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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, September 17,1981
Volunteers Celebrate
25 Years Of Service
SPOKANE, Wash. (NC) -- “Junk a money-making job
and come and join us,” is Jesuit Father Jack Morris’ blunt
way of putting it.
What he offers - $50 a month, free room and board, and
“labor on the frontiers of the church” - has attracted more
than 2,500 Catholic men and women to the Jesuit
Volunteer Corps since it was founded 25 years ago.
At a silver jubilee celebration at the Jesuits’ Gonzaga
University in Spokane recently, former corps members got
together to share memories about working in 40-below
weather in Alaska or being the first lay volunteer in Omak,
Wash.
Father Morris, sporting a “Mortis the Cat” T-shirt
recalled the rough early days of what is now the largest
Catholic lay volunteer organization in the United States.
“When we first started out in the late 1950s many priests
and sisters were threatened by the presence of lay
volunteers,” said the priest, who was one of the founders of
the corps and its first director.
He said many priests and nuns “questioned why the
Religious weren’t doing the jobs of teaching religion or
working with orphans. But the truth of the matter is that
vocations are dying out and, as Vatican II so clearly states,
this is the age of the laity. ”
The corps was started in 1956 to meet a very practical
need. A Jesuit mission school in isolated Copper Valley,
Alaska, found itself being inundated with unwanted orphan
children and called for lay volunteers tjo help out.
That fall six young women from Regis College in
Massachusetts arrived to work for a year, and the Jesuit
Volunteer Corps was born. Volunteers commit themselves
to a year of work in parishes, orphanages, missions, schools,
social service works, or other church projects.
For 18 years the corps worked only in the Northwestern
states of Alaska, Montana, Oregon and Washington, under
the direction of the Jesuits’ Oregon province.
In 1974 the Detroit province opened a Midwestern
regional branch of the corps. The next year an Eastern
regional office was formed in Philadelphia. A Southwestern
region was formed in 1977 by the California province in
Oakland, and last year a Southern rejgion was started with
offices in Houston.
Of 2,551 lay volunteers in the corps’ 25-year history,
more than 2,000 have worked in the Northwest, but the
corps is growing in the other regions where it was more
recently founded.
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps, with 275 volunteers
25 YEARS OF SERVICE - John Thomas, a
former Spokane, Wash., radio engineer, receives his
cross before embarking on a year as a volunteer bus
driver for Seattle elderly. In its 25th year, more
than 100 new members of the Jesuit Volunteer
Corps, have been given assignments in the
Northwest. (NC Photos by Tom Sofio)
working this year, is thriving, while other such organizations
-- notably the Papal Volunteers for Latin America and the
lay volunteer program of the Catholic Church Extension
Society - have died in recent years.
According to Father Morris, the key to their success is
their distinctive blend of corporal work, spirituality and the
experience of living in a Christian community.
“Giving up a paying job and living in a spiritual
community is exactly what the apostles did; and nothing
will endure longer in the church than people living and
working together in community,” he said.
He said the Jesuit Volunteer Corps is older than the
Peace Corps, “twice as tough and 10 times more
rewarding.”
Mensaje de los Obispos Cubanos
Con relation a la celebration de la fiesta de la Virgen de la
Caridad, los dos obospos cubanos, Obispo Agustin Romany Obispo
Eduardo Boza redactaron un mensaje al pueblo cubano en el exilio.
Al siguiente publicamos urn parte de dicho mensaje. La
continuation se publicara en la semana que yiene
Al acercarse la fiesta de Nuestra Senora de la Caridad
queremos dirigir a todo nuestro pueblo unas palabras de
reflexion y estimuio que nos ayuden a pensar en nuestra
patria y a vivir en forma positiva y fecunda nuestro exilio.
Hace ahora 30 anos (en el ano 1951) tuvo lugar en Cuba
aquella magna Peregrinacion de la imagen de nuestra Madre
y Patrona, la Virgen de la Caridad, que partiendo el 20 de
Mayo del Santuario de El Cobre, fue recorriendo todos los
pueblos y hasta los ultimos rincones de nuestro suelo, para
terminar el 20 de Mayo de 1952, dia del Cinsuentenario de
nuestra independencia. Acompanada por el incansable
misionero franciscano Padre Manuel Oroquieta, la Virgen
visito todos nuestros municipios con sus pueblos,
hospitales, carceles bateyes, desde Oriente hasta Pinar del
Rio, llevando por todas partes su mensaje de fe y de caridad
para que fueramos un pueblo cristiano, fuerte y libre.
Hoy nos hace mucha falta tambien, en las dolorosas
drcunstancias que estamos viviendo, jio ya en el suelo patrio
sino en los disperse® caminos del exilio, reunimos todos
ante la Virgen y poner el oido atento para escuchar su
mensaje que nos hace creer y crecer en la fuerza del amor y
abrar siempre en sentido constiluctivo. Por eso les
presentamos estas breves lineas de reflexion.
1. Cuba vive una hora tragica y dificil, En enorme exodo
que tuvo lugar por e! Mariel demostrd al mundo que alia hay
un pueblo que no asimila ni acepta el marxismo en lo
politico ni en lo economico, sino que quiere vivir con la Fe,
que ha sido guardada por la gran mayoria dentro de los
marcos de la religiosidad popular. A la vez demostro
tambien que los cubanos del exilio no se han olvidado de
Cuba, que todos formamos un solo pUeblo unido por fuertes
ideales de fe, de libertad y de justicia social, y que queremos
seguir fieles a nuestras raices y a nuestra verdadera
revolucion libertadora que despues de un siglo de lucha
culmino en aquel 20 de Mayo de 1902 y que habia que
perfeccionar y completar. Este an5 debe servimos de
preparacion espiritual para conmemorar el proximo ano el
octogesimo aniversario de la Republika.
