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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, August 7,1980
THE REV. ROBERT BOND Will tell the story
of the Glenmary Home Missioners at St. Joseph
Church on the weekend of August 16 and 17.
Glenmary Arrives
Two Members of the
Glenmary Home
Missioners have been
invited to visit parishes in
the Atlanta archdiocese
during August. They will
tell the story of the
society founded in 1939
to establish the Catholic
Church in Appalachia and
the rural South.
More than 100
Glenmary priests and
Brothers are engaged in
ministry in areas where at
least 20% of the people
live in poverty and less
than one percent are
Catholic. The missioners
serve all the people,
regardless of creed or race
or economic condition,
and try to establish a vital
Catholic community.
At the onset of
Grenmary’s work in 1939,
there were 1,022 counties
in the United States
without a resident priest.
Progress has been made to
the point where the
number of priestless
counties now is 545.
Glenmarians work with
other churches and with
civic groups, forming
credit unions and co-ops,
workshops, thrift shops
and centers for the
retarded. They counsel
alcoholics and drug addicts
and people with personal
problems. They serve the
sick, the aged and the
lonely, obtain food for
and build homes for the
poor, and build spiritual
lives of the people,
Catholic or not.
The first speaker will be
Father Robert R. Bond
who is scheduled to talk at
all Masses at the Church of
St. Joseph in Dalton on
Saturday and Sunday,
August 16 and 17.
The following weekend,
August 23 and 24, Father
Joe O’Donnell is to speak
at Masses at Holy Family
Church in Marietta.
A native of Cincinnati,
Father Bond was ordained
in 1960. He has served the
missions in Virginia and
North Carolina. Last fall
he was appointed associate
director of the Mission
Office and on September 1
will become director.
Father O’Donnell, a
native of Chicago, has
served missions in
Kentucky and Virginia and
for the past three years has
been doing regional work
in the Southeast, with his
home base in Newnan,
Georgia. He assists rural
pastors generally, but
works largely in the area
of Catholic-Southern
Baptist relations.
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Alabanza y Comimidad
Vivimos en una epoca de intranquilidad moral, sociial y
economica. Sobre nosotros se descarga una serie de
presiones no vista antes en la historia. Estas presiones nos
hacen sentirnos abatidos, impotentes, frustrados y
desmoralizados; causando en nosotros problemas
reflejados en nuestro comportamiento y en nuestra
relacion con otras personas. No tenemos tiempo ya para
amar y ser amados, sino para combatir estas presiones
impuestas por el ambiente en que nos desenvolvemos. Las
combatimos con agresividad, negativismo y algunas veces
hasta con rencor.
Si nos aislamos unos momentos de este combate, y
tomamos tiempo para reflexionar, nos damos cuenta de
que Dios esta amorosamente esperando a que podamos
reconocer su obra en las muchas bendiciones que nos da;
pero que estamos muy envueltos en nuestras
preocupaciones diarias para reconocerlo. Tambien nos
dariamos cuenta de que Dios quiere tomar nuestro lugar y
combatir nuestras batallas, cargar nuestra cruz para que
nosotros nos preocupemos solo de Alabario y darie
graeias. Por que pues le negamos nuestro agradecimiento y
nuestra alabanza?
Dediquemos mas tiempo para darie graeias a Nuestro
Senor y Creador y a alabario por todo. Asi veremos que
nuestra carga se hace mas dulce y liviana por amor a El.
Entreguemosle todo . . . nuestras ansiedades, nuestras
alegrias, nuestro trabajo, nuestros hijos; en fin, todo lo
que somos y tenemos. Entonces, empezaremos a notar un
cambio en nuestras vidas. Un cambio dulce y un amor del
que tal vez no nos creiamos capaz de sentir y expressar.
Si tenemos duda de como alabario o de como
expresarlo, la oracion y alabanza en comunidad cristiana
nos puede ayudar a romper las barreras. Hay varios grupos
en nuestra comunidad que toman este excelente
apostolado y se regoeijan en ayudar al hermano en Cristo.
