Author: Dawn Leach

Grand Raffle to benefit St. Benedict Knights & teens in their mission to build homes in Guatemala.

Help Father Paul build houses for families in need in Guatemala!
Volunteer labor provided by parish teen group trip (July 12-19, 2025) and Knights of Columbus group trip (October 11-18, 2025).

$15,000 in Cash Prizes
Grand Prize: $5,000
2nd Place Prize: $3,000
3rd Place Prize: $2,000
Five 4th Place Prizes: $1,000

Tickets: $100 each
Expected Ticket Sales: 500 minimum, 600 maximum

For Georgia residents only.

Advent Penance Services

Friday | December 6 @ 7:00PM
Good Shepherd

Tuesday | December 10 @ 7:00PM
All Saints

Wednesday | December 11 @ 9:00AM & 7:30PM
St. Peter Chanel

Monday | December 16 @ 7:00PM
St. Andrew

Tuesday | December 17 @ 7:00PM
St. Thomas Aquinas

Wednesday | December 18 @ 6:30PM
St. Jude

Thursday | December 19 @ 7:00PM
St. Brendan

Cookbook Project

Does your family ask for a particular recipe during the holiday season? A special cookie, side or traditional dish? What is your favorite recipe to bring to potlucks and parties? The WINGS cookbook project would love to capture that recipe and memory in our hardbound cookbook coming out at the end of 2025.

Visit our submission page to submit your family recipes.

Please Help Us Thank All Who Made The St. Benedict Knights of Columbus Charity Golf Tournament in Support of Veterans Possible
 

PRESENTING SPONSOR
Beaver Toyota of Cumming

HONOREE SPONSORS
Walmart  •  Chalovich Family Foundation

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE SPONSORS
Scott’s Auto Center • PGA Superstore • Troncolli Automotive Group • Cumming Dental & Associates

HOLE SPONSORS
7 Tequilas • Capital Investment Advisors • Chicken Salad Chick • Cumming Dental & Associates • First Watch • Kratz Chiropractic • Military Order of the Purple Heat • Pinecrest Academy •
Dr. Narenda Singh • Shiner Beers • Simon D. Jewelry • Sugarloaf Wealth Management • T.J. Ward & Associates • Troncolli Jeep/Dodge • Troncolli Subaru

AD SPONSORS
All About Heating and Air • Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association • California Hand Wash • Chick-fil-A • CoLinear Systems (Scott & Brian Weaver) • Dick’s Sporting Goods • Emory Johns Creek • Fairway Social • Fogon & Lions Restaurant • First Watch • Gwinnett Place Honda • Johns Creek Veterans Association • New Leaf Landscaping • Parsons Pointe Dental Care • PJ the DJ Entertainment • Pinecrest • Piper Lillies • PJ the DJ Music & Entertainment • Red Hound Gifts • Six Bridges Brewing Company • St. Ben’s Friday Morning Men’s Fellowship • Swain Law Firm

DONORS
Albert Consuegra • Academy Sports • Alpharetta Ferrari • Anonymous (many—Thank You… you know who you are) • Ace Hardware Johns Creek • Alessio’s • Pizza Windemere • Atlanta National Golf Club • Bears Best Golf Club • Beech Aero Center (Dan Emin) • Bill Moon • Black Diamond Grill • Bryan Tate • California Hand Wash • Capital Grille • Chick-fil-A • City Barbecue • Dick’s Sporting Goods • D’Tails Dog Wash and Spa • Fairway Social • FedEx Office • First Watch • Gloria Glaser • Grand Slam Car Wash • Hamptons Village Golf Club • Home Depot • Horseshoe Bend Country Club • Jeff Popowitz • Joey D’s Oak Room • Lanier Islands Golf • Laurel Springs Golf Club • Legacy Golf Links/Fox Creek • Legends of Chateau Elan • Mad Hatter • Maggiano’s Restaurant • Marlow’s Restaurant • Michael’s Arts & Crafts • MMO Golf Tampa, Florida • Monster Energy • Mojitos Restaurant • One Life Fitness—Windemere • Piper Lillies Gifts • Premier Copy • Quality Aviation • RBM Mercedes • Red Hound Gifts • Rick Ooten • River Pines Golf Club • Rose & Olives Restaurant • Scott’s Auto Center • Sheri Weaver • Shiner Beers • St. Ives Country Club • St. Marlo Country Club • Simon D. Jewelers • Stone Mountain Golf Club • Sugo Restaurant • Taco Mac • Top Golf • Trattoria One 41 • Wellstar Corporate

Christmas Child Adoption Program

Women in God’s Service (WINGS) has begun the Christmas Child Adoption program for children supported by the Missionaries of Charity. Spaces fill up quickly, so adopt early. If you plan on adopting multiple children, we ask that you adopt either the entire family or a select number of children within one family. “Adopting” means providing a top, bottom, package of socks, and a package of underwear for that child. These donations should be put in gift bags and placed in the bins inside the Parish Life Center (PLC) by December 15th. Don’t forget to add a tag with the child’s code!

