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Show 1 OUR HEARTIEST CHRISTMAS GREETINGS GO WITH THIS NEWSLETTER TO ALL OUR FRIENDS. MAY THE CHRIST CHILD DRAW US ALL NEARER TO HIM AND THROUGH HIM ONE TO ANOTHER, THAT HIS WILL MAY BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN REA VEN. I T JHIS Newsletter is written by several . Staff Members. First, Fr. Liebler: We want especially to express our t hanks to t he many parishers, other groups and individuals who so cordially welcomed Brother Juniper on his recent visit to the East Coast and myself to the Denver area. We rejoice in meeting old friends and acquiring new ones who by their prayers and their generous alms make possible the continuance of our work with the Navajo People. Frequent references in the daily Press to the oil and uranium revenues in Navajoland have left the impression with many of you that little or no help is now needed. The contrary is true. Never have th!e Navajo been in such need of the help that only the Church can give. Many are still in dire poverty, many have taken jobs which paid well, only to have the ore give out - their standard of living had risen and they are in real need. But the moral and spiritual needs which they have always felt to some degree have increased; alcohol provides a ready escape from responsibility and the development of real character is the only solution. This Mission pledges its continual help to this needy People just as long as you, our good right hands, make it possible for us to do so. IwlE rejoice in the ordination to the Sacred Priesthood of James T. Brown. When he was just Jim Brown, B.A., (Yale) he came to us to help in any way he could. I :remember lying in St. Mark's hospital after a small operation, when Dean Taylor came to visit me. "I've got a man for you - a Yale man!" Ingrate that I am I asked "Has he got tough hands? Can he do anything?" "Well," said the Dean, "it will do him a lot of good." "Heck" I said (or something like that) "we don't exist to do Yale men good; we want to help the Navajos. But, send him along - we'll see." He did and we did, and Jim did fine. No task was too menial, none too exacting. He taught our school for a year. Some day I'll tell you about the "tigerskin" he bought, but there isn't room here. |