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SINGING SAINTS — Members of the newly formed children’s choir
at All Saints Church in Dunwoody dressed as their favorite saint in
celebration of the parish’s patronal feast, Nov. 1.
Father
To Chu
Father Joseph Fahy, who
served Hispanic Catholics
in the archdiocese t or three
years, is one of five Pas-
sionist priests recently ar
rived in Honduras to serve
the needs of the church
there.
They were formally mis
sioned in a ceremony Oct. 19
at the Immaculate Concep
tion Monastery Church in
Jamaica, N.Y. Father Col-
umkille Regan, C.P., pro
vincial of the eastern pro
vince, officiated.
Archbishop Hector Ra
mos of Tegucigalpa invited
the Passionists to come and
work in his archdiocese
more than a year ago. The
five priests joined another
PAGE 3 — The Georgia Bulletin, November 12, 1987
Fahy Missioned
rch In Honduras
Sister Kathleen Purser
Swaps Kids For Seniors
Sister Kathleen Purser, GNSH, became director of North
Atlanta Senior Services November 2.
Sister Purser is a native Atlantan who attended Christ the
King School and was a member of St. Pius X High School’s
second graduation class. As a religious she served as prin
cipal of St. Paul of the Cross and Immaculate Heart of
Mary Schools in Atlanta.
North Atlanta Senior Services is an ecumenical effort,
modeled on the Kansas City, Missouri, Shepherd Center
concept of “seniors helping seniors.” Its volunteers serve in
the northwest Atlanta area helping with transportation,
shopping, counseling, handyman service and phone
reassurance. NASS' “Lunch and Learn" combines an op
portunity to share a meal with the chance to learn. NASS
also provides seniors with information about other
available services.
The director’s role expanded from a part-time to a full
time position with Sister Purser’s appointment. She hopes
to broaden NASS’ services. “One area of increasing need in
society today is with the elderly,” she points out. “I am
grateful for the opportunity to respond to these needs
through the ecumenical setting of NASS. Basically I feel
church is people responding to people in the name of Christ.
In this new position I’m reaching out to a different group of
people than I’ve reached before and I’m grateful to be doing
it in the Atlanta area.”
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Jewish-Catholic
Dialogue Resumes
For the past year, under the auspices of The
American Jewish Committee, members of the
Catholic and Jewish communities have been meeting
once a month to participate in a dialogue session.
The dialogue has provided opportunities for open
discussion about religious traditions, life cycle events
as well as current and historic concerns.
The dialogue sessions will resume on Sunday eve
ning November 15, 7 p.m., at Saint Jude’s Church,
7171 Glenridge Drive, Sandy Springs. The groups are
open to any persons of the Jewish or Catholic faiths.
Anyone who wishes to participate may call Ronnie
van Gelder at the AJC office, 233-5501. Reservations
are necessary.
The American Jewish Committee is this country's
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religious rights of Jews here and abroad, and ad
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member of their order who
is already working in an or
phanage there.
They are spending their
first weeks in Honduras
trying to discern what their
ministry should be in view
of the pressing needs
outlined by the archbishop.
In the spring of 1986,
Father Fahy was a
member of a Witness for
Peace delegation from
Atlanta to Nicaragua.
In his ministry to
Hispanics in the Atlanta
archdiocese. Father Fahy
worked tirelessly for the
Cubans detained in the
federal prison in Atlanta.
For some time he visited
them weekly, celebrating
Mass and conducting
prayer groups in Spanish.
His visitation rights were
canceled by prison officials
after he began writing let
ters to the editor of the
Atlanta daily papers on
their plight.
He led a prayer vigil one
Sunday afternoon each
month outside the prison,
sometimes joined by wives
and children of the de
tainees. Last June when
the Hispanic bishops of the
United States met at the
Monastery of the Holy
Spirit in Conyers he ar
ranged for two of the wives
to speak to them about the
situation.
Father Fahy went to the
Hispanics where they live
and work. Several times
weekly he traveled to north
Georgia mountain areas
where Mexicans and Cen
tral Americans are em
ployed in the poultry plants
and carpet mills to counsel
and celebrate Mass. He liv
ed at St. Paul of the Cross
rectory in southwest Atlan
ta.
The Hispanic leaders of
the archdiocese, priests,
sisters and laity, honored
F ather Fahy at a reception
in late September at the
Cathedral of Christ the
King.
Although born in
Washington, D.C., he is a
member of a Catholic fami
ly who lived in Rome, Ga.,
since before the Civil War.
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