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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, September 21,1978
NEWS VIEW
THE MAN WHO RALLIED India’s Catholics
to defend their homeland during the Communist
Chinese invasion of 1962 and India’s first native
cardinal is dead at age 77. Cardinal Valerian
Gracias of Bomhay died Sept. 11 in Bombay
after a lengthy struggle with cancer.
Cardinal Vacancies
Face Pope John Paul
VATICAN CITY (NC) -- The death of India’s Cardinal
Valerian Gracias makes it more likely that Pope John Paul I will
schedule soon a consistory to create new cardinals.
Several key Sees generally run by cardinals currently do not
have a cardinal as Ordinary.
Pope John Paul could create nine new cardinals and still be
within the limit set by Pope Paul VI. Pope Paul ruled that only
120 cardinals under age 80 can enter a conclave.
There are currently 111 cardinals under 80.
Pope John Paul, of course, is free to amend Pope Paul’s
ruling.
Important Sees without bishops include Turin, Armagh in
Ireland, Mexico City, Bombay, Tokyo, and Venice.
The only Chinese cardinal, Paul Yu Pin, died in Rome several
days before the recent conclave and the new pope might want
to name a Chinese to succeed him in the sacred college.
The pope, at the moment of his election, did not follow the
ancient custom of placing his red cardinal’s skullcap on the head
of conclave secretary, Archbishop Ernesto Civardi.
But sources within the conclave said that the new pope told
Archbishop Civardi, “Let’s take care of this calmly later.”
The last conclave was in June, 1977. Pope Paul held six
conclaves during his 15-year pontificate.
Carnival At St. John’s
El Seleccionado De Dios:
Todos Los Hombres
POR: FR. RAIMUNDO M.
SOLANP, O.F.M.
El encabezado y el tema del presente
articulo me vinieron a la mente despues de un
ameno dialogo habido con un grupo de
encarcelados en la Prision Federal de Atlanta,
Ga. El dialogo tuvo lugar en una reunion en la
que se hablaba y comentaban los resultados de
los diversos equipos de futbol que compiten
en el Campeonato Mundial de Futbol Soccer
en la Republica de Argentina. En le reunion,
uno de los concurrentes dijo: Padre: me
parece que Dios tiene tambien su
SELECCIONADO. Es decir, Dios ya sabe
quienes se van a condenar y quienes a salvar.
Estos ultimos forman el SELECCIONADO DE
DIOS. Asi que va a ser inutil esforarse ...
Si se toma la comparacion con su sal y
pimienta, tu punto de vista es justo, pero solo
hasta cierto punto, fue mi respuesta. La
Biblia, Palabra de Dios, nos da una buena
noticia para todos: En verdad Dios tiene su
SELECCIONADO. Pero en la lista de los
jugadores que lo forman y a quienes se les
abren las puertas del cielo estamos todos.
Cuando los 72 discipulos sb volvian locos
de alegria por los milagros realizados y los
demonios expulsados, Cristo les dijo: “No os
alegreis porque los espiritus se os someten,
sino alegraos porque vuestros nombres estan
escritos en el cielo.” (Lc. 10:20—
Y en la ultima mision que les encomendo,
reafirmo: “Proclamad la Buena Nueva a toda
la creacion; el que crea y see bautizado se
salvara.” (Me. 16:16) “Haced discipulos a
todas las gentes.”” (Mt. 28:19)
San Pablo esclarece el punto al decimos:
“Ante todo, te recomiendo (Timoteo) que se
hagan peticiones, oraciones, rogativas,
acciones de gracias por todos los hombres, por
los reyes y por todos los constituidos en digni
- dad, a fin de que tengamos una vida
tranquila y sosegada en toda piedad y
honestidad. Esto es bueno y grato a los ojos
de Dios nuestro Salvador, el cual quiere que
todos los hombres se salven y vengan al
conocimiento de la verdad.” (1 Tim: 2:1-4)
Esta claro; Dios no quiere que nadie se
condene. O como afirma San Pablo:” Dios
quiere que todos los hombres se salven.” Dios
quiere que todos los hombres esten en su
SELECCIONADO. Todos estamos
seleccionados para la felicidad eterna. El
hecho de que no todos permanezeamos en la
Seleccion y no alcancemos la felicidad eterna
se deberia a un rechazo voluntario por parte
del hombre. Con frecuencia el mismo hombre
prefiere irse donde el Seleccionado del
Maligno o a donde nadie lo llama. Y a la homa
de pasar lista, nadie respondera por el.
