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Mercy Sisters Meet In Alabama
Elmo Ellis Tapped
Elmo Ellis, Vice President
and General Manger of WSB
Radio, will serve as honorary
chairman for the 1978
Christmas Seal Campaign
season.
In accepting the Christmas
Seal Chairmanship Ellis said,
“Most lung disease is caused
by what we breathe - by
indoor and outdoor
pollutants such as cigarette
smoke, germs, pollens and
dusts. As spokesperson for
the Atlanta Lung Association,
I believe that every person ~
young and old - should be
able to breathe freely. Lung
Association services
supported by Christmas Seal
contributions provide health
education for preventive
measures.”
The Christmas Seals are
now in the mail. This year the
stamps represent imaginative
children’s painting from every
state plus the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands and Guam.
They have been circulated in
this country every since
1907, when they were first
used to fight tuberculosis.
Christmas Seals are really a
matter of life and breath!
FATHER DAN O’CONNOR is the happy recipient
of a first prize of SI,000, shown receiving the eheck
from Dixie Barton. The honor came for the priest’s
work in supporting the Medications Fund Drive for
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Free Cancer Home.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The
following two services are
sponsored by Catholic Social
Services, Inc., and financed in
part by the Campaign for Huinan
Development, the collection for
which was held throughout the
Archdiocese of Atlanta on
November 19.)
Council
On Battered Women
The Council on Battered
Women (CBW) was begun
about two years ago as a
volunteer effort of the local
Y.W.C.A. As the work of the
CBW progressed, a much
larger need for assistance was
identified and work was
directed towards the
establishment of a shelter for
abused women. It was also
realized that the community
was fairly unaware of the
extent of the problem and
that much effort would be
needed to educate the public
about this. These areas of
concern along with personnel
advocacy on behalf of clients,
have been the major activities
of the CBW which has served
some 1,500 women.
On November 13, the
Council on Battered Women
opened the long-worked for
Del-Mar-Shelter and the
group (now headed by Ms.
Susan May) hopes to be using
C.E.T.A. workers to deliver
increased counseling services.
The Campaign for Human
Development donated
approximately $1,000 in
July, 1978 to the CBW and
while this has not been the
largest donation made to the
CBW, it serves to demonstrate
the concern felt by members
of the Catholic community.
Other religious groups and
communities have been
extremely important in
helping the CBW reach its
initial goals. Some of these
organizations are: The
Episcopal Church (St. John’s
and the United Thank
Offering), Church Women
United, B’Nai Brith, Central
Congregation Church, and
students from Mercer
University.
The Council for Battered
Women certainly appears to
be an example of persons
working together in the
Christian spirit to help
alleviate human suffering.
New calls for help are coming
in at the rate of 150 per
month and volunteers are
needed to assist in counseling
and to help with the children
who will be using the shelter
with their mothers.
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The Rural Social Service
Division of Catholic Social
Services (CSS) was begun in
September of 1975 to meet
the social needs that were
found to exist in the area
around Cumming. This effort
is seen as an attempt to
deliver the same type of
professional assistance to a
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delivering to Metro-Atlanta
for over 10 years. Acting in
the areas of individual
counseling, emergency aid
(food, clothing, housing,
medical), community
organization, information and
referral, advocacy, and
education, Rural Social
Services has acted as a
unifying factor for both the
religious and secular
communities of the Cumming
area.
were the traditions and
heritage of the Order as well
as explorations of cultural
changes which necessarily
changed the needs of the
people, thus changing Mercy’s
response. Individual, group,
and global views were
brought into focus.
Monsignor William R.
Houck, Secretary for
Education in the Birmingham
Diocese, celebrated the
Liturgy with the participants
using the Prophecy theme to
challenge and encourage the
Sisters in their service of
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This fall, a major project
of this Rural Social Services
Division will be the formation
of A Quilting and
Woodworking Cooperative.
Using a $4,000 grant from
the Campaign for Human
Development as “seed”
money. Rural Social Service
staff will help disabled
members of the community
maintain, through proceeds
from the sale of quilts and
furniture, an emergency fund
that will be used to assist
other needy members of the
community. One fact that
bears mentioning is that,
Rural Social Services has
assisted over 2,000
individuals in the Cumming
area without resorting to any
kind of governmental
assistance. This is a fact that
shows the positive effects of
individuals serving others in
the Christian spirit, a spirit to
which all social aid programs
owe their reason for
existence.
ELMO ELLIS WILL SPEARHEAD the 72nd annual
campaign against lung disease in Fulton, DeKalb and
Rockdale counties as 1978 Christmas Seal Chairman.
Speaking on behalf of the campaign, Ellis urged all
Georgians to use Christmas Seals on all holiday cards
and letters.
PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, November 23,1978
Thanks To God For My Priesthood
BY FATHER JORGE HUMBERTO CRISTANCHO
“I came to you in weakness - timid and
trembling. And my preaching was very
plain, not with a lot of oratory and human
wisdom, but the Holy Spirit’s power was in
my words, proving to those who heard
them that the message was from God. I did
this because I wanted your faith to stand
firmly upon God, not on man’s great
ideas.” 1 Cor. 2:3-5.
