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PAGE 8—The Southern Cross, March 29,1973
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GUEST COLUMNIST
WAYLAND BROWN
A Right to Life . ..
PLAYERS rehearse scenes from St. Vincent Academy’s forthcoming
production of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
In Rehearsal at St. Vincent
There are instances in which two
opposing positions both have at the
same time an undeniable legal and
constitutional right. Think for a
moment, for example, about the
following hypothetical situation:
Suppose that the Vietnam veterans
c,ome to Washington to protest
administration decisions to seek a
reduction in their benefits. They have a
constitutional right to express
themselves. But at the same time and on
the same day local residents of Virginia
are tyring to drive to their places of
employment in the District. They too
have a constitutional right, in this case
to be able to carry on their daily routine
of their business and private lives
without interference.
The legal rights of both groups
cannot be protected at the same
moment because the large number of
veterans will cause uncongested passage
through the crowds by the commuters
to be impossible. In such a case difficult
decisions must be made by the
authorities. There is no clear right
position, nor is there a clear wrong one.
Both positions are legal and right; both
are also wrong in that they deny the
other his legal right.
Are there such situations in the
moral arena? To illustrate in a vivid way
that there are, please let me tell you the
story of a woman whom I met some
time ago in Bethesda, Maryland. I will
call her Mary. Mary is a real person, and
the question which faced her is real.
Please think about her situation and ask
yourself what you would do.
Mary is my age, thirty, and she is
happily married. She and her husband,
John, love their one child who was bom
six years ago. Mary’s second and third
pregnancies were terminated naturally
after about three months, and her
physicians were unable to understand
why she had not had successful
pregnancies. About eight months ago
Mary became pregnant again, and,
although she was very afraid, she and
John were filled with joy and prayed
earnestly to God to bring into the world
their second child.
The critical point of three months
was passed without event, and there was
great hope. Everyone was filled with
gratitude to God, and Mary was relieved
and happy because there was every
promise of a healthy baby.
Then, after six months, Mary
experienced abdominal pain: cancer. If
she received Cobalt radiation
treatments, the physicians were
reasonably certain that she would live.
But these treatments would require that
die ahve an abortion because the effects
of radioactivity on the fetus and on
the mother’s chance for life while
bearing the fetus were likely disastrous.
If Mary decided to have the abortion,
on the other hand, she would sacrifice
the life of their child and save her own
life. The competetent medical advice
looked so simple, but the questions are
so complex. Mary thought it might be
easier not to act, but in this case not to
act was to act to take her own life. The
rights involved here are absolute, moral
rights, and they are in opposition.
I will not tell you what John and
Mary decided to do, but I ask you to
pray for them and for those who find
themselves in such lonely circumstances.
There are no easy answers. Neither the
Supreme Court nor those so markedly
in opposition to the Court can answer
the real and moral questions which
faced this couple.
St. Vincent Academy’s Drama Club
and Les Chanteurs will present the
musical play, “THE EMPEROR’S NEW
CLOTHES” on Saturday, April 7 and
Sunday, April 8 at 8:00 p.m. in St.
Vincent’s Hall at Harris and Lincoln
Streets. Tickets may be purchased at the
school or at the door: adults $1.50;
students $.75.
The production, based on the story
by Hans Christian Anderson, will
feature Ann Haslam as the Emperor,
Diana Scarwid as the Princess, and Ethel
Butler as the Prince.
Other members of the cast include:
Maura Campbell, Sandy Center, Leigh
Durrence, Therese Powers, Maureen
Butler, Kim DAvis, Margie Cates, Sandra
Saseen, Regina Goettler, Helen Fogarty,
Terri Fogarty, Janet Byerly, Maureen
Jackson, Mary Ellen Ritzert, Susan
Cliett. Sandra Ivy.
Diane Smith, Hope Dlugazima.
Angela Scholl, Susan Campbell, Wendy
Robinson, Lynn Coleman, Mary
Catherine Moore, Helen Marie Murphy,
Susan Roughen, Mary Gene Murphy,
Mary Ann Free, and Bessie Remler.
Assistant Director and Stage Manager
for the play is Judy Kessler.
There will be a special children’s
performance of the play on Friday,
April 6, at 3:30 p.m. The price for
children’s tickets for this performance
will be $.50.
