A Special Visit by Pinecrest Students

Pinecrest Academy’s 8th grade Challenge Teams, accompanied by their team leaders and Miss Joycelyn Christianson, a consecrated woman, visited Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cancer Home in Atlanta on Saturday, December 3.  After a greeting by one of the Hawthorn Dominican Sisters, the girls visited as a group,...

Hanukkah begins today

Tuesday, December 20, begins the eight-day celebration of Hanukkah, or Chanukah, for members of the Jewish community around the world. Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, begins at sunset on the eve of the 25th of the Jewish month of Kislev. The celebration continues for eight days, ending at...

Resolutions and Traditions – Why Bother?

Everyone talks about the New Year’s Resolution and what they plan to do, change or lose each year. These resolutions are made with good intentions – but it doesn’t take long for life to get in the way and those resolutions (and intentions) are long forgotten. Oh, we are mostly good at having a few...

PBJ’s for Jesus

What started out as an apostolic (service) project for Pinecrest Academy Lower School students resulted in a school-wide event to help feed Atlanta’s hungry.  Spearheaded by Pinecrest mother, Mrs. Anne Rice, PBJs for Jesus provided Pinecrest students from grades PreK3 through 12th an opportunity to...

Have a Faith-filled Halloween

Halloween is a mix of ancient Celtic practices, Catholic and Roman religious rituals and European folk traditions that blended together over time to create the holiday we know today.  Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity and life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration...

The Fourth Quarter

By Katie Diem   Well, here we are again. It seems like just yesterday we were counting the days till summer arrived. Now it seems like fall is just around the corner. Some of you are starting high school, some of you your senior year. And some of us are graduates, some preparing for college and some...