Texas Gulf Coast Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1976 Page: 4 of 6
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» EXAS GULF COAST C ATHOLIC
Friday, August 13, 1976
TWO WOMEN CAPTURE ATTENTION AT CONGRESS
PHILADELPHIA — Two women — Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Princess Grace of
Monaco — captured the attention of many attending the 41st International Eucharistic
Congress in Philadelphia. Mother Teresa, shown greeting people at left during the
Congress’ World Hunger Symposium, was viewed by most as the essence of what the goals
of the Congress are about — satisfying the hungers of the world. Princess Grace, a native of
Philadelphia who was a movie star before she married Prince Rainier of Monaco, addresses
the Family Life Conference at right. The glamor of having the royal couple at the Congress
intrigued many. (RNS)
Nairobi rumored to be site of
next Eucharistic Congress
PHILADELPHIA (NC) -
The next International
Eucharistic Congress may be
held in Nairobi, Kenya.
Asked about such rumors,
NairrN' Cardinal Maurice
Otunga said here at the 41st
International Eucharistic
Congress that he may host the
42nd Congress.
‘‘But we are still in the
talking stage,” he insisted.
Decisions on where the
Congresses will be held are
made in Rome by the Pope
and the Permanent Com-
mittee for International
Eucharistic Congress.
That committee is now
headed by Cardinal James
Knox, current papal legate to
the Philadelphia Congress.
Married couples called to
be sign of Christ's love
PHILADELPHIA (NC) —
“Christian married couples
are called to live their
marriages in such a way that
they are a truly credible
sign of Christ loves His
Church ” said a statement
released here during the
recent international con-
vention of Marriage En-
counter.
Recalling the scriptural
description of marriage as a
sign of Christ’s love for His
Church, the statement by
leaders of the Marriage En-
counter movement appealed
to Christian man -1 couples
“to make every effort to grow
together in their love for one
another, to become truly one
in mind and heart and af-
fection, and to manifest this
oneness and love through their
mutual tenderness, their
loving actions toward one
another and their family.”
The statement continued:
"There is urgent need that
Christian couples make this
effort. For, in the final
analysis, the Church iteslf and
the credibility of its message
depend on the credibility of
Christian married couples
precisely as Christian
married couples, on their
truly being, in and through
their marriage and their love,
living signs of Christ’s love for
the Church.”
The purpose of the
statement is to encourage
Marriage Encounter leaders
to use the principles it outlines
in their own programs, said
Msgr, James McHugh,
director of the secretariat of
the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops’ Committee
on Pro-Life activities, who
helped draft the statement.
Nearly 10,000 delegates
from around the world
gathered at the University of
Pennsylvania here to attend a
series of workshops and study
sessions enabling Marriage
Encounter leaders to for-
mulate plans and future
directions for the movement,
Msgr. McHugh said.
The statement recom-
mended that:
— Couples “Who are living
their vocation of marriage
with a sense of purpose” be
integrated into the ministry of
the Church”
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PHILADELPHIA — Mother Teresa of India and Bra ill’s
Archbishop Helder Pessoa Comara listen to other speakei J
during the 41&t International Eucharistic Congress’
symposium on freedom and justice. During the session the
10,000 persons filling Philadelphia’s Civic Center rose as a
body in tumultuous response when Dom Helder interrupted
his impassioned plea fdr the poor to kiss the hand of Mother
Teresa ' In the name of the poor.”
The diminutive nun who has devoted her life to the poor
asked the people to “look for Jesus In the distressing disguise
of the poor” while Dom Helder declared that the power of
multinational corporations and the advent of a “new
Nazism,” which he said springs from “internal colonists’’
who subjugate their poverty-stricken country and justify it
by preaching anti-communism, thwart needed social
changes to help the poor in Latin America. (RNS)
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— Christian couples “build
iolidarity among themselves
and their families, in small
communities and in larger
associations, based upon a
widespread realization that all
belong to the community of
the married;”
— Christian families
“develop a life of prayer
compatibje with the dynamic
of family life” including more
active family participation in
sacramental liturgies,
especially that of the
Eucharist and family prayer
and paraliturgical practices
at Lome.
Masses during the con-
vention were said by Bishop
Warren Boudreaux of
Beaumont, Tex., Marriage
Encounter liaison for the
National ConfdFfence of
Catholic Bishops; Bishop
Edouard Gagnon, president of
the Vatican Committee for the
Family; and Cardinal John
Wright, prefect of the Vatican
Congregation for the clergy.
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with him but he camouflages it with a hat.
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NCCW recognized
for assisting elderly
contact Mr. or Mrs. Wallace Life Directors, at 853-5864 or
E. Whitworth, Jr., Family 855-2110.
DCCW board of
directors to meet
WASHINGTON (NC) - The
National Council of Catholic
Woman (NCCW) has received
national recognition for its
efforts in assisting the elderly
and the handicapped.
A citation was presented to
Mrs. Arthur Horsell, president
of NCCW for the
organization’s participation in
“Operation Independence,” a
project dealing exclusively
with aging.
The award is given by the
National Voluntary
Organizations for Independent
Living for the Aging, a
program of the National
Council on the Aging of the
IWBS
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare
(HEW).
The project involves
programs in 18 dioceses,
supplying such services as
visiting the elderly, tran-
sportation, meals, Social
Security assistance, Medicare
and Medicaid assistance, help
in obtaining discount
prescriptions and a variety of
advocacy programs.
The NCCW was among six
national voluntary
organizations and 22 local
communities receiving the
citation.
Beginning in September
four parishes may come
together each Sunday evening
to focus on the positive growth
and development of their
parishioners’ marriage. In
October a four session
program will begin to bring
parents to a greater
awareness of themselves and
their relationship to their
children.
