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PAGE 4 — The Georgia Bulletin, July 16,1987 STATEMENT VACATIONING POPE — Pope John Paul II stops to visit with local residents during a walk through a valley near the Italian village of Val Viadende. The pope marked the first day of his summer vacation in the Italian Alps with a 6-mile hike. (NC photo from UPI-Reuter) RESOUND your parishioners are impressed by your emphasis on God's Will and God's Words' 1 Please think about it. Carl Chelena Stone Mountain “First Person” Homilies CHI) Support To the Editor: Many years ago a dedicated priest, named Father Dan Rankin, was principal of the Marist School and professor of English. This exceptional man repeatedly emphasized that public speakers and writers should use the first personal pronouns (I, me, my) as infrequently as possible, if they are used at all because “the person who clutters his message in such a manner has not much to say . " In that period priests usually delivered a “sermon " based on the biblical emphasis of the day. Unfortunately, we often find the current practice at many religious ceremonies is for the priests to deliver a "homily” repeatedly using these personal pronouns that were once considered inappro priate. Perhaps they are unaware that many members of the congregation are not interested in the priests' personal sub jects. However, they have come to Church to hear the message of God, with sound advice as to how the message is applicable to our daily problems; with pertinent sugges tions as to how that message can improve each individual's life. Please, good Fathers, would it not be possible to detach yourselves from the self-indulgent practices of secular spokesmen and maximize the influence of your delivery as (USPS) 574880 Business Office U S A $12 00 680 West Peachtree. N.W Canada $12 50 Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Foreign $14 00 Phone. 888-7832 Most Rev. Thomas A. Donnellan Publisher Gretchen K. Reiser Editor Rita Meluernev Associate Editor DEADLINE: All material for publication must be received by MONDAY NOON tor ihursday 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 at 601 East Sixth St., Waynesboro, Ga. 30830 To the Editor: I wish to thank the people of the Archdiocese of Atlanta for their continuing and generous support of the Campaign for Human Development. A check for $40,548 has been received here at the national office. This amount is the 3/4 portion to be distributed nationally to self-help projects con trolled by the poor themselves and designed to remove the causes of poverty. By this continued support, the people of your diocese are helping to fulfill the wish expressed in the Final Report of the 1985 Extraordinary Synod of Bishops stated in the sec tion entitled: The Church's Mission in the World: “Affirmed instead is a missionary openness for the integral salvation of the world. Through this, all truly human values not only are accepted but energetically defensed; the dignity of the human person, fun damental human rights, peace, freedom from op pression, poverty and injustice. But integral salva tion is obtained only if these human realities are purified and further elevated through grace to human familiarity with God, through Jesus Christ in the Ho ly Spirit.” CHD provides an opportunity for us in the spirit of Vatican Council II to claim as our own the joys, hopes, griefs and anxieties of people of our age, especially those who are poor. It allows us to do this in the image of Jesus who gave of his own power that all might experience human dignity... Reverend Alfred LoPinto Executive Director Campaign for Human Development Washington, D.C. “To Our Friends” To the Editor: Thank you for running the announcement of our recent festival at St. Anthony's Church in Blue Ridge. The festival was a big success. On behalf of our pastor Father Steven Yander and the members of the congregation we want to say thanks to all who came and enjoyed a spaghetti dinner and browsed through our booths. We saw old friends, and made new ones — some traveling from outside Blue Ridge to join us. So thanks for the publicity and to all our friends “see you again next year.” Helen Eshbach Mineral Bluff New Appointment Reverend Monsignor John F. McDonough, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, has announced the appointment of Reverend Peter A. Dora to the position of chairman of the Archdiocesan Committee on Evangelization, effective July 1. 1987 The Week In Review NAMES AND PLACES — Archbishop Stephen Sulyk of the Ukrainian archdiocese of Philadelphia told Penn sylvania state senators that as a body they must begin to tell the country and world of the Soviet Union’s “merciless persecution” of Ukrainian Catholics. He addressed the lawmakers at the state capitol in Harrisburg in late June during festivities to open the state’s observance of the millennium, 1,000th anniversary, of the arrival of Chris tianity in what is now Soviet territory The anniversary will be celebrated worldwide in 1988. He urged the state senators to consider passing a resolution to be forwarded through “proper channels” that would ask the Soviet government “to simply allow the Ukrainian Catholic Church to exist in the Soviet Union.” He traced the religious heritage and freedom of Pennsylvania and the United States and said the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution “ignited in our Ukrainian people a dream of ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ” He noted that Ukrainians toiled in the state’s coal mines and steel mills and in “the shops and factories of industrial America.” But the millenium observance will not be shared with all Ukrai nian Catholics, he said, because since 1946 the church "has been outlawed by the atheistic Soviet government...Our priests and bishops have been imprisoned, tortured, put to death. Our faithful have been harassed, have lost their jobs, have been forcibly resettled from their homeland." A U.S. State Department report last January said that “the Soviet regime has officially liquidated the church and also has at tempted to erase it from historic memory ” AROUND THE NATION — The Knights of Columbus gave $67,879,845 to charitable causes in 1986 and donated more than 24 million hours in volunteer services, according to an annual survey. This is an increase of $1,560,501 over last year. The survey found that the physically handicap ped and the mentally retarded were the principal beneficiaries of K. of C. fund raising events. In 1986, $1.3 million was donated to the disabled and $11.2 million was given to aid the retarded. Local Special Olympics received $674,369. Direct grants to seminarians for educational ex penses totalled $1.7 million. An additional $565,784 was given to seminaries and religious houses of study. Members gave 24,263,991 hours of volunteer service to youth, hospitals, orphanages, church activities and for the sick and disabled. INTERNATIONALLY — Filipino Cardinal Jaime Sin is on a 12-day visit to the Soviet Union which he calls a “pilgrimage of friendship and love” and which others see as a low-key mission for the Vatican. He planned to visit Lithuania, seat of Catholicism in the Soviet Union, and would become the first foreign Catholic bishop to do so since 1940. The cardinal was scheduled to visit the cities of Leningrad and Riga and meet with officials of the Russian Orthodox Church, which arranged his visit with the Philip pine embassy in Moscow. He will also visit Kiev in the Ukraine, the city where Christianity was introduced, in 988, in what is now the U.S.S.R. Before he left Manila on July 8 the churchman said he wanted to “open new doors toward closer contacts and deeper understanding between the Filipino and Russian peoples.” Amando Doronila, editor of the Manila Chronicle, commented in the newspaper’s July 7th issue that “The Philippine church appears to be playing an increasingly important role in diplomatic moves by the Vatican to ease the restrictions under which the church of silence operates.” A Vatican official said the Holy See regards Cardinal Sin’s visit as private. VACATIONING in the Italian Alps, Pope John Paul II said in a sermon at Mass in a mountain meadow that Chris tians havea “moral obligation” tocarefor the environment. An estimated 30,000 people attended the Sunday liturgy near San Pietro de Cadore. Italian press reports said some Italian environmentalists had asked to have the Mass mov ed to another site because of possible damage to the meadow by the throng. “Each man is bound to avoid in itiatives and action that can injure the purity of the environ ment,” the pope said. He praised the mountain dwellers as passionate dev otees of the solid traditions of these lands.”
