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PAGE 8—The Southern Cross, September 27,1973
( DCCW Notes
BY FATHER JOHN CUDDY
Guest Columnist
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP SEMI-FINALISTS. Father Bede
Lightner, student counselor at Macon’s Mt. de Sales High School and four
students discuss their nominations as semi-finalists in the 1974 National
Merit Scholarship Program. Students are (1. to r.) Audrey Shields, Ray
Davidson, Laurie Hughes and Mark Cassidy. They are among 285
semi-finalists selected from a total of 20,681 students tested in Georgia.
SAVANNAH CCW
State Salon Speaker
The Rev. Jesse Blackshear, a member
of the Georgia General Assembly and
Associate Pastor of Savannah’s Second
Baptist Church, was the guest speaker at
the Fall meeting of the Savannah
Deanery Council of Catholic Women
(DCCW) Sunday, Sept. 23.
Long active in the fight against
liberalized abortion laws, Blackshear
declared that he is generally favorable to
the ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment forbidding discrimination
on the grounds of sex.
The amendment, he said, would have
a favorable effect for women “in such
areas as jury service, prison sentencing,
alimony status and property rights. The
amendment requires the ratification of
WARNER ROBINS
K of C Ceremonies
Sept. 29th and 30th will be K of C
week-end at Sacred Heart parish in
Warner Robins.
On Saturday evening, September 29,
Daniel J. Keane, Master of the Fourth
Degree, Knights of Columbus of
Georgia, will formally install the officers
of the Sacred Heart Assembly, along
with the officers of the Macon
Assembly. This joint installation
ceremony will be conducted in the K of
C Home of Sacred Heart Council no.
4371. It will be followed by a banquet
and social in the home.
On Sunday, Sept. 30, Gustave C.
Gotsch, State Deputy of the Georgia
State Council K of C will preside over
the exemplification of the Admission,
Formation and Knighthood Degrees of
the order. These initiation ceremonies
Shepherds in the Wings
“How Do I Love Thee ...
Let Me Count The Ways”
When I lived for a month in Israel this
past July, I sensed again and again how
the Lord can reach out to us in the
Mass. One Mass there that meant a great
deal to me was a Latin High Mass in
Nazareth, in the Basilica built over the
place where Mary conceived Jesus.
The Gregorian chants we sang
together in the language used by our
forefathers when they came nine
hundred years before on their crusades
took on a fresh meaning, especially the
phrase “ET HOMO FACTUS EST, ”
“AND HE BECAME MAN.” For that
was where it had actually happened.
And now the Word was taking the
form of bread for that group of priests
and sisters and lay folks, Arab Catholics
from Nazareth itself and their fellow
Catholics from many other parts of the
world. And I was one of them.
But there was another Mass, too. This
one, some 100 miles away to the south,
in Jerusalem. I was standing on Mt.
Calvary at an altar dedicated to Our
Lady of Sorrows within the Church of
the Holy Sepulcher. As I. said again
“This is the cup of My blood which
shall be shed for you,” I realized so
strongly that it was there He had
actually shed His precious blood for
me--and for all men-that our sins could
be forgiven.
Late on another afternoon, I walked
over to Mount Zion to visit King David’s
Tomb and the Upper Room. I then
went into the majestic Benedictine
Church of the Dormition. A young
German student was playing Bach on
the church’s organ in a particularly
powerful way.
I sat and listened and felt my spirit
rising within me at the sheer beauty of
the music and the rays of the setting sun
streaming through the stained glass
windows. And then I remembered it was
Thursday, the day Jesus on the same
Mount Zion had offered His Last
Supper, the First Mass.
And I wondered if the German
Benedictine monk, who was also
enjoying the Bach concert, would allow
me to offer Mass right then when I
wanted so much to offer the Sacrifice
and receive the Lord in Communion. So
I asked him. And within moments I was
vested and standing at the altar on
Mount Zion with Christ, my Host.
Incidentally, one additional source of
joy was that a United Church of Christ
minister and a Presbyterian seminarian,
whom I had met earlier at the English
Hospice, unexpectedly strolled into the
church and asked if they could take part
in this Mass. So two Protestants and one
Catholic-three Christians-shared their
Master’s supper on that memorable
Thursday evening on Mount Zion.
