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7 REGIONS FOR DIOCESE
Realignment Of Deaneries Is Announced
St. Joseph’s
Alters Plans;
100 More Beds
Building plans for a seven-floor facility at the new
St. Joseph’s Hospital, presently under construction in
South side Savannah, have been completed with the
signing of a $600,000 supplemental contract with
Norair Engineering Company of Washington D.C., it
was announced on Monday morning (Nov. 25) by the
hospital’s Public Relations Director, James C.
McClanahan.
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SEVEN DE VNEIIIES OF SAVANNAH DIOCESI
NATIONAL LITURGY MEETING TOLD
New Mass Canons Offer Clearer
Expression Of Eucharistic Prayer
At a news conference held
Monday afternoon at the
hospital, John R. Riley,
chairman of the hospital’s
board of trustees and Sister
M. Cornile R.S.M., hospital
administrator, outlined
details of the new expansion
move.
The addition of two floors
to what had begun as a
five-floor hospital will mean
an increase of 100 beds more
than called for in the original
plans and will eventually
bring to 300 the .number of
beds available, Ritey said.
When the new hospital is
completed late next year y five
floors will be completely
finished and furnished, with
200 beds ready for
occupancy, he said, adding
that “it is planned for 50
beds at a time to be
completed on the two
additional floors until the
300-bed planning is fully
operational.”
Those two floors, he said,
will be ‘roughed in’ -- that is,
outside construction will be
completed -- and will be
finished on a floor-by-floor
basis as the need arises.
Riley noted that even with
the expanded bed capacity of
the new hospital facility,
total hospital space in
Chatham county may still fall
short of the area’s needs. The
completion of new interstate
highways and a connecting
link with U.S. highway 17, a
heavily traveled and
industrialized road to South
Georgia and Florida, will
make Savannah hospitals
more easily accessible to
counties south of the city and
may result in increased
patronage, he said. Riley also
saw increased use of tax and
insurance paid hospital plans
as a factor in possible
overcrowding of the area’s
hospitals.
St. Joseph’s expansion
plans also call for greatly
increased operating room and
intensive care unit space, said
Sister Comile. The hospital
administrator also revealed
plans for the installation of a
‘‘fully automated,
total-hospital, information
system called ‘MEDELCO.’ ”
The system will include
computerized requisitioning
of patient services from
X-ray, laboratory, pharmacy,
dietary, electro cardiology,
electro encephalography,
physical therapy and other
departments, and will be both
more accurate and more
efficient than present hospital
information and service
procedures, she said. Cost of
the computerized system will
be largely offset by allowing
for a scaled-down hospital
administrative staff.
Construction of the new
facility, begun in early 1967
was halted temporarily last
spring and resumed during
the summer. Outside
construction of all seven
floors is rapidly nearing
completion and hospital
authorities expect
construction to be finished
by October, 1969.
Abreu-Robeson, Inc.,
architects and engineers who
designed the new hospital are
also architects for the
two-floor addition.
CHICAGO (NC) - The
new canons of the Mass
which will come into use Jan.
1 give “a clearer and better
understanding of what
eucharistic prayer should be,”
a participant in a national
liturgical meeting said here.
Discussion of the new
canons was the chief topic of
the first joint national
meeting of diocesan liturgy
and music commission
members. Some 450 persons
attended the meeting at the
Conrad Hilton Hotel (Nov.
20-22).
Conference participants,
representing 150 U.S.
dioceses, were urged to take
the lead in introducing the
new Mass prayers-recently
approved by both Pope Paul
VI and the National
Conference of Catholic
Bishops-in parishes.
Coadjutor Archbishop Leo
C. Byrne of St. Paul and
Minneapolis, chairman of the
bishops’ committee on he
liturgy, said the three new
alternative English canons
had been thoroughly studied
by the International
Committee on English in the
Liturgy, made up of 11
bishops from English-speak
ing countries, which then met
in Rome in October to
approve the translations.
