{"id":1004,"date":"2006-06-18T21:17:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T21:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/20000-in-atlanta.html"},"modified":"2006-06-18T21:17:57","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T21:17:57","slug":"20000-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/20000-in-atlanta.html","title":{"rendered":"20,000 in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Eucharistic Congress seemed to be another rousing success &#8211; please post comments if you attended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/metro\/atlanta\/stories\/0618catholic.html\">The Journal-Constitution coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqpn.com\/\">Fr. Roderick of the Daily Breakfast Podcast was there, of course, and has posts and podcasts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what actually stunned me &#8211; the Congress was held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gicc.com\/\">Georgia International Convention Center<\/a> (not the World Congress Center downtown next to the Omni and CNN Center &#8211; that&#8217;s a different facility). Now. Think of the liturgies you&#8217;ve attended at convention centers and hotel ballrooms and the like. Hmmm. Now. Have any of them had the altar area fashioned like this: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img85.imageshack.us\/img85\/2858\/169392034906a6965204fy.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/73197075@N00\/169392034\/in\/set-72157594169139592\/\">Courtesy Fr. Roderick&#8217;s Flickr photos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calling LA&#8230;calling LA&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Eucharistic Congress seemed to be another rousing success &#8211; please post comments if you attended. The Journal-Constitution coverage Fr. Roderick of the Daily Breakfast Podcast was there, of course, and has posts and podcasts. 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