Jerusalem is the ideal place for the
Lord’s followers, whether they are
Catholics or members of other
Churches, to pray together. It was so
easy for me to worship the Lord in the
formal liturgies of both the Catholic and
Orthodox Eastern Churches, especially
the Greek Liturgy that I have always
found mysteriously uplifting. And even
when I saw the Liturgy offered for the
first time by Armenian, Coptic, or
Ethiopian monks. It was the same Lord,
the same Sacrifice; the same faith, even
though we were expressing it in
strikingly diverse ways. KYRIE
ELEISON!
Another group of Christians I felt
quite at home with, I came upon by
accident. My first night in Jerusalem
was spent in the Scottish Hospice. In
their St. Andrew’s Chanel a Charismatic
prayer meeting had been scheduled, and
I decided to take part.
I was deeply touched when so many
began not only to pray in tongues, but
also to sing in them. But what touched
me most was our singing of the hymn
“His Name is Wonderful,” most of us
with our hands raised. The words were
from the Prophet Isaiah, and we all
knew they had been fulfilled in
Jesus-the Lord, the ADONAI. And we
were praising Him! And right there in
His Holy City. “His Name is Wonderful,
Jesus, My Lord.”
Israel is, of course, the land where
prayer has risen constantly to Yahweh
since He revealed Himself to the ancient
Hebrew Patriarchs. The Jewish People
have been and still are, a People of
Prayer. Most of them are still longing
for a Messiah other than the Lord Jesus,
but their spiritual heritage, because of
Him, is a treasure we share with them.
I joined them, my head covered, at
the Western Wall, that stark reminder of
the Temple’s magnificence and
destruction. As I touched the Wall and
prayed, “SHEMA, ISRAEL, ADONAL
ELOHENU, ADONAI ECHOD.” “Hear,
O Israel, the Lord Our God, the Lord is
One,” I could feel His Glorious
Presence.
And I could feel Him, too, in
Jerusalem’s Golden Dome of the Rock
and up in Akko in the El Jazzar Mosque
when I stood, shoeless, among kneeling,
bowing Moslems and prayed “ALLAH
AKBAR.” “God is Great!”
But there were so many times when I
preferred to get off and pray all by
myself-with neither Jew nor Moslem
nor fellow Christian nearby. Our Lady’s
Rosary has been a big help to me in
private prayer. On Mondays and
Thursdays, days on which for years I
have meditated on the joyful mysteries,
I have tried to picture Em Karem, the
valley of the Visitation.
So I took a bus to this village that
now is part of Greater Jerusalem and I
walked up to the shrine, saying the
Rosary as I looked at the hills Mary saw
and climbed, Jesus within her, when she
journeyed to visit and help Elizabeth,
who had John the Baptist within her.
How easy it is to meditate when you
really see what previously you had only
imaged.
Everywhere in that Holy Land I
found I could carry a running
conversation with the Lord Jesus. I
knew He was with me as I walked alone
along the northern coast of the Sea of
Galilee near Capernaum. I could hear
Him say, “Come, I will make you a
fisher of men.” I knew He was with me
as I walked deep inside The Empty
Tomb of Lazarus in Bethany. I could
hear Him say, “Come forth”!
I knew he was with me in the barren
Judean Desert. I could hear Him say,
“Not by bread alone does man live, but
by every word that comes from the
mouth of God.” I knew He was with me
as I watched a brilliant sun go down
behind Mount Tabor on the Plain near
Megiddo, where he was transfigured. I
could hear His Father say, “This is My
Beloved Son. Listen to Him”!
It is when we listen to Him that we
discover, whether we are in Israel or
Georgia, whether alone or with many
others, that “Neither death nor life, nor
angels or principalities or powers,
neither what is present nor what is to
come, no force whatever, neither the
height above us nor the depth beneath
us, nor any other created thing, can ever
seperate us from the love of God, which
comes to us in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Could anyone really ever count all
the ways that we can top this infinite
love?
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 wfll one day be
Shepherds of Souls, on a variety of
subjects.
KIDS
A lot of young people are going to be
mad at me if I don’t say something
about Camp Villa Marie. And I don’t
blame them one bit. Let me just start by
saying that I am not going to mention
any names, so you are all safe!
Most of us who worked at Villa Marie
thought that the 1973 camp was the
finest possible. Actually I think that
all of us thought so, but since I often
fall victim to hasty generalizations and
even not-so-hasty ones, I am being
careful.