No nos sintamos cohibidos o temerosos. Todos vamos
con el mismo proposito que es el de acercarnos cada dia
un poco mas a Dios.
Un ejemplo de estos grupos, es el Grupo de Renovacion
de la Santisima Trinidad. Se reune todos los miercoles de
8:00 a 10:00 P.M. en la Iglesia del Inmaculado Corazon de
Maria, en Briarcliff Road. Es un grupo de
hispanohablantes en el cual se alaba a Dios en comunidad,
se estudia Su Palabra y se oyen continuamente ejemplos
vivos de las bendiciones de Dios en nuestra comunidad de
Atlanta y otras comunidades semejantes. Invitamos todos
a participar.
Familia Garcia
POPE ON MARRIAGE
Equality A Goal
THE REV. JOE O’DONNELL will tell of the
,vork of the Glenmary Home Missioners to the
reople of Holy Family Church on the weekend of
\ugust 23 and 24.
VATICAN CITY (NC)
- Men and women must
treat one another as equals
in marriage, Pope John
Paul II told about 15,000
visitors at his Wednesday
general audience July 30.
He said some key
passages about man and
woman in the Old
Testament give proof that
women suffered “social
marginalization” at the
time, and these passages
were dictated by those
circumstances.
Nevertheless, he said,
those texts carry an
underlying truth about the
personal, loving union of
man and woman desired
by God, which is
independent of the
conditions of the time.
Addressing the passage
in Genesis in which God
tells the woman, “yet your
urge shall be for your
husband, and he shall be
your master,” the pope
said:
“If the man relates to
the woman in such a way
as to consider her only as
an object to be owned and
not as a gift, at the same
time he condemns himself
to becoming, for her, only
an object to be owned and
not a gift.”
Both then lose an
essential aspect of the
intrinsic “marital meaning
of the body,” he said.
In earlier talks the pope
had described the passage
on man’s domination of
woman as an effect of sin,
and not part of the
original communion
between man and woman
willed by God.
In his latest talk he
compared the Genesis
passage with the one in the
Gospel of St. Matthew
warning “anyone who
looks lustfully at a
woman.”
“What we are dealing
with here, perhaps, is not
above all the fact that the
woman becomes the
object of ‘lust’ on the part
of man, but rather that -
as we have already
highlighted - man ‘from
the beginning’ ought to
have been guardian of the
reciprocity of the gift and
of its authentic
equilibrium,” the pope
said.
“The analysis of that
‘beginning’ shows precisely
the responsibility of man
in welcoming femaleness
as a gift and in making the
exchange mutual and
two-sided,” he added.
He said this approach is
“in open contrast” with
that of “taking the
woman’s gift from her
through concupiscence.”
“Even if keeping the
equilibrium of the gift
should seem to have been
entrusted to both, a
special responsibility rests
above all on the man, as if
it depends mostly on him
for the equilibrium to be
kept or broken or, if
already broken, to be
eventually reestablished,”
the pope commented.
Then he added:
“Certainly the diversity of
roles (between man and
woman), according to
these statements to which
we are referring as key
passages, was also dictated
by the social marginalizat
ion of woman in the
conditions of those times,
and the sacred writings of
the Old and New
Testament furnish
sufficient proofs of that;
nevertheless, there is a
truth enclosed there which
has its own importance
independently of the
conditionings owed to the
customs of that specific
historical situation.”
Christians Fight Hunger
BY THEA JARVIS
Christians Against
Hunger in Georgia, Inc.,
is a non-profit advocacy
network that seeks to
educate state and federal
legislators and the
community at large to
the needs of the hungry
in our state.
In its own words, the
group is dedicated to
“informed action and
long term commitment
rather than simple
answers and short term
emotionalism.”
According to Jackie
Andrews, secretary of
CAHIG, “The legal
standard of need for Aid
to F a m ilies with
Dependent Children is
based on the 1969 cost
of living index. Christians
Against Hunger was able
to raise state funding
from 75% to 85% of this
standard in 1980.”
What CAHIG is after,
however, is adoption by
the Georgia Department
of Human Resources of a
current, more realistic
standard of need.
