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siduously contemplate the di
vine mysteries and eternal
truths and pour out ardent and
continual prayers to God that
His kingdom may flourish . . .
but who also atone for the sins
of other men, still more than for
their own, by mortification,
prescribed or voluntary, of mind
and body — such must be said
to have chosen the better part.”
THE PHRASE “the better
part,” was used by our Divine
Lord in admonishing Martha of
Bethany, who was “distracted
by waiting on many needs”:
“Martha, Martha, how many
cares and troubles thou hast!
But only one thing is necessary;
and Mary has chosen the better
part of all, that which shall nev
er be taken from her.” (St.
Luke X: 42)
Here Christ singled out Mar
tha as a type of the active life;
Mary, of the contemplative.
And, although the former is
good, the latter is of its nature
more noble, for it will not cease
with death but will last forever.
BESIDES objectively trans
cending the active life in rank,
the contemplative life is in it
self of greater meritorious and
practical value.
OF GREATER MERITORI
OUS value, because the love of
God is generically more meri
torious than love of neighbor
for God’s sake. But the contem
plative life pertains more im
mediately to love of God. Thus,
it is.of more merit.
OF GREATER PRACTICAL
value,' simply because union
with the First Cause of all grace,
without whom even the most
skilled preacher (who is but an
instrument of divine favor)
could possibly win a single soul
to good.
“Hands uplifted,” wrote Bos-
suet, “rout more battalions than
hands that strike.” “I want
Trappists,” demanded a famed
Chinese bishop; “I even want
them to abstain from all exteri
or ministry in order that nothing
may distract them from the
work of prayer, penance, and
sacred studies.” “Ten Carmelite
nuns, praying,” declared anoth
er missionary bishop, “will be
of greater help to me than twen
ty missionaries, preaching.”
NO ONE REALLY KNOWS
the reason underlying the con
version of a heathen, for exam
ple. in the darkest corner of the
world. Yet surely linked to ev
ery such conversion, or to the
heroic suffering of another soul
under persecution for his faith,
are the silent prayers and sac
rifices of an obscure cloistered
monk or nun.
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The practice of illuminating religious manuscripts and books flourished in the
monastic seclusion of the Middle Ages. A contemporary proponent of the old
art, is Sr, Mary Andrew, at center, shown at work, a Sister of Charity of St.
Vincent de Paul, and member of the faculty of the College of Mt. St. Vincent,
New York. Two typical samples of her art, using materials substantially the
same as hundreds of years ago, are at left photo, showing St. Michael, who is
shown slaying the Devil. At right, the “Regina Caeli,” is decorated with gold
paint applied over black ink and dark paints. Says Sister, the new Master, like
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WORLD CONFUSION, BORN OF MORAL
BREAKDOWN, NOT SPUTNIKS, IS GREAT
CONCERN, 'GLACIER PRIEST' STATES
By A1 Antczak
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — From
the summit of his 70 years,
Jesuit Father Bernard Hubbard,
sees great confusion in the
world he has explored for half
a century.
The “Glacier Priest” was here
for a few days to participate in
NBC’s nationwide television pro
gram “This Is Your Life” which
presented (April 30) the story
of his life.
His face showing the reflec
tiveness of a man who has spent
much time in northern solitudes,
Father Hubbard answered ques
tions unhurriedly in the study
of Blessed Sacrament rectory.
“We’re in a great state of
confusion. We’re letting a few
Sputniks and a lot of fire
crackers hinder our mental pro
cesses,” he said. “People are
practically ascribing preter
natural powers to these devices.
“True, among them are the
most destructive weapons we’ve
had, but Almighty God has His
way of taking care of things.
“I’m not nearly so concerned
about war and foreign policy as
I am about the moral break
down we are experiencing.
There is a great deal of con
fused thinking, lack of
morality and lack of respect for
authority. We . see it, for
instance, in so many and so
revolting teenage crimes.”
Fr. Hubbard, whose photo
graph in a parka is familiar to
most Americans, was tall and
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“Twenty five years in Alaska
either kills you or makes you
so tough nothing can hurt you,”
he said whimsically. “I figured
some day I’d perhaps break a
leg and be out of commission for
awhile, but I never thought the
roof would fall in.”
The roof fell in three years
ago when Fa. Hubbard suffered
a stroke.
“After the stroke there was
only one thing I wanted to do:
say Mass. God’s been good to
me. I can say Mass,” he said.
He has regained partial use
of his left hand and said he
takes daily exercise with Santa
Clara University’s trainer Henry
Schmidt.
