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By Meg Mirshak
Augusta
Maureen Grady Lewis was named the new principal of Aquinas High School April 27.

Lewis, a 1984 Aquinas graduate, will begin the position July 1. Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer and Sister Rose Mary Collins, superintendent of schools, made the public announcement at the school filling the position vacant since last summer.

A class project for the sixth grade at St. Peter the Apostle School, Savannah, will soon provide water for about 500 people in Tigray, Ethiopia.  In November, the class launched Wishing for Wells, a fundraiser with a goal of $10,000 on behalf of Charity: Water, “a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing countries.”  The students’ fundraising deadline was March 31, Easter Sunday.

The students’ first task

The Vocations Essay contest,  sponsored by the Serra Club of Savannah and the Southern Cross, saw 175 entries from across the diocese this year. The question posed to 7th grade students throughout the Diocese of Savannah was, “Jesus called the 12 to leave their lives behind and follow him to become fishers of men.

In Miguel de Cervantes’ masterpiece, “Don Quixote,” the title character famously attacks some windmills, which he mistakes for “ferocious giants”: “Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain.

More than 1,500 Catholics from all over south Georgia came together as church in Savannah’s Forsyth Park for a Mass celebrating religious liberty in the USA.

Many of those in attendance began their day early to find a nearby parking spot and place to sit. One couple, Randy Yon and his wife Joy, left Waycross at 5:30 am to attend the Mass. Yon heard about the Mass about a month ago and made plans to attend. He said about 12 to 15 fellow parishioners travelled from St. Joseph Church for the Faith and Freedom Mass.

“It was an historic Mass,” said Yon. “The music was fantastic and it was important to hold the Mass in public so non-Catholics could witness how we celebrate our faith,”  he said.

May 25, 2012

My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Earlier this year, I wrote you to express my deep concerns about a grave moral matter – one that I perceive to be a direct threat to our constitutional freedom to exercise our religion and religious conscience without governmental interference.

Sacred Heart parishioner Kevin Sheehan set a great example this month by his ongoing commitment to service in the community. Through Savannah AMBUCS (National Association of American Business Clubs), he teamed up with a college club to present two bicycles to two brothers with disabilities.

Every year during Lent the high school students at St. Anne-Pacelli attend a one day religious retreat with their class to foster their love of the Lord. This year the group leading the event was the National Evangelization Team or NET Ministries. NET Ministries has several groups of college age students traveling around the continental US inspiring teenagers to grow in their faith. The St.

Children began collecting money to raise $1,800 at St. Theresa parish in Cordele to sponsor a pallet of food for Kids Against Hunger (KAH) in Advent of 2010.  It took until February 2012.

The children asked for change from their friends and families and they collected change after Masses.  In addition, there were two generous donations from non-parishioners.