“The 1969 cost of
living obviously no
longer applies,” says Ms.
Andrews.
The CAHIG network
attempts to explode
welfare myths,
particularly at a time
when ethnic minorities
are no longer the average
welfare recipients.
“We live in a time
when increasing
unemployment is making
hunger a reality for
middle class and
minorities alike. It is,
unfortunately, the
children who suffer most
deeply when help is not
forthcoming,” according
to Ms. Andrews.
Adults suffer, too,
however, as indicated by
Jackie Andrews’ tale of a
middle class widow who
was too proud to reach
out for help.
“This lady lived in a
comfortable home in a
comfortable neighbor
hood. She had eaten
nothing for days, but,
because of her pride, she
felt she could not go to
her church for help.”
Neighbors finally
stepped in with the
needed food for this
woman, but Ms. Andrews
feels that the churches
will have to become
more involved in the
hunger issue.
“Churches need to
raise their level of
consciousness about
hunger, especially with
more and more people
out of work.”
Within the Catholic
Archdiocese of Atlanta,
Mrs. Andrews cites
Archbishop Thomas
Donnellan and Mrs. Ruth
Maguire as being
particularly supportive in
such consciousness
-raising.
“Holy Family Church
in Marietta, where Father
John Mulroy is the
pastor, is also quite
active in focusing on
hunger needs.”
What can other
churches do? Christians
Against Hunger in
Georgia suggests the
following:
- Increase supplies in
the church FOOD
PANTRY. Be ready to
care for more people and
be open at convenient
times. Give enough food
to really provide for
needs.
- If your church has
room, consider a
COMMUNITY GARDEN
where food can be grown
to supply those in need.
- Advocate church
support for an area
FOOD BANK where
larger community
resources could meet
wider hunger needs.
(For more
information op
Christians Against
Hunger in Georgia, call
404/588/1458.)
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Father Leonard P.
Kellermann, S.M.
celebrated his farewell
Mass at St. Joseph’s
Church in Marietta July
19 th with his pastor,
Father John J. Moore and
the parish community.
Father Kellermann will
join brother Marists in the
San Francisco Province
after a summer vacation
break. From San Francisco
he will journey to Rome,
Italy for a doctrinal
seminar.
Father Kellermann will
be leaving many friends in
the greater Atlanta area,
having served at St.
Joseph’s as assistant pastor
for eight years and at Our
Lady of the Assumption
for four years.
Dan Mazzeo
Biking For Life
BY THEA JARVIS
Dan Mazzeo is biking
for life.
On August 23, the
28-year-old Norcross
resident will leave the
steps of Decatur’s City
Hall to begin a 720-mile
bike ride to highlight
hunger around the world.
The Atlanta to Miami
run represents Dan
Mazzeo’s personal belief
that one person can make
a difference in the fight
against global hunger.
“This goes right to my
soul,” says the enthusiastic
Mazzeo, a Western Electric
engineer who began
serious biking as a student
at Georgia Tech.
“I have chosen to do
something instead of
sitting around getting
depressed over a very
depressing situation.”
Dan will be riding for
The Hunger Project, a
charitable organization
which maintains that the
end to hunger is a viable
goal awaiting only a
worldwide commitment
for its fruition.
“Last year alone, over
fifteen million people died
as a result of starvation,”
according to David Frey,
media relations director
for the Ride For Life.
“Starvation is not an
inevitable part of the
human condition,
however. The world
possesses the means to end
hunger everywhere by the
end of the century. We
only lack the commitment
to get it done.”
On his journey to
Miami, Dan Mazzeo will be
welcomed by St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church in Macon.
Here Father Tom Healey
has arranged for an
overnight “bed and board”
and a forum where Dan
can share his dream of a
better world with the
Macon community.
“The church is an
excellent place for the
battle against hunger to
begin,” says Dan, who has
already begun, in his own
unique way, to reach out
to the hungry of the
world.
(For more information
on the Bike Ride for Life,
call 404/233/2317.)
Farewell Mass for Father Kellermann
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