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MT. de SALES
PAGE 7—The Southern Cross, September 27,1973
LET’S HEAR IT FOR JHE BOOKS! That’s what
Mt. de Sales student in right foreground seems to be
saying as she and other members of the Macon school’s
team of Cheerleaders sort books before placing them
on the shelves of new library facilities located in de
Sales Hall, latest addition to the school’s complex of
buildings. The new hall will be dedicated next Sunday
(Sept. 30).
Readers Reply
Parish Voted for Name Change
Editor:
As a former parishioner of Holy
Trinity Church in Augusta, I was most
interested in your article regarding the
recent rededication.
The charter, which was granted by
the General Assembly of Georgia on
December 10, 1811, incorporated the
Roman Catholic Society of Augusta and
Richmond County. Upon receipt of
land on Telfair Street from the Trustees
for the Richmond Academy, the Roman
Catholic Society began the construction
of their first church.
In 1814, the facility was completed
and consecrated the Church of the Holy
Trinity.
During the next several decades the
increased Catholic population
Missioner
Editor:
I am asking your help for the poor
people of the Sulu Archipelago,
Philippine Islands where I am the Vicar
Apostolic and Bishop.
We have many plans which we hope
and pray to see implemented; a floating
clinic by which the Sisters can visit the
nearby islands to teach hygiene and ease
the suffering of those too sick to be
moved; self-help projects; credit unions
and cooperatives for the fishermen to
assist them to make a better livelihood;
small clinics for the distant islands;
Editor:
Re: the letter written by Mrs.
Margaret Strickland to the editor in the
September 6, issue of The Southern
Cross.
My children range in age from 25
years to 9 years and over the years I
have seen many changes in the methods
of teaching religion in the Catholic
Church. However, the one thing which
comes to my mind now more than ever
before, is that children reflect their
parents’ love and attitudes about God,
Christ and the Church.
If you are zealous in your faith, there
will be no worry about what you pass
on to them. Part of the changes in the
Church today are to make parents more
aware that they are the primary teachers
of their children.
As a convert to the Catholic Faith, I
value my Protestant background for it
was a good preparation for the greater,
stronger discipline the Catholic Church
demands.
Having lived in a small town for two
years I am also aware that the closeness
of the people provides great
opportunities for ecumenism, not often
felt in the cities. Be thankful for this
and do not turn away. Each good
experience your children have will bring
necessitated a larger structure.
Following the laying of the cornerstone
in June, 1857, the construction of the
new church continued for over five
years.
Upon its completion in 1863, the
clergy and congregation met on Easter
Sunday and voted to name the new
structure St. Patrick’s Church. The
choice of the Patron Saint of Ireland
indicated the ascendancy of the Irish in
Editor:
Rationalizing, according to Webster,
is to justify one’s behavior to oneself or
to others. Last Sunday morning I did
this. I walked into Mass ten to twelve
minutes late. I told myself, “You
better schooling facilities for the young;
even a small housing cooperative for the
poor. Would you care to help us?
Your contribution, no matter how
small, will be of great help to us. A little
goes so far and does so much in Sulu. I
think it is the same with God. May He
bless you for your kindness.
fPhilip F. Smith, O.M.I.
Bishop of Jolo
c/o P.O. Box 1598
Lowell, Mass. 01853
them to a closer understanding of God’s
love.
Last but not least we have in the past
five years at my parish, Blessed
Sacrament of Savannah, conducted a
Bible School at the beginning of the
summer. It is a lay project.
We use Arts and Crafts, films and
gospel stories. We attend daily Mass,
which has simple texts so that even the
pre-schoolers learn from it. The children
help plan the liturgy and act as lectors. I
cannot begin to tell the work and
sacrifices it takes on the part of many,
but I will say that all who are involved
are happy to be a part of it.
My suggestion to Mrs. Strickland is to
get a group of mothers and come to talk
to Mrs. William Lloyd, the Religious
Education Coordinator for Blessed
Sacrament Parish. She will be able to
give some good advice on how to form a
Bible school in your parish.
Do not conflict with the Protestant
church programs, but plan to invite
those children to your classes so that a
better understanding of your faith will
spread throughout your community and
the benefits will be beyond your
greatest expectations.
Mrs. Edgar C. Robertson
Savannah
the Roman Catholic Society of Augusta
and Richmond County.
Over a century later, in July, 1971,
St. Patrick’s merged with Sacred Heart
and Immaculate Conception Churches,
and the following January, the name of
the parish reverted to its original title,
the Holy Trinity.
Helen Callahan
Assistant Professor of History
Augusta College
worked ten hours yesterday - you got
up this morning at six o’clock to unload
a truck - surely God won’t mind you
being ten minutes late for Mass.”
