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PAGE 7 — The Georgia Bulletin, December 21,1972
A TLA 1ST A BISHOP A TTENDS
Catholics, Methodists
Explore Cooperation
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
Representatives of the World
Methodist Council and the
Roman Catholic Church
finished a four-day meeting
here on “What are Methodists
and Catholics doing together
and what more should they
do together?”
Head of the joint meetings
was Methodist Bishop William
Cannon of Atlanta, and
Catholic Bishop Michael
Bowen of Arundel and
Brighton, England.
Father William Purdy, staff
member of the Vatican’s
Secretariat for Promoting
Christian Unity and a
member of the 10-man
Methodist-Catholic
commission, said the
discussion had as a basis three
points:
-Mutual belief in the
mission of Christianity to the
world;
-Man’s quest for God;
-The sacredness of home
and family.
“The Methodist-Catholic
commission’s task was not to
thrash out theological
differences, but rather to
come up with suggestions for
a Methodist and a Roman
Catholic to work together in
showing the world what
Christianity has to offer.”
The joint release issued by
the commission after its
Rome meeting emphasized
that the participants wanted
to go beyond theological
dialogue.
“The old debates on the
seat of authority in religion
and the relation of authority
to freedom,” the release said,
“must be related to the
question of actual
leadership.”
The commission said also:
“Those claiming to exercise
authority are often ignored
when they do not seem to
exercise leadership, while
unofficial leaders in religious
concerns are widely
followed.”
The commission ended this
section by noting: “How are
authority and leadership to
coincide is an urgent issue for
practical common
reflection.”
The release issued by the
Vatican said that the
commission found that
“traditional Roman Catholic
spirituality and traditional
Methodist spirituality have
‘unexpected points of
resemblance.’ ”
The commission
recommended further
exploration in common
action but specified that both
church groups and their
undertakings should be
related to “new styles of
spirituality and to the
authentic aspects of growing
p e ntacostalism and
charismatic movements.”
The commission added
that it “does not want to
accumulate footnoted papers
for growing archives, but to
stimulate Methodists and
Catholics, clergy and laity, to
common action, so that the
world which is starving for
lack of any news of hope may
not through our unnecessary
divisions be prevented from
receiving the food of the
Gospel.”
Methodist members of the
commission include Bishop
Prince Taylor of Princeton,
N.J., member of the council
of presidency of the World
Methodist Council; Methodist
Bishop Franz W. Schafer of
Zurich; Raymond George,
head of a Methodist college in
Bristol, England and a
liturgical expert who advised
Roman Catholics during
implementation of the liturgy
called for by the Second
Vatican Council; and Lee
Tuttle, general secretary of
the World Methodist Council
at its world headquarters in
Lake Jonaluska, North
Carolina.
Other Catholic members,
in addition to Father Purdy,
are Father Thomas Stransky,
an original member of the
Vatican Secretariat for
Promoting Christian Unity
and now president of the
Paulist Fathers with residence
in Scarsdale, New York;
Jesuit Father Michael Hurley,
lecturer in theology at
Milltown Park, Dublin, and
founder of the Irish School of
Ecumenism, and French
Dominican Father Jerome
Hamer, secretary of the Unity
Secretariat.
DIACONATE DIRECTOR
Father William Philhin
Killed in Plane Crash
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Father William Philbin,
executive director of the
National Conference of
Catholic Bishops’ Committee
on the Permanent Diaconate,
was among those killed in a
plane crash near Chicago’s
Midway Airport.
The 47-year-old priest was
killed in the crash (Dec. 8)
that claimed the lives of 46
others, including Sister Mary
Francisca Sherman, 58, of the
Sisters of Mercy of the
Union. She was a member of
her congregation’s general
council and lived at the
generalate in Bethesda, Md.
Father Philbin
Father Philbin was going to
Chicago to attend the
ordination of 98 permanent
deacons in his hometown of
Chicago. Sister Francisca was
to represent the generalate at
a conference of nuns in
Chicago.
Archbishop Joseph
Bernardin, the NCCB general
secretary, expressed his
sadness on hearing of Father
Philbin’s death. “Father
Philbin was a priest whose life
of service and commitment
was an example to us all,”
Archbishop Bernardin said.
Father Philbin joined the
NCCB in 1967 as associate
director of the Committee on
Priestly Formation. He
became the Executive of the
Committee on the Permanent
Diaconate when the office
was formed in 1969.
Father Philbin was born in
Chicago. He studied for the
priesthood at St. Mary of the
Lake Seminary, Mundelein,
Ill., and was ordained in May,
1951.
Sister Francisca joined her
congregation in 1936 in
Dubuque, Iowa. She became
a member of the
congregation’s Cincinnati
province where she counseled
novices from 1968 to 1971.
