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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, January 20,1977
Un Misionerno Moderno
POR LUIS FERNANDO LASSO
Hace algunos anos, cuando yo vivia en el Ecuador, veia de vez
en cuando a los misioneros religiosos que iban hacia las regiones
orientales para Ilevar la verdad de Dios a las tribus de las selvas
amazonicas.
Eran estos hombres barbados de mirada serena y austera, sus
rostros reflejaban lo arduo de su tarea, la malaria, la
desnutricion y el cansancio.
Superhombres, Santos. Venerables eran ante nuestros ojos y
nuestros oidos avidos de sus historias y consejos. Asi veia yo,
cuando era nino, a los religiosos misioneros que hicieron tanto,
y siguen trabajando por los jijos de las selvas.
Esa es la idea basica que yo tenia de un misionero y si viviera
serca de las regiones orientales del Ecuador, o la Nueva Guinea o
el Africa, de seguro que veria aun sus caras austeras y sus
miradas bondadosas y sus cuerpos fragiles, pero hoy vivo entre
lo. que se llama la civilizacion, un mundo moderno con
problemas y selvas y parasitos modernos que a pesar de sus
avanees cientificos nececita de vez en cuando ser recordado de
lo mas basico de su existencia, ser llevado al principio de todos
los principios, Dios. Ese desafio de este mundo moderno tendra
una respuesta durante las dos primeras semanas de Febrero
cuando aqui, en la muy modema metropolis de Atlanta se
celebrara la Segunda Mision Catolica Hispana.
Un mundo moderno necesita MISIONEROS MODRNOS. Y
quienes seran esos hombres escojidos, esas mujeres sacriflcadas
que abandonaran todo por embrender ese arduo viaje hacia las
selvas? . . .Bueno, sabemos que no hay selvas en Atlanta, ni hay
malaria ni serpientes venenosas. Sabemos si, que hay ambre,
soledad, desolacion, ateismo y pecado. El desafio fisico de esta
mision es muy syave y facil de vencerlo, aunque el desafio
religioso y el humano es talvez mas fuerte que ese de las selvas
amazonicas. Este desafio llama a muchos misioneros; en nuestras
casas, en nuestros trabajos, en nuestros centros sociales y
religiosos. Es os Misioneros Modemos somos todos y cada uno
de nosotros que queremos hacer un parentesis en la rutina de
nuestra vida cotidiana, para ir a escuchar la palabra de Dios
durante la mision que se celebrara en la iglesia de Cristo Rey del
siete al once de Febrero.
La mision encomendada es el Ilevar la notieia de este
acontecimiento a todos cuantos entran en contacto con
nosotros y hablan el idioma Espanol, es el abrir nuestras puertas
a los voluntaries que vienen personalmente a vivitarnos, es el
desprendemos de unos cuantos centavitos para hacer posible
esta mision.
Pensemos que hace muy poco tiempo celebramos el
nacimiento de Cristo haciendo alarde de regalos y banquetes
mientras que El, siendo Rey entre los reyes quiso nacer humilde
entre los humildes. Es justo que ahora que tenemos la
oportunidad de juntamos todos para escuchar sus preceptos,
apoyemos con nuestra contribucion personal y material que por
mas pequena que sea tendra buen impacto no solamente para la
mision sino para nostros mismos.
Ese es el pedido que se le hace al Misionero Moderno, su
simple presencia en la Catedral de Cristo Rey, una vez alii, su
mente viajara talvez entre las selvas de su conciencia, llevando la
palabra de Dios y la luz a lo mas reconito y pobre de su vida.
Vamos - Seamos Misioneros!
Bishop Neumann ‘Unique’ Philadelphian
NEUMANN RELIC ~ A priest at St.
Peter’s Church in Philadelphia touches
a relic of Blessed John Neumann to the
NORTHERN IRELAND
eye of a woman. Bishop Neumann, who
will become America’s first male saint
June 19, is entombed at St. Peter’s.
Leader Claims 99.9 Percent Want Peace
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VATICAN CITY (NC) -- Miss Mairead
Corrigan, one of the founders of the Irish
Peace Movement, said in an interview on
Vatican Radio that 99.9 percent of the people
in Northern Ireland want peace. But they will
have to build a new kind of society there to
get it, she declared.
“We are saying that individual people are
important, that life is sacred, that people are
unique and that they can contribute to
building a new society in Northern Ireland,”
she said.
The Peace Movement, she pointed out, has
the same theme as the message of Pope Paul
VI for the World Day of Peace, “If you want
peace, defend life.”
Miss Corrigan met Mrs. Betty Williams and
journalist Ciaran McKeown four months ago
at the funeral of three children who were
killed by a car driven by escaping IRA
terrorists.
She was the children’s aunt. She and Mrs.
Williams founded the Women’s Peace
Movement which immediately drew tens of
thousands of active supporters. As the
movement mushroomed, McKeown took a
strong role in developing it, and its name has
changed to People’s Peace Movement. Now it
is known simply as the Peace Movement, and
its supporters in Ireland and abroad number in
the hundreds of thousands.
Miss Corrigan stressed the need for positive
action. “I believe if the guns and bombs
stopped tomorrow that the work of peace will
have to go on where we can create a just and
free society, a community where every man is
equal,” she said, “where every man has the
opportunity to grow and where human life is
sacred.”
Pressed for examples of positive action, she
said people should see the causes of violence
and try to remove them. “If you live where
teenagers are carrying out violence, give them
an alternative. Open a hall or a discotheque
for them.” The movement has helped start
many local groups for community-based
action.
