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WORSHIP CONGRESS IN SAVANNAH NOV. 8-10
Leaders Named for Liturgy Workshops
BY GILLIAN BROWN
Department of
Christian Formation
A series of workshops, led by experts
in many of the different aspects of
liturgy, will be an important feature of
the forthcoming Catholic Congress on
Worship, to be held at the Savannah
Civic Center, November 8th - 10th. The
workshops, providing the practical part
of the Congress, will help participants
learn to use the many different prayer
forms existing today.
Dr. James May, Professor of Liturgies
and American Church History at Emory
University, Atlanta, will lead a
workshop entitled “Approaches to
Prayer within the Protestant Tradition.”
Sister Mary Zoghby, R.S.M., will
describe “Using Audio-Visual Aids to
Support Prayer”. Sr. Zoghby, who was
Coordinator of Religious Education at
the high school level for the Atlanta
Archdiocese during the past four years,
serves as Chairman of the Spiritual
Committee for the Sisters of Mercy.
A workshop on “Celebrating Baptism
and Penance Prayerfully” will be led by
Father Henry Gracz, of the Atlanta
Archdiocesan Liturgy Commission.
Mgrs. Marvin Le Frois, V.F., Pastor of
St. Mary on the Hill Parish Augusta, and
Chairman of the Savannah Diocesan
Liturgical Commission, will lead a panel
Sr. Beverly Stanton
in the “Family Prayer” workshop,
discussing the different ways in which
families may be encouraged to pray
together.
“Charismatic Prayer” will be the
theme of a workshop led by Sr.
Charlene Walsh, R.S.M., Chairman of
the Religion Department at St.
Fr. Eugene Walsh
Vincent’s Academy in Savannah. Sister
Charlene has been involved in the
Pentecostal Movement since 1968, and
wrote her Dissertation on the Movement
when studying for her Master’s degree at
Catholic University. Sister Beverley
Stanton, R.S.M., will lead the workshop
entitled “The Dance as Prayer”. Active
in campus ministry and experienced
Dr. Janies May
with youth work, Sr. Beverley currently
serves as Vice-President of the National
Black Sisters Conference.
Fr. Eugene Walsh, of the Theological
College of Catholic University in
Washington D.C. is scheduled to lead a
workshop on “Using Music to Foster
Prayer”. Fr. Walsh was Director of
Sr. Charlene Walsh
Music at St. Mary’s College and at the
Basilica of the Assumption, Baltimore,
Md., for many years. Formerly Rector
of Theological College, he is active in
liturgical work and is a member of the
Advisory Board to the Bishops’
Committee on Liturgy.
A workshop on “Environments that
Help Us Pray” will be led by
Mr. Robert Rambusch, whose
architectural firm in New York has
worked on the design and decoration of
churches in many parts of the nation.
Mr. Rambusch is a member of the Board
of Directors of the Liturgical
Conference, and has specialized in the
study of the visual and spacial
expression of the liturgy in architectural
interiors. His workshop will cover the
influence of environment on our inner
attitudes as we try to pray.
The final two workshops will be led
by two of the main speakers at the
Congress, Fr. Alfred McBride and Msgr.
Warren Holleran. Fr. McBride,
nationally-known author and educator,
will speak on “Renewing Traditional
Forms of Prayer”, while Msgr. Holleran,
Director of the Vallombrosa Retreat
Center in California, will discuss
“Praying the Scriptures”. All the
workshops, with the exception of these
two, will be repeated.
The main theme of the Congress, “We
Believe - Let Us Pray” will be presented
through four main lectures, “Believing
in Jesus,” and “The Church at Prayer”
by Fr. McBride, “The Prayerfulness of
Jesus” by Msgr. Holleran, and “The
Church at Prayer Today” by Bishop
Rene Gracida, of Miami, Florida.
The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 54 No. 36 Thursday, October 18,1973 Single Copy Price — 12 Cents
POPE TELLS GATHERING AT ST. PETER’S
Mideast Conflict Threatens Further Catastrophies
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DANCE OF JOY -- Israeli troops dance a joyous Golan Heights, occupied by Israel in the 1967 war.