I inherited my vocation to the
priesthood from my mother, whose
vocation was being a good Catholic. At
home we always had guests: people from
my hometown of “Jesus Maria” who lived
in the Capital. And these country people
would come to visit “Dona Alicita”
because she was so good, and besides they
were poor, and that way they did not have
to pay a hotel. We were a small country
family living in the Capital.
the friendship of Father Villegas with my
family and the frequency of his visits to
mom and dad, I noticed that my parents
complained about him because he had
dared marry my older sister Nelly without
their consent.
Today I understand that the Church is
not the building made out of bricks. The
Church is my family, my mother and my
people. The Church are my Christian
brothers and sisters, and specially my
Catholic brothers and sisters. Today I
know that I am the Church; that the
Church is in every home, at the hospitals,
in the prison, and in every “downtown.”
My Church is my big family and because of
that, my pride exalts and I say very loudly
“I am the Church” as the lyrics of our
Cursillo song says.
A Spanish Translation — Page 8
As a boy, I also learned to visit the
hospitals with mother. I didn’t quite
understand why she took special interest in
visiting so many people that she did not
even know. But there I was with her. More
often than not I had to wait at the door for
hours because I was too small. The hospital
was only for grownups.
When the feast of “The Mercedes” took
place, mother would always go visit the
prison. We had to stay at home because we
were not allowed in. It was also for
grownups only. Mother was also involved
with the Saint Vincent de Paul Society,
and it seemed to me that she was getting
involved with other families problems, and
it was enough with the ones we had at
home. Also, father was continuously
grumbling because she was always involved
in all those things.
Later I learned to be afraid of big
churches and of priests. One day I got lost
at the big “San Francisco Church” in
downtown Bogota while mother prayed.
When I saw myself alone, surrounded by
old ladies all dressed in black, and without
the slightest idea where mom was, I started
to cry, and all those ladies wanted to
console me. That fear of big and empty
churches is still with me today. I don’t like
big empty churches. And I like the old
ladies, but not dressed in black.
I learned to be afraid of priests and to
treat them at a distance when after I saw
Today I have found the Church within
me as a human being, and in my ministry.
My Church is built of flesh and bones, and
I love her; I love her with that Christian
love that I inherited from my mother. I
love the sick without knowing him. I love
the prisoner, and I believe he awaits for my
visit, because from her - my mother - I
learned it. I love the countryman without a
home and lost in the big cities, because he
is my brother, and I see in him my roots
and identify myself with him.
My mother is a vital part of my
vocation. In truth I must confess that when
I was asked to write for the GEORGIA
BULLETIN about my priestly vocation
and its origin, I did not want to admit it
and I did not want to share in public that
this vocation of mine - to be a Catholic -1
received from this mother of mine whom
the neighbors used to call “Dona Alicita.”
I believe that only by giving of ourselves
can we become truly catholic. Only by
giving comfort to the sick and the prisoner;
by feeding the hungry; by giving a home to
the homeless can we make our love as
catholics a real live experience.
Today I thank you God for my Catholic
vocation. I thank you Lord for my
Catholic mother; for my Catholic brothers.
Thank you Father for this great family that
you have given me.
I love you all!!
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SISTER CAROLYN OBERKIRCH, RSM, (left)
teacher at Our Lady of the Assumption School and
member of the Province Elementary Education
Committee, and Sister M. Valentina Sheridan, RSM,
Archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools and
Educational Coordinator for the Sisters of Mercy,
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THE SEVENTH GRADERS OF Immaculate Heart
of Mary School prepared the school Mass for All Saints
Day, November 1. The students presented a choral
reading to honor the twelve Apostles. A special part of
the mass included carrying banners of the Apostles
which had been drawn by the students. The seventh
graders also composed and read petitions in keeping
with the theme of the day. This children’s mass was a
meaningful and personal experience of the holiness,
both of our predecessors and our own personal call to
live such lives.
Sisters of Mercy
Administrators of the
Baltimore Province met
November 3-4, 1978 at Our
Lady of Sorrows School,
Homewood, Alabama. These
27 Sisters are presently
serving the Church as
Administrators in the
elementary school apostolate
in the ten archdioceses/dio
ceses of: Arlington, Atlanta,
Baltimore, Birmingham,
Mobile, Pensacola/Talla
hassee, Richmond, Savannah,
Washington, and Wilmington.
They are the leadership group
of almost one hundred Sisters
of Mercy who serve over
seven thousand pupils, with
parents, guardians, and fellow
faculty members in this vital
ministry.
“Principal As Prophet”
was the title of the keynote
address given by Sister M.
Lourdes Sheehan, RSM,
Superintendent of Schools,
Diocese of Richmond. This
theme supported the
definition of mission as stated
in the Mercy Covenant (S-l)
“The Mission of the Sisters of
Mercy is to demonstrate and
proclaim God’s Mercy
through witness, service, and
prophecy in a variety of
ministries.”
The Friday and Saturday
sessions explored the role of
the Principal as Sister,
Community Member,
Minister, and Evaluator as
well as Prophet. Interwoven
throughout the Conference
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