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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, November 1,1979
Papal Text—
(Continued from page 1)
— An ecumenical
dimension is important in
catethesis, but this does
not mean “ceasing to
teach that the fullness of
the revealed truths and of
the means to salvation
instituted by Christ is
found in the Catholic
Church.” It means, rather,
giving, “a correct and fair
presentation of other
churches” and an
approach that “creates and
fosters a true desire for
unity.”
— Courses about
Christian and other
religious beliefs for
“cultural reasons (history,
morals or literature)” in
state schools are valuable
if done objectively, but
“can obviously not be
considered catechetical.”
EVERY AGE
— Catechesis is
important at every age:
infants (simple prayers, a
sense of God’s love);
children (preparation for
the sacraments, “all the
principal mysteries of faith
and their effects on the
child’s moral and religious
life”); adolescence (a
“delicate period” in which
“great questions” of
self-giving, belief, love and
sexuality must be
answered); youth (when
issues such as “the
Christian meaning of
work, of the common
good, of justice and
charity .. . international
peace . . . human
dignity . . . develop
ment . .. liberation” must
be treated along with
strictly religious issues);
and adults (“the principal
form of catechesis”).
MUST COMPLEMENT’
— The catechesis of
various age groups and
special groups “should not
be separate watertight
compartments” but must
complement one another.
-- Mass and small-group
media, such as radio,
television, press, records,
tapes and audiovisuals,
show promise and should
be used effectively to aid
catechesis.
— Preacing is
particularly important in
catechesis, and homilies
“should always be
carefully prepared, rich in
substance and adapted to
the hearers, and reserved
to ordained ministers.”
— Numerous
catechetical works
produced in efforts at
catechetical renewal in
recent years “are a real
treasure,” but some
“bewilder the young and
even adults, either by
deliberately or
unconsciously omitting
elements essential to the
church’s faith, or by
attributing excessive
importance to certain
themes at the expense of
others, or, chiefly, by a
rather horizontalist view
out of keeping with the
church’s magisterium.”
— “Acculturation” or
“inculturation,” the
insertion of the Gospel
into a culture in terms of
its language and symbols,
is essential, but “there
would be no catechesis if
it were the Gospel that
had to change when it
came into contact with the
cultures.”
VALID ELEMENTS’
— Some elements of
popular piety may need
correction or discarding,
but such piety has “valid
elements” which, even
when corrections or
improvements are needed,
“have something Christian
at their roots.”
— Memorization is
important, especially of
certain “words of Jesus, of
important Bible passages,
of the Ten Command
ments, of the formulas of
profession of faith, of the
liturgical texts, of the
essential prayers, of key
doctrinal ideas, etc.” What
is needed is a “restoration
of a judicious balance”
between memorization
and other learning
approaches.
— Use of language
adapted to the times and
cultures, relating to the
age group or special needs
of those being catechized,
is quite legitimate, “but
there is good reason for
recalling there that
catechesis cannot admit
any language that would
result in altering the
substance of the content
of the Creed, under any
pretext whatever, even a
pretended scientific one.”
— The parish, despite
urbanization and other
social changes, “is still a
major point of reference
for the Christian people,
even for the non-practic
ing” and must remain “the
pre-eminent place for
catechesis.”
— A complete
catechetics should include
the church’s teachings on
Mary, “the immaculate
one, the mother of God,
ever virgin* raised body
and soul to the glory of
heaven, and . . . her role
in the mystery of
salvation.”
PONTIFF TO BISHOPS
The pontiff told
bishops to “let the
concern to foster active
and effective catechesis
yield to no other care
whatever in any way.”
He told priests that
they have a special call to
be “instructors in the
faith.”
“With all my strength I
beg of you, ministers of
Jesus Christ: do not, for
lack of zeal or because of
some unfortunate
preconceived idea, leave
the faithful without
catechesis,” the pope told
priests.
He said that men and
women Religious have had
a long tradition of
commitment to
catechetical activity and
asked them to reamin
committed to that
apostolate.
LAY CATECHISTS
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He had a special word
of thanks for lay
catechists, calling this “an
eminent form of the lay
apostolate.”
He said that catechists
in mission lands have
played a particularly
essential role. “Churches
that are flourishing today
would not have been built
up without them,” he
commented.
