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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, March 8,1979
Christian Council Centenary - Bernardin Speaker
The Ninth Annual
Community Breakfast of the
Christian Council of
Metropolitan Atlanta was
attended by 1400 persons
Saturday, March 3 at the
Peachtree Plaza Hotel.
Archbishop Joseph L.
Bernardin of Cincinnati was
the keynote speaker. He was
introduced by Archbishop
Thomas A. Donnellan.
Invocation was given by
Bishop Bennett J. Sims,
Bishop of the Atlanta
Episcopal Church.
The musical feature was
presented by the Choral
Ensemble of Central United
Methodist Church.
In his address Archbishop
Bernardin discussed two
major subjects. The first topic
he covered was evangelizat
ion. Witnessing to Christ and
His Gospel, he said, is
achieved not only through
media techniques such as
radio and television, but
primarily through each
individual’s personal
commitment to others. “In
the final analysis the most
powerful witness to God’s
love is the lives of those in
whom the love of God is
evident and whose love for
one another is equally
evident... An ecumenical
body such as your Christian
Council can do a great deal to
challenge its member
churches to be more effective
in their work of
evangelization.” Archbishop
Bernardin added
evangelization is only as
strong as are the united
efforts of Christians. Quoting
an Apostalic Letter entitled
“On Evangelization in the
Modem World” published in
1975 by the late Pope Paul
VI, he noted “The division
among Christians is a serious
reality which impedes the
very work of Christ.”
The Archbishop went on
to say that among the many
visible projects it can
undertake, the Christian
Council should focus on
social justice. “Work on
behalf of justice is so much a
part of the Church’s (all
Christians’) mission, that one
may not be separated from
the other.”
Archbishop Bernardin also
pointed out that there is “an
essential link” between
evangelization and the work
of social justice. “Perhaps one
of the greatest contributions
you can make to the work of
evangelization, is to convince
people that there is a
connection between what
Jesus said and what is
happening in the real
world ... There is a moral
dimension to most problems
and the Church has not only
a right but an obligation to
make its voice heard.”
In addition to Archbishop
Bernardin’s address at the
Community Breakfast, a
highlight of the meeting was
the presentation of special
awards to five local people
who have made significant
contributions to the Atlanta
Community.
The Charles M. Watt Jr.
Award, presented annually to
the person who has done the
most to improve the quality
of life in the area, was
presented to D.W. Brooks,
Chairman of the Board
Emeritus of Gold Kist, Inc.
The Mrs. Fred W. Patterson
Award for outstanding
contributions to a better
understanding between
people in the metropolitan
Atlanta area was awarded to
the Reverend John Cross,
Director of Inter-Baptist
Ministries of the Atlanta
Baptist Associotion.
The Community Service
Recognition was made to
Richard C. Hicks, Executive
Director of United Way of
Metropolitan Atlanta.
Rev. Fahed Abu-Akel
received the International
Service Recognition Award
for his ministry with the
internationals in the area
under the auspices of the
Christian Council.
Dr. Harmon D. Moore,
Executive Director since
1966 who will be retiring in
late summer, received a
special award for his 13 years
of dedicated service.
The Christian Council
celebrates its 100th
anniversary this year.
Conference On Evangelism
IRVING, Texas (NC) -
The family is the model for
evangelization, Auxiliary
Bishop Raymond Pena of San
Antonio told the third annual
conference of Texas Hispanic
seminarians March 2-4.
In his archdiocese
“evangelization begins in the
context of the home, the
domestic church,” Bishop
Pena told the gathering.
About 75 seminarians
representing 12 seminaries
and religious houses were on
hand for the conference, with
its theme of “The Challenge:
What Do I Bring the
Church?” With the
seminarians running the
conference, observers
included bishops, seminary
rectors, vocation directors,
non-Hispanic seminarians and
Hispanic permanent deacons.
