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HANUKKAH -- Over the centuries,
Jews have commemorated the
Maccabean victory over the Syrians in
167 B.C. and the rededication of the
Temple which had been defiled by the
King of Syria during Hanukkah - the
“Festival of Lights” or “Festival of
Dedication.” Since that time Hanukkah
has been celebrated by lighting candles
on a Menorah for eight days as a
reminder of the miracle of the container
of oil in the Temple which burned for
eight days instead of one. When
Hanukkah begins this year, on Dec. 1,
special prayers will be recited by the
father of the household and candles will
be blessed. Then, using the ninth candle,
called the “Shammash,” one of the eight
candles will be lighted. This ritual will be
repeated for eight successive nights until
all eight candles on the Menorah are
ablaze. In addition, gifts are given and
special games are played by the children.
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LATIN STUDIES
Rigor Mortis Is Settling in
As Dead Language Declines
BY MARIE MULVENNA
“Way back in the olden
days” there was scarcely a
school child who did not face
the inevitable struggle with
Latin somehwere in his
schooling career. Murmurings
of Latin being a “dead
language” were widespread
among students but
nonetheless the “dead
language” appeared annually
on the roster of required
subjects. And the students
annually plowed through
reams of words, grammar and
familiar phrases such as the
famed “Veni, vidi, vici.”
Latin studies are still
around, but are most
definitely on the decline, as
evidenced by recent surveys
of Catholic schools
throughout the country. Here
in Atlanta, Latin still appears
on the curriculum of both
Marist High School and St.
Pius, but has faded into the
past of St. Joseph’s High
School.
Father James Hartnett,
S.M., principal of Marist,
replied with a laugh to the
query: “What is the status of
Latin at Marist?” His
comment was: “one foot on
the banana peel and one in
the grave.”
A former Latin teacher
himself, Father Hartnett
explained that Marist still
offers Latin to students as
part of the two-year language
requirement along with
German, French and Spanish.
“Most of the students taking
Latin, and they number
about 35, are in their first
and second year,” Father
Hartnett added, commenting
that after the second year the
Latin enrollment drops badly.
“Kids just don’t see it as
practical because it isn’t
spoken,” Father said, adding
that students are quick to
comment that there just
aren’t any Romans walking
around these davs.
Father Hartnett personally
feels the study of Latin is
invaluable and serves as a
basis for so many other
languages, especially the
Romance languages. “It’s
marvelous for training in
precision thinking and you
just can’t beat the etymology
for understanding of words.”
Over at St. Pius, Sister
Catherine said Latin offered
students, along with French
and Spanish, to fulfill the two
years of language required by
the school. Sister explained
that enrollment takes in over
10 per cent of the freshman
class but drops to a grand
total of only 17 students in
junior and senior years.
Sister Catherine feels
strongly that the study of
Latin “gives a good grasp of
the English vocabulary and is
invaluable in scientific
terminology.” Some parents
agree, she adds, and have
requested that it be
continued as part of Pius’
scholastic program. Sister said
she felt that part of the
decline in the popularity of
Latin studies might possibly
be due to liturgical changes of
recent years and the use of
the vernacular in celebrating
Mass.
For the first time in the
history of St. Joseph’s High
School, Latin is not being
offered as part of the
curriculum. Sister Elizabeth,
dean of studies, explained
that enrollment was poor last
year - four students - and
only one expressed a desire to
choose it for a second year.
“It just wasn’t feasible,
economically, to have a
teacher for only one
student,” Sister said. St.
Joseph’s does offer French
and Spanish, although no
language studies are required
of the students. “We do
encourage children who have
intentions of going to college
to take at least two ywars of
a language,” she added.
Sister stated that she felt
students today prefer
Romance languages over
Latin, adding that a
noteworthy point was the
decline in colleges, requiring
Latin for entrance. She
personally feels it is an
excellent basis for the study
of English.
Whether Latin would ever
be returned to St. Joseph’s
program was uncertain, Sister
commented.
The teaching of Latin
“seems to be at the lowest
ebb ever in Catholic schools,”
said Brother Francis Markert,
chairman of the Latin
department at Cardinal Hayes
High School in New York
City. One of the main
objections students present,
Brother Markert said, is that
it is not spoken, but he adds
that “students who take four
years of modern languages
can’t hold everyday
conversations” in those
languages either.
The value of Latin as an
aid in studying English, a
point mentioned by all the
Atlanta school officials, was
underlined by Paul Detro
who teaches Latin at La Salle
Academy in Providence, R.I.
“I can’t imagine those who
had Latin writing the
sentences kids get away with
today,” said Dutro, who also
is a teacher of English.
The status of Latin in
Atlanta’s archdiocesan high
schools is comparable to that
of other Catholic high schools
nationwide. Although many
still require language studies
for a prescribed period of
years, many do not require
that Latin per se be the
object of their students’
attention. The result seems to
be that fewer and fewer
students are giving it much
attention at all.
