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PAGE 8 — The Georgia Bulletin, January 18,1973
New Chaplain
Father Blandin W. Karabinos, T.O.R., (right)
succeeds Father John M. Dougherty, S.J. as Post
Catholic Chaplain at Fort McPherson. Father Blandin
joined the Army in 1970 received his chaplain training
at Fort Hamilton, N.Y., after which he was stationed at
Fort Knox, Ky. More recently Father served one year
as a Chaplain in Vietnam. Father Blandin belongs to
the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis and was
ordained in 1964. After ordination Father taught high
school math and physics; was a hospital chaplain for
one year and was a history instructor at Saint Francis
College in Pennsylvania. Father will be stationed here
at Fort McPherson until October 1973.
Through all the ice and cold, some 40 priests from
the Atlanta area gathered here at Holy Cross Church a
week ago Tuesday to spend the day reflecting on their
role in the recruitment of young people for service in
the Church in North Georgia. Certainly it was difficult
for many to be here but it still proved to be a valuable
time to reflect on the quality of our lives as priests and
what our priestly commitment should be saying to
others who might be thinking about the life options
open to them.
In his homily during the
celebration of the Eucharist,
Archbishop Donnellan
stressed what for me became
the strong point of the day’s
gatherings. The archbishop
reminded the priests that
theirs is the priesthood of
Jesus Christ and each man
who presumes to minister and
serve God’s people must also
be quite certain that he is
first a companion of Jesus.
For me, that simple phrase
contains a great deal of
meaning.
Jesus’ first disciples, those
who would continue his work
once he had returned to the
Father, were clearly his
friends. They left everything
in order to follow Jesus. They
ate and slept, walked and
talked with the Lord himself.
Many very human, kind
incidents in the gospels
demonstrate the growth of
the bond of friendship.
Through this intimate
knowledge of Jesus, they
came to trust him and believe
his message about salvation.
Every Christian person is
called to that same sort of
relationship with Jesus, our
risen Lord, but also our
brother. The man who gives
his full life to the full time
work of the Church must
take special care to foster his
companionship with Jesus
throughout his life. This
means that he must certainly
be a man of prayer, a man
who is currently seeking to
grow even more mature in his
own prayerful understanding
of his life and work as a
servant of God’s people.
make sure that these things
remain true aspects of
ministry and service, and not
distractions, will be a
persistent, daily effort to stay
in touch with the Lord.
All of this talk about the
necessity of prayer should
not frighten a young person
who is still searching for the
meaning of his own life. Even
after spending a great deal of
time with Jesus, his disciples
still found His message to be
a difficult one which
confused them. Only later,
when the Spirit came, were
they really able to go out and
preach the good news of
salvation.
All of us must spend a
great deal of time in our own
lives trying to determine the
presence of God’s Spirit. That
search for understanding
doesn’t stop with entrance
into a seminary or the call to
ordination, but may continue
until the coming of the Lord
in glory.
The most important point
is that a person be open to
God’s call and presence. That
sort of openness brings the
frightening possibility of
having to follow the Lord
down paths we aren’t familiar
with. Openness and trust are
virtues which don’t always
come easily. Usually we feel a
lot more comfortable when
we can control and determine
things by ourselves. A
growing friendship with Jesus
through prayer will give us
the confidence we need to be
able to accept and follow a
friend and brother.
That isn’t something that
happens in any automatic
way. It isn’t the result of
good intentions or casual
efforts. Prayer becomes a real
part of most people’s lives
when they actually take the
time to do nothing else but
reflect on their relationship
with God and his daily call
for their lives.
In a world that seems to
move faster each day that
isn’t as simple as it sounds.
There will always seem to be
a great many projects that are
quite urgent and pressing,
things that can easily distract
us. Perhaps the only way to
Parents are an extremely
important part of this process
of finding oneself and God in
a prayerful way. As in so
many other situations, a
parent communicates a great
deal to his child by his own
style of life. Values come
through one’s actions in a
way which can’t be avoided.
A family and a home with a
genuine atmosphere of prayer
is something which cannot be
created artificially. When that
atmosphere is fostered, the
positive conditions for a
young person’s own search
for meaning in life are
certainly present, whatever
his ultimate decision may be.
Periodical Discusses
Foreign-Born Priests
BY LOUIS FINK
EUROPEAN PRIESTS IN ATLANTA - 1914-1939,
an article by Van E. Jolissaint in THE ATLANTA
HISTORICAL BULLETIN, Fall-Winter 1972,
published by Atlanta Historical Society Inc.
With Sacred Heart Parish observing its 75th
anniversary, this report on the priests who came from
Europe to evangelize Georgia is particularly timely. “In
1914,” writes the author, “most of the United States
was considered mission territory by the Roman
Catholic Church. By 1914
Catholic Parishes in Atlanta,
Sacred Heart was founded
by Father John Gunn, of the
Society of Mary, who later
became Bishop of Natchez.
The Marist Fathers built a
school and a parish and “were
responsible for all the
counties in Georgia north of
the parish on Ivy Street.”
After brief biographies of
some of the Irish, French and
German priests who worked
here, the article discusses the
career of Father Philip
Dagneau, Canadian-born and
educated in the French
settlement in San Francisco,
who became principal of
Marist. He is quoted as feeling
that the European teachers
were better teachers than we
have now. There was “less
attempt to create a ‘well
rounded’ student. Students
were taught by strict
methods, and ignorance of
lessons and misbehavior
Spanish
Sacred Heart Church has
begun the 1973 Adult
Religious Education program
in Spanish. Coordinated by
Sister Teresita, the
lecture-discussion series will
be presented at 11 a.m. on
Sundays during January and
February.
The schedule for the talks,
which will be held at Sacred
Heart, 335 Ivy Street, is as
follows:
there were still only four
>5
received physical
punishment.”
Anyone interested in the
history of the Church in
Atlanta will find a wealth of
information in the article. It
should be preserved in
archdiocesan archives.
Unfortunately, the
proof-reading was not done
carefully. We find such words
as “nonexistent,” “Semetic,”
‘‘Lous’’ (Louis?),
“Rensselear,” “St. Pauls,”
“St. Thomas Moore” (twice).
The author’s conclusion is
interesting: “In Atlanta, as
elsewhere, the native clergy
grew to where it was capable
of meeting the needs of the
Catholic population. There
are still European priests in
Atlanta, but their number
and importance has
deminished (sic.)”
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library.
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