Bishop Pena noted the rise
in interest in the conference
since 1977, when only one
seminary was represented. He
attributed the rise to prayer
and the greater visibility of
Hispanic priests and bishops,
whose presence calls other
Hispanics to service in the
church.
Responding to the
seminarians’ request that he
speak on evangelization,
Bishop Pena said the Virgin
Mary is central to any
evangelizing.
“Mary became the first
herald of the Gospel when
she carried Jesus in her womb
to her cousin Elizabeth,” he
said.
“She was with the apostles
between the Ascension and
Pentecost, helping them to
persevere in prayer,” and
evangelization in the
Americas began with the
appearance of Our Lady of
Guadalupe, he continued.
Mexican-Americans “are
dedicated to Our Lady of
Guadalupe,” the bishop went
on. “The image of Our Lady
and the Bible are both
enthroned in the home. The
family meets weekly as a
group to study scripture.
What develops is a closely
knit Christian community.
The parish is strengthened as
the families grow stronger,
because the parish is a family
of families,” he added.
Bishop Patrick Flores of El
Paso, the first Hispanic
bishop in Texas since it
became a state, spoke of what
he called a new hunger for
the word of God and for
prayer. He said this hunger’s
existence is demonstrated by
the existence of the
charismatic movement.
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power of the Holy Spirit, said
the bishop. What charismatics
call baptism in the Holy
Spirit “is not a new reality,
but is a new awareness of the
existing reality of the power
of the Spirit within each
Christian,” he said.
Proper direction of the
charismatic movement is
needed, Bishop Flores
emphasized, because danger
still exists of confusion on
doctrine, tradition and the
understanding of Scripture
and the church as Christ’s
presence.
Bishop Flores said he
regretted the existence of
tension between the Cursillo
movement and the
charismatic movement.
“The Cursillo has a
tendency to want to retain
cursillistas within the
movement,” he went on.
“They should be encouraged
to expand into other
movements such as Marriage
Encounter, the Christian
Family Movement and the
charismatic renewal,” the
bishop added.
Bishop Flores noted an
increase in the number of
Mexican -American
seminarians, but said there
are still too few, and he
pointed to Baptist gains in
seeking Mexican-American
ministers.
This year’s conference
included seminarians from
California and Kansas, as well
as Texas.
Archbishop Bernardin speaks at breakfast.
Archbishop Donnellan, Rev. Abu-Akel, Bishop Sims and Archbishop Bernardin at
breakfast.
Dr. Harmon Moore poses with his family for award.
Mother Teresa Receives Award
ROME (NC) - Mother
Teresa of Calcutta received
the Balzan Prize for
Humanity, Peace and
Brotherhood March 1 in
Rome.
The prize, 500,000 Swiss
francs (about $300,000), was
given to Mother Teresa for
“the exceptional abnegation
with which she has dedicated
her whole life to aiding, in
India and other countries of
the world, the victims of
hunger, misery and illness,
the abandoned and the dying,
transforming into tireless
action her love for suffering
humanity.”
Antonio Carrelli. president
of the general committee of
the Balzan prize, made the
presentation.
The world-renowned
68-year-old nun - once
featured on the cover of Time
magazine as one of several
“living saints” - began
working among the destitute
and unwanted in Calcutta in
1948. There are over 90,000
lay persons around the world,
called co-workers of Mother poor in the most wretched
Teresa. They support the places in the world.”
work of her nuns and engage
in charitable work following
her ideals. Mother Teresa said the
She arrived in Rome Feb. prize money “is a wonderful
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as “a person dedicated only
to doing good, to helping the
of the poor” through the
work of her missionaries.
The Balzan prize is given
once every three years in
recognition of outstanding
humanitarian or cultural
work. It is awarded by the
International Balzan
Foundation, founded in 1956
by Mrs. Angela Lina Balzan.
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annual awards for work in
science, letters and medicine.
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Lenten Messages
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In their lenten messages for
1979, Pope John Paul II and
many bishops of the United
States have urged traditional
acts of penance -- prayer,
almsgiving and fasting - but
emphasized that these must
be more than external acts.