2. En un mundo tan agitado por la agresividad y la
violencia, que ha llegado hasta la persona misma del Santo
Padre Juan Pablo II, los obispos latino-americanos en la
Conferencia de Puebla nos invitan, recordando una frase del
Papa Paulo VI, “A CONSTRUIR LA CIVILIZACION DEL
AMOR”, y este es el mensaje que nos trae a todos la Virgen
de la Caridad, que por algo quiso venir a nosotros con ese
titulo.
Como se construye la civilizacion del amor? Solo
partiendo de Dios que es Amor y que por eso mismo es a la
vez Justicia y Libertad. Por eso, asi como nuestros hermanos
que estan dentro de Cuba tienen que veneer el materialismo
doctrinal y militante que se les quiere imponer, nosotros
tenemos que veneer el materialismo practico que sin darnos
cuenta se nos cuela por todos los poros en este mundo
democratico y libre, y quiere imponernos una triple
idolatria.
Que es para nosotros lo primero, lo mas importante?
Dios o el dinero? Dios o el placer? Dios o nosotros mismos?
a) Si aunque no lo digamos con las palabras nuestra
conduc ca muestra que para nosotros lo mas importante es el
dinero, caemos en la voragine de la sociedad de consumo en
la que lo que importa es tener mas y se crean necesidades
artificiales que ponen la felicidad en los bienes materiales.
Frente a esto los exhortamos a la AUSTERIDAD y a buscar
no tanto TENER MAS sino SER MEJORES. Con el
verdadero ser se sabe que hacer con el tener; pero con el solo
tener se puede perder el ser. Es justo y licito aspirar a tener
un nivel humano de vida, pero no nos dejemos deslumbrar
por las cosas materiales olvidando los mas altos valores
espirituales que son los que hacen grande al hombre.
Hoy mas que nunca, cuando tantos hermanos nuestros
pasan necesidad en Cuba y en otros paises del mundo, el
cristiano tiene que saber vivir con austeridad y sencillez. No
hemos venido al exilio simplemente para tener mas cosas
sino para ser realmente fibres y trabajar por una patria y un
mundo mejor.
(se continuara)
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Filipino Visitors
At St. Philip’s
This past August, there was a Mass at St. Philip Benizi
Church in Jonesboro, of which Bishop Felix Zafra of the
diocese of Dipolog in Mindanao, the Philippines, was the
principal celebrant. The bishop came to visit and celebrate
with the people of St. Philip Benizi in gratitude for the
help they have provided to the parish which they adopted
in the Philippines.
Bishop Zafra was presented with a check and a
beautiful banner, made by the Search Youth Group in the
parish. These will be taken to the sister parish of St. Philip
Benizi in the Philippines. After the Mass, a reception was
held and everyone had a chance to meet the Bishop and
Monsignor Tomichek, the Mission Procurator of Dipolog.
Announcement was made that the new church will be
dedicated in January. Father Jack Druding of St. Philip’s
hopes to go to the Philippines and be present for the
dedication ceremonies.
Together
In Song
Kathy and Jack Street
have been singing solos
and duets together since
they first met playing
opposite each other in the
leading roles of the
Denver Post Summer
Operas in Denver,
Colorado. They now sing
solos and duets that bring
a religious dimension to
their music.
Jack and Kathy
married, raised four
children and moved to
Atlanta. Jack is now the
director of the adult choir
at St. Jude’s Church in
Sandy Springs. Both have
sung for the televised
Catholic Mass for three
years and have performed
at weddings and social
events.
Kathy and Jack Street
Most recently, the
Streets have branched
out, singing at an outdoor
variety show sponsored
by St. Paul’s Methodist
Church in Marietta. The
event raised funds for the
burned-out Friendship
Baptist Church in College
Park.
PICTURED. L-R: Msgr. George Tomichek,
P.A., Mission Procurator, Diocese of Dipolog; Fr.
John C. Kieran, Most Rev Felix Zafra, Bishop of
Dipolog, Fr. John C. Druding, Rev. Thomas
Gallagher, O.S.F.S., teacher, Northeast Catholic
High School, Philadelphia. Not pictured is
Reverend Paul Reynolds, pastor of St. John
Neumann, Lilbum, who also con -celebrated the
Mass
Homecoming
At The Shrine
Franciscans the world over begin a year-long
celebration of the 800th birthday of their founder, St.
Francis of Assisi, on October 4.
On that day also, the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception,, 48 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive S.W.,
Atlanta, will host a “Homecoming Sunday” for the
benefit of the friends of the shrine.
The Franciscans at the church would like to make the
day one of rejoicing and plan to send letters to all present
and former parishioners inviting them to participate in the
coneeiebrated Mass scheduled for 11:30 a.m. October 4
and the social hour to follow.
The staff at the Shrine cordially invites their friends to
spread the word, hopefully reaching those persons they
have not been able to contact by mail.
For further information on the Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception’s “Homecoming,” call the church
office (521-1866).
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