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The Georgia Bulletin
September 14,1978
Catechetical Sunday
Mary Chose Her Escort
Teresa Gernazian
“Sharing the Light of Faith” is the
year’s theme for Catechetical Sunday. It
reminds us all that to share faith we
must know our faith and live that faith
daily. How important, then, is a good
family life centered around the Person of
Jesus and love of the Church. You, as
parents, are the prime educators of your
children, your example in living the
Christian Life is a most effective learning
experience for your children and
adolescents.
The programs of religious education
in the parishes of the Archdiocese
supplement and complement that family
life lived in faith. We are proud of our
Catholic traditions and wish to pass that
heritage on to our children in the best
and most effective way, even as we
continue to grow as believing adults.
The Archdiocesan Department of
A few weeks ago Ron Hudspeth, the
ATLANTA JOURNAL columnist, wrote about
certain “oasis” in and around the Atlanta area.
I have a few of my own I’d like to share with
you.
As a “working woman” my places have
mostly to do with being able to get away from
it all on a lunch hour. I don’t know how many
of you are aware of it but right in the very
heart of downtown Atlanta, just across the
street from City Hall, you can attend noon
Mass at the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception. Confessions are also heard here
prior to this Mass everyday. When Mass is over
you can go next door to the “Garden
Restaurant” and sit out doors under an
umbrella or in the shade of an arbor alongside a
lovely fountain and pool. Here you can enjoy a
delicious fix-it yourself salad or a sandwich and
escape for a few minutes all the hustle and
bustle just a few feet away. Parking is available
right next to the Shrine.
In Buckhead, Christ the King has a 12:30
p.m. Mass daily and if you have fixed your own
lunch you can visit Bagley Park just off Pharr
Road or a lovely Civil War memorial, Tanyard
Park, between Collier and Northside Drive.
Another oasis is St. Anthony’s on Gordon
Street in West End. Here Mass is at noon and
following it you can join the members of St.
Anthony’s Friendship Club in the Church Hall
for lunch. They serve a full meal every day for
just 75 cents and it has to be the best bargain in
Atlanta.
St. Anthony’s is one of my favorite places
because there is always so much going on. I
stopped there for Mass and lunch last week and
I was given a list of their current activities. To
name a few: A Cake Decorating Course which
will begin on September 11 and run for four
weeks. September 23 the St. Anthony’s School
Festival begins featuring a Country Store where
Education - Office of Catholic Schools,
Office of Religious Education - are eager
to serve the parishes and parents in
keeping our programs consistent with
sound doctrine and proper methodology.
In conjunction with the Archdiocesan
Board of Education, these Offices have
developed policies and recommendations
on program design and textual materials.
I urge you to use these guides and
recommendations.
It is good for all of us to remember
that the Goal of Religious Education is
to make faith living, conscious and
active; that as adults and parents we all
are continuously growing in our faith,
the Faith envisioned by St. Paul: “Let us
profess the truth in love, and grow to the
full maturity of Christ, the head.” (Eps.
4:15)
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Most Reverend Thomas A. Donnellan
Archbishop of Atlanta
vegetables will be sold at minimum cost. Rich’s
will be host to the club on September 30 for an
all day luncheon and fashion show.
However, the event that has the group most
excited is the trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma, on
October 14. Of course the highlight of this tour
will be visiting their old pastor now Bishop of
Tulsa, the Most Reverent Eusebius Beltran.
Almost as soon as this peripatetic group
returns they will be throwing a Pot Luck
Dinner on October 22. All those with St.
Anthony’s in their hearts are welcome to come
and partake of good food and fellowship.
Somewhere in all these comings and goings
they are planning a weekend shrimp feast in
Brunswick, Ga. If you are not exhausted just
reading this and would like to take part in any
of these activities contact the rectory or the
Parish Hall at 758-8861 or 758-8476.
By the way, another important event is
pending; September 23 the Annual Meeting of
the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women
will take place at the Sheraton Biltmore in
Atlanta. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. with
Mass at 10 a.m. and the Business Meeting at 11.
Workshops this year will deal with
Legislation, Rural Affairs, Church Affairs, Child
Abuse and Battered Women. They will take
place from 1:30 to 5 p.m.
The guest speaker at the Banquet will be
Father Terry Young Principal of St. Pius High
School.
Call Honey Malesky at 451-0918 or
Josephine Olin at 458-1185 for your
reservations.
When I ordered a certain tape two years ago,
little did I dream that God would have a hand
in the reply envelope. For along with the tape I
ordered, came a complimentary tape for review
called “Mary, Rosary, Scapular” by Louis
Kaczmarek. It was in this way we were
introduced to the dynamic and dedicated
speaker who will be escorting the International
Pilgrim Virgin Statue to Atlanta on October 1.
