{"id":1032,"date":"2006-06-17T00:14:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T00:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/awesome-in-atlanta.html"},"modified":"2006-06-17T00:14:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T00:14:36","slug":"awesome-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/awesome-in-atlanta.html","title":{"rendered":"Awesome in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader just returned from the first night of the Atlanta Archdiocese Eucharistic Congress and reports:<\/p>\n

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I just got back from the first night of the Archdiocese of Atlanta Eucharistic Congress. I went to the Healing Mass, which was surprisingly efficient. The priest gave a good homily about uniting our sufferings to Christ’s and what the saints – especially St. Therese – teach us about suffering.<\/p>\n

I also went to part of the young adult track. Mary Beth Bonnaci spoke earlier (while I was at the Mass), so I missed her. Fr. Ricardo Bailey, a young black priest, also gave a talk, which was very Spirit-filled.<\/p>\n

The most interesting part of the night, to me, was when Fr. Bailey announced that a young Atlanta woman (she looked about her early 30s, didn’t catch her name) has been working with Archbishop Gregory to start a new religious order of women in the archdiocese, to be called the Handmaids of the Holy Spirit. It sounded like they would be involved with education.<\/p>\n

"They’re going to be orthodox, and they’re going to wear a habit," Fr. Bailey said.<\/em> "Tonight you saw all the seminarians here in their cassocks and surplices and all blinged out. Please God in a few years we’ll see a lot of nuns. We need this, church."<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Please God, indeed!<\/p>\n

(And, in a confluence of events…A NYTimes article on Fr. Bailey and his radio show)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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