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PAGE 7—The Georgia Bulletin, December 17,1981
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Barred At Stores, Kettles
Set Up At Denver Churches
DENVER (NC) - The pastors of two Catholic
churches in Denver have mixed ecumenism with the
Christmas spirit by inviting the Salvation Army to
solicit funds outside the churches.
Msgr. James Rasby, rector of the Basilica of the
Immaculate Conception, and Father C.B. Woodrich,
pastor of Holy Ghost Church, extended the invitation
after Target stores had barred all groups from soliciting
at their doors.
“We felt a great need for support of the Salvation
Army for the marvelous work they do,” Msgr. Rasby
said. “If we can help others, then we should.”
He said his parishioners have told him it is wonderful
to have a personal relationship between two groups
that are religiously motivated to help people.
Susan Bailey, 26, one of the Salvation Army
workers ringing a bell for donations outside the
basilica, said she took the job because she wanted to
make sure her two boys had a Christmas.
Ms. Bailey, who is raising her sons alone, said she has
learned on the job of the generosity of people who are
down to their last dollar.
“I know they need it, and they’re giving because
they know how it is to be without, to be down and
out,” she said. “I’d rather be in front of the church then
downtown. Here people who can’t give, give. That’s
what counts. I’ve learned how good I have it. I have a
house, and the kids eat every day. It’s made me realize
how lucky lam.”
The invitation to the Salvation Army symbolizes
“everything the church stands for and that is helping
the poor,” said Ed Smith, a member of Christ the King
Parish, who was passing the basilica.
A Family Renewal Plan
To Follow In January
WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Catholic
Conference’s family life program is urging families to
undertake an Annual Family Life Renewal Program,
involving family activities between Holy Family
Sunday (Dec. 27) and the last Sunday of January (Jan.
31).
The renewal period should be conducted yearly
during the 1980s, the Decade of the Family, the USCC
suggested.
According to an outline by Father Thomas F.
Lynch, USCC representative for family life, the process
of renewal envisioned during the January period
“provides the opportunity for each family member to
reflect on attitudes, values or behaviors that he or she
wishes to deepen or change. With the Lord’s help these
weeks of renewal will bring about a new way of living
with those whom we love. ”
Father Lynch suggested that on Holy Family
Sunday each family member petition the Lord for
grace in beginning the renewal process.
From Jan. 3-9 each family member is encouraged to
consider personal attitudes, values or behavior which
he might wish to deepen or change in relation to family
life.
From Jan. 10-16 a family member is asked to
discover in his own personal history the source of such
attitudes, values or behavior. Then, from Jan. 17-23,
each family member is urged to reach an understanding
and acceptance of the attitudes, values or behavior and
to consider ways of deepening or changing them.
Finally, from Jan. 24-30, the family member is
asked to reinforce the change by carrying it into daily
life and asking another family member to help in the
struggle for change.
New “Family Sharings”
Published By Paulists
WASHINGTON (NC) - A nationwide clearinghouse
for family ministry and education has been started by
the National Institute for the Family, director Father
Donald Conroy announced.
The institute, a Washington-based organization
established as a result of the bishops’ Plan of Pastoral
Action for Family Ministry, will provide pastoral
leaders and educators with information on programs
and resources in 20 areas of family ministry and
education.
The new clearinghouse will be open to diocesan and
parish leaders for a small user fee, according to Father
Conroy.
Also, a “Family Sharings” program will begin in
January. The program will be included in “Share the
Word,” published by Paulist Father Alvin Illig through
the Paulist Catholic Evangelization Center.
The new section on family-centered Bible
reflections and family enrichment will supplement
commentary on Sunday Mass readings.
The institute has also published the first issue of
“Family Ministry” newsletter. Available to diocesan
offices, parishes leaders and families, he said it is
designed to show the latest resources, activities and
events in the field of pastoral ministry for families and
related areas of cultural, educational and pastoral
interest.
More information is available from The National
Institute for the Family, 3019 Fourth St., N.W.,
Washington, D. C. 20017.
