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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, May 8,1980
In Mary’s Service
ED Note: May, the month
of Mary. Catholics across the
world pay special homage to
Our Lady during this month.
The following article is the
first of four written by
members of different religious
orders dedicated to Mary.
BY FATHER
PHIL O’HARA M.S.
May is special in the
Catholic calendar; the
month dedicated to our
Blessed Mother. It strikes
us too that it is just
perfect that the fresh
green of spring, the
flowers, the blossoming
trees should be for Mary’s
month. Mary is dear to us.
She is our mother. Jesus
gave her to us from the
cross and bid us love her as
He did. It has been from
the beginning — that
awareness on the part of
all Christians that God’s
love for them and Mary’s
were marvelously
intertwined and both
warmed and strengthened
them. We need to be
reminded of this,
especially in the season of
May.
Many of us recall the
May devotions when we
were younger; the little
flower bedecked shrines in
our homes and school
rooms, the crowning with
flowers the statues of Our
Lady. I, myself when I
think of May and Mary,
remember how as young
seminarians, we would,
each day of May, say the
rosary around the statue
of Our Lady of La Salette
after the noon day meal.
We La Salette Fathers
and Brothers have an
added reason for devotion
to our Lady. Our
congregation takes its
origin from an apparition
of Our Blessed Mother
back in 1846. It happened
in a tiny village in the
French Alps. At high noon
on September 19, Our
Lady appeared to two
youngsters, Maximum and
Melanie. When the
children first saw her, she
was seated in a globe of
light on a stone in an
attitude of grief, a woman
bowed in sorrow, her face
buried in her hands.
When she stood and
faced them, they saw her
face was wet with tears.
She told them why those
tears. It was because of her
concern and anxiety for
her people who would not
submit to the law of the
Gospel, and because of
their coldness and
indifference to Her Son,
her people were in grave
danger. Only because she
continued to intercede for
them with her Son, was
the wrath of God not
poured out. How she
would be pleased if only
she could reconcile them
with Him!
The La Salette
Congregation sees our
Lady, then, as reconciler
of sinners as well as a dear
mother. We are spiritual
descendants of those
priests who from the time
of the a p parition
reconciled those who came
to that mountain
sanctuary where Mary
wept.
In our ministry, we are
inspired and enheartened
by Our Lady because she
is our mother, and because
she asks us to make known
to her people the burden
of care she bears when Her
Son’s life and death are
spurned. We like to think
that in our ministry to the
people of God, we join in
Mary’s work of
reconciliation.
Cathedral School Studied
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Singer-composer Joe
Wise will be in concert on
Friday night, May 9th, at
7:30 p.m. at Transfigur
ation Catholic Church
Center.
Joe has written and
published eight albums of
ccntemporary liturgical
music, and three
collections of children’s
music, including “Show
Me Your Smile.” He is a
member of the Board of
the National Association
of Pastoral Musicians, a
member of the American
Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers,
and a member of the
National Association of
Recording Arts and
Sciences.
In the past fifteen years
he has travelled
extensively presenting
retreats, concerts, lectures,
human growth institutes,
and workshops. He was
last in Atlanta about four
years ago in concert at St.
Pius, sponsored by the
Office of Religious
Education.
The concert on May
9th is co-sponsored by the
Office of religious
Education and
Transfiguration Parish as a
celebration of the Year of
the Family.
Seating is limited.
Tickets at $3.00 for adults
and $1.50 for those under
12 are available from your
parish Religious Education
Coordinator, the Office of
Religious Education,
Transfiguration Parish, or
at the door.
For directions and
further information, please
call 977-1442 during the
day.
the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools.
Sister Jean Liston,
G.N.H.S., Principal,
announces that the formal
review by the Associ
ation’s Visiting Committee
will take place on May 11,
12, and 13.
Mr. Elliot Galloway of
The Galloway School has
been named Chairman of
the Southern Association’s
Visiting Committee. Other
members include: Mrs.
Patricia Griffin,
Immaculate Heart of
Mary; Dr. Larry Parker,
Georgia State University;
Mrs. Barbara Robertson,
Fulton County School
System; Mrs. Frances
Smoot, Holy Innocents
School; Sister Mary Jane
Stapleton, R.S.M., Office
of Religious Education,
Archdiocese of Atlanta.
Established in 1937 by
the Grey Nuns of the
Sacred Heart, Christ the
King School was the first
parochial, elementary
school in the Archdiocese
to earn accreditation by
the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools. It
now is the first to
complete the ten year
self-study for this
independent accrediting
agency.
‘‘Excellence in
education with a focus on
Catholic doctrine and
Christian values has always
been the keystone of
Christ the King School,”
said Sister Jean.
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Flannery - Georgia’s Own
BY THEA JARVIS
When Mary Flannery
O’Connor was twelve
years old, she created a
mischevious study of her
family entitled “My
Relatives.” According to
her mother, Regina, “No
one was spared.”
