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PAGE 3 — The Georgia Bulletin, January 25,1973
Religious News Service Photo
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Uncertainty the Nicaraguan capital December 23 left
is written on the face of a woman as she thousands homeless and entirely
waits with her child for food supplies in dependent on relief supplies.
Managua. The earthquake which struck
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Victims of the series of disastrous earthquakes which destroyed 75 per cent of the city
| of Managua, Nicaragua, on December 23 will receive close to $20,000 from the
| Archdiocese of Atlanta.
I A special collection held on Janaury 1 netted $19,514.81 throughout the archdiocese.
The money will be sent to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to be used in
| providing financial aid for the victims of the earthquake.
| Here is a parish by parish breakdown of the collection:
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NICARAGUA COLLECTION
JANUARY 1, 1973
Athens, St. Joseph 435.00
Student Center 265.94
Atlanta, Cathedral of Christ the King 2,092.72
Holy Cross 1,021.00
Holy Spirit 1,072.60
Immaculate Heart of Mary 1,781.00
Immaculate Conception 219.00
Most Blessed Sacrament 242.00
Our Lady of the Assumption 1,054.00
Our Lady of Lourdes 25.76
Sacred Heart 612.50
St. Anthony 233.50
St. Jude 2,182.50
St. Paul of the Cross 155.42
Austell, St. John Vianney 149.11
Calhoun, St. Clement 18.00
Carrollton, Our Lady of Perpetual Help 178.00
Cartersville, St. Francis 144.00
Cedartown, St. Bernadette 48.00
Clarkesville, St. Mark 52.25
Clayton, St. Helena 15.00
Covington, St. Augustine 50.00
Dahlonega, St. Luke 37.25
Dalton, St. Joseph 124.00
Decatur, Sts. Peter and Paul 824.50
St. Thomas Moore 904.26
Elberton, St. Mary 37.03
Fort Oglethorpe, St. Gerard 34.50
Gainesville, St. Michael 164.84
Griffin, Sacred Heart 22.00
Hapeville, St. John the Evangelist 415.00
Hartwell, Sacred Heart 23.13
Jonesboro, St. Phillip Benizi 663.95
LaGrange, St. Peter 333.70
Lawrenceville 62.30
Lookout Mountain, Our Lady of the Mount 275.00
Marietta, St. Joseph 952.00
Milledgeville, Sacred Heart ■ • 219.62
Newnan, St. George 345.00
Norcross, St. Patrick 196.50
Rome, St. Mary 454.00
Roswell, St. Thomas Aquinas 158.00
Sharon, Our Lady of Purification 7.00
Smyrna, St. Thomas the Apostle 499.20
Stone Mountain, Corpus Christ 600.00
Thomson, Queen of Angels 60.30
Toccoa, Mother of Our Divine Saviour 23.08
Washington, St. Joseph 18.10
Winder, St. Matthew 10.25
TOTAL 19,514.81
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Housing . . .
Dear Editor:
Last June DeKalb County’s
Commission Chairman asked
the Planning Commission to
undertake a study to
determine suitable locations
for low and moderate-income
housing “to alter the adverse
aspects of existing housing
patterns.” After two intensive
“listening” sessions and a
great deal of thorough
research, the Housing Codes
Subcommittee will report to
the Planning Commission its
findings as to need and
implementation,
recommending a pilot project
to be financed by local
lending institutions, without
involving federal funding, and
with in-put by the
homebuilders and developers
associations.
Such initiative by the
leading ‘‘bedroom
community” of the Atlanta
area may serve to inspire
other counties in metro
Atlanta toward a fair share
approach to the problem of
housing the minimal pay
workers attracted to their
areas by the increasing job
opportunities on the
periphery of Atlanta.
FRAN ROSSMAN
ATLANTA, GA.
TV Programming . . .
Dear Editor:
I hope that the readers of
the GEORGIA BULLETIN
will write their congressmen,
the local TV stations and the
national TV networks each
time they view a program
that presents, through words
and actions, a show that is
detrimental to the morals of
the viewer. A postcard will be
sufficient and can be sent
quickly.
The programming seems to
be getting worse and worse
and unless we exercise our
rights as citizens and viewers
we will have trash coming
into our homes via the TV on
a continuous and ever
increasing basis. Under the
guise of artistic freedom
many of the popular shows
and artists become
instruments of moral evil,
corrupting or capable of
corrupting our youth just as
pornographic books and
movies in stores and theatres.
The series MAUDE, the
Dean Martin show, and the
Carol Burnett show, to name
a few, often present cheap
and vulgar programs which I
don’t care to have coming
into my home. The television
industry has a responsibility
to provide decent
entertainment. If they do not
provide it we should seek
action through our
representatives that will
change the situation. Unless
we act and insist on decent
presentations the moral decay
of our nation will continue.
