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Thursday, December 14, 2000
Notices
The Southern Cross, Page 11
Five Days
(Continued from page I)
challenge them to pray in a homily
featuring an amusing telephone con
versation with Jesus (“You haven’t
heard from some of them for a
while? I’ll let them know you’re
waiting to hear from them.”)
On Saturday, December 2, mem
bers of ethnic groups present in the
diocese came together for a Multi
cultural Mass and festival. They
entered the Cathedral in their various
characteristic dress, but sharing one
faith. “Our church has realized an
important hope of God, that there be
one family with many faces to glorify
and serve him,” said Father Michael
H. Smith, pastor of Holy Redeemer
Parish, McRae, and Saint Mark
Parish, Eastman. Father Smith is also
Program, Notes
S CAD-TV, a production of the
Savannah College of Art and
Design that airs on WJCL-TV in
Savannah, will feature a segment on
Todd Hagin, a graphic designer and
the assistant to the editor of The
Southern Cross, at 10:30 a.m. on
Sunday, December 17. Hagin, a
SCAD graduate, designed many of
the printed materials created in con
nection with the 150th anniversary of
the Diocese of Savannah and the
100th anniversary of the rededication
of the Cathedral of Saint John the
Baptist.
“A Symphony of the Faithful,” a
30-minute history video on the
Diocese of Savannah, will air at 4:30
p.m. on Sunday, December 17, on
WGNM-TV in Macon. Father
Jeremiah J. McCarthy, pastor of
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diocese. “Every culture brings special
gifts for Christ.”
They joined in singing hymns in
Spanish and Vietnamese. They joined
in African-American spirituals and
listened to Spanish guitars. They
prayed in Afrikaans, English, French,
Gaelic, German, Polish, Spanish, Ta-
galog and Vietnamese. And the vari
ous groups explained their contribu
tion to Catholicism in south Georgia.
African Americans have brought
endurance developed from slavery
times to times of racism. “Through it
all, we learned to trust in God,” said
Father Robert Chaney, pastor of
Resurrection of our Lord Church,
Savannah. “We kept our faith.”
Filipinos have brought reminders of
gospel values: sharing, giving and
loving. Vietnamese, who often live
their faith in silence in their home
land because of persecution, have
brought an appreciation for vocal
evangelism to America.
From the Cathedral, the faithful
walked together to Lafayette Square
where they shared the foods and
dances of their heritage.
“Today, we meet different people
with different cultures but we all
share in one faith, as one family, in
worshiping one God,” said Lan
Dang, a 34-year-old woman who was
bom in Vietnam and now lives in
Savannah.
For 16-year-0ld Aurelio Maldonado
of Hinesville, whose parents are from
Puerto Rico, being a Catholic means
being one with God. “The church ac
cepts anyone,” he said. “I believe we
are all God’s children. We’re all
equal.”
But Catholicism is uncommon
among those with Cherokee ancestry.
Most either follow their old religion
or are Baptists, said Robert Herr
mann, a candidate for the permanent
diaconate from Saint Anne Parish,
Columbus, who performed a Native
American ritual at the start of Mass.
Catholicism is comforting, said
James Skryja of Savannah, whose
parents are from Czechoslovakia. “It
gives you something to hold on to,”
he said.
On Sunday, December 3, Bishop
Boland celebrated a special Awards
Mass, honoring those who have ren
dered special service to the Church
(see next week’s issue). That evening,
the Savannah Symphony orchestra
brought the five days to a close with a
special concert in the Cathedral, for
standing-room-only crowds.
Ann Stifter of The Savannah
Morning News contributed to
this story.
TV Mass Schedule:
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Sundays
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