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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, August 23, 1984
BIRD’S-EYE-VIEW -- This aerial view of Notre
Dame du Cap shows the St. Lawrence River in the
foreground and the city of Cap de la Madeleine,
Quebec, behind the church. Pope John Paul II
will visit the area Sept. 10. (NC photo by Mia
Matthes)
Pope To Travel Canada Coast-To-Coast
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II plans to
attend ecumenical meetings, talk with Indian groups and
beatify a Canadian nun during a Sept. 9-21 Canadian trip
which will take him from the maritime provinces on the
Atlantic to British Columbia on the Pacific.
The trip will be the pope’s first to Canada and his 23rd
outside Italy.
Between Pope John Paul’s Sept. 9 arrival in Quebec and
his departure from Ottawa, the Canadian capital, Sept. 20,
he will visit 14 major cities and give an estimated 50 talks
to various groups.
The pope will celebrate a beatification Mass in Montreal
Sept. 11 for Sister Marie Leonie, whose original name was
Aoldia Virginia Paradis, foundress of the Institite of the
Little Sisters of the Holy Family. She was born in 1840
and died in 1912.
In Toronto on Sept. 14, Pope John Paul plans to
participate in an ecumenical meeting at the Anglican
Church.
On Sept. 16 he will attend an inter-religious prayer
meeting in Edmonton, Alberta.
Two meetings with Canadian Indians are planned, the
first on Sept. 10 at St. Anne de Beaupre near Quebec and
the second at Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories.
The pope plans to meet with Polish and Slovakian
Canadians at Toronto and Unionville, Ontario.
The 64-year-old pontiff’s 13-day trip will take him
from St. John’s, Newfoundland, on the east coast and to
Vancouver, British Columbia, on the west coast. Other
major stops include Moncton, New Brunswick; Halifax,
Nova Scotia; and Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The pope will leave Canada from Ottawa Sept. 20 and
arrive in Rome Sept. 21.
THE CARMEL CLUB
-Its Purpose and Scope
Shortly after the arrival of the Carmelite Nuns in the Savannah Diocese in June of 1958, the Carmel
Club was organized to make known to a larger number of people the life, spirit and mission of Carmel;
to stimulate financial support in order to supplement the income earned by the work of the Nuns and to
create a deeper bond of faith and love among those united in helping one another.
Those joining the Carmel Club freely contribute a monthly donation, payable either on a monthly basis,
semi-annually or annually. As a reminder, a Carmel Club envelope is sent by the Sisters for the conve
nience of the members.
All benefactors of the Carmelite Nuns are remembered in the daily offering of the Eucharist. They also
share in the Liturgy of the Hours (Offical Prayer of the Church) each day as well as sharing in the grace
of the Nuns’ lives of prayer and self-denial. Saint Teresa encouraged her daughters in her own spirit of
deep gratitude when she wrote in The Way of Perfection, “the Sisters are to pray continually for their
benefactors.’’
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Name (Last)_
Address
(First)
Zip.
I wish to become a member of the Carmel Club of the Savannah Diocese and contribute $
support the Carmelite Nuns in their life of prayer in this diocese.
I understand I may send my monthly donation in one of the following ways (Kindly check one below):
each month to help
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Please detach and return with your first donation to:
The Carmel Club, Carmelite Monastery
II West Back Street, Savannah, Georgia 31419
Signed:,
Black Middle Class
Can Help Prevent
"Permanent Underclass"
NEW ORLEANS (NC) - The black middle class can
help prevent development of a “permanent underclass,” in
the black community, Auxiliary Bishop John Ricard of
Baltimore told 500 people at the Black Catholic Family m
Conference at Xavier University.
Bishop Ricard, ordained an auxiliary bishop of
Baltimore in July, said the underclass has characteristics
such as “single-parent households, large families, teen-age
mothers,, low incomes and lack of educational
opportunities.
He was speaking on “Problems Besetting the Black
Family” during the Aug. 3-4 conference, sponsored by the
Josephite Society.
The bishop, who completed doctoral studies in
psychiatric social work at the Catholic University of
America while serving as a pastor in Washington, said
many of the problems, could be helped by encouraging
stable, nuclear families.
The church and the black middle class must help
provide reasonable and realistic alternatives to the ghetto,
he said, suggesting that computers instead of drugs could
be placed in the hands of black teen-agers.
“The middle class has to go back to the ghetto, to the
inner city, and provide the moral thrust and leadership
that once was there. When the middle class moved out, a
stabilizing influence left black neighborhoods,” he said. 4^
At another meeting at Xavier University before the
family conference, Auxiliary Bishop Wilton Gregory of
Chicago said blackness and Catholicism are very
compatible.
“We must teach, through all our endeavors, that
blackness and Catholicism do indeed mix well together,”
Bishop Gregory said.
The meeting, a national conference for black clergy,
nuns and seminarians, included more than 300
participants who discussed their specific roles in the black
community. ->
“Leadership in the black community requires
risk-taking because of the historical mandate blacks have
as being charged with the bringing about of social justice,”
Jualynne Dodson of the Union Theological Seminary said
during the July 29-Aug. 3 conference.
“As black ministers you must be willing to raise critical
questions even when it might mean personal loss,” she
said. “Your personal salvation is of little value to the
black community.”
Howard Dodson, sharing the podium with his wife,
added that “new times require different roles and -
responsibilities for all of us. This is especially true for v
black leaders. Ministers in the black community must
transcend the narrow corridor of the concerns of the
black community and address the much larger problems
of society as a whole.”
FORMATION PROGRAM - Members of the
Parish Council of Sacred Heart Parish in Warner
Robins who attended a Formation Program on
last Friday evening and Saturday. At the
conclusion of the program, the following officers
were elected for the coming year: President, Mary
Ann Amacker; Vice President, Kenneth Obst;
Secretary, Mary Bowman.