Register for Men`s and Women`s Christ Renews His Parish Retreats

July 14, 2013
Volume 17 Number 7
Register for Men’s and Women’s
Christ Renews His Parish Retreats
By PAUL DULION
day, July 20. The
ladies of CRHP 2 hope
Christ Renews His
to welcome about 20
Parish is a weekend
disciples to the retreat.
retreat open to all. It
Time is still available
is a time to examine,
to register.
rediscover and enrich
The men's retreat
your relationship with
starts on Saturday,
Christ. You will get to
Aug. 17. The men of
know others in the parCRHP 1 & 2 would
ish, sharing and reflectlike to at least double
ing on spiritual and life
the number of
issues, as you begin to
attendees from our
grow as a community.
last retreats. Please,
It can certainly be a life
gentlemen, help men's
-changing experience.
CRHP come in a close
In an authentic exsecond to the ladies.
perience of lay ministry
If your thought is, I
in the parish, members Marie Graham (left) and Tiffany Haney (right) are recruiting
can't do that, I don't
from the last CRHP
know what to do.
attendees for the third Christ Renews His Parish retreats for
weekends have been
Remember that God
women, which will be held July 20. Photo by Paul Dulion
preparing to present the
doesn't call the qualihand has steered their lives.
weekend for the next groups. The
fied, God qualifies the called, and we
Registration forms are available in are all called to spread his word and
retreats will begin on a Saturday
morning at 8:00 and close on Sunday the gathering area. A registration fee build his Church.
evening at 4:00. All meals and mate- of $25.00 is requested. However , the
For other details see the bulletin
rials will be furnished. You will need spirit of the Christ Renews His Parish or contact Tiffany Haney, the
to bring yourself, your favorite toilet- weekend is to make the experience
women's invitation coordinator at
ries, a sleeping bag or blankets and a available to anyone in Holy Cross
[email protected] or David
Parish. Please don't let the cost be a Andignac, the men's invitation
pillow. Please come with an open
barrier to your attendance. Sign up. coordinator, at daheart that is willing to be served.
The members of the presenting teams Arrangements can be made.
[email protected].
The women's' retreat starts Saturwant to share with you how God's
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Deacons Ordained, Celebrate Masses
of Thanksgiving at Holy Cross
He said that usually the answer is not
a specific day and time but over a
period of years, usually encouraged
by family and close friends. He said
that the priestly vocation must
develop and deepen long after the
ordination ceremony is completed.
Following the homily, the rite
continued and concluded with the
Liturgy of the Eucharist in which the
newly ordained priests participated.
It was a very lovely and meaningful
service.
Rev. Richard Vu conducted his
Mass of Thanksgiving at Holy Cross
on Saturday, June 8 at 5 p.m. with
several concelebrants from Holy
Cross, the college and seminary he
Rev. Richard Vu, ordained a priest
attended, and the Vietnamese church.
with six other men on June 8,
Choir members from the Vietnamese
celebrated his Mass of Thanksgivchurch performed the music for the
ing at Holy Cross. Photo by Dorothy Mass. The homily in English was
Mears.
given by Rev. Michael Ciccone of
Pontifical College Josephinium and
the homily in Vietnamese was given
By JAY MCLENDON
by Rev. Dominic Nguyen, of Divine
Word College.
As reported in the Holy Cross
Vu requested that his Mass of
bulletin recently, Revs. Feiser Muñoz
Thanksgiving be at Holy Cross
and Richard Vu were ordained as
because this community gave him
priests of the Archdiocese of
much support on his journey to
Atlanta on June 8, 2013. The Rite
becoming a priest when he was a
of Ordination was conducted by
Archbishop Wilton Gregory, assisted young member here.
Vu graduated from Pontifical
by Bishops Luis Zarama and David
Talley, at the Cathedral of Christ the College Josephinium Seminary in
Columbus, Ohio. He is assigned to
King at 10 a.m.
Prince of Peace Catholic Church in
The ordination was very well
attended; an overflow area was used Flowery Branch.
Rev. Feiser Muñoz conducted his
for those who did not have tickets
Mass of Thanksgiving at Holy Cross
for the sanctuary. Seven men
on Sunday, June 9 at 11:30 a.m. in
were ordained as priests in the
English and at the 1:15 p.m. Mass in
archdiocese.
