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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, August 7,1980
La proxima reunion del
Comite Arquidiocesano
para el Apostolado
Hispano tendra lugar el
miercoles, 13 DE
AGOSTO, 1980, en el
Centro Catolico, 680 West
Peachtree Street, N.W. a
las 5:30 P.M.
Como tendremos con
nosotros nuestro
Arzobispo Tomas
Donnellan, los temas de
tratarse seran solo dos:
1. el plan Pastoral del
aiio 1980-81.
2. la finalizacion de los
planes para la celebracion
de la Fiesta de Nuestra
Senora de la Caridad.
UPCOMING
RETREATS . . .
RENEWALS . . .
STARTING OVER, a
weekend for divorced and
separated men and women
will be held at Ignatius
House on Riverside Drive
N.W. beginning August
22nd. Call 255-0503 for
reservations.
MARRIAGE
ENCOUNTER WEEKEND
will be held August
15-17th for couples aimed
at strengthening an already
good marriage. Call the
Lynches at 461-6100 for
information.
CURSILLO is a
learning experience - a
“little course” in the
Christian message and its
implications for the
individual. For more
information on the
Cursillo Weekend, call
252-4513 between 9 a.m.
and 1 p.m.
CATHOLIC SOCIAL
SERVICES announces the
availability of specialized
professional help for drug
or alcohol related
problems. The
OUT-PATIENT DRUG
FREE COUNSELING
PROGRAM is bilingual
and bi-cultural, offering
counseling, access to
medical exams,
psychological evaluation,
vocational assessment and
job assistance. Fees based
on a sliding scale. Call
Armando Ayala
(881-6571) for
information.
St. PIUS ALUMNI
ANNUAL PARTY will be
held August 15th this
year. Mark your calendars
now!!!
NATURAL FAMILY
PLANNING CLASSES on
the use of the
Sympto-thermal Method
will begin at 7:30 p.m.
August 24th at St.
Joseph’s Hospital. For
registration and
information, call the NFP
office (881-1411) or
Darlene Kerscher
(476-1208).
A CRUSADE FOR
THE HANDICAPPED will
be held Friday, August
8th, from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
at English Parks
Recreation on Bolton Rd.,
and on Saturday, August
9th, from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
at the Midtown
Neighborhood Park at
10th and Juniper St. A
variety show, musicians,
artists, clowns, magicians,
and singers will be
included.
MOST GRAPHIC
Cool weather
doesn’t last, but the
care of those who
donated fans, and
money to buy fans,
to Catholic Social
Services will be felt
from year to year.
The donated fans
have been distri
buted to the elderly
poor in Atlanta by
Sister Roberta
Joseph Sutton and
Sister Marcella
Meyer of Catholic
Social Services, and
to families in rural
Georgia by Rural
Social Services.
Sister Theresa
Termini, coordinator
of services for the
elderly, extends
thanks to all in the
parishes who
responded to appeals
for help during the
heat wave.
Msgr. Edward J.
Dodwell Council of the
Knights of Columbus in
Gainesville has selected
Father Bill Hoffman, one
o f its own family
members, as the recipient
of a film entitled “The
Good News of Christ.”
The film is in Spanish and
will be of help to Father
Bill, who has spent eight
years in mission work in
Peru. The film will be seen
by more than 5,000
children in his Andean
Mountains parish. Father
Bill is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Hoffman of
Gainesville.
THE UNITED
ATLANTA METRO
LEAGUE is preparing for
its 1980 football program,
with three divisions:
Varsity (130 lbs., 14 yrs.);
Jr. Varsity (115 lbs. 12
yrs., grades 6-7); Mitey
Mites (85 lbs., 10 yrs.,
grades 4-5). Participating
churches are Christ the
King, Immaculate Heart,
Assumption, Peachtree
Rd. Methodist, Rehoboth
Baptist, and Ss. Peter and
Paul. Call one of the above
churches to register as a
player, coach, or team.
THE UNITED STATES
CATHOLIC CONFER
ENCE has become a
“partner” of the U.S.
