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PAGE 8—The Southern Cross, January 29,1976
DCCW Notes
The Missioner
communicating to our fellow Catholic
priests and lay leaders.
VALDOSTA ECUMENICAL SERVICE -- Pictured at special Valdosta
ecumenical service for women (Back Row) Rev. Floyd Chambers —
Moody A.F.B.; Father Emilio Falcone — Moody A.F.B. and Father Gerard
A. Murphy — St. John’s. (Front Row) Rev. William Powell, Park Avenue
Methodist Church; Rev. David Bevill, First Presbyterian Church; Sister
Mary Joyce, St. John’s School and Mrs. Don Zale, St. John’s parish.
FOR WOMEN
Valdosta Ecumenical Service
St. John’s Woman’s Club of Valdosta hosted a ecumenical service for women on
Jan. 13, at 8:00 p.m. in St. John the Evangelist Church. Women from other area
churches were guests along with the area ministers and priests. The program was titled
“1776-1976, An Adventure into Sharing.” A bible service was held in the church
followed by a discussion afterwards in St. John’s Auditorium. The topics discussed
were Patriotism, Church and State, inflation and moral conscience, elderly and youth,
community action. A reception followed the discussion.
Profession Of Vows Made
By Sister Carlan Hinnant
BY A MISSIONER
(Guest Columnist)
Some of you regard us as wanderers -
people who go off far away from home
to do what could have been done right
at home. Others among you simply
brand us as ‘odd-ones’ who, somewhere
along the way in growing up, got out of
touch with the values and life-style of
contemporary society. Yet others of
you believe we are alienators -- that we
somehow uproot and disorient people
who really would perhaps be better off
locally if they weren’t disturbed.
Even leaders among you ~ priests,
religious and active lay leaders seem
often to have the conviction that
missioners are a disturbance because of
their beggar or begging image.
Too bad for both of us! It is sad
surely to see oneself as a missioner
reduced to a marginal money matter.
Recently in Rome, a leader said
something that shows us a missioner
should be considered a ‘part of the
church.’
Bishop Morstabilini of Brescia, Italy,
said: “The duty to take part in the
CHURCH’S MISSION is not limited to
those who are strictly missionaries, but
applies to every member of the church
by the very fact of his baptism, his
confirmation and his reception of the
Eucharist.”
He said that the PRIMARY AIM of
the “aid societies” is and should be the
missionary education and the
sensitization of the people of God. So
their first concern should be to educate
the local churches to the need of
spreading the Good News to others as
their universal role.
Missioners are trying to shed the
image of the ‘tin cup’ and extended
begging hand. We are an integral part of
the church. We realize we are not
treated as CIA agents, yet some of our
peer do seem to distrust us. Often we
are regarded as threats to diocesan
vocations and finances. We are branded
by some as ‘takers’ away and never
‘givers.’ It should not be hard to believe
that missioners are willing to share, to
give, as well as to receive.
We are anxious to share with others
what we have and what we are.
Sometimes we even have pastoral
experiences (other than the story of a
hungry or starving family) worth
MACON
Teilhard
It is a great feeling we missioners have
when we are accepted by YOU.
A comment by the weekly columnist,
Ticki Lloyd:
Reviewing what the missioner wrote
in the column this week reminds me of
the image I had of missionaries or
missioners when I was a child. Please be
assured that I no longer think as I did.
Having come to know many wonderful,
dedicated missioners, I am award of the
importance of their mission to the
church abroad as well as at home. They
are indeed an integral part of the chuch.
Back to how missioners formed an
image in my mind when I was young --
When we were told that a missionary
priest was coming to give a mission, I
conjured up pictures of hollow-cheeked,
haunted-eyed priests with ill-fitting
Roman collars and shiny black suits, or
a long white robe with a rope around
the waist and a very large crucifix taking
up space across the front of the robe.