Archbishop Gregory in his homily Spanish. At the English Mass, his
homily referred to the first reading
said that a popular question asked
where Elijah called on the Lord to
of a new priest is, “When did you
receive the call to become a priest?” restore life to a widow’s son and to
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Rev. Feiser Muñoz celebrated
Mass of Thanksgiving on June 9 in
English and Spanish at Holy Cross.
Photo by Dorothy Mears.
the Gospel reading where Jesus
commanded the dead son of a widow
to arise.
Muñoz related these reading to a
problem he had recently when his car
broke down on Georgia State Route
400. He was stuck in the middle
of the highway; he called 911, the
police arrived and helped move his
car to the shoulder of the highway.
He was very thankful for their help.
Muñoz went on to say that we can
call 911 to report a problem but not
to tell them that we are having a good
day.
With God, we can call him to
report a problem or with thanksgiving that we are having a good day.
God will be glad to hear from us in
either case.
Muñoz graduated from St.
Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pa.
He is assigned to the Cathedral of
Christ the King.
A Prayer for Priests
By St. Thérèse of Lisieux
O
Jesus, eternal Priest, keep your priests
within the shelter of Your Sacred
Heart, where none may touch them.
Keep unstained their anointed hands,
which daily touch Your Sacred Body.
Keep unsullied their lips,
daily purpled with your Precious Blood.
Keep pure and unearthly their hearts,
sealed with the sublime mark of the priesthood.
Let Your holy love surround them and
shield them from the world's contagion.
Bless their labors with abundant fruit, and
may the souls to whom they minister be their
joy and consolation here and in heaven their
beautiful and everlasting crown.
Amen.
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At the conclusion of Sunday Mass, Kaleidoscope participants sing, “Go Ye Out” led by teen helpers. Camp was
held this summer June 10-14 with the assistance of many members of the parish community. Photo by Kelly George.
Kaleidoscope Fun Concludes with Mass
worked with 50 adult volunteers and
78 teen volunteers to run the five-day
If you happened to be at Holy Cross camp.
Organizers said the camp is
the week of June 10, you surely saw
named Kaleidoscope because a
and heard the hundreds of happy
children in the hallways, classrooms kaleidoscope has color, light and
shapes. If a child looks through a
and around the campus.
kaleidoscope, they respond with
That’s because it was the annual
summer Kaleidoscope camp, a week words such as, "awesome, cool and
of fun religious education and grow- wow.” Kaleidoscope coordinators
hope that after the week, children
ing for 240 young students.
“I enjoy seeing this building filled respond with "awesome" to Jesus'
with kids. It is important that children gifts of color, light and shape in our
life. Kaleidoscope is also an invitalearn that the church is place where
tion to enter into a time of wonder
they can come and have fun,” said
and delight.
Kaleidoscope director and director
While the camp is a week long, it
of religious education Barb Garvin.
doesn't end on Friday. The campers
Garvin and her co-directors,
have an opportunity to extend this
Kathy Hoffman and Pam Beason,
By KELLY GEORGE
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experience to the parents and other
community members on Sunday,
during the 9 a.m. Mass. The children
participate in Mass, dressed in
colorful costumes representing their
country and singing spiritual songs.
Kaleidoscope is a religious experience for the entire community.
In addition to the numerous
volunteers, parishioners and parents
bring in grocery bags full of snacks,
fruit, water and juice on a daily basis
to help keep the volunteers going
throughout the day. It is a true
collective effort on all parts of the
parish and community.
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Unsung Heroes
of the Troop
Support Ministry
By PAUL DULION
When I first wrote about the Troop
Support Ministry in February of
2009, I thought I had covered the
story pretty well. The article covered
the origin of the ministry and listed
suggestions of ways to become involved. About two and a half years
later I wrote again. This time I went
to see the boxes being packed. I
wondered how hard it could be.
I knew from the earlier article
that the basics, almost anything but
chocolate, covered things that the
troops might want or need but
could not get easily. When I saw the
production line getting formed, it
became obvious that the preparation
and the putting up took the lion's
share of the time.