Mind you now, I had nothing
important pressing me for the rest of
the day. I could have gone home, had a
cup of coffee, and attended nine o’clock
Mass with no problems.
This, I think, is an excellent example
of rationalizing.
On occasions when the fault of
rationalizing is committed, I find God
usually slaps one on the hand. I was
given my slap at Mass. The sermon being
preached was on Watergate - power of
the president -- checks and balances in
our government - how our forefathers
did not intend to have rule by king.
I got up and walked out of Mass. For
this I ask God’s pardon.
Possibly I was wrong in not listening •
to the entire sermon. I did agree with
what I heard, but I’m tired of hearing it
especially at Mass on Religion
Education Sunday.
People of this country have read and
listened to enough about Watergate, and
should be able to make up their minds
about what to do. They must decide
whether to sit on their thumbs and do
nothing, or tell the politicians they will
not stand for any more abuse of our
country and its political system.
I think that the Whole matter of
Watergate has been aired enough and
should be handled in court and just
punishment given if, and wherever, guilt
is found. If the President is to be
condemned, let it not be in church by a
priest wearing a judge’s robe.
Priests, as well as politicians, are not
always perfect. I think we could stand a
little cleaning up in this area. Perhaps
we should all straighten our own houses.
Maybe this is the real problem . ..
Some parents are not doing their job.
Some teachers are not doing their job.
Some politicians are not doing their
job. Some priests are not doing their
job. Some nuns are not doing their job.
I guess you could say that some
people are doing nothing, and others are
trying to do someone else’s job.
Louis C. Mathews, Jr.
Savannah
Walked Out on Watergate
Seeks Aid
Teaching Religion
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New Building Dedicated in Macon
The recently completed “de Sales
Hall” of Mt. de Sales High School,
Macon, will be officially opened at a
Mass of Dedication September 30, at 4
p.m.
Concelebrated by Bishop Raymond
W. Lessard and priests from Macon and
other areas of the Savannah diocese, the
Mass will take place in McAuley Hall,
the school gym.
De Sales Hall houses the school
library, administration offices and two
classrooms.
The Macon school, had its
beginnings with the arrival in that city
of five Sisters of Mercy in 1871 and the
establishment of the Academy of the
Sacred Heart. Five years later, the
Sisters purchased the home of Georgia’s
former Governor Towns at the corner of
Orange and Columbus Streets for a
convent and Mount de Sales received its
charter from the Georgia General
Assembly. The school will celebrate its
one hundredth anniversary in 1976.
Mount de Sales first graduates
received diplomas in 1882 after
completing courses which included
religion, history, language, science,
literature, astronomy, mental
philosophy, ancient geography, music
elecution, art and physical culture.
From its beginning until 1958 Mt. de
Sales was only open to girls. In 1958 the
first boys entered as freshmen. St.
Joseph Hall was built to furnish the
additional classrooms and laboratories
needed for a co-educational school.
Work on de Sales Hall began in the
spring of 1973. Mt. de Sales serves the
educational needs of a student body
which comes from St. Joseph, St. Peter
Claver and Holy Spirit parishes in
Macon, and from Sacred Heart parish,
Warner Robins and Robins Air Force
base, Warner Robins. Sister M. Fidelis,
R.S.M. is Mt. de Sales Principal.
The school is staffed by 7 Sisters of
Mercy, 1 priest (Father Bede Lightner,
Assistant Principal), and 14 lay teachers. 4
Student enrollment for the 1973-74
school year is 413.
29 STUDENTS COMMISSIONED
Benedictine Names Cadet Colonel
In ceremonies Friday evening (Sept.
28) at Benedictine Military School,
Savannah, William J. Palmer, Jr., will be
commissioned as Cadet Colonel and
commander of the Benedictine Corps of
Cadets. Palmer, a senior, was also
announced last week as a National Merit
Scholarship semi-finalist.
Doctor Henry L. Ashmore, President
of Armstrong State College, who
addressed the commissionees, presented
certificates to twenty-nine members of
the senior and junior classes. These
cadets will lead the 350 man corps of
Cadets at B.C. for the remainder of the
school year.
In addition to Palmer, other cadets
selected to top positions in the Corps
included Cadet Lieutenant Colonels
Andrew J. Bryant, Christopher J. Fahey
and Timothy E. Lentz.
Other cadets commissioned were:
Cadet Majors - Edgar G. Oliver and
Arthur A. Perini, Jr.
Cadet Captains - Daniel J. Brown;
James T. Carellas; Jeffrey W. Lasky;
Steven P. O’Neil; Anthony P. Perini;
Harry L. Stevens, Jr.; and Alfonso
Woods.
Cadet First Lieutenants - Thomas R.