The seven-year-old civil war in Northern
Ireland began as the result of a struggle by the
Catholic minority to gain more economic and
political equality with the two-thirds majority
of Protestants. It has claimed 1,700 lives -
one for every thousand people in the country.
Thousands more have been wounded, and
entire sections of some towns and cities have
been reduced to rubble.
Mi® Corrigan said the movement’s most
important achievement so far has been a
rekindling of hope for thousands that there is
a way out of the violence.
“I honestly believe,” she said, “that if the
Peace Movement doesn’t work, it will do more
psychological damage than the whole seven
years of violence, because the movement has
raised thousands of people’s hopes up so high
that we cannot let them down now.”
Although all three movement leaders are
Catholic, Mi® Corrigan did not see this as a
problem.
“We are trying to create a society,” she
said, “where it does not matter whether a
person is Catholic or Protestant. We’re all in
this together and we are all Northern Irish
people and we will have a problem that we
must resolve together.”
In the seven years of violence, she said,
Northern Ireland has gained nothing and lost
much. “We would like the world to learn from
us,” she continued, “that wars don’t answer
any probiems. If by nonviolent action we can
change society in Northern Ireland ... we will
be a great hope to countries that have greater
problems than we have.”
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PHILADEPHIA (NC) -
Blessed John Neumann,
fourth bishop of Philadelphia,
who is to be canonized this
year, is “unique among the
great Americans identified
with Philadelphia,” Cardinal
John Krol said here at a Mass
on Bishop Neumann’s feast
day.
“Bishop Neumann was a
saint,” Cardinal Krol said just
two weeks after Pope Paul VI
announced that the former
Philadelphia bishop would be
canonized on June 19.
“For more than 70 years,
Bishop Neumann’s life and
everything he did and wrote
were subjected to intense
scrutiny in order to certify
that he was truly heroic,” the
Charismatics Hear Archbishop
Archbishop Thomas A.
Donnellan, principal
celebrant at a special
Charismatic Mass on the
Feast of Jesus’ Baptism, told
more than 600 Catholic
Charismatics that they should
be more “open to the
influence of the Spirit.”
“Being a Christian today
means being a marked man,”
Archbishop Donnellan said in
his homily. “We are slightly
antiquated in a world where
belief and conviction are
biased, and where agnosticism
is unprejudiced.”
The Mass was celebrated at
the Cathedral of Christ the
King. Concelebrants with the
Archbishop were Fathers
Anthony Delisi, OCSO;
Joseph Baxer, MS; Joseph
McLaughlin, SM; Hugh
Marren; Richard Kieran;
James F. Kelly; John C.
Kelley; Paul Berny; Terry
Kane; Sean Fleury, MSFS;
Jerry E. Hardy; Peter
Ludden; Joseph Paulantonio,
and Edward Danneker.
The theme of the Ma® was
that God’s children, who have
been baptized with water and
the Holy Spirit, should be
faithful to their calling. This
calling, according to
Archbishop Donnellan, was
that the Christian is “on a
courageous journey in this
world with full knowledge of
his own frailty and full belief
in the power of the Spirit.”
Baptism enables the
fulfillment of this calling,
according to the Archbishop.
Through baptism, the
Christian can fully experience
the influence of the Holy
Spirit and the power of
Christ, he said.
During the Ma® several
prophesies were read by Joe
Flanagan, Director of the
Saint Vincent De Paul
Society in Atlanta, and the
leader of the Sts. Peter and
Paul Charismatic Prayer
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Group. The following are
excerpts from some of those
prophesies:
“This generation is called
by my Spirit to go into the
world around you, not far
afield, but around you, to
show in your lives daily what
living in grace can mean to
the lost, the lonely, the
depressed, the spiritually
starved.”
“Be patient as I was
patient - do not attempt to
bring about spiritual success
with worldly ways. Be human
as I was human - laugh, cry,
work, play, but most of all,
love. For I have called you to
love not only Me, but each
other.”
Lectors at the celebration
were Ann Gress and Don
Spencer, and the gifts were
brought forward by Mr. and
Mrs. Miguel Suras. Music was
provided by singers from the
various prayer groups under
the direction of Father
Berny, archdiocesan Liaison
to the Charismatic Renewal.
Following the Ma®, a
reception was held in the
Hyland Center.
cardinal told a standing-room-
-only crowd of 2,500 in the
Cathedral of SS. Peter and
Paul.
Two residents of the
Philadephia area, the cardinal
noted, had a special reason to
be grateful to Bishop
Neumann, because they were
the beneficiaries of
miraculous cures attributed
to the intercession of the
bishop who governed the
Philadelphia diocese from
1852 until 1860.
Kent Lenahan, of
suburban Philadelphia,
recovered miraculously after
a near-fatal automobile
accident; Michael Flanigan, of
Wildwood Villas, N.J., was
cured on Ewing’s sarcoma, a
form of cancer.
The cardinal recalled
Bishop Neumann’s
contribution to Catholic
education in establishing a
diocesan board of education
and in increasing the number
of schools from two to 100,
and to the development of
the Church in the United
States by resisting in court
laws that would have given
lay trustees authority
properly belonging to
bishops. Cardinal Krol added:
“We honor the memory of
a man whose activities
continue around us and
among us today in this city
and the world.
“John Neumann did not
do dramatic things. He
humbly did things in a rather
ordinary way. But as such he
is an example to you and to
me. His impact on future ages
is lasting.”
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