Two items that go in every box
are a quart-size zip lock bag of
personal hygiene products and a
similar bag of condiments. Another
item that's included in every box is a
Prayer Square. These small squares
have a crucifix sewn into them. The
late Norma Matthews recruited
several ladies to make these for the
troop ministry. After Norma’s death,
Kathy Hoffman volunteered to carry
on. Sewers include Kathy, Connie
Perez, Joyce Beale and Kathy
Geroski among others. Other items
that go into every box are letters from
the church, a letter acknowledging a
veterans' group that regularly donates
several items for the boxes, and when
available, letters from school
This is a list of present volunteers but
children.
by no means a complete list of those
Three years ago the Women's
who have helped and will again: Bob
Club dedicated an evening to teach- Spidel, Tom and Yvonne Talley, Jim
ing members to knit and crochet in
Towhey, Don Baldwin, Jane Melvin,
order to make scarves and hats for
Patricia Krull, Bob Seifring, Carol
our troops in Afghanistan. The ladies Waindle, Eleanor Camarata, Bill
were taught by Kathy Geroski and
McHugh, Robert Desantis and Lou
Norma Matthews. Many ladies have Hightower. It is noteworthy that
contributed to this service. Among
over half of these people have been
them were two recently deceased
involved in this ministry since the
members, Norma Matthews and Ann beginning.
Costello, who both contributed a lot.
If you have an interest in helping
Other members who make hats and
out, just stop by the assembly room
scarves are Lorraine Steele, Kathy
on the Tuesday after the troop supGeroski, who has made many
port collection is made. We'll find
scarves, Iris Wellem, Debra Thiele,
you a place in the packing line.
Rose Spidel, Marta Morales, Felecia
Tanzosch, who has made 56 scarves,
Elaine Amaru, Mary Ellen
Timme and Jane Walker.
During the winter
months, hand warmers and
feet warmers are sent to the
troops serving in the colder
areas. One of the hats or a
scarf is also included.
Other unsung heroes are
Connie Perez and Monique
Marlette, who make sure
the ministry has a place to
pack boxes and announce
collection days and other
special events, and Terry
Masty who completes the
customs forms to streamline the shipping.
Troop support ministry members prepare
Now for the visible
packages for mailing. Photo by Paul Dulion.
troop support ministry.
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“The Secrets of Happy Families”
Written by Bruce Feiler
Book Review by DORIS BUCHER
This is a good book for fresh thinking about family life and how to
make it better.
Bruce Feiler wanted to put
together a playbook for happy
families, but he didn’t want to
rehash what seemed to him stale
thinking from therapists, counselors
and childrearing experts. Feiler
broke his book into chapters on
things we all do in families: “love,
fight, eat, play; fool around, spend
money and make pivotal life decisions.” He then went to experts in
those categories for advice on what
they’d learned
that could
answer the
question: What
do happy families do right and
how can the rest
of us learn to
make our families happier?
The author
took a course
from the founder
of the Harvard
Negotiation
Project on how
to fight
smart. He
visited ESPN to
find out how the
best coaches
build successful
teams. He
worked with the
Green Berets to
design a perfect
family reunion
and got advice
from Warren Buffett’s banker about
how to set up an allowance. He even
took advice from game designers in
Silicon Valley to see how to make
family vacations more fun.
Then Feiler went home and tried
their advice on his own family.
Sometimes they balked. Solutions
that work for one family will not
necessarily work for all, but the process for finding those solutions that
suit a family hold a lot of promise.
I was particularly impressed with
the adoption from the business world
of “agile development.” In one of
those coincidences that pop up in our
lives, I had interviewed a mother and
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her two teenage sons who had put
that advice to work for them and who
were immensely pleased with the
results. Her older son said, “We talk
so much more than other people’s
families do and we function so much
better. Others let problems build up
and explode. We approach them and
function.”
Companies have adopted “agile
development” as they’ve come to
realize that top down management
can be extremely inefficient.
Dividing the company into smaller
teams that meet briefly every
morning and for a longer time once
a week gives a company the strength
of flexibility and empowers people
close to the problems to propose and
establish new rules when the old
ones are hurting the quality of the
work. In families, this translates into
a brief--less than 20-minute--weekly
meeting in which three questions are
asked: What things went well in our
family this week? What things could
we improve in our family? What
things will you commit to working
on this week?
The first family meetings in
the Feiler family fell flat. When
Feiler sought help from the agile
development expert, the man said,
“You’re focusing on the wrong
thing. The purpose of the meeting
is not to talk about each of you as
individuals. It’s to focus on how
you’re functioning as a family.” Feiler’s family changed the
focus and the meetings came to
life. One of the most satisfying
results was that the family meeting
provided a rare window into the
innermost thoughts of the
participants.
For a week in June, 40 Holy Cross parishioners worked in service to the poor of Nicaragua with Amigos for Christ.
In this photo taken on the first day of the mission, parishioners of Holy Cross and St. Gabriel in Fayetteville posed
for a group shot before they climbed Volcano Cerro Negro. Photographer not identified.
