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News & Herald Volume 3 Number 16 • December
Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte
H'erving
17,
1993
Law 'Heavy Handed,
Obstruction
Unconstitutional/ Pro-Lifers say HAZARD
By CAROL
Associate Editor
—
CHARLOTTE
Five pro-lifers
including a Catholic priest and a Baptist
Monday, Dec. 6 law that makes it a crime to delay someone from entering "health care facilities," or more spe-
to five years in prison.
cifically abortion centers.
so oppressive.
minister filed suit on
challenging a
new
ture or talked with
It could, and that' s what' s so frightening about it, said plaintiff Diane Hoefling, Respect Life coordinator for St. Vincent de Paul Church, Charlotte. "This law is so broadly worded, it will put at risk people who want to demon-
Slenmary
Priest
It
"What they did by
The Year
plants or people
HAZARD
where few people have heard about
much
less Catholicism,
olenmary Father James Wilmes
is
a
Dioneer.
He's not there
to proselytize
nor
make converts to the The pastor of Holy Reieemer Church in Andrews and Prince
He
himself, always."
Father Wilmes, 66, helped
start the
Cherokee County Homeless Shelter in Murphy. Moreover, he opened a clothing thrift shop in Robbinsville and is active in the
and the Home Delivered Meal Program in Andrews.
in Robbinsville is
words, "a
paper. Every Sunday, he opens his par-
"Mustard Seed" column to be, in his
loving presence."
of the ministerial association.
His fellow pastors say they are grateFather Wilmes their friend
ful to call
in Christ.
is in
my
Presbyterian Church. "His
life reflects
not only the glory of God, but the humil-
of Jesus.
He
is
,
With
A
tives to abortion at abortion centers has
dwindled, Hoefling said. "The whole climate has changed for the pro-life
movement. Both
state and federal laws have frightened people away. But we still have a constitutional right to do what we are doing." The obstruction law replaces trespassing laws, which had been used to
deter pro-life people at abortion centers.
Father John Bradley, a retired priest
of the Diocese of Charlotte, says he is named in the lawsuit because he' s "willing to do anything to stop abortion,
anything within the law."
"They're not only trying to make abortion
Little Bit
Of
much
easier, but they're also
trying to have no one protest
it
despite
the great tradition in our country to have protests," Father Bradley said.
No
arrests
new
law. Before
have been made under it went into effect, Hoefling was charged with trespassing for stepping a foot or so onto the property of an abortion center and handing someone a leaflet. Father Bradley has never broken the law. The other plaintiffs are Trudie Matthews of Charlotte, Sharon Hoffman of Cabarrus County and the Rev Ronnie Wallace, a Baptist minister from Char.
lotte.
Help...
in the local
an Episcopal service. of the Church, oneness of Christ," he says. Through his compassion, Father Wilmes opens the door to Christianity and sows seeds for Catholicism. "This is the early Church," he says. Like the Apostles, he brings the Good News to people who have never heard it. "There is so much work to be done. Some folks have never heard about the Lord. We can't be satisfied with giving crumbs when so many are hungry for
well
loved; a pillar of the
"It's the spirit
the truth."
eyes one of the most
Godly men in this area I have ever met," said Rev. Frank Hamilton of Andrews
ity
effective
picket,
ish to
Recognized for his kindness and ompassion for the poor, Father Wilmes was named Pastor of the Year in November by the Cherokee County Minis•erial Association, an ecumenical group of 20 ministers. "This is one of the greatest public honors I have ever received," said Father Wilmes, immediate past president
and brother
1
The number of people who
pray or talk to couples about alterna-
participates in a hospital chap-
laincy program and started an ecumencial
possible.
"He
He
Emergency Food Pantry
way
here to evangelize in the gentlest
He's there
are for the ethical
imposes stiff penalties for repeat offenses. Sponsored by N.C. Sen. Leslie Winner, D-Mecklenburg, the law says first offenses are to be treated as misdeOct.
Catholic faith.
Peace Mission
doesn't
in front of power
The law, which became
thinks of others before he thinks of
lecessarily to
yf
who
It
treatment of animals."
ANDREWS —In an impoverished [Christianity
sit
law was
this
"We don' t need
an extra law," particularly not one that is
the
single out pro-life people.
Associate Editor
irea
upon the
she said.
bly,
apply to people who
By CAROL
infringes
constitutional rights of one group of people to freedom of speech and assem-
Named
ounty's Pastor Of
strate peacefully."
already have a law for tres-
passing," Hoefling said.
someone who was
entering an abortion center?
Joann Heane
"We
state
Moreover, the law says no one can block access to health care facilities. While concerned about the access issue, the plaintiffs are more troubled by what is meant by delay. "It's heavy handed and unconstitutional," said attorney Ray Warren, who filed the suit in U.S. District Court on behalf of the plaintiffs. "The law is so vague it could cover a lot of things." Does it mean pro-lifers would be breaking the law if they handed litera-
$rjoto
meanors. But a third offense within three years is a felony punishable by up
known and
well
community doesn't
say enough."
Said Rev. Jack Simonds of the Andrews Church of God, "I am very proud to be his friend. He is so humble.
For people Christ, Father
who
are interested in
Wilmes
helps them "find
happiness in the Lord," he says. For those who want the "total revelation of Catholicism," he offers instruction.
He
recalls
how
two or Andrews in came to North
there were
three Catholic families in
the 1950s
Carolina.
when he first The roster now
fluctuates be-
See Pastor, Page 2
With a St.
little
help from his friends, kindergartener Paul
Ann School
in Charlotte.
Hohman
"lights"
Photo by
Advent candle
at
CAROL HAZARD
atholic
& Herald
News
December
17, 199
Vocation Update By FATHER
FRANK O'ROURKE
Vocation Director
The Advent/Christmas season graciousness toward us. In turn,
we
offers opportunities to reflect
on God's
count our blessings.
The generosity of the people of the Diocese of Charlotte
is
reflected in their
and support of our seminarians. Your prayer is at the heart of the vocation ministry. Prayer opens us to God's incarnate love and moves people to respond by interest
loving others. In a special way,
I
thank
all
who keep
the vocation
to the diocesan priesthood in their conversations with
the Lord. I
am
grateful to those
who
provide funds for the
education and formation of our future priests.
Many
provide the needed funds through an annual appeal,
which is taken on Easter Sunday. Other funds are generated through wills, development funds and special contributions specifically
designated for seminary Helen Gordon of the Basilica of
education.
Your prayers and financial support are greatly appreciated. On another level, your encouragement by way of conversation and welcome to these men in your parishes and throughout the diocese help keep alive their call to the priesthood.
Listed below are the names and addresses of our seminarians whom I hope you will include in your prayers. You may want to send them a word of encouragement during this season and at other special times during the year. Again I thank you for your generosity and support. Neil Buchlein, St. Mary's Seminary, 5400 Roland Ave., Baltimore, Md.
21201-1994. Dean Cesa, 15650-2690.
James
Collins, Sacred Heart School of Theology, P.O.
Corners, Wis. 53130-0429.
Mike Hjellming,
S. Military Trail,
Win
ASHEVILLE makes abortion
—
In a climate that
protest
more
difficult,
have chalked up a victory. But
offer people alternatives to abortio:
month
last
women who had been found guilty by Judge Shirley Brown in Buncombe County District Court of violating an Asheville city ordinance. The ordinance which requires a $10 permit for demonstrations of two or more people was overturned and declared unconstitutional by Judge Robert Johnston in Buncombe County Supe-
Ray Williams, St. Mary's Seminary, 5400 Roland Ave., Baltimore, Md. 21210-1944. Thomas Williamson, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 47577-1020. To inquire about the possibility of serving as a priest in the Diocese of Charlotte, call Father Frank O'Rourke at (704) 334-2283. Questions for this column can be sent to Father O'Rourke at 1621 Dilworth Rd. East, Charlotte, N.C. 288203.
—
—
rior Court.
The city, however, has appealed the
such as Catholic
S<
cial Services.
"They deliver
their
message
in
quiet manner," Roberts said. "This
most exemplary form of exercisir ones rights and trying to help someone the
"We're offering compassions help; we're not trying to raise a
rai
"Mid Hunt, director of Life Advocates, whk cous," said defendant Meredith
organizes sidewalk counseling four da; a week and staffs a pregnancy help lin
Hunt was sentenced
to five
days in ja
decision.
but appealed the decision and did n
"There is still the specter of harassment," said defense attorney Tom Roberts. Roberts, a parishioner of the Basilica of St. Lawrence, and attorney John Olesiuk of St. Eugene Church, both of Asheville, agreed to take the
serve any time in prison.
case on a pro bona basis.
"The
seems hell-bent on an
city
ordinance even for peaceful groups of two, three or four people," Roberts said.
Martha McGlohon, associate
city
In
police protection.
By
providing
notifi-
all,
four citations were issued f
demonstrating without a permit and fo arrests were made. All the charges we dropped. "It was
a great victory for free speei
and assembly," said defendant Hel< Gordon of the Basilica of St. Lawrenc "We've come to a bad state of affai when we have to apply for a permit offer help."
attorney, said permits assure adequate
1)
and make n
distribute literature
ferrals to agencies
ing two Catholic
Charlotte, N.C. 28206.
Pastor (From Page
do sidewalk counseling at two Ashevil abortion centers. Sidewalk counselo
They
they're not celebrating yet.
against four pro-life counselors includ-
Michigan Ave. NE, Washington D.C. 20017. Eric Houseknecht, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 47577-1020. Brad Jones, Catholic University of America, Theological College, 401 Michigan Ave. NE, Washington D.C. 20017. Mark Lawlor, St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Ind. 47577-1020. Martin Mata, St. Vincent DePaul Seminary, 10701 S. Military Trail, Boynton Beach, Fla. 33434-481 1. Fidel Melo, St. Vincent DePaul Seminary, 10701 S. Military Trail, Boynton Beach, Fla. 33434-4811. Keith Nesbitt, St. Barnabas Church, Crescent Hill Road, Arden, KC. 28704. Daniel O'Leary, Rt. 1, Box 86-2, Leonardtown, Md. 20650. Thang Pham, Our Lady of Consolation Church, 2301 Statesville Ave.,
In
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Charges were dropped
Catholic University of America, Theological College, 401
Round
First
Associate Editor
pro-lifers
Arturo DeAguilar, St. Vincent DePaul Seminary, 10701 Boynton Beach, Fla. 33436-4811. Tien Duong, 3472 Stokes Ave., Charlotte, N.C. 28210. Due Duong, 3472 Stokes Ave., Charlotte, N.C. 28210.
young woman abo TIM REI
Challenge Of Asheville Ordinance
Pa.,
Box 429, Hales
in Asheville counsels a
Photo by
Pro-Lifers
By CAROL Vincent Seminary, 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe,
St.
Lawrence
St.
alternatives to abortion.
:
Roberts said he pored over state ai federal cases and found
none
involvii
Although
cation to the police department, people
permit requirements for assemblies
summer homes in the North Carolina mountains, some are mountain people who learned about Christ through him and became Catho-
can express their constitutional rights and "not be subject to vicious attacks of others," she said. Although no citations or arrests have been made since the ordinance was overturned, "there is still uneasiness on the part of counselors," Roberts said. The dispute centers on people who
small groups of people.
tween 30 and 50
many
families.
are retirees with
lics.
