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The Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Vol. 25 No. 36 Thursday, October 15, 1987 $12.00 Per Year Archbishop Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan remains seriously ill at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta. The 73-year-old archbishop, who was readmitted to the hospital Sept. 30, is in serious condition. Parishes were asked to pray for him par- Seriously III ticularly in recent days and priests of the archdiocese have gone to the hospital to give him their blessing. The archbishop has been hospitaliz ed or in convalescence for the past five months since suffering a stroke May 1. Ground Breaking Planned For Personal Care Home BY GRETCHEN REISER A site in East Point has been chosen for the arch diocese’s second personal care home for the elderly, a residence for 15 frail elder ly that will be modeled on Marian Manor. The five-acre site is on Washington Road, the road that is the dividing line be tween East Point and Col lege Park, and is southwest of Fort McPherson, ac cording to Steve Brazen, interim director of Cath olic Social Services. Unlike Marian Manor, which was remodeled into a personal care home after being used initially as a convent, the second home will be new construction. Appropriate zoning for the site has already been obtained, Mr. Brazen said. It is in a resi dential area. The location in southwest Atlanta will be close to a number of parishes in cluding Blessed Sacra ment, St. Paul of the Cross and St. John the Evangelist in Hapeville. The location is actually in Blessed Sacrament parish accord ing to Bill Lyday, vice chancellor of the archdio cese and a permanent dea con at Blessed Sacrament. Like Marian Manor, the personal care home will be designed for no more than 15 elderly, who are strong enough to maintain a degree of independent liv ing, but need some assistance with meals, laundry and personal care. The cost of land acquisi tion, architects’ fees and construction, which will be in the neighborhood of $600,000 to $700,000, will come from the special Capital Funds Drive con ducted by the archdiocese in 1983. However, the ongo ing operation of the home once it is built will come from fees charged to residents and support from auxiliary groups. Marian Manor receives no ongoing support from the arch diocese. The Capital Funds Drive pledged $1.5 million for the creation of three personal care homes for the elderly. Marian Manor, formerly the convent at Immaculate Heart of Mary parish in Atlanta, was renovated and opened in November 1984. The second home, original ly to be the renovated con vent at St. Paul of the Cross parish, was changed to new construction because the cost of renovating the building was high, Mr. Brazen said, and new state regulations on personal care homes adopted since Marian Manor was built, would have raised the cost of renovation even further. The quality of Marian Manor and its hominess and reputation were fac tors influencing the zoning board that approved the new site, Mr. Brazen said. The new home will have a chapel so that Sunday Mass and daily Communion ser vices can be held there, as at Marian Manor. Because it will be new construction, the building will be all on one floor and semi-private bathrooms will be con structed. The architectural firm of Thompson, Hancock and Witte will be the project ar chitects and ground break ing is expected to be in January 1988. The project should be completed by the fall of 1988. “That’ll be my second dream come true,” said Sister Teresa Termini, C.S.J., the director of Ser vices for the Elderly of Catholic Social Services. “We’re going to try to make it as much like Marian Manor as possible, to retain that homelike at mosphere even though this is going to be a new building.” Announcement Reverend Monsignor John F. McDonough, V.G., ad ministrator of the archdiocese of Atlanta, announces that a leave of absence for reasons of health has been requested and granted to Reverend Jacob A. Bollmer, executive director. Catholic Social Services, Inc. This leave was effective October 10, 1987. Mr. Steven L. Brazen, presently assistant executive director, will serve as interim director of Catholic Social Services. PARTNERS — Father Pat Bishop visits Police Chief William M. Moss in his office at Cedartown police headquarters. The veteran law officer and the pastor of St. Bernadette’s join forces at Christmas time to bring toys and clothes to children who might otherwise have a bleak Christmas. A story on the Cedartown parish begins on page 6. Mission Sunday Asks Aid For World's Poor World Mission Sunday, with a theme “Bring Christ’s message of hope to the ends of the earth,” will be celebrated in the arch diocese Oct. 25. This Sunday is a time when Catholics are asked to support missionary work through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. The work of the Society is outlined in a special four- page supplement inserted in this edition of The Georgia Bulletin. In addi tion to giving basic support to the church in mission areas, the Society also pro vides special grants to build churches and chapels, to train lay catechists, seminarians and novices, and to provide medical care and emergen cy relief aid, when needed. Money collected in par ishes on Mission Sunday is distributed as follows: 51 percent to the poorest faith communities in the devel oping world through the Society ; 40 percent for mis sionary work in needy areas of the U.S. through the American Board of Catholic Missions, and nine percent for the Church in the Middle East through the Catholic Near East Welfare Association. Last year Catholics in the U.S. contributed in excess of $17 million on World Mission Sunday. The general fund of the Society is distributed in its entirety each year among some 900 needy dioceses as equitably and universally as possible. It is the “daily bread support of the Church in the missions, the foundation upon which the local churches build their apostolates and offer ser vice to all,” the Society says. INSIDE THE BULLETIN "The Place" Synod Topics: Men, Holds Open House Women, Family Page 3 Page 10