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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, February 26,1981
Atlanta Welcomes Bishop John
BY GRETCHEN KEISER
Bishop John, the first Greek Orthodox Bishop
of Atlanta’s Cathedral of the Annunciation, was
welcomed by the Archdiocese of Atlanta at a
reception Feb. 18 at the Catholic Center.
Members of the Religious Unity Commission,
who hosted the reception, and clergy and
religious attended.
Archbishop Thomas Donnellan and Father
John Mulroy, director of the Archdiocesan
Religious Unity Commission, presented Bishop
John with a woodcut done by a monk of the
Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit in
Conyers, and depicting the Christ in icon form.
Bishop John and Archbishop Donnellan also
led the gathering in the Lord’s Prayer and gave
their blessing to those assembled, a gesture which
Bishop John said was made in the same spirit and
prayer for unity as the joint “Our Father” spoken
by Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Ecumenical
Patriarch Athenagoras at their historic meeting in
Jerusalem in 1964.
Bishop John, who was joined at the reception
by Father Jeremiah, chancellor of the Greek
Orthodox diocese of Atlanta, is the first Greek
Orthodox Bishop of Atlanta. The Church recently
moved its diocesan headquarters here from
Charlotte, N. C.
BISHOP JOHN, (far left),
Archbishop Thomas Donnellan.
is welcomed by Father John Mulroy and
Renewal
In Lilburn
Father Brennan
Manning, well-known
Franciscan author and
parish renewal speaker,
will return to the Atlanta
area for a week of renewal
on March 8 at St. John
Neumann Church in
Lilburn. Father Manning
will speak each evening
Sunday through Thursday
at 7:30 P.M. There will be
no morning talks in this
series.
Father Manning
conducted a week of
renewal in the
Lilburn-Stone Mountain
area two years ago. The
people in the Lilburn
community are eagerly
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Father Manning
awaiting his return,
further information
923-6633.
For
call
There are people in Atlanta who go
to bed hungry every night. The Church
reaches out to them through the St.
Vincent de Paul Society’s inner city
office on Howell Place.
The people who work in that office
depend on parish and individual
contributions. Right now, the food
pantry is empty and people in need of
food are being turned away daily. The
Society urgently needs food donations,
whether large or small, particularly
staples, which can be stored, j
goods. Donations go directly to families
in need.
“People need to eat all year round,
not just at Christmas and
Thanksgiving,” when food donations are
most plentiful, said Betti Knott,
executive secretary of the Society. If
the Society tried to buy the needed
food, it would cost $500 a week.
The office is located at 958 Howell
Place, S.W., or call (752-6394).
SGT. WILLIAM GALLEGOS
Faith In God “Pulled Me Through
99
PUEBLO, Colo (NC) -
When his Iranian captors
took away the medal of
Christ that his mother had
given him, Marine Sgt. Bill
Gallegos broke whatever
he could get his hands on
to tell the Iranians he
wanted his medal back.
“I had to throw things
to get that medal back,”
he said. Finally, it was
returned.
Gallegos and his family
credit God for the return
of the 22-year-old soldier,
captured by the Iranian
mditants who seized the
U.S. embassy in Teheran
in November 1979. They
also credit their religion
with helping them make it
through the 444-day
ordeal of Sgt. Gallegos.
The Gallegos family
and fellow residents of
Pueblo, members of the
military, the church, the
city government, the poor,
the young and the old
gathered for a Mass in
early February to
celebrate the safe return of
Gallegos and the 51 other
Americans released by the
Iranians.
“Hope is the message
we hear in the return of
the hostages,” said Bishop
Arthur Tafoya of Pueblo
during the Mass. “Let us
not cease praising God for
making us a free people, a
Christian community, a
state and nation with great
anxiety but with great
hopefulness.
“We should always be a
people of hope -- ‘un
pueblo de esperanza,”’ the
bishop finished in Spanish.
Bishop Tafoya depicted
Gallegos as a symbol.
“God does marvelous
things. What God has done
for this young man he will
do for our city, for our
state and for our
tountry,” he added.
Gallegos’ parents,
Richard and Teresa, said
they were supported by
said to have told a former
teacher, Benedictine Sister
Johnette Sawyer.
Although he only received
four letters from his
parents during his
captivity, “I told myself
they were there praying
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Sgt. Bill Gallegos
the prayers and faith of
their family and friends
and fellow parishioners at
St. Leander’s during the
captivity of their son.