Council for the 1981
United Nations
International Year of
Disabled Persons. The
Council’s mission is to
promote full participation
in society for citizens with
physical and mental
disabilities. Additional
information available from
Susan Flowers at the U.S.
Council, 1575 Eye St., N.
W., Washington, D. C.
20005 (202/638/6011).
IMMIGRATION
PROBLEMS ... Bui Van
Tam or Nelson Hernandez
at Catholic Social Services
(881-6571) can help with:
naturalization assistance;
extension permanent
residency and
visasapplications;
assistance at deportation
hearings; representation at
immigration offices.
ATLANTA BRAILLE
VOLUNTEERS provides
textbooks for blind
students in Georgia,
individually transcribed by
volunteers. A class is
offered each year for
volunteer transcribers
which meets weekly for
about six months.
Volunteers must be able to
spend several hours each
week in study and be
available for Tuesday
morning classes. Next class
will begin in September.
Call Carol Lawrence
(636-1770), Eleanor
O’Connor (636-3665), or
Ruth Peck (981-4343) for
information.
BIRTHRIGHT
TRAINING SESSION will
be held on Saturday,
August 16th at the
Birthright Office, 3272
Peachtree Road from 9
a.m. - 4 p.m. Call
233-1171 for further
information.
Dedicated members of
the Cathedral of Christ the
King Parish who have been
active in a MINISTRY TO
THE ELDERLY are
seeking to enlarge this
ministry so that more
parishioners might
participate. If you are
interested in becoming a
part of this network to the
aged, call Herb Farnsworth
(237-2024) or the
Cathedral rectory
(233-2145).
SR. JOSE HOBDAY
Simple Lifestyle Urged
SPOKANE, Wash. (NC) - Too many
possessions clutter people’s lives and
drain their creative and spiritual
resources, Franciscan Sister Jose
Hobday said.
Sister Hobday, an American Indian
and lecturer and advocate of Native
American spirituality, urged Catholics
to adopt a simple lifestyle and share
their personal property with the poor.
She was in Spokane to direct a
workshop, “The Power of Spirituality
and Ministry.”
“A simple lifestyle gives a person a
greater freedom for loving,” Sister
Hobday said. “It is the means to an end
and that end is love, joy and more
opportunities to serve God and
neighbor.”
A low income has nothing to do with
a simple lifestyle, she pointed out. Each
person or family, rather, must decide on
“a level of living that is valid and
Christian for them,” she said.
Individuals must live within those
self-imposed limits, sharing possessions
with others and donating surplus goods
to the poor.
“People mistakenly believe that
because a lifestyle is called simple, it is
easy,” Sister Hobday said. “It is very
hard not to accumulate possessions,
especially when advertisements,
neighbors and even well-meaning friends
and relatives pressure you to buy more
things or give them to you.
“When you limit yourself, however,
you do not deprive yourself,” she said.
“If your home is cluttered with a lot of
things that constantly bombard and
distract you, then it will be extremely
hard to find time for God, your
neighbor or even be at peace with
yourself.
“But when you have little, you
discover how much God has to offer
you in terms of joy, serenity and love
for yourself and others,” she said.
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Sister Hobday suggested examining
possessions in light of needs as opposed
to wants and replacing possessions
instead of accumulating them. For
example, “if someone gives me a new
dress for Christmas, I give one of my old
dresses to the poor so that I don’t
accumulate a lot of clothes,” she said.
She also suggested people improve
their health by not spending money oh
junk food, that they choose recreational
activities that are not always passive or
attached to money.
Sister Hobday, who lives in a poor
neighborhood in Tucson, Ariz., said
poverty has taught her and her
neighbors to share with others.
“When an unemployed father with
six children is at a neighbor’s doorstep
begging for food, a family will not just
hand him a can of beans, they will give
the father half of the food in their
kitchen,” she said.
“The people on my block do not
look upon this kind of sharing as a
matter of generosity, they see it as a
manner of justice,” Sister Hobday said.
“No one has a right to be lodged in
super security when other people are in
need.”
NEWS VIEW
YOUNG PEOPLE FROM St.