Even more people were brought to was found for
the faith and a building
the Prince of Peace Chapel after volun-
Legion of Mary canvassed Graham County in 1 988 three week period. Mass had
The American Center
for
Law
Justice, a pro-life organization
focus
is
who
religious freedom, has
in<
willing to take the case.
T
appeal process could take up to
tv
cated
it is
years.
,700 homes in
in a
two to
ployed. His
work
TV
led to
and radio
been celebrated in Robbinsville in a Methodist Church. Originally from Chicago, Father Wilmes worked as a newly ordained priest among the poor and migrants in a
interviews, and testimony in 1967 be-
large inner-city parish. After waiting
of Franciscan
The next
eight years were spent in
Claxton, Ga., again built a convent,
among the poor. He
brought in a community organized leader-
sisters,
overcome
three years, he received permission to
ship courses for blacks to
work among the poor in Appalachia. He
political discrimination, started a free
arrived in North Carolina in 1956 as
medical
assistant pastor at St.
Murphy, and was St.
later
named
clinic,
and operated a commis-
sary for the hungry and a
William Church in pastor of
FATHER JAMES WILMES
home
Wilmes then
started all over
again, this time in Boswell, Okla. Dur-
in
tain National
ter in Hayesville.
rural clinic, directed
served in six southwestern counties
North Carolina' s Great Smoky MounPark area. During his seven-year stint, he built a church on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, directed the Newman Club at
He was then
assigned to
man
New York
and became a spokesfor the poor, hungry and unem-
in public relations
soon stay here for the there
is
rest
much work to be
of his
life
done, he
His commitment to the poor downtrodden is "a condition of our vation," Father Wilmes says.
put
God
in their hearts if
"You
food in their stomachs."
Thanks To
St.
Jude
ing the next 10 years, he helped open a
an anti-pornography crusade, promoted a market place for the sale of surplus produce and helped form an ecumenical birthright group for
(
you don't
nursing
Western Carolina College and trained young priests at Pius XII Pastoral Cen-
He
He has been back in North Care
service.
Father
Francis of Assisi Church in Franklin.
mothers. for the past eight years and woulc
on hunger.
fore Congress
a }
ai
teers for the 1
Jib
Thanks to St. Jude for prayers swered and favors granted.
JRB, CEK, DLS, EJT
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s
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17,
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The Catholic News
1993
&
Her;
Advent Reflection
'Advent Provides Opportunity To
God
Reaffirm Acceptance Of "Let
it
be done to
By FATHER JOHN T. PUTNAM me as you say." With these words, God ushered his plan
of salvation into human reality. Mary's fiat at the Annunciation provides us with a model of Christian life. We recognize that Advent is not just about the Christ
coming at Christmas. It is also about His coming every day in the sacraments of the Church, especially the Eucharist, and His final coming at the end of time. Therefore, it's easy to see that we should be constantly refocusing on Christ. Each day we have to rededicate ourselves to following Jesus, and we child's
have to reaffirm the "yes" of our baptism. Mary's "yes" paved the way for salvation to enter the world. Now, we have to choose to follow the road that has been paved. God gives us the capacity to accept or reject salvation, to accept or reject the divine
which we live is hectic and chaotic most of the time. Each of us has concerns and responsibilities that place demands on our time and energy. Because of this, we often forget to take time for God. Thankfully, Advent provides us with an opportunity to reassess our relationship with God. It provides us with a chance to reflect on our lives and see how often we say "yes" to God and how often we say "no." Accepting God' s will in our lives is not an easy thing. Mary looked deep into herself, and we shall have to do the same. Yet, in a very real way, accepting God' s will is what Christianity is all about. That is what preparing for the Lord' coming is all about, accepting the divine will in our lives. When we accept the love that
Father's will in our lives,
Fathers of Vatican
II
we
He
The world
offers.
increase our capacity to
Parishioners of St. Lawrence in Asheville gather around a pictograph of Our Lady of Guadalupe at the dedication of the "Garden of Children," a memorial to the 30 million unborn babies who have been aborted in the United States since 1973.
Asheville 'Garden Of Children'
in
grow
in holiness.
Memorializes Aborted Babies ASHEVILLE
crosses and a replica of a child's casket
have been placed silica
life and through all these, will sanctify themselves more and more if they receive all things with faith from the hand of the heavenly Father and cooperate with the divine will. (Lumen Gentium, 41) If we truly want to celebrate the coming of the Christ child into the world, we should do so by seeking God's will in our lives now. Being open to God's will may not be easy, but the rewards are beyond all telling. Remember, it was the willingness of a young girl to say "yes" to God's will that paved the way for our salvation nearly 2,000 years ago. Imagine what a world it would be if everyone had the courage to say "yes to God today. Are you willing? Father Putnam is parochial vicar at Holy Family Church in Clemmons.
circumstances of their
'
of
St.
represent
at the rear
Lawrence
all
of the Ba-
in Asheville to
the abortions that have
been performed
in the
United States
since 1973.
The
stated, "All Christians, in the conditions, duties, and
— Thirty small white
Pat Glass, a
St.
Lawrence
parishio-
ner and president of the organization that placed them, explained their
sym-
bolism. "These silent symbols of death
and burial give testimony to the fact that 30 million unborn babies have been killed since abortion was legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973." The organization calls itself "Guadelupe - Catholics For Life." Glass recounted its purpose and origin. "Our members pray unceasingly for an end to
this slaughter of innocents. We are devoted to and take our name from Our Lady Of Guadelupe. Her appearance to a Mexican peasant in 1531 resulted in the conversion of the Aztecs to Christianity and the end of the sacrifice of innocent children to pagan gods." The casket and crosses were placed by the members of the Guadelupe group in the Garden of the Children. Father Carl Kaltreider, pastor, is encouraging the group to complete the garden. "I have asked them to plant perennial flowers to symbolize those babies who survived problem pregnancies and possible abortion; they are living reminders that with faith and trust in Jesus Christ, •
children are life's greatest blessing."
World Youth Day, Clergy Sex Abuse Voted Top Stories of WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catho-
Editors were asked to vote for the
U.S. elections as the top religious news
World Youth Day festivities in Denver as the top religious news story of 1993, and named clergy sex abuse as the year's second most
top 10
significant story.
gave
Pope John Paul II, who visited Denver for four days in August, emerged as the top newsmaker of the year in the annual year-end poll conducted by
nine points for second,
Catholic News Service among subscrib-
received was 440. The most a newsmaker
place votes).
could receive on the five-point scale
2.
Sex abuse by clergy, 315
was 220. Fractions in the point count are the result of an editor ranking two or more stories as a tie. When the first editors' poll was conducted in 1962, the overwhelming choice for top story for was the opening of the Second Vatican Council. Last
3.
Encyclical "Veritatis Splendor," 225
lic
editors voted
ing
Runners-up
the newsmaker category were Catholic youth, in second place, and President editors.
in
Clinton in third place.
32nd annual CNS survey of editors of Catholic newspapers in the United States and Canada.
The
poll
This y ear 3
'
was
the
s ballots
were distributed Dec.
and the deadline for returns was Dec.
10.
news stories from a list of 37 selected by CNS editors and the top five newsmakers from a list of 21. Votes were weighted by the ranking editors
— 10 points
for a first-place vote, etc.,
and five for
top newsmaker, four for second,
With 44 the
editors submitting ballots,
maximum points
a story could
women
in
have
developments afthe church and the
year, editors voted
fecting
etc.
stories.
Here is the editors' choice of top 10 and top five newsmakers of 1 993, followed by points received in the weighted ballot count and, in parenthestories
ses, the
number of
first-place votes re-
STORIES: World Youth Day, 342
(16.5
first-
make
1.
Pope John Paul
2.
Catholic youth, 107 (11) President Clinton, 71 (3).
5.
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II,
157 (22).
Clergy sex abuse victims, 48 (2). Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chi-
5.
7.
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 150 (3). Clinton administration, 126 (2). Family values, 103.
8.
The new catechism,
9.
Euthanasia, 87
Midwest
(2).
89.
(1).
floods, 81 (1).
His Will In Yours.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat were only a half-point behind Cardinal Bernardin, with 45.5 points. Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Haitian president Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide each received one first-place vote.
"A valid Will stands as a continuing expression of our concern for loved ones, as well as an ongoing commit-
ment to the Church and the community in which we live!' Msgr. John
J.
McSweeney
to being a priest in the Diocese of Charlotte?
the top 10.
cago, 46.
Health care reform, 201
Remember Have you given thought
vote but did not
3.
(3).
10.
Just edged out of the top 1 0 were the Middle East peace process, with 78 points; media and religion, with 76 points and half of a first-place vote, and abortion, with 74 points. The topic of priestly celibacy received one first-place
4.
(14).
4.
6.
993
NEWSMAKERS
ceived.
1.
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ou can express your commitment to your Church by making a bequest to the Diocese of Charlotte. Simply have the following statement included in your Will: "/ leave to the
Charlotte the
Roman
Catholic Diocese of (or percent of estate) for its religious, educational
sum of $
the residue of my
and charitable works. For more information on how to make a Will that works, contact Jim Kelley, Director of Development, Diocese of Charlotte, 1524 East Morehead St., Charlotte, NC 28207, (704) 331-1709 or 377-6871.
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17, 199
Pro-Life Corner w.
*
To our
m m
college students
home
for Christmas vacation,
we
say
"welcome" and invite you to "fight the good fight" against abortion. American Collegians for Life (ACL) is a national) coalition of more than 350 campus pro-life groups. They educate college students and the public about the realities of abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. For more information: ACL, PO Box 1112, Washington, DC 20013.
Editorial Legalizing Drugs Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders is probably right when she calls for a serious debate on U.S. Drug Policy. But she is way off base in suggesting that legalizing drugs might be the answer to one of the nation's most serious problems. There doesn't seem to be much question that the present federal drug policy is as Peter Cimbolic of The Catholic University of America calls it "an abysmal failure." Drugs continue to flow into the country and the murder rate much of it drug-related continues
—
—
to climb.
We
agree with Cimbolic 's idea of convening a special panel of experts to conduct a thorough review
of drug policy. There must be something better than what is presently being done.
The
idea of solving the problem by legalizing
drugs has been kicking around
at least since the
1960s
(remember Dr. Timothy Leary, the guru of LSD?). But nobody has yet come up with any kind of convincing argument in favor of it.
One argument, that
it
especially regarding marijuana,
is
helps combat the side effects suffered by cancer
patients undergoing
chemotherapy and helps improve
AIDS. It also apparently in glaucoma cases.
the appetites of persons with
some
has
therapeutic effect
But simply legalizing marijuana for everyone isn't the answer to meeting those needs. All it will take is legislation to
make marijuana
a prescription drug.
Morphine and codeine have been used
for years as
prescription pain-killers without legalizing the use of
opium from which they are derived which also is an opium derivative.
the
We know
or the heroin
that the so-called street drugs are legal
and readily available in some parts of Europe. Making them legal and available may have cut the crime rate in some of those areas but it certainly hasn't reduced drug dependency. It certainly doesn't matter whether an addict is hooked on legal or illegal drugs. Nobody seems to have come up with the answer to handling dangerous drugs. Do you legalize the drugs such as LSD or PCP which have been proven to be inherently dangerous? What do you do about people
who
handle drugs such as heroin. It"s not just "bad" heroin that kills people. More than one addict has died of a dose which would not have harmed can't
anyone else. Those people would be heroin
/is
was purchased
dead whether the
just as
legally or illegally.
