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The “mountaintop” experience of SEARCH was revealed to nearly 40 high school juniors and seniors throughout the Diocese of Nashville as they completed SEARCH 375 Dec 2-4, at Camp Marymount in Fairview. Participants experienced faith talks, worked together in small groups, participated in Adoration, made the sacrament of Reconciliation, attended Mass and more as they completed the retreat for teens led by teens. SEARCHers participate in an exercise as they prepare for adoration in St. George's Chapel.

SEARCH provides ‘mountaintop’ experience for all who attend [Photo Gallery]

Post author:Katie Peterson
Post published:December 23, 2022
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‘SEARCH makes SEARCH what it is because it is peer led’

Diocese, schools planning various activities for Right to Life month

Post author:Katie Peterson
Post published:December 22, 2022
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‘We want to take it a step further and teach our teens how to really live out what it means to be pro-life’

The Serra Clubs of Nashville and Williamson County hosted their annual Vocations in Progress dinner for the seminarians of the Diocese of Nashville and the postulants of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia Congregation Tuesday, Dec. 20, at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville. The evening included Mass celebrated by Bishop J. Mark Spalding. Several seminarians as well as 18 new postulants with the Dominican sisters were in attendance, as was Greg Schweitz, president of Serra International, and his wife, Mary Lynn. Seminarian Juan Hernandez smiles at his 5-year-old niece Zoe Hernandez.

Vocations in Progress Dinner celebrates Church’s hope for the future [Photo Gallery]

Post author:Katie Peterson
Post published:December 22, 2022
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‘God has a dream for all of us’

Knights of Columbus Council 3763 at St. Joseph Church in Madison is organizing a project to repair the church's pews, which have been in use since the church was dedicated in 1960. Toby Werrback, left, and Steve Pentecost remove a pew bench to be repaired.

St. Joseph Knights give old pews new life

Post author:Andy Telli, Tennessee Register
Post published:December 21, 2022
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Project took six months, nearly 1,000 volunteer hours

The Knights of Columbus presented $27,000 to the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation to help pay for the education of the congregation's postulants. Sister Marie Hannah, OP, the postulant mistress, accepts the check from Knights, from left, Mike Porter of Council 9282 at St. Stephen Catholic Community, Mike Baricevich, grand knight of Council 9132 at Our Lady of the Lake Church in Hendersonville, Doug Blake, Ron Rorick and Jerry Taylor all of Council 9132, and Mark Mayer of Council 8155 at St. Ignatius Church in Antioch.

Knights raise $27,000 for Dominicans’ postulants

Post author:Andy Telli, Tennessee Register
Post published:December 21, 2022
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Funds will help pay for sisters’ education

Photographer signs copies of pictorial history of the diocese

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Post published:December 21, 2022
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Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Robin Hood shares a laugh with Jean Dortch, the owner of St. Mary’s Bookstore, as he prepares to sign a copy of the “Diocese of Nashville: Family…

Legacy Campaign cabinet members reflect on experience

Post author:Katie Peterson
Post published:December 20, 2022
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‘The legacy has been renewed. That’s worth more than the $50 million'

The Ladies of Charity of Nashville distributed 785 baskets of food to needy families for Christmas. Members and volunteers gathered at the Thrift Store to pack the boxes on Friday, Dec. 16. Kathleen Roselli, left, and Evelyn Rodgers, both of St. Henry Church, pack fresh fruit to be added to the boxes.