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PAGE 3—The Southern Cross, August 7,1975
Orthodox Archbishop
Appointment Of New
Columbus Deanery Summer Youth Program ~~J
ST. ANNE’S (Columbus) Religious Coordinator
Mike Wayne greets Bishop Raymond Lessard as he
arrives for the regular Wednesday night covered dish
supper of the Columbus Deanery Summer Youth
Program. Mike spearheaded this 12-week program, a
first for the Savannah Diocese.
PROGRAM COORDINATOR Terri Sheppard helps
set up food for the covered dish supper which is just
one aspect of the program’s social activities for the 122
Deanery youth signed up for the program. Terri, a
rising college sophomore at Loyola, organized the
program from New Orleans. Other social activities
include swimming parties, scavenger hunts, ice cream
parties, dances, etc. and enthusiasm is running high.
THE PROGRAM involves doing chores around the
house and yard for the elderly or handicapped, visiting
oldsters at Muscogee Manor and Highland House and
tutoring inner city children, feeding them lunch and
conducting a playground program.
VISITING SISTERS Coriene and Theresa, Holy
Child of Jesus, Philadelphia and Rev. William O’Neil,
new pastor for Holy Family (Columbus) arrive at St.
Anne’s to share the program whose theme is
“Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord.”
COLUMBUS GROUP ATTENDS
Festival Praised For Ideas
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The papal
appointment of a new bishop as exarch
(head) of the Byzantine-rite Catholics in
Greece July 28 drew sharp retaliation
from the Greek Orthodox archbishop of
Athens, who charged that the move was
an attempt to convert Orthodox
believers to Catholicism.
He called the Pope’s action insensitive
and said he would end “every
relationship with Rome” because of it,
it was reported.
Vatican spokesman Federico
Alessandrini said the Holy See has
“received no official communication
concerning this as yet,” from the
Orthodox prelate.
Reports from Athens July 28 said
that Greek Orthodox Archbishop
Seraphim of Athens had informed a
Vatican official that he was breaking off
Orthodox-Holy See relations because of
the appointment July 28 of Bishop-elect
Anargiro Printesis as exarch of the
Byzantine-rite Catholics of Greece.
There are no formal ties between the
Holy See and the Greek Orthodox
Editor:
Many thanks for Joe Brieg’s warning
of the dangers inevitable on the
ratification of the ERA (July 24, 1975).
True, the husband and father is the head
of the house, but the wife and mother is
the Heart of the Home. Many laws have
been enacted for the benefit of women
in recognition and in consideration of
the dignity of their sex, ALL of which
would be nullified by the ratification of
the ill-advised misnamed amendment by
the required vote.
Proponents of the ERA announce
that after ratification by the required
number of states the important thing to
be done will be to correct attitudes of
men and some women. It seems to be
generally believed that women workers
Deacons’
Workshop
Six deacons, from three dioceses, met
July 21-23 in Augusta to talk about
their experiences in the diaconate.
Present were three deacons for this
diocese: Bob Cushing, presently serving
at St. Joseph’s in Macon; Wayland
Brown, at St. Teresa’s in Augusta; and
Ben Swiderek, at St. Benedict’s in
Savannah; as well as two deacons from
the Archdiocese of Atlanta: Jack
Druding and Steve Churchwell; and one
deacon from the St. Augustine, Florida,
diocese.
The purpose of the workshop was
three-fold: to exchange different
experiences that have been a part of the
deacon’s new ministry, to understand
how deacons can better serve the
Church, and to set up communications
among the deacons of the dioceses of
this area.
The deacons met together for prayer,
discussion, relaxation, and a visit to
Faith Village, the response of a number
of families to form a Christian
community.
The workshop seemed to accomplish
its goals, and the deacons are looking
forward to another, expanded one,
probably in the spring.
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Church. The Orthodox archbishop was
apparently referring to ecumenical
discussions and other acts of
cooperation between the two Churches.
United Press International reported the
archbishop as saying, “We cease every
relationship with Rome since it believes
in the perpetuation of such an
ecclesiastical scandal in our midst. . .
From now on and until views in
accordance with the spirit of respect for
the Church of Greece prevail, we will
not accept visits by Roman Catholics.”
One Vatican source told NC News,
“The Greek Orthodox Church is angry
because the new exarch was elevated to
the episcopate, not because an exarch
was named. Not all exarchs are
bishops.”
The previous exarch, Bishop
Hyacinth Gad, who died in February,
was also a bishop. But he had been
appointed in 1958, before the Second
Vatican Council and the numerous
Catholic-Orthodox overtures of
friendship that followed the council.
are unwilling to take correction from
another woman but would easily take
dictation from a man who is head of her
department, and that male department
heads are preferred by men and women
alike. But it wouldn’t take a
constitutional amendment to change
attitudes, or such attitudes maybe
couldn’t or wouldn’t be changed even
by and with a constitutional
amendment.
Women now enjoy a position of
superiority to men. “Equality”
definitely would downgrade them to
men’s level when a woman would be no
better than a man... if only the
proponents of ERA could and would
see it.
Protests
Bishop
There are few Greek Catholics of the
Byzantine-rite in Greece, about 3,000
according to the official Vatican
yearbook. And their origins as an
organized body are relatively recent,
dating back only to the 19th century.