A fifteen minute presen-
tation by the leader on a
specific topic will be followed
by a ten minute question and
answer session for each
couple. Next is a fifteen
minute interchange between
each couple based on the
answers from the previous
activity. Following this Is a
forty-five minute Group
Discussion. The final part is a
recap of the evening by the
Leader. The purpose is to
support the couple in the^r
marriage relationship and
allow parents to reflect, gain
and affirm their confidence in
being parents.
A more detailed description
will appear in next week’s
issue. If you have any
questions about the above
Some people must think
the Sunday service is like a
convention; many families
just send on delegate.
The Board of Directors of
the Corpus Christi Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women
will meet Saturday, August
21st at 10 a.m. in the dining
room of the Minor Seminary in
Corpus Christi.
Mrs. E.F. Goodrich,
diocesan president, urges all
board members to attend this
very important meeting in
order to finalize plans for the
forthcoming DDCW biennial
convention.
Mrs. Joe Kalinec Jr.,
President of the Alice
Deanery Council of Catholic
Women will report on the
progress of the plans for the
diocesan biennial convention
being hosted by the Alice
Deanery, and to be held Oc-
tober 7-8 (tentatively) in
Alice, Texas.
Other topics of interest to be
discussed will be ; time, place
and dates of the various
deanery meetings; report by
Mrs. E.F. Goodrich on the
NCCW General Assembly to
be held in conjunction with the
Eucharistic Congress to be
held in Philadelphia; and the
NCCW convention to be held in
San Antonio, Texas in October
of 1977.
Deanery presidents and
commission chairmen will be
called on to report on the
work, projects and programs
of their respective deaneries
and commissions.
The diocesan council has
been recognized by the San
Antonio province director for
100 percent affiliation to the
National Council of Catholic
women. The Diocesan
President thanks and
welcomes all the new af-
filiates and hopes that all will
be represented at the
Diocesan Biennial Con-
vention .
Through the courtesy of the
Missionary Sisters of Jesus,
Mary and Joseph lunch will be
served for those who wish to
eat immediately after the
meeting. If you do not plan to
attend or remain for lunch,
please notify Mrs. E.F.
Goodrich, Rt. 1, Box 55,
Laredo, Tx. 78040 not later
than August I4ih so that the
exact number of reservations
can be made.
Sisters conclude
general chapter
The General Chapter of the
Sisters of the Incarnate Word
and Blessed Sacrament,
which convened on July 17 at
Incarnate Word Convent,
Corpus Christi, adjourned on
Thursday afternoon, July 29.
The general chapter is held
every four years.
With Sister Martha Ann
Snapka, the newly-elected
Superior General presiding,
the sessions of the Chapter,
which met daily, spent time in
evaluating the past efforts of
the congregation and making
plans for the future.
Thirty chapter members
were elected as delegates by
the entire membership. The
meetings were open to all
members of the congregation,
who were able to express their
views in open session as each
issue was discussed. They
studied their community life,
their prayer life, their
apostolate, and their govern-
ment.
Since most of the members
of the congregation v/ere able
to be at the Motherhouse in
Corpus Christi for the annual
retreat, which began on July
10 and ended the morning of
July 17, as well as during the
entire time the Chapter was in
session, Chapter time was the
occasion for a number of
community celebrations.
The community celebrated
Mass on Friday, July 16, for
Sister Agnes Marie Tengler’s
intentions in thanksgiving for
her eight years of dedicated
service as Superior General.
Other celebrations included
game nights and an outdoor
supper.
At the closing of the Chapter
on July 29, as Sister Martha
Ann Snapka called the name
of each convent, the Sisters
assigned there for the coming
school year stood. She then
presented to each group a
banner bearing the chapter
motto, FORWARD IN FAITH.
The following resolution was
adopted by the Chapter.
RESOLUTIONS
We, Sisters of the Incarnate
Word and Blessed Sacrament,
deeply rooted in the living
tradition of Mother de Matel
and filled with the spirit of
Saint Augustine, praise the
Father for renewing us in
Christ and calling us once
again “to be holy and
blameless and full of love in
His sight." From the General
Chapter of 1976, we go
FORWARD IN FAITH guided
by the Spirit.
WE, THEREFORE. AF-
FIRM
1. Our belief that in ct.n-
munity we become sharing,
sacrificing, and forgiving
manifestations of evangelical
love.
2. Our intense desire to
form genuine community to
the extent that our minds and
hearts are fused into one
through charity and centered
upon God.
3. Our fidelity to communi-
ty prayer and our willingness
to involve ourselves actively
in the liturgy at; our daily
central act of worship.
4. Our need for courage and
strength to surrender our-
selves to God through an ever-
deepening prayer life.
5,Our choice to depend on
God as our Father by
following Jesus in His sim-
plicity, gentleness, and
submission.
r Our willingness to make
Christ incarnate through the
ages by dedicating our lives to
His teaching mission, thus
bringing Christian wholeness
to individuals and unity
among all men.
“May God grant us a mind
to know Him, a will to obey
Him, and a heart to love
Him.” May we remain con-
fident that He is with us
always, even to the end of
time.
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POPE OPENS SEMINAR ON AMERICAN ART
VATICAN CITY — Pope Paul ia cheered by American artists as he enters a conference hall
in the Vatican’s Borgia Palace to open a seminar on the “Spiritual Inspiration of American
Art.” At far left is Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York, president of the Committee of
Religion and Art in America, sponsors of the seminar and an exhibition of American
graphics and prints held in conjunction with it. Addressing the seminar, the Pope said he
was convinced that any work of art, “without sacrificing its rightful autonomy,” is a
“potential vehicle for a religious message.” (RNS)
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