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Vol. SO, No. 23
Thursday, June 15, 2000
Contents
Headline Hopscotch .2
News 3
Commentary 4-5
Ordination 6
Graduation 7
Faith Alive! 8-9
Notices 10-11
Last But Not Least . 12
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Timothy C. Donahue ordained to priesthood
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The procession forms for the ordination of Timothy Charles Donahue
(center) at Saint James Church, Savannah, on June 10. Deacon Adam
Kasela carries the Book of the Gospels before Deacon Donahue.
Seminarian Mike Ingram is the candle-bearer on the right.
By Father Douglas K. Clark
Savannah
rough prayer and the imposition of hands, Bishop J.
Kevin Boland ordained Deacon Timothy Charles
Donahue to the priesthood for the Diocese of Savannah on
June 10 at Saint James Church. Some 40 priests concele-
brated the ordination Mass, including Father Robert
Leavitt, president-rector of Saint Mary’s Seminary,
Baltimore, where Father Donahue studied for the priest
hood, and Father John A. Kenneally, pastor of Saint James.
Timothy Donahue is the sixth of seven children bom to
William and Mary Donahue, now of Hinesville. After
graduation from Georgia Southern University, he went
into the “food business” as a Wendy’s manager in States
boro and later in Savannah. While in Statesboro, he
became a close friend of Monsignor Joseph Moody, a
retired priest living there. Monsignor Moody became his
mentor, even as Donahue became the elderly priest’s
caregiver.
While working in food service for 10 years, he eventual
ly discerned a call to priesthood and was accepted as a
candidate by the Diocese of Savannah. During his years at
Saint Mary’s Seminary, Donahue was elected student body
president and received several honors and scholarships.
Father Brett A. Brannen, diocesan director of voca
tions, presented Deacon Donahue to Bishop Boland for
ordination as a priest. Father Brannen called on members
(Continued on page 6)
Daniel DeLoach and the shining Knights of Malta:
By Rita H. DeLorme
Savannah
Y ou’re just back from Lourdes
and you receive word that tests
performed on your son Daniel, who
has Proteus Syndrome, disclose that
he has three masses on or near his
spine. What do you do? How do
you feel? If you are Julia DeLoach
you simply say, “It’ll be all right.
I’m not afraid. All of this is for a
reason.”
For Julia and Michael DeLoach,
the trip they recently made to
Lourdes, France was miraculous in
itself. The couple heard about the
Sovereign Order of the Knights of
Malta on the television program, “48
Hours”. The Knights, a philanthrop
ic organization that helps the sick
and poor throughout the world, also
send many with health problems to
Lourdes. With the aid of fellow
a pilgrimage of faith
teacher at Blessed Sacrament School
in Savannah, Mrs. Jerry Home, Mrs.
DeLoach obtained an application for
the trip. The application form came
on Christmas Eve and confirmation
of the acceptance of Daniel’s case
arrived, appropriately, on the Feast
of Our Lady of Lourdes, February
11th. From that point on, plans were
made and preparations accelerated.
Daniel and his parents’ journey to
the French shrine would be under
written by the Knights of Malta,
while spending money for inciden
tals would be furnished by Blessed
Sacrament Church and School.
What made this trip to Europe dif
ferent from trips others take? The
camaraderie of the volunteer
Knights and the presence of the ill
and suffering from all over the
world, says Julia.
(Continued on page 3)
Daniel and Julia DeLoach
Photo by Jonas N. Jordan