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PAGE 8—The Southern Cross, January 31,1974
DCCW Notes
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Guest Columnist
KATTIE YOUNG
President Macon Deanery CCW
MOMENTS TO REMEMBER
The toe-tapping sound of a
tambourine -- reading our own
“Deanery Dialogue” -- awareness of
being a member of a Christian
Community -- delicious HOME cooked
food at a Deanery meeting - happiness
and growth during Quiet Day - inspiring
programs -- that beautiful word, YES --
and a lady named Wilhelmina.
Since this is my swan song as a guest
columnist, please indulge a “nearly has
been” Deanery President the pleasure of
remembering happy moments this past
year. All DCCW affiliates sorta’ do the
same programs suggested by the various
commissions and by national - right?
Right’.’ So I’d like to tell you a few of
the little things that add the fun, the
warmth, the closeness and love among
its members. And so, I’m . . .
REMEMBERING—
A Parish Council President suggesting
a Newsletter for our Deanery, just so we
would keep CONVERSATION going
among all the Catholic Women of
Macon, Perry and Warner Robins. Bless
her heart - she did it! “Deanery
Dialogue,” a publication of the Macon
Deanery CCW, was born.
REMEMBERIN G—
One of the best meals I’ve ever eaten!
This treat was at one of our Deanery
Luncheon meetings. Would you believe
that the ladies of the host Parish
Council COOKED, SERVED and
CLEANED UP at one such meeting!
What a delicious meal - yummy, yum!
REMEM BERING-
A Tuesday in September with about a
hundred ladies attending our “Quiet
Day.” Ladies from the Episcopal
churches were invited to share this
meaningful day with us. Father William
Coleman, our Spiritual Moderator,
conducted the Quiet Day. He gave us
real food for thought and breaks for
quiet reflection. After Mass we enjoyed
a sack lunch and great music led by
Father Healy. As we were singing, the
sound of a tambourine was heard.
Looking around, our hearts were lifted
by the radiant happiness on the dear
face of the member playing it.
REMEMBERING—
Table after table of goodies! All at a
terrific PCCW Bazaar. Had such a good
time. Even getting on the Interstate
early for the trip was worth it -
‘specially since a good friend was along.
We were greeted so warmly by the ladies
and enjoyed every minute -- even
spending our money.
REMEM BERING-
The words from a favorite prayer,
“Lord, Help me to say YES” -- and
thinking the women in the deanery
must have asked the same of Him -
‘cause they have all said YES so many
times, in so many ways, to so many
people. In so doing they ARE saying
YES to our Father.
REMEMBERING—Even the meetings!
The program at the Deanery meeting
when the speaker held the entire
audience in the palm of his hand; the
deafening silence for a few minutes
following this moving talk about
prisoners in jail. The impact that it
made on the ladies resulted in really
significant follow-up work on the local
level and on the diocesan level.
“Seeing” a Christian Community at
work, thanks to a program using slides
and a catchy song “Look Around -
There’s a World in the Making” - and
realizing there really is such a world.
Cooking cakes, fixing coffee and
cokes for our Deanery Board meetings -
The wonderful response to these
meetings; the informal happy
atmosphere; the fellowship and
efficiency of the Board members -- just
great!
REMEMBERING—
The joy of serving with our Diocesan
President, Wilhelmina Hall. A shining
example of one helping to bring about
the Kingdom of God. Wilhelmina - who
always says YES; always had time to
attend our Deanery meetings; answer
numerous letters promptly; and give
words of encouragement. I’ll remember
and cherish our friendship - her lovely,
smiling face and gentle manner. How
wonderful to know her and havs her as
my friend.
So to all in the Macon Deanery and
the Savannah DCCW - I thank you for
the privilege of just knowing you, and
for so many happy moments.
REMEMBER-
“It takes only moments of happiness
to make the years worthwhile -
And such moments come to all of us!”
Savannah Basketball League
After four weekends of Parochial
School Basketball play in Savannah,
Blessed Sacrament boys have taken
undisputed possession of first place in
the boys division and Blessed Sacrament
No. 1 and St. James girls remain
deadlocked at 3 wins and no losses each
in the girls division.