They said they knew Bill
Gallegos had great faith,
too, and that prayers were
bringing them together.
“It was my faith in God
and the discipline taught
in my family that pulled
me through,” Gallegos is
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He said he knew God
was with him. “There was
a strong feeling He was
there,” Gallegos said. He
believed that “Jesus is
always with me. He’ll
never let me down,” he
added.
For several months of
captivity he was confined
in a small room with two
or three other Marines. He
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said that after the visit of
some American clergymen
each room was provided
with copies of the New
Testament, which he read
through at least six times.
“Each time it takes on
new meaning,” he said. At
first he also had no rosary.
Then “some children from
the United States made us
some plastic ones and after
a while we got them,” he
said. Also, when
toothbrushes were issued
the captives turned the
toothbrush cases into a
crucifix.
Gallegos is scheduled to
return to duty with the
Marines Feb. 27 and is to
be discharged later this
year. He is considering a
career as a police officer,
although his plans are
indefinite.
He doesn’t consider
himself a hero. “No,” he
emphasized. “I do not
think we are heroes and I
never have thought so.”
During the Mass
Gallegos thanked those
who attended and prayed
for those who had given
their lives in past wars and
for the American
servicemen killed in a
rescue attempt in Iran in
the spring of 1980.
“This Mass is for the
eight men who gave their
lives, and everyone say a
prayer for them,” he said.
“These are the people that
deserve all the heroism
they can get. They gave
their lives for us. They
didn’t have to and they
did.”
La Palabra de Dios
La Biblia es hoy el tema
del dia. Se habla de ella
aqui y alia, Una Biblia
elegante adorna, con
frequencia, la estanteria
del hombre de estudio o la
mesa del despacho.
Aparece en la vitrina de las
librerias y, segun la
estadisticas, su venta
constituye un “bestseller”,
el libro mas vendido.
Esto no deja de ser
alentador. Pero el hombre
de la calle, que ve, que
compre la Biblia, sabe lo
que es la Biblia? La Biblia
es el libro por excelencia -
libro unico y singular, que
no ha tenido ni tiene
paragon en todas la
literaturas. Es un libro a la
vez totalmente divino y
totalmente humano.
DIVINO porque Dios es su
“autor” principal,
HUMANO porque Dios ha
servido de los seres
humanos a modo de
instrumento, y no
instrumentos mecanicos,
sino racionales,
responsables y libres.
Como libron, la Biblia
se escribio muchos anos
antes de la invencion de la
imprenta. Se escribio,
pues, a mano. Ahora bien,
los autograficos se ha
perdido. No se conserva
ninguno. Por medio de
copias y recopias, a
nuestras man os ha llegado
la Biblia substancialmente
idenfica a los autograficos
originales. Hoy dia
tenemos traducciones de
los escritos mas antiguos,
de sus idiomas originales.
La Biblia es el libro que
nos narra el plan salvifico
de Dios y nos da las etapos
de su ejecucion historiea.
Cuatro ideas fundament-
ales se ven atravez de la
Biblia: PROMESA,
ALIANZA, ESPERA,
REDENCION. La
PROMESA esta presente
desde el principio - una
promesa de salvacion. La
ALIANZA se hace varias
veces y de varias formas
pero siempre con la misma
intencion - Dios se da a su
pueblo como SU DIOS y
ellos de dan a Dios como
SU PUEBLO. Muchos anos
pasa el Pueblo Escogido
esperando el cumplimiento
de la Promesa. Finalmente,
viene Jesus, el Redentor.
Todas las promesas se
cumplen en EL.
Asi es la Biblia. Libro
divino y libro humano.
Libro multiple y libro uno,
diversidad y unidad,
variedad y armonia. Para
llegar a entender la Biblia
hay que leerla, hay que
estudiarla. San Agustin nos
dice: “Leed las Santas
Escrituras, porque en ellas
encontrareis todo lo que
debeis practicar y todo lo
que debeis evitar. Leedla
porque es mas dulce que la
miel y mas nutritiva que
cualquier otro alimento.”
La Biblia fue escrita
para leerse, no para
adornar las mesas de
nuestras casas. La Biblia es
una aventura que nos
ofrece Dios. A lo menos es
una lectura agradable. Y a
lo mas se convierte en
parte de la vida de uno y le
da alegria, desafio,
consuelo, direccion,
entendimiento e
inspiracion.