The Respect Life Office
Diocese of Charlotte
Pope Prays For
Christian Unity, World
—
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II, marking the feast of the Immaculate Conception, prayed for Christian unity and for peace in the world, especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina. "Watch over all nations of the world, especially those devastated by war, and instill in our troubled human family thoughts and sentiments of peace," the pope prayed to Mary during his noon Angelus address at the
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world," he prayed Dec. 8 with visitors gathered in
St.
Peter's Square.
The pope said the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception teaches that Mary was "absolutely free of every stain of sin" from the moment she was conceived as a sign of the "provident and permanent saving force"
not concern just any theme of Christian culture, rather its source and its heart: the word of God."
of redemption.
Project" relied on consultations with biblical scholai
message
In a
to retired Cardinal
Ugo
Poletti of
Rome, who was taking the pope's place at a Mass for the feast in Rome's Basilica of Mary Major, Pope John Paul again asked for prayers to Mary for peace. "Implore the loving intervention of Mary with her saving Son so that honorable and just settlements will be reached in the serious conflicts which do not cease sowing death and ruin among so many of our brothers and sisters, above all in nearby Bosnia- Herzegovina, and so that the hoped-for peace will finally be reached," the
pope
December
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3,
J.
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the pope's schedule
he dislocated his shoulder Nov. 1 1. Pope John Paul went to Rome's Piazza di Spagna for a wreath-laying ceremony at a statue honoring Mary under the title of the Immaculate Conception. Rome firefighters, using tall ladders to reach the statue that tops an obelisk, placed a bouquet of flowers in the statue's hands. In a long, poetic address, the pope praised Mary as "the morning star" who showed humanity the possibility of new life in Christ. "Contemplating' the skies of Rome, especially during the month of December, at the moment the night gives way to the day, we first catch sight of the dawn which speaks of you," the pope said. after
In the early evening,
an international group of television producers he hoped based on the Old Testament would win the
their series
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Bob Gately 's column
is
on Page 6 of this
ISS
;
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:•
Ecember
17,
The Catholic News
1993
How To My
Christmas one.
i spiritual
ote:
gift to
you
this
year
contained in this
It is
"The secret of sanctity and happione thing, fidelity to
consists in but
ss
the present
you've
Why spoil the present?
got. In the
words of St. whatever is
manifested in the ties of the present moment." (Abannment to Divine Providence, Jean
Whatever is honorable. ..think
de Caussade, S.J.) Living joyfully in the present mo;nt is of course a work of grace, but
with you. (Philippians 4: 8-9)
id's will as
is
it
;rre
grace builds on nature, there are
ice
Paul,
true,
God
things.. .and the
3. Be a doer, not a worrier. Worry never baked a cake,
built a
more than make you do your
a bad situa-
Pray for the grace to forgive everye who has ever hurt you and forgive urself in the process. Feelings of rentment and guilt can destroy the
danger that you will be overcome by fear of failure. The Lord made a point of instructing us on the need to overcome fear. Do not worry about your life... Cart any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? If God so clothes the grass of the field.. .will He not much more clothe you.. .Therefore do not
.
moment, but you can't linger in mood. Once you repent, God for-
esent is
and forgets. Discipline yourself to God's mercy. When plagued
ves
in
ist
dark thoughts about the past, stop
th
erything and say, "I'm not going to
anymore.
ink about that
God
loves
be well." 2. Don't be afraid of the future. Jesus said, Be not afraid. Living in will
e, all
little
tion worse. If
make
During a day of recollection, a con"How do I get
worry. ..strive first for the kingdom of God and His righteousness. (Matthew
6:25,27,30,31,33) 4.
Try
You must find a window into their orld," I replied, then explained
what
I
eant. "First, believe
your child
is
search-
g for values. Don't treat him or her as they were numb-skulls who do not link about moral values! They may :em uninterested, but remember still aters run deep! "Next, enter their world by becomig familiar with their music, the movs they watch, their heroes and the rcles they travel in.
"Do this
window, common language by which you can Dmmunicate with each other. Meanlgful communication must first be esin order to find a
to
be cheerful
in all
circum-
wave
are on this
length can
is
called pre-evangelization,
common
natural
efore anything supernatural ussed.
ground is
dis-
Only when our children and we
article
I
Probably most of us have a lot of pecial things to look forward to, and
it's
over for an-
>e
is
providing what
a wonderful
New
I
hope
will
Year's present for
nany of us and what I hope will be a >artial remedy for any post-holiday )lues. They're presenting a new series, 'Christy," which will pilot during the irst
week It'
(For a free copy of the Christopher " send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The Christophers, 12 East 48th Street,
News Note, "Lift Up Your Heart,
New
York, N.Y. 10017.)
Father John Catoir
director of
is
The Christophers.
Religion
FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK
The Human Side
Bishop Ramirez points out
that in
"abuelo" (the normal word for grandfa-
word
ther), the
"abuelito"
(my
little
is used. It is a diminutive used to express endearment, warmth and respect. It translates: my dear cherished
grandfather),
grandfather
child.
He then points out that Hispanics have many beautiful sayings which are part of their language and are taught to the children. For example, "Dios te ayude" (God help you), "Dios te bendiga" (God bless you), "Buenos dias le de Dios" (May God give you a good day). As I read this I could not but marvel at what effect this must have on a child who hears this daily. Children brought up in this atmosphere are naturally predisposed to religion. There is not a day of recollection I have given in which concerned parents don't ask, "How can I better get my children to appreciate religion?" If we
that
ily.
who
compose
this country,
own
culture, all:
one basic tradition
educate your children their elders
is
Start early in life to
how
to respect
and immediate family. Also,
teach them short pious phrases that re-
mind them that God is in their life daily. As they get older and tend to become quiet and distant, don't let them enter into their
own world
alone. Enter
with them. Create meaningful communication and work at deepening muit
tual respect for
each other.
This one-two punch
is
one sure so-
lution parents need to practice if they are to
keep religion alive in their homes. Copyright © 1993 by Catholic News
Service
and within
For Post-Holiday Blues? MARTHA W. SHUPING, MD
on the true story of Marshall's mother, Leonara Wood, native of a Hendersonville
look around the many cultures
our
practiced by
served as a mis-
community
in
Smoky Mountains in the early
Crosswinds
1900s. In the novel, 19-year-old Christy
has
new
some
difficulties adjusting to her
life.
Pigs can be heard grunting
outside and even beneath the one-room
rther year.
CBS
when asked, "How
you feeling Betty?" she offers a big smile and says, "Oh, I have my good
of the
the Spanish language, instead of saying
the Great
>ver,
in constant pain, but
moment because
knowledge of God's love, the wonderful love that was revealed to us at Bethlehem. Merry Christmas!
sonal interrelationships.
ng issue for us at this time. But someimes after Christmas, when relatives
disappointment that
always better to deflect selfsoon as possible. Betty Maione of Ottawa, Canada, suffers from a number of physical ailments which leave her It's
pity as
— What Can Hispanic Catholics —
sionary to a poor, rural
gone home and the excitement is there can be a let down feeling or
away.
who
wiped
Catholics are called to live joyfully in the present
Offer the North American Church? discussed the value of Hispanic per-
nental health questions are not a burn-
lave
but for those
feel terrific."
returned
TV Show Remedy )ear Readers,
at times,
strive to live gladly, the tears are
I
article
Other terms like this are part of the Hispanic language and reflect great respect for elders and the extended family. Bishop Ramirez explains that if youth are to cherish the Eucharist, which is a personal relationship with Christ, they must first be taught to cherish human relationships within their fam-
'This
necessary
days and bad, but when I have good days
home I happened by Bishop Ricardo Ramirez whose insights I would have added had I had them before hand. The upon an
newborn
stablishing a
dure the unavoidable miseries of life, but cheerful acquiescence is much better than doleful resignation. Tears are
we move
"Don't play games with them, nor y to become like them, a pal! Don't ilk down to them! Treat them as refeel re-
Everyone must en-
into religion."
iscussed!
Make them
act cheerfully, eventually
Our Children To Appreciate
iblished before anything religious is
pected and maintain your respect!
you
are
who has experienced and endured much in life must be treated with the same fondness we give to a
ponsible adults!
If
you'll feel cheerful.
stances.
When
y children to appreciate the Mass?"
best to help
this a better world, there is little
Getting rned parent asked me,
One Candle
bridge or solved a problem. Fretting
does
true.
Light
about these of peace will be
to make this dream Here are a few suggestions: me 1 Don't let the past drag you down.
we can do
ngs
FATHER JOHN C ATOIR
saying "no" dark and fearful thoughts
about the future. It's all
He. au.
Enjoy Christmas
moment means
to all those
&
in January.
s based on
the
1
967 novel, Christy,
y Catherine Marshall, which was based
school where she teaches. Children come
because they have no is extreme, living conditions difficult and many of the mountain people are suspicious of out-
to school barefoot
shoes.
The poverty
siders.
But as she sticks with the commit-
ment she°has made to serve this materially poor community, she discovers hid-
den treasures. She gradually develops
faith lived out in practical
ways.
rich relationships with the local people
Can they capture this on TV? I'll be
and discov-
waiting to find out. Years ago, there
ers the presence of God in her daily live
were preliminary negotiations to develop Christy as a movie but it never
and with the mission
staff,
ways she hadn't imagined before. The story, although fictionalized, presents an example of a loving, growing in
worked
out. I've read that for
25 years,
See Crosswinds, Paael6
The Catholic News
!
& Herald
December
17, 199
Addressing Reports Of Private Revelations Q. The flood of news some of us Catholics receive in our area about appearances of the Blessed Virgin and Jesus and saints is unbelievable, and confusing. You have said in your column that none of these visions put obligations on us about what to believe or what to do. And we accept that. But some of them are so insistent. Either do this, or don't do that, or you will make Mary unhappy, or you will even go to hell. Is there any
don't have very nice things said about
way to tell if any of these are really, as
claimed,
they say, "messages from heaven?" (Pennsylvania)
pleteness in his
them by the great Christian
spiritual
writers of our Catholic tradition.
Such
searches and expectations of personal
announcements from God are usually considered signs of a weakness of faith. St. John of the Cross, for example, was second to none in the history of of God, and for his reputation as a spiritual director. He knew God can speak to us any way he wishes. Yet, he
God
has spoken in total com-
Word;
authentic and common-sense book avail-
able on this subject
impose any new beliefs or obligations on us as Catholic Christians. They may remind us of the importance of prayer and penance and good works, which we know already from the Gospels and from traditional practices of the Church. That is good, of course. Two major observations or cautions may help you and your friends.
soul
what we
who
those
First,
elations or
is
good
None of
desire special rev-
messages from
God beyond
really have, or rely
on them,
vision or revelation
on
"No
spiritual life.
who does not deal with them (inner
There
isn't
any question that
this
made
And
there's
that they will continue to
do
so.
