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PAGE 6—The Georgia Bulletin, May 27,1982
The regular quarterly meeting of the Atlanta
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women’s board
members will be held June 5 at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart
Church. Lunch will be served. The church is located at
353 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, and the entrance sits on Ivy
Street. Parking is available behind the church. AACCW
president, Mrs. Marie Doyle, requests that board members
turn in four copies of their annual report.
CONGRATULATIONS!! to St. Pius X High School
students Jan Jones, Vivical Coats, Greg Lee, John Clark
and Charmaine Garcia, who have been accepted at
Clemson University’s summer program for talented
minority students. The program focuses on computer
programming, and all these rising juniors have an avid
interest in math and science.
THE ATLANTA CONFERENCE OF SISTERS is
sponsoring a “Peace Pentecost” Prayer Service May 30 at
2:30 p.m. at St. Anthony’s Church, 928 Gordon St. in
southwest Atlanta. On this Sunday a number of groups
throughout the country, among them the Leadership
Conference of Women Religious, are offering
opportunities for men and women, lay and religious,
children and adults, to come together to pray for a
solution to the escalation of the nuclear arms race. The
theme for the day is “My People, I am Your Security.”
“GODSPELL” will be presented by the First Georgia
Touring Company on June 4 and 5 at 8 p.m. at Corpus
Christi Catholic Church in Stone Mountain. For ticket
information call 469-0395. •
The Marist Alumni Association is sponsoring the third
annual MARIST ROAD RACE on Saturday, May 29, at 9
a.m. at Marist School. The race is 4-miles in length and
starts and finishes on the Marist track. For more
information contact Pat Crawford at Marist
(457-7201/457-2381).
Piedmont Park will ring with the shouts of gospel
singers Sunday, May 30, at the FESTIVAL OF JOYFUL
NOISE. Nine groups will perform at this celebration of
black sacred music, which is being produced free of charge
by the City of Atlanta, Department of Cultural Affairs
and the Georgia Folklore Society. The festival will take
place from 1-7 p.m. at the site of the Arts Festival stage
near the bathhouse in Piedmont Park. In the event of rain,
it will be held in the Auditorium of the Martin Luther
King Center at 503 Auburn Avenue N.E., Atlanta.
CHRIST THE KING RECREATION DEPARTMENT at
2699 Peachtree Rd., N.E. will offer 3 two-week sessions
of DAYCAMP for ages 5-12 yrs. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
weekdays, June 14 - July 23. This is an ideal program to
learn new hobbies and meet new friends. Fee:
$50/session. Christ the King also offers two one-week
sessions of RESIDENT CAMP. Session I is from Aug.
15-Aug.21. Session II is from Aug. 22-Aug. 28. The camp
is located 40 miles northeast of Gainesville, Ga. The
registration deadline for the camp is June 25; after this
date there is a $10 late fee. Fee: $110/session.
Scholarships available. For more information concerning
these camps please call 261-8191.
THE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT UNIT needs
volunteers! If you have some time to give at the Catholic
Center, 680 West Peachtree St., N.W., Atlanta, call Mary
Beth Hebert (881-6571). Help someone who needs you!
BOYS AND GIRLS AGES 10-15 - The exciting and
educational LION BASKETBALL CAMP is being held at
St. Pius X High School again this summer! The boys’
camp is June 21-25 and the girls’ camp is June 28-July 2.
For information call Coach Mark Kelly at 498-2290.
THE ATLANTA BACH CHOIR, under the direction of
Porter Remington, will appear with chamber orchestra at
4 p.m. Sunday, June 6, at the Druid Hills Presbyterian
Church, 1026 Ponce de Leon Avenue, near the corner of
Ponce de Leon and North Highland. Tickets are available
at the door for $3. For information, call 874-3753.
THE CATHOLIC ALUMNI CLUB OF ATLANTA
(which is open to all single Catholics over 21) is
sponsoring a 4-day south central regional convention on
Memorial Day week-end, May 28-May 31. The site of the
convention will be the Sheraton Century Center Hotel on
Clairmont Road. Events include a Saturday night liturgy
and a buffet dinner. Following the dinner will be a
disco-dance featuring disc jockey Dan Hall, host of Z-93’s
“Roots of Rock.” He will be playing current favorites and
“oldies” from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The dance is semiformal
and admission is $5.00. On Sunday a full day is planned
with events including a hayride, bar-b-que dinner and
square dance. For further information please call Terri
(634-4621) or Colleen (925-0820, home or 458-1212,
work). All single Catholics are invited and encouraged to
participate in all or any part of the convention.