“hora” after crossing the Syrian border on the road to (RNS Photo)
Damascus. Israel pushed back Syrian forces in the
CHD Collection Nov. 18
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul
VI, speaking with a trembling voice, said
that the new Middle East war threatens
“incalculable further catastrophies.”
Speaking to thousands gathered in St.
Peter’s Square on Oct. 14, Pope Paul
said that “we cannot close our eyes” to
the dangers of the conflict between the
Arabs and the Israelis.
“It is a drama,” he said. “It is a
tragedy, a bankrupting expenditure of
human lives and sweat-won riches.
“Even more, it threatens to be the
prologue of incalculable further
catastrophies.”
The Pope declared:
“We again denounce the irrationality
of war, especially the blindness of its
possible excesses.”
The Pope said that “it is not lawful to
involve civilian populations in war’s
devastation, nor to deny due safety to
prisoners and unarmed persons, nor to
take reprisals against innocent human
lives.”
The Pope called on both sides to seek
“a peace in which justice and stability
are possible.”
The next day (Oct. 15),
L’Osservatore Romano, Vatican daily,
declared in a front-page editorial that
the world is convinced “of the growing
danger, not to say of the political
sterility, of the Middle East war.”
WAR AREA FROM SPACE -- This photo, made from 175 miles above
the earth by Gemini astronauts in the 1960s, focuses on the Middle East
area, where war is raging between Israel and three Arab countries. As of
Oct. 12, fighting was limited to two fronts - along the Suez Canal at left
center and in the Golan Heights at upper left center. (RNS Photo)
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Diocesan Budget
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Laity Council
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Book Review
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Priests’ Image
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WASHINGTON - The Campaign for
Human Development (CHD) will
conduct its fourth annual collection in
all Catholic churches in the United
States on Sunday, November 18.
Begun four years ago at the initiative
of American Catholic Bishops, the
Campaign is a nationwide anti-poverty
effort in funding and education to help
eliminate the root causes of poverty and
social injustice in the United States.
Grants totalling $90,000 were
recently awarded to two anti-poverty
projects within the Savannah diocese.
The Southwest Georgia Project for
Community Education, Inc. at Albany
will receive $40,000, while $50,000 will
be allocated to a Feeder Pig program
located at Hamilton. These grants will
come from funds realized during the
1972 Campaign For Human
Development.
In addition to funding projects
administered by poor people, the
Campaign for Human Development also
produces educational materials on
human development and social justice
for schools and centers of adult
education.
A local program of allocations,
however, exists in every Catholic
diocese, which retains 25% of its
collection figure for local priorities.
More than $2 million in anti-poverty
funds have been distributed by
individual Catholic dioceses since the
Campaign was begun.
The paper’s editor, Raimondo Krol Asks Halt to War
Manzini, wrote:
“The basic problems at the origin of
the bitter conflict between Arabs and
Israelis cannot be solved except through
negotiation, which would assure to each
one his just space and his right to life.
“Any victory achieved solely by the
arms of one or the other side would
leave hatred and the seeds of conflict.”
Manzini suggested no elements for an
eventual settlement, remarking that the
Mideast situation constitutes “the
problem of problems.”
He said, however, that the problem
“can and must be resolved through a
mutual rediscovery of the capcity to
enter into dialogue.”
WASHINGTON (NC) - Four days after the fighting began, Cardinal John Krol,
president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, pleaded for “an instant
halt” to the Middle East war, and a “renewed, determined quest for a just and lasting
peace.” “We respect the legitimate desire of Israel for secure boundaries, just as we
respect the legitimate desire of the Arab nations to recover the land lost in the war six
years ago,” said Cardinal Krol. But the 25-year grievances “cannot be resolved by
terrorism, by reprisal, or by open war,” he said.
Protestant Schools Growing
WASHINGTON (NC) - Protestant elementary and secondary schools are growing
rapidly, mainly because of parental concern about curriculums and discipline in public
schools, according to U.S. News and World Report. Since 1963, enrollment in
nonpublic schools has fallen 22 percent, mostly because of Catholic school closings,
the magazine said. At the same time there has been an increase of 66 percent in the
number of non-Catholic private schools.