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Thursday, December 2, 1971
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WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
Communal Living
In Aged’s Future?
By Linda B. Major
WASHINGTON (NC) — Scene in the future: Grandpa packs his bags and sets up a commune with a few elderly
friends instead of moving into a nursing home down the road.
Communal living as a possible option for older persons was suggested here by a committee on spiritual well-being
which met as part of the 1971 White House Conference of Aging. The week-long meeting began Nov. 28.
If the committee’s
innovative recommendation
were approved by delegates
Word has been received
that Sister Rose de Lima
Nicaud, 88, of the Sisters of
St. Joseph of Carondelet,
died Saturday, November 27.
The funeral Mass took place
in the Chapel of Nazareth
Convent, St. Louis, Mo., on
Tuesday, November 30, at
9:30 a.m. with interment in
Sr. Rose de Lima
considering it, religious
organizations would be urged
to help bring together small
Cemetery adjoining the
convent.
Sister Rose de Lima, a
native of New Orleans, had
been a sister of St. Joseph for
61 years. She resided in
Augusta from 1914 until
1948, where for 25 years she
was Directress of Mount St.
aosepu rtcaaemy. Alter being
assigned to other duties she
remained on the staff of
teachers until 1948. That
year she was appointed to the
General Council of the Sisters
of St. Joseph of Carondelet in
St. Louis. She served in this
capacity for two terms.
In 1960 she returned to
Augusta to become the
representative of the Augusta
Province to the various
publications of the Sisters of
St. Joseph of Carondelet. She
retired at Nazareth Convent,
St. Louis five and a half years
ago.
Sister Rose de Lima is
survived by relatives in New
Orleans and Atlanta, and a
host of friends of all ages.
groups of older persons who
would be interested in and
capable of maintaining a
home together.
Such a communal living
arrangement, according to the
committee, “might enable a
number of older people to
continue to live
independently instead of
having to enter an institution
or live in isolated loneliness.”
For those who are too
healthy to find fulfillment in
a nursing home, but not well
enough to live alone, living
with others in a private
setting provides an alternative
to life in an institution or the
dependency of living with
relatives.
For many oldsters there
are difficulties with
employment and retirement,
continuing education,
income, response from
government and private
sectors, and services available
to them. To help alleviate
these and related problems,
3,400 delegates from every
state and territory came to
Washington to develop plans
for action.
As the conference met
more than 20 million
Americans - one in every 10
persons - was 65 or older.
It was for those Americans
and others approaching old
age, that delegates worked to
formulate a national policy to
improve the quality of life for
the elderly.
Recommendations of.
spiritual well-being had been
drawn up for delegates’
consideration from thousands
of city-and-state-level
meetings which preceded and
prepared for the
once-a-decade conference.'
Delegates - who for the
most part were elderly or
near-elderly - were free
during the massive gathering
here to alter or approve
suggestions made in the
earlier local meetings and
summarized by the White
House staff.
SERVED 34 YEARS IN AVGUSTA
Sr. Rose de Lima
Dies In St. Louis
THE CURRENT WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE on the Aging when the conference deliberates this week in Washington. (NC
will be considering problems faced by people such as the above PHOTO by Richard T. Lee)
RALEIGH DIVIDED
Charlotte Separate Diocese
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Pope Paul has set up a new
diocese in North Carolina and
named a new bishop in
Oklahoma.
The Charlotte diocese,
whose territory was detached
from the Raleigh diocese, will
contain half of North
Carolina’s Catholics and half
its parishes. Msgr. Michael J.
Begley has been named head
of the new see, which will
have 31,721 Catholics in a
total population of
2,616,553.
Auxiliary Bishop John R.
Quinn of San Diego, Calif., is
the new bishop of Oklahoma
City-Tulsa.
Bishop-elect Begley, 62,
was born in Mattineague,
Mass., and studied for the
priesthood at Mount Saint
Mary Seminary in
Emmitsburg, Md. He was
ordained in 1934 in
Springfield, Mass., for the
Raleigh diocese.
People Thank Macon Priests On Thanksgiving Day
By
Grace T. Crawford
Macon News
Staff Writer
Members of St. Joseph
parish, Macon prepared a
Thanksgiving gift for their
pastor and the two priests
assigned to their church.
