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PAGE 8—The Georgia Bulletin, December 9,1976
TOCCOHART-
Rural Catholic
Ministry
Fr. Ray Horan
It’s about something we all take for granted. We as
latter-quarter, 20th century Americans are an “instant people.”
We buy a car and expect the vehicle to go each time we put the
key in the ignition. We buy a stove, a lamp, a refrigerator, plug
it in to a wall outlet, and instantly it works. We dispell darkness
with sealed beam (round or rectangular) headlamps on cars, and
move from place to place in what really is the absence of the
sun’s full light. We enter the malls of our cities or our towns and
find them lit at night, and now lit beautifully with the lights of
the Christmas season. We look for warranties on whatever we
buy, and now for “extended buyer protection plans.” And in
this Advent, a time of “coming” and “waiting,” we’re kind of
called upon to reflect.
Like you, I enter the Big Star in Toccoa or the Winn Dixie in
Hartwell and see before me thousands of square feet of food
and foodstuffs. Like you, I get a cart and push it along, with
occasional grunts at the price of a jar of peanut butter
(crunchy), a head of lettuce, a box of crackers, a gallon of milk.
And because everything is there before me, I get angry
somewhat about the store and its policies and its prices. And I
share that anger with the folks in Hartwell and Toccoa. And I’m
humbled.
In Hartwell, for example, there are still some family farms.
There are families who for two or three generations have been
“on the farm” preparing the foodstuffs that eventually find
their way no longer to the neighborhood farmers’ market, but
to the large chain store.
One family, in particular, farms a dairy farm. I’ve often
planned during the last three years to spend a few days on the
farm working along with the family, because someone once said
that the best way to “understand” is to “stand under.” Never
made it, mainly because I don’t like getting up at 3:30 each
morning to open a milk barn so that the cows can be milked
(and when it gets cold, I like it even less!). But I have been out
in the milk barn a few times, and I found out that the cows
don’t like me. Attached to the milking machine, “angularly
parked,” as it were, they would eye me suspiciously.
And talking with the farmer about prices of feed, seed,
equipment, etc., I simply marvel at the continued existence of
the small farm. You and I buy a refrigerator or a car - he buys a
new cow and there’s little or no warranty, there’s the necessity
of feeding and caring for the animal because it is alive, there’s
the possibility of disease and early death, there’s the possibility
of ‘utter emptiness.’
And it is not a 9 to 5 day on the farm, either. It’s a day when
a cow is down out in the pasture, or the day and the only day
for planting because of the two days without rain and the storm
that’s coming this a’way, or the day for harvesting for
sometimes the same reason.
I mention all this during this Advent time because I have
learned from farmers and from the gardens of others in the
TOCCOHART area what waiting with expectation is all about.
And the call of John the Baptizer to repentance is one that is
still so valid a call today : “The people asked him, ‘What are we
to do, then’?” John responded to each group that asked . .. We,
too, must ask, and listen for the response.
RECEIVING AWARDS FROM Coach Mary
O’Connor (right) at the Christ the King School Awards
Night are Kristen Strougal (left). Jenny Ellis, Ci Ci
O’Connor, DeNee Kennedy, Angela Schultz, and Katie
Miller, winners of the division finals in Atlanta Lawn
Tennis.
Christ The King School
Sponsors Awards Night
BY EDITH LUMMUS
Coaches, players and parents of Christ the King School’s
football, cheerleading, golf and tennis teams attended the recent
Awards Night at the school. Bob Neal, Falcon’s football
announcer, was guest speaker.
Many teams went on to the finals in their various divisions.
John Gibson’s Mighty Mite Eagles won the 1st through 3rd
grade championship. Lou Loncaric’s 4th and 5th grade Jets were
undefeated and Jack Smith’s 4th and 5th grade Steelers won the
championship in the 10-and-under Parochial League Division.
Keith McMahann’s 7th grade Cowboys won the Parochial
League “B” Division and Gary Puckett’s 8th grade Lions
captured 2nd place in the Parochial League “A” Division
playoffs.
The 8th grade cheerleaders were 1st place runners-up in the
Parochial League cheerleading competition.
Congratulations go to our two Atlanta Lawn Tennis Teams,
Pat Strougal’s 14-and-under girls and Mary O’Connor’s
12-and-under girls, both of whom won the division finals in
their respective age groups.
Each child participating on a team or as a cheerleader was
presented a certificate of achievement by their coach.
With fall sports just over, basketball teams in all age groups
have already begun practice and are looking forward to their
first games.
Knights’ Christmas Trees
Knights of Columbus Council 660 is selling Christmas
trees at the corner of North Druid Hills and Buford
Highway this season.
The Council invites all to come by and shop.
CATHEDRAL RECONSECRATION - Russian
Orthodox Bishop Theodosius of Pittsburgh and West
Virginia lifts the cross before the altar during the
reconsecration of St. Michael’s Cathedral in Sitka,
Alaska. St. Michael’s, the first Russian Orthodox
Christmas Party For Widowed
WIDOWED PERSONS SERVICE CHRISTMAS
PARTY, December 15, 7:30 p.m. at the Highland
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widowed persons, men and women, are invited. Guest
speaker will be a graphologist who will analyze
handwriting at the party. Fun for all! Call Ann Bouch at
926-2186 for more details and reservations.
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1966 but rebuilt with money raised by the
congregation. At right is Bishop Gregory of Sitka and
Alaska.
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