The family’s
catechetical activity, he
said, “has a special
character, which is in a
sense irreplaceable.”
The pope also praised
Catholic schools and
expressed concern at the
“decreasing number of
countries in which it is
possible to give education
in the faith within the
school framework.”
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
F or Catholic schools,
catechetics remains the
chief reason for their
existence, he said. He
urged that in state school
systems, wherever possible
and to the degree possible,
arrangements should be
made to provide time for
catechetics for Catholic
children as an integral part
of their total education.
The apostolic
exhortation began with a
discussion of Christ as the
teacher on whom all
catechetics must be based.
It ended with a
presentation of the Holy
Spirit as “the teacher
within” who vivifies all
catechesis, and of Mary,
described as Christ’s first
disciple, as the “mother
and model of catechists.”
Throughout, the
exhortation stressed the
content of catechetics and
also emphasized that this
is aimed at deeper
understanding and deeper
living of the Christian
faith.
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HERSHEY, Pa. (NC)
-- As a young man
Father Mary Anthony
Delisi, now a Trappist
priest, walked a picket
line in Washington to
protest racial injustice.
He joined a Trappist
monastery in Conyers,
Ga., “where the heart
of the racial issue was,”
and now is on his way
once again to help
blacks. This time he’ll
be teaching the
principles of monastic
life to fellow monks in
Nigeria.
Father Delisi, who
celebrated his 25th
anniversary as a priest
at St. Joan of Arc
Parish in Hershey,
talked about life in the
monastery.
“I was working in
the inner city in
Washington and came
to realize that there was
just too much work for
one man to do . .. and
I felt drawn to a life of
prayer.” So in 1948 he
joined the Trappists at
Conyers as a choir
monk, an aspirant to
the priesthood.
He got his wish to
work against racial
injustice in Georgia. “I
have seen a big
change,” he said. At
one time the monks
couldn’t accept blacks
in their guest house.
Now, he said, they have
been able to accept a
black into the
monastery, although he
later decided to leave.
The Trappist, whose
early years were ones of
political activism, now
bristles at the word.
“We put too much
value on the things we
do rather than on what
SIGNS OF DUTY ~ The famed Father
Anthony Delisi, a Trappist monk from
Conyers, uses Trappist sign language to spell
out his latest assignment. He’s saying, from
left, “I am . . . going away ... to work . . . with
black . . . monks.” Father Delisi is to spend a
year at a monastery in Nigeria instructing
monks in the basics of monasticism.
we’re called to
become,” he said.
Although the
Trappist schedule,
which begins at 3:45
a.m. and ends about 8
or 8:30 p.m., includes
ample time for
becoming, there’s also
time for doing.
Father Delisi said
the Conyers monastery
has many activities —
fro ms making stained
glass to making hay.
“We’re diversified so
that if one collapses,
another can take over,”
Father Delisi said. But
there is no diversity in
purpose. “We come
together for communal
worship ... to say that
God is worth living
for.”
Father Delisi is to
spend about a year in
Nigeria.
A black priest began
NC
a diocesan monastery
there several years ago.
Two years ago the
group was accepted
into the Cistercian
Order, the formal name
for the Trappists, and
priests from the United
States have been going
there to help.
“Our goal is to teach
them the essential
elements of monastic
ism and to prepare
them for the
priesthood,” said
Father Delisi.
Since the Nigerian
monks raise chickens,
Father Delisi has his
work cut out for him.
His first duty is to go to
a manufacturer in
nearby New Holland,
Pa., to find cut how to
assemble chicken cages
that the monks had
purchased but couldn’t
put together.
Radio Priest Dies
(Continued from page 1)
was exempt from taxation.
In 1936, he launched the
magazine Social Justice to
propagate the principles of
the National Union.
Among the contributors to
the publication were
Senators and Congress
men, Bishop John Noll of
Fort Wayne, Ind., and
Father John A. O’Brien of
Notre Dame.
Protests persuaded CBS
to drop the priest’s
broadcasts, but he put
together his own
36-station network.
In June, 1936, he
announced that he had
formed his own political
party, the Union Party,
with Rep. William Lemke
of North Dakota as its
presidential candidate.
