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f AGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, November 26,1981
On The Air Pacifist Bishop—
BY MARY DILL
Media Coordinator
The following programming, on radio and
television, will be aired in the Archdiocese during the
coming week beginning Nov. 29. Some of the
programs have been produced locally; others have
been obtained from national Catholic production
apostolates.
TELEVISION:
TELEVISION MASS is celebrated by Rev. dose L.
Fernandez-Solis on Sun. Nov. 29 at 10 a.m. on
WVEU, Channel 69 on the UHF band, and at 10:30
a.m. on Cable Atlanta and Cable DeKalb Channel 8.
The choir this week is the Spanish Folk Choir from
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.
CHRISTOPHER CLOSE UP: A Look At The
People Who Are Shaping Tomorrow’s World - Today.
Lou Torok, ex-prisoner and founder of Prison Pen
Pals, discusses the power of a letter this week on “BIO
OF AN EX-CON.” This program will be shown on
Sun. Nov. 29 at 7 a.m. on WSB. Channel 2 and on
Mon. Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. on Atlanta Interfaith
Broadcasters, Cable Atlanta and Cable DeKalb,
Channel 8.
INSIGHT, an Emmy award winning Paulist
Production will present a New Season Special
“Missing Persons Bureau” on Sun. Nov. 29 at 1 p.m.
on WATL. Channel 36. Dan returns from a tour of
duty in Vietnam to face his son’s death and wife’s
infidelity. How could this happen to him, the guy
who always obeyed the rules? Why is God doing this
to him? And where is God anyway? Why is he so
silent? Dan goes to the missing persons bureau to find
out.
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters will present
another INSIGHT production “A Picture in Sobel’s
Window” on Mon. Nov. 30 at 8:30 p.m. on Cable
Atlanta and Cable DeKalb, Channel 8.
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AMERICAN CATHOLIC, a very fine series with
Father John Powell, S.J. will present “The Bible: Old
Testament” on Wed. Dec. 2 at 9 p.m. on Cable
Atlanta and Cable DeKalb, Channels.
RADIO.
RELIGION-WISE, a weekly look at the news
through the eyes of religion with Msgr. Noel C.
Burtenshaw, Rabbi Don Peterman of Congregation
Beth Shalom and Dr. Ted Baehr of the Episcopal
Radio and Television Foundation will discuss the
week’s happenings. Sun. - 6:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. on
WGST92AM.
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wondered out loud why I
had issued a statement
against the neutron bomb.
After all, she observed, the
neutron bomb destroys
buildings and tanks and
things like that and does
not hurt people. When
someone said, ‘Honey, it’s
the other way around: The
bomb destroys people,
cremates and vaporizes
them, but does not harm
buildings and tanks with its
radiation,’ her mouth fell
open. She didn’t know with
what it is they are loading
the guns at Pantex. She just
didn’t know.
Aug. 9, 1945, along with
40,000 children and men
and women as
well . . . Today he (Father
Zabelka) says; ‘I knew
civilians were being
destroyed. Yet I never
preached a single sermon
against killing civilians to
the men who were doing
it... ’
“That, I submit, is our
major problem. We don’t
know, and, sadly, some of
us would rather not know.
“We still are thinking in
traditional terms of
self-defense, of armies
meeting on battle fields
free of civilians, of honor
and glory.
“I know that this is the
situation, because until
very recently that is where I
was.
“What of us? What of
me? For 33 years I lived
and continue to live at the
very portals of Pantex, and
for those 33 years I said
nothing either as a priest or
a bishop until a Catholic
employee and his wife
came to me with troubled
consciences. They had
begun to think that what he
was doing was wrong.
Other events had preceded
them ... I finally was
moved to speak. I had come
to the realization, with
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
that the choice really is
between non-violence and
non-existence. I finally
could no longer say, ‘I
didn’t know the gun was
loaded.”
“I really paid little
attention to the dropping
of the atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
1945, grateful only that the
war was over soon
thereafter and that my
brother could come home.
I did not realize then what
it was with which the guns
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
were loaded.
“Neither did Father
George Zabelka, the
Catholic chaplain who
served as pastor of the
airmen on Tinian Island
who manned the planes
from which the atomic
bombs were dropped. The
Catholic community in
Amarillo was in shock over
the rape and killing of one
nun on the eve of All
Saints, 1981. But Father
Zabelka and the Catholic
pilot of the plane thought
they were doing what was
necessary when the bomb
dropped on Nagasaki
destroyed three entire
orders of Catholic nuns on
“I had come to agree
with Father Zabelka that in
my church at least,
‘Communion with Christ
cannot be established on
disobedience to his clearest
teachings. Jesus authorized
none of his followers to
substitute violence for love;
not me, not you, not the
president, not the pope,
not anyone. Christ’s
teaching to love our
enemies is not optional.’