CHRIST THE KING SCHOOL will hold its annual
student Art Fair on Sunday, May 30 from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. in the Hyland Center gym. Refreshments will be
served from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come see and enjoy the
weavings, drawings, paintings, clay figures and puppets the
students have been working on all year!
Volunteers are needed to help with the NUCLEAR
WEAPONS FREEZE CAMPAIGN, which calls for the
U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to halt the testing, production and
deployment of nuclear weapons and of missiles and new
aircraft designed primarily to deliver nuclear weapons.
Volunteers are needed for typing, telephone work, help
with mailings, gathering petition signatures, etc. Work
may be done from your home or at the office of Clergy
and Laity Concerned in Oakhurst Baptist Church,
Decatur. Interested people may call 377-6516, 758-1773
or 872-0254.
NEWSVIEW
COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS came to
toast Sister Patricia Geary May 17. She will be
switching from administration to teaching and
doctoral study at the end of the school year. At
left, Sister Jean Liston, principal of Christ the
King School, Jo Ann Hudson of the Catholic
Schools Office join Sister Geary. Above right,
Dr. Nora Crawley, who works in research and
development for Atlanta Public Schools, shares a
moment with her colleague. Reiser
Sister Pat To Return To Classroom
Sister Patricia Geary, G.N.S.H., who has been assistant
superintendent of schools for the archdiocese for the
past two years, will be leaving the post at the end of the
school year to “return to the classroom.”
Sister Geary, who was honored at a reception at the
Catholic Center May 17, will be studying in a doctoral
program at Georgia State University and teaching
part-time at Christ the King School. Her doctoral
program is in communicative arts with a concentration
in the area of writing for middle school students.
A teacher at Christ the King School from 1962-1965
and from 1968-1971, Sister Geary entered school
administration in Atlanta in 1976 when she became
curriculum consultant under then superintendent of
schools, Sister Valentina Sheridan, R.S.M. The
comprehensive review of curriculum in the archdiocese’s
elementary schools, which involved the teachers and
parents at each school as well as administrators, began
five years ago and the full cycle was recently completed.
Two years ago, when Sister Roberta Schmidt, C.S.J.
became superintendent of schools, Sister Geary became
assistant superintendent. Sister Geary also represented
the region on the National Advisory Board of the
National Catholic Educational Association.
Catechumen ate Forum Founded
The Archdiocese of Atlanta Forum on the
Catechumenate has recently been formed to assist parishes
and their staffs in implementing the Rite of Christian
Initiation of Adults (RCIA).
The Forum is open to parishes who have several years
experience in working with people interested in the
Catholic faith and parishes interested in beginning this
work.
“The catechumenate - its liturgies and the various
ministries involved in receiving new Catholics - strikes
right at the center of what it means to be a committed
Catholic in our Church today,” explained Father Chris
Starr, who founded and who will run the Forum.
“We are dealing with people who, for a variety of
reasons, have turned to the Church to find meaning. How
British Trip “On”—
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and cons.
The British prelates,
said Vatican sources,
presented their case in
striking fashion: the 18
months of spiritual
preparation culminating in
the pope’s trip; the elderly
waiting to be anointed by
the pope; the young men
whom he would ordain;
the thousands of couples
who would renew their
marriage vows in the
pope’s presence; the
international dimension of
the pope’s meeting with
the Anglican primate,
Archbishop Robert Runcie
of Canterbury; the
ecumenical setback which
the trip’s postponement
would cause.
In the conversations the
British prelates highlighted
the points they had been
making openly in the press
during that same week: A
postponement would be a
pastoral and ecumenical
tragedy.
Cardinal Hume had said
it would be years before
the trip could ever be held
again because of the costs
involved ($11 million) and
the feelings which a
postponement would
create.
“When the Latin
Americans heard the
British cardinals and
archbishops explain all of
this,” said one Vatican
source, “they were
tremendously open and
understanding.”
“These (the Latin
Americans) are
tremendously courageous
guys,” said one veteran
newsman. “I’d hate to be
in their shoes getting off
the plane when they go
back. But they understand
that the pope’s visit is a
pastoral one and not
political; and they are
willing to explain that to
their people.”
The decision was
apparently made on May
22 that the trip would go
ahead. The pope hinted at
the decision early that
afternoon when, after an
audience for Vatican
journalists, he told the
BBC, a British radio and
television network: “I am
the pastor and it is my
church . . . (This visit) is so
important for ecumenism.
I cannot create a political
situation.”
