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...The relatively tiny diocese has followed the time-honored trends in many more areas than it has pioneered...

...So we are certain the same welcome mat will be spread for the 'peace corps' volunteers when they move into those areas...

...In other cases the kids will be part-time---~erve while going to college, for example, or after high school classes or during summer vacations from school...

...We will truly make the Diocese of Memphis the Good Samaritan on the banks of the Mississippi, pouring the oil of mercy and love onto our fellowman healing those whom we can reach...

...We will open ours to high school graduates and college students...

...These will include the top-rated Protestant and Jewish professors and scholars in the area...

...In that respect, we will be one of a kind...

...One member of the group described it as "certainly a unique effort to provide the bishop and a wide variety of others in the area who want it, solid backgrounding on the most worthy contemporary theology available...

...And that's precisely what Bishop Carroll T. Dozier apparently had in mind last July when he launched his reconciliation crusade--to make the people of his diocese second to none in the grace of God...

...He perhaps summed up the diocese's objectives best when he closed his homily at the two reconciliation liturgies with the same statement he used to close his address at his ordination six years before: "We promise one thing in return for God's love and mercy...

...a liturgy department, and other vitally necessary but hardly innovative agencies...

...CYRIL CUSACK CONFITEOR O dear my Lord, but what a tricky cute and cunning customer in me you have across your counter, one eluding true communion's equity...

...We don't ask that the kids have any talents other than that greatest of all talents---the disposition to help others and do the best you can in that job...

...a training program for the permanent diaconate...

...He also said some volunteers will be assigned to the many poverty areas of the City of Memphis...

...I myself with guiltless smile myself beguiling, shall I you beguile...

...Whe diocese already has helped to set up a 'Poor Peoples Health Clinic' there (Rossville) and I hope to move some volunteer teams in there right off to visit sick people, handle youth ~inistry and teach religion and do many other physical things to make their lot out there better...

...a religious education program for children and adults...

...In some cases, the volunteers will be full-time and reside in special communities set up in poor areas throughout the diocese...

...We have people from the diocese working in these poverty areas in the counties and in the city and they are welcomed with open arms," he said...

...Rough plans have been worked out whereby "ideas on the best of contemporary theology" will be exchanged among members of the group...

...Hoping to launch the program by the middle of summer, Father Ciaramitaro confessed that "we still don't know how much it will cost, how much the kids will be paid, or exactly where the money will come from...

...ROBERT R. HOLTON (Robert R. Holton is the editor of Common Sense, the diocesan newspaper ol the Memphis diocese...

...Each of the male and female volunteers will be asked to sign up for a one- or two-year 'hitch' in our corps," Father Ciaramitaro explained...

...provide you do not grumble that I blunt Saint Michael's sword, lay not all my cards upon your table, refusing me, accusing me that I, I only ape humility, in pride but feigning to be humble...

...Another new unit established in the diocese and now "searching for identity" from the standpoint of a name and detailed course of action is a theological think tank under the direction of Sister Frances Belmonte, a theologian...

...But in each agency here in this diocese, the new and the time-honored, we try a little harder because we don't want to be second best to anyone," said one department head...

...Certainly this will he one of our prime targets," the corps planner said...

...O I can fake and I can fable, I can fiddle, fib and fumble, glibly gamble with you, Lord (and tell me, boys, who better able...

...That you, you Three in One and One in Three, could fail to see through me, could be wide open to my wide-eyed bribery or guiltily contrive-you, Father, Holy Spirit and the Son-to look the other way, conniving at the filching and the fun of taking all for f r e e . . , say which of us would thus betray, pretending Satan's not alive...

...Commonweal: J9...

...Fayette County, adjacent to Shelby County in which the City of Memphis is located, has been rated by the federal government as one of the ten poorest counties in the nation...

...But the program in Pueblo is open only to college graduates...

...It has a Catholic schools department...