Repitamos una vez mas: No es Dios quien
nos saca de su SELECCIONADO. Pensar de
esa manera es dejarse desviar por el metodo
que emplean los entrenadores para seleccionar
los jugadores de sus respectivas Seleciones.
Elios si que sacan de la Seleccion al jugador
que no da la medida. Que no rinde. Que no
mete goles. En el SELECCIONADO DE DIOS
no ocuYre de es modo. El quedar fuera del
EQUIPO de Dios fluye de la culpa individual,
como la planta de la semilla. Es el hombre
quien se excluye del SELEECIONADO
DIVINO. Asi que por parte de Dios, nada que
temer.
Dejemonos de lamentaciones y de echar la
culpa al buen Dios. La noticia bomba es que
nuestros nombres estan escritos en el cielo.
Solo es cuestion de no dar la callada por
respuesta. Responder que SI, y con obras,
naturalmente. Cuando San Pedro pase lista de
los jugadores, que estemos alii para gritar:
“PRESENTE!”
Working To Serve Others Is A Joy
HOLY SPIRIT PARISH’S
Women’s Guild got off to a
rousing start as they hosted
Monsignor McDonough for
their first meeting of the
season. The Vicar General
greeted many old friends on
his return trip to his former
parish.
THE MEN AT OLA
HAVE A NEW way of
enjoying the pasttime of
“Monday Night Football.”
Last week they got together
on a Monday with a guest
from the Atlanta Falcons and
a bevy of football films.
THE ADULT
EDUCATION PROGRAM at
Our Lady of Lourdes is in full
swing. Father Terry Young
opened the new year with an
insight into the life and times
of Mother Seton. And
there’s more to come.
THE ANNUAL PRAYER
BREAKFAST hosted by the
Cathedral Women’s Club is
scheduled for September 26.
The morning will begin with
Mass at 9:30 a.m., followed
by a continental breakfast in
the Hyland Center. Guest
speaker will be Mrs. June
Webb, whose topic is “Life
Begins.” Jackie Clayton at
874-1037 has all the details.
RETIRED CITIZENS and
those semi-retired are invited
to participate in a Day of
Recollection at Blessed
Trinity Shrine Retreat in
Holy Trinity, Alabama, on
October 4 beginning at 10
a.m. A donation of $5 is
PHILADELPHIA (NC) -
A year ago, a Philadelphia
woman paid $15.95 through
the mail for a “Cross of
Lourdes” that was dipped
into the waters of the shrine
of Lourdes, France, and
blessed by Pope Paul VI.
She had hoped that
praying with the cross would
help ease the pain of her
arthritis.
“What do you do with a
cross?” she asked. “I kissed
it. I prayed with it. I’m up in
years. I have arthritis and I
really had faith in it.”
The mail order house that
sold the “Cross of Lourdes”
has been charged with 1,000
APT. FOR RENT - AD new,
completely secure, 1 bd., 2nd
floor apt. Dishwasheer, disposal,
range, completely carpeted, air
cond. Ideal for single adult Vi
block from Christ the King
Cathedral, $250.00 per month,
utilities included. References
required. 237-1432
WESTV1EW - 4 grave lot Catholic
section. $3,200 value - seU for
$800. WiD finance 944-9579.
WANTED HOUSEKEEPER/
COOK - Male or female for happy
home. NW section. Prefer live-in.
Reference required. 262-3331.
DISCO CLASSES - Mon, Thur,
Fri., Sat at 8 p.m. $3.00 per
person. Call 636-7433 LoCurto’s
Disco Ballroom in Tocco HUls
Shopping Center.
HILTON HEAD CONDOMINIUM
Completely furnished, sleeps six.
