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congregation packed into the mountain church for the anniversary liturgy, during which five youth were confirmed and the spirit of Catholic life was pondered.
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"What does it mean to be a Catholic?" Bishop Curlin posed to the congregation. "It means that Christ walks the earth in us. It is
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Above, Father C. Morris Boyd reads the text of a commemorative plaque honoring the 50th anniversary of Our Lady of the Mountains Church in Highlands July 16, as Bishop William G. Curlin prepares to bless it. Bishop Curlin also confirmed this year's confirmation class,
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& Columns Pages 12-13
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity,
and In cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
— Leonardo
da Vinci
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us." For 50 community of
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son for celebration is the bringing of Christ's presence into the world. Bishop William G. Curlin presided at a Mass honoring the 50th anniversary of Our Lady of the Mountains Church July 16. The
Raleigh
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the diocese's spiritual leader told the congregation that the true rea-
Prison ministry leads to six
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By
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AGOSTINO BONO ANGELES (CNS)
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"Encuentro 2000" opened with Native American drums calling the participants from across the nation to gather in assembly. At the end of its final liturgy, 5,000 worshippers tied ribbons to one another's wrists, a traditional Hmong sign of sending forth. In between, the different languages and styles of dress, music, art and worship celebrated the manytextured, many-hued richness of Catholic life in the United States.
The Eucharist brings unity to that diversity, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles said at the final Mass. "It is here that we take up the gift and task of being a people whose
committed to reconpeace and unity," he said. Five-thousand Catholics from lives are
ciliation,
150 dioceses converged on the Los Angeles Convention Center July 6-9 for "Encuentro 2000: Many Faces in
God's House," the only national event of the jubilee year sponsored by the U.S. bishops. More than 150 countries of origin were represented. "The idea of Encuentro is after seeing all of the beauty, pageantry and traditions that make up the American Church, that the participants would take those ideas back to their individual dioceses and make that diocese a reflection of all cultures and traditions," said Rev. Mr. Curtiss
Todd, vice chancellor and vicar for African American Affairs Ministry of the Diocese of Charlotte, in attendance at the conference. "The key was having many different cultures represented in order to enact active, open and willing acceptance of the presence of many traditions and contributions of various groups of people." "'Encuentro 2000' marks the first national gathering to lift up the riches of the church's racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in the United States," Cardinal Mahony said. Encuentro is the Spanish word for encounter or
meeting. Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala of Los Angeles, chairman of the
Encuentro organizing committee, told reporters,
"We
will see that the
music of the Latinos makes the Anglos' feet move, the incense of the Asians reminds Europeans of the transcendence of God and the drumbeat of the Native Americans pulsates in the hearts of all." Sprinkled through the meeting were liturgical ceremonies indigenous to various groups of U.S. Catholics.
Among
participants at the four-
day meeting were 82 U.S. bishops and several from Latin America. "It was truly a God-experience of being in the presence of the bishops
and thousands of members of the church from different nations and races," said
Mercy
Sister
Meehan, director of
Maureen
religious forma-
tion of schools in the Diocese of Charlotte.
"We became See
unified
and truly
ENCUENTRO,
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