Bazemore; Richard R. Bunbury; Frank
R. Cullum, III; William R. DeCastro;
Timothy M. Kelley; Albert Lawyer, Jr.;
David A. Lucree; Richard P. McGinn,
Jr.; Paul A. Muller; James B. Pinckney;
and Robert E. Savadge.
Brunswick Rel.
St. Francis Xavier Church,
Brunswick, chose Religious Education
Sunday, Sept. 16, to announce its own
religious education programs. Prepared
by the Department of Christian
Formation, (DCF) of the Savannah
Diocese, these studies will be used for
the first half of the year 1973-74.
Classes for all ages, scheduled to begin
Sunday, Sept. 30, at 9:30 a.m., at St.
Francis Xavier School, are divided into
three groups: adults, junior and senior
high school, and children.
The five-week THRUST program of
the DCF for adults will look at some of
the traditions and customs of the
church in the realm of marriage and
sexuality.
For junior high school students,
WITNESS MAGAZINE will be used
along with preparation for the
sacrament of confirmation. “Mine is the
Morning,” the diocesan program for
teens, will be used for high school
students, with additional study of
prayer traditions in the church.
For the children’s group, sacramental
Cadet Second Lieutenants - Luis C.
Hernandez; Dean E. Mamalakis; Darryl
C. Morris; William C. Parker; and Robert
F. Wiehrs.
Ed. Programs
preparation will be studied. This will
include second and third graders who
are being prepared for first communion
and first penance. For sixth through
eighth grades the program is preparation
for confirmation. Meetings of parents of
this age group will also be scheduled in
coordination with the children’s six
weeks program.
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
(CCD) classes will be held in the school
on Sunday morning, beginning Sept. 30,
at 9:30 a.m.
The nursery, open for preschoolers at
the Knights of Columbus hall, next to
the school, 1120 Union Street, will be
available from 9:15-12:15 in the
morning on Sunday, Sept. 30, and
succeeding Sundays for use during the
parish Religious Education classes and
the 11 a.m. Mass. Mrs. Marilyn Waldow
has been employed as nursery
attendant. She is a full time teacher at •
St. David’s Episcopal Kindergarten. ^
These programs, designed for St.
Francis Xavier parishioners, are open to
everyone in Brunswick and the
surrounding area.
Christian Workers Protest Chile Coup
CARACAS, Venezuela (NC) -- The
Latin American Confederation of
Workers (CLAT) said the Sept. 11
military coup in Chile marks the
beginning of repression for workers
there.
“Events do not end in the first act of
the tragedy,” said the CLAT, a
movement with strong Christian
leadership throughout the continent. “It
has been followed by killings and
jailings. But the democratic tradition
and determination of the Chilean
workers will lead them to a new type of
struggle of great consequence.”
The statement blamed the coup “on a
plan directed by military and
imperialistic forces entrenched today in
such nations as Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay,
Paraguay, Haiti and Nicaragua.”
Father
DiF rancesco 9 s
Mother Dies
Mrs. Emma Di Francesco,
mother of Father Walter Di
Francesco, pastor of Warner
Robins’ Sacred Heart parish, died
Wednesday, Sept. 26 in
Philadelphia after a short illness.
Mrs. Di Francesco, known by
hundreds of Catholics in the
Savannah diocese, was
housekeeper for Father De
Francesco at Sacred Heart and,
before that, at Our Lady of
Lourdes parish, Port Wentworth.
The Mass of Resurrection will
be said at Blessed Sacrament
Church, Philadelphia on Saturday
(Sept. 29). Representing the
Diocese of Savannah at the funeral
rites will be Father Francis
Nelson, Vice-Chancellor.
These nations are under military rule
and claim political stability to attract
foreign investments and foster economic
growth.
CLAT has large affiliates in Chile,
where it held an international
conference last April to study the
impact of multinational corporations on
developing nations. CLAT leaders said
they broke the embargo on shipments
of Chilean copper to Europe set up by
foreign corporations after the
nationalization of their mines.
CLAT affiliates also lobbied against
the International Telephone and
Telegraph Corporation (ITT), after'
company officials admitted trying to
prevent the late President Salvador
Allende from taking office.
Multinational corporations and
their political friends abroad, CLAT
said,“are attempting to block the
revolutionary changes brought about by
workers.
“What is happening in Chile is an
example.”
CLAT called “on all true friends of
Chile, to protest the rash of
assassinations, imprisonment and
persecution there,” and to press “for
the opportunity for Chileans to freely
decide their future course.”
After the coup the bishops of Chile
made a strong call on the military
government to keep the social gains
made by workers during Allende’s
socialist regime. They also asked “for
moderation toward the defeated ones”
and that “all unnecessary reprisals be
avoided.”
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