Texas Gulf Coast Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1976 Page: 1 of 6
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Official Newspaper of fhe Diocese of Corpus Christ:
FRiday, Aagust 13, 197(5
Nondiscriminatory policy
THE ASSUMPTION
Giovanni Angelico da Flesoie, 15th century Dominican friar and Florentine painter,
executed this conception of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fra Angelico, as the
artist is known, treated the Assumption In an unusual manner. Christ blesses His mother’s
body as he hoids her in His arm, preparing to take her to Heaven. Apostles flank Christ This
is one of the frescoes Fra Angelico painted In the Convent of San Marco In Florence during
the 1430s. (RNS)
Marriage Encounter founder
and the human family
PHILADELPHIA (NC) — The human
family has undergone many changes in this
industrialized and computerized age,
“changes which have menaced the family
with enticements towards self-destruction.”
Nevertheless, “There is hope,” Father
Gabriel Calvo of Spain, founder of the
Marriage Encounter movement, told the
40,000-member congregation at Mass con-
cluding Family Day at the 41st International
Eucharistic Congress here.
Father Calvo gave a special Communion
meditation at the Mass, which was presided
over by Cardinal James Knox, papal legate.
The Marriage Encounter convention which
preceded the Congress drew some 12,000
couples from all over the work.
Father Calvo said there were “many
healthy signs of hope for the human family.”
He added:
“Our hope is in the thousands of families,
two parents together, one parent alone, with a
sense of family mission who act as agents for
social change, show concern for the poor, are
positive forces in society and who bjing the
Good News of Jesus to all.
“Our hope is in the families who have heard
the prophetic call of Christ to. fidelity in
married life and are a sign to provide
security, overcome distrust and give an
understanding of the loving faithfulness of
God, our Father,” Father Calvo said.
“Our hope is in the family who accepts
children as the expression of creative and
generous conjugal love and a gift from God.
Such hope regards abortion as a “supreme
dishonor to the Creator,” he continued.
According to Father Calvo, there is hope in
family unity and harmony in which “parents
and children contribute to each other’s
growth so that youth are not enticed by drugs,
alcohol or other forms of escapism and,
because of frustration or irresponsibility,
parents are not led to separation and deser-
tion.
“Our hope is in mature married couples
who, because of their sense of responsibility,
their spirit of sacrifice and their acceptance
of God’s call to the sacrament of matrimony,
are signs to those preparing for marriage of
the necessity of adequate preparation, proper
understanding and deep motivation to live
this sacrament,” Father Calvo concluded.
by Sister Camella HerlUiy
The Catholic schools in the Diocese of
Corpus Christ! exist in order to help the
Church in this area accomplish her mission of
developing committed Christians. Catholic
schools are called upon to make faith real in
the world. They must be or become a loving
Christian community, witnessing the
presence and reality of the risen Lord to and
for the culture in which they exist.
The Catholic schools in the Diocese of
Corpus Christi exist primarily for Catholic
students of any sex, race, color, nationality
and ethnic origin and secondarily for students
of other denominations of any sex, race,
color, nationality and ethnic origin who
choose the Catholic schools.
Catholic schools pursue cultural goals and
thenatural development of youth. In addition,
it aims to help the student in such a way that
the development of his-her personality will be
matched by the growth of baptism.
This announcement is called, “Notice of
Nondiscriminatory Policy as to Students,”
Sister Camella Herilhy
Diocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools
and is in compliance with Revenue Procedure
75-50, which established Guidelines and
Recordkeeping Requirements for deter-
mining whether private schools have racially
nondiscriminatory policies with respect to
students and faculty members,
“Revenue Ruling 71-447, 1971-2, C.B. 230,
holds that a private school must have a
racially nondiscriminatory policy as to
students in order to be recognized as exempt
from Federal income tax under section 501
(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
Revenue Ruling 75-231 applies to church-
related schools....”
The nondiscriminatory guidelines for
church-related private schools are
established by the Internal Revenue Service,
United States Department of the Treasury,
Washington. D.C., and channelled to the
Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Corpus
Christi through the United States Catholic
Conference, Office of General Counsel, 1213
Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Parochial schools set registration
Cardinal calls claims of
vocation crisis 'for the birds'
PHILADELPHIA (NC) — The claim that
priests and Religious are experiencing a
special vocation crisis is “for the birds,”
according to the Vatican’s top official for the
clergy.
