Texas Gulf Coast Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1976 Page: 1 of 6
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Children in trouble
— a ray of hope
1 a.e lOc
VoJ.XI No. 4 FRida^Jane 19, IP76
Over 800 gather in Laredo
to honor AAsgr. George Gloeckner
In 1975 almost 1100 children in Nueces
County got in trouble with the law. These
children have come from many backgrounds
and many different ways of life but many of
them have one common problem — the lack of
a good home in which to grow up. At the
present time Martineau Juvenile Hall is
planning a program for helping the younger
child who has had trouble with the law and
who needs a good solid stable home to grow up
in.
In recent years the age of the type of child
mentioned above is constantly becoming
younger. The average age of the child or
children referred is now only thirteen years,
eleven months old with many being even
several years younger than that. Some of
these children come from homes where the
kids are forced to raise themselves because
their own parents have not been able to care
for them or sometimes don’t even care
enough about the children to take the time to
raise them and guide them. Since more and
more of the children seem to be at a loss for
parents Martineau Juvenile Department has
begun a foster care program in which
children from homes having little or no
parental support can be placed in a home
where they can receive the necessary care
and guidance to have a chance to grow up
properly. We realize that it is not financially
easy to add an extra child, especially one
between the ages of 10 to 16, to your family.
For this reason, there are funds to reimburse
the foster family for food, room, medical
expenses, transportation, and other normal
needs which we feel may appear.
The kind of family for which we are looking
has to meet certain standards. They must
have several people not related to them to
serve as references as to the family’s morals,
sense of responsibility and emotional
stability. The family also must be able to
meet local environmental health and fire
protection codes as well as have health cards
to show they have no communicable diseases.
Those families that meet the necessary
requirements to be a foster home and enter
into a contract with Martineau Hall will
receive consultation from people within the
department and from an independent con
sultant with the program. This would be set
up to help the foster parents with problems
which are usually associated with having a
child from another family in their home.
Once a child is assigned to the foster home
by the Juvenile Court System regular con-
tacts with the foster parents and the child
would be maintained by counselors from the
juvenile department.
AGANA, Guam (NC) —- Typhoon Pamela,
which ravaged the U.S. territory of Guam in
May with 190 m.p.h. winds, inflicted $5 million
in losses here, according to the Pacific Voice,
the Agana diocese’s newspaper.
Bishop Felixberto C. Flores, of Agana
estimated that 60 percent of the diocese
suffered loss and damages, and 40 percent of
the parishes suffered heavy damages. A few
parishes suffered total loss, he said
Bishop Flores is asking mainland Catholics
for spiritual and financial assistance.
Ihe Duke Nombre de Maria Cathedral
suffered the total loss of its rectory, plus an
additional $210,000 loss in windows, contents,
air-conditioning equipment, and cafeteria
stock.
The bishop’s house in San Ramon suffered
$240,000 in damages to the kitchen, bedrooms,
the chapel, the contents of the chancery of-
fice, the Religious Education Office, and the
house.
The Pacific Voice office suffered $120,000 in
The goal of this program is to provide
several mings: Fir^t of all, the primary goal
is to place the child into a home which is
emotionally stable and solid as far as ability
to maintain responsibility, which will give the
child a good chance for supervision and a
good chance for growing up in a positive,
warm type of environment Secondly, the
ultimate aim is to be able to work the child
back into his natural home by the end of his
probationary term. He would be receiving
counseling from the counselor at the juvenile
department during the time he is in the foster
home and the counselor would also be
working with the natural parents trying to
work out a better environment for the child to
move back into.
There are many problems in having a child
from someone else’s home in another home. It
is particularly difficult to have a child who
was raised in someone else’s home for ten to
twelve years and then have him placed in
another home and expect him to behave
exactly like the other children, immediately.
For these reasons, we feel, that families
interested in this program would have to be
very stable and have very good relationships
within the famiily. Also, we feel that one of
the parents should be in the home during the
day, so that the child is supervised and has a
chance to be around an adult as much as
possible. Also, this kind of child could be
somewhat of a financial drain on the family
and therefore, we have set up the program
where the foster home would be reimbursed
as a rate of $5.00 per day plus a separate fund
to cover unusual expenses for each day the
child is in the home. We feel that this is a
sufficient amount of money to help alleviate
most of the financial burden on the foster
home.
We do wish, that anybody having any desire
for working with children and feeling they are
qualified in helping with this type of program,
would please contact Richard Leonard at 855-
7303. Many families which would qualify as
foster homes would be much more interested
in working with a small child because they
appear to offer more emotional rewards to
the foster parents. This is mainly because
they progress more rapidly, and it is easier to
discipline them in helping them grow up.
However, although it is somewhat nore
difficult to discipline the young teenager, it
can be equally rewarding to the foster family
as far as emotional rewards are concerned,
because this is a period of time in a child’s
life, when he is transforming from a child into
a young adult and needs very close stable
guidance from adults.
damages to equipment and its com-
munications office.
