Texas Gulf Coast Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1971 Page: 1 of 6
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LANDMARKS OF AMERICA - MOUNT McKINLEY
Rising 20,329 fee* above sea level In south-
central Alaska, Mount McKinely is the
highest peak in the North American con-
tinent. The upper half of the mountain is
clothed in perpetual snow and glaciers are
still at work changing its face. The 3,000-
square mile Nathmal Park which surrounds
Mount McKinely is one of the world’s great
wildlife sanctuaries. Here is the home of the
awesome Taklat grizzly as well as wolves,
moose, reindeer, elk, caribou and Dali sheep.
The park is also a good place to view Arctic
tundra, whose brief season of awakening
during the Summer culminates in a
magnificent wilfflower display against a
backdrop of bare rocks. (RNS)
From The Bishop’s Desk
I
Dearly beloved:
In the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
(No. 67) the Fathers of Vatican Council II
remind all the faithful that "practices and
exercises of piety towards her (Our Blessed
Mother in Heaven), recommended by the
teaching authority of the Church in the course
of the centuries, are to be held in high
esteem.” Without doubt, the most popular
and moat widespread devotion is the Rosary.
And Pope Paul VI has stated that the
Rosary" ... is well suited to God’s people,
acceptable to the mother of God, and
powerful in obtaining gifts from Heaven.” In
hiB encyclical entitled "Ingravecentibus
Mai is”, Pope Pius XI reminds us that the
Rosary" ... aboveall, nourishes Catholic faith
which, by timely meditation on the sacred
mysteries, gains new strength, and it lifts the
mind to the contemplation of divinely
revealed tivU*.” .
• Despite the sad fact that during the past
decade there have been some clerics and
s religious who have deliberately turned their
backs on this beautiful and universal prayer
which honors Our Lady, and, indeed, have
endeavored to turn the faithful away from its
practice, the devotion is still very popular. It
is widespread. It is strong.
The world today is clamoring for peace and
goodwill among men. It will take more than
arms and attempts at negotiations to obtain
peace. We must pray for it and we must turn
to Our Blessed Lady, all-powerful with her
divine Son, to obtain this peace for us.
I would, therefore, earnestly exhort every
family to return to a practice of a recitation of
the family rosary. Since October is known as
"Rosary Month” it would be a most ac-
ceptable time to reintroduce this practice. In
the home, and particularly at the conclusion
of the evening meal when all the members of
the family are gathered together, the
recitation of one or three or five decades of
the Rosary would take little time. At our
Sunday Masses, the commentator could
easily have the congregation join with him
before the beginning of the Mass in the
recitation of at least one decade.
To this end and with the fervent hope that
there will be a genuine renewal of this special
devotion to the Mother of God, I decree that in
the Diocese of Corpus Christi, the day of
Octobers, 1971, be declared as "Holy Rosary
Sunday.”
Amadisimos:
En la Constitudon Dogmatics sobre la
Iglesia (No. 67) los Padres del Concilio
Vaticano II noa recuerdan a todos los fieles
que "las devociones y ejercicios de piedad
hada ella (Nuestra Santisima Madre en el
Cielo), que la autoridad eclesiastica ha
recomendado por muchos siglos, deben
apresiarse con gran respeto. No cabe duda
que la devodon mas popular es el Santo
Rosario. El Papa Paulo VI ha dicho que el
Rosario .. le viene bien al pueblo de Dios, le
com place a la Madre de Dios, y obtiene dones
celestiales.” En su Enddica “Ingravecen-
tribus Mails,” el Papa Pio XI nos recuerda
que el Rosario,"... sobre todo, aliments la Fe
Catholics, que se forts lece por al m edits cion
sobre los sa grad os misterious y deva la
mente a la contemplacion de verdades
revdadas por Dios.”
A pesar del triste hecho que durante los
ultimos diez a nos ha habido sacerdotes y
rdigiosos que han rechasado esta devodon a
Nuestra Senora y que han tratado de retirar a
los fieles de ella, la devodon aun es muy
popular. Es muy universal. Esta firmemente
establecida.
El mundo hoy clama por la paz, por la
buena voluntad entre los hombres. Se
necesita mas que annas y mas que
negodadones diplomatics para obtener la
paz. Tenemos que rezar por la paz y tenemos
a acudir a Maria, todopoderosa ante su Hi jo,
para que eUa nos consiga esa paz.
Por eso le pido a cads f am ilia que re-
establezca d rosario familiar en su hogar.
