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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, September 25,1980
Celebracion de Nuestra
Senora de la Caridad
POR: LAZARO HERRERA
El pasado domingo dia
siete de septiembre
1980 se celebro con gran
lucimiento la festividad de
Nuestra Senora de la
Caridad, Patrona de Cuba,
en la Catedral de Cristo
Rey, de Atlanta, Georgia.
Dicha festividad, que
corresponde en el
calendario catolico al dia
ocho de septiembre, ha
sido siempre de gran
trascendencia para el
pueblo cubano catolico.
Desde la epoca de las
guerras de independencia
se veneraba a nuestra
patrona como la guia
espiritual de los mambises
en los campos de lucha, en
la manigua redentora. De
alii nacio esta cuarteta que
forma parte de unas
decimas criollas:
Virgen de la Caridad,
tu tierra libre ha de ser,
aunque tenga que
perder
de sus hijos la mitad.
El Hinno a la Santisima
Virgen de la Caridad fue
compuesto con la musica
del Himno Bayames o
Himno Nacional Cubano,
cuyo autor es el ilustre
Pedro (Perucho)
Figueredo; y que fuera
entonado por primera vez
en la iglesia de la ciudad de
Bayamo, • provincia de
Oriente, el siglo pasado,
durante las luchas
libertarias. Como cuestion
de honor, los cubanos
hemos querido cantarle a
la Santisima Virgen con el
mismo fervor que se le
canta a nuestra patria. Se
ha establecido asi un
paralelismo simbolico
entre Cuba, nuestro himno
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nacional y nuestra madre
celestial: Si de Cuba en las
bellas eomarcas
elegiste, Senora, un
altar,
para ser la mansion de
prodigios
y a tus hijos de dichas
colmar;
no abandones, oh
Madre!, a tu pueblo,
salva a Cuba de llanto y
afan:
y tu nombre sera
nuestro escudo,
nuestro ampao, tus
gracias seran.
Virgen de La Caridad
Es como si la Virgen de
la Caridad formara parte
de los simbolos de la
patria: la bandera, el
escudo, el himno y la
Virgen del Cobre. Es
nuestro homenaje
simbolico perpetuo a
nuestra patrona.
Este arfo asistio como
orador sagrado invitado el
Rvdo. Monsenor Dr.
Ismael Teste. Quien no lo
recuerda como fundador
de la Ciudad de los Ninos
en Cuba? ,Y de sus
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programas de television,
tan fervientes? Procedente
de Houston, Texas, donde
esta redicado, concelebro
la misa en honor a la
Santisima Virgen con
nuestro Obispo Tomas,
nuestro parroco el Rvdo.
Padre Juan de la Cruz y
varios sacerdotes mas de
n uestra comunidad
hispanoamericana. Fue
vibrante el sermon del
padre Teste, palpitante de
actualidad, denunciante de
grandes verdades . . .
Pasaban de mil los fieles
asistentes, que con el coro
hispano de dicha iglesia
catedral, cantaban y
rezaban desbordantes de
emocion y de devocion a
nuestra madre celestial
durante la misa; asi como
en el transcurso de la
solemne procesion,
rezando el santo rosario y
entonando las estrofas de
Ave, Ave, Ave Maria . . .
hasta el Highland Center,
en donde se celebro el acto
social.
De cada asistente salia
una confesion o una
peticion a la Virgen de la
Caridad, formando parte
de esa entrega total en
medio de un recogimiento
espiritual colectivo. De
cada individuo integrante
de ese todo se podia palpar
una declaracion confidente
a nuestra madre del cielo,
como la que hiciera su
devoto hijo, el poe ta
cubano Hilarion Cabrisas,
en su ‘Plegaria del
Peregrino Absurdo”:
Tu si puedes mirarme,
cansado, triste y pobre,
y comprender lo que
hay en mi. . .