The image of the missionary priest
pictured in the Catholic newspaper at
the time of my childhood was reflected
to my facile mind. Another scene that
flashed before me was that of a
missionary priest tied to a post by his
captives while they boiled water in a
huge black iron pot preparing for a diet
consisting of boiled priest. Still another
scene was the class at school collecting
‘silver paper’ and rolling it into huge
balls for the priest to bring back to his
Mission wherever that might be. Thank
heaven those images of a missioner no
longer exist in my memory. I almost
went crazy wondering what they did
with all the chewing gum wrappers we
collected.
If there is an image of a missioner
who is not essential to our spiritual
welfare, to the church and the
community, let us disregard such a
feeling and welcome these dedicated
men and women with a Christ-like love.
God is love and love is God, and
missioners are very important people.
God bless all of them wherever they
may be! * * .
The (DCCW) Winter Board meeting
will be held at Cag’s Restaurant in
Macon on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 11:00
a.m. At this time plans will be made for
the 37th Annual Diocesan Convention
to be held in Augusta on April 23, 24,
25.
PRAY FOR VOCATIONS
de Chardin
On January 18, 1976, Sr. Carlan
Hinnant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
L. Hinnant of Bel Air Road and sister of
Dan and John Hinnant, of Augusta,
Georgia, made profession of Temporary
Vows of Poverty, Chastity, and
Obedience for three years in the
Congregation of the Sisters of St.
Joseph of Carondelet at the Provincial
House in St. Louis, Missouri.
Sr. Carlan, formerly a member of St.
Mary’s on the Hill Parish, Augusta,
attneded the public schools there,
graduating from high school in 1969.
She graduated from Augusta College in
1972.
Symposium
During the summer of 1973, prior to
beginning studies for the sisterhood, Sr.
Carlan served in the Augusta area as a
member of the Deodato Community, a
group of college volunteers who lived,
prayed and worked together pursuing
their vocation call. She worked with the
meals-on-wheels program, at Georgia
Regional Hospital and did hospital
visitation.
Sr. Carlan in accordance with the
present formation program of the
Sisters of St. Joseph lived and taught
with the Sisters of St. Joseph during her
Associate year at St. John the Evangelist
School in Greenbay, Wisconsin. She was
received into the Novitiate on
September 1, 1974, for a one to two
year period in which, besides studying
the history and spirituality of the Sisters
of St. Joseph, Sister pursued studies at
the Divinity School at St. Louis
University. The Novitiate period is set
aside for novices to study Theology,
deepen their prayer life, study the
constitutions of their community and
the vows.
BY GERALD T. CANTWELL
Reviving a tradition of penetrating
adult information programs designed for
the ecumenical audience, on January
13th and 14th, St. Joseph’s parish in
Macon sponsored a symposium on Fr.
Teilhard de Chardin, his life and his
works.
Four speakers delivered five major
talks on various facets of the life and
works of the French priest-scientist. Fr.
Healy opened the symposium on the
evening of the 13th with a biographical
sketch and a distillation of the man’s
thought.
Next day, another talk by Fr. Healy,
this one on the role of the phenomena
in Teilhard’s thinking was followed by
lectures from Fr. Robert Kinast, Fr.
Thomas Fidelis, and Dr. Victor Kramer.
Fr. Kinast, religious education
director for the Atlanta archdiocese,
presented a theological appreciation of
the christological facet of Teilhard’s
thinking.
Fr. Fidelis, a monk of the Monastery
of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Ga.,
discussed fhe spirituality of Teilhard as
reflected in his book, THE DIVINE
MILIEU; and Dr. Kramer read a paper
on the influence of Teilhard on the
writing of Flannery O’Connor.
Each session drew a large, responsive
crowd. Fully two hundred and
twenty-five people attended the opening
session. Probably three-fourths of them
returned next day and were augmented
by revolving segments of twenty-five or
so flowing in and out as lunch hours,
class breaks, and business appointments
permitted.