Now that the
newly-translated English
versions have been approved
by the hierarchy of the
United States and confirmed
by the Holy See. Archbishop
Byrne said, the texts of the
new eucharistic prayers will
be distributed to parishes by
Jan. 1.
He also said the bishops’
committee “has considered a
request for experimentation
in the liturgy, and has sent
the request on to the Vatican
where it is now under study.”
Archbishop Byrne acted as
principal celebrant at a Mass
concelebrated with six priests
from all parts of the country
on the closing day of the
conference here,
demonstrating the use of one
of the new alternate English
eucharistic prayers.
During a press conference
(Nov. 22), Father Frederick
R. McManus, director of the
secretariat of the bishops’
committeeon the liturgy, said
the new canons or eucharistic
prayers are “shorter and
simpler texts, offering a
better and clearer expression
of what eucharistic prayer
should be. They all have the
same basic elements, but vary
to provide richness and
variety.”
Adapted for various uses
together with appropriate
new “prefaces,” the new
eucharistic prayers are
intended to enrich the Mass
by using more diversified
biblical texts, provide less
rigid and monotonous hearing
for the participating
congregation, and give a
greater flexibility in length
and emphasis of the
celebration, according to the
occasion.
parishioners would be ready
to accept the new canons, the
conference chairman,
Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J.
Grady of Chicago said they
would be if steps were taken
to prepare them.
Bishop Grady also said
the prayers “will be
translated into the vernacular
for Chicago’s Polish-speaking
and Spanish-speaking
Catholics.”
John Cardinal Cody of
Chicago, honorary chairman
of the liturgy and music
conference, greeted
participants at the opening
session and read a letter sent
to him by Benno Cardinal
Gut, president of the
Consilium, the international
congregation which meets in
Rome to implement the
Constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy approved by the
bishops of the world at the
Second Vatican Council.
Cardinal Gut said the
“wonderful work carried out
in so many parts of the
United States by the diocesan
commissions .... the
energetic initiatives carried
out in the Chicago
archdiocese to deepen the
knowledge of the liturgy
among the clergy, Religious
and faithful, and to provide
practical aids for a fuller
participation in he Church’s
worship are widely known
throughout the Christian
world.”
Addressing himself to the
members of the music and
liturgical commissions,
Cardinal Gut wrote: “At this
stage of the liturgical reform,
in our liturgical celebrations
and educational programs we
must above all concern
ourselves with the spiritual
depth of the renewal. We
have already seen many
modifications in he layout of
our churches, and many
changes in the texts and
actions of our rites.
“It is to be hoped that
further reforms concerning
the Mass and the ritual will be
published in the coming year.
Already there has been
widespread preparation for
these rites, and in many
places study has been
undertaken of those
adaptations which seem
appropriate and useful.
“But in all of this we
should keep clearly in our
minds that the purpose of all
pastoral activity concerning
the liturgy is that the Paschal
Mystery of Christ may be
expressed in men’s lives.”
He added: “We are all
aware from our personal
experience of the difficulties
involved in liturgical reform,
but we must never become
discouraged. Speaking of the
Church’s worship, our Holy
Father Pope Paul VI has
referred to the perennial
youth of the liturgy.
“The eucharistic prayers
which are to be discussed in
Chicago are evidence of this:
they bear witness to the life
which is breathed into the
Church by the spirit of
Christ.”
HEADLINE /
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NATION
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the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures. Other
tings released this week included: Backtrack (Universal), Head
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tnatl. — Columbia) all Class A. Section 11; A Man Called
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Biafra Relief
NEW YORK (NC) — Forty tons of high protein cereal, seed
>rn, medicine and equipment, valued at $125,000, were
rlifted from Kennedy International Airport on a flight
lartered by Catholic Relief Services to aid the starving children
Biafra. The supplies were flown to the Portuguese West Africa
and of Sao Tome for airlift into blockaded Biafra.