Puesto que octubre es d “mes del Rosario”,
es buen tiempo para hacer esto. En el hogar,
al final de la comida. de la noche, cuando la
familia esta reuni da, d rezar uno o tres o
cinco misterios no se lleva mucho tiempo. Los
domingos, facilmente puede el comentador
dirigir la redtadon de un misterio entes de la
Misa.
Para este fin, y con la esperanza que se
renueve en realidad esta devodon a la Madre
de Dios, decreto yo que en la Diocesis de
Corpus Christi, d 3 de octubre de 1971, se
prodame "Domingo dd Santo Rosario.”
Given at Corpus Christi, Texas this
2lst day of September, 1971.
Deeretado en Corpus Christi, Texas, d 21 de
septiembre de 1971.
Diocese Aids
Area Flood Victims
Tropical storm Fern and Hurricane Edith
hit South Texas with a rapid one-two punch
that left residents reeling in both the Diocese
of Corpus Christi and Brownsville. Much of
the same area had suffered flood damage
only three weeks earlier in torrential rains in
August, which broke an extended drought in
the rural farm and pasture lands.
“It is amazing how people who have suf-
fered the most are able to absorb such
multiple disasters. This would be a once-in-a-
lifetime event for most people,” Father
Robert Freeman, Director of Social Services
said. Bishop Thomas J. Drury of Corpus
Christi and Father Freeman surveyed the
hardest hit areas. They found conditions bad,
but the response of individuals in the
emergency was "truly Christian concern for
one’s neighbor.” Food, clothing and financial
help was made available from the Diocese to
help in the emergency.
Sinton, Texas was cut off completely when
water rose to three feet in most of the city’s
street. 300 parishioners of Our Lady of
Guadalupe spent several nights in their
parish hall. The St Vincent de Paul Society of
Corpus Christi was among the first to arrive
with supplies. Mattresses were provided the
morning after the storm hit. Supplementary
food was purchased on an emergency basis by
Father Martinez, the Assistant pastor, to help
fill out the rations issued by the County from
USDA supplies. Later in the week clothing
was sent to the people by members of the St
Vincent de Paul Society.
In Robstown. Father Seamus McGowan,
pastor of St Anthony’s had about 100 seek
shelter at the school; several hundred more
were at the county “Showbarn. ’’ He
described the "Bluebonnet” area as “one Mg
lake.” The dike, which had held back much of
the water in August, broke causing much
deeper flooding in this already economically
depressed area. Homes of the poor were
flooded. What possesions they had — food,
furniture, limited transportation— was
ruined. Many returned, as floods receeded at
the end of the week, to homes still surrounded
by water; mud, snakes, pigs, and even a dead
horse, were found in their dwellings. Father
Peter McNamara and Father Thomas Davis
worked with Father Seamus McGowan day
and night to coordinate their work with police,
Vista workers, Red Cnr?s volunteers, county
and local officials to meet the many needs of
the stricken community.
Their mission parish, St. Mary’s in Driscoll,
was also hard hit Water stood two to three
feet in the Church. The Knight of Columbus
set up emergency feeding .i Kingsville for
Driscoll, refugees.
"It would be impossible to cite individually
all those who deserve credit for their relief
work,” Father Freeman said “The people
worked very hard, young volunteers with men
and women of all areas pitching in to clean up
the debris.” Schools, which had remained
closed until Thursday reopened with near
normal attendance
Food stamps have been made available to
relieve a critical need for those forced out of
work, who had lost wages and had their
household possessions destroyed
Msgr. Hennel, pastor of Our Lady of Refuge
in Refugio, Texas told of waters six to seven
feet deep in some of the parish school
classrooms. School books, supplies, equip-
ment and reference material have all been
lost
“We are afraid to restore electrical power
in some areas for fear of short circuits in the
water soaked cables.” Father Hennel said.
We are trying to dry out the air-conditioning
equipment, washing machines, deep freeze,
refrigerators and cafeteria equipment in
hopes that some may be salvaged. We have no
idea where we stand but are in the process of
getting back in business,” he concluded The
schools have been reopened and are in the
process of renovation. What may be covered
by wind damage insurance and what is not
covered in “rising water” is yet to be
determined. The sheriffs office sent some
volunteers to move rectory furnishings from
the first floor while I was saying the 9:00 a.m.
mass on Sunday, Fr. Hennel said. Monday
fifteen parishioners patched in to help clean
up.