Lemke won only 900,000
votes in the election in
which Roosevelt, taking
every state except Maine
and Vermont, swamped
Republican Alf Landon.
In his broadcasts,
Father Coughlin
campaigned against
Communism, Roosevelt,
England, the entry of the
United States into World
War II, international
bankers and “atheistic
Jews.” His magazine Social
Justice reprinted the
notorious anti-Semitic
forgeries, “Protocols of
the Elders of Zion,”
purporting to describe a
Jewish plot to take over
the world.
‘‘I am neither
Republican, Democrat nor
Socialist,” Father
Coughlin said at one point.
“I glory in the fact that I
am a simple Catholic priest
endeavoring to inject
Christianity into the fabric
of an economic system
woven upon the loom of
greed.” He denounced
capitalism as well as
Communism. He also
opposed labor unions.
After the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor in
1941 brought the United
States into the war, Father
Coughlin charged that the
war had been caused by a
British-Jewish-Roosevelt
conspiracy. He was a
backer of the pro-fascist
Christian Front.
In 1942, Archbishop
Edward A. Mooney of
Detroit ordered him to
stop his broadcasts.
Attorney General Francis
Biddle charged the
magazine Social Justice
with giving aid and
comfort to the enemy and
the Post Office
Department barred it from
the mails. It was forced
out of business.
Though Father
Coughlin voiced concern
for the problems of the
poor and denounced
bankers and Wall Street
manipulators, he invested
heavily in the stockmarket
and members of his staff
speculated in silver.
Most of the money
contributed to Father
Coughlin went to build the
Shrine of the Little Flower
and to support his radio
broadcasts, his magazine
and reprints of his
speeches.
In 1976, in a letter to
800 followers around the
country, Father Coughlin
said; “Like any other
serious minded priest, my
chief accomplishment was
being a dedicated and
well-intentioned parish
priest. My only regret is
that I did not accomplish
more; that I wasted time
on frivolous projects.”
Appraising his life, the
priest called himself “first
of all a sinner who, at
times, succumbed not only
to petty vanity but to
many types of
worldliness.”
He said that in 1926 he
assessed his “knowledge of
Scripture, theology and
papal encyclicals; then
seizing the God-given
opportunity of addressing
millions of persons of all
faiths I entertained a
semi-fallacious hope of
winning them into the
ranks of the Church
Militant.
“As the years flowed
by . . . 1 began to realize
more precisely that the
battle was not against flesh
and blood; nor could it be
won before the Church
Militant and its soldiers
experienced in a mystical
manner the seemingly
disastrous passion of Jesus
Christ.”
A
Programa De Evangelizacion
Por medio de dos cartas, la Parroquia de
Cristo Rey esta Llamando a los feligreses a
que tomen parte en un programa especial
con motivo de celebrar el “Ano de la
Evangelizacion” proclamado en toda la
Arquidiocesis. Las cartas van dirigidas a
todo el que vive dentro de los limites de la
parroquia. Son cartas de invitacion.
Esperan alcanzar toda persona que puedan.
Por medio de este informe, tambien se
extiende la misma invitacion. “Si eres
eatolieo, y has estado apartado de tu iglesia
esta es una invitacion a volver a tomar
parte en la vida activa de la Iglesia Catolica.
Si no estas afiliado con ninguna familia de
fe en particular, esta seria una buena
oportunidad de venir a compartir con la
familia catolica a ver si te sientes bien alii.
Si eres miembro activo de otra familia de
fe, esta es una invitacion a compartir y
aprender los unos de los otros.”
El programa que se va a llevar a cabo,
ademas de las cartas, es un programa de
educacion y de celebracion. Los tres
primeros domingos de noviembre habra
una charla despues de cada Misa, lo mismo
en ingles como en espanol. Noviembre 4 se
enfocara los problemas que pueden haber
alejado a un eatolieo de su Iglesia, y la
sanacion de la herida que lo mantiene
separado. Se hablara del perdon, y de la
reconciliacion. El domingo, 11 de
noviembre, se dara unas definiciones de la
identidad catolica: Que significa ser
eatolieo despues de tantos cambios? Y por
ultimo, el domingo, 18 de noviembre se
hablara de lo que debe ser una parroquia
como comunidad de fe. Estos seminarios o
charlas eompartidas se proponen ayudar a
conocer la fe Catolica hoy. Las charlas las
dara la Hermana Theresa Ahern, en la
cafeteria de Cristo Rey despues de la Misa
de las 7 p.m.
