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Movies 2C Bride 3C Coping 4-5C Home 6-7C Conversation 8C Sty? fitrlrngton im fvm VERMONT Sunday, November 30, 1975 tder Revision Catholic Confession eoes Sft Maggie! "77 Bells Ring On Church Although the traditional confession booth still will be available to those desiring anonymity, the new ritual gives Catholics the option of a personal, less formalized relationship with their confessor. Under one of the provisions of the new ritual, the penitent may meet the priest in a "confessional room" where the Rite of Penance will be celebrated across a desk, rather than through a screen a process not unlike spiritual counseling. Church leaders say use of the room is an effort to provide a "more human space" than that afforded by the confessional box. as well being a response to requests by parishioners that they be able to face the priest during confession. According to Father George Murtagh, chairman of the diocesan liturgy commission, "Many people seem ready to come to a priest and talk about themselves and the direction of their life.

For them face-to-face exchange has become meaningful." While perhaps less dramatic than the conversion from the Latin to the English Turn to CONFESSION, Page 2C By JOHN READ Free Press Staff Writer If you ask a group of Catholics what they remember about their first confession many will reply, "the dark," that the confessional was surprisingly dark. Some say they experienced a mixture of fear and anticipation, or a feeling of expectancy. A few found the experience "mysterious." Others recall the murmuring of the priest giving absolution to the person on the opposite side of the booth, as they waited for the door on the confessional screen to slide open and their own enunciation of sin to begin. Yet future generations of Catholics may have different recollections of confession. In area churches today parishioners are beginning to be prepared through a series of sermons for the new confession ritual, which will take effect by 1977, and may bnng more penitents and priests face-to-face.

The rite represents the last revision of the Sacraments under the guidelines established by Vatican II. The new rite will be available to Catholics requesting it after the first Sunday of Lent, 1976. vs. IK -T i i i p. at 5 i A I rv The new confession face fo face The old confession: het Preis Staff Photos JIM WIISON DECEMBER: How Mothers and Others Can Prepare for.

Survive and Even Enjoy the Merry Month Calendars Now Offer More Than Just Date for serving to hosltss gilts Bake those fruitcakes holidays guests and as when you visit. Get on the phone and arrange to trade pre-schoolers with a friend two days this month Buy and wrap gifts for out of town. Buy Christmas cards, party invitationa. atampa, new decorations ind stuff for holiday projacta. (Use your notebook for lists and plana) Rudy.

On Your Mark. Gat Sat. GOI Buy a pocket with pen (Don't let December be one of the days) AS if I or Day 1 with 1 sets of kids. Crayons) Gluel Scissors! Old cards, Magazines, Construction pap Learn all the words to The Twelve Day of Christmas Then celebrate success with hot cider or hot buttered rum I Last Day for Mailing Packages Day 1 without any kidsl Maka lists for gifting, party giving, special groceries, hairdressing appointments, baby sitters wanted (get one for New Year's Eve Start writing nolei in the Christmas card! for special folks. Address and mail party Invitations.

Get Mom's and Dad's party clothes to the cleaners. (Make a note In your book on when to pick them up not on the way to the party). er! There was music on Church Street this weekend, and the people with four days off had a lark and those working had something to smile about. It's piped out of the decorations, and maybe when it snows they'll play Christmas carols The Bead Game A friend of mine was wearing a pretty choker on her turtleneck the other day. It was red, white and black beads and two gold teeth, which looked sharp with her navy skirt and vest.

I asked her where she got it. "At the Bead Parlour in Richmond," she said. "They have all these dishes and boxes of beads and I just loaded up. It's fun. You can pick out a whole bunch of beads and a leather thong (makes two) or skinny chain, take them home and fool around.

"I spent four dollars," she said, "and I'll probably make six necklaces. They have the nicest hand-turned wooden beads, all colors." The Bead Parlour is owned by Andrea Bryant, Penny Longfeather, Lael Livak and Judith Lomas. Christmas shopping may be made a little easier this year by a visit to the Christmas Crafts Market at 15 Center formerly the site of Ski Rack, then the Cantina Restaurant. Featuring many craftsmen who participated in the Farmers Market, the Christmas market is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday, until Dec.

