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Page 66, The Pharr Press, October 4, 1979
Individuals inChtirch
hi Story- by dim Crosby
CP&L announces application with
PUC for rate increase
augustine is known to many as one of the greatest Christian
thinkers of all time. He was a theologian and a philosopher.
His writings, now over 1500 years old, are still widely read
today. I would esecially recommend his spiritual auto
biography, “The Confessions of St. Augustine,” to anyone
interested in knowing more about him.
I don’t want to talk here about Augustine,
though.Instead, I want to look at one who, more than other,
aided Augustine in his quest for the truth... Monica, his
mother.
A devout Christian, she was given in marriage by her
parents to a man named Patricius. He was well to do, a man
of integrity, but wanted nothing to do with Christianity.
The couple had three children, Augustine being the eldest.
When Augustine was in his mid-teens, his father was
converted and baptized. The love and good example of
Monica had gradually won her husband over to the faith.
The following year, around 371 A.D., Patricius died.
Augustine, a brilliant student, went to school in
Carthage. He had earlier rebelled against the moral
teachings of his mother, choosing rather to follow his
passions. In Carthage, he rebelled against the doctrinal
teachings of Christianity as well. He fell in with a heretical
group called the Manchees. They held that the spirit of man
was created by God. but the body was created by Satan and
was inherently evil.
Monica was deeply grieved by this and determined to do
all in her power to help her son see his error. Her hope was
that Augustine’s great learning could be used in service to
God. She became a woman of prayer, constantly pleading
withgod for her son’s conversion.
She told Augustine of a dream she had, in which she stood
on a piece of wood, very sad. A young man asked her the
cause of her sorrow, and she replied that she was grieved
over Augustine. The young man pointed out that her son
was standing beside her on the piece of wood. She then saw
Augustine next to her, and was no longer sad. Monica took
the dream to mean that Augustine would one day become a
Christian in answer to her prayers, and was greatly
encouraged.
It was to be a long process, though. In the meantime,
Monica urged various preachers, even bishiops, to talk with
Augustine, in hopes they could bring him to Christ. He
asked such difficult questions, though, that he confused his
would-be counselors.
One bishop, himself a former Manichee, refused to see
Augustine, assuring Monica that God’s time would come for
her son. Monica begged the bishop to talk with him. He
persisted in his refusal, though, saying, “Go: continue to do
as you do; it is impossible that a child of such tears should
perish.”
Augustine decided to go to Rome as a teacher. Monica
tried to talk him out of it. If he insisted on going, though,
she was prepared to go with him. As it turned out, he
deceived her and set sail without he in the middle of the
night.
He went first to Rome, where he became seriouly ill,
then on to Milan. Monica’s prayers were later credited by
Augustine as having been instrumental in his physical (as
well as in his subsequent spiritual) healing.
The persistent lady joined her son in Milan. Hearing the
sermons of St. Ambrose, he had renounced the heresy of
the Manichees, but had not yet acknowledged the truth of
Christianity. Monica redoubled her tearful prayers on his
behalf.
Two years after his arrival in Milan, Augustine was
finally converted. He was almost thirty-two years old, but
he had a long life of Christian scholarship and service ahead
of him. Monica rejoiced to see her prayers answered. She
shared many of her spiritual insights with her son, now that
he was ready to hear them.
The following year, as they journeyed back to their
Afican home Monica came down with a fever and died. The
historical accounts portary her as accepting death joyfully,
sensing that her life’s work had been accomplished.
She had been a faithful servant of God, a person of
prayer, a wife and mother who loved those dearest to her
right into the kingdom of heaven.
Augustine thanked God for her in the Confessions: “You
sent down your help from above and rescued my soul from
the depths of this darkness because my mother, your
faithful servant, wept to you for me, shedding more tears
for my spiritual death than other mothers shed for the
bodily death of a son... You heard her and did not despise
the tears which streamed down and watered the earth in
every place where she bowed her head in prayer.”
Monica’s example, characterized by persistence, zeal,
and deep faith, commends itself to us all.