The sustained size of the second day’s
crowd of women and young people,
priests and nuns, ministers and
professors, drop-in downtown
businessmen and professionals, and
vacationing air base employees surprized
and inspired the symposium’s leaders
and participants.
It was also successful in terms of its
announced objective of acquainting
people with the man and his thought.
From Fr. Healy’s excellent opening talk,
the audience learned of the depth of
both Teilhard’s priestly vocation and his
secular pursuit of geology and
paleontology and his resultant love of
God and the world. Thereafter, he
engaged in the never-ending quest , to
synsthesize the two in a unity at whose
focal point stood Jesus Christ.
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Fr. Healy explained in his second talk
that Teilhard puts all into the context
of his religious tradition of the salvation
story, the incamational presence of
God, and man’s response thereto.
Into this general tracing of Teilhard’s
thought and development, Fr. Kinast
inserted a starkly penetrating analysis of
the Christological pole of Teilhard’s
universe. Teilhard’s primary theological
focus, Fr. Kinast said, was Christology
and his major concern therein was to
formulate the church’s belief in Jesus in
such a way that it was compatible with
his evolutionary world view. But, among
other problems Teilhard creates for
himself, is that of convincing his church
that his world view is totally compatible
with its biblical traditions.
Fr. Fidelis defined the three virtues
Teilhard claimed man must foster if he
would enter the divine milieu. To
Teilhard, there were these three: purity,
faith and fidelity, and possibly the
greatest of these is fidelity.
The paper delivered by Dr. Kramer
added a different and necessary
dimension to the symposiums
proceedings as well as an additional
perspective. For in analyzing the
possible influence of Teilhard upon
Flannery O’Connor, Dr. Kramer
demonstrated that another prophet, in
our time and at our place in middle
Georgia, sought to explain much the
same vision that Teilhard saw on the
other side of the world.
True, O’Connor came to Teilhard late
in her short life, but it is obvious from
her papers and latest published works
that when she did, she saw in him an
affirmation of what she was trying to do
in her writing, which was to advocate
the need for total community among
men with Jesus Christ at the Center.
There are many parallels between the
two. She believed that the writer of
fiction must reinforce the reader’s sense
of the supernatural by grounding it in
concrete, observable reality. When
Teilhard went back to the scriptures to
find a new spirituality rooted in matter,
it accorded with O’Connor’s own view
of the intrinsic value of matter. Teilhard
would synthesize scientific evolution
with the incamational presence,
O’Connor insisted that the artist must
penetrate the concrete to discover its
core and the mystery of its origin. Jesus
was at the heart of all for Teilhard, and
O’Connor found nothing profane if
viewed in the correct perspective.
Sr. Carlan was one of four novices
Sr. Carlan Hinnant
studying. The congregation seeks to give
the novices “Apostolic Experience” and
so it was that during the summer of
1975, Sr. Carlan worked in Mobile,
Alabama at Little Flower Parish. She
worked with the Golden Age Citizens
and also with the Diocesan Office in
Catholic Youth Ministry. This past fall
Sister helped with the CCD Program at
St. Mary and Joseph Parish in St. Louis
and worked at Nazareth, the home for
elderly sisters in St. Louis.
The Liturgy for the Vow Ceremony
was planned and directed by Sr. Carlan’s
fellow novices. Rev. Gerald Kleba,
pastor of Visitation. Parish in St. Louis,
celebrated the Mass. Sr. Mary Laurant
Duggan, Provincial Superior, recieved
Sr. Carlan’s vows. The ceremony took
place on the 15th anniversary of the
death of Dr. Tom Dooley, noted
missionary and humanitarian in South
East Asia.
Present for the ceremony besides her
parents and friends were Sr. Joan Pitlyk,
Novice Director, Sr. Rosaline Salome,
Area Superior for the Sisters serving in
Georgia, Sr. Betty Langley of St. Joseph
Hospital, Augusta and Sr. Camille
Collini of Statesboro, Georgia.