31. Displaying their crafts in the market's three rooms are Peter Shea of Burlington, bird feather jewelry; Martin Bock of Essex Junction and Debra and Albert Pike of Stowe, silver jewelry: Robert Marinace, Jonesville, photography; Anne Russell, Hinesburg, patchwork; Bruce and Stephany Hasse, Hinesburg, ossified jewelry: Robert Bessette, Burlington, wood carvings; Philip Nagel, Waterbury. stained glass terrariums. Also exhibiting are Lisa Lindhal, Burlington, stained glass; Jennifer Steele, marionettes, plants and "odds and Robert and Barbara Gourley, Underhill. toys; Rebecca Borgman, hand-painted "fantasy shirts;" Bill Bowman, pottery, and David Chasm, leather.

Also on sale are honey, beads, candles, planters and other gift ideas. Different. I mean, really. Fantasy shirts? She had all kinds of things painted on them. Comings and Goings Mr.

and Mrs. James Dempsey of Burlington just returned from Bermuda, a trip they made with their Investment Group. Now there's an investment Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P.

O'Donnell Jr. of Westford (she's a teacher) spent Thanksgiving with her parents in Boston which made me envious because I read Kenneth O'Donnell's book. "Johnny We Hardley Knew Ye." And Gladys Parker almost went to the reception after the University of Vermont-Lokomotiva basketball game last Sunday night but she wasn't invited. Gladys always wanted to meet a Yugoslavian basketball player. Kim Hurley, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Gordon Hurley of South Burlington has a role in "The Nutcracker" which starts Dec. 12 in Washington. D.C. Kim.

16. is a junior at the Academy of the Washington Ballet. The ballet will be performed 2t the George Washington University Theater, and Kim says this is the first time she's ever danced with a guy. She'll do a pas de deux and also appear in a small ensemble in the third act. rxTLi i -m nrivk ft? Everybody CO I makes mJ Christmas cards Go to the library to check out holiday craft books, Christmas stories and records.

Make sure your camera's working; buy film and flashbulbs. Bake and decorate Christmas cookies. Day 2 with 2 sets of kids. Make Christmas ornaments from dough and bake them. EVERYBODY pitches in and gets the cards Signed and Sealed Stamped and Addressed TONIGHT SB p- rBK; Day 2 without any kidsl Mail your cardsl Mom Goes Shopping ALONE (Eat some.) feSV ir WJJ La nn Make holly by printing with a potato and paints.

(Potato printing's ea (Special deu1 wmd at bedtime) Bring out the Christmas decorations and spruce Chem up. sy the library has (Thil HI FinUk upl) a book.) Decorate the yard and house today. Take a walk after dark to admire the neighbors' decorations. P1 Decorate All of the Door Frames I With the I I Cards You've I I Received. I 1 (Use Ribbon And Tape Or Pins) 11 X-MAS By JACK TABAKA Free Press Staff Writer Star Trek, the Bicentennial, Winnie the Pooh, naked bodies and French cooking have at least one thing in common they are themes of new calendars.

In days past, calendars were something the milkman or the fuel oil dealer used to give his customers in appreciation for their patronage. And they were free then. But now calendars-for-sale are big business, according to Mike Kehoe. owner of the Corner Bookstore in Burlington which stocks about 70 calendars. "The great increase in the number of calendars (for sale) started about three years ago," Jim Orr, who owns the Everyday Bookstore in Burlington, said.

He attributed the boom in the number of calendars and in calendar sales to companies finding it too expensive to give calendars away. "Four or five years ago I would say someone was out of his mind if he told me I could sell a sailing calendar for $8.95," Orr said. Although $8.95 may be a lot of money to pay for a calendar, it almost seems like a bargain-basement buy when compared to the $18 asking price for a calendar which has individual watercolor prints for each month. But most of the calendars seem to fall into the $3.95 to $5.95 range. And for this money, the purchaser usually gets a little more than the date.

For example, if your tastes favor culinary delights, The Food Calendar might be just what you are looking for. Some of its recipes include curried shrimp with nectarines, Hungarian cherry soup and squash souffle. And the Yankee Recipe Calendar includes such delights as Henry Melix's Wampanog Clam Pie and sweet-pickled peaches. And if you're taken by the Bicentennial, there are a number of calendars to choose from. They range from The Spirit of 76 calendar to the Sesame Street 1976 Calendar; from Alistair Cooke's America Calendar for 1976 to the Mighty Marvel Bicentennial Calendar.

