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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, December 11,1980
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Canadians Urge War Toy Boycott
OTTAWA (NC) -
Canadian Catholics are
being asked to refuse to
buy war toys for children.
The call comes from
Bishop Remi De Roo of
Victoria, British Columbia,
chairman of the Social
Affairs Commission of the
Canadian Conference of
Catholic Bishops.
“In a world where
nations are spending a
million dollars a minute on
military expenditures, we
cannot ignore actions that
promote violence,” Bishop
De Roo says in a letter
offering ‘‘Advent
suggestions from the
Social Affairs Commiss
ion.”
War toys “only teach
children to accept a
militarized world — when a
gift is a symbol of violence
it can have a negative
effect on the spiritual
growth of the one who
gives and the one who
receives,” he says.
Bishop De Roo asks
Catholics to use the
Advent season to increase
their support for people
suffering under repressive
regimes.
“Christmas is the great
feast of peace, the
conscience of women and
men of goodwill must be
seriously challenged by the
institutional repression in
several countries; by the
fact that half of humanity
is kept in a state of
underdevelopment ~ if not
undernourishment; by
nuclear stockpiles, and by
wars - the primary toll of
which is always suffered
by the people,” says the
letter.
The Social Affairs
Commission recommends
“paying special attention
to refugees, making
contributions to
organizations dedicated to
international cooperation
and boycotting films that
promote violence.”
St. Joseph's*.
Training
Ministers To
The Sick
A sympathetic hand
reaches out to touch the
hand of a cancer patient at
Saint Joseph’s Hospital
and a bond of caring and
sharing is established in
this quiet moment.
The Pastoral Care team
of Atlanta’s first hospital
has reached out for more
than 100 years to minister
to the spiritual needs of
the sick and their families.
Recently, the Sisters,
trained in Pastoral Care
Techniques, welcomed two
members of the Holy
Cross Parish Ministry to
the Sick. Gwen Stewart
and Rita Spooner
completed a 10-week
training program at Saint
Joseph’s in ministry to the
sick under the direction of
Sister Rosalie, Pastoral
Care Director at SJH, and
Bert Dotson, director of
the ministry to the sick
and dying at Holy Cross,
the first of its kind in the
Atlanta area.
“The pilot program will
help establish a model for
programs of future
ministry to the sick
throughout the
archdiocese,” Ms. Dotson
says.
“The time spent here is
a real joy,” says Rita
Spooner, a retired R.N.
“The hospital staff has
been so good at accepting
us and working with us as
we minister to patients.”
The trainees find
acceptance because of the
hospital’s strong
commitment to the
importance of Pastoral
Care for the welfare of
patients, families and staff
who are often under a
great deal of stress and
anxiety in caring for the
sick. Sister Rosalie notes
that many employees have
special talents in
ministering beyond the
physical needs of their
patients.
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“It is only natural for
SJH to open our doors to
share the art of Pastoral
Care with those willing to
learn,” she adds.
From 9 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. each Tuesday, the
two women studied
pastoral care techniques
and then spent time on a
nursing floor ministering
to the sick. Individual and
group supervision was an
integral part of the
program.
The participants are
quick to point out that
there is a difference
between visiting and
ministering. Bert Dotson
explains that “training is
necessary to know how to
work sensitively with the
sick and dying. The
program at Holy Cross and
the practicum at Saint
Joseph’s pair sensitivity
and knowledge.”
This structured
program is the first
training group for
ministering to the sick in
the Atlanta Archdiocese.
Thus far, the results have
been gratifying. Ms.
Dtoson says she has
already received numerous
calls from other parishes
and Protestant groups
interested in providing
some training for those
interested in ministry to
the sick in their respective
parishes.
The key to training,
says Ms. Dotson, is first
becoming “tuned in to
yourself. Understand your
emotions and feelings so
well that you can
completely relate and
open up to another’s
needs.” Though the
rewards are far greater
than the risks, there are
definite risks for those
called to this ministry, she
says. There is a risk of
rejection and the risk of
self change once you have
encountered the intense
needs of the sick and
terminally ill patient.