If Louis Kaczmarek had appeared on the
television show “What’s My Line?” it’s quite
likely he would have stumped the panel. For
who would imagine a man earning his livelihood
by escorting a statue and giving talks? Yet
that’s exactly what Louis does and here’s how
he was chosen:
Several years ago the shy, 47-year-old
bachelor was a high school CCD instructor in
Mt. Morris, Michigan. One class was devoted to
a talk on the Blessed Mother which so
impressed the students and others who heard
him that he was asked to give the talk to the
entire parish. Before long he had many
Michigan parish invitations, plus out-of-state
ones.
Though Louis felt inadequate both mentally
and verbally, he prayed before speaking and
prepared himself as well as he could. Being
certain of his subject, the words flowed
fervently from a heart on fire. His audiences
were both captivated and motivated.
Three years ago, he spoke at the third
Marian Conference in St. Louis and this led to
an invitation to accompany the International
Statue on tour of the United States. Louis
declined, however, on the advice of his sister,
Virginia. “Say no,” she told him, “and if Our
Lady wants you, she will come and get you.”
The United States tour of the statue was in
progress when on September 1, 1975, the
priest-escort of the statue had a heart attack in
Saginaw, Michigan, thirteen miles from Louis’
home. When asked to “pinch hit” for the priest,
he humbly accepted.
One day a stranger approached him and
asked if his parents were living. He replied that
his father was dead and his mother was a
complete invalid with multiple sclerosis. He
Decades and maybe centuries will pass
efore we adequately realize how
magnificently Pope Paul VI, implementing the
vision of Pope John XXIII, reformed and
renewed the Church. But a couple of items in
the cataracts of news articles following the
death of Paul VI should help us at least to begin
to see what changes Pope Paul wrought, not
only within the Roman Catholic communion,
but in the atmosphere of the world and of
Christianity.
No longer does the Catholic liturgy speak
and sing as if death were disaster. Gone is the
somber, not to say terrifying, Dies Irae, day of
wrath. In its place at the funeral of Pope Paul
was a triple Alleluia, a cry of joy and triumph.
Thus does the New Order of Mass, decreed by
this pontiff, recognize the transformation of all
reality brought about by Christ’s redemption of
humankind. Thus does the liturgy utter the
glorious truth that death is not an end but a
new and splendid beginning. It is the door,
the only door, through which we can step from
our preliminary earthly life into a transfigured
life in the visible and intimate company of our
Creator who brought us into existence out of
nothingness.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
The immense throng present for Pope Paul’s
Mass of the Resurrection in St. Peter’s Square
caught the meaning of that triple Alleluia, and
of the changed spirit in the New Mass. When
the body of the Holy Father was being carried
from the square back into St. Peter’s Basilica,
the crowd broke into spontaneous applause.
The bells of the basilica sang for happiness, and
thychoir burst into the Magnificat.
The Magnificat. Remember? The Virgin
Mary had been informed by Gabriel the Angel,
messenger from the Blessed God, that she had
been divinely chosen to be the Mother of Jesus
the Savior. He had told her that for a sign to
her, she would find that her cousin Elizabeth,
although many years past the age of
child-bearing, was with child. And so Mary, a
teen-ager, hastened along the arduous and even
dangerous journey from Nazareth to the town
that was to see the birth of John the Baptist.
She entered the home of Elizabeth, and the
infant in Elizabeth’s womb leapt for joy at his
proximity to the Redeemer whose herald he
was to be. Then Mary spoke the great spiritual
poem which we have come to call the
Magnificat: “My being glorifies the Lord, and
my spirit rejoices in God my savior, because he
has noticed his handmaid in her littleness. From
this time forward all generations will call me
blessed, because the mighty One has done great
things to me. . . He has remembered his
promise to Israel, to Abraham and his progeny
forever.”
It is a prose-poem of the victory, through
Mary’s Son, of our human race over the ancient
enemy who turned our first parents against
their Creator -- the old enemy Satan, who was a
liar and a murderer from the beginning. In the
added that her illness held him at home because
he felt responsible for her. The woman, a nurse,
said that she would care for his mother without
payment. “You take the Statue of Our Lady of
Fatima to people for their veneration,” she
insisted. When Louis told Virginia what had
happened, her advice was, “Louis, you’ve got to
go now. Our Lady is calling you.” He then
Pilgrim Statue Our Lady Of Fatima
great plaza in front of St. Peter’s, the mother
church of Christendom, Pope Paul VI was
entering into that triumph; and so the throng
applauded, the bells clanged for joy and the
Magnificat was sung. And in the congregation
were leaders of the many Churches of
Christendom - the Anglicans, the Orthodox,
The magic word of our age, the word which
arrests the attention of all, is the word NEW. Of
all the adjectives, it is the most provocative. No
matter what is presented to us, if it is “new,”
that settles it. We are interested.