Guatemala Mission Trip 2025

Join Father Flood on a week-long mission trip to Guatemala with Porch de Salomon. Porch de Salomon is a unique and progressive non-profit which, since 2005, has loved, served, and encouraged “the lost, the least and the last” of Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan basin. This mission is open to high school and college students (must be 15 by June 1, 2025). Teens will actively contribute to improving the lives of Guatemalan families by working on a variety of service projects alongside local community members.

We are accepting applications and conducting interviews through October 31st. The mission team will be announced by November 8th. Fundraising for the mission (partnering with the Knights) will take place in November. See below for details, application, and reference forms.

 
COST FOR THE MISSION TRIP
Flight $1085.80
Fee to Porch de Salomon $800
Insurance (approximate) $15
Tips for Porch de Salomon $40

Total for mission trip is approximately $1940.85 ($2000 for ease of calculating unless airfare drops).

RCIA Inquiry Sessions

For adults who may be considering joining the Catholic Church, or adults who might have missed receiving a sacrament, our inquiry sessions begin in August. This is a time to ask questions and get information on the foundations of our faith.

For further details contact
RCIA@stbenedict.net

You Are Invited to Join a Pilgrimage

Year of Hope Jubilee Italy 2025

Spiritual Guides
Father Paul Flood (celebrating the 35th anniversary of his Ordination)
and Father Henry Thang Pham

November 10-21, 2025 (12 days)
$5499 per person from Atlanta

Visit Rome, Assisi, Florence, Padua, Venice, Milan + more!

Serving more than 1,000,000 Catholics, the mission of the Archdiocese of Atlanta is to proclaim the Gospel of the Lord, and grow all of north and central Georgia in faith, hope, love, and service to others. Each of us is commissioned to serve and take action by imitating Jesus, nourished by the Eucharist and eager to do the work of God. Your gift to the 2024 ARCHBISHOP’S ANNUAL APPEAL helps make it possible by supporting the ministerial, outreach, education, formation, and discipleship work of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Please give prayerful consideration to your level of support to help fund the essential ministries and services supported by the Appeal. In the upcoming weeks, we will hear a message about the appeal and everyone who has not yet made a gift to the appeal will have the opportunity during our in-pew process. Please be prepared next week to make a pledge to the 2024 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal.

Donate online at donate.archatl.com

The St. Benedict Columbarium and Memorial Garden will be a sacred resting place on holy ground for cremated human remains with the same dignity of a cemetery.  A place for our loved ones to rest until our Lord comes again, a place at home in our beloved community and Church.  Our columbarium will offer a very peaceful place for you to come and pray and ask God to intercede for your loved one.  The opportunity is here for you to purchase one of a limited number of niches in the Columbarium.  Our beautiful sacred resting place will be located adjacent to the Stations of the Cross.

The proposed parish columbarium offers these benefits:

Perpetual Care

The Code of Canon Law requires the Catholic Church to perpetually maintain its places of burial.  Hence, care will always be assured.

Security

Proximity on well-lighted Church grounds assures optimum security.

Convenience

With your final resting place only a few feet away from the Church, your family and friends attending Mass will be able to visit the columbarium which is a brief walk away.

Serenity

Our columbarium design fits perfectly into existing space, offering a serene, peaceful environment for meditation and quiet reflection.

St. Benedict is required to comply with all Archdiocese of Atlanta columbarium requirements before construction can begin.

The outdoor columbarium altar can be used for

· Memorial Service for All Souls Day

· Services for Urn Placement in Niche

· Veterans Day Memorial Services

Cost will include engraved face, perpetual care fund and all other costs associated with the columbarium.

Reservation deposits

St. Benedict Catholic Church is in the process of developing and obtaining local approvals for construction of the Columbarium. Upon the completion of the engineering, construction drawings and permitting, and builder contract, the church will be able to provide the exact cost of the Niche. Until that time, St. Benedict is not able to accept binding agreements to purchase niches in the Columbarium. However, the church will now begin accepting reservation deposits of $500. All deposits for reservations are refundable. Click below for the reservation form.