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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, November 27,1980 YOUTH MINISTRY ‘Stress Awareness’ BY LIZ FEDOR ST. PAUL, Minn. (NC) - While youth ministers in the 70s concentrated on helping young people develop an inner peace and sense of joy with God, youth ministers in the 80s need to make teen-agers sensitive to structures in society which manipulate them, according to Michael Warren, a nationally known author and lecturer on youth ministry. He gave the keynote address to the National Conference oh Youth Ministry held Nov. 12-15 in St. Paul. Sponsored by the U.S. Catholic Conference, the meeting drew about 500 people. The foundation that youth ministers built in the 70s, which focused on guiding young people through their struggles in family-and friend-relation ships is great, he said. But a failure to recognize the social, political and institutional structures which influence these young people is naive, said Warren, an associate professor of catechetical ministry at St. John’s University in New York. To illustrate the need for a new type of youth ministry in the 80s, Warren painted a scenario ,of a girl named Donna. She is 15 years old, wearing a tube top, white cut-offs and standing before a display window of the Neiman-Marcus Department store in Dallas. With her hair in a ponytail, Donna gazes longingly at a $175 dress in the window which she saw in Seventeen magazine. Donna who is of medium height, weight and appearance wishes she could be like the girl in the magazine wearing the dress, but she cannot be. Donna is gazing at the dress on a school day. She has been suspended. In addition to her school problems she thinks she may be pregnant. Rhetorically, Warren asked the assembly how it would minister to Donna. He said he posed the same situation to youth ministers in other workshops and many said they would need to know more about Donna before they could evaluate the situation. They wanted to know who Donna’s friends were, how she got along with her family, and if she attended church. Those questions are important, Warren said, but they only deal with Donna’s relationships. What, he asked, about the social structures which govern her life? Donna is a sophomore in high school who was unjustly suspended from school when she tried to defend herself against a false accusation. Donna is confused sexually in a society which promotes sex through entertainment, he said, such as teen-age sex in the “Blue Lagoon” film and highly suggestive songs. Donna is the economic target of a massive advertising campaign which dictates what kinds of clothes she should wear and what kind of record albums she should buy, according to Warren. Part of Donna’s problem lies in the fact that she is unaware of how outside institutions and social structures are trying to influence her, Warren said. This is where the youth minister’s role comes into play, he said. It is the job of the youth minister to help young people, particularly those 16 and older, to “unmask the anonymous oppressors” in their lives, he said. With their new-found awareness, these young people are equipped to speak for themselves and make intelligent decisions, he said. Cathedral Students Celebrate Liturgy BY LAUREEN MILLER A slide presentation reflecting thankfulness for the beauties of creation in the Atlanta area set the tone for the Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated by the Christ the King School Community. The liturgy was planned by the students in the eighth grade. In the offertory procession, representatives of each grade carried symbols expressing the gratitude of their particular grade. These were placed in a gift basket symbolic of the baskets of food distributed to the poor earlier in the week. The students of the eighth grade prepared a meditation after Communion in the form of a dramatic presentation illustrating the abundance of blessings bestowed on American people and their families. riip^^ cCitl LAMPS LAMP REPAIRS CUSTOM LAMP BUILDING The Largest Selection of Lampshades InJThe South Plenty of Parking Space 351-2414 2278 Peachtree Rd., N',W. Atlanta, Ga. 30309 LITURGY ON CAMPUS. Father Joe Cavallo and Susan Sendelbach participate in a liturgy at the student center at Emory University. - Campus Ministry - The Look Of The 80’s BY KAEDY KIELY They both look young enough to be typical graduate students and if you were to run into them on a college campus, you might mistake them for such. But typical students they are not - in fact, they are not even typical young adults. They are the campus ministers at Newman House on the Emory University campus in Atlanta. Father Joe Cavallo came to Newman House in the Fall of 1977 after having served at several parishes in the Atlanta area. Susan Sendelbach arrived just last fall after working with runaways in Atlanta for a year. She has also worked in a parish and has done some hospital and prison ministry in Washington, D. C. where she attended Catholic University of America. Together, Father Joe and Susan work as campus ministers, which involves working on programming liturgy and counselling for the college communities at Georgia State University and Agnes Scott College as well as Emory. Newman House offers a wide variety of religious experiences to its college students. Among them are adult education classes and prayer groups. Instruction classes are held for Catholics who wish to return to the faith, those who wish to be confirmed, or simply those who "wish to keep abreast of the church teachings. There is also a scripture class which meets once a week and a variety of weekly prayer groups that are all well attended. “We have plenty going on here,” says Susan “and the students really relate to this ministry.” One of the best opportunities students have is the pastoral counselling offered by Father Joe and Susan. Both ministers are well trained to take on this task and they understand that young people can encounter special kinds of problems that are difficult to grasp when they enter college. Many students feel more comfortable talking their problems out with someone who shares their religious views. “I feel that people seek out Father Joe and me as counsellors not only because we are trained in psychology and other counselling techniques,” says the student minister, “but because we are religious leaders. Through our discussions with these people, we help them reflect upon how their lives, and the crises within their lives, reflect their spiritual growth.” The students come to Father Joe and Susan with problems which range anywhere from conflicts with their school or their faith, to