Cardinal John Wright, American prefect of
the Congregation for the Clergy, told about
25,000 ^people at a Eucharistic Congress
PHILADELPHIA (NC) — An American
prelate who classified himself as “a member
of a minority” urged the Church to “become
the model of listening to the voice of the op-
pressed and satisfying his hunger.”
Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez of Sante Fe,
N.M., told a Freedom and Justice Conference
here in connection with the 41st International
Eucharistic Congress that there are three
basic desires of minorities in America for
liberty and justice:
“The desire to be accepted as we are. The
desire to help shape our own destiny and, with
the grace of God, participate fully in the
development of the total human family. The
desire to be heard and have our needs
satisfied.”
1116 Mexican-American prelate said there
must be a recognition of cultural differences
and an exceptance of pluralism within the
Church.
“I hear minorities telling our Church to
givp us bishops and priests and Religious and
lay leaders who understand us,” Archbishop
Sanchez said, “those who have studied our
culture and traditions and have come to love
vocations Mass that “no single vocation is in
trouble or in crisis today — that’s for the
birds.”
What is in crisis, he declared, is “the very
sense of vocation itself.”
Msgr. Glenn Bennett, a congress official,
said that about 2,000 bishops and priests who
concelebrated the liturgy made the Vocations
Mass one of the largest concentrations of all
time.
Cardinal Wright maintained that today’s
“increasingly standardized, impersonalized,
regimented and automated culture tends to
paralyze the sense of personal vocation.”
The prelate insisted that if there were no
general vocation crisis, “more doctors would
be making night calls, and there would be
fewer answering services and recorded
messas-^ ”
He faulted the Church for sometimes using
“vocation” to mean numbers in the seminary
and convent.
Vocation, he stressed, is found in “every
form of generous service to civilization or to
God.”
By Sister M. Camelia Herlihy
Parochial schools throughout the Diocese of
Corpus Christi have announced registration
dates for the fall semester. Following is a list
of schools and their registration dates.
ALICE
St. Elizabeth School
Fifth and Cameron
Date: August 18 and 19
St. Joseph School
300 Dewey
Date: August 18 and 19
BEEVILLE
Our Lady of Victory School
707 N. Ave. E
Date: August 16 and 17
St. Joseph School
610 East Gramman
Date: August 13
CORPUS CHRISTI
Christ the King School
1625 Arlington Drive
Date: August 19 and 20
Corpus Christi Minor Seminary
Route 1, Box 500
Date: August 15
Holy Family School
2513 Nogales
Date: August 13 and 16
Tigua Indians
perform
Pueblo Indians of Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, El
Paso, Texas performed social and folk
dances at this year’s “El Dia de las Misiones”
celebration at the Old Spanish Missions. The
celebration commemorates the death of
Venerable Fray Antonio Margil de Jesus.
This year was the 250th anniversary of the
death of Fray Margil.
The Tigua Indians are the oldest iden-
tifiable ethnic group in the state of Texas.
Their reservation is located in the shadow of
the oldest mission in Texas, La Mision de
Nuestra Senora del Carmen, founded in 1682.
It was founded by the padres and the labor of
the Tigua Indians. Much of its original fabric
still remains.
The Tiguas were recognized in 1968 as a
Texas Indian Tribe by the 60th Legislature
and placed under the Texas Commission for
Indian Affairs. This has resulted in a “living
pueblo” and a $750,000.00 Arts and Crafts
center on their reservation.
They were converted to Christianity and
lived at the mission much as the Coahuiltecan
Tribe did at the missions of San Antonio.
There was free entertainment, ad-
mission and bus transportation to the
missions starting from Roosevelt Park on
Auguste, 1976. The other performers included
stuch local notables as San Antc.nio’s Rosita
Fernandez, Curro, Teresa and Los
Flamencos de San Antonio, el Ballet
Mexico-Espana and many more.
La mision de San Jose y San Miguel de
Aguayo, known as the “Queen of the
Missions” was the focus for this year’s
celebration.