“What followed the
release of the statement
was a revelation to me. The
peace movement is very
strong in the United States.
The mail is running over 95
percent in favor of nuclear
disarmament. . .
“In my town the
community leaders shook
their heads and said, ‘The
bishop is an idealist. We
wish we could do what he
urges, but we live in a real
world and in this real world
we must arm ourselves with
nuclear weapons in order to
defend our free way of life,
our economy, and, yes,
even our churches.’
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“I suggest that this is the
greatest unreality, the
greatest illusion of all. Pile
the stocks of nuclear arms
as high as you will, refine
them as expertly as you
wish, you cannot deter
others thereby from doing
the same. Indeed, you force
them, in their delusion, to
do so. And speak not of
stockpiles in the U.S. and in
the U.S.S.R. only, but
speak of stockpiles in
country after country and
thus insure the final reality:
The world at the point of
no return and this last
civilization vaporizing in
the white heat of the final
noonday sun.”
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TURKEY-RAISING PRIEST - Neighborhood
children gather around as Father Robert
Hegenbarth, pastor of St. Alexander’s parish in
Port Edwards, Wis., shows off one of the turkeys he
raised. Father Hegenbarth, who grew up on a farm,
started working with the birds a few years ago as a
hobby. He hatches the eggs in his rectory incubator
and then moves them to his game refugee outside of
town. This year he raised about 40 turkeys and
nearly 200 pheasants.
Adoption
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to 85 words, under the care of her adoptive parents.
“What we’re looking for are people who have the
maturity.” she said, “They feel good about themselves and
are ready to be parents.
“You don’t have to own a home and you don’t have to
have ‘so much’ money in the bank. We’re looking for people
who can manage their income well and can provide for the
basic needs of the children.”
There is a particular need for black couples or black
single people who would like to adopt a child. Black and
biracial children of all ages from infancy to school age are
available for adoption. As the book of pictures attests, there
are also family groups of brothers and sisters, from both
black and white families, who need a home where they can
be placed together. There are school-aged children, both
black and white, and children who were born with a
physical handicap, such as a problem with hearing or
eyesight or a disabling illness like cerebral palsy.
After the first phone call is made, a family that wants to
adopt a child has a series of meetings with a caseworker and
with other families who are considering adoption and
parents who have already adopted a child to share
experiences. As the process continues, a meeting is arranged
between the family and the child they would like to adopt.
If the family decides to adopt a child, the agency continues
contact with them to provide support for the new family,
Ms. Cliburn said. Fees are on a sliding scale based on income.
While adoption has the reputation of being tied up in
great quantities of red tape, caseworkers at the agency are
“here to work with people in not wanting to make it that
kind of experience,” Ms. Cliburn said.
“Our role is to help them build the family they’re
wanting.”
Lourdes
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finds in his community.
“We are just a small
parish close to Grady
Homes, Capitol Homes,
East Lake Apartments,
Bedford Pine,” he reflected
just before the
Thanksgiving holidays. “Of
those we help, 97% are
what we might call down
and out. About 3% are just
down - a husband laid off,
an illness in the family -
just temporary. When they
get straightened out, they
tell us.”
During his many years in
Atlanta, Anderson has seen
“people day in and day out
in need.” He has
experienced first hand
“people right here in
Atlanta starving - pregnant
mothers, children without
proper nourishment” and
feels he wants to help.
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Anderson is employed
by the U.S. Postal Service
and has brought his crusade
against hunger to his fellow
employees.
“I get people on the job
to help,” he said. “Some of
the mailmen bring in
canned goods and money
to buy fresh meat and
produce for the Food for
the Neighborhood
program.”
The Lourdes’ effort is a
simple neighborhood
outreach that works. It
obviously does not feed all
the hungry in the city of
Atlanta, but aims “to try to
assist, especially now,
people who are having a
hard time,” according to
Sister Linda Maser.
“The cost of food keeps
going up. We try to
supplement with food so
people, especially those on
fixed incomes, can pay
their other bills.”
How has the program
been received by the
community? Sister Linda
claims that “people are
very glad” to receive the
Advent
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old spot.