MIDDLE EAST
'Holy War’
CAIRO (RNS) - Ramadan, the traditional Moslem month of
>ting, opened here with a call to a jihad (holy war) against
ael. Sheikh Ahmed Haridy, Mufti of the United Arab
(public, urged the “liberation” of Moslem holy places in
lestine from “extraneous” occupation and dispensed
>nt-line soldiers and air force pilots from the fast on the
uunds that it would affect their physical fitness for military
ties.
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2 New Deans
Appointed By
Bishop F rey
On Tuesday of this week, Bishop Gerard L. Frey
announced the realignment of the Deaneries of the
Savannah Diocese. Final approval of the plan which
has been under consideration for several months, was
given by the Diocesan Consultors at a meeting held
earlier the same day.
Chatham and Richmond
Counties will be Deaneries to
themselves, with the
Northeast and Southeast
Deaneries being created. The
Columbus Deanery has been
renamed the Northwest
Deanery and its territory cut
to three counties - Muscogee,
Harris and Talbot. The old
Albany and Macon Deaneries
will be known in the future as
the Southwest Deanery and
the North Central Deanery,
resepctively.
Newly named Deans are
Father Thomas Payne,
Valdosta, of the Southeast
Deanery and Father John
FitzDatrick. Statesboro, of
Monsignor T. James
McNamara is Dean Emeritus
while Monsignor Andrew J.
McDonald is Dean of the
Chatham Deanery. Monsignor
Daniel J. Bourke is Dean of
the Richmond Deanery;
Monsignor Marvin J. LeFrois
of the Northwest Deanery;
Monsignor John D. Toomey
is Dean of the North Central
Deanery and Monsignor Felix
Donnelly of the Southwest
Deanery.
The new Deaneries will
consist of the following areas:
Chatham Deanery
All parishes in Chatham
County.
Northwest Deanery
All parishes in the three
county area of Muscogee,
Harris and Talbot.
Richmond Deanery
All parishes in Richmond
County.
Southwest Deanery
Composed of 28 counties
with the following principal
cities - Albany, Americus,
Montezuma, Oglethorpe,
Vienna, Cordele, Tifton,
Moultrie, Thomasville, Cairo,
Bainbridge, Camilla, Blakely,
Dawson, Rebecca, Ashburn.
North Central Deanery
Composed of 17 counties
with the following principal
cities - Macon, Warner
Robins, Fort Valley, Perry,
H a v r k i n'e v i 11 Dublin,
Wrightsville, Sandersville,
Irwinton, Eastman, McRae,
Hazlehurst.
Northeast Deanery
Comprises 14 counties
with the following major
cities - Statesboro,
Waynesboro, Louisville,
Wrens, Sylvania, Rocky Ford,
Wadley, Swainsboro, Millen,
Pembroke, Claxton,
Reidsville, Lyons, Bay
Branch, Metter, Hinesville,
Richmond Hill.
Southeast Deanery
Made up of 24 counties
with the following principal
cities - Valdosta, Brunswick,
Jesup, Way cross, Douglas,
Ocilla, Fitzgerald, Lakeland,
Darien, Kingsland, St. Mary’s,
Folkston, Blackshear, Baxley,
Ludowici, St. Simons, Sea
Island, Jekyll, Alapaha,
Willacoochee.
FATHER PAYNE FATHER FITZPATRICK
THE SOCIAL APOSTOLATE COMMISSION OF
THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH has approved a
resolution on racial matters following the study of a
poroposal of the priests’ Senate. The following
resolution was released through the chairman of the
Commission, Msgr. John D. Toomey:
1. Since our diocese is committed to a policy of
non-discrimination in all of its offices, parishes and
schools, those in the diocesan structure responsible
for hiring are urged to put every possible initiative
and method into implementing of this policy to
offset any imbalance which may now exist and to
correct any injustice in employment practices.
2. That continued efforts be made to encourage
vocations among Negroes as priests, brothers and
sisters for service in our diocese.
3. That Brotherhood Week be used as a time to
promote racial harmony and that a sermon on this
subject be preached in all parishes during that week.