Both the Sesame Street and the Marvel calendars inject their own characters into America's history. The cover of the Marvel calendar shows Spiderman and the Hulk beating drums and Captain America playing the fife as they lead Old Glory and revolutionary troops forward. Captain America really gets around and in December he is holding the American flag as Washington crosses the Delaware. America's history is also repeated on the pages of the Official National Lampoon Bicentennial Calendar. The notations range from the embarrassing to the banal, with a heavy emphasis on violence in America's past.

For example: May 8, 1781: Colonel Ethan Allen and his brothers, desperate to secure Vermont's independence from New York, open private negotiations with the British, allegedly aimed at making the area between the Connecticut and the Hudson Rivers a province of Canada." Oct. 2, 1963: "The Dupont Company holds a press conference to introduce Corfam to the public." And on Oct. 28 1884: "Cincinnati Cloves jClnnal Ginger 1 40 Take your homemade Christmas cookies to the neighbors and wish them JOY! Make Pomander Balls after dinner and the whole house smells YUMMYI Let the kids decorate the tree. Read a Christmas story. 23 Dad and the Kids Choose the Perfect Tree.

(Mom relaxes In the tub) Leave cookies and milk for Santa. Don't wait any longer to mall ANYTHING you're already pressing your luck I Clean-tho-House-Day (that means everybody) Pop and String Popcorn Tonight Hang your VsJy'' and te bed ear- Jf I l. peek- zffiS sJT everybody go caroling bring the neighbors back for refreshments. Gannett Newt Service Photo MIGHTY MARVEL GOES HISTORICAL joins the Bicentennial move townspeople, unhappy that authorities have not handed out a severe punishment to confessed murderer William Berner, show their displeasure by burning the local courthouse. The State Militia is called out to restore order; in the ensuing battle 42 are killed and 128 injured." America's history is shown in a different vein in such products as Charles R.

Russcl's Calendar (western scenes of cowboys and Indians), the Smithsonian Engagement Calendar and A Calendar of American Folk Art. And if you really like history, you might take a look at the Album of Dinosaurs which includes the Apatosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus, as well as other lovely creatures from the past. More modern creatures also are featured in calendars, including horses, dogs, cats lots of cats and wildlife of all kinds. One wildlife calendar states its proceeds from its sale will benefit the Fund for Animals. Animals and children seem to go together well, and calendar-markers seem to be aware of this.

There are a number of children's calendars featuring animals, both real and imaginary. Other children's calendars include one appropriately named The 1976 Calendar for Children. There is also one parts of which are said to glow in the dark. Really! Although there are many children's calendars. the calendar makers doiVt Merry Christmas! Enjoy your gifts.

Count your blaasings. Everybody makes hia or her own sandwich for lunchl OPEN HOUSE FOR KIDS Candy canes and hot chocolate. Everybody hows off favorite gilts. lf.f-) jjffi 10 VW Spclal 7 St. Andrew's Night Michael Ware, owner ot tne common Man Restaurant in Warren, tells me that he and two other Scots in the valley are planning their sixth annual St.

Andrews' night banquet Friday night. "It's a fine evening." Michael said, "with pipers, the traditional toast, to the queen, the toast to Haggis (a Scottish dish of sheep's bladder stuffed with mincemeat and oatmeal). We'll cook roast beef and venison on a spit outside, bring it in on a wooden trencher and carve it in front of everybody. "Hugh Laughlin, who owns Scotland by the Yard in Quechee. a fine singer, will entertain and we'll have drummers from Canada." That big room at the Common Man lends itself to the baronial type of fun and games.

must hold morAhan 100 people. il I I Bt Evarvthlna Heady Early And I I Ready, Qm Everything Raady Early And Ready, Cm hauae and warn ENJOY YOUR PARTY! Everybody writes his or her thank-you letters. On Your Mark, Get Set GO! January everybody la keep It that wayl The afternoon belongs to Mom for beauty treatments, mystery reading and plain, aid I' Start cooking for your New Year's Eve midnight sup- efp VI Turn to CALENDAR.