THE COOK’S
NOOK
The chef wishes to thank Mrs. Joseph Spano of Holy Family Parish, Columbus, for
her delicious recipes. Here are two of them:
COLUMBUS’ BEST ICE BOX ROLLS
Shepherds in the Wings
MINISTERING THROUGH ^
ORGANIZING
Wayland Brown
Ingredients:
1 rounded teaspoon soda
1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon salt
sifted flour
1 quart milk
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup shortening
2 packages of active dry yeast
Put milk, sugar and shortening and let come to a boil; cool to lukewarm. Dissolve
the yeast in a cup of warm milk. Add enough sifted flour to make a dough with the
consistency of a cake batter. Let stand for 2 hours. Dissolve the soda in a few drops of
water; then add this, the baking powder and salt to the dough. Knead into a soft
dough. Shape and arrange into Parker House rolls in greased pan. Let rise about 1
hour. Bake in 425 F. oven for 12 minutes or until nicely borwned. (Half this recipe for
a small family.) This dough may be kept in the refrigerator covered for about a week.
HEIRLOOM DRESSING FOR GREEN SALAD
Ingredients:
1/2 cup vinegar
1 small cake cream cheese
1/2 cup Wesson oil
1/2 lb. blue cheese, broken up
1 pint store bought mayonnaise
Mix in large bowl with electric mixer in order named. Mix well.
The Cook’s Nook welcomes recipes from all over the diocese and wishes to thank all
those who have shared their culinary talents with it. Send yours to The Cook’s Nook,
Care of The Southern Cross, Box 232, Waynesboro, Georgia.
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.
Preaching and teaching the Word of
God can be a very sad and frustrating
job sometimes. Many ministers, pastors,
priests eventually stop and wonder what
they are doing. It seems as though they
are preparing children and adults to live
in a society that offers for many of
them absolutely no hope to live the life
of freedom and happiness which their
ministers try to advocate for them.
Many ministers get frustrated because it
seems that their work does not really
touch the basic structures of society.
This period of unrest and uncertainty
does not pass for all ministers, but many
are able to place their faith in the hands
of the Lord, roll up their sleeves, and go
to work organizing their people for a
better life. Organizing involves leading,
but the purpose is always to unite
different self-interests into a common
concern to develop the potential of the
people, to give them hope and courage
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through the terrible and heavy chains of
pessimism. They lead; they organize.
But they never seek to dominate. They
never ask power or glory for themselves.
Such a minister must be
fundamentally a spiritual man, one who
is free to work in the world precisely
because he is free of the world and its
concerns. Like the Lord, he must not
cling to the world, for there is no
kingdom here for him. His kingdom is
the Kingdom of God. Perhaps the
reason so many attempts at organizing
end in grief can be traced to even the
most subtle desires for power, for
personal kingdoms.
This is a special danger for the man
who knows people and who knows their
needs and who wants to help fill these
needs. It is always comfortable to have
these people, thankful as they are, say
that without their minister they would
not be who they are or where they are.
Being appreciated is undeniably difficult
to live without, yet there is a very small
step between accepting one’s value and
worth as a human being and the failing
of glorying in that accomplishment. The
true minister will rather give thanks to
the Lord for what He has done through
His people.
The true minister will never get so
involved in changing society that he
overlooks his own need for conversion.
He will never be afraid to be alone for a
few hours or a day and admit to himself
and to his Lord that he is just as much
in need of change as the world he wants
to save.
The perspective must always be one
of hope. Sometimes we set up an
organization for a specific purpose and
work very hard to reach our goal, only
to have it snatched away just as we
thought we were going to be successful.
Well, more often than not our wishes do
not come true, and as long as we keep
on confusing the fulfillment of our
wishes with true hope, we will end up
feeling that we have been betrayed
somehow.
The shepherd will offer his people
hope, but he will leave the future open
for the unexpected. He will look beyond
the immediate needs of his people, no
'matter how great, and understand his
and their activities in a larger
perspective. He will know that the true
gifts of organizing are to be found in the
mutual relationships of the people as
they work together to create a life of
hope in which they can improve
themselves.
A Christian, a minister, will never be
satisfied with the status quo: he will
always believe in a better world to come
and see himself as a part of that world.
