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PAGE 9—The Georgia Bulletin, October 30,1980
“Busyness” Basically Unfulfilling
MUTUAL SUPPORT - Maureen and Paul
Pranghofer sit with Maureen’s guide dog Allen on
the steps of their Minneapolis home. Maureen is
blind and wears a leg brace because of a genetic
bone disease. Paul was bom without arms and his
right leg is two feet shorter than his left. Paul
often is Maureen’s eyes and she is his hands. (NC
Photo)
Laurence—
BALTIMORE (NC) -
“Despite the fact that we
are very busy people,
with very filled lives, we
often find ourselves to be
unfulfilled people,”
Father Henri Nouwen
told seminarians in
Baltimore.
The theologian-psy
chologist said, “We fill
every minute of our lives
with activities and
people. We have a sense
of fear, of horror at the
thought of empty space.
The tragedy of all this is
that underneath all this
activity, all this busyness,
we feel basically
unfulfilled.”
Father Nouwen was
retreat master at the
seminarians’ retreat at St.
Mary’s Seminary and
University. Addressing
himself to ministry in
general and ordained
ministry in particular, he
outlined problems facing
the American priesthood.
Too many priests find
themselves coping with
boredom, he said. “By
boredom I do not mean
that they have nothing to
do with their time.
Boredom in this case
means a sense of
questioning whether
what they are doing in
their ministry is worth
doing at all.”
American priests
suffer from a sense of
anger, caught up in “the
system,” and find
themselves “doing things
without their hearts
really being in them.
Their anger comes from
their inability to break
free.”
Depression victimizes
these priests, Father
Nouwen said. “This
depression is a gnawing
question that asks if
anyone really cares about
me being me - does it
make any difference to
anyone that I am or am
not? Am I noticed in any
significant, affirming
way?”
These situations,
according to Father
Nouwen, are common
experiences of a lack of
personal fulfillment.
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Father Henri Nouwen
“They suggest that we
are disconnected, that we
are lonely, in the
existential sense of
loneliness.” He suggested
that too often people try
to find some person or
group who can take that
sense of loneliness away.
Personal relationships
born out of this type of
situation are idolatrous,
said Father Nouwen, “in
the sense that you hang
onto the other person
with a possessive grip,
pleading that he take
away your loneliness,
that he be your reason
for living.
‘‘In this process,
rather than making the
other person your god
(in the sense of idolatry),
you make yourself a
demon.”
One approach to
relieving this critical
situation, according to
Father Nouwen, is the
creating of an inner space
in which God can make
Himself known.
“In this space you can
become aware that you
are loved so fully that
you can live in the midst
of this world without
being of it, without
holding onto people.
“You can get in touch
with the ‘first love’ --
God first loved us. Each
of us has a holy
obligation to get in touch
with and listen to this
‘first love’ because it tells
us who we are, it gives us
our identity.
“Too often we allow
the world to define us, to
tell us who we are and
what we are - but this is
the false self, the illusory
self, the self we have to
die to. We, as Christians,
are not what the world
tells us we are. We are
the ones created and
re - created in the
unimaginable love of
God.”
In creating inner space
for God, people are, in a
sense, going out into the
desert that is both a
wilderness and a
paradise, the priest said.
“In it we come to
grips with our own inner
chaos, it is filled with our
demons, personal drives
and impulses. This desert
is also paradise, for here
we find that we are loved
-by someone who loves us
simply because he loves.
“Anyone who wants
to serve in the name of
the Lord must first go
into this desert. If he
becomes a priest without
coming to grips with this
struggle, he is like all the
rest of the world, he is a
secular salesman - only
he is trying to sell the
Gospel,” Father Nouwen
said.
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playing football or frisbee
and he’ll throw it lower so
I’ll have a chance to catch
it.”
The doctors who tend
to Laurence’s artificial legs
help in a special way.
“Every two months I
go to the therapist and he
measures my legs and
checks my growth. If I
need them, he adds blocks
of wood to make the
artificial legs longer,” says
Laurence.
Once a year, he is fitted
for “new legs.”
“Around Christmas or
New Year’s, I go in and get
all new legs. They fit me
with plaster casts first and
the new legs are made
from them. They polish
and smooth them, so they
don’t show underneath my
clothes,” he relates with a
smile.
Laurence MacNeill
displays an inner strength
that seems to give a
balance to the weakness of
his legs.
“You can always learn
to do things if you’re
handicapped,” he advises.
“It takes you a little
longer, but you can do it.”
The other night,
Laurence was watching
‘‘P.M. Magazine” on
television. The program
featured a man in a
wheelchair who had “run”
the Boston Marathon.
“He started at 5:30 in
the morning,” says
Laurence, “and beat all
the other runners. He just
started earlier. I’d like to
do it on a skateboard.”
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onto your record book.
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SO. KOREA
Execution Possible
WASHINGTON (NC) -
A Maryknoll priest
expelled from South
Korea in 1975 said he
feared that the death
sentence imposed on Kim
Dae Jung, a South Korean
Catholic political leader, in
September may be carried
out at the time of the U.S.
elections in order to
attract less attention in the
United States.
“The American
reaction is so absolutely
important to the
Koreans,” said Maryknoll
Father James Sinnott.
“They plan around it.”
The possibility that the
South Korean government
may take advantage of
U.S. preoccupation with
the elections on Nov. 4 to
have the South Korean
Supreme Court confirm
the death sentence
imposed on Kim Sept. 17
and to carry out the
execution immediately
‘‘frightens me,” said
Father Sinnott in a
telephone interview from
Chicago, where he works
with the Maryknoll
Fathers’ Justice and Peace
Office.
He described the
process as “getting the
dignity of the Supreme
Court’s confirmation and
then blaming them” for
the execution.
In September a military
court found Kim guilty of
violating South Korea’s
National Security Law and
a law banning all activities
considered pro-North
Korean. Kim was accused
of organizing and
financing student uprisings
in Seoul and Kwangju last
May in which 189 people
were killed. At his trial, he
testified that he had
pleaded with the students
for restraint.
Kim, 56, was an
outspoken critic of the
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1979. Losing to Park in
the 1971 presidential
election, Kim obtained 46
percent of the vote.
The final decision on
his execution, after review
of the sentence by the
Supreme Court, must be
made by President Chun
Doo Hwan, who took over
in a military coup last
December.
Father Sinnott said he
met Kim once when the
Korean politician came to
donate money to protect
men under sentence of
death. The Maryknoll
priest was expelled after
15 years as a missionary in
South Korea for protesting
the trial of eight men
accused of masterminding
a 1974 student uprising
against the government.
The men were hanged.
Father Sinnott said he
feared that what happened
in that case will happen to
Kim. “The Supreme Court
met and, whammo, the
men were executed the
next day,” he said.
‘‘This is a more
important case,” he added.
‘‘The men we were
involved with were not
important figures.”
Kim “is a politician
who has become a
statesman because he has
been forced into the role,”
the priest said. “He has
gone through hell to keep
his convictions.”
Father Sinnott said the
U.S. State Department
avoids putting pressure on
the South Korean
government concerning
human rights in order not
“to give the wrong signal
to the North Koreans.”
Noting that Secretary of
State Edmund Muskie has
called Kim’s sentence
“extreme,” he said, “At
least they’re making
statements.”
The South Korean
government, he said, uses
the proximity of
communist North Korea
“to scare people out of
reasonable conclusions.”
“What has South Korea
become in comparison to
North Korea?” he asked.
“Day-to-day existence is
more fearful in the
South.”
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