But the Greek Orthodox have always
viewed the group with suspicion, chiefly
because it arose out of movements to
“convert” the Greek Orthodox to union
with the Holy See. Both the Greek
Catholics of the Byzantine rite and the
Greek Orthodox use the same liturgical
rite -r the Byzantine-rite in the Greek
language. (It is called the “Byzantine”
rite for several reasons: because of its
origins in the Byzantine Empire, in
order to distinguish it from other Greek
rites which have disappeared, and to
avoid confusion when referring to other
language groups that have arisen which
use the same rite but in their own
language.)
Thus, while Latin-rite Catholics in
Greece have got along with the Greek
Orthodox reasonably well, the
Orthodox have always considered the
Byzantine-rite Greek Catholics a threat
to their own integrity, and their very
existence has created ecumenical
tensions.
The Vatican Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity, which had
direct discussions with the Orthodox
Churches throughout the world, fears
that the Greek Orthodox position may
be taken by other Orthodox Churches, a
source indicated.
‘‘But we hope that this may be
contained within the Greek (Orthodox)
Church and that we may finally resolve
it,” said the secretariat source.
“However,” he added, “it is bound to
give ammunition to those conservative
(Orthodox) elements who oppose any
and all discussions with the Holy See.”
According to reports reaching here,
Archbishop Seraphim regarded naming
of the new exarch a bishop as “pitting
Church against Church” and accused the
Holy See of “proselytizing,” or trying
to win Catholic converts from the
Orthodox.
BY MATT NELSON
July 11-13 marked the beginning of
many new and enriching ideas in the
minds of 3 parishioners of Our Lady of
Lourdes Church, Columbus.
Mrs. Cathie O’Shea, Mrs. Mabel
Ditchfield, and Mr. Richard Mathena
represented the parish at the Festival of
Song and Celebration held in Cincinnati,
Ohio. (The actual festival lasted 3 weeks
but the Columbus representatives were
only able to make the compacted
version entitled the Weekend Festival
Program.)
The theme of the 3 week program,
including the weekend fest was “Good
Worship - It Doesn’t Just Happen.”
Each day there were five IV2 hour
sessions with four or more different
workshops going on during one given
session. All three were able to attend a
variety of sessions and not repeat a
topic given before.
On July 20th, members of the church
were invited to a discussion in which
Mrs. O’Shea, Mrs. Ditchfield, and Mr.
Mathena expressed their views on the
workshop as well as went into detail
about the many different topics
presented.
Mrs. Ditchfield, having been
previously asked to help in planning of
children’s liturgies, decided to plan her
schedule around the workshop dealing
with this topic. She reported on one
session, in particular, entitled, “Hi
God,” a four-part workshop which
opened up many new avenues of
adventure and experimentation in this
field of children’s Mass. She was very
much impressed with one special song in
which there were hand motions
corresponding with the words. The
song, “His Banner Over Me is Love,”
had motions such as placing the hands
in an arch position over the head to
represent the banner, both hands
pointing to yourself meaning the word
me, and so on. She expressed hopes for
using this song as well as many other
new ones in the very near future.
Mrs. O’Shea attended many of the
church choir sessions available at the
workshop. Mrs. O’Shea is a member of
the adult choir and was interested in
obtaining new material not only for the
choir, but for the congregation as well.
She seemed to be most impressed with
the overall attitude present at the
festival. She stated that the combination
of both song and celebration “filled one
with love. The real love - not the type
found on banners, pins, or sewn on
trouser bottoms.”
After listening to her talk, it was
obvious that she will attempt and
succeed at bringing this “real love” to
not only the church choir, but to all the
people she comes into contact with.
Rick Mathena, leader of the Lourdes
Folk Group, attended many of the
sessions involving Joe Wise, a very
well-known writer and singer of folk
songs and ballads. Not only did he bring
back new songs and material, he also
returned with many new outlooks on
the legality of work involved in
preparing folk songs and books to be
used by the congregation.
Following the discussion, each of the
participants expressed their hopefulness
in being able to combine today’s Mass
. with the not-so-futuristic ideas obtained
in Cincinnati.
“Prior to the Cincinnati workshop, I
was running out of ideas very rapidly. I
was not educated enough in the liturgy
of the Mass to be able to do the things
that. .. would instill a greater sense of
‘celebration’ into the hearts of the
people. Now, I feel that “I can” was the
way that Rick Mathena expressed his
joy and hope for the future of the
church after attending the Festival of
Song and Celebration.
Respectfully yours,
John J. McCreary
Macon, Ga.
DISCUSS PLANS -- Pastor Fr. Frank and Musician Sue Mathena discuss
plans for the report with the three representatives (left to right, standing)
Rick Mathena and Mabel Ditchfield and (sitting) Cathie O’Shea.
PICTURED ABOVE are the six deacons who participated in a recent
workshop in Augusta on the diaconate. They are, left to right, from the
front: Gilles Brault (St. Augustine), Ben Swiderek (St. Benedict’s,
Savannah), Jack Druding (Atlanta), Steve Churchwell (Atlanta), Bob
Cushing (St. Joseph’s, Macon), and Wayland Brown (St. Teresa’s,
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