ANN LOMBARDI,
daughter of Jean and
Nick Lombardi
(I.H.M.), h as been
awarded a 1980-81
Rotary International
Graduate Fellowship
to Korea. Miss
Lombardi, recent
graduate of St.
Michael's College (Vt.)
Master of Arts
program in Teaching
English as a Second
Language, will
specialize in Korean
Studies and Teaching
English at Seoul
National University.
Award
For CSS
Citing Catholic Social
Services long tradition and
broadened services to
Hispanic s, IMAGE of
Atlanta, the local chapter
of a national organization
concerned with
employment and
advancement of Hispanics,
last week awarded CSS
their President’s Award for
outstanding service to the
Hispanic community of
Atlanta. Over four
hundred persons attended
the Hispanic banquet,
intended as an event to
open the nationally
proclaimed Hispanic
Heritage Week.
The Award, a
handsome engraved
plaque, was presented to
Father Jacob A. Bollmer,
Executive Director of CSS
at Image’s and The Fed.
Employment Hispanic
Council’s First Annual
Banquet held at the
Century Center Hotel
Ballroom on September
13th.
In congratulating
Father Bollmer, Image
President, Rafael Berrios
cited his Agency’s Spanish
Outreach, Hotline, Drug
and alcohol Program and
Immigration Status
Adjustment service.
Atlanta Line Call 525-0687
ACCW Plans
Convention
BY SHEILA MALLON
The Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women will
hold their 24th Annual Meeting at the Colony Square
Hotel, Peachtree and 14th Streets on October 3 and 4.
The day will begin with registration in the lobby of the
Colony Square hotel on Friday, October 3.
Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan will give the
welcoming address, “Seek Your Horizon.” The annual
business meeting will follow his talk.
On Saturday October 4, the working day will begin at
9:36 a.m. with six workshops on faith and family in
relationship to the five ACCW Commissions:
Organization, Church, Community, International and
Family Affairs.
There will be a luncheon, business meeting and fashion
show at 12:30 p.m. followed by a panel discussion at 2:00
p.m. dealing with Family Ministry. The panel will explore
the layperson's role in Family Ministry.
Following the panel there will be an opportunity to
visit the displays from Archdiocesan and community
organizations. Deaneries will meet at 4:00 p.m. and at
5:00 p.m. the Archbishop will celebrate the liturgy.
On Saturday evening, the ACCW banquet will be held
at 8 p.m.
The keynote speaker will be Father David Knight,
whose topic will be “A Family Plan for Following Jesus.”
Father Knight is the author of “His Way.” He holds a
doctorate in theology from Catholic University of
America, and has served as a retreat master, pastor,
teacher, chaplain and youth director. He is also the author
of “Confession Can Change Your Life” and “Cloud by
Day, Fire By Night” and others.
Every woman in the Archdiocese is automatically a
member of the ACCW and they are all encouraged to
attend.
Contact Mrs. Ronnie Rucco, 620 Spalding Drive, N.E.,
Atlanta, Ga. 30328 (394-3623) for reservations for the
convention and meals.
If you have any questions about the activities and
reservations contact Anita Willoughby, (252-1764)
program chairman or Mary Wells, N.W., Deanery hostess
at 753-5400.
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Cuban “Criminals” Build New Life
rice, beans and a “little
bit of meat.” Just one
plate, not enough to
satisfy the hunger of all
eight members of his
family.
The second time, he
wasn’t so lucky.
“As I was getting on
a bus, a member of the
Committee of Defense
of the Revolution
stopped me and wanted
to look in the bag.” He
was arrested for
stealing.
He said in Cuba, the
members of the
committee are
authorized to stop
anyone and look in
bags or purses. He
added that Cubans are
not allowed to own
anything made in a
capitalist country. If
they are found with
anything, they are
arrested.
Fernandez spent
eight months in jail
before going to trial.
The prosecutor asked
for a sentence of 12
years, but the judge
sentenced him to two.