Last weekend in the girls division,
Blessed Sacrament No. 1 defeated
Sacred Heart in a run away game 59 - 9
and St. James outclassed Blessed
Sacrament No. 2 by a score of 26 - 2.
The most exciting game was between
Nativity girls and Cathedral which was
not decided until after the final buzzer.
Nativity won 16-15.
In the boys division Blessed
Sacrament won over Sacred Heart 41 -
35 and Cathedral boys pulled away in
the final period to win over Nativity 41
- 36.
BOYS
Blessed Sacrament
St. James
Cathedral
Sacred Heart
Nativity
St. Marys
M DINGS
WON
3
2
2
1
0
0
LOST
0
0
1
2
2
3
GIRLS
Blessed Sacrament No. 1
St. James
Nativity
Cathedral
St. Mary
Blessed Sacrament No. 2
Sacred Heart
WON LOST
3 0
3 0
2 1
2 2
1 2
1 3
0 4
This weekend, first place will be at
stake in both divisions when Blessed
Sacrament and St. James tangle in the
two Saturday games.
All games will be played at Sacred
Heart and are scheduled as follows:
Saturday, February 2 at 2 P.M.
(Boys), Blessed Sacrament-St. James. 3
P.M. (Girls) Blessed Sacrament No. 1 -
St. James.
On Sunday, February 3 at 1 P.M.
(Boys) Nativity-Sacred Heart. 2 P.M.
(Girls) Nativity-Sacred Heart. 3 P.M.
(Girls) St. Mary - Blessed Sacrament No.
2.
A meeting of all school
representatives and coaches will be held
at Sacred Heart on Sunday, at 4:15 P.M.
immediately following the 3 o’clock
game to make plans for the annual
tournament.
Checkmate
Reduced
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Loans.
Liberty National Bank
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This modem church now serves the sacramental needs of 100 year-old
St. Benedict’s parish, Savannah.
Sav. Parish 100 Years Old
St. Benedict’s parish, Savannah, will
celebrate it’s 100th anniversary in May.
The observance will begin with a special
Mass May 5th and close with a worship
service on May 12th. A parish banquet
will also be held, but a date for it has
not yet been set, according to Father
Fred Nijem, pastoor. Father Nijem said
the parish “extends an open invitation
to all the churches in the diocese to
come and be with us on the three days
of celebration.”
St. Benedict’s was established in May,
1874 by Benedictine priests from the
Abbey of St. Vincent’s at Latrobe,
Pennsylvania, as a parish to minister to
the needs of Black people. Benedictine
priests served the parish for 26 years,
until succeeded by priests from the
Society of African Missioners (S.M.A.)
in 1900.
The S.M.A. Fathers remained for the
next 68 years, until St. Benedict’s was
no longer a mission parish, but
self-supporting. The parish was then
turned back to the direction of the
diocese in 1968.
[ Readers Reply J
6 Another Nail in the Coffin’
Editor:
I could not help but feel sickened
after I read in your January 24th issue
the account of the Albany (N.Y.)
Diocese’s “new norms for first
Penance.” And I could not shake the
feeling that another nail had been driven
in the coffin of the Roman Catholic
Church in the United States.
By his action in this matter, and by
his demands, Bishop Edwin Broderick
has openly aligned himself with those
who, under the guise of “reform”, seek
the destruction of the Church as we
knew it and as Jesus Chirst apparently
intended it to be from the beginning. I
must admit, the Bishop’s inane
reasoning equals the other inane
reasoning processes of a number of our
other Catholic bishops, so I don’t
suppose I should have been too
surprised to read of another of our
“leaders” trying to be “relevant” and
“with it.”
One only has to ponder the new
norms to understand what I am trying
to say. Bishop Broderick, through his
Sister-spokesman, a Sister Edward Marie
Tesiero, announces a child has “freedom
of choice” in the matter of the
Sacrament of Penance.
First off, what is a child; A 5,6, or
7-year old? And what is meant by the
“freedom of choice?” Am I to
understand that we can restrict a 5-year
old’s “freedom of choice” just to the
Sacrament of Penance? If he has
freedom of choice in this matter - a
rather important one, I should think -
does he also have freedom of choice
about Communion? Confirmation?
