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PAGE 6 GEORIGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1964
Left to right; Bill Daprano, St. Joseph coach; John Beavin, St. Pius student; Eddie Gasperini,
president of the Shrine Holy Name Society: Frank Hynes, Marist student; George Maloof, coach
St. Pius X; Rea; Conrad Manisera, coach, Marist.
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES
Holy Name Presents
The Holy Name Society of
the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception was recently host
to the three Catholic High School
football teams. This is the fifth
annual event at the Shrine.
Father Arthur -Murray, O.
F.M. pastor, gave the wel
coming address, speaking to
each group of boys as a unit;
St. Pius X; St. Joseph and Ma
rist. He stated that he was
pleased with the showing that
each team had made during the
past season.
GEORGE Maloof, coach at St.
Pius X, said that his team this
year had produced more than
any other team he had ever
coached. In 7 1/2 games they
only allowed on touchdown. Giv
ing further credit to his boys,
he said that they were dedi
cated boys and played the game
with sincere pride. His team
had a 7 year record that was
better than any other Catholic
High School had ever had.
The coach from St, Joseph's
Bill Daprano, talked to the
group about his team, stating
that most of his boys were in-
experenced and were 9th
graders. They only won 2 games
in the season, but had 5 boys
T rophies
named honorable mention on
“All State."
Conrad Manisera, assistant
coach from Marist, standing in
for the regular coach, address
ing the group, stated that Ma
rist had a most successful sea
son and that no finer group of
boys had ever attended Marist,
also that they were building
quality material for next sea
son. This year they had played
teams rated in the top 10 state
wide, but that his boys were
very young to take on such
teams. He insisted that the
Catholic ball teams should be
the best possible so as to keep
recognition in the state of
Georgia.
Each year the Shrine Holy
Name Society presents atrophy
to the most outstanding boy on
a team in the Catholic High
schools. Those receiving this
award this year were Ronald
Martin, St. Joseph, Frank
Hynes, Marist, and John Bea-
vins, St. Pius X. As city wide
champions for the Catholic High
Schools, Mr, George Maloof re
ceived the championship trophy
for the St. Pius X team.
Set Festivities
At St. Joseph’s
After a Novena of prayers and
Christmas hymns, St. Joseph's
Maronite Church, in Atlanta
will celebrate Christas with
a High Mass starting at 11:45
p.m. on Thursday, December
24, and followed by two other
Masses on Friday morning,
December 25, at 9:00 a.m. and
11:30 a.m.
All these Masses will be said
for the Parish and for the many
generous friends of St. Joseph's
church. At midnight Mass, Rev.
Joseph Abi-Nader, pastor, will
celebrate a High Mass. After
Mass there will be a Christmas
procession, in which the pastor
will lead the congregation
carrying the statue of the In
fant, preceded by the Cross
bearer and the altar boys and
followed by the congregation,
carying Christmas blessed
candles, while the choir chants
some ancient Maronite Christ
mas hymns.
After midnight Mass, the con
gregation will gather in the
church's hall for a Christmas
Reveillon, or party, which will
be sponsored and served by the
Ladies of the Altar Society.
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FOR ALL FAITHS
Christmas Celebrations
Highlight Contemporary
Christian Concerns
Religious News Service Corre spondent
Issues of continuing concern
to churches of the world — the
struggle for racial justice and
the elimination of poverty, the
relation of religious groups to
the state and to an increasingly
pluralistic society, efforts to
ward the attainment of Christian
unity — will be highlighted in
the observance of Christmas
this year.
As congregations gather for
joyous celebration of the birth
of the Christ-child, Christians
will be called on to give ever-
greater devotion to the cause
of “peace on earth" and “good
will towards men" in a world
still fraught will tension, dis
trust and poverty.
IN A PRE - CHRISTMAS
greeting to thousands of Sunday
pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's
Square, Pope Paul VI issued
such a call at the same time
he offered wishes that his lis
teners would have a “serene
and happy Christmas."
“But so that it may be such,'
he said, "it will be well for
us if we think again of our life
in the light of Christ. We need
the Lord's enlightenment so that
we may know our own lives,
what we are, what we must
do, where our steps are taking
us. Let us remember that in
the Gospel St. John says that
Christ is the Light that Illu
minates every man who comes
into the world...We have great
need of that Light because many
of our ills come from our un
certainty, from our own con
fused ideas, from not knowing
what we must do and think."
CHRISTIAN concern for those
in need will be symbolized, too,
in one of the Pope's three
Christmas Day Masses. In addi
tion to Midnight Mass in the
Sistine Chapel and a first open-
air Christmas Mass ever held
in St. Peter's Square, the pon
tiff will offer a Mass in the
parish church of the Archangel
Raphael, situated in the Trullo
slum area of Rome.
In America, with new at
tention focused on the plight of
those many who suffer in “poc
kets of poverty" amid a genera
lly affluent nation, Christmas
will this year be an occasion
for extra emphasis on the shar
ing of physical as well as spiri
tual blessings.
