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Holy Year:
PAGE 7—The Southern Cross, November 14,1974
A Time for Reconciliation
BY CANON WILLIAM PURDY
ROME (NC) - With the 1974 Synod
of Bishops behind us and the end of the
year only a few weeks off, thoughts in
Rome begin very much to turn toward
the Holy Year. Here is an institution
nearly seven centuries old which this
time presents peculiarities and uncertain
ties novel in its long history. The 25
years since the last celebration have seen
changes and ecclesiastical developments
without parallel in that long history:
increases in possibilities of travel and
hence in volume of tourism; advances in
technology and secularization; above all,
spectacular changes in religious
sensibility and in inter-church relations,
due in part to the Second Vatican
Council but to many other causes as
well.
Striking concrete illustrations of this
are easily found. In April 40 or 50
deacons of Cathedrals of the Episcopal
Church in the United States will take
the pilgrim road to Rome with their
wives. This will obviously not be a
conventional jubilee pilgrimage, but it
will be set arrestingly within the context
of the main Holy Year theme: a search
for reconciliation. These leading
American churchmen will not only want
to worship in settings provided by the
ecumenical dimension which is being
provided by the Holy Year organizers;
they will also want to inform themselves
about the Catholic Church at its top
level by talks and discussions with a
wide range of Vatican personnel.
This is one of several similar examples
already planned, and others will
doubtless mature.
A talented young Belgian priest,
Father Andre Joos, who serves the
ecumenical committee of the Holy Year
Rev. Robert Mattingly, the Principal
of Pacelli High School, has announced
that the following students are on the
first quarter honor roll:
SENIORS
1st Honors - 4.70 -- Steve Fadul,
Mary Hubertz, John Marino, Matt
Nelson, Eric Oswald, Steve Patton,
Vicki Siebenmorgan.
2nd Honors - 4.16 -- Eva Alquist,
Michael Berard, Kevin Blake, Charles
Fogle, Stephen Gushwa, Susan Kaido.
Theresa Lahnstein, Margaret Mueller,
Stephen Murdock, Cecilia Ramos, Betsy
Tully, Mark Warren.
JUNIORS
1st Honors - 4.70 - Chris Ranieri.
AUGUSTA WOMAN
National
Mrs. Peter Menk of Augusta, Georgia,
was recently elected national secretary
of The Theresians of America, during
that organization’s recent executive
board meeting in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, and was installed in office
during the closing session of the annual
Theresian National Conference, also in
Toronto.
The conference theme “Woman - A
Creative Christian” was introduced by
opening session speaker, the Most
Reverend James M. Hayes, J.C.D., D.D.,
Archbishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia,
whose topic was “Ministries for
Women.” ,
Archbishop Hayes stressed the need
for all Christians to minister to one
another. “Any discussion on ministry,
seems to originate with the premise that
there is a shortage of priests. Of that
there is no doubt. But I believe that this
shortage is a sympton of an illness that
affects the yhole body. Isn’t the whole
Church suffering from the malaise of a
ministry trying to operate in social and
cultural situations that are entirely new?
Even Churches with widely differing
doctrines about ministry have the same
ecclesiastical disease because all of them
organizers, writes in the current bulletin
of the Graymoor Friars in Rome a
thoughtful piece, “Is there an
ecumenical dimension to Holy Year?”
He faces at once certain difficulties
which shows have already provoked
thought on both sides: to prove this he
can cite passages both from Pope Paul
Vi’s own speeches as long ago as May
1973, and from prominent World
Council of Churches (WCC) leader
Lukas Vischer in an article written only
a month or two later.
Cooperation between Rome and the
World Council, headquartered in
Geneva, Switzerland, has persisted
tenaciously in face of many difficulties,
and it is not surprising to find Dr.
Vischer, one of the chief figures in the
cooperation, writing constructively on
the Holy Year theme, even if he sounds
notes of warning. Some dangers are easy
enough to see: an exagge raged
significance bordering on suspicion
being given to a particular time and
place; a prominence given to the theory
and practice of indulgences which could
to say the least revive ancient Protestant
fears and revulsions; distasteful
obtruding of the tourist spirit and of a
parallel spirit of exploitation.
The annual Blessed Sacrament Bazaar
and chicken supper is currently in
preparation.
The event, which will take place on
Saturday, Dec. 7, from 5 - 9 P.M., will
feature numerous attractions, such as:
Boutique, Cake Booth, Christmas
Booth, Green Thumb Booth, Grab Bag,
2nd Honors - 4.16 -- Robert Allison,
Wayne Attaway, David Boling,
Bernadette Bowick, Melinda Brewer.
