since the time it was completed in 1965, when I was 8 years old, …
Immaculate Conception parishioner in spotlight on ‘Duets’
Alexis Foster takes national stage on ABC talent series after honing skills in church choir Alexis Foster’s final semester at the University of Tennessee came in stages. Actually, Ms. Foster has gone from the graduation stage to a nationally televised stage as part of the new ABC prime-time talent search …
Diocese of Knoxville’s 40th priest ordained
Dustin Collins, calling ordination a blessing, assigned to St. Mary in Oak Ridge The diocese’s newest priest called his ordination “a very exciting blessing for me in my life after eight years of being a seminarian.” “It’s a blessing to be ordained a priest of God, a priest of the …
Parish Notes: July 2012
Chattanooga Deanery St. Augustine, Signal Mountain The “White Hot for Haiti” dinner-dance and auction May 5 raised more than $15,000 to provide education and food for the 1,200 students who attend St. Antoine School in Petite Rivière de Nippes, Haiti. Tracie and Chris Lesar were thanked for chairing the event …