problems with drugs or sex. Students also have the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the other sacraments too. Besides offering counselling and educational classes, Newman House also gives the student a chance to get involved in various types of activities. One of those activities is the cards system which is available to every Catholic and gives them the chance to write down and share their interests, talents, time and suggestions. A student can get involved in anything from being a lector or singing in the folk group at Mass, to planning socials or helping with retreats. “One of the reasons our ministry is so good is because we always have excellent participation from the students and faculty,” Susan comments. There is a group of students on a steering committee, who act as “peer ministers.” Their job is to round up members of the community and get them involved in specific committees which range from Mass preparation, to phoning. “They do a marvelous job,” says Father Joe. “The sheer numbers of volunteers around our Center proves it.” A Mass is held for Emory students, faculty, and staff members, and their families each Sunday. The Liturgy is offered in a large classroom on the school’s campus, and what the room lacks in atmosphere, the Emory community makes up in enthusiasm. Father Joe fondly says that the Emory community is his parish. As Susan agrees, Father Joe sums it up in a nutshell by saying: “It can be an exciting community as we together explore our dreams; it can be a joyful community as we celebrate who we are; but it can also be a painful but comforting community as we are challenged to grow not only intellectually but spiritually to come to terms with where we are going in life.” Newman House is a tool which Catholic students can use to help better build and shape their lives to participate not only in the Catholic community, but in the rest of God’s community as well. DEKALB CARPET WHOLESALEBS SUPER CARPET SALE QUALITY FOR QUALITY PRICE FOR PRICE WE CAN'T BE BEAT! POPULAR MULTI-TONE EARTH TONES SCOTCH GUARD $Q50 Jso. YD. INSTALLED HEAVY SAXONY or CUT & LOOP SCOTCH GUARD “s $1fl50 INSTOCK lUsiTYD ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★^ * ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ . ... .... ^SQ.YD. 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DORAVILLE, GA. 457-1239 Hors d ’oeuvres and refreshments Wesley Chapel Shop still in operation 284-6679 NEW YORK School Prayer Meetings Out NEW YORK (NC) - The separation of church and state prohibits public schools from allowing groups of students to hold voluntary prayer meetings on school property, a federal appeals court has ruled. Rejecting arguments that the students were attempting to exercise their rights of free speech and religion, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled Nov. 17 that such prayer meetings on school property would have created “an improper appearance of official support” for religion. “We must be careful that our public schools, where fundamental values are imparted to our children, are not perceived as institutions that encourage the adoption of any sect or religious ideology,” the appeals court ruled. The case involved six students at Guilderland High School near Albany, N.Y., who filed a discrimination suit against the school board in 1979 for refusing to allow students to gather voluntarily for prayer in an empty classroom before school began. They said other groups, such as a private dance company and a local choir, have been permitted to use school facilities. Organized as Students for Voluntary Prayer, the group was represented in court by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which said the appeals court decision would be appealed to the Supreme Court. Robert Destro, the Milwaukee-based league’s general counsel, said he felt the Supreme Court would not be able to accept the appeals court’s reasoning, which he said denied the right of free speech on public school property. The three-judge appeals court, in affirming a lower federal court decision, said the students are free to worship as they please before or after school “in a church or any other suitable place.” U.S. Circuit Judge Irving R. Kaufman, who wrote the opinion, said prayer meetings at school would have required supervision in order to maintain the normal school schedule and to insure that the sessions were voluntary. “To an impressionable student, even the mere appearance of secular involvement in religious activities might indicate that the state has placed its imprimatur on a particular religious creed,” he wrote. “This symbolic inference is too dangerous to permit.” Kaufman said that while the court could not rule in the students’ favor, the court at the same time could not be critical of the students’ objectives. “Introspective activity that seeks to strengthen the moral fiber of our nation’s young adults deserves our support, but only in our role as private citizens,” Kaufman wrote. “We hope that the Students for Voluntary Prayer can conduct their prayer meetings and religious discussions at another place and different times,” he said. “To permit these activities to occur in the classroom of a public high school immediately prior to the commencement of the school day, however, would contribute to the erosion of principles articulated by our colonial fathers and embraced by religious dissenters for several hundred years.” HIGH COURT COMMANDMENT - Second grade teacher Juanita Totten of Okolona Elementary School in suburban Louisville, Ky., looks at a copy of the Ten Commandments on her classroom wall. The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a Kentucky law that requries the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Former Long Kesh Prisoner Deported LONDON (NC) -A young Irishman honored by the Massachusetts Legislature for heroism in “suffering over three years of torture and degradation” in a Northern Irish prison was deported from the United States and arrested on arrival in London, a British police official said Nov. 20. The Irishman, Liam Carlin, a 23-year-old unemployed laboratory technician from Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act when he arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport Nov. 14, the official said. He added that Carlin, who was released last March after spending four years in the Maze Prison at Long Kesh near Belfast, Northern Ireland, would be held at least until Nov. 21. Police said U.S. immigration authorities detained Carlin for entering the United States illegally and put him on a London-bound flight. 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