The Experience of Making a Difference:
Working to Help the Poor in Nicaragua
By KELLY GEORGE
Last month, 40 Holy Cross parishioners traveled to Nicaragua with
Amigos for Christ. During that
week long mission trip, they not only
developed a closer relationship with
each other, but also with God.
“I was glad that I went with the
Holy Cross group. I think that we
formed bonds that would never have
been formed with just our interaction
at church,” said Theresa O'Donnell.
“A lot of people knew of each other,
but we really got to know one another when working side by side.”
This was her second mission trip
and she was excited to be with her
husband, Tom, who was on his first.
“I feel good about how we
worked together as a team to help the
communities that we served,” he
said.
Husband and wife Jerry Krieg and
B.J. Pollock, who were on their first
mission trip, feel the same way, “It
was wonderful to work side by side
with people from Holy Cross, get to
know them better, pray with them,
sweat with them and laugh with
them.”
On June 1, parishioners, arrived
in Nicaragua and for the next five
days they helped bring fresh water
to people through new irrigation
systems. Parishioners rolled up their
sleeves and got dirty, as they were
physically digging and laying the
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water pipes themselves.
“It was an eye-opening experience. Lots of hard work, chances to
improve a part of a world so different
from our own,” said Theresa
O’ Donnell.
“The work is long and hard. I felt
prepared,” said her husband Tom.
“It was good for me to be able to see
concrete progress in the water supply
infrastructure and an actual finished
modern bathroom.”
It was important for parishioners
to really see the improvements they
made during their visit, especially
after witnessing the poor conditions
of the Nicaraguan people.
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Kaleidoscope
The staff and board of directors of the
Living Room extend their sincerest
___________
appreciation to all of the individuals and
businesses that volunteered their time
From Page 4.
and talents, contributed their
products, donated financially, and
Educators say the children
experience the church alive in
attended Taste of Life. More poor
their midst. The camp is a time to
people affected by HIV will be served
pray and play together. When the
by Living Room because of the generosity of those who
children create, cook, sing, they
have a lasting memory of a lively supported Taste of Life 2013.
church.
The camp has been around
for decades. The classrooms
represent different countries.
When you ask organizers how
far back Kaleidoscope goes, they
responded with, “It was going on
back when Hawaii was still a
country.”
The teachers make sure to give
children an authentic experience
of each country, through crafts,
visits from guest speakers, games,
music and food.
For example, children in the
“France” groups, not only learned
about St. Therese and her faith,
but also how to say “Bonjour”
and make crepes.
“This week is very hands on
with the kids. That is how we
learn,” said Garvin.
If you are interested in helping
with Kaleidoscope next year,
contact Barb Garvin at [email protected], Pam
Beason at [email protected] or Kathy
Hoffman at
[email protected].
Working in Nicaragua
___________
will not see the world the same.”
Amigos for Christ is a nonFrom Page 7.
profit organization based in
Buford, Ga. and founded in 1999
“We met and worked with
by John Bland. It has grown
people who were quick to smile, from a small youth group based
generous in their thanks, energet- mission to one that includes
ic in work but who lacked such
thousands of volunteers who are
basics as readily available runengineers, doctors, nurses,
ning, clean, water,” said Krieg.
students, moms, dads, and much
The parishioners also spent
more. Amigos for Christ has
time in the schools with the
provided several million dollars
children, in homes putting in
in aid to the poor and have createfficient and vented stoves, and
ed opportunities for families to
transporting chickens as part of
flourish.
the Amigos farm program. They
To see a video of the Holy
said it was often hard work but
Cross trip with Amigos for Christ
the end goals were so important. in Nicaragua go to this link:
It was an adventure, and it was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
fulfilling.
v=M2IdM65AEjc&feature=yout
When asked what she would u.be.
tell others who are considering
If you are interested in learna mission trip with Amigos for
ing more about the next Holy
Christ, Theresa O’Donnell said, Cross Amigos for Christ mission
“Go. It might be out of your
trip contact Deacon Dick Suever
comfort zone, but it is an experi- at [email protected].
ence that you will never forget.”
To learn more about Amigos
And Krieg said, “I would tell for Christ, visit its Website at
them that after the week, they
www.amigosforchrist.org.
Reaching Out staff: Doris Bucher, Pam Dorsett, Paul Dulion, Kelly George, Jay McLendon and Mary O’Connor.
The staff welcome your comments and contributions. To contact the editor, e-mail [email protected].
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