Advent is never
returning to the same
familiar spot on the year’s
cycle, either, provided we
do some looking in the
right direction. That
direction is looking inside
myself with candor. This
alone is what will untrack
us from a circular rut and
grab our attention. If we
simply look in some
abstract way at John the
Baptist, Advent’s paast
Prophet, or in some
abstract way at Jesus’
Second Coming, Advent’s
timeless Prophet, we are
looking in the wrong
direction. It is all too
abstract, and we will not
peer for long, perhaps no
longer than glimpses during
Sunday Mass. The abstract
cannot hold attention for
long.
When I go into Church
this Nov. 29, 1981, I am
different from last year’s
person. Advent’s purple
colors will be the same, the
hymns may well be too, but
I am not where I was a year
ago. I may be hurting more;
I may feel my life better
holding together. I am what
my experiences are making
of me. Let me first get hold
of where I am now, the
straight line of all the
experiences which are
shaping me, which I cannot
deny any more than deny
myself, and make THAT
PERSON listen to the
Advent cycle message. It
should not be the ever
repetitious Advent story,
but a story for this year,
novel and fresh.
Let me draw out an
illustration. Last week,
with the sounds of
Chicago’s Hyde Park
drifting in my windows, I
was reading a passage of St.
Augustine from the
Breviary. Augustine writes
as no one else; he has gems
of pithy phrase turns. “Let
us not resist his first coming
so that we may not dread
his second.” Just like
Augustine; to hit you
between the eyes with a
handful of words speaking
volumes. It is not a
statement of doctrine we
can weigh and sift with our
minds, to register and pass
on. It is an arrow from one
who sized up himself,
aimed at others to size
themselves up, to question
their life and experiences,
to ask that unsettling
question, “where am I in all
this?”
Let us mull it together
for a moment. Do I dread
the unpredictable approach
of Jesus? Well, I didn’t
think I did. Actually I do
not think about it too
much. Press of other
affairs, you know.
Anyway, I have not resisted
his first coming, have I? I
believe in Jesus, go to
Church, am ethical. Well,
not simon pure; who is? He
came to love and befriend. I
tell myself I am loved.
Friends talk, converse
intimately. Do I talk with
him? Do I experience his
speaking to me? Maybe I do
resist a little, because I do
not set aside much
conversation time. He came
as Teacher too. Of course I
affirm that. Now, are his
teachings really a message
of life within me? It’s all so
confusing; so many ideas
adrift today, after all.
Maybe I am resisting him
after all?
Enough common
m usings for now, my
readers. The drift of this
illustration should be clear.
St. Augustine, in his
uncanny way, flings an
Advent saying at us. As we
together mulled it over,
what a range of feelings and
self-impressions rush upon
us! If we had probed the
very same statement last
year, the swirl of questions
would have differed, for we
were different. Maybe we
prayed better then, or were
consciously resisting a
moral teaching then. Cast
Augustine’s arrow into our
own futures. As we age, and
physical energies wane,
reminders from personal
depths that earthly life is to
end, Augustine stirs up
different feelings and
different self-assessments.
There are other Advent
messages; Augustine’s was
but one. His and the others
are never the same familiar
message, never merely a
repetitious carousel
spinning by us unnoticed,
unheard, provided we listen
with our experiences in
hand.
So who are we, we who
will enter that Advent
Church once more? What
experiences of my life do I
want to look at head on?
What am I waiting for in
this Advent of waiting,
hoping for in a season of
hope, deciding upon in a
time of growing light and
emerging grace (the coming
of Jesus)?
The Editor asked me to
write an introduction to
Advent. My first urge was
to sketch some clever
connections of the themes
of the four Sundays, but
that seemed too heady, too
abstract. Would you have
read to the end, and would
it have stuck? Then I
thought of Advent
suggestions for the home.
But people far more
imaginative than I will, I am
sure, be filling Advent
parish bulletins with
fruitful and prayerful
suggestions.
So I decided to write of
the problem of Advent, at
least for those for whom it
seems to slip by. And
knowing that I myself am
not innoculated from
cyclic routine, it seemed
more real to write for those
of us spinning on a lot of
life’s carousels, with the
hope that Advent and the
whole liturgical year will
not be one of them.
church’s offering.
“We see a lot more
people coming to request
help now because of
cutbacks in government
programs,” she observed,
emphasizing the increasing
need for the service.
Those at Our Lady of
Lourdes Church who work
with the Food for the
Neighborhood program
happily welcome outside
support from other
members of the
Archdiocese of Atlanta,
whether it be in the form of
food supplies, financial aid
or time spent sorting food.
Theirs is truly a
grassroots thrust that gives
all who participate the
unique opportunity to
reach out to those in need
and make the spirit of
Thanksgiving last all year
long.
For more information
on the Food for the
Neighborhood program,
call Our Lady of Lourdes
Church (522-6776).
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