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Bible Schools Mean Summer Fun
BY THEA JARVIS
School’s out - summer’s in! And
around the Archdiocese of Atlanta,
parishes are gearing up to
accommodate their younger
members for vacation Bible schools,
summer camps and recreational
activities that will make summertime
’82 a bit more fun.
Most programs are
volunteer-staffed and need all the
help able-bodied parishioners can
give. If you have a child who would
be interested in attending a parish
summer program, or if you can assist
in some way, be sure to contact your
local church office for further
details.
The following list of summer
activities has been compiled from
notices and church bulletins sent to
The Georgia Bulletin over the past
few weeks. Pre-registration is
required in most cases.
If your parish is not included, a
brief call to your church will let you
know whether a summer program for
young people is being offered in your
community.
ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE
CHURCH in Smyrna will hold its
summer vacation Bible school June
21-25 from 9 a.m.-noon. Children in
preschool through grade four will be
included in the program, which has
as its theme “Celebrating Life.” A
nominal fee is requested from
participating families. For
information, call Gloria King
(944-8268) or Cathy Stoehs
(432-3761).
ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST
CHURCH in Hapeville has scheduled
vacation Bible school for June
28-July 2 from 9 a.m.-noon. Children
aged five years through grade six are
welcome to participate, and the
summer theme is “Living in God’s
Love.” A fee will be charged for each
child in attendance and will cover an
activity packet that the children may
keep. For further information, call
St. John’s (768-5647).
ST. LUKE’S CHURCH in
Dahlonega and CHRIST
REDEEMER MISSION in
Dawsonville have already begun their
Christian summer day camp, which is
running through the last three weeks
of June. The program, which began
June 14, is coordinated with other
area churches in an ecumenical effort
that runs each day from 9 a.m. - 1
p.m. Buses have been arranged for
transporting the children, ranging
from kindergarten through fourth
grade. For information, call Father
John Henley (864-2568).
HOLY CROSS CHURCH in
Chamblee will host its “Summer
Days” vacation Bible school July
26-30 for children aged four through
grade six. Individual fees will cover
student activity packets. Questions??
Call the church (939-3501).
ST. MICHAEL’S in Gainesville will
welcome children aged four (by
September 1, 1982) through rising
sixth graders to its vacation Bible
school June 21-25 from 9-11:30 a.m.
Nursery will be provided for
volunteers with young children. For
information, call St. Michael’s
(534-3338).
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH in
Peachtree City will join with Christ
Our Shepherd Lutheran Church
August 9-13 for their vacation Bible
school. The program will run from
9:30 a.m. - noon and those interested
in participating may contact Helene
Gannon (487-4323) or Jane Jones
(487-6794).
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
CHURCH in Alpharetta will focus on
“Living in God’s Love” for its
vacation Bible school, scheduled for
the week of July 26. Children from
four-year-old kindergarten through
grade six can look forward to games,
songs, arts and crafts, Christian
fellowship and spiritual growth. Fees
cover activity packets. For
information call the church
(475-4501).
CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE
KING in Atlanta will offer three
sessions of day camp this summer for
children aged five through 12. The
camps, scheduled in sessions for June
14- 25, June 28-July 9 and July
12-23, are ideal for children
interested in learning new hobbies
and making new friends. Resident
camp sponsored by Christ the King
will be held in two sessions, August
15- 21 and August 22-28, at a site
about 40 miles northeast of
Gainesville. Fees required for day
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SCHOOL’S OUT and the big problem is playing and staying cool.
Summer’s fun can also be found in Vacation Bible School, a place
for finding joy in simple faith and lasting friends.
Gatholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
Vol. 20 No. 23
Thursday, June 17,1982
$8.00 Per Year
NEW PRIESTS - While priests of the
archdiocese impose hands upon them, four
new priests are ordained for Atlanta. Kneeling,
from left to right, are Father James Adams,
Father Wayne Dyer, Father Udo Endrikat and
Father Daniel Stack. The Cathedral of Christ the
King was filled to capacity June 5 for the
ordination celebrated by Archbishop Donnellan.
(Other photos, page 8).
What’s New-We Are!!
When it comes to Catholic newsprint, everything is
new in July.
The new fiscal year begins in July. Hopefully we
have collected all our dues and paid all our debts. We
can start the new year with a clear conscience and a
fresh budget.
The new rates for our newspaper are published in
July. Like every other friend of the household, your
Catholic weekly newspaper must meet new costs and
expenses. So new rates are approved, planned and
published. Your GEORGIA BULLETIN goes from
$8.00 to $10.00 per year. Sorry and thank you!
New firm friends are made in July. We update our
subscription list and send the results to our pastors.
Each year our numbers have risen. Hopefully, this July
will see us climb above the 25,000 subscription mark.
Again thank you!
