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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, December 18,1980
The Gift Of Time
MILWAUKEE (NC) - For the 11th Christmas Eve in a
row Albert Rosen, a Jew, will fill in for a Christian on the
job so that the Christian can spend the holiday with his
family or attend Mass.
Rosen will replace Linda Kibinski as a host at Denny’s
Restaurant in Milwaukee from 4 p.m. to midnight. He
receives no payment for the chore, but does it “to serve
the cause of brotherhood by bridging the gap between
Christians and Jews.”
In past years Rosen has substituted as a bartender,
radio disc jockey, information desk clerk in a hospital,
security guard, police clerk and post office mail handler.
Rosen’s example has led other Jews to perform sililar
acts on Christmas Eve across the country in hospitals and
nursing homes.
God Not “Neutral”
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (NC) - While it is true that God is
neither male nor female, if a neutral phrase such as “God
the Creator” is substituted for “God the Father” the
result could be language that is theologically weak and too ,
abstract, according to Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland ■
of Milwaukee, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee
on Liturgy.
It would be better to search for and use a personal
name for God so as to retain the warmth and theology of
personal relationship, he suggested. “In trying to avoid
titles that are specifically masculine (or feminine), such as
king, ruler and the like, one runs the risk of substituting
words that are not adequate,” Archbishop Weakland said.
“The word ‘creator’ simply does not convey the
personal warmth of the word ‘Father,’” he said. “If such
cold ‘Aristotelian’ words are substituted, much of value is
lost in establishing a close, personal and warm relationship
with God. Here I feel a caution is in order, lest we correct
one aspect and lose the great richness of our tradition in
doing so.”
Archbishop Weakland, who as liturgy committee
chairman successfully urged the bishops at their recent
meeting to approve the removal of some sexist language
from the consecratory of the Mass, said his committee has
never discussed the topic of changing the terminology for
God and probably would not in the near future.
But to those working on the translation of the
lectionary (book of scriptural readings for liturgy), he
suggested that consideration be given to history and the
theological implications of relationship.
(The division of education and ministry of the National
Council of Churches recently voted to create a new
lectionary eliminating sexist references to God, Jesus,
Holy Spirit and human beings.)
(A task force has been appointed to prepare the
changes. The Catholic Church is not a member of the
National Council of Churches.)
Ir. trying to avoid the concept of God as exclusively
male, Archbishop Weakland said, people tend to place
God in a category of neuter because there are no other
categories.
That is “unfortunate,” he said. “The words ‘father’ and
‘son,’ say more than just two people; they establish also a
concept of relationship between two people that is of
deep theological importance. Calling the Father ‘Creator’
and the Son ‘Redeemer’ does not say the same thing
about their relationship.”
, He noted that when Jesus calls his Father “Abba,”
(meaning “daddy,” the archbishop said), a sense of
personal relationship to one loved is conveyed. “This
should not be lost in translation, lest a very important -
both theological as well as existential - aspect of our
i- being Christian is weakened.”
{-*• ' ■ Hence; it is important that people become accustomed
to using a personal name for God, Archbishop Weakland
maintained. “The Old Testament name of Yahweh might
serve, but out of respect to our Jewish friends who do
not, out of reverence, pronounce that name, I would
hesitate to suggest it.”
The word “Adonai” that is used in Judaism instead is
too unfamiliar to us and does not seem appropriate, he
said. “Till a clear solution appears on the horizon, I feel
we should tread gently,” he said.
Xavier Society Touches Lives
CHRISTMAS SANDMAN - In a
shopping center in San Diego, Calif.,
Norman Kraus, an architect and
interior designer, transforms 80 tons
of sand into a model of the little
town of Bethlehem. The model,
measuring 45 feet in diameter by 17
feet tall and costing the center
$10,000, was created by Kraus to
give people a better idea of how the
birthplace of Jesus looked.
Methodists, Catholics “Close”
RALEIGH, N.C. (NC) -
United Methodist Bishop
William R. Cannon of the
Raleigh Area said he told
Pope John Paul II at their
meeting in Rome that in
some areas Methodists are
closer to the Catholic
Church than to other
Protestant churches.
Bishop Cannon said he
told the pope that “in
matters concerning the
moral and spiritual life,
Methodists have a closer
affinity to Roman
Catholics than Methodists
have with Protestant
churches of the
Reformation.
“This,” he said, “is
because our stress on
holiness, sanctification and
Christian perfection is in
contrast to the Protestant
emphasis on sin and
forgiveness.”
In an interview in
Raleigh, Bishop Cannon
said he had met the pope
Dec. 5 to report to him
the conclusions of five
years of dialogue on
Christian unity between
Methodists and Roman
Catholics. He said he told
the pope that the
12-member Bilateral
Dialogue on Christian
Unity has “reached
agreement on statements
on the doctrine of the
Holy Spirit and many
aspects of the work of the
Holy Spirit, including
justification, santification,
and moral and spiritual
life.”
Bishop Cannon,
representing the World
Methodist Council, a
worldwide association of
62 Methodist-Wesleyan
churches, co-chaired the
bilateral dialogue along
with Catholic Auxiliary
Bishop J. Francis Stafford
of Baltimore.