Ony McElroy, an
interpreter who fled
Cuba in the 1960s, told
of one of the
“prostitutes” who
came.
“The woman had
papers saying she was a
prostitute. She was
really a doctor in a
clinic, but doctors were
not allowed to leave the
country, so she passed
herself off as a
prostitute.”
Luis Morejon, 32,
was a bus driver. He
paid 300 pesos to buy
criminal records so that
he could leave Cuba.
“If you knew someone
in the Justice
Department, they
would sell you false
TUCSON, Ariz.
(NC) - Who are the
Cuban “hardened
criminals and
prostitutes” as who fled
to the United States in
the “freedom flotilla?”
‘‘The Arizona
Catholic Lifetime,” the
Tucson and helped by
the Refugee Resettle
ment Office of Catholic
Community Services of
Southern Arizona.
Fernandez, 24, was
working in a tourist
hotel in Cuba. He ate at
the hotel, but felt sorry
papers. Some people
paid 1,000 pesos for
them,” Morejon said.
He also bought
papers for his ex-wife.
There is a law in Cuba
that children belong to
the mother. He wanted
to bring his 4-year-old
son along but
government officials
kept the boy in Cuba.
All the Cubans
didn’t come with
criminal records. Most
were ordinary citizens
who came because they
were looking for the
freedom they had as
youths before Fidel
Castro and his regime
took over the Cuban
government.
“In the 20 years
since Castro took
over,” Morejon said,
“they had destroyed
the value of humans,
the sense of pride, the
ambition of youths, the
loyalty of family. They
have destroyed the
mind, heart and soul.
Now we are starting
over.”
Starting over can be
a happy occasion for
the men, but it is also
painful. Most left loved
ones in Cuba and the
ones whose families did
make it to the United
States were separated.
Resettlement officials
are working to match
up new arrivals with
family members.
Two of the men in
Tucson are working as
dishwashers and others
are doing yard work.
They said they are
looking forward to
going back to their
original professions as
soon as they leam
English.
REFUGEE AT WORK - Luis Morejan
works as a dishwasher at the Casa Molina
Restaurant in Tucson, Ariz. In the short time
the young Cuban refugee has been in the
Tucson area, he has saved enough to buy a used
car and rent an apaitinent.
newspaper of the
Tucson Diocese,
interviewed some of the
refugees, with the help
of translators and
found what the labels
‘‘criminal’’ or
“prostitute” sometimes
meant on official
records.
Take the case of
Raimundo Fernandez,
one of the 25 Cubans
sponsored by the
Sociedad Cubana de
for his family who
didn’t have much to
eat, he said.
“One day, I asked
the cook if I could take
an extra plate of food
home to the family,”
he said. “The cook said
not to let him see me
because if I got caught,
he would also be in
trouble.”
The first time,
everything worked out
fine. He took a plate of
ARISTIDES VENARES, another of the 25
Cubans sponsored by the Sociedad Cubana de
Tucson, works to repair a television set that
was given to him. (NC Photos by Steve
Godwin)
RIDING HIGH -- Father
Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of
Notre Dame University, reviews the
corps of cadets at the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point. Father
Hesburgh had just received the
annual Sylvanus Thayer award from
CHURCH AND STATE
the academy graduates. With him on
the jeep is Lt. Gen. Andrew
Goodpaster, rear, superintendent of
the academy, and Cadet Captain
Richard Klatt, deputy brigade
commander from Goshen, Ind. (NC
Photo)
Hesburgh Addresses Cadets
WEST POINT, N.Y. (NC) - Western nations must be
doing something right, Holy Cross Father Theodore
Hesburgh, Notre Dame president said, since “Communists
have to build fences to keep people in and we have to
build fences to keep people out.”
He told the U.S. military academy’s Corps of Cadets at
West Point that the ultimate question about American
power is not how much the nation has but whether it
knows how to use it.
