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... OR LEARNING HOW TO GO ABOUT IT THROUGH THE SACRAMENTS Jill could barely con· lain herself as he waited with me In the vestibule of the church. With her fam· lly, he had participated In the penitential service for children making their first confe•· siona. When her brother Greg appeared, she grabbed hi band and dragged him over to m.

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Life certatoly can be chaotJC. Someti,,_ the -.ts of a day unfold

Without any real pattern and ,n ways completely different from what you had planned 0�1 When the phone is ringing off the hook and when one mn emergency is folloW8d only too quickly by enother, the days of the weak -,i 1111}'thing but organ,-1.

Stil. certain "org&nlSing pt I K:lpies" can be tdentified in v,rtually ew,yone's life, cheooc

as -us may a�r to

be. T1- organ1Stng principles are real fon:es too. They exercise a certain power. strongly IOftuencing the 0119rall shape a day takes Organ, ng principles are a point of entry for the sacraments into daily life. If the sacraments are to hNl or nourish people, or cal them to integrity, their impect must be felt here

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example of 1111 orgar-,g pnnaple. They are ...., forces helpong to deler·

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The boy becam hi father's eye at home, driving his father around and doing the

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The grown-ups were suspended in a hush like actors who forgot their lines that day long when my ago grandfather was anointed. He died soon after the pri· est left and the grown-ups said it was good they

mine the course of a day's -,ts ,n your life.

Do you tend to regard life as worthwhile. _, though it can be complicated and fatiguing?

That's an attitude. Do you._,, yourself as a person._, though you - room for per,onal ,mprovement? That"• .., attrtude too.

People haw attitudes not only toward them· ..,_ and life in ganenll but toward other people and their value; 8bolrt

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hadn't waited to call him.

I "a.' five then, but I can still remember the dis· cussions whic:h took place about the "lill,t rites" and how my relahv didn't want to frighten grandpa I got the idea that whatever the priest did m that bedroom opened th window to d th.

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Father John CASTELOT Conflict was the order of the day In the Roman Empire In the first century, espe· daily In the large urban centre . The who! economic sy tern depended on the Institution of slavery.

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By Wollord HUGHES

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that the prie,;t prepared Pa pa to meet God . h young, literal mind imagined a formal intro· dll<'tmn of God and Grandpa and I \\ond,• l

owners and slaveowners lived In con· stant fear of rebellion and violence.

Different ethnic groups were at each others' throats. 'ltutual hatred and corn dMdedJew and gen· tll". The battle of the sexes .,.-as Intensified by socW structures which kept women In a state of subservlen c to men.

"Doesn't he have the most kissable hand?" he grinned.

Jill is only nine and she has Down' syndrome, but he had grasped th ba ic reality of the sacramental experience cramen are celebralions of our being lmed in then h, Sacramen celebrate th holin of ordinary living. Somoon has id that sac.ramcnt.il rituals properly don should bo

m y water sp oil lavishly preed . ...,d broken and crum ttared, wine gen poured out, n h plied to blessed fl h - the <tulT of cv,,rydaJ life rai d to net' ng awaren Sacrament magicnt grub God's atteion.

They am morn lcbration mra focus our aware God's faithful lo

the first hme in years to a parish wh re I had worked once. Before began. I could farnili rushing one way to bring their contribulions for the parish' tum at th local up tchen and anoth r way to take oontn"butions for a e sat 1an • [ new, but nt commuruon time I recognised some [ mi!iar one . elng them brought their tori aliv for me In and rerrunded m of their

love and care for one another members of thi worshipping rommuruty.

Th Eucharist for them i, not imply a matter of consuming bl breed and wine on Sundays. It entering into one an ther's live . It is open to building up th bod • of Christ bv welcoming th er. It is feeding ne

another and others beyond the community.

I returned to my pew from Communion, hands ree,:hed out in welcome and face miled. TM eucharistic rommunity also know how to remember 1bat interplay of hnsp1· talitv and mernorv is clal to cram· ntal awaren Because we n tell the stone. of

><rong and houldn'I b dep sed," he aid. Instead h tried la haw the led that he accepted h Im a· he us und re ·peeled his feelings.

Lal r, he "g ntly confronted the boy' late of mind about the world". She encouraged him lo see that "life can be fun" and ta lake an interest in ·om thing

out Id him elf.

Gradually the lad" attitud altered. He became "more caring und available a a p rson to others, 91 M Dickerson said. He also developed a new passion for fixing aid cars and elling them for a dandy proflL Ms Dickerson talks a lot about altitudes and how they are haped with clients and with graduate

tudent al Santa Clara l "niv n1ity. be often quotes from paychologi t \'ictor Franck! ... bo 1'8 impri oned in a concentration camp during World War II. In •• Man's Search for Meaning" Franck! paints out that even when people are stripped of every· thing, they till have

a new perspe,:·tive on my life \\ith its fragilit and strengths.

After the operation, the chaplain hrouRhl several people to m, room who " rPrombatinga similar fear. \\e talked and pra)-ed together.

Suu:c then mrempath}' with lh<JS() ill in hod, or spirit ha. become on active part of mJ minis· II} I often think ho •• much more hralth· gwmg thl' socromenl of the SI IS today. I thmk loo that the mcrling .. ith ,.od is not a formal hand,hakc hut an cmbraoo.

