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Vol. 23 No. 19
Thursday, May 9, 1985
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Athens
Historic Cobb House To Move To Stone Mountain
BY GRETCHEN REISER
Athens’ loss will be the
state of Georgia’s gain.
That seems to be the
consensus of opinion
about the fate of the
T.R.R. Cobb House, the
1830s white-columned
home of a Confederate
hero which ended up in
the 1960s, 70s and 80s as
the rectory of St. Joseph’s
parish in Athens.
After several years of
discussion and at least six
months of heated
controversy, the T.R.R.
Cobb House is moving.
Sometime later this
summer, probably in the
dark of night, the house
will be moved in five
sections down Route 78
from the “Classic City” of
Athens to Stone Mountain
Park outside Atlanta.
There it will be
reassembled, restored and
refurnished, according to
Larry Allen, Stone
Mountain general
manager, and start anew as
either a bed and breakfast
inn or a place for wedding
receptions, private parties
and meetings.
“The Cobb House will
truly be an old Southern
inn,” said Allen
enthusiastically in a
telephone interview. “We
will restore it with period
restoration and furnish it
with period furniture.”
The Cobb House will be
located immediately
adjacent to the Stone
Mountain Inn, almost in
the center of the park
where heroes of the
Confederacy are carved
upon the granite face of
Stone Mountain, he said.
Several preservation
groups and Athens
residents had attempted to
keep the historic home in
Athens, but when an April
23 deadline arrived for
final proposals to be
submitted to the parish,
the Stone Mountain plan
was the only one to be put
forward. The parish
building committee
approved the plan, and it
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Communion Under Both Kinds To Be Part Of Sunday Mass
BY MSGR.
NOEL C. BURTENSHAW
“And while they
were at Supper, Jesus
took bread and blessed
and broke and gave it
to his disciples saying
Take and eat, this is
mv bodv.' And taking
the cup he gave thanks
and gave it to them
saying 'All of you drink
of this, for this is my
blood of the new
covenant."' Matthew
' 26:26-28.
The traditional Catholic
doctrine teaches that the
Risen Jesus is present in
either species of the Holy
Eucharist. Whether the
Lord is received under the
form of bread or wine,
sacramentally, makes no
difference.
But some have always
held that the sign is weak
when only one species is
received. Jesus said to his
disciples “take and eat.”
Then, referring to the cup
“drink of this.” It was a
custom in the early
Church to receive under
both species at all times.
Howeve'r, over the years
as numbers grew, the
option of receiving the
consecrated wine was
generally not given. Until
the Second Vatican
Council and the reform of
the liturgy, laity rarely
received the chalice at
Mass. Reception of Holy
Communion under both
forms was reserved to
special sacramental
occasions such as
marriages.
Reception of Holy
Communion under both-
forms is now common at
daily Mass where numbers
are small. However,
permission to receive on
Sundays and Holy Days
under both forms for an
entire diocese was not
granted until now. The
Bishops of the United
States at their November
meeting announced that
the Holy See had approved
the proposal to distribute
the Eucharist under both
forms on Sundays and
Holy Days.
Archbishop Thomas A.
Donnellan has informed
the pastors of the Atlanta
Archdiocese that this
permission may be
implemented on the Feast
of Corpus Christi, June 9,
in every Church. The
Archbishop stated that the
faculty is granted so that
the “sign of Communion”
may be more complete.
Monsignor Donald
Kiernan, pastor of
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Church, noted that the
advent of ministers of the
Eucharist in the Church is
key to properly initiating
the new rite.
“It would be difficult in
large parishes without the
assistance of lay ministers
of the Eucharist,” he said.
“However, with their
assistance the new option
may be most meaningful.”
It is suggested in the
guidelines issued that for
every minister of the plate
(bread) there should be
two ministers of the cup.
Where a very large
congreagtion is present, it
is important that the
faithful receive without
great delays.
‘‘We also need to
remind our people,” says
Monsignor Kieman, “that
the reception under both
species is optional. Some
may not want to receive
the host and chalice. They
don’t have to.”
The guidelines clearly
outline that there is no
obligation for the laity to
receive under both kinds.
The guidelines also
clearly state that the cup is
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