“The first and chief
significance of penance is
interior, spiritual,” said the
pope at his general audience
on Ash Wednesday. “Penance
in the Gospel sense means
‘conversion’ above all.”
In a general lenten message
to the world’s Catholics, Pope
John Paul said that Lent is a
time to “free oneself from
the slaveries of a civilization
that is always urging people
on to greater comfort and
consumption.” He called on
people not only to exercise
personal asceticism but to
direct their acts of penance
toward the helping of others,
including participation in
lenten charitable campaigns
in their local churches.
Two days after Lent began,
the pope repeated the themes
of penance and conversion in
a visit with the priests of
Rome and a message to the
people of Rome.
“To live Lent means to be
converted to God through the
mediation of Jesus Christ,”
he told Romans, adding that
the Gospel program of
conversion demands “first of
all prayer, and then
almsgiving and fasting.” He
reminded priests to use the
penitential season as a period
of special reflection on their
priestly identity and the need
for personal holiness.
Before beginning a
week-long spiritual retreat on
the first Sunday of Lent,
Pope John Paul told crowds
in St. Peter’s Square to “bow
down your heads to God” in
a spirit of penance and
conversion.
The humility signified by
bowing one’s head down to
God is not resignation or
weak-heartedness, he said,
but “creative submission to
the power of truth and
love . . . the expression of the
depth of the human spirit,
the condition of its
greatness.”
The U.S. bishops’ lenten
pastorals had similar themes.
But the bishops also called
for attention to the present
priorities of family life and
evangelization during Lent,
and sometimes made their
points by using contemporary
analogies.
Archbishop Edward A.
McCarthy of Miami said the
period of Lent is as important
to the spiritual health of
Christians as attention to
physical symptoms of disease
is to physical health.
“Physical fitness buffs jog
and diet with zest,” he said.
“Lent should be a similarly
exhilarating time as we
exercise little-used virtues,
overcome the flabbiness of
indifference, put a new tone
in our spiritual life.”
The archbishop called for
efforts to strengthen family
life during Lent, and said the
Christian’s “top priority”
should be “spiritual growth
and eternal destiny, peace
and joy in union with the
Lord in this life.”
Bishop Joseph B. Brunini
of Jackson, Miss., made a
similar point, calling Lent “a
beautiful season for us to
think of eternal things and to
go in for a bit of spiritual
fitness - we might compare
to ‘spiritual jogging’ and
other forms of physical
exercise. ..
“Spiritual writers say that
all laying up of treasures can
be summarized by 1) prayer,
2) good deeds, and 3)
alms-giving,” the bishop said.
“So let us all make some
lenten resolutions - make
them positive - show God
and our neighbors that we are
truly followers of Jesus
Christ.”
Using Pope John Paul I’s
book, “Illustrissimi,” as his
example, Cardinal John Cody
of Chicago wrote his lenten
pastoral in the form of a
letter to the late pope. He
said the first John Paul’s
smile showed “the confident
realization that standing
behind all things, the
headaches and the heartaches,
the great moments and the
not so great ones, was a
loving God. It was a secret
you tried to share with all,
through the simplicity of
your life.”
That smile, he added, is
present also in the second
John Paul and “bespeaks a
man who knows that great
secret, the secret of Lent:
‘For God so loved the world
that he gave his only Son,
that everyone who believes in
him . . . might have eternal
life.’ ”
Bob Hope Honored
NEW YORK (NC) -
Former President Gerald R.
Ford presented the 1979
Charles Evans Hughes Gold
Medal of the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews to comedian Bob Hope
at the annual NCCJ dinner in
New York Feb. 26.
The award citation called
Hope an “ambassador-at-large
for America.” Accepting it,
the entertainer joked with the
former president about the
golf they play together.
Grinning at Cardinal Terence
Cooke of New York, who had
given the invocation, he
remarked that they had met
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