A cada catolico la
Iglesia le ha dado la
invitacion a coger la Santa
Palabra de Dios en sus
manos y leerla, conocerla,
y aprender a vivir una vida
mas cristiana atraves de
ella. El Concilio Vaticano
II, en la Constitucion
sobre la Divina Revelacion
ha dicho: “Es preciso que
los Seles tengan amplio
aceso a la Sagrada
Escritura (la Biblia).” Es la
fuente de nuestra fe.
FR. GILES CONWILL
Social Disorganization
“Mangles” Blacks
DENVER (NC) - Social disorganization
in U. S. society is “mangling black family
cohesiveness,” said Father Giles Conwill,
priest-in-residence at St. Anthony’s
Church, Atlanta, who has been an official
of the National Office for Black Catholics
(NOBC).
In a talk Feb. 7 to a gathering mainly of
black Catholics at Cure d’Ars Church in
Denver, Father Conwill listed factors in
U.S. society that are harming black family
life:
-- The increasing number of black
females to black males.
- The number of black males in prison.
He said there are 329,000 black men in
prison now. That factor threatens black
family survival, he said.
-- The growing acceptability of
homosexuality.
- Unemployment, particularly of black
teen-agers.
- Mobility. He said extended families
living together are becoming less
characteristic of blacks today.
Blacks need the family “to keep our
race alive,” the priest said. “The family is
where we get our personal identity.”
Saying that the family provides love and
recognition for its members, Father
Conwill said people will express love later
in life in the way they learned as children
RETARDED PERSONS
from their parents.
The 36-year-old priest, who is studying
and doing research at Emory University in
Atlanta, said factors causing a break-up of
the nuclear family among blacks include:
- Unisexualism, in which there is a
confusion of gender identification.
- “Anti-male, anti-maternal feminism.”
- The “romanticizing of single
parenthoood.”
-- Male-female relationships “that are
temporary purposefully,” and
-- Black male-female competition.
Father Conwill, a priest of the San Diego
Diocese, was highly critical of what he
called the “Super Fly Syndrome,” an
increase in sexual activity among young
black males who do not want to marry.
These young men develop what Father
Conwill called “super stud characteristics.”
He said they “lose respect for young black
women and develop a pimp personality”
toward black women.
Urging black families to return “to the
basic values of their Afro culture” and to
be aware and proud of being black, the
priest stressed the need for “strong black
male figures.”
He urged blacks to re-evaluate the
educational system to ensure that it shows
how religious and moral values are tied up
with sexual values.
“Re-Think Priorities”
WASHINGTON (NC) -
The improvements shown
by mentally retarded
youngsters after an
experimental treatment
program in Norfolk, Va.,
show “a clear need for our
society to re-think its
priorities” in medical
research dealing with
handicaps, said an official
of the National
Conference of Catholic
Bishops.
The official, Father
Edward M. Bryce, director
of the secretariat of the
bishops’ Committee for
Pro-Life Activities, was
commenting on reports of
a study done by Ruth F.
Harrell, professor emeritus
of psychology at Old
Dominion University in
Norfolk, assisted by a
physician, two
psychiatrists and a
biostatistician.
In 1979, the
80-year-old Ms. Harrell
and her collaborators
conducted an eight-month
trial in which they gave a
special supplement of
vitamins and minerals to
16 severely mentally
retarded children,
including four with
Down’s syndrome. IQs of
treated subjects rose 10.2
points overall and 10-25
points in the Down’s
syndrome group, the team
reported.
Treated children also
showed significant gains in
height and visual acuity,
and “physical changes
towards normal” occurred
in the Down’s syndrome
children.
The team published its
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issue of Proceedings of the
National Academy of
Sciences, USA, and a series
of reports on the study
appeared in Medical
Tribune, a medical news
weekly.
The “significant
results” of the study tend
to confirm the view that
genetically determined
nutritional problems may
play a key role in at least
some forms of mental
retardation, said William
Shive, professor of
chemistry at the
University of Texas and a
consultant on nutrition to
the National Institutes of
Health.
“This news suggests
certain reflections on
attitudes toward the
treatment of genetic
defects in our country,”
said Father Bryce. He
noted that the media have
recently reported
development of techniques
for identifying
handicapped children
before birth. “Some
proponents of genetic
screening convey the
impression that such
programs pursue the
elimination of the
‘defective’ in lieu of curing
the defect,” Father Bryce
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