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Fun At The Fair
And Much More
BY MONSIGNOR
NOELBURTENSHAW
World’s Fairs have a birthday this
year. They are 130 years old. In 1851
these spectacular international
displays began their glittering
expositions at the Crystal Palace in
London.
Nations have been hosting them
ever since.
The United States has seen many
famous Fairs over the years. The St.
Louis Fair in 1904 was the spectacle
of the new century. New York has
hosted the great exhibition twice,
once in 1939 and again in 1964. The
last one will be remembered for the
presence of Michaelangelo’s immortal
Pieta, which was brought from St.
Peter’s and housed in the Vatican
pavilion.
There will be no Vatican pavilion at
the World’s Fair 1982 in Knoxville.
History will be made as the major
Christian denominations, including
Catholics, come together to sponsor
one exhibit which they will call “The
Power.” Chief designer of this exhibit
is Dr. Theodore Baehr, president of
the Episcopal Radio and Television
Foundation, which is centered in
Atlanta.
“The title of the 1982 Fair,” said
Ted Baehr from his Lenox Square
office, “is ‘Energy Turns the World.’
Since God is the ultimate source of
energy and we are stewards of that
energy, our exhibit should display His
power at work in the world. We want
it to be a beautiful, moving experience
of the Gospel message and of the
ministry of Jesus in our world.”
And that’s what this Christian
exhibit will be: a beautiful, moving
experience. For the first time, a
DR. THEODORE BAEHR, left, president of the Episcopal Radio
and Television Foundation and director of the World Fair exhibit for
the Christian churches, produces a program along with members of his
staff.
World’s Fair exhibit will not just
proclaim the message of Christianity,
but the message will be proclaimed
with one voice.
“It all began,” says Ted Baehr, who
is a deacon in the Episcopal Church,
“when the churches and the city
fathers of Knoxville opposed having
the Fair in their southern city. But the
Mayor would not be overruled. The
decision was made to host the World’s
Fair without a popular vote and
enthusiasm began to grow. At that
point, they called me in to consult.”
They called the right man.
Although his degree is in law, Ted
Baehr is a show biz man going way
back. His father is an actor and Ted
has produced shows, movies and
commercials all over the nation. From
1972 to 1977, he worked at his craft
most successfully in New York. That
year Trinity Episcopal Church in New
York hired this talented creator of
programming to produce material for
radio and television.
“The churches had a still exhibit in
mind for the 1982 Fair,” says Ted. “It
would be pictures on the wall and
some movies - nothing too dynamic.
But we persuaded them to create an
experience of Christianity that will
appeal to families in a most
memorable way. They got excited
about the idea. It looks good. It is
going to be uniquely memorable,
really nice, really beautiful.”
The exhibit will be titled “The
Power” and in three sections will show
God’s loving power at work in all
creation from the beginning. The
beauty of nature, the fall from
goodness, the search for rebirth, the
ministry of Jesus and the continuing
ministry in His name will all be
graphically displayed under the
creative eye and direction of Ted
Baehr.
“We put a team together and I am
very proud of them,” says Ted. “Peter
Wolfe who created Six Flags in Texas
and Georgia is one. Shorty Yearworth,
a Hollywood movie director, is
another. George Mims heads the music
team and there are others. We are all
excited that we have this ecumenical
challenge. We want it to be an exciting
expression of the Body of Christ, a
living experience of the Christian
Church.”
The 1982 Knoxville World’s Fair
will open on May 1 and continue until
Oct. 29. Eighteen nations - more than
at any other Fair - will have exhibits
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Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 19 No. 45
Thursday, December 17,1981
$8.00 Per Year
MAR TIAL LA W DECLARED
Worrisome Events In Poland
Trouble The Pope And World
FINAL STEPS TO PRIESTHOOD. Richard
Wise enters the Cathedral of Christ the King on
Saturday, December 12, to be ordained a priest of
Atlanta. Following Richard is Archbishop Thomas
A. Donnellan, the ordaining bishop, and Father
Paul Fogarty, pastor of St. Pius X Church in
Conyers. The new Father Wise served as deacon in
the Conyers parish. He has now been assigned as
assistant pastor in St. Pius X. Turn to page 8 for
more photos.
