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PAGE 3—The Southern Cross, July 15,1976
Harambee Housing Makes Repairs
When recent rains caused her roof to
leak, Mrs. Marguerite Hardee found that
the damp plaster from her ceiling began
to fall, making it dangerous to walk into
two of the rooms in her Savannah
house. Unable to make repairs herself
(she is 77, and suffers from
emphysema), Mrs. Hardee called on a
group of volunteers to help her.
On July 17th, work will begin on
Mrs. Hardee’s home. Volunteers will
ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
gather to repair her ceilings, and will
undertake other necessary repair work:
rebuilding her porch steps, fixing
screens, scraping and painting the front
of the house and performing minor
electrical repairs.
This type of voluntary home-repair is
being coordinated by Harambee
Housing, a non-denominational,
inter-parish group interested in housing
conditions in the Savannah/Chatham
Savannah Deanery Seeking
D P C Executive Director
The Savannah Deanery Pastoral
Council is presently accepting
applications from qualified Catholics,
including priests, religious, and lay
persons, for the position of Executive
Director of the DPC.
Father Kevin Boland, Dean of the
Savannah Deanery, and Mr. William
Gaudry, Chairman of the Savannah
Deanery Pastoral Council, announced
recently that the position will initially
be part-time but that it could develop
into a full-time job eventually.
Applications will be accepted until
the deadline of July 31, and each
applicant will be interviewed during the
month of August, at which time more
details will be given the applicants.
Applications should be sent to
“Deanery Pastoral Council, P.0. Box
8789, Savannah, Ga. 31402.”
A brief job description of the
position follows:
1. To serve as Executive Director of
the DPC.
2. To promote, catalyze, monitor and
evaluate such deanery-wide programs
and events as have been recommended
in the Self-Study and approved by the
DPC, the Dean, and as necessary by the
Bishop.
3. To serve as primary responsible
person for an annual deanery assembly.
4. To assist the DPC and the
Savannah Association of Priests, as
opportune and as feasible, in such staff
service as they may require or suggest.
5. To promote, monitor, catalyze and
evaluate implementation of the
Self-Study in the deanery.
6. To assist parish councils and
pastors in the ongoing practice of
pastoral participation and planning
throughout the deanery.
This job was created recently when
the DPC adopted a revised Constitution
conforming to recommendations
contained in the final report of the
Savannah Self-Study. One of these
recommendations is that an Executive
Director be hired by the DPC to
facilitate the implementation of the
Self-Study’s recommendations and
programs. Bishop Raymond W. Lessard
has officially approved the revised
Constitution.
It is expected that the new Executive
Director will be hired and functioning
no later than October 1,1976.
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At the invitation of Father James Stevenson, Sisters Dorothea and Mary Matilda,
members of the Humility of Mary Congregation from Villa Maria, Penn., conducted a
two weeks’ Vacation Church School Program (June 21 through July 2) at Our Lady
Star of the Sea Parish in St. Mary, Georgia.
Approximately, forty children from Folkston and St. Mary area attended these
sessions. Through the courtesy of the Board of Education, rooms were made available
in the city’s elementary school.
“Salom — Freedom in Christ” was the text used. It emphasized the necessity of
peace, love and well-being for the individual, the community, and the whole world.
The children were also provided with the opportunity to participate in the liturgy of
the day.
VALDOSTA BIBLE SCHOOL - 100 children enrolled in the Vacation
Bible School at St. John the Evangelist School in Valdosta. Theme for this
summer’s Bible School was “God’s Love is Jesus.” Prayer, Bible Lessons,
Arts and Crafts, Music and Supervised Play filled each day. Baskets made
from bread dough were filled with fruit and taken to the shut-ins in the
Parish. Love was the theme of the concluding Liturgy on June 25th, the
Feast of the Sacred Heart followed by Open House for Parents and
friends.
County area. Under their program,
repairs are made to the homes of elderly
or disabled owners, who are unable
financially or physically to keep up with
the minor work every house needs. The
program follows the pattern already set
by Atlanta’s “Project Rehab” and the
housing-repair project carried out by
Macon’s Social Apostolate (SERVE).
Volunteers, skilled and unskilled, give
their labor free, but the home owner
when possible agrees to reimburse
Harambee for the cost of materials in
low, interest-free monthly payments.
Money repayed is used to purchase
materials for other houses.
Referrals are made through the
Health Department, or through Sister
Catherine Moore, Social Apostolate
Coordinator. Repairs made are relatively
minor (total cost not to exceed $500
per home), to bring each home up to
Code standard and make it safe and
comfortable.
Any person interested in helping with
the program is asked to contact Sister
Catherine Moore (Social Apostolate,
233-1877) or Mrs. Brown (St. John’s
Center, 355-9420).
House Before Repairs Were Started.
Completed home.
FR. COSTIGAN and Bemie
Purdy repair door.
STEVE GOMES and Ray Pierce
at work on eaves.
VOLUNTEERS from Savannah
Minority Contractors, lead by
Henry Betts.
Push Needed For Natural Family Planning
WASHINGTON (NC) - Natural
family planning may soon be practiced
by a great many ex-users of birth
control pills, and preparations must be
made to handle the increase
immediately, according to the head of
the Natural Family Planning Federation
of America (NFPFA).
