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Parish Reflects
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Father Frank Guista,
former pastor, will be prin
cipal celebrant of the an
niversary homecoming
Mass on Sunday, Nov. 22 at
3 p.m. Former pastors and
other priests of the
archdiocese will concele-
brate.
Sister Anna Kearns,
C.S.J., principal of Our
Lady of Lourdes School,
and Sister Mary Jane
Stapleton, R.S.M., director
of religious education, will
give the readings, and
Deacon Homer Woods will
proclaim the Gospel.
Speaker will be a Lourdes
graduate, Judge Albert L.
Thompson, of the state
court of Fulton County.
Anyone returning for the
anniversary celebrations
will find changes, a new ap
preciation of space and col
or in the church interior.
The altar area has been
brought forward and a
small inner chapel installed
behind new altar walls
angling out from either side
of a large cross-shaped
opening. Through this open
ing is clearly seen the large
crucifix, softly illuminated
by backlighting, dominat
ing the high back wall of
the new chapel.
Tony Viscardi, the
architect, achieved a cross
within a cross effect by
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designing a walk-through
cross in a divider placed in
side the glass front doors.
This is lined up with the
large cross on the altar and
serves to dramatize the en
trance of the priest for
Mass.
The architect attended
Sunday Mass a few times
before designing the
changes. He was impressed
by the congregation joining
hands during the Lord’s
Prayer, the priest reaching
out his arms to the people
and the angle of the late
morning sun as it flooded
the small church.
He said the space was
designed to have every
thing radiate around the
altar, the walls “winging
out” symbolize the priest
reaching out to the people.
Two spans arching from
either side of the altar fur
ther convey unity between
priest and people.
‘‘To make the space glow,
impart an ethereal feel
ing,” he used soft shades of
blue and wine on the new
walls and arches, and the
lightest shade of pink on
the side walls to soften the
effect of sunlight which
filters green through the
blue and gold stained glass
windows.
He described his work at
Lourdes as one of his
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NOW AND THEN — The large crucifix still dominates the sanctuary
at Our Lady of Lourdes, shown now in photo at left, dramatically
outlined by the cross opening on the altar. In the photo above, taken a '
few years ago, the altar is shown as it was before the changes made
this year. These changes include a new inner chapel in the space gain
ed by moving the altar forward.
CONCENTRATION — Pupils do their lesson in the bright
kindergarten room at Our Lady of Lourdes School.
“greatest experiences as
an architect,” and said he
was glad his mother was
able to see his church work
last Easter Sunday, a short
time before she died.
Money for the alterations
was raised, according to
Janis Griffin of the anniver-
sary committee, by
parishioners who staff a
food concession at Fulton
County Stadium and
through private donations
made to Father Cavallo.
There are about 20 who
rotate turns working at the
stadium concession, she
said. The county allows the
non-profit groups operating
the concessions to keep 10
percent of the profit. The
Lourdes workers had rais
ed about $7,000 before the
football strike began.
The parish, founded as a
mission to serve the handful
of black Catholics then in
Atlanta, is the only non
territorial one in the city
and is situated within the
boundary of Sacred Heart
parish. While its earliest
members were mainly
from nearby neighbor
hoods, today its families
are scattered all over.
Wesley Chapel, over by St.
Joseph’s Village, Stone
Mountain, according to
Father Cavallo.
The rolls include upward
ly mobile families from ex
pensive homes in suburbia
FAVORITE —
Statue of St. Martin
de Porres is a
favorite of Lourdes
parishioners.
who come back to their
Lourdes’ roots, as well as a
few elderly men and women
still living in old houses and
small project apartments
nearby, and about 20 or 30
poor families whose
children receive scholar
ship aid to attend Lourdes
school. In all, there are -
about 500 parishioners in
220 family units, the pastor
said. About six white
families are active and five r
or six Vietnamese families
attend church. “We.are try
ing to get them active,” he
said.
The archdiocese grants
about seven or eight thou
sand dollars a year in
scholarship money. It pro
vided 16 students with
scholarship aid this year,
only two of whom were
Catholic, he said.
The parish needs sub
sidies from the archdiocese
for the school, where about
180 students are enrolled
in grades kindergarten
through sixth, and for *'
religious education. Other
wise, Father Cavallo said,
the parish is self-sup
porting. Collections run
about $1,000 each Sunday
and on a good Sunday
might reach $1,500.
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achieve a balance (in the
school) of upper middle
class students and the '
poor,” he said. He esti
mated that half the
students are in the former^
category. “We would like'' *i
more scholarships to pro
vide more services and
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