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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. Seadant tyxeetityt BROWN-WRIGHT HOTEL SUPPLY CORP 640 - 10th S.W. 873-1825 1£e<tf 7Vutie& LUNSF0RD- WILS0N CO. 714 STEWART AVE., S. W. PL. 3-1228 ATLANTA, GA. A. S. Turner And Sons FUNERAL DIRECTORS Ml 4-3373 2773 N. D«qtur Rd. Decatur, Ga. 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. JUHAN’S CLEANERS Expert • e*r*on*U»*0 terrlo* Olven to E»«ry Garment Oornlnf Into Our Plant US ft. Main « PO. 1.444* CnfWn Pat*. da. 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