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PAGE 12 — The Georgia Bulletin, December 14,1972
TOP ATHLETES - Coach Scott Frizzell (above)
presents a trophy to Ricky Hamden, selected Most
Valuable Back of the Christ the King Eagles, the
school’s eighth grade football team. Below members of
the Christ the King Falcons, the football team
comprised of sixth and seventh grade students,
honored at the recent Awards Night ceremony were
back Bobby Stringfellow (left), lineman Robbie
Hochman, top player John Ordway and Jerry Rigby,
recipient of the coach’s award.
F ather Henry Gracz
Guest on WRAS-FM
Father Henry Gracz, pastor
of Sts. Peter and Paul Church,
Decatur, was heard on
WRAS—FM last Monday
evening in a one hour
discussion-via-phone call
program entitled ATLANTA
CONNECTION.
The station, run by
Georgia State University, has
a regularly scheduled one
hour show each Monday
during which listeners may
phone in questions for the
person handling the particular
show. Father Gracz reported
the calls were not monitored
as they usually are due to a
mechanical hitch and came
through directly from the
caller. He related the main
concern voiced by the
audience, which is mostly
college age, concerned the
serious matter of drugs.
“There was very little
theology as such, but many
fine questions from the kids
on life-related issues,” Father
said.
Let this serve as a preview
of coming attractions. During
the first months of 1973,
several Atlanta priests and
sisters will be working on
vocation programs
throughout Atlanta. We will
be visiting most of our local
colleges and some area high
schools. You may see some of
us in posters or papers; you
might hear one of us on the
radio - all in order to remind
others that ministry is an
important, meaningful
possiblity in today’s world
and today’s church.
You won’t find us in the
pages of PLAYBOY (we can’t
afford that), but we do hope
to find you in many of the
places where you live, study
and otherwise “do your
thing.” We’ll be making these
efforts because service and
leadership in the Church is so
important and real in our
lives that we would like to
encourage others to consider
the same possibility for their
lives.
During the past 10 years,
there has been a great deal of
change and some resulting
confusion in the Church.
Many haven’t always been
too sure what the priesthood
ana sisterhood might still
mean. That time of change
may have been a helpful and
necessary time of growth.
Perhaps now we can move
out of the time of confusion.
We’re eager to share some of
our convictions and reasons
for wanting to serve with
others who might find the
same need and call in their
lives.
Many people will be
involved in this effort - it’s a
big task. Nevertheless, these
people will never be able to
accomplish the task
themselves. A call to service
in the Church is seldom heard
in just one event or
encounter. Rather, it’s more
likely to be a series or pattern
of people and experiences
which help another person to
hear that call from God in a
way which becomes
increasingly clearer. Each
person reading this column is
an important part of that
process.
All of today’s priests and
sisters should realize that
they are largely responsible
for tomorrow’s leaders in the
Church. We must each be
willing to share ourselves with
others, and especially our
young people, in such a way
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that they are more and more
able to understand something
of the reason and purpose we
find for our style of lives.
There isn’t any single way of
accomplishing that kind of
communication, other than a
very basic and honest
sincerity which lets the
strength of our convictions
and the existence of our
doubts penetrate our
being-with-people. I don’t
believe our young people will
turn away simply because
things don’t come across in
their own jargon or
categories.
They may have great
reason, however, to remain
disinterested if they can’t see
in our lives and actions some
genuine enthusiasm and
interest in God’s call for this
world and the needs of our
brothers and sisters around
us. We need to make sure that
we’re willing and ready to
give of ourselves in that way.
Parents obviously have a
very significant role to play in
this process as well. Your
effort to teach your child
about the meaning and
purpose of life, its value and
significance, will certainly
have a profound impact on
your child’s approach to the
deep questions of his own
life. If your son or daughter
recognizes in your actions a
firm commitment to live as
one of God’s people, he may
find it much more sensible to
work through a similar
response in his own life. Our
young people learn a lot from
the way we live our lives and
the convictions that guide our
actions if not necessarily our
words.
Commitment and service
will become much more
viable options for a young
person if he has learned and
understood these ideals from
the actions and lives of his
parents and other adults
around him. With that kind
of background and
appreciation, a person might
become much more capable
of responding to God’s call to
ministry in the Church
because the value of that
Church and its people already
has meaning in his life.
We’re in the midst of
Advent ’72 - an important
time of preparation for each
of us to examine again the
sincerity of our own Christian
lives. No doubt, each of us
needs to prepare the Lord’s
way into our own hearts and
lives so that we can serve him
better.
But we also must be willing
to help prepare his way into
the lives of others, to help
others respond more fully to
that call. Maybe our prayers
and actions can grow even
stronger in that effort today.
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66 Here We Come A-Caroling”
It’s “Here We Come A-Caroling” time again and
several churches in the archdiocese have planned special
events centered around the music of the season.
On Tuesday, December 19, the Christ the King
Cathedral Choir under the direction of Hamilton Smith
will present a concert of Christmas carols at 7:30 p.m.
All the priests of the parish will participate. The annual
candlelight service will be followed by a reception at
Hyland Center.
Patients at the various hospitals and convalescent
centers in Cobb County will be greeted by a group of
carollers from Saint Thomas the Apostle Church in
Smyrna. Parishioners will meet at the church at 1:30
p.m. Darryl Free is choir director at the church.
Teenagers from the Church of Saint Joseph in Athens
will go caroling to raise money for Camp Hallinan on
Sunday, December 17, Thursday, December 21, and
Friday, December 22. The group will assemble at the
rectory at 7 p.m. and then travel by bus to various
Athens neighborhoods.
Each evening at 7:30 from December 16 through 23,
the annual Living Nativity Pageant on the walk-up slope
at Stone Mountain Park will be presented.
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MEN OF THE ST. VINCENT DE
PAUL SOCIETY are preparing
Christmas baskets for the poor.
All contributions made to the
society during the month of
December will be used to provide
for needy families at Christmas.
THE PRAYER COMMUNITY
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT meets
every Tuesday evening at 7:30
p.m. in the school library at
Immaculate Heart of Mary. The
gatherings are open to all
interested.
ROSARY FOR PEACE is held
each Wednesday after the 8 a.m.
Mass at St. Thomas More Church
the same day after the 8:45 a.m.
Mass at Immaculate Heart of
Mary Church and each Saturday
after the 9:15 a.m. Mass at St.
Patrick's , Norcross, and after the
noon Mass at Our Lady of
Assumption Church. Tuesdays at
Holy Cross following 9:15 a.m.
Mass.
THE GOOD NEW DAYS, a
program for and about retired
people, presents entertainment,
interviews and information, on
activities for senior citizens every
Sunday at 4 p.m. on WETV,
Channel 30.
FOLK LITURGY each Sunday,
11:30 a.m., cafetorium, Our Lady
of the Assumption.
CANDY STRIPERS NEEDED
FOR WESLEY WOODS, girls age
15 to 18. 633-2521.
APOSTLES OF PRAYER meet
second Sunday in every month at
3:30 p.m.. Sacred Heart Church,
Atlanta.
DECEMBER
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PARTY, Saint Anthony's, for
persons over 60 years old.
Information 758-8861.
16 - CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR
UNDERPRIVILEGED
CHILDREN, St. John the
Evangelist, Hapeville, 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. Lunch, games and visit from
Santa Claus.
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