That being the case,
amaze me
it
continues to
that the school choice plan
proposed by the Clinton administration makes no provision for allowing parents who receive vouchers for public financing of their children's education in
(pg. 114)
marriage is available by sending stamped self-addressed envelope to the r John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Chu 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III. 61 Questions for this column should sent to Father Dietzen at the same ai
Maybe
that's putting
a
it
little
strongly, but such phenomena obviously
didn't impress
him much
some personal
revelation
not outright fraud,
is
is
Those who, by every evidence, acgenuine personal revSt. Teresa of Avila, for example, rarely made such demands.
tually did receive
elations
at all.
Second, one of the surest signs that suspect, if
that the recipient
attempts to bind other people to obliga-
A
from God,
These impositions on others
—
local, state or federal.
part of the
are,
how-
common tactic of those, past and present, who claim visions and revela-
I
dress.)
Copyright © 1 993 by Catholic Nev
ever, a
Service
Choose
Right To
BOB GATELY
of Catholic schools in any school choice plan
The Of-
School Parent Associa-
Department of Education of
\
Editor's
the U.S. Catholic Conference.
Bishop Robert Banks of Green Bay, USCC Education Committee, says the idea is to help parents recognize that they have "a natural and constitutional right to choose an
Notebook
Wis., chairman of the
I
education that accords with their values
and religious
The
beliefs."
office will mobilize parents at
about
where there are none, and
up an office to
(Afree brochure outlining marriag
chapters 22 and 29)
the state
to set
able from Ignatius Press.
explaining the promises in an interfait
them to parochial schools. The nation's Catholic bishops now are beginning an effort to do something
They plan
is false or actually frauduaccording to him, "the recipient'
It's
is
non-public schools to choose to send
this discrimination.
is,
important these daj If you're inte ested, Father Groeschel' s book is avai people.
keep your balance.
allegedly revealed to the visionary."
tion will begin operation next year as
public schools.
lent
many
to
must be made on the basis of what
fice for Catholic
many
A clear sign suggesting that
a revelation
I sympathize with your frustratic and wonder at the, at best, naivete of s
regulations in the Catholic Church an
they are providing a better education
no question
Groeschel.
Still
insistence that the decisions of others
great contributions to society and that
than
A
Small Voice: A Practical Guide on Reported Revelations, by Father Benedict is
which eventually prove to have r
supernatural foundation.
messages) as the work of an enemy can possibly escape delusion in a greater or lesser degree." (Ascent ofMount Carmel,
Parents Have country's Catholic schools have
tions
it.
opinion, the finest readable,
wish.
great authority
it
said.
my
In
given and said to us everything he would
they're called, even the genuine ones,
what you
tions because of
in his Son, he has
these private revelations, or locutions as
to
Question Box
Christianity for his mystical experiences
"Anyone who would seek some new from him would commit an offense," according to this
A. Before anything else,
hang on
to
FATHER JOHN DIETZEN
and national levels
legislative issues.
It
to
work on
also will encourage
dioceses to form parent associations to strengthen
I
can see the need for
such a lobbying effort. Catholic parents who pay taxes to support the public schools deserve to get something for their
money without
giving up their
right to send their children to parochial
those that already exist.
mobilize parents to lobby for inclusion
Catholic schools,
With a couple of grandchildren
schools.
of rural missions in this country send a "wish list" of necessities the people want for Christmas. Friends < the Extension Society have responde to the wish list by providing money fc tors
church repairs, religious education mi terials and liturgical items.
in
For five years, the Catholic Church Extension Society has been asking pas-
See Notebook, Page
Pope Says Families Need Help Facing Results Of War, Violence VATICAN CITY annual World
(CNS)
—
In his
Day of Peace message,
II said the modern famneeds help in facing the tragic consequences of war and worrisome patterns
Pope John Paul ily
of social violence.
Families are often the
first
victims
Family Creates the Peace of the
Peace Day, to be celebrated Jan. 1, was chosen to coincide with the U.N. -sponsored International Year of the Family in 1994.
of bloody conflicts, while a growing
number of militias,
children are joining
armed
he warned.
Accompanying
these dramatic forms of suffering are more subtle signs that family stability and peace is threatened: tensions caused by economic factors and consumerism, a refusal to have children and ill-treatment of minors, he said.
"Founded on love and open gift
of
life,
to the
the family contains in itself
the very future of society;
its
most spe-
cial task is to contribute effectively to a
future of peace," he said.
The papal message,
titled,
Human
Family," was released at the Vatican Dec. 14. The papal theme for World
The pope
said the family
still
repre-
and the essential educating community. Here is where people first learn the virtues of respect and love for others, he said. But today's family, in contrast with sents the foundation of society
its
original vocation of peace,
is
"sadly,
and not infrequently, seen to be the scene of tension and oppression, or the defenseless victim of the many forms of violence marking society today," he said. Wars, such as that in BosniaHerzegovina, have deprived many families of their main breadwinner and caused them to abandon their homes and land.
"The See Peace,Page 16
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ST NINO
ST NINO WAS A 4TH CENTURY CAPTIVE SLAVE IN GEORGIA
SHE WAS KNOWN FOR HER PRAYERS, VIRTUE AND THE MIRACLES SHE WROUGHT, WHICH SHE PROCLAIMED WERE PERFORMED THROUGH HER BY CHRIST. WHEN NINO CURED THE QUEEN OF AN ILLNESS AND AIDED THE KING FIND HIS WAY HOME WHEN LOST IN THE FOG ON A HUNTING EXPEDITION, THEY TOOK INSTRUCTIONS FROM HER AND WERE CONVERTEP TO CHRISTIANITY. AND WITH THEM (IBERIA).
THEIR PEOPLE. THE KING THEN REQUESTED EMPEROR CONSTANT! TO SEND BISHOPS AND PRIESTS T( HIS REALM, WHICH HE DID AND TH WHOLE PROVINCE BECAME CHRISTIAN.
SHE WAS CALLED NINO BY THE GEORGIANS AND IS REFERRED TO AS CHRISTIANA IN THE ROMAN M A RTYROLOGY. SHE IS CALLED THE APOSTLE OF GEORGIA. HER FEAST IS DEC. 15. ©
1993
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Entertainment
Wayne
Sequel Reunites Garth And That
not mean-spir-
is
it
manager
her
(Christopher
about the best thing that can be said about goofy goingson in "Wayne's World 2" (Para-
Walken). Meanwhile, no one
mount).
any bands signed on, though in Wayne's dreams a near-naked Native American (Larry Sellers) and a dead rock star (Michael Nickles) keep insisting if he has the concert they will come. Director Stephen Surjik simply lets Myers and Carvey entertain the audience with silly skits and sophomoric situations, which
ited is
tickets
Reprising their nerdy roles
and Dana Carvey as Wayne and Garth, are
Mike Myers
scruffy stars of a cable access
show in Aurora, 111. This goround the dopey duo are having girlfriend troubles while or-
Waynestock, a Woodstock-like concert which Wayne literally dreamed up. Shy Garth has met an agchestrating
know
arts duel, kindly
the
at
and-up audience, there
teens-
enough
is
(I.R.S.
wholesome one
at
as
ity,
the
USCC
dressing.
III.
The
MPAA
classification rating is
is
MPAA
—
NC-17
"The Hawk" (Castle Hill)
—
USCC
classification, A-III
Not rated by the
adults.
MPAA. "A Home
of Our Own" (Gramercy)
—
USCC
classification, A-III
MPAA
adults.
—
suggested.
A-
"Man's Best Friend" (New Line)
USCC ing,
—
R
O
classification,
MPAA
—
rat-
restricted.
"Philadelphia" (TriStar)
—
USCC
A-IV
classification,
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songstress girlfriend (Tia Carrere) is starting to fall for
The
"Bank Robber"
racy content to suggest this is an adult movie, and not an especially
in the
mix but serving
more than window
little
in a martial
Though aimed
formula, it is more of the same airhead humor, with cameo appearances and spoofs of other mov-
his
his
providing the audience with subtitles and dubbing. More often, however, the comic observations are about as solid as the sand Wayne dreams he walks upon. If you're not a Wayne-andGarth fan, you might prefer to keep your head in the sand for this slack sequel.
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People the light shines through By Lawrence Catholic
Animated by a curiosity, the girl
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days so that the season of the church year and Sunday itself might be celebrated more regularly. Since saints' feasts rarely displace the Sunday celebration now, Catholics who do not attend daily Mass or morning and evening prayer services at the parish may have the feeling that the saints have largely disappeared from
Mick
Service
toddler's boundless only 3 or 4
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constantly asked her mother questions. And the mother always tried to give her child correct answers. One day in church before Mass began, the girl pointed to the figures of various saints in the stained glass windows and asked who they were. Her mother answered simply, "Those are the saints." Some weeks later in pre-school religious education class, the teacher asked if anyone knew who the saints were. This little girl put up her hand and responded, "Saints are the people
the church's life. This was clearly not the intention of the reformers of the calendar, since nearly half the days of the year offer us saints to celebrate and to imitate. Even if we cannot join in parish worship most of those days, there is no reason not to celebrate the saints in our own personal prayer and in family celebrations at home. The little girl said that "saints are
the people the light shines through," and it's
the light shines through!"
The Advent season marks the start of a
new
"The
said that 'saints
a rather good explanation of why
are people the light shines
liturgical
through.'...
the course of the next 12 months, our calendar of liturgical days include will more than 150 days when we In
year.
little girl
They had
mystery of Christ so
the church
lived the
fully that
the
shone through them brightly enough to
light of Christ
lives.
Throughout the
liturgical
year, the church
celebrates the mystery of Jesus Christ. That is the core of every Eu-
illuminate the lives of others."
are invited to recelebrate the life of one or more of the saints. Some days offer a choice of two or three saints, while others celebrate a group of saints together. Before Vatican Council II (1962-65), feasts of the saints covered more of the calendar, including most Sundays of the year. The reform of the calendar
cel-
ebrates the saints'
member and
charist, every feast day, every sacrament,
which followed the council
signifi-
every celebration in the Christian community's liturgical life. The mystery of Jesus Christ is rich and complex, and cannot be grasped or celebrated all once. One way that the church "spreads out" that central mystery is by celebrating different seasons of the liturgical year. While we always celebrate the same
number
of feast
cantly reduced the
FAITH IN THE
Christ,
we
celebrate different aspects
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Do you have a
favorite saint?
Who is
it,
and why?
"Francis of Assisi. I've always liked him because he seemed to live closest to his simplicity of lifestyle and love of nature. I've what appreciate about Jesus Kathy Redig, Winona, Minn. tried to pattern my life after that."
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"Shortly after being diagnosed (with leukemia at age 13) ... said the prayer to Jude every night ... and yes, did beat the leukemia. received a bone marrow transplant from my brother.... Today, it has been 1 1 years since my bone marrow transplant and am feeling great. still say the prayer to St. Jude every night." I
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Shelly Zak, Chamblee, Ga.
He helps me find lost things. It started out as something funny. come to really believe in his help. call on him more and more as get Sue West, Yuba City, Calif.
Anthony.
"St.
But
I've
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I
not only pray to him (St. Anthony) to find an object, but I've asked of him to 'find' a way; a job for my brother; a way out, a new attitude for my son .... And yes, must be a favorite of his ... because ... find my problem solved so quickly." Mrs. Linda Filiano, N. Huntington, Pa. "I
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I'm Irish. We named our son Patrick. had an uncle who come alive for me. stayed in Ireland with a family to whom St. was special. So have a lot of traditions and history connected with St.