It is difficult to raise our
children to be moral and
decent in this day and age
without programs coming
into our home via TV or
unsuspecting viewers
presenting subtly and not so
subtly, moral concepts,
through word and action, in
violation of God’s law. Our
children are or should be our
most precious possession
entrusted to us by God to be
raised to know, love and serve
Him. It is insane to permit
indecent programming to
continue to undermine these
efforts.
I urge the GEORGIA
BULLETIN to lead efforts
for decency irj programming.
For convenience of those
who will be interested in
writing the local TV stations
and the TV networks I would
ask that the stations’
complete addresses be listed
in the BULLETIN frequently.
Our congressmen can be
addressed at the U.S. Senate
or U.S. House of
Representatives, Washington,
D. C. A post card will be
convenient and sufficient and
the message can be short and
to the point.
Programming that degrades
human life and presents sex
in cheap fashion contributes
to the lowering of man and
the increase of and our
neglect of human misery. TV
programs can and have been a
tremendous contribution to
improving society. The
direction has changed
however and the potential for
harm to society is far greater.
J. M. JOSEPH
HENRY COUNTY, GA.
Pope Announces New Rite
For Anointing of the Sick
VATICAN CITY (NC) -
Pope Paul VI has reformed
the old rite of the sacrament
of the Anointing of the
Sick--formerly Extreme
Unction - to put more stress
on its healing powers and to
rid it of the older associations
with imminent death.
In a new apostolic
constitution the Pope brings
together a number of
modifications used
experimentally for several
years in various parts of the
world.
Principal changes are:
-In the prayer to be used
in conferring the sacrament;
-A reduction in the
number of anointings with oil
of sick persons;
-Vegetable oils may be
used in the place of olive oil
when necessary;
-The sacrament may be
conferred more than once
during the course of the same
illness;
-The sacrament may be
conferred during a liturgical
ceremony or Mass on a
number of sick persons.
The constitution, entitled
SACRED ANOINTING OF
THE SICK, was announced at
a Vatican press conference
January 18, although it had
been signed by Pope Paul on
November 30, 1972.
The old ritual can be used
until the end of this year; the
constitution states the new
order must be used from
January 1, 1974.
Monsignor Amie
Martimort, a consultor of the
Congregation for Divine
Worship, in presenting the
constitution at the press
conference, said that Pope
Paul had ordered the changes
in keeping with the
recommendations of the
Second Vatican Council.
The old term “Extreme
Unction” is avoided in favor
of the “Anointing of the
Sick,” and the constitution
stresses that the sacrament is
not limited to those in danger
of death.
The “primary and most
important reform,” according
to Monsignor Martimort, is
the change in the prayer or
sacramental formula.
The prayer used in the past
said: “Through this holy
anointing and His most loving
mercy, may the Lord pardon
whatever sins you have
committed . . .”
The new prayer says:
“Through this holy anointing
and His most loving mercy,
may the Lord assist you by
the grace of the Holy Spirit,
so that when you have been
freed from your sins he may
save you and in his goodness
raise you up.”
Monsignor Martimort said
that the new prayer stresses
both that the grace given by
the sacrament “is the work of
the Holy Spirit” and that the
Sacrament is “a remedy for
the soul and for the body.”
In the past, people have
tended to think of the
Anointing of the Sick as a
form of the sacrament of
Penance or forgiveness of
sins, he said. “Although it
does have a penitential
effect,” he said, “even to the
point of replacing Penance if
the latter is impossible, it
above all brings with it a
grace of salvation, comfort
and consolation.”
Another change is the
reduction of the anointings to
two. In the past the priest
anointed all five senses, said
Monsignor Martimort.
Anointings now will be on
the forehead and the hands.
In line with the desire to
disassociate the sacrament of
the Anointing of the Sick
from imminent death,
Monsignor Martimort said:
“One may administer (the
sacrament) to a sick person
who has already received it,
not only if he suffers a
relapse after a period of
convalescence, as was already
permitted in the past, but
even if, in the course of the
same illness his state becomes
more critical.”
The new constitution also
permits the sacrament to be
part of a more complete
liturgical celebration,
including Mass.
“This is something quite
new,” Monsignor Martimort
said. It “has recently been
successfully tried in large
pilgrimages, such as at
Lourdes, or at gatherings of
sick people, and has been a
source of great spiritual
progress.”
In the past, he said the
sacrament. was often
administered “furtively in
order to conceal from a
person the imminence of
death.”
Now, he added, it has been
demonstrated that “these
solemn celebrations also give
to people who are in serious
danger of death through
illness or old age the
possibility of consecrating
their state, uniting themselves
with the sufferings of Christ
and receiving graces that they
need in their trial.”
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Carrying some of her
possessions, including a painting of Christ, a woman
makes her way through the rubble which was once
Managua. Following the earthquake which destroyed
most of the Nicaraguan capital, residents picked
through the ruins of their homes, salvaging belongings.
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