But finally, July of 1982 will see a new us. Your
broadsheet Georgia Bulletin will become a narrow
sheet tabloid form. Many years ago in the days of
daring journalists of the Monsignor Donald Kiernan
calibre, the Catholic newspaper of Georgia was a
tabloid weekly. Well, the journalists have gone to
greater things but we are rekindling their ideas. The
new GEORGIA BULLETIN will next appear in your
home on Thursday, July 1 as a glorious new tabloid.
We who serve in the ministry of Catholic
Communications are most grateful for the support, the
criticism and the applause we receive from our
readership. So many of you commented on our Silver
Anniversary Special, which was tabloid, that together
with our sister papers in Savannah and Charleston, we
made this decision to change.
So, to all the welcome newness that summer and
July brings, we add another. It is us. We are new. We
hope you like us and keep us - ever new.
Monsignor Noel C. Burtenshaw
Editor
New Parishes Announced
One of the most encouraging signs
of continuing growth in the
Archdiocese is the maturing of older
parishes and missions. Such is the
case with Sacred Heart of Jesus in
Hartwell, a Mission of Saint Mary’s
Parish in Toccoa. From its beginning
in the eighteen nineties with one
Catholic family, to the early nineteen
fifties when Mass was first celebrated
on a regular basis at a local funeral
home, the mission has continued to
grow. In 1954 an old farmhouse with
acreage was bought to be used as a
church and overnight residence for a
priest. The development continued
and in 1977 a new church was
completed.
Now, after due consideration with
the Arcljd iocesan Board of
Consultors, inquiry of the Pastor of
Saint Mary's, and the Dean of the
area, it seems in the best interest of
the faithful and the Church at large
to move this mission to full parish
status. The Board of Consultors has
recommended this and I have
accepted the recommendation.
Therefore, with the required
canonical consultations having been
completed, I now decree the
establishment of Sacred Heart of
Jesus Parish in Hartwell, Georgia.
The boundary shall be all of Hart
County.
The first pastor of the Parish of
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Hartwell,
Georgia, will continue to be
Reverend Patrick J. McCormick,
effective June 17,1982.
This same factor of maturing has
been seen in the area of Thomson,
Georgia, where the Mission of Queen
of Angels has grown since its
establishment in the early nineteen
fifties. Here, too, it seems in the best
interest of all concerned that this
mission become a full parish.
Accordingly, with all the required
discussions having been completed,
and on the recommendation of the
Board of Consultors, I now decree
the establishment of Queen of Angels
Parish in Thomson, Georgia.
The boundaries shall be all of
McDuffie County and Warren
County.
The first pastor of the Parish of
Queen of Angels, Thomson, Georgia,
will be Reverend James F. Kelly,
effective June 17,1982.
The faithful living within the
boundaries herein outlined for the
Parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus in
Hartwell, and the Parish of Queen of
A>
Angels in Thomson, are encouraged
to lend their support and energy to
making the Church’s presence in this
area a continually growing and
effective one.
The Archdiocese has been blessed
by the outstanding and untiring
service of the Oblate Fathers to the
People of God in Thomson. This
document now effects the transfer of
pastoral care of this area to the
Archdiocese. We hereby extend
public and heartfelt gratitude to the
Oblate Fathers, not only for their
work in Thomson but also for their
service to the People of God residing
in the boundaries of Saint Joseph’s
Parish in Washington, Georgia.
Given at Atlanta, Georgia, this 4th
day of June 1982.
Most Reverend Thomas A. Donnellan
Archbishop of Atlanta
Reverend Edward J. Dillon
Ecclesiastical Notary
Pope Visits
Argentina
As Pilgrim Of Peace
BY AGOSTINO BONO
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (NC)
- During his 31-hour whirlwind tour
* of Argentina, Pope John Paul II
undertook the delicate tasks of
preaching peace to a nation at war
and negotiated solutions to a
government whose inflexibility
during early mediation efforts
contributed to the fighting.
The pope’s trip to Argentina was
the 13th outside Italy of his
pontificate and the first impromptu
one, caused by an international
crisis: the Anglo-Argentine conflict
in the South Atlantic.
This made the June 11-12 visit a
dramatic platform for the pope’s
pilgrimage of peace to denounce the
recourse to war. But the pope’s trip
was also much more than an anti-war
crusade. Sandwiched between strong
condemnations of war were lessons
on how a Christian community
should react to the sufferings of war
and what Christian leaders should do
to aid reconciliation and to prevent
further warlike atmospheres from
developing.
The pope’s anti-war message was
quick and strong. In his airport
arrival speech he condemned “the
absurd and always unjust
phenomenon of war” and asked
God’s aid “to relegate to oblivion the
recourse to war, to terrorism or the
methods of violence.”
In the panorama of death and pain
wrought by war, “the only thing left
standing is the negotiating table,
which could and should have avoided
it,” he said.
