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PAGE 4 — The Georgia Bulletin, April 16, 1987 STATEMENT The Way To Eternal Life The English Scripture scholar, Father Ronald Knox, wrote, “Every year, there is a happy coin cidence between nature and grace. The resurrec tion of the year silently makes itself felt just when our minds are full of Resurrection...Can it eally be a coincidence this harnessing of April and May to the symbolism of Easter-tide?” He might have been writing about April in Atlanta when the beauty of our azaleas and dogwoods, and countless blossoms combine wsth our Resurrection celebration to lift our minds and hearts to God. We share in the joy of the risen Christ. In the opening prayer of the Mass of Easter Sunday, the Church prays: “God, our Father, by raising Christ, Your Son, You conguered the powers of death and opened for us the way to eternal life.” This is the purpose of the Resurrection — to open for each of us the way to eternal life. Most (USPS) 574880 t atMii• AivIkIkxvm.'of Atlanta Business Office U S A. $12 00 680 West Peachtree. N W Canada $ 12 SO Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Foreign $14 00 Phone. 888-7832 \Iosl Rev, Thomas A. Donnellan Publisher Gretchen R. Reiser Editor Rila Mclnernev Associate Editor DEADLINE: All material for publication must be received by MONDAY NOON for Thursday's paper Postmaster: Send POD Form 3579 to THE GEORGIA BULLETIN 601 East Sixth Street, Waynesboro, Georgia 30830 Send all editorial correspondence to THE GEORGIA BULLETIN 680 West Peachtree Street N.W Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Second Class Postage Paid at Waynesboro, Ga 30830 Published Weekly except the second and last weeks In June, July and August and the last week in December af 601 East Sixth St.. Waynesboro, Ga. 30830 of us remember well enough that we must take up the cross and follow Christ. But we are not to perpetuate merely the death of Christ. He did not merely die for us. He rose again and death has no more dominion over Him. The path of our lives toward the gate of eternal life must be one of life and victory. We pass through failure and triumph, death and life, the Cross and the Resurrection As we move from Lent to Easter, may the Resur rection of Christ be an abiding promise to us, that as we have followed Him through Gethsemane and Calvary, so we shall come to see Him as He is, in the blazing splendor of Eter nal Life. (J £ *+<*<*£(+** Most Reverend Thomas A. Donnellan Archbishop of Atlanta RESOUND Easter Letter The photo at left of Jah Wallo, who is three and a half years old, was sent to The Georgia Bulletin by Sister M. Sponsa Beltran from the clinic in Cap Palmas. Liberia West Africa, where she works. "This little child was so weak and wan when we first met him in October that I thought surely he would die. she wrote. "After a lot of good food given through the generosi ty of the people of the archdiocese he now walks and plays and one day soon will fill out. " In thanks. Sister Beltran wrote a poem, part of which said: “In October I was only ten and a half pounds. All I could do was to sit on the ground. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t stand, not even play My legs were so weak they would give way. Then my mother heard about your gracious love and support How you kept Sacred Heart Clinic full of goods of all sort. So my mother took me to the clinic some time last year. And when Sister Sponsa saw me she just held me near. I was so fragile, so very small Not like a three and a half year old at all. For months now Sister has given me the best to eat. Behold now I can stand up on my own two feet. Your caring and sharing have been too excellent, too fine. Your love gave me new life this Easter time...” Sister M. Sponsa Beltran Cape Palmas, Liberia. West Africa Archbishop's Notebook THURSDAY. APRIL 16 — Principal Celebrant and homilist at the 11 a m. Chrism Mass at the Cathedral of Christ the King; — Principal Celebrant and homilist at the 7 p.m. Liturgy of Holy Thursday at the Cathedral of Christ the King. FRIDAY, APRIL 17 — Meditation of the Seven Last Words with the Priests of the Cathedral at the Cathedral of Christ the King, noon to 3 p.m.; — Preside at the 7 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday at the Cathedral of Christ the King. SATURDAY, APRIL 18 — Principal Celebrant and homilist at the 9 p.m. Liturgy of the Easter Vigil at the Cathedral of Christ the King. SUNDAY, APRIL 18 — Principal Celebrant and homilist at the 11 a.m. Liturgy of Easter Sunday at the Cathedral of Christ the King. TUESDAY, APRIL 21 — Celebrant and homilist at Liturgy at the Cancer Home. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 — Invocation at the In ternational Intermodal Expo Banquet at the Omni Convention Center Holy Week In Rome BY JOHN THAVIS VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II will lead traditional but abbreviated Holy Week services at the Vatican, culminating in a Mass of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday and an “Urbi et Orbi’’ message to the city and the world. The torchlight Way of the Cross, which the pope will lead Good Friday, and the Easter day activities were scheduled to be televised to some 40 countries, a Vatican official said. Here are Holy Week Services and their dates. Times in parentheses are Eastern Daylight Time: Holy Thursday. April 16 — 9:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m.), celebration of the chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. — 5:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m.), celebration of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at Rome’s St. John Lateran Basilica, where the pope traditionally washes the feet of 12 priests in a sym bolic commemoration of Christ washing the feet of the apostles. Good Friday. April 17 —■ 5 p.m. (11 a.m ), celebration of the Passion in St. Peter’s Basilica. — 9:15 p.m. (3:15 p.m ), Way of the Cross at the Col osseum. Holy Saturday, April 18 — 9 p.m. (3 p.m.), Easter vigil Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. Easter Sunday. April 19 — 10:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m.), Mass of the Resurrection at St, Peter’s followed by the pope’s “Urbi et Orbi” blessing and message to the city and the world. Pope John Paul II told the world’s priests that prayer is a “cornerstone” of priestly service; enabling them to be “a clear sign of Christ” for all people. A priest is truly himself when he is “for others,” the pope said in his annual Holy Thursday letter to priests. He said prayer gives a priest “a special sensitivity to these 'others,' making him attentive to their needs, to their lives and destiny ” The letter was an extended reflection by the pope on prayer and its significance in the light of Christ’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane on Holy Thursday. “Our priesthood must be linked with prayer, rooted in prayer." the pope said. As “stewards of the mysteries of God.” priests must be “a clear sign of Christ and his Gospel,” the pope said. “We need prayer in order to be able to be such a sign.” Urging priests to be “for others,” those who seek and those who reject their help, he said they should "gather together the people of God.” “Prayer is essential for maintaining pastoral sensitivity to everything that comes from the Spirit,' for correctly discerning’ and properly employing those charisms that lead to union and are linked to priestly service in the church,” he said The pope particularly encouraged the practice of the Liturgy of the Hours and eucharistic adoration
