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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, September 20,1973
ST. MARY’S HOME, SAVANNAH
Auction September 29 to Benefit Dependent Children
AUCTION TO BENEFIT ST. MARY’S HOME,
SAVANNAH. St. Mary’s Home Guild members show
some of the art works to be auctioned Sept. 29 at the
De Soto Hilton Hotel from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. (1. to r.)
Mrs. Fred Williams, Jr., Mrs. Bruce C. Sahlman, Mrs.
George Lingenfelser, and Mrs. Bernie Foran. (Mrs.
Lingenfelser holds copy of “The Connoisseur,”
autographed by Norman Rockwell.) Among
other items to be presented are a lithograph by Betty
Sanders and a White House etching donated by Julie
Eisenhower. Admission to the auction is $2.50 per
person and includes a hors d’ouvres buffet. Proceeds
will be used for recreational activities by youngsters at
the home.
ART AUCTION WILL HELP MAKE SURE that
scenes like this one will be continued. Some of the
children of St. Mary’s home crowd into a station
wagon with two of their pet dogs for a trip to the
beach while staff members look on. (Photos by Pollack
and Daly)
Study Paper Examines Penance-Communion Debate
(Continued from Page 1)
historical and canonical [Church law]
aspects are important for good pastoral
practice.”
Father McDonald noted that in
working on the study paper, “We
realized that the discussion was going
off in so many directions that there was
a need to bring the questions into
focus.”
The CCD official estimated that at
least 35 or 40 dioceses have issued some
sort of diocesan guidelines. “What we
noticed in our observations was that the
early discussion was focused very
strongly on the question of obligation,”
he said.
“We felt that the discussion could
take place more profitably if confession
were looked at as devotional, with the
focus on the catechesis [religious
education] and access to the
sacrament.”
Diocesan Clergy Appointments
(Continued from Page 1)
Director of Cemeteries
Father Lawrence Lucree, who
succeeds Monsignor Daniel J. Bourke in
this assignment, has been a priest since
1960, when he was ordained at
Savannah’s Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist after completing studies at St.
Mary’s Seminary, Roland Park, Md.
He was Rector of the Cathedral from
1967 to 1970 when he was named to
head St. Teresa’s parish, Albany. Prior
assignments had included: Assistant
Rector at the Cathedral, Assistant at St.
Anne’s Columbus and Pastor of Sacred
Heart, Augusta.
Charismatic Renewal
The post of Delegate for Charismatic
Renewal is a new one. In this capacity,
Father Liam Collins, Associate Pastor at
St. James, Savannah, will serve as a
one-man liaison committee between
Bishop Lessard and the numerous
‘Prayer Groups’ now flourishing in the
Savannah Diocese. This new office, said
Bishop Lessard, will be “a way of
making the bishop present to the groups
and members of this important
movement directed toward renewal in
the Holy Spirit.”
A graduate of St. Patrick’s College,
Thurles, Ireland, Father Collins was
ordained in 1971 and has served as
Associate Pastor at St. James ever since.
He has been active in the Charismatic
Renewal movement in Savannah for the
past two years and is spiritual director
of the Friday evening Youth Prayer
Group at St. James.
Pro-life Coordinator
In this newly created diocesan post,
Father Robert J. Teoli, pastor of St.
Matthew’s parish, Statesboro, will
coordinate relationships between parish
organizations and various pro-life groups
in the diocese, such as Right-to-Life
Committees in several cities of the
diocese.
These committees along with other
similar groups are dedicated to fostering
a greater respect for life at all stages,
from pre-birth to old age, and to
developing viable alternatives to
movements promoting abortion and
euthanasia as tools for improving the
quality of human life.
On June 2nd, Father Teoli received a
Master’s Degree in Guidance and
Counseling from Georgia Southern
College, Statesboro.
Ordained in 1955, he is a graduate of
St. Mary’s Seminary, Roland Park, Md.
and has served parishes in five cities, and
has held pastorates at Savannah Beach,
Thunderbolt, Albany and Statesboro.
He is Dean of the Statesboro Deanery.
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The study paper emphasizes strongly
that the only time Church law
absolutely obliges anyone to receive
Penance is when that person is
conscious of being in grave sin.
The paper also points out that
“almost all” would hold that young
children “do not in fact sin gravely.”
It then suggests that first confession
for the young should normally be
viewed as devotional and presented
under the positive sacramental values of
devotional confession, which the
Church strongly encourages.
“Whether children ‘had to go’ got
into such historical and canonical
problems,” said Father McDonald, “that
it seemed to be polarizing people. The
important thing in the whole first part
of our study was to free up this area so
we could move into a more positive
discussion.”
When he was asked if there is any
conflict in the wide variety of diocesan
guidelines that have been published in
the United States since the decree,
Father McDonald said they all seemed
to fit into the legitimate area of pastoral
discretion by the individual bishop.
The extremes of existing diocesan
guidelines can perhaps be described as
follows:
-On the one end of the spectrum,
Bishop Charles Buswell of Pueblo,
Colo., and Bishop James Malone of
Youngstown, O., have declined to
change the delayed-confession practice
in their dioceses until the U.S. bishops
have considered the Vatican declaration
and there is a clearer interpretation of
its meaning.
-At the other end, several bishops
such as Archbishop John Whealon of
Hartford, Conn., and Coadjutor
Archbishop Leo Byrne of St.
Paul-Minneapolis, Min., have stated that,
beginning with the 1973-74 school year,
first confession before the first
Communion would be the mandatory
practice in the diocese. Archbishop
Byrne later granted a one-year delay to
some parishes.
Father McDonald said each of these
options, or the various options of other
dioceses in between, could be seen as
preserving a legitimate pastoral concern.
Of the response in Pueblo and
Youngstown he said: “The bishop does
have a certain right to dispense from
ecclesiastical law for a cause.
IN COLUMBUS
Father McDonald added that the
controversy over first confession might
produce some good just by focusing the
attention of Catholics on the sacrament
of Penance again. \
He noted that Cardinal John Wright,
head of the Vatican congregation tlt^i
issued the declaration, wrote a letter to
the American bishops in which he
stressed the value of parental
involvement in preparing the child for
first confession.
The involvement of parents does not
just mean teaching their children about
confession, he said, but setting an
attitude by their own regular use of the
sacrament.
Open House at K of C
BY AL EVERSMAN
Grand Knight Harold Perry
announced at the September 10th
meeting that Bishop Gross Council No.
1019, Columbus, will hold open house
in its newly renovated home at 802
Broadway from 9:45 A.M. to 5 P.M.,
Sunday, September, 23rd.
The Knights hall is located in a
section of Columbus which is currently
undergoing urban renewal, and this
effort is brightening up and restoring
new life to what was once a center of
deterioration.
Program Chairman John Howard said
that a Corporate Communion will be
held at Holy Family Church at the 8:30
A.M. Mass also on Setpember 23rd, and
a Communion Breakfast would follow
at the Knights Hall at 9:45 A.M. Tickets
are $1.25 for adults and .75 cents for
children.
Everyone is invited. Speaker for the
occasion will be Past State Advocate
and longtime member of Council 1019,
Eddie Kosobucki, who will speak briefly
on Knighthood in Columbus.
In other matters, all Knights were
urged to circle their calendars for the
Archdiocesan Rosary Rally to take
place in Atlanta at 2:30 P.M., October
28th, at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, and to make every effort to
attend this Rosary Crusade en-masse.
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