This early work was
not well-received. So
finely drawn were Mary
Flannery’s characters
that the chagrined
relatives hesitated -
indeed, refused - to
recognize themselves
among the crowd.
Flannery O’Connor’s
later works were to be no
less insightful. Met with
confusion, shock,
consternation, and even
praise, her writings
continued to be peopled
with real live members of
the human race who
invariably acted in ways
that polite Southern
Christian society did not
care to acknowledge.
It would appear that
things have taken a
different turn, however,
if the throng that turned
out at Emory University
last Wednesday night is
any indication of
Flannery O’Connor’s
present level of
popularity.
Sally Fitzgerald,
Flannery’s official
biographer and editor of
THE HABIT OF BEING,
a compilation of the
O’Connor correspon
dence, was the keynote
speaker.
Repudiating the myth
of the “lonely artist,”
Mrs. Fitzgerald
characterized her
longtime friend as totally
integrated within the
communities of her
origin - the South, the
Catholic Church, and the
Cline/O’Connor clan -
despite the fact that
these communities didn’t
always understand the
relationship.
“She could not have
written about alienated
people as she did,”
recalls Mrs. Fitzgerald,
“if she herself were not
whole.”
Some might feel that
Flannery O’Connor’s
sequestering at
Andalusia, the dairy farm
in Milledgeville where she
lived with her mother,
constituted flight from
an insensitive world.
Some would judge
that her guinea hens and
peacocks represented an
irrational obsession.
Others would
determine that her lapses
into folksy “Southern-
isms” betrayed her
intellectual perversity.
An enlightened
reading of her work
proves otherwise.
Flannery was
well-balanced in head
and heart. If her
characters seem to jar us
with their apparent
absurdity, it is because
we, too, are caught in the
net of the absurd.
Flannery’s own
absurdity was lodged in
her body. Stricken with
the “lupus” that was
responsible for her
father’s death, she
struggled with the disease
until it claimed her
crippled body at the age
of 39.
Bill Sessions, a
member of the panel that
followed Mrs.
Fitzgerald’s lecture on
Wednesday evening,
knew Flannery during
this time. They had met
as book reviewers for
THE GEORGIA
BULLETIN and shared
both a deep loyalty to
their faith and a lively
deotion to their craft.
According to Bill,
Flannery was never bitter
about her physical
condition or the
condition of the world at
large. “Amazzement was
more her attitude,” he
remembers, “not
bitterness.”
Reading the work of
Falnnery O’Connor, we
enter a world of
outlandish humor,
penetrating observation,
and keen moral sense. We
share Flannery’s
amazement, not only of
the world, but of the
power of her words.
We are reminded,
however, with Bill
Sessions and Sally
Fitzgerald, of Flannery’s
own humble appraisal of
herself: “I just write,”
she said.
National Marriage Encounter
The ecumenical
expression of National
Marriage Encounter held
i ts southeastern regional
meeting here in Georgia
last month. Forty-five
representatives from eight
southern states came
together to discuss the
meaning of Marriage
Encounter, as intended by
its founder, Father Gabriel
Calvo.
The weekend included
an all day workshop at
Holy Cross Catholic
Church, community-build
ing receptions, and an area
election.
Concluding the
weekend was an interfaith
Covenant Celebration led
by Monsignor Korby
Theilen, the National
Marriage Encounter
executive chaplain from
St. Paul, Minnesota.
One Rose
BY SHEILA MALLON
On Mother’s Day, May
11, most Archdiocesan
churches will have Knights
outside their doors
distributing red paper
m<»PS
The Knights of
Columbus are sponsoring
their One Rose - One Life
Campaign, again this year.
Several years ago at the
N a t i onal Convention of
the Knights of Columbus,
a Pro-Life resolution was
passed for the K of C
Councils in the United
States to work for a
Human Life Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution.
The campaign - is
sponsored by the K of C
to keep before our people
the need for continuing
awareness of those
attitudes and movements
which safeguard and
promote the values of
human life and the quality
of living.
The 12 Councils in
North Georgia have
established as one of their
highest priorities the
education of citizens in
North Georgia concerning
the facts regarding the
humanity of the unborn
child and abortion. They
have given of their time
and talents in support of
the Pro-Life Office of the
Archdiocese.
The One Rose - One
Life Campaign, begins this
coming weekend planned
to coincide appropriately
with Mother’s Day.
Members of the local K of
C Councils will visit many
Archdiocesan parishes to
distribute paper red roses
and pertinent information.
The Red Rose is the
symbol of the Pro-Life
Movement. Any donations
received will be used to
support K of C Pro-Life
projects.
Recently a home Mass was
offered in the residence of Agnes and
James Reilly at Shannon Villas in
Union City. Thirteen parishioners
participated in the Mass offered by
Father Thomas Reilly, M.S., Pastor
of St. Matthew’s Church in Fairburn.
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