AS THE HOLIDAY season
approached, programs were
being launched by Christians to
ease the plight of those in such
stricken areas as Appalachia
and the Mississippi Delta. A-
mong these was the new Miss
issippi Delta Ministry of the Na
tional Council of Churches, a
long-range program of direct
relief and educational aid to
whites as well as Negroes. The
relief program started with a
food and clothing collection pro
ject by churches in Ohio, Penn
sylvania and Kansas during the
Thanksgiving season, for distri
bution in three Mississippi
communities at Christmas.
In many places, churchgoers
were being urged to contribute
new and good used toys to Ne
gro youngsters who otherwise
might not receive them, and a
special “Christmas for Miss
issippi Project" was started by
Dick Gregory, the comedian,
and Sammy Davis, Jr„ actor and
singer, Negroes active in the
civil rights effort. To help pub
licize the project for sending
turkeys to needy families, four
Chicago cab-drivers planned to
drive to Jackson, Miss., to meet
a plane-load of turkeys.The en
tertainers were giving a series
of shows to finance the pro
ject.
THE VENTURE, however,
had its ominous aspect. In re
cognition of racial tension in
the deep South state, the route
of the touring cab-drivers was
not being publicized and the FBI
was being asked to oversee the
safety of the drivers.
Racial tension also marred
Christmas celebrations other
places in the South. At Louis-
burg, N.C., the Ku Klux Klan
threatened to disrupt an inte
grated Christmas parade which
included religious floats. The
parade was held without inci
dent, however, afterGov.Terry
Sanford warned the Klan to
stay away. Calling it “the height
of sacrilege for the Ku Klux
Klan to try to inject hatred
into the Christmas parade,*’
he suggested that members of
the racist group “read again
the Christmas story and the
message of goodwill to all men
contained in the Bible."
As in past years, many church
groups have led efforts to fight
commercializatin during the
holiday season and to 'Iceep
Christ in Christmas.". This
year's campaign was started as
early as last July by the Cen
tral Baptist church in Altra-
vista, Va. The Rev. C. Norman
says “we aren't trying to change
the date of Christmas..We are
trying to put Christmas back
into a proper perspective, with
out the usual exhaustion of the
December season.*’
ELSEWHERE, as in Wichita,
Kan., Christmas parades con
centrating on religious, non
commercial themes were held.
That event was sponsored by
Greater Downtown Wichita,
Inc., a community group which
invited churches and other re
ligious cultural groups to enter
floats. No retail stores, which
were closed for the day, took
part in the parade.
This year, the Post Office
Department's Christmas
stamps — depicting poinsettias,
pine cones, holly and mistle
toe — were attacked by a con
gressman as connoting a com
mercial “spirit." In a letter
to Postmaster John A. Gronou-
ski, Rep. Melvin R. Laird (R.
Wis.) complained that deliber
ately keeping the religious mo
tif out of the stamps was over-
zealous protection of the se
paration of church and state.
The church-state argument, he
maintained, “has no relevance..
Christmas is celebrated each
year to honor the birthday of
Jesus Christ. Even those who
do not acknowledge Him as the
son of God recognize that He
was a great figure in history."
In other countries, too, the
commercialization of Christ
mas was being combatted by
churchmen. Protestant and Ro
man Catholic authorities in
West Germany sponsored local
campaigns condemning the
misuse of Christian symbols by
industry and shopkeepers. The
Church agencies also urged that
firms stop mailing Christmas
cards to “more or less
unknown’* prospective custo
mers and donate money thus
saved to charity.
THERE APPEARED to be a
waning of controversy concern
ing the scheduling of Christmas
programs in public schools in
the U.S., a practice that has
come under question as a re
sult of the U.S. Supreme Court's
ban on classroom devotional
acts. School programs seemed
to place more exphasis on the
historical rather than the re
ligious aspects of Christmas.
to the nation's heritage." The
organization advocated a policy
which "encourages reasonable
recognition of Christmas in the
schools in the spirit of expo
sition of the different rites and
customs of families, cultures
and creeds" which in them
selves reveal “the many dif
ferent religious, philosophical
and cultural practices and be
liefs held by Americans."
IN VARIOUS places — Sud
bury, Mass., Gary, Ind., Cin
cinnati, Ohio — school autho
rities went on record in favor
of Christmas observances in
classrooms, but without strong
emphasis on religion. The Cin
cinnati Board of Education is
sued a policy statement which
said that while such customs as
Christmas-tree decorating and
carol singing are “directly or
indirectly religious," they have
taken on a “greather meaning
than their religious significance
and have become part of the
community's cultural fabric and
should not be construed as sec
tarian indoctrination."
Certain to be prominent
among Christmas sermon topics
will be the revolutionary
advances being made in the
Protestant and Catholic search
for Christian unity.