About any of the other Sacraments?
And is a 5 or 6 or 7-year-old child
capable of exercising freedom of
choice? I thought one of the major
responsibilities given to parents was the
one of showing a child the difference
between right and wrong, between
following the good path, not the rocky
one. Who changed this responsibility?
And why was it changed? Bishop
Broderick? Siser Edward? I laugh at the
two of them, and their ignorance.
In this whole business, I stand firmly
on the side of Father Kramer who
questioned (more politely than I am
doing) Bishop Broderick’s “norms.” It
also seems to me that we now have
Bishops trying to outdo each other in
being differnt, in coming up with the
“spectacular” play, in a desperate
attempt to prove something to
somebody.
Fortunately, before I put your paper
down, I read Christopher Derrick’s essay
on “How Can Catholic People Know
What To Believe Today?”. I recommend
his two pieces to all thinking Catholics,
and I also want those Catholics to
compare his solid, down-to-earth essays
with those advanced in rebuttal by
Donald Thorman. The latter, by the
way, represents the new breed of
Roman Catholic - I don’t believe
anything, I am free to choose, and I use
my own free will. These are the people
to whom simple FAITH means nothing.
In my opinion, Bishop Broderick’s,
Sister Edward’s, and Thorman’s
meanderings in rhetoric represent, to
use Derrick’s words, “hang-ups” of this
generation, or of some noisy people
within this generation, and, I suspect, of
chiefly neurotic origin. They are
certainly not philosophically respectable
positions.”
Albert N. Garland
Columbus
Backs Equal Rights
Editor:
Opponents of the Equal Rights
Amendment talk as though the passage
of this amendment would sanction all
kinds of attacks on the Christian
concept of women. (DCCW Notes, Jan.
24)
No Equal Rights Amendment exists
today on which to blame the current
assault on family life and our moral
standards. Rather, these attacks
continue because we as Christian
women retire to the safe bastions of our
male-supported homes. (Has anyone
asked single, widowed and divorced
women about ERA?)
We refuse to fight the attacks, direct
and indirect, on our own beliefs. How
many of us have refused to attend “X”
or even “R” rated movies? Or have
refused to give our teenagers the
wherewithal to attend them? And yet is
not an economic boycott one of the
most effective ways to make our
opinions felt?
That is, if we really have the courage
of our convictions.
To equate support for the Equal
Rights Amendment with support of the
National Abortion Rights Act I find
personally insulting. I even have an
anti-abortion sticker on my car. The
respect for life that those against
abortion have evidently dies some place
between conception and female
adulthood.
What else in its simplest terms is the
Equal Rights Amendment but an effort
by sincere people to make available to
all our citizens many basic rights. The
right to an equal wage is an excellent
example. Congress passed such a law in
1963 and eleven years later the law
remains basically ineffective.
How marvellous if our State
legislators would take the lead again, as
they did in giving 18-year-olds the right
to vote, and give women some of the
most basic of human rights.
To pray to God that ERA be
defeated strikes me as presumptious.
God in his wisdom knows better than
we what we need to save our souls.
Rather I would ask that God guide our
legislators to a correct judgment. I agree
completely with Jane Barrett’s last
sentence: “We as Christian women have
got to join other Christian women and
become a very vocal and effective
majority.” If we had all been as
concerned for others in the past two
decades as we are now concerned for
oursleves, this Amendment would never
have needed to come into existence.
Kit McLaughlin,
Savannah
Around The Diocese
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Obituaries
* 1st Sgt. (ret.) John Walter Trotter of Augusta, January 22nd
* Mr. James Benedict McCahill of Augusta, January 23rd
* Mr. Marion E. Gruber of Isle of Hope, January 24th
Marriages
* Miss Caroline Louise Humphries of Savannah, Ga., and Mr. John Eugene Gnann
of Guyton, Ga., January 26 in Blessed Sacrament Church, Savannah.
*
Miss Maura Regina Hayes of Hardeeville, S. C., and Mr. Michael Eben Waters of
Savannah, Ga., January 26 in St. Anthony’s Church, Hardeeville.
Necrology
* Very Rev. Peter Whleam, February 6,1871.
