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PAGE 8 — The Georgia Bulletin, December 21.1972
When the song of the angels is stilled
When the star in the sky is gone
When the kings and princes are home
When the shepherds are back with their flock
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among brothers,
To make music in the heart.
This poem by Howard
Thurman appears in a
Christmas card produced by
the Fellowship of
Reconciliation. It focuses on
some of the real meaning and
spirit of Christmas and
reminds us deary of our
responsibility. The ideas
aren’t new - they’re a
paraphase of much that is
found in the Gospel. The
goals aren’t new - men of
every age have certainly
sought to achieve these goals.
Nevertheless, you and I can
make these phrases into new
possibilities for our lives and
our world if we take up the
work of Christmas, the work
of Jesus, making it our own.
Basically this is the task of
the Christian: to continue the
mission of Jesus for our
world, bringing all men back
to God. We’re all aware of
that obligation and we try to
grow in our faithful respone
to God’s call for us.
Hopefully, each
Advent-Christmas gives us an
opportunity to reflect ■
admist all the other hectic
rituals of this season-on how
we are accomplishing that
responsibility and how we
might do better in sharing the
life of God with one another.
Christmas reminds us again of
the importance of human life
as Jesus, the Son of God,
becomes man and therefore
brings the divine and human
together in an entirely new
way. Each of us and every
person around us assumes a
new significance because of
this lesson taught by the
coming of the Lord in our
midst: man can share in the
life of God himself.
The man or woman who
would serve the Church in a
fulltime, lifetime way
necessarily finds special
meaning in the work and
spirit of Christmas. As leaders
in the Christian community,
we must be especially
mindful of the community’s
responsibility today for the
work of the Lord. Our
encouragement and hopefully
our enthusiasm will help
those around us to realize
more deeply their own role in
this responsibility. We must
help others to realize the best
of what they are capable of
being and doing - to recognize
that dimension of God’s spirit
living in their lives and calling
them to become more and
more God’s people. The
Christian leader fulfills this
function in the community
not by authority and rule but
by service.
All of this theory comes
down to many practical
situations: the need of a
critically ill person and his
family, the need of the sinner
for God’s forgiveness, the
need of the community for
the body and blood of the
Lord, the need of people for
someone who listens and
cares. Hopefully, the priest
stands ready to respond to
those needs and serves others
in that way. It’s a challenging,
demanding and very
rewarding way to spend one’s
life.
The sign in front of
Richway says: “The Spirit of
Christmas is here.” I haven’t
been to Richway recently so
I’m not sure about their spirit
of Christmas. But I hope that
each of us will have a deep
realization of the spirit of
Christmas in our own lives so
that we will be able “to make
music in the heart” of every
person with whom we share
our holiday season.
AN ANNUAL event at the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception is the offering of Christmas gifts to the
baby Jesus, which the children have purchased from
their allowance, or money they have earned doing
chores. The gifts are then presented to a mental
hospital for children.
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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 ail
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. Christ the King following
12:10 Mas'
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.
JANUARY
3 - PRE—LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC
HEARING by Fulton County
delegation. 8 p.m.. Committee
Room State .Capitol. Open to
public.
16 - SISTER MARGARET
BRENNAN discussion,
"Expanding Ministries for Women
in the Church.” St. Joseph’s
Village, 8 p.m. Open to all priests,
sisters and interested lay person.
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Who Says Christmas Is Only One Day?
BY CONNIE STAPLETON
If you think Christmas
is only a day, take a
minute sometime and
write down all the things
you like best about it.
Sharing. Family. Joy.
Friends, hope, excitement.
Love. The ingredients on
my list have a great deal in
common. They don’t cost
a cent and are around all
year.
I never thought much
about it until one day,
while we were putting
away the decorations, my
son asked, “Hey, Mom. If
Christmas feels so good,
how come we only do it
once a year?”
He was right. But I
found myself wondering
what had been so special
about that Christmas that
he did not want it to end.
We had just moved into
a new home (our ninth in
seven years). Our fifth
child was only a few
months old. We had no
friends nearby and very
little money. Since love
and time seemed to be our
only gifts, we tried to find
new ways of sharing them.
The children came up
with the first idea. Why
not go through their
closets and find toys and
clothes they could give
away? They entered the
project with such gusto
that I found myself
wondering how I could
possibly
replacements.
afford
On the way to the local
fire station to deliver our
gifts, we passed the home
of an older couple and
noticed they hadn’t
shovelled their walks.
“Maybe they’re too
old,” Sue volunteered.
“Let’s go back and see if
they need help.” We did,
and after shovelling our
way to their door, we were
rewarded with new
friendship over cookies
and cocoa. The sharing
was such fun we tried it
the following week with
the neighborhood
children.