CPL announced today that it
is filing rate applications with
the 115 incorporated
municiplities in which it serves
and with the Public Utilities
Commission.
The company’s present total
revenues from all customers
are approximately $500 million
annually.
In announcing the increase,
CPL Executive Vice President
Bob Range explained that the
proposed increase in rates
would provide the company
with a return of 10.75 percent
on its invested capital.
The applications propose
higher rates to offset a base
revenue deficiensy of $94.8
million. However, operation
resulting decreases in fuel and
purchased power costs,
amounting to $10.1 million
based on the test year, should
limit the overall increase to
$84.7 million on an annual basis
He noted that the amount of
the increase would vary among
the customer classes such as
residential, commercial,
industrial and municipal.
According to Range, a
residential bill that is now $100
would rise to about $115 under
the proposed rates, depending
on whether the custome lived
inside or outside incorporated
city limits.
He noted that some
municipalities may option to
increase the gross receipts
payments the company makes
to them from 2 percent to 4
percent. If this should occur,
under the proposed rates, the
increase would be passed on to
customers in those
municipalities.
The company had stated
earlier this month that the
increase in operating costs
over the three vears since the
last change and a 500 million
investment for new plants and
facilities would prompt a rate
change request.
Hidalgo County receives
criminal justice grant
Governor William P.
Clements, Jr., has approved a
criminal justice grants
affecting Hidalgo County.
the $6,240 grant will
improve the professional staff
capability at Villa Bethany
Girls Home. The juvenile
probation departments of
Hidalgo, Cameron and Willacy
counties place girls in the
home.
This local grant was among
194 approved by Governor
Clements statewide from Law
Enforcement Assistance
Administration (LEAA( funds
under the Crime Control Act of
1976.
(EE&TOY
La Trinidad
to hold
revival
“La Trinidad Methodist
Church, 101 E . W arren St.,
Pharr, will hold revival
services Sunday 0 ct. 7 at 10
a.m and 6:30 p.m.
The R ev. E ubaldo
Ponce will preach the morning
service and Brother Leonel
Alaniz will preach at the night
service.
E veryone is invited to
com and sing and listen.
Throughout the month of
0 ctober, La Trinidad will
have a different speaker at
each Sunday’s service.
Hidalgo gets
road grant
Work in Hidalgo County is
included in th 1979-80 Texas
Farm to Market Road Program
passed today by the State
Highway and Public
Transportation Commission.
District Engineer G.G.
Garcia of Pharr said the
program includes 1.8 miles of a
newly designated route
extending south from State
Highway 107, 0.5 mile east of
FM 2061.
Statewide the two-year
program includes $48 million
for new construction or
additional financing on 413
miles of Farm and Farm and
Ranch to Market roads in the
state.
This includes funding for 118
miles of new construction and
additional financing for another
260 miles. Approximately 34
miles of projects were
authorized previously and
included in this program.
The Texas Farm and Ranch
to Market Road System is one
of the largest secondary road
networks in the nation with
some 41,000 miles designated
since the program’s inception
shortly before World War II.
Of the new construction
projects included in the
program, 58.2 miles are on
rural mail routes and 67 miles
are on school bus routes.
ROSIE ALMENDAREZ* St. Jude’s Fall
Festival Queen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Pedro almendarez appears in the center,
flanked by the two Princess candidates.
Celeste Guerra [left] is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Tony Guerra. Alicia Hernandez [left] is
the daughter of Mrs. Alicia Hernandez. The
Bar-B-Que to be held in conjunction with the
Fall Festival will be held Sunday, Oct. 7.
Donations are being accepted at St. Judes for
the barbecue.
with regular payments will hold
your purchase until December. All
Christmas Lay-a-Ways must be
paid in full or picked up by Sunday,
December 8.
PRICES GOOD THURS.-WED
OCT. 4-10 IN:
COOK AND
SERVE IN THIS
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ALL IMPORTED COOKWARE UNITS
AVAILABLE IN THREE PATTERNS
(YOUR CHOICE OF SANTA FE, JARDIN and FIESTA)
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