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Rev. Robert McMahon
Father Robert McMahon, pastor of the Newton
/imre Parish, will conduct a series of Retreats in
Venezuela, S.A.
from Sept. 11
to 23. The re
treatants will
be American
Priests and Sis
ters who are
working in the
South Ameri
can missions;
the majority
will come from
the Maryknoll,
Franciscan and
Edmunite Com
munities but Rev. Robert McMahon
many American Diocesan priests will be included.
Thus far about 12 American Sisters have indicated
their intention of making the retreat. Father Mc
Mahon will return to North Carolina on Sept. 26th.
An Ecumenical Proposal
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — (RNS) — Formation of
a council representing local churches and syna
gogues for joint action on community moral and so
cial problems was endorsed by the Charlotte-Meck
lenburg Ministers Association’s Executive Commit
tee here.
To be known as the Charlotte Council of
Churches, the proposed interreligious group would
be composed largely of laymen representing Prot
estant, Catholic and Jewish congregations.
The proposed council would be designed to
“get things done.” Work of the council would in
clude improving communications among churches
and synagogues and among the well-to-do and the
poor, launching of a prison ministry, and helping to
solve problems of personal and social morality.
School Lunch Service
The New Hanover County School Board has
agreed to allow students at St. Mary’s School in
Wilmington to have lunchroom service at the near
by public school. The students at the Catholic
school will pay the same fee for lunch service as
the public school students. The request for lunch
room service was made by Sister Mary Imelda, prin
cipal of St. Mary’s school on behalf of the 200 pa
rochial school students.
Serra Convention
Bishop Vincent S. Waters will attend the re
gional convention of Serra Clubs which will be held
in Washington, D.C. from Sept. 30
to Oct. 2. The Serra organization is
composed of business and profes
sional men who work to foster
vocations to the priesthood. Eight
other Bishops are planning to
attend this m eeting and . will offer
a concelebrated Mass at the prin
cipal session.
Salisbury Men's Club
SALISBURY — “The farmer is being made the
scapegoat for the rise in grocery prices” N.C. Agri
culture Commissioner James A. Graham told the
members of the Sacred Heart Mens club at their
September meeting. Mr. Graham, a native of Rowan
County, said “Much of the rise in the family gro
cery bill is not because of the higher cost of living,
but rather because people are living higher. Amer
icans are generally enjoying a feast of good living
which 30 years ago they were unable to afford.”
The Commissioner added that “in the past 30 years
the national per capita income had increased nearly
450 per cent. The recent increase in retail food
prices reflects the cost of labor going into the
processing and preparation now demanded by the
present day housewife.” The Commissioner pointed
out that the “farmer’s gross income does not rise
in proportion to his increased business expenses.”
The Sacred Heart Men’s club is headed by E. R.
Bianchi and is an active organ in Sacred Heart par
ish.
Cursillo
A Cursillo for men will be held at Bishop Mc
Guinness High School in Winston-Salem beginning
Thursday evening Oct. 6th and finishing Sunday af
ternoon Oct. 9th. This retreat is open tp all men
in the diocese; applications can be had through the
pastor or directly to Father Byron — Spiritual Di
rector — St. Gabriel’s parish, Charlotte. The Cursil
lo is a spiritual retreat emphasizing discussion and
liturgical participation.
Green Stamps
St. John’s Prep Seminary will be grateful for
the receipt of Green Stamps to assist the furnishing
of the new building. The recreation rooms in the
new wing are attractive and appreciated but also
quite bare, lacking chairs, tables and game equip
ment. Many desk lamps will also have to be pur
chased to replace those broken and worn out. The
seminary operates on a limited budget and thus
the items obtained by donated Green Stamps are of
considerable help. Individuals as well as parish
groups are asked to help the seminary with these
stamps. Please forward them to: St. John Vianney
Hall, 237 Victoria Rd., Asheville, N.C.
Enters Trinity College
Patricia Ann Hillman of Asheville is one of 263
Freshmen beginning studies at Trinity College in
Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert D. Hillman of Biltmore Forest and is
a graduate of St. Mary’s High School, Manhasset,
N.Y.
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All in the Family
Aren’t most of us really interested in just two things: ourselves and
other people? Abstractions just don’t grip us until we see their rele
vance to us as people. Even God had to put on flesh to get a hearing.
If I seem to linger over the obvious it is because of an entire Mon
day morning spent studying two chapters of the Decree on the Apos
tolate of the Laity. I was trying to come up with some pointing
fingers for the mind. Struggle, struggle. The Vatican Council’s De
cree is clear, scripturally based, complete, challenging. But what can
be said about it? Read it, can be said about it. And? Spend your
life living it, might be added.
What was really obvious after this period of study was how gladly
I jumped to answer the telephone’s clamor and with how much more
lively interest my friend’s words were heard than the Decree had been
read.
Perhaps this call is a message to say that my job is not to retell
the Council’s utterances but to illustrate, put flesh on them. Of
course Bunyan thought of this first, but Pilgrim’s Progress is our
aim, too. And which is more widely read—Jim Bishop or a theology
text?
As you know our task as lay apostles is to bring Christ where we
are, to bring His message to the world today, and to work to make
Truth and reality the same. After a typical Monday lunch of two
chicken wings and three stalks of broccoli, I reflect that my friend Fe
licia is a message on the lay apostolate, the Council emphasis on which
is described by Martin Work as moving a pot simmering on the back
burner to a front burner turned up high.
Felicia gives permission, and so I’ll tell you about our conversa
tion. Her main reason for calling, just an appetizer for women phon
ers, was to inyite me for coffee with a county commission candidate.
We couldn’t get together on this. Wrong party. But this lay apostle
is carrying out something of the Decree whether she has read it or
not. By working to put a man of high principle into public office, she
is working to better the temporal order.
The rest of our conversation related to an illustration of charism,
the Decree’s term for the gifts of the Holy Spirit we must share. Felicia
shared her great skill of communicating recently when she gave a talk.
In the course of the talk she also shared the crises of her life for the
purpose of revealing how God had drawn her to Himself and re-oriented
her life.
Through this incidence of giving, the receiving is still going on;
the stone is dropped in the water and the widening circles of loving
action spread from it. From giving the talk Felicia made a new friend,
a nun. Today she told me this new friend had helped tremendously
with a family problem. Further she said that she has been able to
help another friend by directing her to this Sister. As the Decree
quotes St. Peter, “according to the gift each has received, administer
it to one another” and become “good stewards of the manifold grace
of God.”
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