The airport speech was the
strongest condemnation of war
during the pope’s brief trip,
organized to counterbalance his
long-planned pastoral visit to Britain,
May 28-June 2, and unusual in that
papal airport speeches are normally
general outlines of the themes the
pope plans to develop in later major
speeches.
Standing next to the pope during
the arrival talk was Argentine
President Leopoldo Galtieri, an army
general. When U.S. Secretary of State
Alexander Haig’s mediation efforts
failed, he blamed the inflexibility of
Galtieri’s government. After further
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The Miracle Of Cable
And Mother Angelica
This is the first of a two part series on
the Church and Cable Television. Part 2
will appear in the next issue of the Georgia
Bulletin on July 1.
BY MSGR. NOEL C. BURTENSHAW
She was the very first.
The little nun with the brown
Franciscan habit and the eyes
twinkling like stars, was the first
Catholic to boldly open her own
television network.
That’s right. The word we use is
“network.” Mother Angelica, in her
tiny Poor Clare convent and studio in
Birmingham, Alabama is not merely
broadcasting religious shows on local
television, she is broadcasting to the
nation. Her Eternal Word Television
Network is a smaller edition of Ted
Turner Productions.
“Who is this Mother Angelica
.anyway?” asks Terry McGuirk, the
special projects man for Turner
Broadcasting. “Everywhere I go
around the country to cable
meetings, I hear that name. I can’t
believe what she has done.”
The rest of the broadcast world is
in the same kind of shock. It is true
that this is the age of the Cable
Networks. All over America, homes
are being wired for the new television
craze called Cable.
“Cable is really closed circuit
television,” says Terry McGuirk. “It
is not sent out over the air waves,
like the three networks are or your
local station is. Cable is sent out
through wires. It is private, if you
like, and if you want it, you have to
pay for it.”
Presently only 30 percent of the
homes in the nation are wired for
cable. However, by 1990, 75 percent
of the nation will be wired. “Just
about everyone wants this new
system,” says McGuirk from his
plush office down the hall from the
famous “Ted.” “By the end of this
century everyone will need it.”
McGuirk is just echoing what the
experts have been saying about cable
for some years. “The economy is not
going to allow us to drive our cars to
the bank just to deposit 25 dollars,”
says Terry McGuirk. “Energy is just
too costly. We will do it from our
homes by cable. We will shop, use
the library, go to school and more.”
“Ted Turner is already saying,”
continues the tall, handsome
executive, “that newspapers are
almost obsolete. They are just too
expensive. With the flick of a switch,
we can bring them to you on cable.
In fact, if you have Cable News
Network one or two, you have the
newspaper now - 24 hours a day.”
Satellites began the miracle. The
principle is simple. The home station
bounces the programming off the
satellite floating overhead in the
atmosphere. Around the nation
receiving stations, with their now
familiar dishes, receive the
programming for reproduction. The
process is instantly taking place.
“Not only is it instant,” says Terry
McGuirk, “it is relatively cheap to
do. The receiving station needs very
little equipment. He puts it straight
on the air from the satellite, right
into your home.”
Turner has three networks on
America’s cable systems, The Super
Station, CNN-1 and CNN-2. “The
growth is unbelievable,” says Terry
McGuirk. “CNN-1 is showing a
growth of a half a million homes per
month.”
(Continued on page 6)
Mountain Summer Masses
If you are heading to the hills of Georgia, the following information on weekend
Mass schedules may assist your vacationing. Have a blessed, sunny summer.
BLAIRSVILLE - St. Francis of Assisi - Saturday,6:30 p.m.; Sunday, 11:00 a.m.
CLEVELAND - St. Paul the Apostle - Sunday, 8:30 a.m.
DAHLONEGA - St. Luke - Saturday, 6:30 p.m., Sunday. 10:30 a.m.
DAWSONVILLE - Christ Redeemer Mission (Held at United Methodist Church)
- Sunday, 8:00 a.m.
CLARKESVILLE - St. Mark - Sunday, 9:30 a.m.
CLAYTON --St. Helena’s Mission - Saturday,6:00p.m.,Sunday, 11:30a.m.
DALTON -St. Joseph - Saturday, 6:00 p.m., Sunday, 8:45 ajn., 11:00 a.m.
BLUE RIDGE - St. Anthony’s Mission - Sunday, 11:00 a.m.
FORT OGLETHORPE - St. Gerard - Saturday, 7:00 pjn., Sunday, 8:00 a.m.,
10:30 a.m.
LaFAYETTE - St. Jude’s Mission - Sunday, 1:00 p.m.
TOCCOA - St Mary - Saturday, 5:00 p.m., Sunday, 11:00 a.m.
HARTWELL - Sacred Heart - Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, 9:00 a.m.