Las celebraciones del programa giran
alrededor de dos dias en particular: el Dia
de Accion de Gracias (Thanksgiving) y la
Fiesta de Cristo Rey, el ultimo domingo de
noviembre.
El Dia de Accion de Gracias, el 22 de
noviembre, habra una Misa especial, a las
10 a.m. Se espera la participacion de
muchos para que de verdad la comunidad
catolica, como comunidad, le de graeias al
Senor por toda su bondad. Esta Misa se
celebra siempre, pero ahora el enfoque es
en aquellos que han estado alejados y que
han regresado a su comunidad. Razon de
veras paradarle graeias a Dios!
La Fiesta de Cristo Rey es la fiesta
patronal de la Catedral. Se quiere ver un
mayor numero de personas celebrando esta
fiesta. Se les recomienda que inviten a un
amigo ese domingo. Es una buena
oportunidad de compartir la fe con otro.
Tambien, como el Adviento se acerca, la
preparacion inmediata a la Navidad, se
estara hablando de unos temas especiales
durante estos cuatro domingos de
diciembre. Mas informacion sobre este
tema se dara en la Iglesia Catedral de
Atlanta, Cristo Rey. Los sacerdotes, las
religiosas, y los feligrese esperan que su
invitacion sea recibida con carino y
aceptada.
Another Holocaust Seen—
(Continued from page 1)
Since less than 20
percent of the rice crops
have been planted and
planting cannot begin
again until next June,
Cambodia will need
long-term development aid
as well as emergency food
to avoid a chronic relief
situation.
“This is not a 60- to
90-day operation,” said
the Rev. Harry Haines,
assistant general secretary
of the United Methodist
Church’s Board of Global
Ministries. “We can go in
with an airlift, but to
prevent a Holocaust, 12 to
18 months of aid may be
needed. The length of time
may be the hardest part.
“Can we sustain the
effort? We need to gear up
for longterm commit
ment,” he said. “We’ll be
talking about Cambodia at
Thanksgiving. I hope next
Easter we’ll still be talking
about Cambodia.”,
Engaged Encounter Weekend Set
A weekend away with other engaged
couples with plenty of time alone,
together, to plan the marriage. It is
designed to give couples planning marriage
the opportunity to dialogue honestly and
intensively about their prospective lives
together - their strengths and weaknesses,
desires, ambitions, goals, their attitudes
about money, sex, children, family, their
role in the church and society - in a
face-to-face way.
The weekend is Catholic in orientation,
however it is open to all, including those
planning an interfaith marriage or a
Christian marriage in another Church.
Through a series of ideas presented by a
team of married couples and a priest, the
couple is stimulated to dialogue privately
with each other on all aspects of married
life - always from the viewpoint of their
own relationship. Personal reflection and
conjugal dialogue are the main thrust of
the weekend with communal meals and
Sunday Liturgy providing group
participation.
The Encounter weekend will begin on
Friday evening 8 p.m. and conclude
Sunday at 3 p.m. A weekend stay is
necessary to keep the atmosphere
generated by the Encounter - away from
distraction.
Reservations are limited to 20 couples.
The cost is $70 per couple - this includes
everything. $15 non-refundable deposit
payable with reservation, balance on arrival
at Encounter.
This Engaged Encounter Weekend,
November 16-18, 1979, will be held at the
Guest Quarters, Roswell, Georgia.
Pre-registration is required.
Clip and mail the below registration
form:
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We would like to attend an Engaged
Encounter weekend. Enclosed is our $15
reservation fee (non-refundable).
We are interested in finding out more
about the weekend. Please contact us.
Names (his) Age (hers) Age
Addresses (his) St City (hers) St. City
Telephone (his) (hers)
Parish to be married in
Wedding date Priest’s name
Religion (his) (hers)
During what month would you like to attend? 1st Choice 2nd Choice
Can be contacted after the wedding at:
Send money and registration to: Office of Religious Education, 756 W. Peachtree
St., N. W„ Atlanta, Ga. 30308.
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