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PAGE 2 — The Southern Cross, September 19, 1985
Augusta - October 6
St. Mary's School To Mark 25th Anniversary
BY SUSAN P. MUCHA
Practically to the day, Sr. Mary’s on the
Hill Parish, Augusta, will celebrate the
25th anniversary of its school. A quarter of
a century ago, on October 9, 1960, St.
Mary’s on the Hill School was dedicated by
Bishop Thomas J. McDonough.
Sunday, October 6, ceremonies will
begin at 10:30 a.m. on the front lawn of the
school at 1220 Monte Sano Avenue. All past
priests and pastors, principals, teachers
and students are most cordially invited. At
this time Mass will be concelebrated on the
school lawn by all priests present. Because
the school is such an integral part of the
parish, and since many parishioners will
attend, this Mass will replace the regular
ly scheduled 10:30 a.m. Mass at the
church.
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Many members ot St. Mary’s family will
participate in the Mass. The adult choir,
under the direction of Mr. Howard
Simpers, will sing. Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Dunston, Co-presidents of the P.T.O. and
alumni of St. Mary’s,will welcome the con
gregation and present the theme of the
Mass. Mrs. Ramona Penn, a teacher for 14
years at St. Mary’s, and Mr. Richard
Bowles, a parent who has had a child at St.
Mary’s for 25 years, will do the readings.
Deacon Jamie O’Connell will read the
Gospel and the prayers of the faithful will
be said by eighth grader (and St. Mary’s
student since kindergarten) Charles
Anderson. Sister Ruth Butler, C.S.J. prin
cipal of St. Mary’s, and the former prin
cipals will present the gifts. The Commu
nion meditation song will be sung by the
entire student body.
Following the celebration of the
Eucharist, Father P. James Costigan,
pastor of St. Mary’s, and Mrs. Martha
Scott, President of the Parish Council, will
present the school with a check to be used
for the establishment of an endowment
fund.
The parishioners and guests will take
part in history again being made as ground
is broken for an expansion of the school.
The addition and renovation will include a
computer center, science lab, drama and
art room, two kindergarten classrooms,
Sr. Mary’s on the Hill ex
tends an invitation to all
friends, former teachers and
principals, priests and
pastors, and students to attend
the 25th Anniversary Celebra
tion of their school and
ground-breaking on Sunday,
October 6 at 10:30 a.m. on the
school lawn. 1220 Monte Sano
Ave.
library, conference room and an ac
celerated math classroom.
A reception in the school cafetorium will
be preceded by a slide presentation telling
the story of St. Mary’s on-the-Hill School.
ARCIC II Discusses Salvation
GARRISON, N.Y. (NC) - The Second
Anglican-Roman Catholic International
Commission (ARCIC II) announced at the
conclusion of its third annual meeting that
it had achieved a “framework for substan
tial agreement’’ on the subject of salvation
and the church.
However, it was not able to complete the
hoped-for statement, and commission
members said they expected to bring it to
final form at the 1986 meeting in Wales.
The discussion involved the doctrine of
justification, a key issue in the Reforma
tion and one that has been a focus of atten
tion in Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue.
Bishop Raymond Lessard of Savannah,
Ga., a commission member and former
Catholic co-chairman of the U.S. Anglican-
Roman Catholic dialogue, said ARCIC II
drew on the work of the Lutheran dialogue,
but set it in the broader context of the doc
trine of salvation and its relation to the
church.
At a press conference Sept. 5, Bishop
Mark Santer of Kensington, England,
Angelican co-chairman of the commission,
said the members had come to realize
through their discussions that theological
differences over justification would not
have divided the churches if they had not
been divided already on other grounds.
Jesuit Father Edward Yarnold, tutor in
theology at Campion Hall, Oxford, said
that in regard to justification the commis
sion found “really no difference between
the Council of Trent and classical Anglican
theology.”
WASHINGTON (NC) — Pope John Paul
II is expected to visit the United States in
the fall of 1987, particularly visiting cities
in the South and West, the National Con
ference of Catholic Bishops announced
Sept. 17.
The dates and sites of a papal visit have
not been determined, the NCCB said, but
the trip is expected to last a little more
than a week and to include several cities in
the West and South.
“I am deeply grateful that the Holy
Father has expressed a desire to return to
our country,” said Bishop James W.
Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, NCCB presi-
He noted that Protestants had tradi
tionally emphasized justification by faith,
or the absolute primacy of God’s action in
declaring the sinner righteous. Catholics
had stressed the importance of good works
in ways that, to Protestants, often seemed
to imply that the initiative belong to
human beings, rather than to God.
Father Yarnold said these emphases
represented complementary “spiri
tualities,” both of which were important.
Because of the difficulty of one person em
phasizing both at the same time, the
church would always need the
“Protestant” spirituality as well as the
“Catholic,” he said.
Members of the commission repeatedly
stressed that the work of overcoming
separation involved not only securing
agreement on theology but also growing
together through sharing common life and
mission.
In addition to work on the statement
regarding salvation and the church, the
commission spent some time on another
topic, growth in reconciliation, which in
cludes the question of accepting each
other’s ordained ministries. “In this con
text there was joint reflection on the ques
tion of ordination of women to the
priesthood in some parts of the Anglican
communion,” said a press release issued
at the conclusion.
At the press conference, Bishop Santer
said the ordination of Anglican women had
“complicated the issue very, very much.”
dent. “We look forward to receiving him ^
again with joy and affection.”
In September 1984, Father Bernard Yar-
rish, a spokesman for the Vatican Em
bassy, said that bishops from Florida,
Texas and the West Coast had invited the
pope to visit. San Francisco archdiocesan
officials Sept. 17 denied press reports that
the city was definitely on the itinerary.
If the pope comes to the U.S., it would be
his fourth visit. In October 1979 he visited
Boston, New York, Philadelphia,,
Washington, Chicago and Des Moines, ;
Iowa. Since then he visited Alaska and
Puerto Rico.
Pope May Visit U.S. In 1987