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PAGE 8—The Southern Cross, March 22,1973
DCCW Notes
MARIE E. JOINES
Past President
Diocesan Council of
Catholic Women
How long has it been since your
parish had a family picnic?
I remember the parish picnics we had
on St. Simons Island years ago - long
before there was a St. Simons causeway
- when the only way you could get to
the Island was by boat.
On the day of the picnic you
boarded the vessel Emmeline, maybe it
was the Hessie or the Seagate, at the
foot of Mansfield Street ( Brunswick)
with split-wood basket on your arm
loaded with fried chicken, biscuits,
potato salad, cake and sweet pickles (a
real treat).
It seemed forever before the boat left
the City docks and even longer before
the St. Simons pier came into sight.
Once the boat was secured to the pier,
all you wanted was to be the first on
the gangplank so you could dash from
the dock, up the boardwalk in a race to
the beach. There you pulled off your
shoes and ran barefoot in the soft, white
sand while others preferred to run
straight to the ocean to wade in the
water and jump the waves.
Margaret Frisbie, our National
Family Affairs Commission chairman,
says most parishes have a parish picnic
and this is good. She suggests combining
a parish clean-your-area day with the
picnic. If the picnic is on Sunday, large
bags can be handed out (or bought) at
Mass. Each family takes a section of
some part of the community that needs
clearning (a railroad embankment, city
street or shopping area) and fills the
bags with beer cans, pop tabs, ice cream
wrappers and cigarette butts.
She goes on to say, upon arrival at
the dumping spot (which the committee
has arranged) there can be a simple
liturgy based on “This Land is My
Land” and the biblical reminder that
the Lord has given us this world and the
fullness thereof.
In addition to the above suggested
locations, there are streets and areas
approaching outdoor recreation centers,
including parks and squares, that you
would like to see cleaned up. You may
be just the one to suggest the spot for
your picnic project.
Once decided upon, form your
committees for the clean-your-area day
picnic. Publicize it in the church
bulletin, through your organization, and
other media. Make sure you reach new
families that have come into the parish.
Wouldn’t this be a wonderful time to
invite someone who has no family?
Encourage the teenagers to bring along
their guitars and lead the singing during
the liturgy.
National also suggests a good time
for the parish picnic is either at the
beginning or closing of school. Since
school closing is not far away, start
planning the picnic now for that time
and make it an annual affair.
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A thousand thanks to Murphy Faust,
our National Director, Province of
Atlanta, National Council of Catholic
Women (NCCW) for her response in
DCCW Notes (THE SOUTHERN
CROSS, Mar. 1, 1973) to the parish
affiliate which had decided to drop its
affiliation with NCCW because, “We
don’t feel that we’re getting anything
from National.”
Enumerating many of the benefits an
affiliate receives, Murphy goes on to say
the greatest benefit of all to be derived
from affiliation with NCCW is an
“individual benefit,” and that is the
friendships to be made with other
women in other parishes, other
deaneries, other dioceses.
The program and pleasures now
being planned for the annual diocesan
convention in Columbus in May - less
than two months away - can provide an
“individual benefit” for anyone who
accepts the invitation. Come to the
convention. I’ll see you there.
THE COOK’S
XOOK
The Cook’s Nook wishes to thank Mrs. Corine Berry of Columbus for her recipes.
They will appear from time to time.
APPLE CHARLOTTA
Ingredients: 6 large apples
1 cup sugar
V2 cup raisins
2 eggs
2 cups rye bread crumbs
1 wineglass of white wine
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
2 teaspoons grated orange rind
V4 cup ground almonds
4 tablespoons olive oil
2 cloves grated nutmeg
1 cup water
Peel, core, and cut up the apples; cook with sugar and a cup of water for five
minutes. Mix the breadcrumbs, made from stale rye bread with the olive oil and add to
the apples. Stir in two beaten egg yolks, wine, raisins, almonds, orange and lemon
peel, cloves and a pinch of nutmeg. Whip the egg whites until stiff and fold into the
mixture. Put into a greased casserole or baking dish and bake at 375 degrees for 45-50
minutes.
Here’s something for the Fridays in Lent!
FAST FISH CHOWDER
Ingredients: 1 lb. fish fillets, thawed and cut into 2 inch squares
2 cans frozen cream of potato soup
2 cans of milk (fresh milk measured in soup can)
1 bay leaf, 2 teaspoons dried chives
Bring the soup, milk and herbs to a boil, stirring occasionally. Add fish. Bring to a
boil and simmer 10 minutes or until fish flakes easily. Garnish each serving with
parsley. This makes about V/2 quarts. It will serve six.