Close to beach. 636-7656.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND - 3 bd.,
3 ba. home for rent in Sea Pines.
CaD 938-8193.
CALLAWAY CARDENS - Pine
Mountain, Ga. 3 br. chalet. Sleeps
8. Pool. Tennis. 5 minutes to the
Cardens. $225 per week or $120
per weekend. 457-7600 or
451-6667.
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. Ocean
Front, 3 br., 2 ba. FuUy furnished
Apt. with all amenities. For rent
by day, week or month at
reduced rates. CaD 636-5688.
asked for the day, which
includes lunch. Reservations
should be sent to Sister
Edward Ignatius, MSBT,
Blessed Shrine Retreat, Holy
Trinity, Alabama 36859.
EVERYTHING IS IN
FULL SWING for the two
new parishes in Cobb County.
Both Father Horan and
Father Carroll have their
programs off the ground.
Most helpful has been
Founding Father Mulroy,
whose direction as usual has
been impecable.
DEKALB COUNTY
COMMISSIONER Leane
Levitan launched the new
season for the Women’s Guild
of St. Thomas More. Even the
husbands were invited to the
ladies’ first gathering.
NORTH ATLANTA HIGH
SCHOOL students interested
in nursing or paramedical
careers should look into the
behind-the-scenes hospital
work St. Joseph’s is hosting.
For more information,
contact Marie Gibson at
393-0907 or 256-7317.
ST. JOHN’S IN
HAPEVILLE is preparing for
their upcoming carnival. It
will be all the fun of the fair,
including a “Dunk the Man”
booth featuring Father Jack
Druding. Seemingly, the more
dignified pastor turned down
the honor.
FATHER FRED
KAMMER, SJ, a member of
the New Orleans Province of
counts of mail fraud by Peter
F. Vaira, U.S. attorney for
the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.
Americans Consumer, Inc.
faces a possible maximum
penalty of $1 million. The
federal complaint charged the
Philadelphia company did not
dip the crosses in the water at
Lourdes but sprayed them
with water from a spray gun.
The crosses, which were sold
with a certificate of
authenticity, were never
blessed in Rome by Pope Paul
.either, according to the
information released by the
government.
1959 METROPOLITAN - New
paint & rebuilt motor. 921-0854.
PIANO TEACHER - Highly
qualified experienced - located
near Cumberland Mall. Idee
CordeD 955-1511.
PART TIME WORK
Demonstrate unusual toys and
gifts. Average $5.00 an hour. No
investments, no delivery, no
collections. 393-0264.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Persons interested in Religious
Education in parish school of
religion and in teaching religion in
parochial school - especially in Jr.
High (7-8) area. Please send
resume to Fr. James F. Kelly,
Director of Religious Education,
756 West Peachtree Street,
Atlanta, GA 30308.
AMELIA ISLAND, FLORIDA
Ocean-front, 2 bd., 2 ba., fully
decorated condominium. Tennis,
pool, golf, private fishing pier.
Rent day, week or month.
Excellent rate. 9344624.
JUNK - Wrecked cars or trucks.
Top cash prices. Prompt removal.
CaD anytime. 762-9125.
WANTED - Apostles to live and
work in a community of priests
inspired by the Pastoral
Spirituality of St. Francis de
Sales. ITansalian Fathers, 109
Johnson Road, Lawrenceville, Ga.
30245.
Jesuits, has been welcomed to
his new home at the Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception.
Father Fred has been in
Atlanta for some time now,
working as Director of the
Senior Citizens Law Project
of the Atlanta Legal Aid
Society.
THE DIABETES
ASSOCIATION OF
ATLANTA will hold its
monthly two-session diet
management class for
diabetics, their families and
other interested persons on
September 26 and 27 at 7
p.m. at the Diabetes Center,
1365 Peachtree Street, Suite
322. For further information,
call 881-1959.
A NEW NATIONAL
CENTER to gather and
collect items of Catholic
memorabilia of days past is
being established. Items to be
collected include Holy
pictures, statues, altar
clothes, vestments, old
Missals and other religious
books. For information, write
St. Raphael Center, P. O. Box
533, Negaunee, Michigan,
49866.