Patrick’s Church in Norcross and
St. Lawrence Church in
Lawrenceville took to the Georgia
mountains this summer for a
wilderness retreat. Prayer, sharing,
witness, and reconciliation,
centered around the Eucharistic
table allowed participants a four
day focus on their personal faith
commitment.
Church Must Defend Poor
BuiWttrx
Briefs....
Migrants Get Help
WASHINGTON (NC) - After two joint
meetings the migration commissions of the U.S.
and Mexican bishops’ conferences announced
plans to establish border orientation offices to
help migrants from Mexico and other Latin
American countries.
They also said a plan to share priests, deacons,
seminarians and nuns is in the making. A report
to the commissions estimated that there are some
6 million Mexican immigrants in the United
States.
Black Woman
Heads Commission
BALTIMORE (NC) - Beverly Carroll, associate
director of the Baltimore archdiocesan urban
commission for the past three years, has been
named executive director of the commission.
The appointment, announced by Auxiliary
Bishop J. Francis Stafford of Baltimore, the
urban vicar, makes Ms. Carroll, 33, the first black
woman to head the urban commission’s executive
office and one of the top-ranked black female
employees of the archdiocese.
VATICAN CITY (NC)
- “The church would not
be faithful to the Gospel if
it were not close to the
poor and if it did not
defend their rights,” Pope
John Paul II said in the
longest interview he has
granted since becoming
pope.
The pontiff was
interviewed at length by
his long-time friend Jerzy
Turowicz, editor of
Tygodnik Powszechny, the
leading Catholic
newspaper in Poland,
which is based in the
pope’s former Archdiocese
of Cracow.
The interview, done
after the pope’s trip to
Brazil (June 30-July 11),
was published in the
original Polish in the Aug.
3 issue of the Polish
Catholic weekly and in
Italian translation in the
Aug. 2 issue of the Vatican
daily, L ’ O sservatore
Romano.
The pope focused
mainly on the trip to
Brazil and the church
there, but also spoke of
the other trips that in less
than two years have made
him history’s most widely
traveled pope.
Asked about his visits
to the poor at several
points during the trip, the
pope said his visit to Brazil
“would not have been
authentic if these
‘presences’ were missing.”
“This is the pure and
simple .mission of the
Gospel,” he said. “The
church would not be
faithful to the Gospel if it
were not close to the poor
and if it did not defend
their rights in that vast
society.
“By doing so, I am
convinced, the church is
not only faithful to its
evangelical mission - when
I say ‘church’ I am
thinking of the
hierarchical church and of
the laity, of the apostolate
of the laity - the church,
then, is not only faithful
to its evangelical mission,
but it is also acting for the
good of society,” the pope
continued.
He explained that it is
also “in the interests of
those who wield power”
to have a just society
because true justice
forestalls the possibility of
“revolts, violence and
bloodshed.”
The pope also
explained why he did not
meet separately with
leaders of the “basic
Christian communities”
which are a significant part
of church life in Brazil,
but instead delivered a
message to them through
the Brazilian Bishops’
Conference.
He said the Brazilian
bishops had told him such
a separate meeting • was
unnecessary because the
leaders of such
communities would make
up part of the other
groups he was meeting
everywhere he went.
He said that apart from
some facts such as “the
politicization of some of
these communities,” these
basic communities “as
such are one of the most
interesting forms of the
incarnation of the teaching
of the (Second Vatican)
Council about the
apostolate of the laity.”
Iran: Salesians Investigated
ROME (NC) - The Iranian government began
an official investigation of spying charges against
nine Italian Salesian priests, Italian newspapers
reported July 23.
The priests, who were not named, have been
ordered to remain at the Andichen School in the
Iranian capital of Teheran until the investigation
is completed, the reports said.
Cuban Heads Miami Seminary
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (NC) - A Cuban
priest has been named rector of St. Vincent de
Paul Major Seminary, one of the first bilingual
and multicultural seminaries in the United States,
operated by the Archdiocese of Miami.
Synod: Focus On Family
WASHINGTON (NC) - More than 200
Catholic leaders from around the world will
attend a meeting this fall in Rome on marriage
and family life.