"St. Patrick
made
because
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St. Patrick
Patrick
Patrick."
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of his life and mission in Advent or Christmas or Lent or Eastertime. Throughout the rest of the year, in what is called "ordinary time," we reflect upon different events of Christ's ministry and different aspects of his
teaching.
pray to the saints as much as to ask the saints to pray with and for us. Any favors or blessings
we
come
si
This long tradition of celebrating the saints continues to offer us a pat tern of celebrating the mystery of
et
si
Eg
Christ.
Christ is by celebrating the saints. Beginning in the church's early centuries, the Christian community recognized that certain people made the meaning of the Gospel unusually clear through their lives or througb their deaths as martyrs. These people were recognized as "people the light shines through." They had lived the mystery of Christ so fully that the light of Christ shone through them brightly enough to illuminate the
the saints throughout the year offer a kaleidoscope of images of Christ as the light of the world refracted through the lives of men and women from every century and from the rich variety of nations and cultures where the Gospel
lives of others.
So, celebrating the life and death of a saint enabled the community to celebrate the mystery of Christ which that saint's life had revealed in a par-
ticular way. Since the saint's life expressed the Gospel way of life more clearly than usual, Christians naturally tried to imitate the saint's life, to live the mystery of Christ as the saint also natu-
asked the saints to pray with them and for them to God, just as they had often asked these holy Christians to pray with and for them while they were alive on earth. The best of our tradition does not teach us to rally
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from God, not from the saints.
The other way the Christian community has approached the mystery of
had done. The people
pirt
ns
receive
sis
The various
feasts
and memorials of .2
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has been lived.
The celebrations of the saints provide varied opportunities to celebrate Christ as he is revealed in the lives of outstanding Christians who have gone before us in faith. And these celebrations invite us to do likewise, to make the mystery of Christ the core of our own lives, so that the light of Christ will shine through us too. (Father Mick is a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a freelance writer.)
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17,
The Catholic News
1993
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Saintly connections to the
church's story across time The saints, it seems to me, play a more important role today than per-
By Steve Heymans Catholic
News
haps ever and fewer
Service
Having a saint
to identify with can a double-edged sword.
le
say this for fewer
tors?
In contrast to this, tribal peoples
have a powerful awareness of their
i
idmire his truthfulness and conviction, vhich I try to imitate. On the other hand, he did things I like pray:annot bring myself to do
ancestors. In fact, psychologically,
many tribes feel the spirits of the dead all around them. Rather than dismissing this as superstitious, I think Christians have much to learn from it. For we, too, are deeply aware of the shoulders on which we stand, deeply aware of those
are
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ng for two hours every morning, fastng for days on end and wearing a lairshirt!
That's
I
of us are told the stories of
our ancestors. Does our culture teach us that becoming free means severing our ties with the past, with our ances-
I have always held St. Thomas More n high esteem. After all, he was able to alance being a devoted Christian and man of influence at the same time. I
hat, as
before.
when I need to remind myself much as I can identify with
to
whom we are in debt.
man of his
Of course our ancestors are not the
ime. This shouldn't bother me, though, dnce the purpose of saints is to connect is to their time or, better put, the hurch's story across time. Of all the holy days, my favorite is
On All Saints ancestors as fellow sojourners; on this day we reaffirm that they are part of us and we are part of them when we participate in this community across time which we call the church.
urn, St.
Thomas More was
a
object of our worship.
Day we invoke our
Ul Saints Day. What is especially neaningful to me is the sung litany of he saints. Through the litany I realize hat the purpose of the saints is more han that of personal role models: images of the Saints are icons •isen Christ; they are links between us md Christ. In communing with them, ve commune with Christ.
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(Heymans ministry at
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it is
director of campus John's University,
Collegeville, Minn.)
FAITH IN ACTION
a
For me,
is
St.
on All Saints Day that
experience the richness of Catholi|:ism: that we are members of a commuliity and communion that not only transcends national boundaries, but transcends time itself. All Saints Day is a reminder that being Catholic means participating in a communion of perjive
News
J.
Some men whose faith was recognized by Jesus are mentioned in Luke's Gospel (5:17-
5:26).
and had spent all that she had" (Mark She was at the end of her rope. One day she was
noticed. There was nothing to do but the truth and take the consequences.
"Whenever Jesus praised it
was always faith-in-action,"
Powers
1993 reflections and prayers for Advent titled Come and See Jesus (Twenty-Third Publications, Box 180, Mystic CT 06355. 1993. Paperback, 99 cents). Citing the men carrying a paralytic to Jesus, Father Powers says they were stymied by the in his
So "they climbed the roof, loosened some tiles and lowered their friend down into the healing hands of Christ." And Jesus saw crowd.
their faith.
Reflection: The four men Luke mentions "had the kind of faith that wouldn 't quit, " Father Powers says. Jesus' message to us: "Don 't let yourself be stymied by the sameness of the chore or by discouragement or obstacles. Just find a way to get to me."
caught up in a crowd following Jesus to the home of Jairus, a synagogue leader. His
I
daughter was critically ill, and he had asked Jesus to help her. They were on the
touched,
down
be-
fore Jesus
and
told
him the whole truth." There was an awful silence, and then she heard: "Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be cured of your affliction."
No longer was she just someone in the Maybe, just maybe, that was itself healing." crowd. He acknowlhe could help her. It edged her as a person was worth a try. and addressed her warmly as "daughter." She worked her way through the More important, he was no longer crowd and managed somehow to get just someone to be touched, some sort next to him. Superstitiously or not, she of magical charm. He was a person to figured that if she could just make contrust. Their exchanged glance estabtact with him, something good would lished an interpersonal relationship happen. "If I but touch his clothes, I was
shall be cured."
that
Cautiously she reached out, touched his cloak and "immediately her flow of blood dried up." What a blessed relief! But now she was in trouble. Jesus
That is why he had insisted on meeting her. He wanted her faith to be based not on mutual recognition, respect and trust. She had learned faith's real meaning. She had learned that amid all life's frustrations there was hope. But it had to be based on trust in him as a person, someone to know and by whom to be known. This mutual knowledge and trust
I
of faith unfolds.
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bling, fell
interpersonal relationship
I
is
sort of
exchanged glance established an
An idea struck her.
I
So there
some
magical charm. He was a person to trust. Their
way to his house. This Jesus had a reputation as a healer.
tell
She "approached and trem-
Jesus "was no longer just someone to be
I
I
He was
in fear
think of St. Anna when need a fresh perspective on a difficult situation. figure that the Lord's grandmother, like other grandparents, learned through long experience how often the outcome of events is not only different, but better than anyone thought possible. So when crisis brews, seek out St. Anna's well-honed perspective. When feel I've handled a situation poorly, think of the apostles who vied for high position in the Lord's kingdom. suspect a time came when they didn't feel they had handled that situation very well either. In a left-handed way, their very flaws give me hope. Then there is the doubting St. Thomas who apparently experienced a lack of clarity about something important. And there are the martyrs who endured tremendous misunderstanding from others in society. Who today hasn't experienced confusion over important matters or suffered from misunderstanding? What are saints for? prefer to think of them as companions. But what kind? Often enough, companions who know from firsthand experience what the human struggle feels like and how the adventure I
the brunt of his anger.
feel
was
FOOD FOR THOUGHT I
stopped and demanded to know who had touched him. According to the law her malady rendered her "unclean," and anyone she touched was likewise stigmatized. If he found her out, she would surely
Castelot
Service
She was a good woman, but life was not easy for her. For 12 years she had suffered from a persistent hemorrhage that sapped her strength and meager resources. It
writes Passionist Father Isaias
both dead and living. All Saints Day I am reminded that I am sitting at a eucharistic banquet whose guest list includes not only Jesus, the members of my parish or Julia the Lion-Hearted (my daughter), but also Maximus the Confessor; it includes not only Steven of St. Joseph (me), but Mechthild of Magdeburg. As Catholics, we believe that at Eucharist we join a mystical communion of characters participating in the love of God. In other words, in the church at Eucharist, we find ourselves in very good company! For me, it is this good company that I keep that carries me along in my faith. In a sense, I live by their expectations, which carry me. They are a joyful cast of characters who help me to believe as they believe for me.
Catholic
persistent. He had stopped in his tracks and so had the crowd. Her attempt to get away would be immediately
26).
On
By Father John
of the Gospel
so frustrating! As Mark tells us, "She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors
faith,
sons,
A good woman
always hope that they can understand us. And that's good! David Gibson, Editor, Faith Alivel
itself healing.
are the heart of holiness. ing is not enough.
(Father Castelot
is
Mere touch-
a Scripture
scholar, author and lecturer.)
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People St. Louis University, Community Leaders Get AIDS Vaccine In Study Four St. Louis ST. LOUIS (CNS) community leaders, including the presi-
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dent of in
St.
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In
After spending a night in the hospihis right
arm was immobilized
to
promote healing.
SCOTTSDALE,
Ariz.
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Don Ameche,
promote volunteer recruitment, the four
sion spanned eight decades, died Dec. 6
received an experimental vaccine de-
in Scottsdale of bone cancer.
HIV
infection as part
of an 1 8-month study. They were: Jesuit Father Lawrence Biondi, university president; J. Joe Adorjan, chairman of the university's board of trustees and president of Emerson Electric Co.; Sis-
Mary Jean Ryan, a Franciscan Sister of Mary who is also a trustee board member and president of Sisters of St. Mary Health Care System; and United Methodist Bishop Ann B. Sherer of Chesterfield, Mo. ter
Pope Has Sling Removed, Begins Physical Therapy Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) John Paul II had his sling removed and
—
began physical therapy
movement Vatican
to restore full
to his right shoulder, the
removed the an X-ray showed that the
said. After doctors
sling Dec. 6,
shoulder was well-aligned and that a small fracture in the shoulder socket
was
spokesman The pope, 73,
healing, said Vatican
Joaquin Navarro- Vails. dislocated the shoulder when he fell during an audience at the Vatican Nov.
the Catholic actor
career in radio, theater, films and televi-
He was 85 attended Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, where he met his wife at nearby Clarke College, and received a honorary doctorate from there in 1 960. He also attended Marquette University and Georgetown University until the
Ameche
lure of performing
proved too strong. In
was best known for his "Cocoon" in 1986, for
recent years, he
film roles in
which he won an Academy Award for best supporting actor,
"Cocoon
— The
Return" in 1988, "Trading Places" in 1983 and more recently "Folks!" and "Harry and the Hendersons." He recently completed a movie with Whoopi Goldberg.
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Texas Catholic Conference Director To Help Oversee State Lottery AUSTIN, Texas (CNS) Texas Gov. Ann Richards has appointed Holy
affairs office.
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Cross Brother Richard Daly, executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference, to a
new commission designed to
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Cardinal Takes Bishop's Message On Families To United Nations
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educat-
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UNITED NATIONS (CNS) "Love
Ivory Coast President Dies After Three Decades In Office ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (CNS) Ivory Coast's President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, a staunch Catholic who was Africa's longest-serving head of state, died Dec. 7 at the age of 88. Houphouet-Boigny had been ill for some time and had undergone surgery and
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sented the U.S. bishops' pastoral mes-
Father Francis
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Childhood's national director.