Englishman’s Will Leaves
Funds For Second Coming
LONDON (NC) -- Would Jesus need money during
the Second Coming? Ernest Digweed of Portsmouth
thought so. His will would set aside a sizeable sum of
money for Christ’s use.
Digweed, a recluse who died four years ago, left
30,000 pounds ($57,000) for Jesus Christ if he returns
to earth within the next 21 years. He stipulated that the
money should be invested at a return of 12.5 percent,
which would make the accumulated total after 21 years
the equivalent of about $615,000.
As executor Digweed appointed the Public Trustee,
a non-profit government department.
Digweed’s relatives have asked the Public Trustee to
declare the will invalid which would mean the money
would be divided among them. The Public Trustee has
provisionally agreed, but wants to hedge the bet and
take out insurance with Lloyds of London against the
Second Coming actually taking place and the terms of
Digweed’s will having to be fulfilled. It will shortly ask
the courts to approve this arrangement.
Digweed, who had worked out the expected date of
the Second Coming based on his reading of the book of
Revelation, further stipulated in his will that, if the
Second Coming should be postponed for any reason,
the capital should still be kept for Jesus Christ, though
all further interest would go to the state.
Under English law this arrangement would last for
80 years, after which the money would be divided
among Digweed’s relations.
In the meantime, the difficulty will be fending off
people claiming to be Jesus Christ. Already two
unsuccessful attempts have been made to claim
Digweed’s legacy.
Bed-Ridden Man Provides
Christmas For Thousands
BY OWEN McGOVERN
PROVIDENCE, R.I.
(NC) - Operating from the
bed he has been in for 13
years, Raymond Cullens, a
74-year-old invalid,
distributes thousands of
Christmas gifts to the
lonely and forgotten each
year through his non-profit
organization, Open Doors
of Rhode Island, Inc.
“I get the satisfaction of
knowing I’m doing
something worthwhile,”
Cullen says of his role as
executive director of the
10-year-old program.
Cullen promotes Open
Doors through the use of
two phones in the hospital
room he has transformed
into his office, warehouse
and home. He runs the
organization from his bed,
where he has been confined
since 1968.
Suffering from arthritis
and complications from a
broken back and neck he
received 30 years ago,
Cullen daily makes calls to
manufacturers and asks for
donations - not money,
but goods. He said it would
cost more to buy the goods
at the retail prices than it
would for manufacturers to
donate them.
Cullen has also managed
to set up a distribution
network that is small,
simple and effective. After
arranging for donations, he
arranges with a
transportation company to
pick up the goods and store
them until some of his
volunteer workers can wrap
them. Even the wrapping
paper is donated.
He then telephones
nursing homes, hospitals
and orphanages to find out
the number of patients and
the male-female ratio
before having his
volunteers deliver the gifts.
Despite the
organization, Open Doors
is not a large operation. It
consists of only Cullen and
about 16 volunteers whom
Cullen calls his “arms and
legs.” But, says Cullen,
what they do is very
commendable. He said he
receives many letters of
congratulations for his
efforts.
On the wall behind his
bed at the Park View
Nursing Home in
Providence, Cullen has
citations from Gov. J.
Joseph Garrahy of Rhode
Island, the Rhode Island
Bar Association and the
Blackstone Valley
Chamber of Commerce.
Cullen is actually the
traffic manager who
oversees the operation. He
makes sure the gifts,
anything from a dozen pair
of earrings to 5,000
bracelets, get to the people
in time for Christmas.
Then, as the new year
begins, Cullen takes off two
weeks to unwind.
“For the first two weeks
of the year I don’t do
anything,” he said. “I’m
busy getting rid of names
and telephone numbers
from my head. It’s like
cleaning house, you
know.”
After his vacation,
Cullen spends the next 50
weeks making sure that
thousands of Rhode.
Island’s elderly, invalids
and orphans will have
something nice the
following Christmas.
“Some of these people
don’t have relatives,” said
Susan Marineau, a nurse at
Cartier’s Nursing Home in
Pawtucket, R.I., who is
Cullen’s transportation and
errand person. “One small
gift really brightens their
day,” she said.