To ask then, “What is OLD with you?”, is to
raise a silly question; and yet a vital one.
A famous motto says, “The past is prologue;
study the past.” Another like it states, “I have
but one lamp by which to guide my feet; the
lamp of experience.”
Back of us all lie certain fixed landmarks,
old landmarks. Back of us all are certain
revealing and sobering experiences. The
everyday name for these is Values. What makes
them Values is their age; they are old.
As part of a community-help program in
Belle Glade, Florida, Hattie Fields visits elderly
people. When they ask, “Have you got any
vegetables that you can spare?” she
understands.
These people had worked in gardens most of
their lives, but now they were too old or too
sick to grow things for themselves. Hattie Fields
had been a farm worker for 20 years. And now,
she wanted to supply the people with the fresh
vegetables they missed so much.
One day, she noticed a large piece of black,
mucky ground at the nearby Glades
Correctional Institution that didn’t seem to be
in use. She told the superintendent she wanted
to grow vegetables for the poor and she asked
him for one acre. He liked the idea and
promised to ask for State approval. Soon, he
accepted the Marian assignment, feeling it was
what Our Lord and Our Lady wanted him to
do.
Because of this commitment, Louis resigned
his position as president of a plastics company.
Even though it is a demanding life - as many as
12 talks a day - he has no regrets. As official
custodian of the rare and exquisite image, and
having recently completed the world tour I
wrote about last week, Louis will have much to
share with us. (Tape recorders are welcome). He
has seen an atheist, challenged to visit Our
Lady’s image, become a believer; a priest whose
vocation was saved because of Our Lady; a
female ex-dope addict enter the Carmelites, and
countless other spiritual transformations. To
top it all off, Louis is as down-to-earth as the
boy next door and winks at life wherever he
goes.
At 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 1, Louis will
escort the statue as it makes its regal entry
down the center aisle of Immaculate Heart of
Mary Church to its place of honor. The
following hour will provide time for loving
admiration before this magnificent image of the
Queen of Heaven and Louis’ first talk will be
immediately following the 6 p.m. concelebrated
Mass. Details outlineing the entire evening will
appear in the September 28th issue of The
Georgia Bulletin.
Marian Religious Center, (1203 So.
Washington Street, Saginaw, Michigan 48601)
produces cassette tapes by this powerful
speaker and a list will be sent upon request.
Louis’ feeling for the Blessed Mother is
contagious and his motto is spreading
everywhere -
Think like Mary.
Talk like Mary.
Act like Mary.
Pray like Mary.
Love like Mary.
Be another Mary.
Welcome to Atlanta, Louis!
the Presbyterians, the Lutherans and the others
- honoring the man whose reforms have opened
wide the way toward the reunion of Christians
for which we pray.
It is the same Church Paul leaves to us, ever
old, ever new, but now new with a new newness
which his renewal has given it.
new? What family traditions do you cherish and
preserve from year to year, no matter how old
fashioned they are? What principles do you
adhere to, no matter how old-hat they may
appear? Styles change, the winds of opinion
vary; but what convictions do you stand by
through thick and thin? What beliefs undergird
your daily conduct because tested by fire and
sword?
We hold no honor for the OLD simply
because it is time-honored. What we do
advocate is a better balance between the old and
the new. In that new house, let there be the old
moralities. In that new car, the old courtesies.
In those new clothes, the old decencies. Our old
world will neither be smashed nor saved by
anything new, not even the newest missile. The
ruination of the world is greed, as old as man.
Its salvation is simple goodness, older than
man! As old as the eternal goodness which
formed him.
called with good news: “Mrs. Fields, I got you
the whole 13 acres.”
Then, Hattie Fields looked for workers. She
went to the director of Manpower, a
government-assistance project that finds jobs
for the poor. He said he would “see what we
can do.” On the morning they were to start
preparing the ground, nine men showed up. No
tractor was available - only six hoes— still, they
set to work.
That first hard-won harvest of turnips and
mustard greens was more than enough for the
300 poor families Mrs. Helds was helping.
And in the five years since then, the garden
has kept on giving.
Hattie Fields knows what people can do
with God’s help: “God is real. He did it. And
you can believe it.”
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