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W. Wright, Holy
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Los
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who
died last year of lung
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Catechism of the Catholic
\Church was published in French, Italian and Spanish, the long-awaited English translation is still under review at the I
Vatican.
U.S. bishops j
who met recently with
it was their imvolume would be out in
Vatican officials said pression that the
\
early 1994. ;
"The best prediction is that it will be ready in January, then take about two
months to be printed and bound," said Bishop Frank J. Rodimer of Paterson, N.J., after talks at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in November. Throughout the year, U.S. bishops making their ad limina visits to the Vatican have stressed their eagerness to get their hands on the English version of the catechism.
It
was
a
few months. Pope John Paul
II
"We
all
begged
for
it
as soon as
possible," he said.
Bishop John C. Reiss of Trenton, pope has been informed of concerns over the nonappearance of the N.J., said the
English catechism. In a recent meeting, the pope "shrugged his shoulders as if to say it's coming," Bishop Reiss said.
The pope built his ad limina talks around the content of the catechism and emphasized its importance in nearly all of his speeches to the bishops. "Everyone is aware it is an embarrassment to have it still not out," Bishop Reiss said. In addition to the original French, the catechism has already been published in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese,
German, Catalan, Slovenian, Maltese and, in part, in Romanian. Cardinal Law said in September he did not know what specific points were
marked the one-
was pleased at was generating around the
veiling Dec. 8, saying he
causing the delay in Vatican approval.
the interest
But he said the importance of the English translation could not be overes-
it
world and calling for a deeper reading of the text. The pope, meanwhile, is said to be well aware of disappointment over delays in the English-language edition. Under the direction of Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston, an English translation was completed in early 1993, sent out for review by other Englishspeaking bishops and forwarded to the Vatican doctrinal congregation. But Vatican approval has been withheld pending study of problems reportedly
The English version "is going be a very, very influential text. That's why they have to be very careful," he timated. to
said.
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Misa En Espanol Asheboro,
St.
Joseph, Rev. Joseph Mack, domingos,
p.m.
1
Biscoe, Nuestra Senora de las Americas, Rev. Gerardo Clarke,
OSFS, domingos, 12
mediodfa Charlotte, St. Patrick, Rev. Aurelio Ferrin, domingos, 7 p.m. Charlotte, Centro Catolico Hispano, Rev. Aurelio Ferrin, domingos, 10:30 a.m.
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Dobson, Centro Sagrado Corazon, Rev. Joseph Waters, sabados 6 p.m. St. Pius X, Rev. Robert Menard, OFM, Rev. Thomas Murphy, OSFS, domingos, 2 p.m. Greensboro,
Hendersonville, Immaculate Conception, Rev. Allen Dec,
OFM Cap.,
domingos,
1:30 p.m. Jefferson, St. Francis of Assisi, Rev. Joseph Waters, segundos y cuartos domingos,
1:30 p.m.
Kannapolis,
St.
Joseph, Rev. Joseph Waters, primeros, terceros y quintos domingos,
6 p.m. Kernersville,
Lincolnton, 1
Holy Cross, Rev. Thomas Fitzpatrick OSFS, domingos, 12:30 p.m. Dorothy, Rev. Lawrence Willis, OSB, segundos y cuartos domingos,
St.
p.m.
Monroe, Our Lady of Lourdes, Rev. Roberto Graves, CSSp., domingos, 1:30 p.m. Morganton, St. Charles Borromeo, Rev. Kenneth Whittington, una vez al mes, 5 p.m.
Newton,
St.
Joseph, Rev. Joseph Waters, primeros, terceros y quintos domingos,
1:30 p.m. Reidsville,
Holy
Infant,
Sparta, St. Frances of
Rev. Peter Jugis, domingos, 12:30 p.m.
Rome, Rev. Paul Hautz, primeros y
terceros domingos,
1
:30
p.m. Statesville, St. Philip the Apostle,
Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Patrona de
Peregrinacion
las
Americas.
Rev. Paul Gary, primos domingos, 2 p.m.
Holy Trinity, Rev. Joseph Waters, segundos y cuartos domingos, 6 p.m Winston-Salem, Our Lady of Mercy, Rev. Connal McHugh, OFM Conv., segundos Taylorsville,
A Mexico
sabados, 7 p.m. Yadkinville, Centro Cristo Rey, Rev. John T. Putnam, domingos, 12 mediodfa
Esta es la epoca en que muchos mexicanos de nuestras comunidades
religiosos,
regresan a su patria para peregrinar hacia
el
Virgen de Guadalupe, cuya fiesta se celebra el dia doce de diciembre. Tambien aprovechan pasar las Navidades con su familia y tal vez nunca volveran a Carolina del Norte, despues de haber estado algunos anos trabajando fuertemente para mantener a
sentimientos y fe viva. Necesitamos ministros laicos para
el santuario
de
la
sus padres, esposas e hijos.
Hay muchos hombres solos, quienes
pues estan abiertos a recibir mensaje de Cristo con profundos
esta obre de evangelization en todas las
comunidades de nuestra diocesis. Es verdad que vemos a grupos grandes de jovenes trabajadores viniendo a nuestras liturgias dominicales, pero i& cuantos miles de ellos no hemos llegado?, ni nos conocen, ni saben donde se celebran las
viven en apartamentos por grupos de
Misas en espanol y
hermanos, parientes, o amigos, asf comparten los gastos de renta y electricidad. La Iglesia Catolica ha de brindar apoyo a estos jovenes,
ministros de las otras iglesias cristianas
hambrientos de escuchar la Palabra de Dios, de orar y de estudiar temas
si
los
tal
vez solo los
han visitado e invitado a sus campo es inmenso y Jesus
templos. El
nos necesita para salir a buscar a nuestros hermanos, quienes a veces no tienen transporte para llegar a la Misa.
Agentes De Pastoral Hispana Estos son los sacerdotes y Religiosas bilingues que acompahan a las comunidades locales:
Rev. Gerardo Clarke, OSFS, P.O. Box 1187, Biscoe, NC 27209, Tel. (910) 4283051 Hna. Pilar Dalmau, ACJ, 2117 Shenandoah Ave., Charlotte, NC 28205, Tel. (704) 335-1281 Rev. Allen Dec, OFM Cap., 229 Sixth Ave. West, Hendersonville, NC 28739, Tel. (704) 693-6901 Rev. Aurelio Ferrin, 3635 Park Rd., Charlotte, NC 28209, Tel. (704) 527-7614 Rev. Roberto Graves, CSSp., 205 Rutherford Street, Wadesboro, NC 28170, Tel. (704) 694-5183 Hna. Andrea Inkrott, OSF, P.O. Box 788, Yadkinville, NC 27055, Tel. (910) 463-
5533 Rev. Peter Jungis, P.O. Box 1197, Reidsville, NC 27320, Tel. (910) 342-1448 Rev. Joseph Mack, P.O. Box 699, Asheboro, NC 27203, Tel. (910) 629-0221 Rev. John T. Putnam, P.O. Box 130, Clemmons, NC 27012, Tel. (910) 766-8188 Marilyn Riehle, Glenmary, P.O. Box 714, Jefferson, NC 28640, Tel. (910) 982-
3644 Hna. Linda Scheckelhoff, OSF, P.O. Box 788, Yadkinville, NC 27055, Tel. (910) 463-5533 Hna. Nancy Stewart, DC, 2210 N. Elm Street, Greensboro, NC 27408, Tel. (910) 691-8959 Rev. Joseph Waters, 655 W. Main Ave., Taylorsville, NC 28681, Tel. (704) 6328009
Servicios Sociales Carolina Martinez, Casa Guadalupe, 621
W. 2nd
Street,
27101, Tel. (910) 727-4745 Toerin Leppink, 75 Blue Ridge Avenue, Asheville,
2617 Vicky Utsman, 616 5604
v.* y Santos Cisneros.
Cherry
Street, Kernersville,
NC
N
28806, Tel. (704) 258-
27284, Tel. (910) 996
To Our Friends time of the year many Mexicans go back to their country to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Christmas with their families. There are many Hispanic men who live in North Carolina and together rent apartments to share expenses. They love to hear the Word of God our of deep faith. We need lay
At
Sentados: Antonio Nunez, Eduardo Nunez,
S.
NC
Winston-Salem,
Segunda
fila:
Gabriel
Nunez, Fernando Nunez, Juan Aguilar, Carlos Nunez, Francisco Raya y Alberto Nunez.
this
ministers to reach out and to evangelize them.
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The Catholic News
1993
17,
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nam
Giang Sinh
"Thay khong chuc chiing con mot le Giang Sinh vui ve sao?" Su Phu nhin lich va hieu rang do
cam
se
bao "Toi tha chuc cac
lien
Nam vui ve thi hdn." Loi noi nay cham tu ai nhung ngUoi
anh mot ngay Thu theo Thien
ngay Thu Nam, ngai
la
Chua Giao, cho tdi khi ngai cat nghia ro hdn. "Ca trieu trieu ngifbi
thay vui ve, khong phai vi
NGAY HOM NAY, nhu'ng vi la ngay
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khon ngoan da duoc
hoc de
cung
ngan gon nay cua Cha
rut ra trong caii truyen
Tonyde Mello (Them Mot Phut Vo Nghia, trang vui mu'ng vi ngay nao
ai
chung ta.Va
la
Nhu vay chung ta hay
37)
ngay Giang Sinh.Tuy nhien, theo thien y
toi,
khong ai trong chung ta cb the noi rang hp duoc hanh phuc tuyet doi moi ngay
difa tin
mu'ng hay noi each khac dau kho
nhd ve mot vi xau va 1dm la
la
nguoi
ban ddi cua niem vui. Toi luon
la
muc dang kmh khi ngai cho toi xem vb so, be ngoai
linh
chom nhu
gai
nhung ben trong
thu'dng roi vui cUoi ngai noi "cuoc song
thi
tat
kho khong cb
dude song tron ven moi mang ngay
oi
lai
tham va
binh an va niem vui ngii
muc do
tri.
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sai
quayme
cho con biet dieu nay con khoc
thet len,
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tieng
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toi lai
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di,
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dau hieu mot con
la
g'an nhil toi
nghiem nghi va noi: "Con
nhung moi nguoi chung quanh tre
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cung vo cung cao quy.
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vang ngoc do van con tinh
vudn
len
toi
cho
tdi
bay
tre
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sinh ra
nhin mat
troi
la
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LUA CHON.
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tan the gidi uing
dubng gian bang
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toi
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Va tii do toi mdi
thu'ong voi het tarn hon.
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suy nghi hang ngay,
nhu'ng toi phai chap nhan va chi khi
sang tao cua Chua.
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se tim thay."
chap nhan
that su song.
