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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, November 5,1981
Food Pantry—
(Continued from page 1)
Mrs. Knott reflected, as well as invite volunteers to share in
the decision and policy making end of an organization.
“(Volunteers) hired me - they are my boss,” she stated
emphatically. “If a professional takes over the volunteers’
ownership, you lose volunteers.”
It was left to Edith Sutton, from the Central
Presbyterian Church across from the state Capitol, to
present the stuff that food pantries are made of. (see box)
Mrs. Sutton noted that “we prefer referrals - from the
Department of Family and Children’s Services, Grady
Hospital - but we do have a lot of walk-ins,” - individuals
who come in off the street, in need of emergency food.
The Central Presbyterian outreach, which includes a
night shelter during the harsh winter months when street
people are particularly vulnerable, packs food supplies
according to the number and age of people in a family.
“Most come on the bus, so we have to fix something they
can carry easily,” Mrs. Sutton said. “One man told us he
cooked his meal in a hubcap over a fire under a bridge.”
Precisely because of situations like the one cited by
Edith Sutton, and because of the real deprivation and
hunger that exist in the substrata of affluent America, some
early-rising parishioners of St. Matthew’s Church in Winder
drove over 50 miles to attend the food pantry workshop.
Ann Miller, a young teacher who looked more like one of
her students, took the day off from school, accompanying
Betty Cohran, long-time organist at the small rural parish,
all the way to the heart of Atlanta.
“We want to get something started - we don’t have
anything permanent yet,” Betty Cohran said with
enthusiasm. “We’ll try to assimilate the information and
present it to the ministerial association we belong to, which
has a rotating food pantry.”
“We feel we want to take a vital, active part in
community affairs,” she continued, “but (the parish) is too
little to do this and handle it on our own.”
A little effort, a little spark, a little workshop. A lot of
sharing, a lot of giving, a lot of love.
“Having a food pantry is more than a service - it’s a
reaching out to the community with love,” Anne Sapp of
Emmaeus House had reflected earlier in the day. “We want
to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”
The food pantry workshop was a good place to start.
Good Staples
For Pantry Shelves
GROUP I: Best nutrition for your money
powdered milk
canned evaporated milk
cereal with high vitamin/ FOODS-
dried'beans.'peas, etc. *o rm p,a with iron
peanut bolter ,ruit ’
canned meats vegetables
macaroni (nocombination jars)
hot cereal FRESH PRODUCE: when
canned beans, refrigerator and/or freezer is
peas available, bread, eggs, fresh fruits
canned fruit and vegetables may be stored
ins (some spoilage is unavoidable)
GROUP II: Very good nutrition for the money
canned combination foods (e.g.
spaghetti/meatballs, brunswick
stew, soups, etc.)
flour/corn meal
shortening
saltines
Not Recommended but
Often Requested: jelly, coffee,
tea, juices, desserts, sweetners,
household items
GROUP 111:
boxed macaroni/cheese
canned vegetables
(Adapted from food staple list of
Central Presbyterian Church in
Atlanta)
STAFF WORKING at the U.S. penitentiary in
Atlanta, now a detention center for Cubans who
arrived in the 1980 Freedom Flotilla, were visited
last week by the executive director of migration
and refugee services of the U.S. Catholic
Conference, John McCarthy. Joined by
Archbishop Donnellan, McCarthy visited with
those working to resettle Cubans who have been
determined ready for release by federal authorities
and the resettlement team. Those working within
the/facility are headed by Ernie Stallworth, far left,
ana Gerry Wynne, far right. As of this week, more
than 300 Cubans had been released and resettled
with relatives or under diocesan sponsorship
throughout the country. The releases began in late
August under the order of U.S. District Court
Judge Marvin Shoob. More than 500 others have
been cleared by the government for release and are
awaiting resettlement.
PAPAL TALK:
A Reminder Of Suffering Fellow Catholics
BY JERRY FILTEAU
NC NEWS SERVICE
Pope John Paul II recently reminded the world’s
Catholics of their brothers and sisters who are persecuted
around the world for their faith or for causes of humanity,
justice and peace.
Referring to his close brush with death from a would-be
assassin’s bullet last May 13, he said Oct. 28 that his
“personal experience of violence made me feel even more
intensely a closeness with those who in any place on earth
and in any way suffer persecution in the name of Christ.”
“And also,” he added, “with all those who undergo
oppression for the holy cause of man and his dignity, for
justice and for peace in the world. With those, finally, who
have sealed their fidelity with death.”
Those seeking examples of such persecution or
martyrdom in today’s world need scarcely go beyond a few
random issues of a daily newspaper.
Just in the previous month or so, for example, incidents
such as the following have been in the news:
- On Oct. 23 Yugoslav authorities sentenced a village
pastor to three and a half years in prison for “acts of hostile
propaganda” against the state in relation to a new popular
pilgrimage site where a group of children reportedly saw
apparitions of Mary and where several miracles have
reportedly occurred. Earlier the state arrested two Serbian
Orthodox priests when they visited the site and expelled 11
members from the Communist Party for having gone there.
- Although the Yugoslavian government is among the
most liberal in Eastern Europe toward religious practice, the
country’s bishops sharply criticized the government
recently for violating religious rights and waging a
propaganda campaign against religious leaders.
- A Romanian-language magazine in New York recently
published an appeal by three Romanian-Rite Catholic
bishops, secretly ordained in the 1950s, for government
recognition of their rite, which has been officially
suppressed for more than 30 years.
- The October issue of Laiowang (Observation Post), a
Chinese monthly magazine, expressed shock at the number
of people, especially youngsters, seen praying in churches
since China began to relax its anti-religious policies in 1979.