Our grandparents lived
500 miles away but we
found some living nearby,
in a nursing home. They
needed grandchildren as
much as we needed
grandparents. We returned
on Christmas Eve to sing
carols under their windows
and felt so great afterward
we sang all the way home.
Christmas never left our
house that year. Every
tincan top seemed to smile
in eager anticipation of the
ornament it could become.
We began cutting new
designs during Easter
vacation and started
making Christmas cards in
June. This time, we
stitched fat felt balls
together with loops for
hanging the tucked letters
and pictures inside the
freezer in September while
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When our children were growing up, our house was
always full of children - both ours and those of the
neighbors. It seems that other young people just sort of
instinctively move in the direction of a home where there is
already a big family. How many evenings, after the football
game, or similar school events, did we have three or four
extra “bodies” occupying a spare bed, or a piece of the
floor? Our son had a gang of buddies that kind of moved
from one house to the other, but any inconvenience they
caused during the year was erased at Christmas time. There
were always three extra boys, sometimes five, who would
accompany our family to Midnight Mass. Only one of these
extra young men was Catholic, but that was a small matter
for come with us they did!
Through the years we saw our boys (and these other
boys) grow into men, changing the dress from a school
letterman’s jacket to a military uniform, then back into the
smart attire worn by young men today. We added an
occasional girlfriend, several sons-in-law, and finally some
grandchildren. The first several years when they would all
troop to our house for after-Mass snacks, it was hot
chocolate, then they were offered a beer, and most recently
perhaps Scotch and soda. I wept one year when they all
showed up at the church. Our sons were going to Vietnam
two days after the Christmas holidays. Now we are all
scattered, most of these “other sons” have families of their
own, but our prayers and memories have been with them
this Christmas season, and the pew is mighty empty
without any of them to share it with us. Ricker, Joe and
Steve - God Hess you!!
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making lists ot new
neighbors to take them to.
That was the first year
we forgot to go shopping
at the store. All our
presents seemed to be
waiting at home. My
daughter Jill gave me her
most prized possession: a
hand-embroidered apron
that had won first prize at
the fair. Jack made a
glorious card that
contained secret slips of
paper that said things like
“good for washing ten
windows” and “I will dig
your garden in the
Spring.”
Our gifts of self seemed
to multiply every time we
gave them away. Not only
that, they were exciting to
plan, did not need
wrapping and were great
fun to deliver. Our cookies
found many friends but
our favorites were two
little old ladies down the
road. They came back the
next day with a bag of
black nuts to take to their
house. When we arrived,
we noticed they didn’t
have enough firewood and
loaded the truck with logs
when we got home. On
that trip, we discovered
their TV had not worked
for two years so we
brought that home for
repairs. A few months
later our fragile ladies
appeared at the door laden
with boxes of the most
beautiful iris I have ever
seen.
We have moved four
times since that first
year-long Christmas. Alone
the way our children have
grown into teenagers and
we have poured all kinds
of love into our Christmas
cards: handgathered seeds
to plant in the Spring,
weed collages to hang in
the window to catch the
winter sun, plastic mosaics
baked in the oven to hang
on the tree.
Some years we don’t
send cards at all. One year
we mailed them in
February. If we can’t find
the right present until
July, that’s when we send
it. We give away mangers
as fast as we make them.
That’s the great thing
about celebrating
Christmas all year. It can
happen anytime. Like the
night last August my
daughter tiptoed into my
room after coming home
from work and whispered
in my ear, “I just found
two girls hitchhiking on
the highway and they
don’t have a place to
spend the night. Can they
stay here?”
“Sure, honey,” I
replied, turning over to go
back to sleep.
She leaned over to
squeeze my arm. “Thanks,
Mom. Merry Christmas.”
Things like that happen
when you let Christmas
stay all year. All you have
to do is open the door.
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For eight years, Msgr. Nolan has journeyed to
Bethlehem to participate in midnight Mass on
Christmas. He has also t ken gifts to our Lord
each year, just as the Magi did so long ago.
These gifts are gifts of love—thousands of them
from good people like yourself who want to help
the hungry, the sick and the helpless in the
Holy Land, the Near East and India. These are
just as much gifts to Christ as those of the Magi.
And they occasion no less rejoicing in Heaven.
Will you put your gift in Monsignor Nolan’s
hand before he starts his Christmas journey?
Simply fill out the coupon below and enclose
it with your gift. We thank you,, confident that
through sharing, your Christmas will be spirit
ually enriched.
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offering, the names of your friends and loved
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MSGR. JOHN G. NOLAN, National Secretary
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330 Madison Avenue'New York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: 212/986-5840