Camp does many things for us. As a
staff member, a man or woman finds
working at camp a great learning
experience, both because of the rather
concentrated exposure to other staff
members, and because of the large
number of kids and teen-agers who
come as campers. Yes, I really think
that the staff learns a great deal from
the campers. I hope that the campers
get half as much from the experience as
we.
Some do. I recall one young man who
cried most of the first night at camp. He
was twelve years old, and he had never
been away from home before. He had
wanted to come, but once he got 250
miles from home, he was very upset. He
went on to become what I think was the
best camper I have known.
He was never selfish, always giving,
and forever happy and fun to be
around. He found through camp that he
could face new situations and overcome
personal self-doubt to be a contributing
member to the community of campers
and staff members.
More people than I would care to
guess have learned to dance while at
two-thirds of the States of the Union
before it becomes part of the U.S.
Constitution.
In a give-and-take session following
his talk, Blackshear fielded questions on
equal pay for equal work for both men
and women, the relationship between
women and military service,
homosexual ‘marriages’ and child
support after divorce.
Present at the luncheon meeting were
Bishop Raymond W. Lessard; Father J.
Kevin Boland, Vicar General; Msgr.
Daniel J. Bourke, Associate Diocesan
Moderator of the DCCW; Father
Lawrence A. Lucree, Diocesan DCCW
Moderator, and several priests of the
Savannah Deanery.
will be held in the old Sacred Heart
Church building, commencing at 12:00
o’clock noon. Candidates for initiation
are expected from Columbus, Albany,
Valdosta, Augusta, Warner Robins, and
Macon.
Coincident to these activities the
Most Rev. Raymond W. Lessard, Bishop
of Savannah will be in Warner Robins,
on Sunday, Sept. 30 to formally
dedicate the new convent at Sacred
Heart Parish. The Fourth Degree
Knights of Columbus of Warner Robins
will furnish an Honor Guard for the
Bishop at the 12:15 p.m. Mass that day.
Bishop Lessard will also be the
principal speaker at the Air Force
Association Banquet, to be held at the
Officers Club of Robins Air Force Base,
Warner Robins, on Saturday evening,
September 29.
camp and to associate naturally in a
spirit of friendship with members of the
opposite sex.
Another young man of twelve hid in
the corner during the dance the first
week he was at camp until he was
coaxed out by a sympathetic (and very
effective) girls’ staff member who
taught him to dance. Many kids
wouldn’t have felt confident enough to
have tried, but he did, and for the rest
of the evening, he had a fine time. The
next week he was a very proud young
man at the dance as he helped other
people to overcome their fears and
uncertainties.
Those are problems we all face in new
situations, and as the staff saw campers
come to grips with their
self-consciousness and fear of failure,
the staff both acted as a help to them
and learned from them.
The Spirit of the Lord blessed the
camp in a special way this year with a
harmony and a mutual caring which I
have not seen elsewhere, except perhaps
in study and prayer groups which have
met together regularly over long periods
of time. It is a phenomenon which I
cannot explain to my satisfaction.
In my own youth I was a Baptist, and
we had what we called a youth
“fellowship” every Sunday night in the
Sunday school building. I don’t think
we ever had fellowship in the sense
which we experienced this summer, and
I want to thank every camper who came
and to thank every parent, for the
parents are ultimately responsible for
the goodness we saw in their children.
It is true that we as a staff could have
ruined the camp had we not worked
well, too, but even when we do well as a
staff, as we did, we could not have
hoped to overcome the effect of a horde
of bad kids.
It is a tribute to every parent, to the
schools in South Georgia, public and
parochial, and to the campers
themselves that we, together, felt so
strongly the presence of the Spirit of
God among us. Thanks, from the heart.
See us fora
happily-ever-after
Loan!
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Obituaries
* Mrs. Anna Marie Williams of Savannah, September 19th
* Mr. Charles B. Greene formerly of Augusta, September 20th
Marriages
* Miss Mildred Marlene Zeller and Mr. James Edward Spears, both of Augusta, Ga.,
September 22 in St. Mary’s on the Hill Church, Augusta.
* Miss Rita Swisshelm of Columbus, Ga. and Kenneth Warren Graddy of
Columbus, Ga., on Sept. 8.
* Dorothy Mary Massaro of Columbus, Ga. and Edgar Thomas Putnam, Sr. of
Phenix City, Ala., on Sept. 22.