“Government, Red Cross and welfare
assistance have been mastered, but it was the
people of South Texas who pitched in to help
their neighbor at the height of the disaster
who are to be commended for their com-
pasion and concern for their fellow man.”
Bishop Dniry said._____
texas gulf coast
CATHOLIC
Official Newspaper of the Diocese of Corpus Christi
VoL_VIl_No^ 24 Friday, September 24, 1971
Catholic Student
Father Michael
Anderson Ordained
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This is an architects' sketch of the new
Catholic Student Center, now under con-
struction at Texas A and I University. The
building will include a chapel, meeting room
pavilion, offices for the chaplain and for a
Sister working an campus. Completion of the
building is anticipated for February of 1972.
Brownsville - The Rev. Michael R. An-
derson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence An-
derson of Lyford, was ordained to the
priesthood for the Diocese of Brownsville by
Bishop John J. Fitzpatrick, Bishop of
Brownsville, on Saturday, September 18, In
the Immaculate Conception Cathedral,
Brownsville.
On Sunday, September 19, Father Anderson
conceleb rated a Mass of Thanksgiving at
Prince of Peace Church, Lyford. A reception
was held in the parish hall after the Mass.
Father Anderson began his schooling in the
Lyford-Sebastian School District He entered
the minor seminary at St John’s Seminary in
San Antonio and transferred to Corpus Christi
Minor Seminary in his sophomore year. He
earned his B.A. in psychology and philosophy
from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio He
also attended Assumption Seminary there.
He studied theology for three years at the
Catholic University of America, Washington,
D.C., and completed his theological studies at
the Philosophische Theologische
Hochsechule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt am
Main, Germany, where he earned his degree
in Theology.
Michael Anderson is the brother of Father
Ron Anderson, Vice-Chancellor and Vocation
Director of the Diocese of Brownsville, and
Sister Anita Jane Anderson of the Sisters of
the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament of
Corpus Christi.
Vatican Aide Says Church Conditions
In USSR 'Worsened' Under Khrushchev
VATICAN CITY (RNS)--Federico
Aiessandrini, the Vatican press officer, said
here that conditions of religious communities
in the Soviet Union had "worsened” while
Nikita Khrushchev was in power.
This was the first Vatican reference - even
indirect - to the death of the former Soviet
leader. Mr. Khrushchev, who assumed
leadership in 1933, after the death of Joseph
Stalin, and remained in power until his ouster
in 1964, died in Moscow Sept 11, at the age of
77.
Writing in the Vatican City weekly,
L’Osservatore della Domenica, Mr.
Aiessandrini remarked that "hundreds of
churches re-opened under Stalin,” were
"closed again” under Mr. Khrushchev..
"Not everyone remembers," said Mr.
Alessandria!, ’’that ander Mr. Khrushchev's
role, conditions of the religious communities
In the USSR, beginning with the Orthodox
Choreh, worsened.”
A study, "Religions Minorities In the Soviet
Ualon (1MO-1979),” by the Minority Rights
Group, a research unit in London, England,
traces a four-stage anti-religion campaign in
the Soviet Union.
In the decade futowing the Bolshevik
Revolution of 1917, the crudest and most
violent methods were employed: church
closings, rigged trails, executions, slave-
labor camps, exile.
The second stage was marked by more
emphasis on "legal procedures,” such as
discriminatory taxes, propaganda attacks,
and the like. This was the time when Stalin,
the pragmatist, thought it best to puli lack
somewhat in his war against religion, so as to
unite the country against the Nazi invader. In
1943, he permitted the election of a new
Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The third stage, during the tenure of Nikita
Khrushchev was characterized by resump-
tion of a fierce campaign from I960 to 1984 to
liquidate all religious groups.
"After the fall of Mr. Khrushchev,” the
study says, "there was a call for an end to the
anti-religious excesses, not because there had
been any change of heart by the regime out
because the physical measures which had
been employed were considered to be
counter-productive. ”
Mr. Aiessandrini, in his Osservatsre ar-
ticle, also pointed ont that "although Mr.
Khrushchev (later) became an Implacable
and ruthless accuser of StaUn and his policies,
be sowed the dictator without argument for
many years, and owed his own ascendancy In
the Soviet Communist Party power ■ tree tare
to Statin.”
Students of Soviet history recall that Mr.
Khrushchev survived Stalin’s party purges
and in 1938 was dispatched to the Ukraine,
where he himself carried out a purge of tots
of thousands of peasants and "bourgeois
nationalists.” By 1939, be was a full member
of the ruling Politburo.
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