The Chef
Please, readers send your recipes to the Cook’s Nook, Care of The Southern Cross,
Box 232, Waynesboro, Ga.
PASTORAL CARE AT HOSPITAL. Rev. Mr. Ronald Pachence and
Rev. Mr. Steven Preister visit with patient Mrs. Bertha Vargo in Providence
Hospital, Washington, D. C. Rev. Mr. Pachence is a Seminarian studying
for the priesthood in the diocese of Savannah.
6 Sems’ Work in Hospital
The Rev. Mr. Ronald Pachence, a
seminary student for the diocese of
Savannah has become a part of an
experimental “Small Group Living”
program of Theological College,
Washington, D.C., where he is a student.
While pursuing his studies at
Theological College, Pachence and
another seminarian, Rev. Mr. Steve
Preister of the diocese of Lafayette,
Indiana, live in a house provided by
Providence Hospital at reduced rent. In
return, Pachence and Preister serve as
chaplain’s assistants at the hospital two
afternoons a week.
Rev. Mr. Pachence was ordained a
Deacon last week and as part of his
duties at the hospital will help with the
distribution of Holy Communion to
patients weekly.
At present, only Pachence and
Preister are in the hospital project, but
it is expected that another seminarian
will be added to it next Septmeber.
The “Small Group Living” program
is fully approved by the Theological
College faculty and supervised through
the Pastoral Program of Catholic
University. It also has the approval of
the bishops of the seminarians involved.
Shepherds in the Wings
Ministering Through Teaching
BY WAYLAND BROWN
This column is a weekly feature
written by Seminarians studying for the
priesthood for the Diocese of Savannah,
and is intended to convey the
viewpoints of men who will one day be
Shepherds of Souls, on a variety of
subjects.
When you read the word “teaching,”
what do you think of? A dismal
classroom, exams, competition,
memorizing and repeating exactly what
the teacher wants to hear? If you do, we
can’t blame you, because that is jsut the
sort of teaching many of us went
through (on one side of the desk or
maybe on both). How, then, can the
New Testament call Jesus, “Teacher”?
How are ministers teachers? How are
parishioners students?
We have often read laments on the
hustle-bustle of the world today, and
indeed it is easy to get lost in the hurry.
Monks and contemplative sisters have
sought lives of prayer in special
situations, but even these great members
of the Church are returning to the world
and joining its hurried pace. Often we
wonder if we have not lost control and
become passive victims of a
forward-lurching movement we cannot
control.
The educational situation today
reflects the drift of modern society;
students and teachers are constantly
presented with new problems and newer
skills and methods to get the problems
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are forever busy trying to “get things
under control,” and the content of what
is taught easily becomes more important
than the actual teaching relationship.
Learning becomes competitive:
knowledge is no longer a wonderful and
mysterious gift to be shared but a secret
to be defended (at least until after the
test).
The teacher knows the material; the
students learn it and repeat it precisely
to get good grades. School is more of a
preparation for something to come later
rather than a real life, here and now
situation. We study only to prepare for
jobs; then we work only to prepare for
retirement. We retire only to await
death. Life is always somewhere else,
alien to what and where we are now.
Well, that is a fairly bleak picture,
but we are afraid that it is not
completely unfamiliar. What we have
done is to lose contact with ourselves.
We have forgot who and where we are,
and we are often almost unknown to
ourselves, strangers in our own house.
We need the sort of teacher who will
return the emphasis to the proper place
- a teacher who can lead us to know
ourselves and to understand the
meaning in our lives. Only then will we
know our own beauty and our purpose.
What kind of teacher must this be?
He will be one who tries to evoke in
his fellows their potentials so that they
can be known, developed, and made
available to one another. Only when we
know our own capabilities can we
overcome the terrible fear of being
inadequate and useless; only then can
we be free to learn.
He will be one who loves to learn
himself. He will know that he himself is
incomplete; he will feel free to admit
that his students will frequently know
more than he and he will learn from
them. More than his intellectual
superiority, his maturity and openness
to the unknown, the future, will mark k
him as one who himself is willing to be
influenced as well as to influence.