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John
Paul II, burdened by the “worrisome
events” of martial law rule in Poland,
said Dec. 13 that “too much Polish
blood has already been spilled” and
asked for prayers for his native
Poland.
The pope spoke in Polish to about
200 Polish pilgrims who were among
the 30,000 people in St. Peter’s
Square for the pontiff’s Sunday
Angelus message.
The Polish pilgrims carried red and
white flowers and waved their
country’s red and white flag as the
pope spoke. Some wept.
Hours earlier the communist
government had imposed martial law
and begun a major crackdown on
Solidarity, the independent union,
because of the mounting
labor-government confrontations.
The pope was among many leaders
in Western Europe and the United
States worried about the situation.
On Dec. 14 President Ronald
Reagan telephoned the pope to
personally tell him of U.S. concern,
the White House announced.
“Your holiness, I want you to
know how deeply we feel about the
CHRISTMAS
Parishes Make It A Season Of Giving
BYTHEA JARVIS
The best part of Christmas is the
giving.
While getting has distinct, though
sometimes dubious advantages - a
house full of puzzle pieces, a floor
full of play-do, the outer space
sounds of video games or a closet full
of teal blue ties - it is the giving that
fosters the Christmas spirit and
makes our celebration of the Lord’s
birth the real holiday favorite on
almost everyone’s list.
This year, throughout the
archdiocese, the “giving” is being
done by parish communities as well
as individuals. Churches are realizing
that they can reach out and
collectively witness their concern for
those in need with surprising
effectiveness.
Parish outreach works.
It is a legitimate way for people
who “want to do something but just
don’t know how” to become
involved and share with others.
Because Christmas is a time when the
virtues of generosity and compassion
come bubbling to the surface,
parishes can often answer the inner
need people have to give visible
expression to their aspirations for
goodwill and brotherhood.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
CHURCH in Alpharetta shares the
Christmas spirit with inmates at the
Alpharetta Work Camp. A box is
placed near the parish kitchen to
receive gifts from parishioners which
are left unwrapped but include
wrapping paper and ribbon. When
everything is collected, the gifts are
forwarded to the inmates, who wrap
the presents and give them to their
wives and children. Since prisoners
are unable to shop for their families
this allows them to maintain a
Christmas tradition and preserve
self-respect as well.
ST. ANN’S CHURCH in Marietta
encourages children to think beyond
themselves at Christmas by inviting
them to make their own cards
celebrating the birth of Jesus. The
birthday cards are collected before
Christmas day during the offertory
procession at Sunday Mass and are
Christmas Schedule
THECATHEDRAL
The following is the schedule of services for Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day at the Cathedral of Christ the King:
CHRISTMAS EVE - Dec. 24-5:30 p.m. - Family Mass; 8:00 p.m. - Vigil
Mass; 11:15 p.m. - Carols Service; 12:00 - Midnight Mass. The celebrant will
be Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan.
CHRISTMAS DAY - Dec. 25 - Masses at 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 a.m., 5:30
p.m.; 11:00 a.m. Archbishop Donnellan will celebrate; 12:30 p.m. - Folk
Mass; 7:00 p.m. Spanish Mass.
ON TELEVISION
Pope John Paul II will celebrate Mass from St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome at
midnight on Christmas Eve. In Atlanta this Mass can be seen on WXIA,
Channel 11. Music for the Mass will be provided by the Sistine Choir.
At 6:30 p.m. on Christmas Day, Cable Atlanta and Cable DeKalb
(Channel 8) will air a Mass for Christmas celebrated by Monsignor Noel
Burtenshaw.
SPECIAL COLLECTION
Throughout the archdiocese, in every parish, a special collection is taken
at each Mass on Christmas for the children at the Village of St. Joseph.
Along with the Easter collection for these children and their families, this
Christmas offering is one of the main supports of the Village for the entire
year.
placed on display in the parish
catechetical wing.
ST. ANTHONY’S CHURCH
AND THE CATHEDRAL OF
CHRIST THE KING, both in
Atlanta, are hosting Christmas
parties for senior citizens this year.