Ellyn Forgach, Theresa Majors,
Valerie Otap, Karen Reinke, Ricky
Rowe, Ruth Schowalter, Steve
Schowalter.
SOPHOMORES
1st Honors - 4.70 - Larry French,
Sandra McCaskill, Pete Oddi, Noel
Pujol, Chris Rogers.
2nd Honors - 4.16 -- Emma Amadeo,
John Colson, Ken Daffinee, Rocky
Dillard, Rose Jarrett, Jeanne Koepsell.
Loretta Lunsford, Sally Mueller,
Carol Narbuth, Mitchell Schuster,
are trying to cope with exercising a
traditional ministry in a new situation.
“Any revision of ministries must be
undertaken on the criterion of its
significance to the witness that must be
borne to the Gospel. A meaningless
ministry either attracts nobody or only
attracts meaningless ministers. The key
to a solution lies in the strength of the
Spirit of Jesus among us.
“We must pass from a single ministry
to a multiplicity of ministries. Which
means simply that everyone should be
actively involved in building up the
Church. Passivity is a disorder. A
Church heavily leaning on the clergy
alone, should become a Church relying
far more on the common responsibility
of the Christians.
“The other ministries must not be
taken as sharing in or serving as a
substitute for the ordained ministry.
Moreover, they do not exist because
they are recognized by the ordained
ministers; it is rather because they exist
that they call for recognition by the
‘official’ Church and by other Christians
as well.”
But though Rome may sometimes
strike us too easily as a place where, like
the Bourbons, they learn nothing and
forget nothing, there is a lot of solid
achievement in the last 15 years here, as
well as vaster changes in the world at
large, to give ground for thinking that
fears may be exaggerated and may be
offset by hopes. The realities of modern
history and of contemporary society
cannot cancel the fact that Rome is a
great and venerable Christian shrine,
sanctified by the blood of martyrs, the
witnesses of Christ par excellence.
Let the last word be with Geneva:
an unpublished note from the (WCC)
Faith and Order Committee cited in
Father Joos’ article asks, “Could not a
few old customs of the Holy Year take
on a new and contemporary meaning?
Could not the opening of the sealed
doors be interpreted as the symbol of
openness and reconciliation?” Why not
indeed? There perhaps is the rub: we
must not flood into the great basilica to
gaze at each other and shut out the
world. The universality symbolized by
the matchless dome must be not a
pretext for triumphalism but a challenge
to true achievement.
White Elephant Booth, etc.
Dinners will be sold for $2.25 (adult)
and $1.25 (child’s plate).
Members of the various committees
meet in the Blessed Sacrament School
gym on Monday and Thursday from 10
- 2:30 to work on their projects.
Students
Nancy Vatral, Chip Walton.
FRESHMEN
1st Honors - 4.70 - Barbara
McCaskill, Ruben Melson, Christine
Remppel.
2nd Honors - 4.16 -- Christopher
Anderson, Richard Boling, Michelle
Crum, Kim Davis, Michael Dupont,
Laura Fagarason.
Mary Fogle, Mary Greco, Henry
Harp, Eva Hubertz, David Lloyd, Donna
Maddox, Clarise Marino, Tim
McNicholas.
Paula Nelson, Mary Percy, Carol
Rutherford, Connie Savoie, Teresa
Sebenoler, Elizabeth Smith, Kathryn
Smith, Ernest Thomas, Leslie Weiher.
Menk
The Theresians of America is a
Catholic organization of Christian
women who are dedicated to a deeper
appreciation of the vocation of the
Christian woman - as this vocation is
lived in the religious and lay states in
the world today. Each local Theresian
community embraces five dimensions:
prayer, education, sense of vocation,
Christian community and apostolate.
The latter dimension was formulated
and voted upon during the national and
international board meetings of the
organization. As a result, communities
of Theresians, while adhering to the first
four dimensions, are being founded for
such ministries as: working with the
mentally ill, the physically ill, the
elderly, the poor, and prisoners as well
as committing themselves to the areas of
Christian hospitality, ecumenism.
Mrs. Menk is an elected member of
the national executive board of The
Theresians of America.
For further information locally, write
to Mrs. Peter Menk, 2642 Henry Street,
Augusta, Georgia; nationally, write to
Theresians of America, 5326 East
Pershing Avenue, Scottsdale, Arizona
85254.
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