After four days of
discussions in Rome the
six Methodist representat
ives and six Catholic
representatives had a
special private audience
with the pope.
Bishop Cannon said he
complimented the pope on
his latest encyclical,
“Dives in Misericordia”
(Rich in Mercy), which
was released when the
bishop was in Rome. “I
told him it had ideas not
just for Roman Catholics,
but for Christian people
everywhere.”
Bishop Cannon said the
pope was “immeasurably
pleased” that he had read
the encyclical. “He told
me I brought him great
comfort, inspiration and
joy, and with a merry
twinkle in his eye, he said,
‘Do you realize you have
brought comfort .to the
pope?”’
The audience was the
third time he had met
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Pope John Paul, Bishop
Cannon said. He described
the pope as a warm person
and an efficient
administrator.
“He speaks good
English and understands
English perfectly well, but
since this is not his native
language, he writes out
what he has to say when
he speaks in English,” the
bishop said.
Bishop Cannon said he
believes Pope John Paul is
more conservative than
Pope Paul VI, with whom
the Methodist bishop was
also acquainted. But he
added that he did not
think the pope’s
conservatism would
adversely affect
ecumenical relations.
The World Methodist
Council was one of the
first groups to engage in
dialogue with the Catholic
Church 15 years ago after
the Second Vatican
Council. Bishop Cannon,
who has been involved in
the discussions since the
beginning, said the
dialogue members are not
working toward organic
union or merger, but hope
to find agreement on basic
doctrines of Christianity.
He said he hopes
agreement can be reached
on mutual recognition of
ministerial orders and on
the celebration of the
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NEW YORK (NC) - The head of the
deaf-blind department of the Xavier
Society for the Blind, Karen Jernigan,
recently sent a letter to two clients in
Seattle, Wash., saying, “Congratulations on
your marriage. May God bless you with a
long and happy life together.”
The society had corresponded with the
bridegroom, Jim, who is legally blind and
deaf and one of its 169 “Blind News
Summary” subscribers. He lived in
Michigan. In 1978 Jim had met Gail, a
young Seattle woman who received the
same summary from the society in grade
one Braille.
Both happened to attend a two-week
camp for the deaf-blind run by the
Lighthouse for the Blind near Seattle.
Afterwards, they continued to write to
each other and eventually married.
The romance came to the attention of
Mrs. Jemigan when the pair, who are in
their 20s, requested the society to send
their separate subscriptions to the same
address in Seattle instead of to Seattle and
Michigan.
The society mails, without cost,
hundreds of books and cassettes to the
legally blind as well as deaf-blind
English-speaking Catholics. A legally blind
person has only one-tenth of normal vision.
Some deaf-blind people have some vision
and can read large type.
“We’re the only people in the world,”
to reach out to the deaf-blind, said Jesuit
Father Anthony F. LaBau, director since
1967. English is a second language to a
deaf-blind person. For years, sign and
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Mrs. Jemigan said she combs through
the National Catholic News Service,
newspapers and magazines to compile the
“Summary.” Her department actually
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Weekly” for 130 advanced readers and
“The Deaf-blind News Summary” in
simplified large type and grade one Braille
for beginners.
She has also put together a small library
at a beginner level for those deaf-blind
Catholics hungering for more than the
news. This includes a life of Helen Keller,
an account of Christmas, Easter, a manual
of prayers, Bible stories and educational
books such as a first aid manual.
Last year an adult deaf-blind subscriber
sent word, “It was the first time I have
been able to read the Christmas story.”
Mrs. Jemigan’s deaf-blind “Summary”
subscribers generally have little educatioa
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stuffing mattresses, in sheltered workshops.
They cannot go home like the rest of the
world and watch and hear television. Their
silent life is one of reaching out to others,
at the A-B-C level.
A recent issue of “Summary” included
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Reagan in Washington, President Carter’s
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the Haitian refugees.
Both deaf-blind and visually-impaired
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society’s newest ventures, publishing 12
popular large print paperbacks, whose titles
include the “Wit and Wisdom of Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen” by Bill Adler. Eighteen
more of these are scheduled for 1981.
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JEFFERSON CITY,
Mo. (NC) - The eight
Catholic bishops of
Missouri have called for a
“new corrections system
whose underlying
principles are both
Christian and humane.”
Their joint statement
on corrections calls for:
-- “A more caring,
loving approach to the
treatment of the victim,
who has been violated and
must be restored;
-- “A more humane
treatment of offenders so
that they would not be
subjected to the violence
of prison;
-- “A safer society
resulting from treatment
of offenders in such a way
that they would come to
believe that they are loved
and cared for, hence have
no need for further
expressions of hate or
violence.”
Serious obstacles to
effective rehabilitation are
the overcrowding of
prisons and jails, the lack
of sufficient programs to
meet the educational and
vocational needs of men
and women confined in
prison, and insufficient
calssi f i cation and
diagnostic programs which
allow for the mingling of
dangerous inmates with '
those who are less
dangerous, the bishops
said.
The victims of crime, 1
the bishops also note, “are
too frequently forgotten,
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