Local Celebrations To Honor Our Lady Of Guadalupe

By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer

Published: December 4, 2003

JONESBORO—The Virgin of Guadalupe Committee presents the Ballet Folklórico Auiani-Yoli of Puebla, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. in the parish hall of St. Philip Benizi Church, 591 Flint River Road, Jonesboro. Cost is $10 per person. Food will be available for purchase. Earlier that day Archbishop Gabino Zavala of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles will celebrate Mass at noon.

Other Guadalupe celebrations are:

Christ Our King and Savior, Greensboro, Dec. 12, 5 p.m.;

Corpus Christi Church, Stone Mountain, Dec. 12, 7 p.m.;

Good Shepherd, Cumming, Dec. 14, 2:30 p.m.;

Holy Family, Marietta, Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m.;

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Atlanta, Dec. 12, 7 p.m.;

Our Lady of the Americas Mission, Doraville, Dec. 11, 10 p.m.;

Our Lady of LaSalette, Canton, Dec. 14, 6:30 p.m.;

Our Lady of the Mountains, Jasper, Dec. 12, 7 p.m.;

Sacred Heart, Atlanta; Dec. 14, 2 p.m.;

San Felipe de Jesús Mission, Forest Park, Dec. 12, 7 p.m.;

St. Augustine, Covington, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m.;

St. Benedict’s Church, Duluth, Dec. 12, 7 p.m. Mass and procession;

St. Brendan, Cumming, Dec. 12, 7 p.m.;

St. Bernadette, Cedartown, Dec. 20, 6 p.m.-11 p.m. Celebration will be in Cedartown Auditorium;

St. Francis of Assisi, Cartersville, Dec. 12, 5 a.m. mañanitas, 7 p.m. Mass;

St. John Neumann, Lilburn, Dec. 11, 10 p.m. rosary, followed by Mass; Dec. 12, 6 p.m. rosary and 7 p.m. Mass;

St. John Vianney, Lithia Springs, Dec. 12, 7-9:30 p.m.;

St. Joseph, Dalton, Dec. 9, Mass honoring St. Juan Diego at 8 p.m., confessions at 10 p.m., at 7 p.m. Dec. 11, Mass and procession at 7:30 p.m. followed by Holy Hour, rosary and study of the image of the Virgin, Mass at 11 p.m. and mañanitas at 12 midnight. Dec. 12, mañanitas at 4 a.m., followed by Mass at 5 a.m. and at 9 a.m. English Mass, 9:30 a.m.- noon, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, at 7 p.m. procession, Mass apparitions, dance;

St. Joseph’s, Marietta, Dec. 12, 7 p.m.;

St. Mark, Clarkesville, Dec. 14, 1:30 p.m.;

St. Matthew, Winder, Dec. 12, 6:30 p.m.;

St. Michael, Gainesville, Dec. 11, rosary, apparitions of the Virgin at 9 p.m., at 10:30 p.m. Spanish Mass followed by serenades;

Dec. 12, Danza de Durango at 5 a.m. followed by Spanish Mass, and from 6:30-8:30 a.m. various cultural dances. To be held in the Georgia Mountains Center;

St. Monica’s, Duluth, Dec. 11, 6 p.m. procession, Mass, and mañanitas at midnight;

St. Paul the Apostle, Cleveland, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m.;

St. Pius X, Conyers, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m.;

St. Theresa, Douglasville, Dec. 12, 6:30 p.m.;

Transfiguration, Marietta, Dec. 11, 11 p.m. mañanitas, Dec. 12,

7:30 p.m. procession and Mass;

For information on these and other Guadalupe celebrations call individual parishes or the Hispanic Apostolate at (404) 885-7289.