For generations of Catholic
school students, fond
memories of Latin
conjugations will be lonely
memories indeed, unshared
by their offspring who can no
longer recite the popular
ditty of yesteryear:
“Latin is a language
As dead as dead can be,
It’s killed all those Romans,
And now it’s killing me.”
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Remove the editor . . .
Dear Father:
How can “two good men”
destroy what is so beautifully
described on page 13-Bof the
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
for Friday, Nov. 17, 1972?
Instead of trying to curry
favor with the winner by
editorial I think you should
have editorialized each week
since the primary that “good
men” could not in conscience
vote for either Andrew
Young or Rodney Cook.
Each is in favor of abortion
on demand, whether they
tried to camouflage their
position or not.
You have neither the moral
capacity nor the intellectual
discernment to serve as editor
of the BULLETIN. You
should be emoved
immediately. And how do
you reconcile that editorial
with the front page of the
Nov. 16 edition “Thank God
for Life?”
ANTHONY E. COOMES
ATLANTA, GA.
Getting better ...
Dear Father:
The BULLETIN has really
been getting better these last
few months and I just want
to say that you’ve been doing
a good job as editor. Keep up
the good work.
PETER CLINE, JR.
ATLANTA, GA.
Book Fair . . .
Dear Editor:
With interest I read Shirley
Ward’s column in the
November 23 issue of the
BULLETIN. She cited the
13th annual Book Fair held
by American Association of
Unversity Women Atlanta
Branch; and her pleasure in
finding some cookbooks and
childrens’ books.
As publicity chairman for
Atlanta Branch AAUW, it is
my pleasure to inform readers
of the BULLETIN that as a
non-profit organization our
contribution to fellowships
this year will be $5,500. The
book fair was a success.
In addition, as a
community action project,
AAUW is bringing the
national Reading Is
FunDamental program to
metro Atlanta for the first
time. In answer to the
question, “How do you
motivate children to read?”
RIF says, “Give them books
that they select on their own,
let them keep them.”
All children from first
through third grades at
William J. Scott and Carter
Woodson Schools and cluster
groupings of first through
fifth grades at Pryor Street
School will receive books.
Approximately 775
children are in the programs.
They will each receive a total
of five books. The first
distribution was in
November. The other two
will be in January and March.
Women reading the
BULLETIN may be
interested in membership of
AAUW. All women holding
baccalaureate or higher
degrees from an institution
on the AAUW list of qualified
institutions, or a degree from
a foreign institution
recognized by the
International Federation of
University Women, are
eligible for membership.
Atlanta branch has 550
members. Over 700 colleges
and universities are
recognized including 23 in
Georgia.
Back to Shirley Ward and
the book fair. Although
50,000 books were on sale
this past September at Lenox
Square, very few cookbooks
are ever offered. Women
hesitate to part with them,
this category is always slim,
but exciting.
VIVIAN SEIDLE
ATLANTA, GA.
Belief in Satan .. .
Dear Father:
It is interesting to note
that there is still a great deal
of belief in the existence of
Satan. In last week’s edition,
Pope Paul was reported to
have reaffirmed this ancient
belief. I feel that now is the
time for Christian thinkers to
take a close look at this and
related doctrines. It seems to
me that man’s intellectual
and spiritual energies might
be better spent on clearing
his mind and heart of these
outmoded superstitions. If
Christian people are going to
be effective in a very secular
world, then we must cease
blaming the world’s evils on
some imaginary devil and
assume the responsibility
ourselves. If a child dies of
hunger, it is because WE have
not given enough. If a man
commits suicide, it is because
WE have not cared enough. If
wars continue to rage, it is
because WE have not loved
enough.
Indeed, if there is a devil, it
is the hatred and indifference
which we nurture in our own
hearts. The time has come for
us to replace Satan with the
recognition of our own
capacity for evil. There is
only one effective exorcism for
this “devil” .. .“Love one
another.” (John 15:17).
BILL KINSLAND
CLEVELAND, GA.
Maude's Abortion . . .
Dear Father:
The program of MAUDE at
8 p.m. on channel 5,
November 21, was in
extremely poor taste. The
decision of Maude to have an
abortion and ending the
program with smiling partners
seems to be a part of a plot
for the complete
acceptability of abortion in
this country, as though it was
a cure for carelessness.
I hope all who were
offended by the program
would call Channel 5
(875-5551) or write and also
express their opinions.
EVELYN DOPPEL
STONE MOUNTAIN, GA.
Lord's Prayer. . .
Dear Father:
I join wholeheartedly with
M. A. Beckwith of Fairburn
in protesting any change in
the wording of the Lord’s
Prayer. In the liturgy of the
Mass does it not say “Let us
pray with confidence in the
words our SAVIOR GAVE
US”? Who would have the
gall to think that he, or she,
could improve on the words
of Christ Himself? What an
insult to Him!
I also agree with Mr.