“The ever increasing number of
women who are abandoning the
contraceptive pill for other forms of
family planning methods may catch
the . . . field unprepared,” said Msgr.
John J. Seli, NFPFA’s board chairman
and director.
“There is simply an insufficient
number of well trained instructors
available to do a competent job for all
those who are asking for help .. . right
now,” Msgr. Seli said. The situation will
get worse “if the pill continues its
downward trend,” he added.
At least six months of training are
needed before an instructor is
competent to teach natural family
planning - a field that has seen major
breakthroughs in recent years.
Unauthorized Ordinations
Receive Church Penalties
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Archbishop
Marcel Lefebvre, head of the
controversial traditionalist seminary at
Econe, Switzerland, incurred
Johannsen Honored
Jack Johannsen, retired businessman was recognized for outstanding service during
the Aquinas High School Boosters Club Monthly Meeting, July 15. Refreshments were
served and testimonials were given. After a long business career, Jack retired last April
from active participation in Johannsen’s Sporting Goods and Trophies Company. For
many years his drive, energy, and enthusiasm were prime factors in pushing
competitive sports for the youth of the Central Savannah River Area. The Aquinas
Boosters Club wished Jack and his wife the best of luck, health and happiness in the
years ahead and presented him with a silver plated horse shoe covered with flowers.
Fr. Clark Ordained—
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priests present laid hands on Douglas
and prayed for the Holy Spirit to come
upon him. Father Clark was then
invested with stole and chasuble, his
hands anointed with chrism, and he was
welcomed by his brother priests with
the sign of peace.
The new priest then concelebrated the
Mass with the Bishop and the other
priests.
Besides the music provided by the
choir, there were two psalms sung by
two of Fr. Clark’s classmates from
Rome. Also, Allen Weir, Stephen
Fennell and Pat Persse executed stirring
trumpet flourishes.
Fr. John Kenneally served as Master
of Ceremonies, Fr. Lawrence Lucree as
Archpriest, and Fr. Kevin Boland and
Msgr. Martin Gilligan, of Fr. Clark’s
home parish in Ohio, flanked the Bishop
as chaplains. Michael Lubinsky and
Gerry Schreck read the lessons from
Sacred Scripture, and Deacon Chris
Schreck read the gospel.
Fr. Clark’s family, from Ohio,
attended and received the sign of peace
from their son and Bishop Lessard. Also
in attendance were other members of
the new priest’s family and friends from
home, college and seminary.
Fr. Clark celebrated his first Mass at
Blessed Sacrament Church on Sunday,
July 4. The parish choir, under the
direction of Dr. Harry Persse provided
the music, aided by organist Mr. Ed
Garvin. Fr. Boland was Master of
Ceremonies, Deacons Chris Schreck and
Mike Martinez, of Phoenix, aided in the
celebration and Msgr. Gilligan preached.
Blessed Sacrament Council of Catholic
Women provided a reception in the
parish gymnasium at which Fr. Clark
gave his first blessing to his family,
friends and the people of the parish.
ecclesiastical penalties by the
unauthorized ordination of a group of
13 priests there June 29, said the
Vatican’s press spokesman, Father
Romeo Panciroli.
In addition, the priest said, the
illegally ordained priests cannot legally
exercise their priesthood.
Church law requires that every person
who is ordained to the priesthood or
diaconate must have letters from his
bishop or major religious superior
authorizing a bishop to ordain the
person. In addition, every one ordained
must also have a valid legal title to
support by being formally joined as a
priest to a Catholic diocese or religious
order or institute.
The men ordained by Archbishop
Lefebvre, said Father Panciroli, lacked
both the letters and the legal titles.
Thus, he said, for ordaining the men,
the archbishop incurred an automatic
suspension for one year of his faculties
to ordain anyone. This suspension can
be lifted only by the Vatican.
Earlier, the priest said, Pope Paul VI
had formally prohibited the ordinations
in communications to the archbishop.
That much time is needed, according
to Msgr. Seli, because instructors .. .
should be users of the methods - or at
least knowledgeable of their own
fertility signs and symptoms. Our
experience is that the instructor must
relate to the client in a personal way to
explain how the natural methodologies
work. If the instructor herself is using a
hormonal preparation for conception
control, her own bodily signs will not
give her the personal bodily experience
which she might pass on to other
women.”
Organized programs must be made
available, said Msgr. Seli, a priest of the
Pittsburgh diocese who works out of the
NFPFA headquarters in Washington.
“These include outreach, training,
medical backup, chart interpretation,
responsible record keeping and followup
for people who need further help,” he
said.
While there are some excellent
programs available, there are too many
incompetent teachers of natural family
planning, along with “a tendency to
allow individuals and couples to learn
from books and other printed materials
on their own,” Msgr. Seli said. This, he
added, “is a sure way to bring about an
unplanned pregnancy.”
Instructors, he said, “must be sure of
their own fertility; sure of what the
various methods of conception control
are; how they work; and be able to
translate and interpret for the user what
the mucus symptom and basal body
temperature charts are saying.”
It is wrong, according to Msgr. Seli,
to overemphasize the simplicity of
natural methods of family planning.
“Some women have difficulty in
detecting mucus, and those coming off
the pill present various kinds of
problems -- many of them needing some
medical assistance and supervision.”
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