Father Hubbard is now devo
ting his time at Santa Clara to
editing the 1,500,000 feet of film
he has shot in his travels, plus
his 250,000 still photos, “some
shot 55 years ago,” he said.
“They’ve never been cata-
louged before,” the Jesuit com
mented. “I’m editing them and
hope to make educational,
scientific and travel films for
schools. The films include not
only the Arctic, but a wide
range of subjects from the
Oberammergau Passion Play to
World War'll.”
The Jesuit explorer said he
hoped some realistic plan for
Arctic inspection would be
worked out from the proposal
made by President Eisenhower.
“The Arctic, not the Antarctic,
constitutes the most important
piece of geography in the world
today,” he said. “It offers the
shortest distance between two
propsective points. And it’s a no
man’s land.”
Air, radar and land observa
tion could detect any war moves
in Europe or over any land
mass, “but it is impossible to do
anything with the moving jig
saw puzzel of ice that is the
Arctic,” Father Hubbard said.
“Any prospective attack, or
defense, will come from the
Arctic,” he commented. “The
U. S. has done some wonderful
reconnaissance up there. So have
the Russians.”
Fr. Hubbard does not believe
war will come, “but you can
never tell when madmen are at
work and God is out of the
picture.”
The priest who has probed
the world’s far corners in 50
years of scientific work said
that “the world now is trying
much to run itself with dark
intellects and weak wills. It is
very much in need of grace and
the sacraments.”
During the TV show “This Is
Your Life,” Fr. Hubbard was
surprised by the appearance of
close friends from various
phases of his life. Ralph
Edwards’ show flew in Mrs.
Anton Lang, widow of Anton
Lang who played Christ in the
Oberammergau Passion Play.
Fr. Hubbard had befriended the
Langs during his time in
Europe in the 1920’s.
Others who appeared included
Rod and Ken Chisholm, and Ed
Levin, his companions on
various Alaskan explorations.
Another surprise guest was
Charlie Mayac, Fr. Hubbard’s
former Eskimo guide.
Final guest was Gen. A. C.
Wedemeyer who came from his
home in Boyds, Md., to pay
tribute to Fr. Hubbard for
“early alerting our soldiers to
the danger of communism, not
hysterically, but in a common
sense way that was grasped by
our soldiers.”
Fr. Hubbard is still an out
door man.
“In three weeks I’m going
back to Alaska,” he said.
Wisdom Of
God Never Fails
To Provide Remedy To Evil
And Sickness, Pope Says
Bishop Ireton Praised For
His Devotion To Holy Name
m
And Most Blessed Sacrament
VATICAN CITY, (NC) — Al
though God permits evil and
sickness, He “never fails to pro
vide at the same time the reme
dy and the medicine” for them.
His Holiness Pope Pius XII
made this observation in speak
ing on the wisdom of God. He
was talking to a group .of Span
ish pilgrims who had come to
Rome to attend the ceremonies
of beautification for Blessed
Teresa de Jesus Jornet e Ibars,
Spanish foundress of the Little
Sisters of the Abandoned Aged.
The group was led by His Emi
nence Fernando Cardinal Quiro-
ga y Palacios, Archbishop of
Santiago de Compostela.
The Holy Father told the pil
grims that if, during the second
half of the last century, the wis
dom of God allowed social and
political upheavals to take place
in Spain with such widespread
repercussions in the ecclesiasti
cal and religious fields, “it also
generously raised up many
chosen souls so that, like the
leaven in the Gospel, they
would give good fermentation
to the dough.”
“Some of these souls are now,
or will be before long, the ob
ject of veneration on the altars,”
His Holiness continued. “Others,
like your beloved Mother and
foundress, Teresa de Jesus Jor
net e Ibars, are in the process
of obtaining a similar high hon
or and We proclaim Our per
sonal satisfaction in having
been able to grant it to her.”
“At the same time,” the Pope
said, “We recommend her as an
example to all and more es
pecially to you, her' daughters
and followers.”
In a separate audience the
Pontiff received Spanish Mini
ster of Finance Mariano Navar
ro Rubio, who headed a special
mission that came to Rome to
attend the beatification cere
monies.
New C. P. A. Aide
James A. Doyle, (above) of
Merrick, N. Y„ has been ap
pointed executive secretary of
the Catholic Press Association,
with headquarters in New
York City. He succeeds G.
Roger Cahaney, who held the
post since 1953. The associa
tion is a national trade or
ganization serving more than
300 Catholic newspapers, mag
azines, and book and pamph
let publishers in the United
States and Canada.—(NC Pho
tos).
RICHMOND, Va„ (NC) — At
tention was called to Bishop
Peter L. Ireton’s devotion to the
Holy Name and to the Blessed
Sacrament at the Pontifical Re
quiem Mass here for the ninth
Bishop of Richmond.