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toi
toi
khong
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duoc
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THUONG
la
the
thu'dng va yeu
mot chu de cho Le
Giang Sinh va cuoc song con ngUoi. "Thay day cu cua con da day con nen
con se duoc mu'ng
chap nhan hai su
dau kho vi con khong con." L6i
se phai
dau dam trong
in
di
hon minh.
me muon con nhd
da chao ddi, nhiing
con phai song lam sao de khi con sap ra
linh
cua chung ta trong nep song cua Ngai. Moi khi chiem ngudng tao
ai
do phai
thu'dng hay mu'ng vui
Chua cung muon chung ta duoc hanh phuc
TIENG VANG
a
/n'
ro dieu nay,
danh nghia
lay
qua quy hoa
dep ndi
cho
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ngai biet rang "khong dau
vi
moi ngay co ca ngan
vi
bao dau kho khong cung cho the
tran nhiing
tarn xinh
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mot sbngddi trong chung ta muon tim du'dng tat de hudng loi va vi thedem
sang choi, nhan nhui va dep
muon, ban co the lam cho cuoc song noi
tot.
vi
qua bao chang dffdng
di
may cho ca ngan em khac chung khong duoc
Chua luon canh
do minh lam nen,
lai loi
Le Giang Sinh
la
va cung khong vi
nghiem dau
Idi" vi nhu'ng kinh
than phuc.
te la
Con Tre Giesu da chao ddi
Ngudi nen het thay cac treemdeu xinh
sinh racua
that
dep hay toi
vui vi
cho nhanh. Ngai khong tron tranh dau kho
/
tuy nhien, neu ban
sii
mung
ngtfbi
He;
trong tuoi lbn len. Ngai khbiig thbi thoai batcu'ehang nao hoac dung dildng
ma khong phai dau kho. Bdi vi moi niem vui ngan ngui doi phai co^su ngam ngui cua no, neu nguoi ta muon cung mot niem vui keo dai.Oau kho
vi
moi
Nhi nay da khoc khi Ngai chao ddi va Ngai da phai
HOM NAY, thi moi ngay se la ngay Giang Sinh."
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liec
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&
gib,
no lam
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va
can gi tdi ta?" ong thay day moi,hoi
chap nhan
cai
khoang trong giua
lai.
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noi.
"con muon hoc
biet
lien
lam each nao tie
hai thai cue do."
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nhan thuc cube doi vdi bao ve diem kieu cua no.
a
a
TU" mot do de
Nam Moi hanh phuc!
Happy Thursday "Aren't you going to wish us a Merry Christmas?" The Master glanced
saw it was a Thursday, and said, "I'd much rather wish you a happy Thursday." This offended the Christians in the monastery until the Master explained, "Millions will enjoy, not today, but Christmas so their joy is short-lived. But for those who have learned to enjoy today, every day is at the calendar,
—
Such was the wisdom taken from
Tony de Mello' s
story in
More
One Minute Nonsense. Every day Christmas and so ever,
I
let
us rejoice.
is
How-
think that nobody can truly say
he or she
that
out, at the
time, crying in a real is
bound to bring tears to the person who wanted to prolong it. Sufis
the messenger of joy, or suffer-
fering
is
ing
the partner of joy.
is
life is
aggravate
They go
to-
goes with death. No given if there is no death to
gether just like
new
it.
life
Life, if truly lived, is a
mixture of gladness and sorrow. I remember an esteemed priest who showed
me a shell; the exterior is rough and ugly but the interior
is brilliant,
exquisite. Smiling
he
smooth and
can be what you make it. It can be rough and ugly. However, if you desire you can make it smooth in the interior that is in your heart, where peace and joy reign." I think his outlook on life is so beautiful, that is why he is so beautiful himself.
need
to tell
me
you
and
this:
said, "Child, I
Vietnamese Catholic Comunity
when we, your
parents (and God), gave you birth, you cried bitterly but all the people surrounding you were extremely happy because a little girl was born into the
world. But you must will be extremely
remember
to live
said, "Life
happy and the rest will
cry because you are no longer in the
world." Those words remain so deely rooted in me thatlhey make me so aware
of
and its beauty. Christmas is the time
life
happy every day with-
is
same
sense of the word. For every joy that short-lived
just looked at
TONG
now in such a way that when you die you
Christmas." Father
SISTER CECILIA
remember when I was young and foolish, every time I was on the verge of doing some foolish things, my mother I
to rejoice be-
cause the child Jesus was born for us. And, because of that birth, He makes all the children in the world so beautiful.
This child cried
had
to
cesses.
by
when He was
go through
He
all
born,
He
the growth pro-
did not skip anything or go
short-cuts.
He
did not escape pain
because He knew that "no pain, no gain" since the experience of joy or sorrow must be truly li ved so that the person can benefit at
its
best.
We flung ourselves into abyss of darkness at our own choosing in the name of pro-choice. At the same time, God wants us to
for the world.
asked the new master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."
Merry and Happy Christmas to you all!
Handmaids
Sister Cecilia
Tong
is
us beauty upon beauty, lavishing gifts
the director ofthe Vietnamese Apostolate
on us daily, renewing us in His newness. Death approaches at the yielding of life and life happens at the request of death. What a paradox Christianity is because "Christ is the Paradox. For anyone who wants to save life will lose it; but anyone who loses life for my sake, and for the
for the Diocese of Charlotte.
sake of the Gospel, will save
it."
(Mk
8:35.)
Every day is a Christmas because every day thousands of young children are being born and unfortunately thousands of children never have a chance to live because our desire for short cuts to happiness creates long term suffering this great
be joyful because joy is His echo in us.The joy grows in proportion to our growth in Him. I marvel always at the Creation. God renews the world constantly, season by season, heaping upon
Daily I reflect upon this mystery. I cannot do otherwise but to accept it and only when I accept it I will begin to God's prounderstand the process
—
cess.
Then
I truly live
live is to love heart.
So love
and is
Community News
In Brief
Father Tan Le will celebrate the Christmas Mass for the Triad area Vietnamese Catholic community at 3 p.m. Dec. 19 at Christ the King Church in High Point. Parent will meet at 2 p.m. and refreshments will be served at 4:30 p.m. Activities also will include the baptism of 14 children and the election of new officers of the community.
my life. And so to
to love with all one's
the important
message
of Christmas and of life. "My former master taught
me
to
accept birth and death," a disciple said.
"Then what have you come
to
me for?"
The Christmas celebration for the Charlotte area will be Dec. 25 at 3 p.m. at St John Neumann Church. Father Tan
Le will celebrate the Mass which will be followed by a musical program and refreshments.
V
The Catholic News
& Herald
December
17, 199.
Diocesan News Briefs Singles'
CHARLOTTE — Catholic Singles
of Charlotte
is
hosting a
New
Eve party beginning at 9 p.m.
at
RALEIGH
— The March
Church, Belmont, at 9 a.m. A stop will also be made at a church, yet to be determined, in Charlotte. If interested in going, call Jan Rogers at (704) 825-
or directions, call
Linda Pietuck, (704) 344-9326.
Hibernian Christmas Party
—
The Ancient SWANNANOA Order of Hibernians, Cross & Shamrock Division #1 of North Carolina, will have its first annual Christmas Party on Sunday, Dec. 1 9 from 2 p.m.-5 p.m. The party will be at St. Margaret Mary Church in the parish hall. All members, their wives and guests are welcome. There is no charge. Entertainment includes a story teller, Irish and Christmas music and a video tour of Ireland. Volunteer entertainment is welcome. Members are asked to donate food or other refreshments, such as hors
5277 or (704) 827-7593.
d'oeuvres, cookies or snacks. Food items
benefit
are to be coordinated with Jim Potts, (704) 784-8166 or John Fitzgibbon, (704) 686-5871.
dential
the only
Holy Angels Tournament
CHARLOTTE — Charlotte Catho-
High School will host the third annual Holy Angels Basketball Tournament on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. lic
in
The
21 and 22. is
for men' s
invitational tournament and women' s varsity teams.
This year' s participants include host
Red Cross staff teamed up for a succesful blood drive at St. Luke The Dec. 4 drive produced 74 pints of blood. Donors were parishioners Luke and members of other congregations. Photo by STEVE UZZELL
Parish volunteers and
Church, Mint of
St.
Newman High
School, Co-
Life Commission at St. Paul The Apostle
lumbia, S.C., and Bishop England High
Church: Greensboro Urban Ministry, serving the homeless; Habitat for Humanity, building homes for humanity; Hospice at Greensboro, serving the needs of the terminally ill; Reading Connections, providing services for adult illiteracy, and the Triad Health Project, serving the needs of people with AIDS.
Cardinal
School, Charleston. All proceeds will
Holy Angels in Belmont, a resiand development center for menand physically handicapped chil-
tally
dren.
Games
begin
at 3
p.m. on Tuesday
and noon on Wednesday. Admission is $3 a day or $5 for a tournament pass.
North Caro-
lina.
Life In
Alumni Basketball
A Blue Christmas? CHARLOTTE —
CHARLOTTE
Need help and
—
The Charlotte
support dealing with the death of a spouse
during the holiday season? Call Suzanne
tion is sponsoring
Bach at (704) 377-687 1 Bach is CRISM
Basketball Tournament and Christmas
coordinator and a team leader for the
Party on Sunday, Dec. 26. Tournament
Widowed, Separated and Divorced Min-
games will begin early Sunday morning and continue all day. The Christmas party will follow in the CCHS gym.
.
istry.
Admission
ASHEVILLE ings for the
— Upcoming meet-
of
is
free
and open to all alumni of Mercy and
CCHS, Our Lady
O'Donoghue High
Widowed, Separated and
annual Alumni
its
Schools.
Alumni Office
at
(704) 525-7289.
Advent Vespers
Of Life
CHARLOTTE — Seventy-five do-
Spirit
sumption Church will host a "Life in the Spirit" seminar Jan. 10, 17, 24 and 31. The seminar will begin after 7 p.m. Mass. The church is located on Shamrock Drive. For more information, call (704) 535-9965.
'
slaughtered children, the victims of abor-
The Mass
will begin at 12:10 p.m.
Church is offering Solemn Vespers each Sunday of Advent at 6 p.m. Missionary Image
Bounty Of Bethlehem
Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be in the Diocese of Charlotte from Sun-
late
St.
Leo
nors are needed for a bloodmobile drive
Gabriel School on Sunday, Dec. 26 from 8 a.m.- 1 p.m. The drive will be at St.
in the St. Gabriel cafeteria.
CHARLOTTE — The
To make an
appointment or volunteer time to process donations, call Ray Hojnicki at (704) 847-9043.
day, Jan. 9 to Thursday, Jan. 13.
.
The
image will be presented at various parishes. For more information, call Marcia Ebner at (704) 362-2705.
GREENSBORO
its
Conception Church
your Consider a donation to
Christmas list? an agency. All the following suggestions are supported by the Community
is
preparing for
12th Annual "Bounty of Bethlehem"
Moor Church is presenting a Christ-
mas program of cial
18 traditional and spemusical selections to highlight
The program is Sunday, Dec. 19, beginning at 3 p.m. and followed by dinner. events leading to the nativity.
The Catholic News & Herald welcomes parish newsfor the diocesan new
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World and National Briefs ^ Case Weighs Economic Of Abortion Protests Under WASHINGTON (CNS) I rilling from Supreme Court justices .bout what Congress intended its 1970 "ourt
i
Motivation
ffc
i
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mti-racketeering laws to cover, the
at-
prney for several abortion clinics asked the
high court to say the First
Amend-
ment doesn't protect protests that break jrther laws. Also in oral arguments at the
Supreme Court Dec.
8,
the attorney for
from the Pro-Life Action Network and Operation Rescue said blinic protests lack the economic mobrotesters
ment of criminal background checks on all persons seeking employment in an archdiocesan school or parish, beginning Jan. 1
CRS
Sending Aid To Victims Of Burundi Ethnic War BALTIMORE (CNS) Catholic
—
sible disciplinary action against him.