St. Anne’s Youth Board
Miss Mary Anne Sheppard public relations chairman for Columbus’ St. Anne’s
Youth Organization send the following note. “The youth at St. Anne’s Parish in
Columbus have felt a need for a youth organization. As a result, a Youth Executive
Board has been formed and we are now in the process of a membership drive. We have
invited all youth affiliated with the parish to register February 9th or 10th after any
Mass and become a part of this organization. We are now planning various social
service and religious activities for the future.”
Augusta Right to Life
The Augusta Chapter of Right to Life will hold a meeting Sunday, February 10th at
the Daniel Village Georgia Railroad Bank at 2:00 p.m. Guest speaker will be Dr.
Russell Moores who will speak on the right to life of all humans especially the unborn
and the aged. The public is cordially invited.
Blessed Sacrament CCW
Blessed Sacrament Council of Catholic Women, Savannah, will hold its Febraury
meeting on Monday, February 4th at 8 P.M. in the Lay Teachers Lounge of Blessed
Sacrament School. Refreshments will be served by the Hostesses who are: Mrs. Carl J.
Desposito, Mrs. Ernest Heise, Mrs. William Lynch and Mrs. Daniell Russell. All Ladies
of the parish and guests are invited to please attend.
Sacred Heart CCW
The Sacred Heart Council of Catholic Women, Savannah, will meet on Monday,
February 4th, at 7:30 p.m. in the Rectory. A program on Drug Abuse will be
presented.
‘Rose of Sharon’ Elections
On January 17, 1974, the annual meeting of the Serviam, Inc. was held at the Rose
of Sharon Apartments, Savannah. The following new directors were elected: Mrs.
James L. McLaughlin and Mr. Boston Williams. The following directors were reelected:
Edward F. White, Charles E. Williams, Rev. Lawrence A. Lucree, Julian C. Halligan,
Earl L. Gallovitch, John J. Fogarty, Sr., and Frank J. Finocchiaro. The following
officers were elected for 1974: Edward F. White, President, Father Lawrence A.
Lucree, Vice President, Charles E. Williams, Treasurer, and Earl L. Gallovitch,
Secretary. Outgoing President, Frank J. Finocchiaro, commended all those who
contributed to the success of the operation of the apartments. It was also noted that
the occupancy rate was above 99%. Incoming President, Ed F. White, stated that he
would name new committees in the near future.
Columbus K of C
Knights of Columbus Council No. 1019, Columbus, held a Memorial Service in the
K of C Home on January 21st in memory of departed brothers Louis Kunze, Sr., and
John Stumhofer. Father Mark Bernze, Pastor of St. Benedict’s in Columbus, spoke on
the theme, “I have come not to be served, but to serve.” Father Mark gave tribute to
the tremendous efforts on the part of Brother Kunze, who organized the Knights in
Columbus. Father Mark also challenged the Knights to continue the war against smut,
the anti-abortion fight, aid to the poor in the community, and the improvement of
race relations. He asked everyone to write to the Senate Judiciary Committee to pusch
for the right for voluntary prayer in the public schools. St. Benedict’s choir, under the
direction of Ed Cox, assisted in the service. Mr. Jerry Lane was in charge of
arrangements.
THE COOK’S
mr
NOOK
BY THE CHEF
BAKED HOMINY
Ingredients:
2 cups grits
8 cups water
1 tablespoon salt
Cook grits until thick. Pour into a large mixing bowl and put in:
2 eggs(uncooked)
1 cup grated cheese (sharp)
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon Worehestershire sauce
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 tablespoon black or red pepper
Mix all together well and put into a baking dish. Sprinkle with a small amount of
cheese (held back). Bake at least one hour in a moderate oven.
COOKING HINTS
1. Sugar may be softened by placing in a warm oven for 10 to 12 minutes.
2. Wrap a cloth moistened with vinegar around cheese to keep it fresh.
3. A little mace is a good seasoning for crab and shrimp recipes.
4. A pinch of dried thyme is good added to fresh carrots.
5. A sprig of fresh mint is good cooked with green peas.
French fry carrots like potatoes for a change.
Hurry readers with your recipes to The Cook’s Nook, Care of The Southern Cross,
Box 232, Waynesboro.