Later that evening,
when Cardinals Hume and
Gray arrived in London,
Cardinal Gray read a
statement:
“The holy father has
authorized Cardinal Gray
and Cardinal Hume to say
it is the holy father’s
intention to carry out his
pastoral visit to England,
Scotland
commencing
as planned,
advised by
and Wales
next Friday
unless he is
the bishops’
conference of both
England and Wales and of
Scotland that it would be
inopportune for him to do
so.”
Vatican sources were
not calling it an
irrevocable decision, but
Cardinal Gray told
newsmen that “only
unforseen changes in the
situation will be able to
lead to a postponement.”
Since the raids by the
British to regain the
disputed islands they call
the Falklands and
Argentina calls the
Malvinas had been started
May 21, a day before the
statement by Cardinal
Gray on the trip’s
continuation, it seemed
clear that a continuation
of the raids without a
sharp escalation would not
negate the trip.
After the decision the
pope showed no evidence
of having washed his hands
of the Falklands crisis. The
following day, May 23, the
pope made a strong appeal
for peace to 60,000 people
in St. Peter’s Square.
In his appeal the pope
said that he had sent
telegrams to Mrs. Thatcher
and to Argentine President
Leopoldo Galtieri “to ask
them, once again, to do
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Archbishop’s Datebook
THURSDAY, MAY 27 - May Procession/Saint
Jude’s, Atlanta.
FRIDAY, MAY 28 -- Confirmation/Saint
Lawrence, Lawrenceville.
SATURDAY, MAY 29 - Silver Jubilee
Celebration/Saint John Melkite Church, Atlanta.
SUNDAY, MAY 30 -- Pentecost Sunday
Liturgy/Cathedral of Christ the King;
-- Silver Jubilee Celebration/Father Daniel J.
McCormick, Saint Thomas More, Decatur.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2 - Meeting/Bishops of the
Province, Archbishop’s Residence.
FRIDAY, JUNE 4 - Graduation/Saint Pius X
Catholic High School, at High School.
SATURDAY, JUNE 5 - Ordination to the
Priesthood, at Cathedral of Christ the King.
SUNDAY, JUNE 6 - Confirmation/Saint Mary’s,
Toccoa.
their utmost for the
immediate cessation of the
hostilities and for the
resumption of
negotiations.”
The pope said that he
was “profoundly grieved,”
at the news that the “two
parties in conflict have
reached a head-on
confrontation.”
The pope’s plea for
peace echoed his words at
the Mass the previous day
celebrated with the Latin
American and British
cardinals. At the Mass he
quoted St. Augustine’s
words to a Roman
magistrate, when
Augustine said that the
highest title to glory “is to
kill war with the words of
negotiation, instead of
killing men with the
sword.”
we receive them and what we tell them about our faith
and life will stay with them throughout their lives as
Catholics.”
Present plans for the Forum include developing a core
group of catechumenal ministers who have worked with
the RCIA in their parishes and who have expressed an
interest in helping parishes begin this process. There are
tentative plans for a late September meeting that will be
open to all parishes in the archdiocese. The Forum’s core
group will give presentations and lead discussions on how
the catechumenate has worked in their parochial settings.
The RCIA, considered one of the “sleepers” of the
reforms begun at the Second Vatican Council since it has
received little attention until the last five to six years, is a
process of initiation for new Catholics that is done in
stages. It includes liturgical celebrations that include
whole congregations, an increased emphasis on the role of
sponsors and lay catechists and broadens initiation to
include the bishop, who presides at two liturgies for
people who are to be received into the Church.
The heart of the RCIA is the Easter Vigil, where people
are baptized, make their profession of faith, receive the
Sacraments of Confirmation and the Eucharist.
“There is nothing more thrilling for a congregation,”
explained Father Starr, who has run the catechumenate at
Sacred Heart Church for the past two years, “than to see
people joyfully embracing our faith and to recognize that
it was a whole congregation - not just a single person -
who made them feel welcome, who taught them about
Jesus, the sacraments, the Church, Mary and the many
mysteries of our faith that give us hope and life. We, as a
Church, have nurtured these people and welcomed them
to our Lord’s table. That’s evangelization. These are the
mysteries of our faith. We are proud to profess them!”
There are no dues, at present, for Forum membership.
After the initial September meeting, plans will begin for a
January meeting. The Forum has plans to meet twice a
year, once in September and January.
For more information on the Archdiocese of Atlanta
Forum on the Catechumenate, contact Father Chris Starr
at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 2855 Briarcliff
Road, Atlanta 30329. (404/636/1418).
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