He will know that the present is as
important as the future. Rather than
teaching to prepare for jobs to come, he
will affirm the presence of hope here
and now. Schools too are places of
community, where life is to be lived and
shared. He will work for a new
life-style to be a present reality, one in
which we are open and free to know
and share our knowledge.
The true teacher will be a model of
Our Lord, Jesus Christ. Jesus did not
cling to his divinity but freely entered
human life in such a way that He was
absolutely committed to every situation
as He lived it and to every person with
whom He met. It is Jesus who calls us as
teachers and students to give up our
defenses, put down our weapons, and
become available to one another and to
Him for real growth. The Church, His
Church, is that place where we learn to
grow. We are students and teachers of
one another.
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Obituaries
* Mr. Harry J. Markwalter Jr. of Augusta, March 10th
* Mr. Guillermo C. Rodriques of Alma, March 11th
* Mrs. Annie Harrison James of Savannah, March 12th
* Mrs. Madeline A. DeMeyer of Savannah, March 13th
Marriages
* Miss Sandra Jean Weathers of Augusta, Ga., and Mr. John J. Murrell Jr. of
Martinez, Ga., February 23 at St. Teresa of Avilia Church, Augusta.
* Miss Joy Lane Martin of Brunswick, Ga., and Mr. Michael Ernest Sullivan of
Savannah, Ga., March 17 in St. Francis Xavier Church, Brunswick.
* Miss Donna May Kron of Augusta, Ga., and Mr. John Gordon Gill of Evans, Ga.,
March 17 in St. Joseph’s Church, Augusta.
Cathedral School Registration
Registration for the First Grade will be held in the school on March 27 and 28,
1973, from 9:30 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. and from 1:30 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. Registration
fee of $10.00 is required for each child registering and certificates of birth and baptism
as well.
Augusta DCCW Meeting
This Saturday afternoon (March 24) at 2 o’clock, the Augusta Deanery Council of
Catholic Women will hold its spring meeting at Fort Gordon. All Catholic ladies from
Augusta’s four parishes as well as the women of the chapel at Fort Gordon are
cordially invited to be present. Dr. Royal P. Murdeck, P.H.D. head of the
Psychological and Rehabilitation services unit at the Veterans Administration will
speak on Alcoholism. Officers will be elected for the coming year.
Priest Writing History
Of U.S. Space
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.
(NC) -- Seeing a man at the Kennedy
Space Center wearing a Roman collar
and National Aeronautics and Space
Administration badge, one normally
thinks he is a chaplain.
But not in the case of Jesuit Father
William Barnaby Faherty, author and
historian.
Father Faherty, whose published
books include the popular “Walls for
San Sebastian,” is a history professor at
St. Louis University on leave at the
University of Florida to write the
official history of the UJS. space
program.
He is collaborating on the job with
Dr. Charles Benson, a University of
Florida historian. Since last year, the
men have researched countless
documents and conducted innumerable
interviews with space program
personnel. Their 12-chapter work is
supposed to be completed for
publication in the summer of 1974.
“It’s for you and me,” the
soft-spoken priest said of the book, “for
Program
the taxpayer, the people who funded
this whole adventure.”
Father Faherty said he hoped the
book would provide the reader with an
understandable analysis of why the U.S.
embarked on the space program,
particularly the Apollo operations, and
how it achieved its results.
He indicated the analysis was
difficult to write because of problems of
placing the moon landing program in its
proper historical perspective and of
telling the truth about the space
adventures without offending anyone.
Father Fahrty’s previous works were
well-received, especially “Walls for San
Sebastian,” which Hollywood used as
the basis for a film of the same name
starring Anthony Quinn.
His other books have included a
history and architectural evaluation of
the Cathedral of St. Louis, a history of
the St. Louis archdiocese, and a history
of Catholicism in St. Louis.
His other works include “Destiny of
Modern Woman,” and “Living Alone: A
Guide for the Single Woman.” He is also
a lecturer on women’s rights.
GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY - Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S.
Melesky of St. Joseph parish, Augusta, will celebrate their fiftieth wedding
anniversary on Wednesday, April 4th. The Golden Jubilarians were
married in St. Mary’s church, Charleston, S.C. on April 4th, 1923. They
have one daughter, Mrs. John A. Grether, also of St. Joseph Parish, and
four grand-children, Therese, John, Mark and Paul. A reception will be
held at the home of Mrs. Grether from 3 to 5 p.m. April 8.
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