Beckwith that there have
been too many changes in our
liturgy prayers. The old ones
were beautiful - why gild the
lily? I note with satisfaction
when I hear the
PRESBYTERIAN HOUR on
the radio on Sundays that
THEY are not afraid of the
word “Ghost” and still refer
to the “Holy Ghost.”
Whiel I am writing I would
like to applaud John
O’Connor, Warren Duffey
and Louis Fink for their
recent letters deploring the
fact that the Ivy Street
property had been sold and
that Sacred Heart Church will
have a rectory as announced
by the Chancellor, without
any communication with or
notice to the Sacred Heart
Parish Council and the people
of Sacred Heart. And whom,
may I ask, is more affected
than we are? Are we just the
“red headed step-children” of
the Atlanta Archdiocese?
I am now retired and living
in a Lutheran-sponsored
senior citizens’ apartment -
there being nothing for us
sponsored by our Church.
MILDRED L. ROGERS
ATLANTA,GA.
Dear Editor:
I am unalterably opposed
to changing the wording of
the Lord’s Prayer.
PANSY SUTTLES
ATLANTA, GA.
Dear Father:
We vote to keep the Lord’s
Prayer as it is now. We believe
we have had enough change
in our prayers and liturgy and
need to settle down now and
become accustomed to them.
A.V. DORGAN
ROSEMARY DORGAN
FRED DORGAN
ATLANTA, GA.
Dear Sir:
I am strongly opposed to
changing the wording of the
Lord’s Prayer. The prayer as
it is now is beautiful.
T.A.B. SUTTLES
ATLANTA, GA.
Griffin School .. .
Dear Editor:
Very interesting article by
Marie Mulvenna about Sacred
Heart School in Griffin -
some unanswered points,
however.
1) What percentage of the
enrollment is black?
2) What percentage of the
Catholic school-age children
attends public school in the
Griffin area?
3) Why is the religious
program optional if the
parents of the 60 per cent
non-Catholics send their
children to Sacred Heart
because it is a “well rounded
Christian school”?
Additionally, Miss Hultz
referred to a “new method”
of teaching. From my own
first-hand experiences in a
teaching family, I know that
the program of ability
grouping in reading has been
used in Georgia’s public
schools for at least 20 years.
W. J. SMITH, JR.
ATLANTA, GA.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The
unanswered points may now
be answered, thanks to the
principal, Miss Rachel Hultz,
and the pastor, Father Paul
Sullivan. Of the 141 students,
19 are black. Over 50 per
cent of the Catholic children
attend Griffin public schools.
It has always been Sacred
Heart school policy that the
religious education program
be optional; de facto, only
one family has withheld its
children from the religious
program. Finally, Miss Hultz
says that the reading program
at Sacred Heart goes beyond
the program Mr. Smith
describes. She calls it a “total
ability program of much
broader scope.”)
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PAGE 3 — The Georgia Bulletin, November 3C, i972
ISRAEL - This is how Ted Neeley will appear in the
role of “Jesus” in the film version of the rock opera
“Jesus Christ Superstar,” which has recently been
filmed on locations in the Israeli desert. The
29-year-old actor is part Cherokee and comes from
Ranger, Texas. He reportedly won the part in
competition with some 3,000 others.
Exorcism Performed
In Rural Argentina
SALTA, Argentina (NC) — “It was the devil’s work” said the
pastor at nearby El Tabacal after exorcising the home of a
working man there.
The workingman, Guillermo Cruz, called the priest after
furniture and mattresses started to burn without apparent cause,
and dishes and silver changed places at the table as if moved by
invisible hands.
El Tabacal’s policeman, backed by neighbors, said Cruz is a
respected citizen of sound mind. The rural community has some
5,000 inhabitants.
The last strange event that occurred before the parish priest
was called in was the appearance of an object that looked like a
dog’s head with a hood over it and a kerchief tied to the jaws.
“The thing howled as if it had a toothache,” Cruz added.
The priest, Father Antonio Foglia, said the strange
happenings took place for “the devil’s amusement.”
Cruz claimed visits by the pastor to his home had caused the
phenomena to abate prior to the formal exorcism.
Last May Redemptorist Father Luis Stando said in Buenos
Aires he successfully exorcised evil spirits from three youths
while doing mission work in remote Chaco and Formosa
provinces. The national weekly ESQUIU, which published his
account, said “not many recognize the existence of the devil in
this century, but the missionary’s experience tells us otherwise.”
The rite of exorcism to drive out evil spirits consists
essentially of a command by the priest, accompanied by the Our
Father and other prayers, for the devil to depart from a person
or to cease causing harm to him or her. Private exorcism for the
liberation from diabolical influence, through prayer and holy
water, can be done by any baptized Christian.
Pope Paul VI in an address November 15 reaffirmed the
Christian teaching of a personal devil, saying “it is a living,
spiritual being, which is perverted and which perverts, a terrible
reality and mysterious and fearful.”
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