“Officers who are deeply patriotic want to see power
used to forward the purposes for which this country was
founded, to sustain and enlarge freedom for ourselves and
others,” he said.
Father Hesburgh was at West Point to receive the 1980
Sylvanus Thayer Award from the academy’s association of
graduates.
Rejecting the argument that communists have been
more successful in using power than the Western nations,
Father Hesburgh said that “despite geopolitical mistakes,
we must be doing something right.
“Of the millions of refugees in the world today, how
many are standing in line to get a visa for Russia?”
While acknowledging that patriotism is found outside
the military as well as inside, in the non-violent as well as
the armed, Father Hesburgh defended the presence of
officer training programs on the nation’s campuses as well
as in its service academies.
Is High Wall
Of Separation Coming?
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Nearly 10 years ago the
U.S. Supreme Court
rejected the concept of a
“high and impregnable”
wall erected by the
Constitution to separate
church and state. Instead,
the court said, the wall has
crumbled into a “blurred,
indistinct, and variable
barrier depending on all
the circumstances of a
particular relationship.”
The line that separates
church and state is still
blurred. But there are
growing indications that,
at least in the area of
parochial schools, the
courts may be rebuilding a
largely insurmountable
roadblock.
The latest evidence of
the difficulty parochial
school officials are having
steering around the
roadblock came in a
federal appeals court
decision Sept. 9 striking
down parochial school
involvement in the federal
Comprehensive
Employment and Training
Act, better known as
CETA.
On the face ot it, there
would seem to be nothing
unconstitutional about
parochial schools
On the face of it, there
would seem to be nothing
unconstitutional about
parochial schools schools
which had participated in
the CETA program were
careful not to allow the
CETA-hired employees to
perform sectarian duties,
confining their tasks to
nursing, food service,
maintenance, summer
recreation, and other
programs which appeared
to have no religious
overtones.
And the jobs were ones
which school officials said
were not necessary to the
functioning of the schools
but were created only to
benefit the worker seeking
employment.
Catholic school officials
argued that with no
absolute wall separating
church and state, CETA
involvement by Catholic
schools could be ruled
consitutional because in
this particular
circumstance religion was
not being advanced.
But the appeals court,
ruling in a case which
originated from a
taxpayers’ challenge to
CETA involvement by
Milwaukee archdiocesan
schools, judged the
practice unconstitutional
for basically two reasons:
(1) church competition for
CETA grants could be
politically divisive, and (2)
hardly any jobs in
parochial schools are
totally free from religious
overtones.
Of the two points,
probably the second has
the potential for being the
most damaging to the
future of state aid to
non-public schools. This is
especially true because of
the way the appeals
court’s opinion listed the
10 positions permitted in
parochial schools under
CETA regulations and
then gave reasons why
most of those positions
should not be supported
with federal funds.
Some examples:
-- Nursing services
should not be funded
because the regulations did
not exclude treatment in
areas of sexuality, sexual
hygiene and mental health.
“Yet the religious
overtones of individual
moral choice in these areas
is clear,” the court said.
-- Therapeutic speech
and hearing services should
not be funded because
“the therapist may
establish a relationship in
which there might be
opportunities to transmit
ideological views.”
- Non-segtarian adult
education programs should
not be funded because
there is no guarantee
courses will be taught in
an intellectual,
college-level atmosphere.
(Attorneys defending
CETA involvement in
parochial schools had
argued that just as federal
aid to church-related
colleges has been upheld
because students are
skeptical adults rather
than impressionable
children, CETA programs
for adults in non-public
high schools also could be
held constitutional.)
-- The cost of grading
state-prepared tests should
not be funded because
CETA workers under
parochial school control
could be called on to grade
essay tests with questions
on the history of religion
or the role of the church
in medieval Europe.
- Cafeteria custodians
should not be funded
because they might be
asked to prepare or put
away religious insignia for
a father-son banquet or a
breakfast for the
archbishop.
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