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		<title>First Communion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 18:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Mary&#8217;s celebrated First Communion on Saturday morning, May 15. The class, taught by Connie Scroggins included 18 children from both the English speaking and Spanish speaking families within the parish. On Sunday, 4 members of the class took a leading role in the May crowning after the 9 am mass.
Congratulations to all of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding Together 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 23:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, May 1, St. Mary&#8217;s Parishioners helped with the Rebuilding Together Project. Thanks to Bill Baggett for coordinating the project. The resident was thrilled with the results.
Click an image to see a larger version.
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		<title>Healing Service</title>
		<link>http://stmaryopelika.org/2010/02/594/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, February 11th, Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, we celebrate the “World Day of the Sick”. Here at St. Mary’s, we will come together to pray for all the sick: our friends &#38; relatives; members of our parish; the home bound as well as all in our hospitals &#38; care facilities. In a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Centennial Kickoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 100 years ago, the first Catholic priests to serve in this part of East Alabama arrived in Opelika to take up residence at The Pines. That Victorian house, on the corner of 4th Avenue and 10th Street in Opelika is still the rectory for St. Mary&#8217;s Church.
On Sunday, September 13, St. Mary&#8217;s celebrated a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year for Priests</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Fr. Kane calls our attention to the Year for Priests which begins June 19, 2009 and ends June 19, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI called for the special year to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the death of St. John Vianney, who was famed for his priestly ministry.
Cardinal Hummes offers his reflections on this Year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baptism of Andrew Tim Tran</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the 10:00 a.m. Mass on June 7, ANDREW TIM TRAN, son of PHUOC T. TRAN and TIENT BUI was be baptized into the Catholic Church. Although the Mass was celebrated in English, the Baptism ceremony was in Vietnamese. Deacon Joseph H. Phung, from St. Bede&#8217;s in Montgomery, performed the baptism.
After the Mass, the Parish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent Events at St. Mary&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been busy lately around the parish &#8211; with Friday Fish Fries, Lazarus Food Boxes and more&#8230;
On Friday evening, April 3, 2009 the parish gathered for a Fish Fry, Stations of the Cross and then service in the form of packing the food boxes for Lazarus Ministries.
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		<title>Let it Snow</title>
		<link>http://stmaryopelika.org/2009/03/let-it-snow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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East Alabama ushered in March with a spectacular snowfall this year. Parishioner Chris Randolph took time to capture the scene on Sunday morning.
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		<title>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Celebration</title>
		<link>http://stmaryopelika.org/2009/03/st-patricks-day-celebration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though the actual feast of St. Patrick is March 17th, any true Irishman knows that any day is good to celebrate. So, this year, here at St. Mary’s it will be Saturday, March 14th. As in previous years, it will be “Pot Luck” style. The Ladies’ Sodality will provide the plates, etc. as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish Fry</title>
		<link>http://stmaryopelika.org/2009/03/fish-fry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MEN’S CLUB of the Parish will be having a not-for-profit Fish Fry on Friday, March 13 at 5:30 p.m. For this Friday, it replaces the “Soup &#38; Bread”. We come together as a parish to share a simple meal in the Hall and then pray together the Stations of the Cross and Benediction in [...]]]></description>
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