Will
you tell
them
about the
Baby
in the manger?
The Christmas story is easily
understood by the rejected—the
refugee, the homeless, the outcast.
Yet many, like this Cambodian
mother with her child, have never
heard it!
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the Christmas story? Please send a
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of the Faith, supporting the Mission
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Let the Light of Christ shine into
their lives, too!
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OVER 3 5,000 attended the
annual Scout Show at the World
Congress Center. Four hundred
exhibits presented by 12,000 scouts
from the Atlanta Area Council
included several scout units
sponsored by Catholic churches.
Pictured at the Catholic Committee
on Scouting exhibit were: Rick Pettys
Archbishop Thomas Donnellan,
Father John C. Kieran, diocesan
Scout Chaplain and Fred Sidler,
Chairman of the Diocesan
Committee on Scouting. For
information on Scouting in the
Archdiocese, call Father Kieran at
478-0178 or Fred Sidler at
996-6939.
NORTH SIDE RESIDENT Gwen Saint Joseph’s Hospital reaches out
Stuart, a trainee in the Ministry to to a patient,
the Sick program being offered at
From the program’s
birth four years ago, the
group has realized that the
p rogram cannot be too
structured. People have
different gifts and cannot
be slotted into areas where
they are not comfortable.
“For example, not all
volunteers feel
comfortable in ministering
to the dying. Some are
better at ministering to the
presurgery patient, parents
of deformed newborns,
etc. We have also learned
to not require people to
do more than they are
able,” Ms. Dotson says.
Training with an
understanding of the stress
and sometimes emotional
pain trainees encounter
helps each member to
cope with the task. An
untrained minister to the
sick fails to understand
what they’ve encountered
and is often frustrated,
confused and depressed. A
trained vol u n teer
recognizes emotions, has a
better ability to logically
straighten out what
they’ve encountered and
realizes that though the
situation cannot be
reversed or changed, hope
and spiritual contentment
can still be realized, Ms.
Dotson says.
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What brings a person
into the program? Rita
Spooner and Gwen
Stewart, both retired
nurses, felt a sense of
commitment to their
fellow parishioners. Gwen
says that although she
received some training in
ministering to a patient’s
spiritual needs in nursing
school, the secular hospital
where she practiced did
not strongly endorse this
practice. At Saint
Joseph’s, Gwen finds that
nurses are encouraged to
reach out to patients with
mercy and charity.
Both Rita and Gwen
say their nursing training is
an asset in their new
volunteer role. Their
immediate reaction when
meeting a patient is
concern for the patient’s
physical comfort. “First
rapport must be
established, and we have
to sense the patient’s
needs.”
Trainees feel an
immediate reaction to
establish touch with the
patient. Rita relates a
humorous aspect of a visit.
“I was visiting with an
elderly gentleman and I
was holding his hand when
his wife came in. He had a
good laugh. He was lonely
and needed that touch.”
The most difficult
patients to minister to are
those who do not believe
in God or who are bitter,
the trainees say. Despite
superficial, guarded
conversation these are the
patients who probably
need spiritual care more
than some of the others,
Rita says. The volunteers
are finding that more and
more patients are
beginning to open up
about spiritual matters.
And many welcome the
chance to pray together.
Rita finds appeal in the
training program because
it is helping to establish
credibility among lay
persons interested in this
kind of ministry. “There is
a definite need in the
parish community and this
type of ministry allows
parishioners to utilize their
gifts for others.”
“The program is open
to anyone who feels the
call,” Ms. Dotson says.
Persons serving in the
Eucharistic ministry to
shut-ins and the sick
would in most cases make
excellent candidates for
this type of ministry, she
adds.
As director of an
exciting new concept in
lay volunteer work, Bert
Dotson views the mutual
benefits for the SJH
trainees and patients as a
continual growing process.
“By touching another
person’s life we have the
chance to say, ‘You are
worth my time, you are
worth my caring.’”
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