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PREPARING FOR DINNER
The turkey is taken from the oven, much to the delight of the family, as another
load of wood is brought in for the stove. Ever since the beginning of Christianity, a
great feast has been held to celebrate Christmas. In the course of time each nation
has developed its own customs in connection with the Christmas dinner.
The traditional American Christmas meal is English in origin although the English
“Christmas bird” (usually goose or capon) has been supplanted by our turkey and
cranberry sauce. An assortment of pastries, breads, potatoes and vegetables are also
common fare on Yuletide tables.
This painting by William Medcalf appears in the 1972 edition of “Christmas, An
American Annual of Christmas Literature and Art,” Vol. 42, edited by Randolph E.
Haugan. It is used by permission of Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, Minn.,
copyright owner. (R.N'.S. Photo)
A Family Christmas Liturgy
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BY DOLORES CURRAN
If you are a typical
parent, you are tired of
the whole Christmas
business by now. You have
been holidaying since
October, buying gifts,
addressing cards, inviting
people, sewing dresses, and
chewing nails. You are
yearning for a return to
normalcy, to routine in
your home and to decent
parent-abiding children
instead of those greedy
little monsters in the
family room.
Yet, guiltily, you realize
that Christmas, the holy
day, has been smothered
by Christmas, the holiday.
All those extraneous items
like decorations, gifts and
programs have so taken
their toll of family interest
and energy that you are
almost willing to nod at
the Birth.
Besides, you don’t
know what to do about it.
You would like to have
some kind of family
religious observance, but
you keep putting it off
until Christmas Eve. Then
guests, gifts and turkey
consume your time. Your
family ends up attending
two or three different
Masses and your
observance of the Birth as
a family ends up being
grace during the Christmas
dinner. After it’s all over,
you wonder what it was all
about.
This year, why not
make it different? You are
tired of the tinsel and
chaos (not to mention the
children). Instead of
intensifying the
excitement and noise, help
your family relax in the
beauty and peace of the
Birth. You still have time
to set aside one day or
evening before Christmas
for a Family Only Liturgy.
Start a tradition . . .not
later, but now. I will give
you some suggestions but
each family should tailor
its liturgy ot its own
needs. A typical family
celebration can include
carols, Jesse symbols,
stories, individual prayers,
and special wishes for one
another.
I suggest that someone
other than Mom be named
commander in-chief. She
has enough on her mind
right now and children
have untouched capacities
in this area. They are
excellent celebrators. If
there is a child old enough,
say 10 on up, he can take
charge once the
groundwork is laid.
Get the family together
for a planning session, at
the close of a meal
perhaps. Dad preferably
(or Mom, usually) can say
something to the effect
that you feel the need for
a religious tradition during
the holidays but that you
are not quite sure how the
family can celebrate it.
Brainstorm it from there.
Let the children suggest
what to do. You can be
the levelling influence
(explaining that no, they
can’t bring straw and
animals into the living
room) but allowing them
fairly free range of their
creativity.
One family ended up
building their liturgy
around Christmas cards, as
a result of the children’s
suggestions. Each child
picks five or ten religious
cards in advance, shows
the picture, tells the story
of it, reads the wish, and
mentions the sender. He
suggests a carol for the
family at the end of his
presentation and the next
child begins with his cards.
The dad reads the story of
the Nativity at the end.
Another family has each
child take one or two Jesse
symbols, tell the story of
waiting that each
symbolizes (the Ark, the
apple, etc.). Still another
writes a special gift prayer
for each member of the
family, copies it and
illustrates it into a book,
reads it aloud, and gives
the member the book as a
gift. Can you imagine a
more treasured keepsake?
Other families make use
of the crib, role playing
the various characters in
the Nativity story. One
mother reported on the
success of the latter. “The
children became so
involved in their characters
that they actually became
them for awhile. Our
daughter who was playing
Mary described it as being
“a little scary when I
didn’t know if we’d find a
place to sleep!”
Soft candles, religious
symbols, a few carols, and
a special prayer or wish for
one another help offset
the materialism and franzy
of children during this
special time. It IS a special
time for Christians and we
should not deprive our
children of its religious
significance by allowing
our busyness or our
self-consciousness to get in
the way.
Keep the liturgy fairly
short, from 15 to 30
minutes, but if, as so many
celebrating families report,
the children are reluctant
to see it end, add a few
stories, prayers, and songs.
And don’t judge it by
parent standards only.
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you can be a touching
experience to a child. You
will discover the truth of
this next year when you
try to change “our
liturgy” slightly and your
children won’t allow it,
“because we always do it
this way.” As Father John
McCall puts it, “Tradition
to a child is anything three
months old.”
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