The meeting, the World Synod of Bishops,
begins Sept. 26 at the Vatican and continues
through October. Its theme, chosen by Pope John
Paul II, is “The Role of the Christian Family in
the Modern World.” Pope John Paul will preside.
Archbishop’s Datebook
Farm Workers Demand Hearing
KEENE, Calif. (NC) -
The United Farm Workers
of America is demanding a
hearing on an Internal
Revenue Service ruling
that refuses to accept the
volunteer status of
UFWA’s president, Cesar
Chavez, and many of his
top aides.
The IRS has declined to
accept expense allowances
as other than wages and as
a result said the union
owes almost $400,000 in
federal employment and
Social Security taxes.
In another government
action, the inspector
general of the Community
Services Administration
said that almost $1 million
in CSA grants were
improperly used to
support UFWA activities.
Regarding the IRS
ruling, the union said its
officers and staff are
among the lowest paid in
the nation and it will fight
the ruling through the
courts if necessary.
According to Marc
Grossman, UFWA
spokesman in Keene, the
union challenges the IRS
definition of wages
because everyone on the
staff - including Chavez,
attorney Jerome Cohen
and himself -- is a
volunteer.
“We all receive only
$10 per week in pocket
money,” Grossman said.
‘‘We also re ceive
reimbursements for food,
rent, gasoline and similar
expenses. If the
government wins this one
it will mean that only rich
people will be able to
volunteer their services to
minority and other
causes.”
The UFWA said Chavez
had filed a report with the
Department of Labor
stating that his total
income from the union
last year was $2,760. It
included use of a
three-bedroom house in La
Paz, Calif., food, clothing
and medical care.
Grossman said Chavez’s
clothes are gifts from his
eight children and 13
grandchildren. Only one of
the children now lives with
him and his wife, Helen.
Grossman also said that
the union estimated it had
about 350 full-time
volunteer workers, adding
that “it is only because
they are volunteers that
we can support them at a
fraction of the cost any
other organization would
have to pay.”
The government says it
wants unpaid taxes from
1972 through 1975. The
IRS did not say that the
union is secretly paying
high salaries to Chavez and
his staff. Rather it said
that any reimbursement
for work has to be
considered as wages, which
are subject to taxes.
On the question of CSA
grants, the federal agency
said that top officials in
the nation’s capital
bypassed CSA regional
offices and channeled
funds to the National
Farm Workers Service
Center, which operates out
of UFWA headquarters in
Keene.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 - Principal
Celebrant/Homilist... Liturgy (Groundbreaking)
Saint Patrick’s, Norcross.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 - Meeting/Comite
Arquidiocesano para el Apostolado Hispano . . .
Catholic Center
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 - Principal
Celebrant/Homilist... Liturgy (Assumption of Our
Lady at Our Lady of the Assumption, Atlanta.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 - Preside/Preach .. .
Liturgy (Blessing/Dedication) Saint Philip Benizi,
Jonesboro.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 - Principal
Celebrant/Homilist... Liturgy (98th Annual
Supreme Council, Knights of Columbus) Lancaster
Room, Regency-Hyatt, “States Dinner” ...
Phoenix Room, Regency-Hyatt.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 - Ladies Lunch
(Knights of Columbus) . .. Beach Club, Stone
Mountain.
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Phone No. 633-1869
Atlanta, Ga. 30319
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Christ said to His followers:
Come with me
to a quiet place and rest awhile.
Ignatius
House
A retreat is a time to withdraw from ordinary occupations, a break in routine, a stopping, a place
and time for stillness, listening and learning.
Regular week-end retreats -- open to single women and men and couples - begin with supper on
Friday evening and end after lunch on Sunday. Three day retreats can be arranged for special
groups at other times. Private and directed retreats are provided for individuals who request
them.
Still open up-coming dates: 22-24 August (Divorced and Separated); 12-14
September; 26-28 September (Youth); 24-26 October; 31 October-2 November
(Divorced and Separated); 6-9 November (Men's, 3-day retreat); 21-23 November.
Suggested dates open for directed retreats: 31 July to 7 August; 15 December to 22 December.
6700 Riverside Drive
Atlanta - Ga. 30328
Retreats directed by Jesuit priests
(404) 255-0503