Incarnate Word Academy
2910 South Alameda
Date: August 16 and 17
Incarnate Word Elementary
2935 Austin Street
Date: August 18
Incarnate Word Junior High
2917 Austin Street
Date: August 16 and 17
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
5805 South Padre Island Drive
Date: August 10
Sacred Heart School
1218 Comanche
Date: August 13 and 14
Ss. Cyril & Methodius School
5002 Kostoryz Road
Date: August 19
St. Joseph Junior High School
2121 Mary Street
Date: August 19 and 20
St. Patrick School
3350 South Alameda
Date: August 19
St. Pius X
747 St. Pius Drive
Date: August 18 and 19
■inm In this year of Our
Bp" L01^- 1976> the Feast of
Hrk‘ JHI the Assumption of Our
Blessed Mother into
-a heaven coincides with
the twentieth Sunday of
| the year and because of
. its solemnity it will take
lap’* precedence. What a
joyful happening it is in
this Eicentennial year
for the faithful to have both the fourth of July
and the fifteenth of August fall on a Sunday!
For we may not forget that our nation has
been placed under the special protection of
Our Lady.
There are few dogmas that have been
defined, by the Church, in a formal or ex
cathedra manner. The belief of the faithful
that, after her death, the body of the Blessed
Virgin Mary was reunited with her soul and
assumed into heaven is one such dogma. This
latest definition was declared by Pope Pius
XII on November 1st, 1960,
From the fifth century until the date of the
definition, the Church everywhere held to the
doctrine of the Assumption. It was reasoned,
and rightly so, that since the body of Mary
cradled the body of Jesus Christ and since,
through His bodily sufferings and glorious
Resurrection, he redeemed mankind, it is but
fitting to expect that Mary had a great share
in the redemptive power of her divine Son
and, hence, her body should not remain in the
grave but should be re united with her soul and
brought to heaven where she adores her Son
in the glory of His risen body.
Four and a half years prior to the formal
definition, Pius XII asked the bishops of the
Catholic would if they, together with their
St, Theresa School
1253 Lantana Street
Date: August 19
KINGSVILLE
St. Gertrude School
400 East Caesar
Date: August 19 and 20
St. Martin School
410 East Richard
Date; August 16
LAREDO
Blessed Sacrament School
1501 Bartlett Street
Date: August 11, 12 and 13
Mary Help of Christians School
Del Mar Boulevard
Date: August 11 and 12
Our Lady of Guadalupe School
1718 San Jorge Avenue
Date: August 17 and 18
St. Augustine High School
1300 Galveston
Date: August 10 and 11
ROBSTOWN
St. Anthony School
205 Dunne Street
Date: August 2 to 8
clergy and faithful, would wish to have
defined what they had held and believed for
centuries past. The replies received, in Rome,
were “almost unanimous”. They convinced
the Pontiff that the time had arrived to make
the formal pronouncement. Thus it was that,
on that memorable November day, he
declared to the world that, “by the authority
of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed
Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own
authority, we pronounce, declare and define
as a divinely revealed dogma: The Im-
maculate Mother of God, Mary ever Virgin,
after her life on earth, was assumed, body
and soul, to the glory of heaven.”
The Assumption of Mary does not separate
her from the rest of the redeemed People of
God. Rather, it unites her more intimately
with each one of us. As the Council puts it, “In
the bodily and spiritual glory which she
possesses in heaven, the Mother of Jesus
continues in this present world as the image
of the first flowering of the Church as she is to
be perfected in the world to come. As the most
faithful spouse of the Holy Spirit, Mary is the
model of all the Church and mankind hope to
become in heaven.”
Can we ever begin to imagine the glory and
the joy which surrounded Mary’s Assumption
into Heaven! There her spouse, St. Joseph,
and her divine Son, Jesus Christ, awaited her
arrival. There she came face to face with the
Father who had chosen her to be the Mother
of His Son. There she was welcomed by the
Holy Spirit who overshadowed her when she
conceived Jesus in her most pure womb.
There she was crowned Queen of Angels and
of Men. There she will welcome us with
outstretched arms when our time comes to
gain everlasting happiness and peace.
Archbishop speaks out
FRoro the Bishop's desk
Cardinal John Wright
The Moat Rev. Robert F. Sanchez
us for who we are. Those who can speak to us
in our languages, who truly lead us and who
allow us to give and use our talents for the
redemption and liberation of this world.
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