Necrology
* Rev. Alexander J. Semmes, September 27 ,1898
* Rev. George S. O’Brien, September 29,1887
* Rev. Joseph Francis Colbert, October 1903
St. Anne’s PCCW
The St. Anne’s Parish Council of Catholic Women in Columbus held its first meeting
of the year with an attendance of 70 women. Mrs. J.P. Mabry, President, discussed and
explained all commissions. St. Anne’s will host a covered dish supper at the October
8th meeting for all Columbus parishes.
Macon Women to Meet
The Fall Luncheon Meeting of the Macon Deanery Council of Catholic Women will
be held at the Holiday Inn West on Sunday, October 7. The ladies of Holy Spirit Parish
in Macon will be hostesses for the meeting beginning with registration at 12:00 and
lunch at 1:00 p.m. Reservations may be made by calling Mrs. Ted Lockwood,
781-7729 or Mrs. Randall Scarborough - 743-3127, by noon, Thursday October 4th.
Sister Elizabeth Lyman, head of SERVE, the Macon Interparish Social Action
Committee will provide the program with a slide presentation. Depicting SERVE at
work and the people they have helped, the program is entitled “Look Around - There’s
a World in the Making”.
Sacred Heart Women
The Sacred Heart Council of Catholic Women, Savannah will meet at the Rectory
on Monday evening, October 1st. The meeting will be preceded by a covered dish
supper at 7 p.m.
Blessed Sacrament CCW
The Blessed Sacrament Parish Council of Catholic Women, Savannah, will hold their
October meeting on Monday, October 1 at 8 P.M. in Blessed Sacrament School
Sisters’ Lounge. Officers for the year 1973-1974 are President, Mrs. Jack Sheppard;
Vice President, Mrs. Daniell Russell; Secretary, Mrs. Harry Downs; Treasurer, Mrs. Carl
J. Desposito; Moderator, Reverend Brenden Breen.
St. William’s CCW
St. Williams Parish Council of Catholic Women, St. Simons, held its first meeting of
the fall season on Wednesday evening, September 19. The secretary read a letter of
thanks from Dave Paulding acknowledging a donation of $100. to the Goodwill Home.
It was announced that St. Williams women will be hostesses at the Newcoiners Club on
the Island on October 11th. A meeting has been set up for October 25th for the
making of Cancer Pads for the local hospital and needy patients in the area. The Day
of Recollection at St. Williams on Friday, September 28th, at which the speaker will
be Glynco’s Chaplain, Fr. P.L. Toland, was outlined. This will be a full day:
Parishioners from St. Francis Xavier, Brunswick, from St. Josephs in Waycross, and
Glynco are cordially invited.
St. James Festival
The Twentieth Annual St. James Autumn Festival and Barbeque Dinner will be held
Saturday, October 6th, 1973 from 12:00 noon until 7:00 P.M. at St. James School
located on Montogomery Crossroads at Whitfield Avenue Savannah, it was announced
by John J. Forbes, President of the St. James Men’s Club. Forbes said, “This Annual
Affair sponsored by the St. James Men’s Club has become traditional to the Savannah
and Chatham County area.” He also announced that Jim McDonald has been named
General Chairman again for the event. The menu this year, along with barbeque
chicken will include potato salad, green beans, rolls, coffee or ice tea. Proceeds from
this Annual Festival and Barbeque Dinner go into school programs, athletics, etc. The
public is invited to come out and enjoy the afternoon of fun, fine food, and family
entertainment! Donation is $2.00 for adults and $1.50 for children.
THE COOK’S
BY THE CHEF
CREAMED SPINACH
Recipe of Mrs. W.W. Doughty of Augusta
Ingredients:
2 packages frozen chopped spinach
1 package Liptons onion soup
Vi carton sour cream
Cook spinach as directed on box. Drain throughly. Mix sour cream with onion soup
and add spinach. Put in a casserole. Place a small amount of Pepperidge Farm dressing
on top. Dot with butter and heat through in a moderate oven.
POUND CAKE
Recipe of Mrs. Stanley Butcheck of Augusta
Ingredients
6 eggs
2 sticks of butter or margarine
3 cups of sugar
3 cups of sifted all purpose flour
1 scant teaspoon of mace.
Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs. Then alternately add flour and cream. Pour into
a well greased and floured tube or bundt pan.
Put in a cold oven. Then turn oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake for IV2
hours.
Mrs. Butcheck was given this recipe by Maureen Homer. It makes a delicious pound
cake.
Please readers, hurry with your recipes to the Cook’s Nook, care of The Southern
Cross, Box 232, Waynesboro.
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