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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, September 24,1981
FATHER JOE MEEHAN, MSFS, pastor of St.
Patrick’s, Norcross, blesses water in the baptismal
pool before the first baptism by immersion
performed there September 13. Ten children were
baptised that day, all but one by immersion. At
right, Father Gerard Gill, MSFS, associate pastor,
and Fred Schiesser, lector. At left, children to be
baptised wait in their bathing suits.
‘Living Stones’
BY ALICE MCCABE
About 700 attended the dedication September 12 of
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Norcross, in its new Beaver
Ruin Rd. location. Arrangements had been made by Dick
Bledsoe, parishioner and partner in Gwinnett Community
TV, for closed circuit TV to be shown in Trinity Room
(three classrooms made into one), but there was no need
for it. The overflow beyond the 500-seat sanctuary sat in
the entrance-hospitality area and viewed the two-hour
ceremony through a raised wall that separates the altar
from the baptismal area. (Home video viewers can secure
the video tape of the proceedings from Bledsoe.)
Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan of Atlanta was
joined by vice-chancellor Rev. James Miceli; Rev. Sean
Fleury, MSFS, former pastor of St. Patrick’s and now
provincial of the Fransalians in England and America, Rev.
Kenneth Bayer, MSFS, former associate pastor of St.
Pat’s, as well as pastors of the host church, Fathers Joe
Meehan and Gerard Gill, MSFS, in the procession to the
door of the new facility. There, Charles Parker, president
of the parish council, told the bishop of the prayerful
planning that went into the building project, then
presented him with the key to the front door. The bishop
handed it to Fr. Joe who opened the door, amid applause
from the assemblage.
Inside church, the bishop blessed the water and
annointed one wall. St. Pat’s priests annointed the other
three walls on each of which hung a hollow cross of
hand-crafted wood by Darry Wood of Hayesville, NC, who
also made the huge cross over the altar and the altar table.
On each cross, a candle was lighted. The beeswax candles
This Spiritual House
An ecumenical i
socializing will mark the first public event at the
newly-dedicated St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 2140
Beaver Ruin Rd., Norcross, Called “Christian
24 at 7:30 p.m. and will feature the choirs of St.
Patrick’s, Norcross First United Methodist Church
and others who wish to participate. A1I
denominations have been invited and all visitors are
welcome.
This will be a good way to view the $1.3 million
structure on ten acres, containing a 500-seat
sanctuary, daily chapel, 16 classrooms, four offices,
two reconciliation rooms, two sacristies and a large
social hall with kitchen.
An unusual feature of St. Patrick’s is the baptismal
pool, offering for the first time in Gwinnett’s Catholic
community, a planned area for baptism by total
immersion in addition to pouring. Ryan Grundvig,
son of Joe and Sandy Braneato, was the first to be
baptised in it during the children’s liturgy September
13. Pastor, Father Joe Meehan, wore wading boots
under his white robe. The boots were a gift from
s, Leland and Cherie Haefner.
were made by parishioner Mary Ellen Macke.
Throughout all the rite, appropriate music was played
and sung, as planned by Maurus Hack and Kathy Kadel.
The latter also directed the choir, alternating with Tansy
Walker, folk group director. Claud Shirley, who has done
St. Pat’s books for ten years and is a professional singer,
donated his services by singing the responsorial psalm and
the Litany of the Saints.
Lectors were Gene Slade, chairman of the building
committee, and Kay Westphal, chairman of the dedication
committee.
Boy Scouts of Troop 248, sposnored by St. Patrick’s,
directed parking and helped with moving chores. The
Shamrocks and Irish Springs, youth groups of the parish,
assisted with ushering people to the roast beef dinner that
followed the Mass of dedication. Mr. and Mrs. Knowlson
were in charge of food for the night, as well as for nine
priests on Friday night preceeding the Penance service,
and for 300 children after the children’s liturgy on
Sunday.
The daily (or Blessed Sacrament) chapel was
inaugurated and blessed during the Mass by the bishop,
priests and altar boys, plus a procession of special
ministers of the Eucharist led by Hector Jara.
As parishioners left the September 12 celebration, each
family was presented with a boxed piece of the Alabama
fieldstone used decoratively on the inside and exterior
walls. The keepsake was accompanied by a card explaining
that each person in the parish is a living stone built into a
spiritual house.
(Alice McCabe is a parishioner at St. Patrick’s Church who
served on the dedication committee.)
Mensaje de los Obispos Cubanos Women’s Role—
(Continuacion del mensaje empezado la semana pasada.)
b) Si lo mas importante es el placer, caemos en el
permisivismo moral, en el libertinaje en el que todo esta
permitido, los mandamientos de la Ley de Dios caen como
cosa pasada de moda, y nos sumergimos en la eorrupcion
consecuencia de la droga, del sexo desordenado, del alcohol,
etc., que es la manera mas eficaz de destrir un pueblo.