Although the relaxation so far has been quite limited and
follows three decades in which China was one of the most
dangerous places in the world to be a practicing Christian,
the magazine urged a stricter policy of actively discouraging
the practice of religion.
- In mid-October Julia Esquivel, a Guatemalan human
rights leader who was forced into exile by death threats
from the ultra-right in her country, said in Washington that
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the Guatemalan government is trying to discredit the Jesuits
because of their efforts to expose injustice and oppression.
- In El Salvador earlier in October offices of the
Archdiocese of San Salvador and a church-run high school
were attacked at night - the latest in a long series of attacks
on church property and personnel, many of them attributed
to government forces and considered due to church efforts
for the poor.
- In Poland, which along with Yugoslavia is one of the
Eastern European countries that treats religion most
liberally, prisoners were only recently allowed to attend
Sunday Mass and receive the sacraments, and the church
first gained access to radio and television last year.
- In Czechoslovakia at the end of September two priests
were convicted of celebrating Mass without permission and
two other priests and four laypersons were convicted of
illegally distributing religious literature.
Today, as in any age, the decision as to who is a martyr
for the cause of religion or justice and peace comes out in
various hues of gray instead of neat blacks and whites.
In Latin America, for example, right-wing groups that
target church personnel and other social activists for violent
attacks claim that they are defending their respective
countries from incursions of the communist menace under
which not only would the government fall, but church
institutions and personnel would suffer systematic
persecution.
A similar argument is used in the Philippines, where
many priests, nuns and lay leaders have been arrested and
some foreign missionaries expelled because of their human
rights and social justice activities.
In the communist bloc, on the other hand, the
proponents of religion are described as opponents of
authentic social progress, reactionaries who seek to oppress
the masses by restoration of capitalism and the traditional
class of a powerful, wealthy elite.
In a number of African countries church personnel and
institutions are suffering or have suffered in recent years
because of their ties with former colonial powers and failure
to speak out against colonial injustices while in other
countries Christian leaders are persecuted for opposing
colonial-style rule and speaking out against injustices to the
black majority.
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BY MARY DILL
The following programming, on radio and television, will
be aired in the Archdiocese during the coming week
beginning Nov. 8. Some of the programs have been
produced locally; others have been obtained from national
Catholic production apostolates.
TELEVISION:
Television Mass
Celebrant: Msgr. Noel Burtenshaw
Shut-ins write for missalette, P.O. Box 54424, Atlanta, GA.
30308.
Sunday -10:00 a.m. WVEU, Channel 69 on the UHF band.
Sunday -10:30 a.m. Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters (AIB)
on
Cable Atlanta Channel 8
Cable DeKalb Channel 8 *
* Please note that Cable DeKalb is changing from an old
system to a new one. Our Mass and other programming is on
the new.
Christopher Close Up
A 30 minute interview that “looks at the people who are
shaping tomorrow’s world - today.” Religious but not
doctrinaire.
Sunday - 7:00 a.m. WSB, Channel 2
Monday - 8:00 p.m. Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters (AIB)
on
Cable Atlanta Channel 8
Cable DeKalb Channel 8
Insight
A Paulist Production, Emmy award winning INSIGHT is a
showcase for Hollywood’s finest talent.
Sunday - 1:00 p.m. New Season Special “Rendezvous”,
starring James Farentino. WATL, Channel 36
Monday - 8:30 p.m. Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters (AIB)
on
Cable Atlanta Channel 8
Cable DeKalb Channel 8
American Catholic
A very special kind of series with Father John Powell, S.J.
offering viewers an opportunity to use the medium of
television to deepen and strengthen their faith.
Wednesday 9:00 p.m. Atlanta InterfaithBroadcasters(AIB)
on
Cable Atlanta Channel 8 ,
Cable DeKalb Channel 8
RADIO:
Religion - Wise
“Weekly Look at the News through the eyes of religion.”
Msgr. Noel C. Burtenshaw along with Rabbi Don Peterman
of Congregation Beth Shalom and Dr. Ted Baehr of the
Episcopal Radio and Television Foundation discuss the
week’s happenings.
Sunday - 6:30 a.m. WGST 92AM 9:30 p.m. WGST 92AM
Children’s Shelter
Opens In Guatemala
NEW YORK (NC) -
Franciscan Father Bruce
Ritter has opened a house
for Guatemala’s homeless
children.
The Franciscan priest
who started Covenant
House, a home for runaway
teen-agers in New York,
became interested in
opening a house in
Guatemala when he
attended a conference on
the family there last year.
Unlike in New York
where many runaway
teen-agers are victims of
sexual exploitation,
Guatemalan children are
victims of the economic
crisis in their country. The
children leave their families
because they cannot afford
to keep them, according to
a spokeswoman for
Covenant House.
The center in Guatemala
involves a long term
commitment, said Sandra
Hagan, director of
development for Covenant
House in New York. . The
Guatemala Covenant
House, which was opened
last July, provides social
services and medical care,
she said. A school will be
opened for the children at
the house or they will be
referred to other schools,
she added.
Twenty-one
Guatemalan children, ages
six to 12, presently live in
the house.
Volunteers from the
New York Covenant House
staff the Guatemala
program. Money from
private sources funds the
house, a spokeswoman
said.
Requests to establish
Covenant Houses have
come from cities all over
the world but granting the
requests depends on
funding, said a
spokeswoman. A house will
be opened in Toronto next
January because the
Toronto Archdiocese is
providing most of the cost
to run it.
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