*****
ST. JOHN THE
EVANGELIST PARISHION
ERS may have started
something. About 30 adults
and a scattering of children
assembled at the Shrine of
Our Lady of the Highways
and Byways near the church
for a birthday party in honor
of the Blessed Mother on
Friday, September 8. The
grounds around the shrine
were cleaned, hymns sung
and the rosary recited.
No spokesman for
American Consumer Inc. was
available for comment on the
complaint.
The crosses were sold to at
least 1,000 people across the
country who, the government
said, should seek refunds for
the crosses from American
Consumer.
Vaira said the crosses were
advertised in various national
publications such as GRIT
MAGAZINE, NATIONAL
ENQUIRER, COPPERS
WEEKLY, EXAMINER
BULLETIN, MIDNIGHT
NEWSPAPERS, AND THE
NATIONAL STAR
newspaper.
The case was investigated
by the United States Postal
Inspection Services and
assistant U.S. attorney
Mitchell S. Cohen, deputy
chief of the special
prosecutions division.
Cohen said the case against
American Consumer Inc.
represents the first criminal
charges brought against a
corporation for nationwide
mail fraud. He also said
American Consumer Inc. is a
$32 million business.
Cohen credited Father
Samuel E. Shoemaker,
assistant chancellor of the
Philadelphia Archdiocese,
with providing the necessary
background information on
Catholic beliefs concerning
St. Bernadette and Lourdes in
order to prepare the case.
The investigation of
American Consumer Inc. is
still open, and no court date
has yet been set for the case,
Cohen said.
The woman in
Philadelphia who bought one
of the crosses is planning to
ask American Consumer for a
refund.
“I intend to write them.
It’s like they’re trying to
make people fools,” she said.
St. John’s Catholic Church
in Hapeville is scheduling its
big Fall Carnival for
Saturday, October 7, from
noon until 5 p.m. This annual
event stirs up much
excitement and activity
among the parishioners, but
most particularly among the
women of the Ladies’ Council
who are sponsoring it.
Frances Fletcher and
Annette Schimmelman are
the co-chairman for this
family fun day and they have
planned quite a variety of
booths, games and special
events to interest and
entertain everybody - the
young and the not so young.
There will be the popular
country store, sweets booth,
cake walk, treasure chest and
others. This year our Mercy
Sisters will sponsor the Post
Office Booth with its many
giftwrapped surprises. The
Boutique will feature
handmade articles designed
and made by the quilters and
the arts and crafts group -
women who have busied
themselves all summer
preparing for this carnival.
Early Christmas shoppers are
urged to see the crocheted
afghans, shawls, knitted gifts,
ceramic dolls, pictures,
aprons, Christmas tree
novelties, quilts, ceramics,
potholders, and a beautiful
variety of items. There will be
a booth for fresh green
plants.
At 2 p.m., Jim Braun will
present a magic show. During
the afternoon the American
Legion Train will toot its
whistle and signal the time
for train rides through
Hapeville. Carnival goers can
play games, dance, try the
dunking machine and then
visit the refreshment booth
where hot dogs, sandwiches,
drinks and other goodies will
be sold.
Everybody can have a
good time at the St. John’s
Carnival to be held in the
school cafeteria and on the
playground. The school is in
Hapeville at the intersection
of Sunset and King Arnold
Avenues. Children, parents,
grandparents and single adults
are all invited to come and
have a fun day.
BY AGNES HULSEY
When the former
supervisor of Forest Park
Branch Library announced
that she was retiring, and that
I had been recommended by
her to fill the job, I was
overwhelmed. It was not the
responsibilities of the job that
I found so stunning; it was
the qualities Alma Stansel as
a person had brought to the
job.
Alma was a tireless
worker, a stickler for details,
a well-read person with a nice
background in history, and a
person of tremendous
compassion. She had a
marvelous sense of humor,
too.
Honesty compelled me to
admit I’d learned a lot by
working by her side for over
seven years. Still...