President Ford declared Guam a major
disaster area on May 24 and Gov. Ricardo
Bordallo declared a state of emergency.
Special collection
The Church in the Marianis Islands has
been devastated by a typhoon that ripped
into buildings such as schools, halls,
chapels, and a hospital reducing them to
rubble. Thirty years ago, your Bishop
served as Chaplain on Guam. Because of
similar recent freaks of nature in the
immediate past, we are not taking up
another special collectioa However, you
may wish to help in this instance. If so,
please send your offerings to the un-
dersigned.
+Most Reverend Thomas J. Drury
Bishop of Corpus Christ!
Ms (O’. Gloeckner
More than 800 persons of all faiths joined at
a National Jewish Hospital benefit dinner to
honor Msgr. George Gloeckner.
Mario Gonzales Jr., the dinner chairman,
presented a $25,250 check to Richard
Bluestein, hospital executive vice president,
as a banquet highlight.
It was pointed out, this was the most that
has ever been raised in Laredo for the famous
Denver hospital and research center. Each
year since the fund raising drives were
started, there has been a marked increase in
local support.
On this past Friday
evening, June 11th, it
was the great joy of
your Bishop to promote
to the holy priesthood
three young candidates
in the persons of
Fathers Jose Gutierrez,
Roger Smith and James
Tamayo. All three have
celebrated their “first”
holy Mass and are taking time out from
assignments and studies to spend the
remainder of this month visiting with
relatives and friends and attending the
gatherings of their classmates. During the
months of July and August, they will supply
for priests who are going on vacation. By
September 1st, they will be given permanent
assignments.
Without doubt, the anticipation and desire
of a young man who has answered the priestly
call is proportionate in intensity to the length
of time given to the preparation for it. It is a
long road that takes the candidate over four
years of high school, two years of Junior
College, two years of Senior College, during
which philosophy is studied, and finally four
years cf training in the science of theology
which includes Moral, Dogma, Patrology,
Homiletics, Canon Law, etc. During these
twelve years, there must be a definite in-
crease in the spiritual life of the candidate for
if a priest is anything at all, he must be a man
of God — another Christ
There is something beautiful about a young
priest. As an alter Christus, he has learned
about God and man. His vocation is to
strengthen the relationship that exists there
and this he does by his own good example, by
his prayer life, and by the ability he has at-
tained from long years of training to ac-
Bluestein joined Monsignor Gloeckner and
other speakers in paying tribute to Nicholas
David Hachar Jr., of Laredo, and Rafael
Carranza, of Nuevo Laredo, for donating
$5,000 each. Both are prominent Catholics and
active supporters of a great variety of
charitable projects.
Mayor Joe C. Martin Jr. was the dinner
chairman. In welcoming the many par-
ticipants from Laredo, Nuevo Laredo and
other cities he thanked all for sharing the
priest’s concern in health care.
Bishop Thomas Drury, presented Msgr.
George with the Bicentennial Honor Award of
National Jewish Hospital.
He recalled that Msgr. George came to
Laredo 31 years ago.
The bishop described the priest as being a
true friend of humanity, a person who has
gained much satisfaction from using his
talents and time to help people of all faiths.
Msgr. Gloeckner responded by warmly
thanking ail who have helped the hospital
over the years. He said, personally an
enormous amount of pleasure had been
received from helping to increase support of
the hospital because it had helped so many
very sick people in the two Laredos at no cost
to them.
The invocation was by Bishop Thomas J.
complish this task.
The young priest has the support of his
brothers in Christ who have been where he is
and who are able to guide him in the early
years of his ministry. Priests are never
strangers to each other. There is a warmth in
the handclasp the first time they meet that
says: “I am your brother; I have known you
fora long time; I am at your service.”
From the point of view of the ordaining
bishop, the young levite means the continuing
grace of God in the Sacrament of Holy Or-
ders. It means also the extension of Christ’s
Church hereon earth for He promised, “I will
be with you all days even to the end of the
world.” It also means an added responsibility
because like any dutiful father he wants to see
this spiritual son of his do well in his vocation
and he must endeavor, as far as possible, to
protect him from harmful influences which
could destroy this special calling which has
Bishop Drury with nine other clergymen in
the city held a press conference at the Corpus
Christi Bank and Trust on Monday, June 14
and issued a “Declaration of Dependence.”
The text of the document will be printed in full
in next week’s edition of the Texas Gulf Coast
Catholic.
Besides Bishop Drury, others signing the
statement were: Dr. W.O. Colson, head of the
Corpus Christi Association for Southern
Baptists, Rev. Fred Swearingen of Parkway
Presbyterian Church, Rabbi emeritus Sidney
Wolf, Rev. Harold Branch of St John Baptist
The Most Reverend Thomas J. Drury gave
the invocation.
^ Drury. The benediction was by Rabbi Akiva
N. Gerstein. There was music by Martin High
School Band under the direction of Francisco
Sosa and Roberto Botello.
come from God alone.