Sr. Carlan will teach English and
Religion at St. Patrick’s School in Rolla,
Missouri, for the remainder of this
school year.
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Around The Diocese
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Obituaries
* Mrs. Ethel Osborn McCain of Augusta, January 17th
* Mr. James J. Hunter, Jr. formerly of Savannah, January 19th
* Miss Helen A. Lyons of Savannah, January 20th
* Mr. Umberto Joseph Pagnozzi of Augusta, January 24th
* Mr. Clement M. Bush of Savannah, January 25th
Marriages
* Miss Margaret Mavins and Curtis Anthony Johnson, both of Augusta, Georgia,
January 24 in Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Augusta.
Necrology
* Very Rev. Peter Whelan, February 6,1871.
* Rev. Stephen Sheridan, February 15,1857.
Sacred Heart Meeting Feb. 2
Sacred Heart PCCW (Savannah) will hold its meeting on Monday, February 2, at
7:30 p.m. in the rectory. Mrs. Thomas O. Fultz, Jr., Deanery president, will be special
guest. The Crime Prevention Unit of the Savannah Police Department will present a
program on “Safety Tips to Women.” Refreshments will follow. All members are
encouraged to attend the meeting and the weekly rosary at 7:00 p.m. in the Church.
Guests welcome.
St. Simons Ecumenical Service
St. William’s Parish (St. Simons Island) was represented both in planning and
attendance at the Community Worship Service at the First Baptist Church. In
observance of Christian Unity Week (January 18-24) the theme was “That We May Be
Like Him,” and a combined choir made up of members from the various churches sang
a special arrangement of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” under the direction of
the Rev. Gary McCammon of the First Baptist Church. St. William’s pastor, Fr. Robert
Brous, gave the invocation, and a special “Litany of Petition and Thanks” composed
by Benjamin Franklin was recited by the clergy and laity. Mrs. LaRue Taliaferro of
Christ Church Frederica spoke on a Bicentennial theme and stressed the unity that
does and must continue to exist in our great country. The churches represented in this
event were: Christ Church Frederica, St. Simons United Methodist, Church of the
Holy Nativity (Episcopalian), St. William’s Catholic and St. Simons Presbyterian
Church. This community worship service has become an annual event and each
successive one proves more popular than the one before - so strong is the feeling of
ecumenism on St. Simons Island.
Bl. Sacrament Meeting Feb. 2
The monthly meeting of the Blessed Sacrament Council of Catholic Women
(Savannah) will be held Monday, February 2nd, in the school gym. Mrs. Harold
Jenkins will show movies of the trip she and her husband took to Europe. Hostesses
for the social hour will be Mrs. William J. Lynch, Mrs. Dan Russell, Mrs. Carlo
D’Esposito, Mrs. E.R. Heise, Mrs. John R. Caterisan and Mrs. A1 Orsini.
W. R. Charismatic Introduction Talk
An introductory talk on the Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church will be
held on Friday, January 30th at 7:30 P.M. in the Cafetorium at Sacred Heart Church,
Warner Robins. Presenting the program will be Bob and Mary Ann Lowe, of the Sacred
Heart Prayer Group. A movie covering the 1975 International Catholic Charismatic
Conference held in Rome over Pentecost Sunday will be shown. Following the serving
of refreshments, a short prayer meeting will be held. Any interested person is cordially
invited to attend.
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BY THE CHEF
MINCEMEAT BARS
Combine:
11/2 cups light brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tbsp. molasses
1 tbsp. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
Sift together and stir in:
2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves
Blend in:
3 tbsp. hot water
1/4 cup chopped nuts
1/4 tsp. seedless raisins
9 oz. pkg. dry mincemeat broken
Spread into greased and floured pan (about 11x15x1-1/2). (Dough may not cover
pan completely. It puffs up and fills in the spaces when baked.) Bake in 400 degrees
oven 12 to 15 minutes. Frost at once with Glaze.
GLAZE
11/2 cups sifted XXX sugar
3 tbsp. hot milk