The Lord has shown us the first rays of
that world, and he has left us His
Church as a place in which to organize
ourselves and grow.
'A round TheDiocese
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Obituaries
* Mr. Tom D. Murphy of Augusta, March 18th
* Mrs, Blanche Sue G. Price of Vidalia, March 19th
* Miss Rose M. Gaffney of Savannah, March 20th
* Mr. Jerome O. Ernst of Statesboro, March 20th
* Mrs. Woodrow W. McLane of Augusta, March 20th
* Mr. Thomas Martin Kenney of Savannah, March 21st
* Mrs. Clara Bischoff Lang of Savannah, March 22nd
* Mr. William Charles McCorry of Augusta, March 22nd
* Mrs. Claudia P. Bryan of Savannah, March 23rd
Necrology
* Rev. John J. Kirby, April 3,1872
St. Benedict’s, Savannah
Mr. Edward Bradgett, Director of Model Cities Inc. of Savannan, was the guest
speaker last Sunday (March 25) at a meeting of the Educational committee of St.
Benedict’s Parish Council. His topic was President Nixon’s revenue sharing plan. Mr.
Bradgett spoke on the relationship between the reyenue sharing plan and various
government-sponsored programs of service and education in the urban community.
Sacred Heart CCW
There will be a meeting of Sacred Heart Council of Catholic Women on Monday,
April 2nd at 8 P.M. in the Rectory. A short film on the Holy Land will be shown
followed by services for World Peace which will include the Rosary and Benediction.
St. Frances Cabrini CCW
The April meeting of the St. Frances Cabrini Parish Council of Catholic Women will
be held on April 2 at 8:00 at the church. Plans for the Spring Festival to be held in
May will be discussed. All ladies of the parish are invited to attend, and bring a friend.
Refreshments will be served after the meeting.
St. Mary’s Auxiliary
St. Mary’s Ladies Auxiliary (Augusta) held their March meeting recently at the
Parish Hall. “Women in the Church in the seventies” was the talk given by the guest
speaker, Father Edwin O’Brien, Chaplain of Fort Gordon. Father O’Brien spoke of the
Cultural changes concerning women that have occurred in the history of the Church
and of the studies being done concerning their future roles. He quoted Pope Pius XII
who in 1945, long before the current Women’s Liberation Movement, told Catholic
women - “Public life needs you - the fortunes of the family and of human society are
at stake, and they are in your hands. Therefore, every woman is under a strict
obligation of conscience not to remain aloof; every woman must go into action, each
in her own.”
K.C. Corporate Communion
Savannah Council No. 631, Knights of Columbus will hold its annual Lenten
Corporate Communion and Breakfast for its members and their families this Sunday,
April 1. The Corporate Communion will be at the 8:30 a.m. Mass at the Church of The
Most Blessed Sacrament. Celebrant of the Mass will be the Rev. J. Kevin Boland,
Pastor of Blessed Sacrament and Administrator of the diocese. Father Brendon Breen
will deliver the homily. The breakfast will be held in the Blessed Sacrament School
Gymnasium. Guest speaker at the breakfast will be Mrs. Alida Smith, Secretary of the
Right to Life Committee of Savannah. A large attendance of Knights, their wives and
children is expected.
Bl. Sacrament CCW
Blessed Sacrament Council of Catholic Women will meet on Monday, April 2nd at 8
P.M. in the Sister’s Lounge of the Parish School. A nominating committee will be 1
chosen for the newly elected officers. Plans for the Installation Banquet for the
officers will be discussed and planned. Blessed Sacrament Council will be Hostess for
the Spring Meeting Savannah Deanery Council on Sunday, April 8th. All ladies
are invited.
GODSPELL ON SCREEN ~ The cast of the movie version of the
hit off-Broadway musical, “Godspell,” dances under the arches of New
York’s Triboro Bridge. Victor Garber (center), who portrays Jesus, leads
the group. “Godspell” was filmed at a plethora of locations in New York
City, including Times Square, Coney Island and Central Park. Written by
John-Michael Tebelak, directed by David Greene and featuring a score by
Stephen Schwartz, it is a loosely-contrived, soft-rock rendering of St.
Matthew’s Gospel. (RNS Photo)
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