May God bless all our priests and especially
those who are our Junior Clergy. May our
people never forget to say a prayer for them,
a prayer like that which Jesus offered many
centuries ago:
“Keep them, Father in thy name whom
thou hast sent me, that they may be one as we
are one. While I was with them, I kept them in
thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I
kept; and none of them is lost but the son of -
perdition, that the scripture may be
fulfilled....I have given them thy word and the
world hath hated them because they are not of
the world.,..I pray that thou shouldst keep
them from evil. Sanctify them in truth.... -
Father, I will that where I am, they also
whom thou hast given me may be with me
that they may see my glory which thou hast
given me” (John 17:9-24).
Church, Dr. O.W. Harrison of First Christian
Church, Rev. Charles Dobbins of Church of
the Good Shepherd, Rev. Don Peevy of First
United Methodist Church, Rev. Raymond
Pena, of our Lady of Guadalupe Church, and
Rev. Ambrose Giannoukos of SL Nicholas
Greek Orthodox Church.
The statement will be read in all of the
churches of the city from Sunday, June 27
through July 4. The various congregations
have also been asked to ring their church
bells for five minutes, beginning at 1:00 p.m.
on Independence Day,
Pamela causes $5 million
damage to diocese
FRom tbe Bishops’ desk...
Religious leaders sign
Declaration of Dependence
Feast of Corpus Christi, Bicentennial celebration to be held June 20th
The Celebration of the Feast of Corpus
Christi on June 20 will be the third of six
special Bicentennial events scheduled by the
Diocesan Bicentennial Commission, Rev.
Robert E. Freeman, Coordinator for the
ceremonies said.
At 2:00 p.m. on the grounds at Corpus
Christi Cathedral, the Nueces County
Historical Commission will unveil a marker
for the original St. Patrick’s Church — a tiny
“shellcrete” chapel accomodating only 50 or
60 persons. The Catholic congregation of 1853
was made up of about 20 families — Irish and
German immigrants and early Mexican
pioneers of this area. Present day im-
migrants continue to worship at Our Lady,
Star of the Sea, on North Beach which con-
tains the sanctuary, walls, windows and pews
of the old edifice. Dr. Richard Marcum, is the
Commission Marker Chairman and research
on old St. Patrick’s by Mrs. Robert Haeglin
and Mrs, William H. Martin led to the
decision to place a marker so that citizens
might know more of the history of Corpus
Christi. Margaret Ramage, Chairman of the
Nueces County Historical Commission will
welcome guests at the dedication prior to the
unveiling of the marker by Most Reverend
Thomas J. Drury, Bishop of Corpus Christi.
At 4:00 p.m. the second public event of the
day will be an outdoor Mass and procession
scheduled oh the grounds adjacent to the
Blessed Sacrament Chapel, 41C5 Ocean Drive.
Bishop Thomas J. Drury, will be principal
celebrant Rev. Mark Chamberlin and Rev.
Raymond Pena will speak briefly in the
bilingual liturgy on the subject of the
“Eucharist and the Hunger of the Human
Family.” Families of South Texas are invited
to the ceremonies and social following Mass.
Previous celebrations of the Diocese have
heen held at the Presidio La Bahia in Goliad
in April; on Founders’ Day in Laredo in May,
with a concelebrated bilingual liturgy in San
Augustin Plaza; later this year the Diocese
will conduct Bicentennial services in San
Patricio in October; join in Ecumenical
Memorial Services in November; and close
the year with the Youth’s Bicentennial Salute
to Mary on December 8 in Corpus Christi.
In his Bicentennial message last April,
Bishop Drury said, “It is with a sense of
justifiable pride that we congratulate mem-
bers of our flock on the observance of the
bicentennial....you have kept pace with the
national growth......You have built churches
and established excellent schools for the
spiritual needs and Christian education of
both your own and the children of your neigh-
lx)rs....You have become «.«are of the social
ills which plague our beloved people and you
have done your share to provide special care
in child welfare and adult facilities where
the virtue of charity is abundantly evident....
You give of yourselves to the members of
your family..... (in) peace and love...... (in)
many acts of kindness which you extended to
others....May God protect you.....continue to
bless this Nation which we call ‘home’.”
Bishop Drury has suggested the occasion be
in spirit of a "mini Eucharistic Congress” for
those who cannot attend the 4lst International
Congress to be held in Philadelphia this
summer.
“The history of the Church and the early
history of Texas are inseparable,” Father
Freeman has pointed out. In May 1675 — over
300 years ago — Father Juan Larios offered
the first recorded Christian services in this
area before a friendly group of 1172 Indians
from several Texas tribes near where U.S.
Highway 83 crosses the Nueces. “It was 1519
— only 27 years after Columbus had
discovered America — when Lieutenant
Alonso de Pineda’s discovery of a bay while
exploring the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico
that he named it ‘Corpus Christi Bay’ in
keeping with the tradition of naming sites for
the Roman Catholic Feast Day of their
discovery,” Mrs. Robert Haeglin, a member
of the Bicentennial Board, concluded.
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