IN THIS country, one of the
most colorful joint expressions
of devotion to “Jesus Christ
the light of the world" will
take place throughout New Mexi
co. Protestant and Catholic
churches will join home owners,
schools and commercial estahr*
lishments in illuminating their
buildings with “farolitos" —
the "little lights" inspired by
the shepherds' fires on the first
Christmas Eve.The “farolitos"
are made by filling ordinary
grocery store bags with about
two inches of sand. A candle
of the vigil type is placed in
the center of the sand and
lighted, providing a soft glow
through the brown paper.
It also has been stated that
the symbolic use of candles can
have an even broader ecumeni
cal importance. Leon Paul, a
lecturer on Judeo-Christian re
lations, suggested in his weekly
column for Catholic newspapers
that Christmas - Hanukkah
programs be held by lighting
of the eight-candle Hanukkah
menorah and then using one of
the flames to kindle the can
dles on the Christian Advent'
wreath.
MR. PAUL quoted the noted
author, Herman Wouk, in his
book, 'This is My God," to
underscore the relationship be
tween Christmas and Hanukkah,
which commemorates the an
cient Maccabean army's victory
over the Syrians.
“ The two festivals, *’ Mr.
Wouk said, “have one real point
of contact. Had Antiochus suc
ceeded in obliterating Jewry a
century and a half before the
birth of Jesus, there would
have been no Christmas. The
feast of the Nativity rests on
the victory of Hanukkah."
In this regard, the nation's
largest organization of public
school superintendents — the
American Association of School
Administrators — this year
issued a statement which
approved school Christmas act
ivities but said that the day
should be presented as “one
of many religious contributions
Christians and Jews together
should understand, Mr. Paul
stated, “that it was God who
created these two feasts, and
that He wants them to be feasts
of light, feasts of peace, feasts
of fraternal love and under
standing. Is there any other way
to serve God but through
love and understanding?"
KIWAN1S Club of Rome recently honored St. Mary’s School as
the "Institution of the Mmth." Sister Henry Francis, O.P.,
principal of St. Mary’s is shown receiving the award plaque from
Dr. Robert Woodruff, Kiwanis president, while Sister Rose Elena,
Mrs. Jack Tolbert, school auxiliary president, and pastor,
Father Dale Freeman look on.
Katherine Marie Keith Married
To Willard Field At Immaculate
Katherine Marie Keith,
daughter of Mrs. Katherine
Keith , of Atlanta, Georgia, be
came the bride of Willard Mic
hael Field, son of Mrs. Mary
C. Huguley, of Morrow, Geor
gia, on December 19th at the
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Catholic Church, in Atlanta,
Georgia. The Right Reverend
Monsignor Michael J. Regan
performed the marriage cere
mony.
Given in marriage by her
uncle, Albert G. Moriarty, the
bride was radiant in a gown of
ivory satin and Alencon lace,
CATHEDRAL
SCHEDULE
The masses at the Cathe
dral on Christmas Day will be
as follows: Midnight, 7:00 a.m.,
8:00 a.m., 9:00a.m., 10:15a.m.,
11:15 a.m,m 12:30 p*m„ 1:30
p.m., and 6:00 p.m.
Archbishop Paul J. Hallman
will preside at the Midnight
Mass and preach the homily.
Reverend John F. McDonough,
Pastor, will be the celebrant.
Teh commentator will be Mr.
Herb Farnsworth, and the lector
will be Dr. Tom Nolan. The
boys r choir of /U voices under
the direction of Reverend Con-
aid Foust will offer a program
of Christmas music beginning
at 11:30 p.m. The Mass will
be fully participated.
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embroidered with sequins and
seed pearls, flowing into a long
cathedral train. Her veil was
of illusion fastened with a tia
ra of orange blossoms. The
bride carried a bauquet of ste-
phanotis centered with white
orchids and valley lillies.
Mrs. Robert A. McLelland, of
Sarasota, Florida, was her cou
sin's Matron of Honor, Brides
maids were Elaine Hoffman and
Paula Montie both of Atlanta,
and Gail Watson of Mobile, Al
abama. Lynn Honour, of Atlanta,
and Lisa Maxson, of Jackson,
Mississippi, were junior
bridesmaids. The bridesmaids
wore gowns of pink crepe with
a bodice of cerise velvet. A
satin band joined the two fa
brics. They carried bouquets of
carnations shaded from light to*
deep pink.
David Field was his brother's
Best Man. Q room smen were
John Kinkela, nooert James and
Bill Curtis, cousin of the groom,
all of Atlanta. Ushers were Ed
Aubitz, of Atlanta, Jeff
Williams, of Baton Rouge, Lou
isiana, and Andy Gonczi, of New
Orleans, Louisiana.
Following the ceremony a re
ception was held in the parish
hall by Mrs. Katherine Keith.
Mrs. j, Curtis Bowen kept
the Bride's Book.
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caya, in the Bahamas, the couple
will reside at 4265 English Oak
Drive, Droaville, Georgia.
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