In addition to running
Open Doors Cullen became
aware of the problems of
nursing home patients and
organized a program to
bring entertainment to the
elderly who, he said, were a
forgotten people. He
headed the program while
in New York convalescing,
but then moved back to
Rhode Island where he
started the Open Doors
campaign in 1971.
Although only 9,500
gifts were donated in 1980,
Cullen hopes that in 1981,
he and his organization will
be able to distribute at least
15,000 gifts. So far, Cullen
says, they have reached 80
percent of their goal.
On “Skid Road”, Sisters
Have Made Hotel A Home
CHRISTMAS KICKS - Alberta
Cummings of the Daytona Beach,
Fla., Golden Age Club tries to keep up
with a lively Santa at a senior citizens’
Christmas party. Norman Stanley has
been playing Santa for the group for
more than 20 years. (NC Photo by
Joanne Kash)
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
PORTLAND, Ore. (NC) - Four Franciscan sisters and a
group of residents in an area commonly known as Oregon’s
Skid Road have made the Rich Hotel their home.
There are no lobbies, room service or bellboys. But the
structure seems different from other buildings in the
Burnside neighborhood. It is clean - everywhere.
“It’s nice, isn’t it?” says one of the residents. “Anybody
who doesn’t want to keep it this way doesn’t belong.”
The sisters and residents have made the hotel a
testimonial to the success of a cooperative program for
low-cost living. The Rich Hotel is part of a cooperative
program that involves Burnside Consortium, a
neighborhood association and four Franciscan sisters who
see running a hotel on Skid Road as a good way to live the
Gospel.
“We’re not heroines,” said Sister Marjorie file, 42, hotel
manager and spokeswoman for the four-sister community.
We are here “to be sisters to the troubled and oppressed”
and “to make a home for the homeless.”
The other nuns are Sisters Pat McMahon, 33, a school
teacher and religious education coordinator; Patricia
Naughton, 28, a full-time nursing student, and Antoinette
Kennedy, 38, a high school English and religion teacher.
Through her work with the Burnside Consortium, Sister
Ille knew that the remodeled Rich Hotel would need a
manager. She presented the idea of a community of sisters
living in the hotel to the Rev. Peter Paulson, director of the
Northwest Pilot Project, a local citizens group.
Mr. Paulson was delighted with the idea, said Sister Ille,
but she was not sure how to approach her fellow nuns. Some
of them feared walking the streets of Skid Road.
Eventually three joined Sister Ille and they converted
one of the tenant rooms into a prayer and meditation room.
The 42 room hotel was opened last April with five
paying tenants. Now it is home to 35 people.
For $95 a month rent they receive a private room, clean
linens and bedding, open kitchen privileges and a recreation
room. They also have access to a coin-operated washer and
dryer.
Sisters Ille and McManon are the official in-house
caretakers. Sisters Naughton and Kennedy have full-time
jobs outside the hotel, but fill in during non-working hours.
There is more to the sisters presence than the mere fact
of running a hotel, Sister Ille said. “One of our hopes in
coming here was that this could be home for people - not a
home, but home.
She said she and the other sisters thought the hotel
would attract mostly elderly people, but the hotel houses
residents from 20 to 93.
The elderly and young people usually don’t get along,
she said. “When young people move in in large numbers, the
elderly move out . . . The elderly go to bed early and like it
quiet. They’re fearful of young people.”
So far having the young and old living together has been
successful. Sister Ille credits the success to the family-like
atmosphere, though she talks to incoming young residents
about loud stereos and loud talking.
The concept of family serves to enrich the community,
she said. “The fellows look out for each other.”
Recently one of the residents got drunk and passed out
on the sidewalk. “Word reached us here and a couple of
fellows went down and got him,” she said.
Religion is a casual thing at the Rich Hotel. Many
residents, especially recovering alcoholics, “have had some
very bad experiences with churches - Protestant and
Catholic alike.”
“Sometimes they want to talk about it, but most of the
time, they don’t, she said. “We aren’t here to preach at our
guests.”
Sister Ille said it is impossible to answer questions about
how successful the Rich Hotel is. It is difficult to measure
success in this kind of work, she said.
“We didn’t come expecting to change people. We just
came to make this hotel their home.”
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