Then, one day shortly
after Alma retired, a loyal
patron who had been coming
into the library for years said
simply of Alma’s retirement,
“She was so helpful.”
In a short, four-word
sentence, she had
unknowingly given me the
encouragement I needed. I
COULD be helpful.
Helpful didn’t mean
knowing all the answers right
off the bat, or never making a
mistake, or never getting tired
or discouraged. It just meant
hanging in there, and trying
to do a good job.
Agnes Hulsey is no Alma
Stansel, but once I saw the
job in that concept, it
changed my attitude to a
positive one. And being
helpful, I know now, can be
translated beautifully into the
old-fashioned phrase which I
like: “Service to Others.”
I’d like to bring it out of
storage, where I feel it has
been for too long in our day,
and polish it up a bit. I think
it deserves a prominent place
with some of the other
“oldies” that we’re
rediscovering today such as
simplicity in our lifestyle,
plain hair styles and clothes,
basic furniture, natural foods,
informal entertaining,
camping, enjoying nature.
Doesn’t “Service to
Others” look nice with these
other appealing qualities?
For those of you who’ll
argue, “Hey, Agnes, it’s been
around all the time. We just
haven’t been putting it in
capital letters,” I’ll reply.
“Yes and no.”
IT’S BEEN MY GOOD
FORTUNE to have had many
friends and relatives who
perform service to others so
naturally that even they are
not aware of it. If I told them
about it, they’d look at me
funny and say, “Who, me?
Are you kidding? I don’t
know what you’re talking
about.”
I wouldn’t pay any
attention to them. They are
the salt of the earth and just
don’t know it. They’ll drop
me a cheery note if they
know I’m going to the
hospital for tests and am
scared out of my
cotton-picking mind. If they
have good luck with their
cucumbers, I get so many my
complexion is faintly tinged
with green. They encourage.
They assist. They sympathize.
Examples abound; space is
limited.
One of the reasons Service
to Others is not carried out as
readily in some places as it
should be is because it is not
recognized as being one of
the brightest facets of Love.
I REMEMBER A FRIEND
of mine who was rearing
several sons during the height
of the hippie era. The boys
were her pride and joy and
the family had some fine
confabs on the subject of
love.
So, one morning before
she went off to work she
asked Number One Son if
he’d take out the garbage. He
said he didn’t have time. Her
husband took it out that
evening after working all day
at an exhausting job. The
next morning, she asked
Number Two Son if he’d
mind putting the meat loaf
and baking potatoes in the
oven when he came home
after school.
He said, “Naw, Mama. I
don’t know that much about
cooking.”
So, she reared back on her
hind legs and bellowed,
“Look, I don’t understand
you guys at all. You mouth
all this good stuff about love
and caring for your fellow
man, but you haven’t got
time to take out the garbage
or put a meat loaf in the
oven. What gives?”
It worked. For a little
while.
We speak so much about
our impersonal world, and
the computers taking over,
and we’re just a number
anyway. Some of that is true.
Let’s face it. But, you’re a
person, and I’m a person. In
our homes, in our
neighborhoods, in our jobs -
schools, churches, clubs - we
DO have an opportunity to
be of service to others. And
this service can and does
enrich our lives as much, if
not more, than that of the
persons we serve.
WHENEVER ANYONE
NEW comes to work in our
library, I say, in so many
words, “Look, the pay here is
okay. But don’t come to
work here unless you can give
a lot of yourself, and take
home something more than a
paycheck every two weeks. I
know this sounds cornball,
but there’s something
tremendous about serving the
Great American Public. If
you do your best, and are
sincerely interested in helping
the patrons, they’ll pick up
on it, and they’ll appreciate
it. And the resulting
atmosphere - warm, friendly,
homelike - is something you’ll
treasure.”
I mean it, too. Cornball?
Old-fashioned? I don’t care. I
love it. I believe it. It’s good.
(EDITOR '.S' NOTE: Mrs.
Hulsey lives in Forest Park and
has contributed articles to OUR
SUNDA Y VISITOR and the
ATLANTA JOURNAL as well as
previous contributions to the
GEORGIA BULLETIN.)
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