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PAGE 7—The Georgia Bulletin, December 20,1979
CHRIST THE KING
students and their families
were treated to a holiday
party December 19 at the
Hyland Center. The first
graders were a big hit with
their play, as were the
older students with their
caroling.
C O NGR ATULATIONS
TO the Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception,
chosen WSB Radio’s
Church of the Day for
December 22. As a
ministry of Atlanta
Interfaith Broadcasters,
announcements will be
made on “The Voice of
the South” throughout
that day at random and
twice at specific times:
7:45 a.m. and just after
“Pause for Good News” at
12:15 p.m.
HIS FRIENDS IN
ATHENS gave Father
Dora a big send-off last
week as he departed St.
Joseph’s for his new
assi gnment at the
Archdiocese Marriage
Tribunal.
APPLICATIONS ARE
NOW being accepted for
the next Engaged
Encounter, set for January
11-13. Details are available
from Father Jim Kelly at
881-6131.
THE CHURCH OF ST.
ANN will begin a new
series of instructions in the
Catholic Faith on January
10. The weekly classes will
be held each Thursday
evening at 7:30 at the
rectory. Call 998-1373 for
more information.
MOST GRAPHIC
The annual
Collection for the
Children of the
Village of St. Joseph
will be held in all
parishes Christmas
Day. Your generos
ity helps to support
our dependent boys
and girls who are
being cared for at
the Village and is
recognition of the
marvelous things
being done there.
Please be generous in
this season of
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THE SAINT MARY’S
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Ind.) Alumnae Club of
Georgia has tapped Mrs.
Mary Patricia Walsh
Lawton of Atlanta as
recipient of a special
Alumna award for her
many contributions to the
local Georgia Club. The
honor was recently
bestowed at a ceremony at
the Piedmont Driving
Club, where Dr. John
Duggan, president of the
college, made the
presentation.
SENIOR CITIZENS of
Saint Anthony’s parish
will be feted at a
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honor December 20.
Special guest for the big
event will be Archbishop
Donnellan.
“THE YEAR OF OUR
LORD” will be the theme
of the Christmas Cantata
presented by the choir of
Holy Spirit Church prior
to the Christmas Midnight
Mass. Doors of the Church
will open at 11 p.m., with
the cantata scheduled to
begin immediately after
the 11:15 p.m.
Processional.
ALL SAINTS PARISH
invites everyone to join in
their first Outreach
program, set for Sunday,
January 6. The open house
affair is planned from 2 to
4 p.m. and a tour will be
given of the new parish
facilities. A nursery will be
provided for small
children. The location is
2443 Mount Vernon Road
in Dunwoody.
THE ST. MONICA’S
CIRCLE of St. Philip
Benizi parish is again
supporting the Clayton
County Family, and
Children Services’
Christmas program for the
poor and needy. Their
current need is toys in
good condition. Dee Broe
at 996-8222 has all the
details.
CULMINATING THE
week-long celebration of
the Fabulous Fox
Theater’s 50th anniversary
will be an afternoon of
tours of the building,
complete with mini organ
concerts. The free event is
set for Sunday, December
30, from noon until 5 p.m.
FATHER RICHARD
Lopez, whose vocation
column appears on page 4
of this week’s edition, will
be the guest speaker at a
December 27 dinner at St.
Thomas Aquinas parish in
Alpharetta honoring the
young men of the parish
who are interested in
learning more about the
priesthood and a seminary
education.
REGISTRATIONS
ARE still being taken for
the January 4-5 retreat at
Ignatius House, 6700
Riverside Drive. For more
information, contact
either Claire Pringle
(992-3957) or Father John
Schroder, SJ. (255-0503).
HERE’S A REMINDER
that there will be no
BULLETIN next week and
that our next issue will be
published January 3. We
would appreciate receiving
all news copy for this
edition by Friday,
December 28.
.ADVENT FOUR.
Do We Trust The Promise?
BY MONSIGNOR
JERRY HARDY
READINGS --
Micah: 5, 1-4; Hebrews:
10, 5-10, and Luke: 1,
39-45.
The Bible trio of
Micah, Paul and Mary
ballad us with visions of
how it ought to be:
fidelity and peace,
family restored, loving
sacrifice and service. All
of this in promises. I
read something that
helped me in preparing
these reflections and
want to share it with
you. It’s a magazine I
get called SOJOUR
NERS, (1309 L Street,
N.W., Washington, D.C.
20005) and it’d be a
great gift idea. Richard
Rohr wrote about us
and God and the
promises that bind us
together.
“Our age has come
to expect satisfaction.
We have grown up in an
absolutely unique
period when having and
possessing and
accomplishing have
been real options. They
have given us an illusion
of fulfillment and an
even more dangerous
illusion that we have a
right to expect
fulfillment - and
fulfillment now - as
long as we are clever
enough, quick enough,
and pray or work hard
enough for our goals.
“We believe that we
are energized by the
bird in the hand; but
believe it or not, the
word of God and the
history of those who
have struggled with that
word would seem to
tell us that we are, in
fact, energized much
more by the bird in the
bush. God’s people are
led forward by
promises. It is promises,
with all their daring and
risk that, that empower
the hearts of people.
God restores us not by
making it happen, but
by promising us that it
will. God tells us who
we are by telling us
who we are to become.
