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Evangelization By Law
MEMBERS OF THE Archdiocesan Committee on Evangelization
include Robert Beck (left), Monsignor Jerry Hardy, Sister Barbara
Herrington, Father Raymond Horan, Father Richard Kieran, Ruth Maguire
and Larry Melear.
CHECKING THE GUIDELINES for the comprehensive program
presented for the year of evangelization are Father Daniel O’Connor,
pastor, St. Thomas Aquinas; Archbishop Donnellan; Bishop Bernard Law,
guest speaker from the Diocese of Springfield - Cape Girardeau, and
Father Richard Kieran, Secretary for Education.
BY MONSIGNOR NOEL BURTENSHAW
The only request he made during the entire day was a piece of chocolate cake. His
broad frame can stand the caloric content. Rugged, handsome and prematurely gray,
Bishop Bernard F. Law led the Atlanta clergy in a day of Evanglization Preparation
last week.
The young Bishop hails from the heart of the farm lands of Missouri. His far flung
Diocese called Springfield-Cape Girardeau stretches mightily across the state, 26,000
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square miles long and broad. After serving his 40,000 Catholic parishioners for five
years, Bishop Law knows the square miles well.
“I leave almost all administration to my staff,” says the Harvard educated Bishop
“and travel as much as possible.” Obviously enjoying this kind of modern Pauline
apostolate, Bishop Law looks fit and ready to clock the miles any time the call comes.
Asked to speak with Atlanta’s parish clergy on the planned year of outreach
beginning on June 3, the feast of Pentecost, Bishop Law came, not only willingly, but
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The Priest
And The Mother
Mae Carroll is a New Englander
going way back. Smiling, soft and
sassy, she carries her 80 years light
and lively. Waterbury is home, the
old neighborhood is her nestling
castle, but her heart belongs to
The Lady of LaSalette.
And that’s understandable, she
jave her third son, Tommy, to
that Lady. More than a quarter of
a century ago she watched him
pack his spartan
seminary bag
and head for the
silent corridors
of the enclosure.
The boy was
proud to go, the
mother outdid
his pride with
exotic expect
ancy. She was
the mother of a
future priest.
Mae has become a frequent
visitor to the Peach State. Three
times she flew the big bird to
come South, last week she made it
four. Her boy, now an adult and
renamed Tom, still serving the
Lady of LaSalette, has carried the
power of the priesthood into the
missions of Georgia. Mae had
golden memories of her boy as she
boarded Delta. She was about to
add one more. His Silver Jubilee as
a priest.
Battling his way down 75,
Father Tom Carroll knew what to
expect and he was far from
disappointed. Yes, his mother
arrived on time. Yes, she hugged
and kissed him to the onlookers’
delight and yes, lectures had been
dutifully delivered on board
graphically describing her mission.
Mae was speechless in spellbound
delight. Tom was merely
speechless.
Mothers are fashioned from
molds of priceless class. They live
in a world of tested experience
ever unseen by their impatient
offspring. They talk too much and
proudly unveil the hopefully
forgotten frolics of family life.
They remember the passion of
first loves - for straining strange
ears. They magnify minor
generosities into magnificent
mountains of self sacrifice as the
death of embarrassment passes
icily over the child-man. With
depth of memory, expanding by
the minute, they unfold those
confessional antics, as fraying
nerve ends shiver and die.
Priest’s mothers have special
charisms in this universal arena.
That’s because they are special.
The dignity belongs to the boy.
The anointing has been given to
him. The spotlight of service
shines brightly on the spectacular
call that is his. But with deep
down depths of certainty, they
know their high place in the
palace halls of service. Yes, they
are special.
Mae Carroll cannot stay in
Georgia. She must return to her
daily round of service to the Lady
of LaSalette. She begs for her
missions. She sells illegal chances
for her missionaries and within the
four walls of her Waterbury
apartment she has litanies of Aves
to send heavenward for all those
legions in the world wide family
of LaSalette. Especially one, of
silver jubilee note.
So sorry, Father Tom. Be grate
ful for this fleeting whirlwind
visit.
But Mae cannot stay.
Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 17 No. 18
Thursday, May 3,1979
$5 Per Year
CADE GERVAIS
Special Mass For Senior Citizens
Courage And Gladness
Mark The Priestly Call
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II emphasized the importance of being
called to the priesthood in a talk April 21 to priests from Milan, Italy. The priests were
celebrating the 25th anniversary of their ordination.