This is a special way of touching
those who may be in need of a
“family” feeling at holiday time and
also an acknowledgement of the
respect and care older people should
be accorded in our churches and our
society at large.
THE CATHEDRAL is also
offering a helping hand to the craft
cooperative administered by Rural
Social Services in Cumming,
Georgia. Fine handmade gifts made
by members of the cooperative were
on sale at the church and all proceeds
will go towards assisting low-income
families in north Georgia.
HOLY CROSS CHURCH in
Chamblee encourages children in the
religious education program to bring
gifts, wrapped and marked according
to age and sex, for distribution by
the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The
toys, games and dolls are taken to
needy families who would otherwise
have no gifts under their tree this
Christmas.
IMMACULATE HEART OF
MARY CHURCH in Atlanta also
gives gifts to needy children at
Christmas. Their “Christmas Giving
Tree” is full of ornaments indicating
the age and sex of a child, and
whether a toy or warm clothing
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situation in your homeland,” said
Reagan.
After the Angelus prayer, the pope
said, “Knowing that many of my
countrymen are in the square, I wish
to talk with my co-nationals about the
worrisome events of the past few
hours.”
“I recall what I said in September:
Polish blood cannot be spilled,
because too much has already been
spilled, especially during the last war.
Everything must be done to build
peacefully the future of our
homeland,” he added.
Pope John Paul II ( spoke from
his apartment window in St. Peter’s
Square only hours after Poland’s
communist rulers had imposed martial
law and suspended a wide range of
civil liberties, including the right to
strike, protest, assemble publicly or
leave the country.
Accusing Solidarity of pushing the
nation to the brink of civil war,
Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish prime
minister and Communist Party chief,
announced that power was being
passed to a temporary military council
in an attempt to calm the situation.
Vatican sources said that the pope
rose at 5 a.m. and began following the
events by radio, as military troops
surrounded Solidarity’s Warsaw
headquarters and arrested hundreds of
union leaders.
The pope told his fellow Poles in
St. Peter’s Square that he was
entrusting their nation to the mother
of God and asked the pilgrims to pray
with him for Poland’s safety.
“In view of the coming jubilee of
the 600th year of Our Lady of
Czestochowa,” said the pontiff, “I
entrust Poland and all my countrymen
to her who has been given to us for our
defense.”
Corpus Christi’s
“Senior” Power
BYGRETCHEN KEISER
One is an organizer and the other can make just about anything from wool or
ceramics or stained glass. Together, Eve Trepanier and Pauline Harkins gave the
first push to a project at Corpus Christi parish which, like the snowball rolling
downhill, seems to get bigger and roll faster than seemed possible at first.
Perhaps the first big push came in June, when the two women pooled their
talents and organized a crafts workshop for senior parishioners where people
could gather at the parish once a week and learn to work with macrame, ceramics
and other crafts. The idea, said Eve Trepanier, was “to get senior citizens away
from sitting at home.” Pauline Harkins, gifted in nearly every art.and craft, taught
what she knew and the parish oven became, during certains hours, a pottery kiln
where bud vases and ceramic figures were fired. People “came in to look and to
see, and they stayed,” said Mrs. Trepanier. Out of the summer workshops, a group
of parishioners from 64 to 93 years old blossomed, who come by the parish every
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School survey set
REV. RICHARD A. KIERAN
The parishes in the metropolitan Atlanta area are preparing to conduct
the survey regarding Catholic high school education after all liturgies on
December 19-20. The 27,000 families in the metro area are being offered
this opportunity to help the ‘ " “ * '* * * "
Catholic I
All families in the metro area are
whether
have school-age children or not. A t —^
wall provide data essential to planning for the future of the ministry of
One representative of each family is asked to take five to ten minutes to
complete the survey after Mass on Saturday, December 19 or Sunday,
December 20. Each parish will have an area set aside for completing the
survey, with volunteers on hand to assist with any questions about the
Families are encouraged to discuss the survey in advance. It is
recommended that each family complete the sample survey fornum page 6.