Bill also discovered the healing power of the sar.ramcnt. He had suc· cessful hoart sul'l'('n·, but h1 recuperation � a penod of dark <hado" ·1 bei!an to hate my bod for 1l, unceasing demand for and m,· preoccupation \\llh i� functiorunR." he said. "It w a <t ruggle to tall< to my family and friends and som hm I didn't bother" Cont page 14

by Laura Meagher

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The lad had diffi. culty growing up. Hi parent \it ere divorced "hen he wa about six and he mov ed ... ith his mother. During his high chool yea"' he returned lo live with his father, a ucce sful lawyer who is legally blind.

Attitu s are important because they affect how people view themsel..es and the world as well as how they relate with others, says a clinical psychologist inteniewed by Kathari Bini.

Attitudel ere 1mpo1111nt fon:es in people's daily lives. They effect the way people look et life end how they relate to God, to them98lws and to others. The Church's sacraments have a powerful effect in shaping the attitudes that guide people and the choices they make.

As described by Laura Meagher, whet sorts of attitudes does the Eucharist help people to develop?

Whet effect does J ne Wolford Hugt.s think that the sacrament for the sick has in changing people's outlook on their IIV8S7 How do the sacraments reach outside the wa1 of churcti. to enter into people's daily

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hopping. In lim the teenager became re entful of hi man) re pon ibilitie . But he fell it was inap· propriate lo rebel against hi bandi· capped father.

When be began lo leave chool at noon each day, his fath r Insisted that he ee clinical p ycbolagist Dr Victoria Dickerson. t the initial e ion

the lad compl that "life was awful�, f Di said. He was and depres ed uncaring. f Dickerson careful In re ·po lo the 17-yeardldn't tell bl b

Then the liturgrcal reforms of I he Second

crourhed on tho edge of my c:onsr.iousn, I tlid not , k of it hcrnu, 1 didn't want m, foar to infoct th dearest to me. I smiled a I bustled about �tting thin in order To the observer I wa, opllm1shr and po,.illve.

One da) f thought. ")ou're a pretty good act , but the Lord

doc n't hand out Academy Award,. Don't he phoni with him" I went to see my pastor.

A, he anointed m, forehead and hands sense of peace replaCl'd tho fear " ling my enngi I felt something of Christ's comfort for the hope! , the frightened nd the lonely. I rea,n-ed

There were notable exceptions to those conditions, but they were notable precisely because they were exceptions.

The father ruled the family and obedience -as expected from ail.

Even hen men treated wives and children with lo and consideration, It .,.-as understood clearly that they held all the

It ls only agairu,t thl background of alieol tion that one ca appreciate how tn1l rn-olutlonary <,t Paul Christian manlfes mu.st ruive sounded: "For ail of 'Ou -' are baptl d inl Christ rua clothe yourselw:s .,.,.th Cluil There Is neither Jc nor Greek, there neither la ·e nor ftt

person, there b not male and female. For you are all one In Christ Je u,," (Galatlans 3,2 -.ZS).

The cramcntal II� of the earl) Christian 1Vas, quite lmpl), their entltt Iii . The sacraments ;ere igns pointing to the reality of radically different attitudes and lifestyles.

By deflnltlon, era,

ments are signs. But a \lgn that Indicate nothing just take<! up •pace.

The Christians' chan ed attitudes and life,,tyl ere rooted In a much deeper reality, the reality of hat they ruad become people.

Baptism was an Incorporation Into Christ In two senses. It brought Cont page 14

1 grew older other experiences with th sacrament of extreme unc hon onlv added to the first impression that the hour of doath was the time for a la. t ditch effort to "clean up your act"

pened to be entering at the same time.

The rouple's guests bad rome from three distinct cin:I · their home town, their college friends, their professional rol· leagues. Before the wed· ding liturgy beglin, the lights dimmed and . lides of familiar and unfamiJ. iar faces with captions flashed IICI05S a oc:reen.

Throughout the reremony, there w re references to the wavs th three circl had intert" lned m the rouple's liv to

make of us all one community of love for them. Drawn together by their mutual 10\-e, we became three in one.

Sacraments celPbrate the presence of Chri,,t in the rommuni(l·. Sacraments are for commun· ity. They are not ml'Wll lo be a 'Jc ·us and me· e.<pf'rien In another parish where I .... orked, a group ol parent· balked wh n they werf' informed that their children would rea,ive F irst Eucharist

with their farnllies at regularly scheduled Sun· day Masses. This w a departure from the par· ish tradition of a pecial Ma ju t for first oommunicants.

Entering into Christian rommunity means that we receive po r to transform human ence from If.centred isolation to a celebration centred in oth •rs nd a c.ramental aw n of life · n powerful means of bringing the Gospel to lif

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Vatiran returned the sacrame to the :riptural cone: of healing. Today it I called the anointing o the sick and ha. bee expanded to inc ludo rmmstrv to the sk le. five year. ago. pnor • a serious operation, received the crames of tho s1 . I was not I danger of death, hut fet

whether or not the} would shake hands.

God's love and care for us in our personal and rommunal histories, we also can reach out to others in welcome.

A memorable wedding I attended eel brated thi,, awareness in ur.h a way that a community of trangers became a com· munitv with hared memories before th recPption had ended nne and Paul. the bride and groom, greeted u. personally at the chapel door. introducing us to others who hap-

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