It was not a gift in the
material sense, but one in
which mothers and fathers,
teen-agers, older members,
even the very young, worked
for weeks to prepare.
With a desire to do
something “very special” for
the Rev. William V. Coleman,
St. Joseph pastor, and
Fathers Richard Minch and
Tom Healy, more than 40
members prepared a
Thanksgiving liturgy for the
9:30 a.m. mass Thanksgiving
Day. Six parishioners
participated in the service,
and one of them preached the
sermon.
The Thanksgiving “gift”
made Catholic history,
according to Jerry Cantwell
of St. Joseph Parish Council,
the man who coordinated the
numerous details involved in
the project.
It was the first time that so
many parishioners
participated in any service
locally, “and certainly the
first time that a Georgia
diocese has had a lay
preacher,” he said.
That lay preacher was Dr.
PARISHIONERS OF ST. JOSEPH PARISH, MACON, rehearse prepared the liturgy. From left are Kathy Williams, Mrs. Alton
with Father Tom Healey for a Thanksgiving mass for which they Greenway and Dennis McCunniff. (Photo by Don Arnold)
John O’Shaughnessey. Other
participating members
included Mrs. Alton
Greenway, who read the
gospel; and two teenagers
reading from the Old and
New Testaments - Dennis
McC unniff and Kathy
Williams.
Miss Peggy Jones led the
reading of the selected
psalms, and Tom McCunniff
and Carl Williams were
leaders of prayers during the
mass.
In the area of music, Nick
Camerio and St. Joseph
organist Ernest Dalton came
up with a combination of
traditional Thanksgiving
anthems by the church choir,
plus several folk hymns by a
group of young singers who
provided their guitar
accompaniment. The folk
singers were backed by a
number of Catholic children
attending the public schools.
Terry Cantwell led them.
Other young members took
the wine and the host to the
altar for Holy Communion.
The idea of the
Thanksgiving liturgy was an
outgrowth of the church’s
coffee and conversation group
which meets weekly after the
9:30 a.m. mass. “Everyone
wanted to do something
special for our priests,”
Cantwell said, “and we all
agreed that it should be
something spiritual.
“We couldn’t exactly keep
it as a surprise, so we gave
Father Coleman an outline of
what we wanted to do. He
was very pleased over it all,
bacause it falls in line with his
thinking that laymen should
take wider and deeper roles in
the church.”
Seven writers prepared the
liturgy, which stressed church
emphasis on social
responsibility and ministry to
the poor.
“And at different points in
the mass,” Cantwell said, “we
wrote in memories of past
priests who have served our
people.”
Volunteers from every
church organization
participated in the mass,
which was concelbrated by
the three priests.
“We couldn’t possibly list
all of the fine help,” Cantwell
said. “Teenagers typed and
cut stencils for a missalette
prepared by an adult
member, and another group
stapled them together.”
Cantwell said he even took
a few days annual leave from
his job at Robins Air Force
Base to finish rounding up
the details.
One of the warmest
contributions of the
Thanksgiving service was
from younger Catholic
children in the first five
grades.
“They wrote little
messages to the priests,”
Cantwell said.
HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
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Call Off Merger
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) — The University of Notre Dame
and neighboring St. Mary’s College have called off indefinitely
plans to merge the two schools. At the same time, school
officials announced that joint programs and collaboration
between the two institutions would be “preserved and
strengthened,” with complete unification still “a goal to be
desired and hopefully to be achieved in the future.”
Favors Ordaining Women
BURLINGTON, Vt. (NC) - “Women would make good
priests and I’d vote in favor of ordaining them tomorrow if the
question came up,” said Bishop Robert F. Joyce of Burlington
on a statewide ETV network. Speaking of the shortage of clergy,
Bishop Joyce first said he “would not be opposed to the
ordination of women.” Then he spoke of the devout and
faithful service and compassion of women.” Women priests
“would, of course, have to take the vow of celibacy.” he said.
New Election Law?
VATICAN CITY (NC) — A new law for the election of Popes
is being drafted at Pope Paul’s request, a highly placed Vatican
official has confirmed. The question of whether the
composition of the electoral college that picks the Pope (the
college of cardinals has been the sole electoral body for the past
three centuries) should be changed has come under close
scrutiny by those drafting the new law, the Vatican official told