“We have been called. This is the fundamental truth that must instill in us courage
and gladness,” the pope said.
“The call has been first of all interior, mysterious, caused by various motives. But
then, after the long and necessary preparation in the seminary, under the direction of
sagacious and responsible superiors, it has become official, guaranteed, when the
church called us and consecrated us through the bishop,” he added.
World Vocations Day
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Without the strength given by the call “no one in fact would dare to become a
minister of Christ, in continuous contact with the most high. No one would have the
courage to burden himself with the weight of consciences and to thus accept a sacred
and mystical solitude,” he said.
The pope also stressed the centrality of the Eucharist in the life of the priest.
“We can ‘consecrate’ and personally meet Christ with the divine power of the
‘transubstantiation.’ We can communicate with Jesus, living, true, real. We can
distribute to souls the word, incarnate, dead and risen for the salvation of the world.
Every day we are in private audience with Jesus,” he said.
The pope urged the priests to make the Mass the center of their day. He said an
adequate preparation for it and suitable thanksgiving afterward are absolutely
necessary.
The third essential component of the priesthood, the pope told the priests, is service
to souls.
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May is National Senior Citizens
Month. Seniors will be in the
spotlight on the State and City
levels. On the local scene, the
Archdiocese is honoring its Senior
Citizens at its second annual Mass
for them at the Cathedral of
Christ and King on May 6, at
12:30 p.m. A reception will be
held at the Hyland Center
following the Mass.
Sisters Teresa, Kristen, Marcella
and Roberta Joseph, Office of
Service to the Aging, are
coordinating the plans for the
liturgy and the reception. The
parishes are involved in the
preparations for the celebration
and are providing the refreshments
for the reception.
The families and friends of our
Senior Citizens are invited to share
with the Archdiocese as it honors
its senior members.
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“Wherever we find ourselves, in the turbulent parishes of the big cities as well as in
remote mountain towns, there are always persons to love, to serve, to save,” added the
pope.
On the same day, the pope spoke to 18 young deacons of the pontifical Irish, Scots
and Rosminian colleges in Rome.
“You support the apostolic ministry and share in its proclamation,” the pope told
the deacons in English.
“Like the apostles you too must feel impelled to proclaim by word and deed the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus. You too must experience the need to do good, to
render service in the name of the crucified and risen Jesus -- to bring God’s word into
the lives of his holy people,” he said.
“Your ability to communicate the Gospel will depend on your adherence to the
faith of the apostles,” the pope said.
“The effectiveness of your diaconia will be measured by the fidelity of your
obedience to the mandate of the church. It is the risen Christ who has called you, and
it is his church that sends you forth to proclaim the message transmitted by the
apostles. And it is the church that authenticates your ministry,” he said.
In his third talk of the day, the pope told deacons from the diocese of Regensburg,
Wes! Germany, to accept the gift of their vocation “without hesitations, without
anguished reservations, with total availability to service of the people of God, with
courageous and generous love of Christ and his church.”
Glenmary Brothers Honored
BY FATHER GERALD PETERSON
The Lumpkin County Commissioner, J. B. Jones, and the Mayor of Dahlonega,
Irwin Owen, have issued a joint proclamation declaring Sunday, May 6, as a special
community day in honor of Brothers Terry O’Rourke and Paul Wilhelm. These civic
leaders want to express the gratitude of the citizens of Lumpkin County to these
Glenmary Brothers, recognizing the contribution these men have made in housing for
the low-income over the past five years.
Working through Help-in-Housing, Inc., a non-profit organization, Brothers Terry
and Paul have, over the past five years, constructed 19 new low-cost homes for families
in the Lumpkin County area. Without the perseverance, Christian witness, and skilled
labor of the Brothers, these families had little or no chance of obtaining a home of
their own. Terry and Paul’s work has reminded the entire local community of the need
for more and better housing for the elderly and for families of limited financial
resources.
On Sunday, May 6, the members of St. Luke Catholic Church will join with other
citizens of Lumpkin County to honor Brother Terry O’Rourke and Brother Paul
Wilhelm. A special Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. to be followed by a community
picnic on the church property.
Terry and Paul are members of the Glenmary Home Missioners. They will soon be
leaving Georgia to begin a new and larger low-cost housing assistance program in the
Glenmary District of northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama.
After the special celebration of May 6th, proclaimed “The Glenmary Brothers’
Day”, we hope to do a full, feature article on the dedicated work of these two men in
the program of “Help-in-Housing, Inc.”
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