Frente a esto los exhortamos al esfuerzo, a la superacion
personal, a la fidelidad al deber y al la conciencia, que exige
sacrificio y iucha y que nos hace libres no solo por fuera sino
tambien por dentro. Asi mantendremos limpio ante el
mundo e! buen nombre de nuestro pueblo, conservaremos la
eslabilidad de las familias, y los jovenes no malgastaran sus
energias en el vicio sino las pondran al servicio de ideales
grandes. Seremos un pueblo fuerte, eapaz de cambiar el
curso de la historia.
c.) Si lo mas importante somos nosotros mismos, caemos
en el egoismo y el individualismo que nos encierra en
nuestro propio “yo”, dando la espalda a nuestras
responsabilidades con la patria, con la Iglesia y con los
demas. Frente a esto los exhortamos a fortalecer el sentido
de solidaridad y de comunidad y el espiritu de servicio. Asi
nos haremos sensibles a los problemas sociales, no solo de
nuestro pueblo, sino de los otros pueblos que sufren bajo
otros sistemas politicos y economicos. Nosotros tenemos
que demostrar al mundo que es posible juntar la libertad con
la solidaridad que lleva a la justicia.
Queremos recomendarles algunos casos especiales que en
este momento deben despertar mas nuestra inquietud y
nuestra ayuda fraterna: los presos que aun quedan en Cuba,
ayudandolos al menos con nuestro apoyo y nuestra oracion;
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eminentemente construetiva. No puede ser dividir, criticar,
sembrar odios, sino unir, orientar, encender ideales. A todos
nos toca prepararnos con la reflecion y el estudio serio para
seguir programas y no caudillos, y saber que queremos para
la Cuba del futuro. Toda acion para que sea eficaz y fecunda
tiene que ir siempre precedida y acompanada de una
profunda siembra de ideas que le den base y consistencia
doctrinal a la accion. Asi todos juntos hemos de buscar los
puntos de contacto para un programa minimo que pueda
servir a todos de comun denominador.
4. Construir la civilizacion del amor es construir la paz,
pero la paz cristiana, que no es pacifismo a toda costa ni
aceptacion resignada y pasiva del mal, sino la paz que se basa
en los cuatro pilares que senalaba el Papa Juan XXIII en la
Enciclica “Pacem in terris”: la Verdad, la Justicia, la
Libertad y el Amor. Esta es la unica paz digna de tal nombre
y a ella hemos de aspirar.
Que el mensaje de la Virgen de la Caridad_ recorra ho>,
como en aquella Peregrinacion de hace 30 aiios, todos los
pueblos y ciudades en que nos encontramos, para que a
traves de una sincera reconciliacion con Dios, con nosotros
mismos y con los demas, nos hagamos capaces de realizar
todo lo que Dios y la patria esperan de nosotros. Con estos
deseos les enviamos a todos nuestra bendicion.
Eduardo Boza Masvidal
Agustin A. Roman
(Continued from page 1)
to grasp first the pope’s passionate concern for the health
of the family unit.
“This pope has a deep, deep esteem for the family,” said
Jesuit Father John Schasching, dean of social sciences at
Rome’s Gregorian University. “It comes partly from his
Polish experience, but also from personal conviction. There
is no other topic on which this pope has spoken so often. He
knows the problems of today, so time after time he stresses
the importance of the survival of the human family.”
Pope John Paul’s ideas on labor are rooted in his
convictions about family. Following what has been
traditional Catholic social teaching, in the encyclical he
equates a just wage with a family wage, one Which will equip
the family to live decently.
But then comes this pope’s new contribution to Catholic
social thought, according to Father Schasching.
“In the encyclical the pope clearly believes that society
today should recognize, in a financial way, the contribution
of mothers, thus a grant for mothers who choose to stay at
home and raise their children,” said the priest.
A natural question, of course, is: From whom should
that grant come?
According to Father Schasching, it could come from a
combined effort by various segments of society. “It could
be like health insurance,” he explained, “where the
employer, the employee and the government each
contribute a share.”
The idea, said the Jesuit dean, is not original with the
pope. Many European countries such as Austria (Father
Schasching’s native country), West Germany and France are
quite close to it, he said.
It is not a very radical idea at all, he added. “It simply
says that mothers do a tremendous job for society and that
the humaneness of the society of tomorrow depends on the
children of today. So society should help to pay for that,
the same way as it pays for schools now.”
Asked if the pope is saying that women should not work,
the priest commented:
“In this whole section of the encyclical the pope is
careful to speak about ‘mothers,’ not women in general. If a
woman has no children, if a woman is single, let’s say, and
simply chooses not to work, there’s no reason at all why
society should finance that choice and support her. The
pope is speaking here only about mothers, and it’s in the
context of children and their future effect on society.”
Is the pope saying that mothers must not work?
“No,” said Father Schasching, “the encyclical does not
say that. It says, rather, that mothers must not be forced to
work.”
Father Schasching pointed to what he called “a whole
other aspect of the pope’s thought” presented in the
encyclical.
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“And here the pope just starts with a fact. The fact,
across the world, is that many women work, and that many
of them are mothers. The pope doesn’t condemn the fact,
he doesn’t say whether it’s good or bad, right or wrong. It’s
simply a fact,” the priest said.
Given this fact, he said, “the pope is very strong in
defending the rights of women who work. There must be no
discrimination, he declares, and women must be allowed
entrance on an equal basis into all the fields for which they
are qualified.”
The bottom line of Father Schasching’s analysis seems to
be: Women can work if they want to. Mothers can work,
too, so long as they can still fulfill the irreplaceable role of
the mother in raising their children. But if a mother chooses
not to work, society should see to it that finances do not
force her to. And no woman who works should suffer
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Sister Margaret —
(Continued from page 1)
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