Somehow that is
enough. It works! At
least it works for those
who can learn how to
believe: ‘Blessed is she
who believed that the
promises made to her
would be fulfilled’.
‘ ‘ ‘Promises,
promises!’ has become
a cynical and very
understandable retort
from a people who have
grown tired of
marketing, lies, and
mere politics.
the anniversary of one.
It’s a promise that
Bethlehem is
non-territorial, that
birth can take place in
the stable of our
self-giving, that we
ourselves can become
guides (like stars) to
lead other folk to the
.... Promises
“But God seems to
have been around for a
long time and does not
take the momentary
deed so seriously. The
Lord is apparently the
Lord of the long haul.
“The question is,
precisely how does the
Lord restore his
people? How does He
make us, after initial
creation, into
ourselves? I think we
become like God by
feeling with God; we
become whole by
becoming God’s. I
suspect that God knows
the product pretty well.
God knew that we
would get sloppy
through satiation. God
knew that the numb
would never notice and
that the fulfilled would
not feel. So our God
has ‘tormented us with
dissatisfaction’ and
only thrown us a few
promises. But they are
enough to live on, and
their deeds are the
deeds of the saints.”
(SOJOURNERS, Vol.
8, No. 11, p 18, cited
with permission.)
So we come closer
to Christmas now; but
there is still time and in
the still time, hope that
we will somehow come
to trust the promises of
our God and the power
they have to move our
lives. Christmas is itself
a promise, not merely
Child-who-shall-lea-
d-them.
Accept the promises
and you accept the
power. It’s like having
the bird in the hand
and in the bush at the
same time. To trust the
promise is to wait for
something, knowing
that somehow,
mysteriously, you
already have . . . and
ACT as if you do.
Questions and Reflection
1. How lightly do
you make promises?
What about your
friends? Is “I promise”
a valid currency today,
can you really bank on
it?
2. Promises are
closely linked to
expectations: (a) the
ones we have of
ourselves; (b) the ones
we have of others; and
(c) the ones we think
others have of us.
List your
expectations in each
category and ask which
ones really influence
you most.
3. Now transpose
that into the Key of
God. What do you
expect of Him? Have
you told Him? Then
tell Him. What do you
think He expects of
you? Do you think
that’s fair? What do
you expect of yourself
in relation to God?
Iran Crisis Challenges Catholics
WASHINGTON '(NC) -
The challenge to Catholics
in the face of the Iranian
crisis “is to share with the
world our vision of man as
shaped by the word of
God revealed in the person
and teachings of Jesus,”
Bishop Rene Gracida of
Pensacola-Tallahassee,
Fla., said in his homily at
the Pan-American Mass in
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Matthew’s Cathedral, was
celebrated by Cardinal
William Baum of
Washington.
“The world desperately
needs a demonstration of
this kind of Pan-Ameri
canism,” Bishop Gracida
said, in referring to the
sharing of the faith. His
homily talked about the
revolution in Iran and how
it has asserted an Islamic
“vision of man, his place
in the universe, his
relationship to other
persons and to God.”
By Catholics’ value
system, Bishop Gracida
said, the revolution in Iran
does not make sense.
“What a pathetic scene
Iran has become, from the
vantage point of most of
us in the Western
Hemisphere,” he said.
Reflecting on the
Iranian revolution can
offer insight into the
“ferment that grips people
throughout the world in
ail societies and in all
lands,” the bishop said.
The human person is
spirit as well as matter, he
said, but not only more
religion is needed. “I am
suggesting that a satiated
body is not sufficient if
the human soul is not free
- free to live, free to
laugh, free to cry, free to
care for others, free to
grow and mature, to learn
and to speak, free to
believe and to disagree,
free to be and to die in
peace.”
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Briefs....
Cardinal Bengsch Dies
BERLIN (NC) - Cardinal Alfred Bengsch of
Berlin, who headed the diocese in the divided city
for the last 18 years, died Dec. 13 of cancer at the
age of 58. The anti-religious policies of the
Communist government of East Germany were a
dominant feature during the years in which the
cardinal, who lived in East Berlin, headed the
diocese. He was pressed into service during World
War II and was taken prisoner by U.S. forces in
France. After the war, he resumed his theological
studies and was ordained in 1950.
Pope Top Newsmaker
WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope John Paul II
swept the poll of Catholic newspaper editors
asked to vote for the most important news story
and the most important newsmaker of 1979. The
pope’s travels to Mexico, Poland, Ireland, the
United States and Turkey placed first, while the
boat people placed second and Mother Teresa’s
winning the Nobel prize third.
Archbishop Sheen’s Funeral
NEW YORK, N.Y. (NC) - Three thousand
people - dignitaries and ordinary New Yorkers -
packed St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York Dec.
13 for the funeral of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
The famed preacher and television personality
was buried in the crypt of the cathedral, where
before only archbishops of New York and
cathedral rectors were laid to rest. Archbishop
Sheen died Dec. 9 at the age of 84.
Praise For Carter
ST. PAUL, MINN. (NC) -- Six religious leaders
from the St. Paul area praised President Carter for
showing restraint in dealing with the Iranian crisis
in which American embassy employees have been
held hostage. Fifteen other religious leaders,
including a priest and two bishops, also signed the
statement of support. In the statement, which
will be sent to Carter, the leaders urged that the
U.N. Security Council act as an “international
supervisor” in the conflict.
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