Family.
Church law prohibits priests from hold-
was
Suspect In Mexican Cardinal's Death Points Finger At Rival-
MEXICO CITY what he
killing of Cardinal
of Burundi.
The
aid includes funds for
Ocampo
— An
al-
in
Juan Jesus Posadas
Guadalajara airport
a
said.
clothing and other supplies, the agency
44,
Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix,
who was
arrested Dec.
4
in the
working
northern Mexican border city of Tijuana,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Or-
with private and government agencies
gave police a different version of the
Arguing for the Naional Organization for Women and sev;ral Illinois abortion clinics, Fay Clayton debated at length with Justice Antonin Scalia about whether abortion clinic protests should be covered under laws usually applied to organized crime ac-
to provide
Live
necessary for prosecution under the
ganizations Act.
said.
said Dec. 6
it is
also
food and other assistance to Burundians displaced from their homes by the fighting. Some 300,000 people are said to have been forced from their home areas to other parts of the country, while some 800,000 have fled to neighboring
states.
tivities.
State Senate Considers Bill
To
On Charitable Groups PITTSBURGH (CNS) — A
Catholic-Jewish Statement Urges More Anti-Pornography Efforts WASHINGTON (CNS) Pornog-
Levy Fee
raphy "reduces the Creator' s gift of sexu-
Senate in December could have disas-
devoid of personal
trous effects for the state's charitable
—
ality to
a level that
is
commitment and
dignity,
spirituality,"
said a joint Catholic-Jewish statement
on pornography.
"We
call
upon our
fellow citizens to help stem the prolif-
pornography in our commuby refusing to purchase or to view
may go
that
organizations
if it
shootout than previous accounts, Jorge
Mexico's National Against Drugs, said during a Dec. 7 press briefing. Tello said that Arellano Felix has alleged under questioning in Mexico City that rival drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was the instigator of the shooting spree which took the lives of Cardinal Posadas
Tello, director of Institute
Ocampo and
six others.
passes, said a Penn-
Group Says
Brazilian Indians
Invade Lands, Take Hostages
RIO DE JANEIRO,
— About
Brazil
(CNS)
800 Indians seeking
to re-
by the Pennsylvania
Brazil invaded three farms and took 15
Catholic Conference, now contains what
people hostage in a bid to push their
Thomas
Tobin of
Auxiliary Bishop
nity
Pittsburgh calls a "fatal" amendment.
J.
cause, the Catholic Church's Indian
group said. The members of the Pataxo group said they want federal
rights
such materials," said the statement released Dec. 7. It was approved at a Dec. 2 meeting the of the Committee for
The
Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Interreligious Affairs Committee of the Synagogue Council of America.
sion allows municipalities to collect a
men have
"payment in lieu of tax." Such payments could total 25 percent of the local tax rates. "They can call it what they like, but it looks like a tax to me," Bishop Tobin told the Pittsburgh Catho-
several times for action to be taken
Baltimore, Milwaukee Archdioceses Revise Child Sex Abuse Policies BALTIMORE (CNS) The Archdiocese of Baltimore has revised its policy on child abuse cases to include monitoring by an independent review board of archdiocesan response to allegations. The archdiocesan policy also requires criminal background checks for "all parish employees working primarily with children and youth" and for all applicants for the priesthood or permanent diaconate. It also calls for psychological testing of all seminarians and
—
original bill called for uniform taxexemption standards for charitable nonprofit organizations, but the
lic,
new
ver-
diocesan newspaper.
Gabon's Leading Opposition Candidate Is Spiritan Priest ROME (CNS) The leading opposition candidate in Gabon's first
—
multiparty presidential elections priest
who became
is
during a 13-year exile in France. Father
Paul
Mba
Abessole, a
member
of the
Congregation of the Holy Spirit, has not had a pastoral assignment since the government allowed him to return to Gabon in 1989, said Father Jean Michel
deacon candidates. The Milwaukee
Jolibrois, a staff member at the Spiritan
Archdiocese approved a similar require-
headquarters in
Rome. Father
Jolibrois
been in contact with Father Abessole, but have not made any decision regarding possaid leaders of the order have
Maryfield Acres Retirement
Community Offers Peace of Mind
release of the hostages. Pataxo spokes-
appealed to the government
against settlers
who
trespassed on land
tribe. In 1926 the Bragovernment recognized Pataxo
reserved for the zilian
(CNS)
— Four-
two separate automoMarian shrines in Mexico. Near Acultzingo, in the Gulf state of Veracruz, 14 people were killed and more than 40 injured Dec. 5 in front of a Marian shrine at Puerto del Aire. An empty passenger bus returning to the
others injured in
bile accidents near
shrine to take pilgrims
home
lost its
brakes and plowed into two parked vehicles
and the crowd. In a separate
inci-
dent the same day, six people were seriously injured in
Mexico City when
and ran into a column of
Our Lady of Guadalupe. Mexico City police reported that the 28-year-old driver was under the influence of alcohol.
Vatican Officials Support British Efforts To Accept Anglicans VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II and the top Vatican officials for doctrine and ecumenism have expressed support for steps taken by the bishops of England and Wales so far to welcome some Anglican clergy and la-
—
ity into
the Catholic Church. Cardinal
George Basil Hume of Westminster told reporters Dec. 4 that some 1 60 Anglican clergy have approached British Cathobishops about the possibility of en-
rights to the land that included the
lic
Paraguassu-Caramuru reserve in the coastal state of Bahia. But over the years the reserve was repeatedly invaded by land-grabbing outsiders, and the Indians were expelled. In 1982 the Pataxo retook Paraguassu-Caramuru.
tering the Catholic
Canadian Bishop Seeks Prayers For Children In Ex- Yugoslavia OTTAWA (CNS) The head of
ing on
—
Church since the Church of England's synod initially endorsed ordination of women to the priesthood in November 1992. The synod gave its final approval on Nov. 1 of this year. More requests are expected in late February when the Anglican rul-
women
priests formally takes
effect.
The Church of England plans
ordain
its first
women priests
to
at Easter.
the Canadian Conference of Catholic
Bishops has asked parishes throughout Canada to observe an hour of silent prayer for children in the former Yugoslavian republics. The conference president, Bishop Jean-Guy Hamelin of Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, proposed that all parishes set aside from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 26, the feast of the Holy
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Parish Honors Benedictines At Centennial —
CHARLOTTE The Benedictine monks of Belmont Abbey, who served St.
for Father
Edward Biss who served
17, 199
Windup
the
parish from 1949 to 1969 as the last
Peter Parish in Charlotte from 1892
Benedictine pastor of
were honored Dec. 11 as the parish wound up the celebration of the centennial of its present church build-
The present
to 1969,
St.
St. Peter.
Peter Church
is
second on the uptown Charlotte
The
first,
built in 1851,
the
site.
was damaged in
865 when retreating Confederate troops blew up a nearby ammunition dump. By 1892, the building's foundations had
ing.
1
Abbot Oscar Burnett of Belmont
Abbey was the principal celebrant of the Mass which closed the centennial cel-
deteriorated to the point where the struc-
ebration and Benedictine Father John
ture
Oetgen was the homilist. Principal concelebrants were the Jesuits who now staff St. Peter, Fathers James Devereux, Eugene McCreesh and Robert Paquet. The concelebrants also included several priests from Belmont Abbey. In his homily, Father Oetgen said the parish continues to reflect
the direction of the Benedictines
its
"mirrors Benedictine practices" as a place "where Christian charity will be
extended." In brief closing remarks, Abbot Burnett also paid tribute to the
administrator of the Diocese of Char-
A number of major events were scheduled between then and the Dec. 1
and people of the parish for their continued outreach to the community. priests
lotte.
A reception followed the Mass in Edward Biss Hall, the parish hall named Peace He
(From Page
closing Mass.
6)
pope cited situations in which spouses must work far away from each other or when unemployment causes them to worry about making ends meet.
said specific structures should
be established to meet the spiritual and psychological needs of war victims as urgent, he said, as their need for food and shelter. The pope deplored the "very sad fact" that a growing number of boys and girls and even small children are play-
—
"Peace will always be at risk so long and families are forced to fight for their very survival," he said. Other family problems are caused by behavior inspired by "hedonism and consumerism, which drive family members to seek personal gratification rather than a happy and fruitful life together," he said. "Frequent arguments between parents, the refusal to have children, and the abandonment and ill-treatment of minors are the sad symptoms that family peace is already seriously endangered," he said. The answer, the pope added, is certainly not found in the separation of married couples or in divorce, which he called a "true plague of present-day as individuals
armed conflicts. They armed militias and for causes they do not
ing a direct part in
are "forced to join
have to fight understand," he said. The pope noted that even without war, too
tries
in
coun-
many children are
deprived of the warmth of a family
because "parents, taken up by other interests, leave their children to their
own
devices." Some young people become involved in a "real culture of violence," he said. In other cases, thousands of chil-
dren are
survive on the streets,
left to
where they are led
and the
was dedicated on Dec. 24, 1893. Benedictine Abbot Bishop Leo Haid officiated at the dedication. Rather than mark the centennial on the actual 100th anniversary on Christmas Eve, parishioners and staff decided to avoid the holiday season by holding an earlier celebration. The centennial celebration began Sept. 25 with a Mass celebrated by Msgr. John J. McS weeney present church
He said the parish
Benedictine heritage.
was considered unsafe.
Work began on a new church under
into crime, the
drug
Many
society."
of these he said. "Such scandalous and widespread situations cannot be ignored! The very
trade or prostitution.
nity
which
is at stake.
rejects
children,
Thanks For Favors
or
know
peace," he said. In describing the
new
on Christmas Eve.
(From Page
Photo by
number of people have been praying would be brought to the
that this story
screen and now
we have, not a two-hour
film but an entire
BOB GATELY
)
Pope a
active parish in the Diocese of
Peter in Charlotte, oldest
TV series. If it's only
good as the book, it will be worth seeing. And, with all the prayer that has gone up for this, maybe it will be even better than the book. Dr. Shuping is contract staff with Catholic Social Services and also has a private practice as a psychiatrist in Winston-Salem. Questions for this column may be sent to: Dr. Martha W. a fraction as
NC 27103.
(From Page 11)
new
Basilica and ordain
bishops. Sev
eral U.S. bishops-designate are expectec
to
be included.
— On
Baptism ol pope will, as usual, eel ebrate Mass and baptize infants. This year, to highlight the Year of the Fam ily, the Mass and baptisms will take Jan. 9, feast of the
the Lord, the
place in
St. Peter's
Basilica rather thar
in the Vatican's Benediction Hall.
—
The Christmas-season schedule ends with the pope's Jan. 15 meeting and speech to the diplomatic corps ac credited to the Vatican.
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hopeless situations can never
Crosswinds
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St.
Charlotte, will be 100 years old
Shuping, 1400 Millgate Drive, Suite B,
street children die tragically,
future of society
The present building of
tensions that
EMM
have gripped the modern family, the
Young Adults Diocesan Presentation on Relationships Andy Novotney, The Belmont Abbey College Father
Presentor:
Friday, February 4, 7 p.m.
Saturday, February
5,
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4 p.m. with closing liturgy
Pope John Paul in
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complete
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text,
II' s
encyclical "Veritatis Splendor"
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