Bishop John J. Russell of
Charleston, S. C., in the sermon
at the Mass, reviewed some of
Bishop Ireton’s activities, in
cluding his efforts to expand
the Holy Name Society and en
courage laymen to participate
in the Noctural Adoration Soci
ety.
Archbishop Francis P. Keough
of Baltimore was celebrant of
the Mass, offered in Sacred
Heart Cathedral here.
Bishop Ireton, 75, who ad
ministered the Richmond dio
cese for 23 years, died (April 27)
at Georgetown Hospital, Wash
ington, D. C., from complica
tions that occurred after a fall
on April 18 at Mary mount Ju
nior College in Arlington, Va.,
a Washington, D. C., suburb that
is in the Richmond diocese.
Absolutions after the Re
quiem Mass were given by
Archbishop Keough; Bishop
Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh,
N. C.; Bishop Lawrence J.
Shehan of Bridgeport, Conn.;
Auxiliary Bishop John J. Mc
Namara of Washington, and
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph H.
Hodges of Richmond.
Bishop Russell pointed out in
his sermon that Bishop Ireton’s
activities in behalf of the Holy
Name Society began when he
was serving as a parish priest
in Baltimore, his native city,
and continued after he became
administrator of the Richmond
diocese.
Bishop Russell said Bishop
Ireton had “written a page of
achievement which will perpet
uate his memory in the annals
of the Holy Name Society . . .”
“As (Baltimore) Archdiocesan
Director of the Holy Name So
ciety, working with his fellow-
priests, he was instrumental in
developing a most successful
Holy Name Union composed of
active societies in all parishes in
Baltimore, in Washington (then
in the Baltimore See), and in
rural areas of the archdio
cese . . .
“In the cause of the Holy
Name he travelled all over the
diocese, attending one or two
meetings every week for many
years. He organized rallies, pro
cessions and outdoor demonstra
tions of faith in the cities and in
the country areas. Baltimore’s
annual parade of the Feast of
Christ the King filled the arm
ory every year with some 20
thousand Holy Name men,” said
Bishop Russell.
The speaker praised Bishop
Ireton’s devotion to the Blessed
Sacrament. The first diocesan
Noctural Adoration Society was
established by the Bishop at the
Cathedral in Richmond, and
later the movement was intro
duced in six other areas of the
diocese.
“From the very beginning of
his priestly career,” Bishop Rus
sell said, “zeal which is the flo
wer of love was evidenced in
desire to spend and be spent
for souls. And today may we ex
press the hope that those who
were its beneficiaries may be
witnesses for him unto Christ
as he was a witness for Christ
unto them.”
At the request of Bishop Ire
ton, expressed in his will, burial
took place in the crypt of the
Richmond Cathedral under the
high altar.
Auxiliary Bishop Hodges has
been administrator of the Rich
mond diocesan board of con-
suitors. He will serve until a
successor to Bishop Ireton is
named by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII.
The Diocese of Richmond in
cludes most of Virginia and
eight counties in West Virginia.
The number of Catholics more
than tripled during Bishop Ire
ton’s term of 23 years and now
totals more than 135,000.
He was ordained a priest in
1906 and served in the Archdio
cese of Baltimore until named
Coadjutor Bishop and Apostolic
Administrator of Richmond in
1935. He succeeded to the Rich
mond see on April 14, 1945.
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Theology for
The Layman
(Continued From Page Four)
tain things but they are a mere
drop in the ocean of things it
doesn’t know: its knowing is
limited. So is its loving. So is
its power. There are none of
these limits in God — He is all-
knowing, all-loving, all-power
ful.
We shall return to these but
only after looking again at the
difference we mentioned first—
namely the soul owes its exist
ence to God. He brought it into
existence, holds it in existence,
could reduce it to nothing again
(but He has told us He will not).
To have no hold of one’s own
upon existence is the most lim
iting limitation of all, and marks
the greatest difference between
the finite spirit which is our
soul and the infinite spirit
which is God.
Bernard Shaw tells of asking'
a priest “Who made God?” The
priest was thunder-struck, his
faith shattered. Whether he
committed suicide or merely left
the Church Shaw does not tell.
But the whole thing is ridicu
lous. Every student of philoso
phy has heard the question: and
they all know that there must
be a being which did not need
to be made. If' nothing existed
except receivers of existence,
where would the existence come
from? In order that anything
may exist, there must be a being
which does not have to receive
existence, a being which simply
has it. God can confer existence
upon all other beings, precise
ly because He has it in His own
right. It is His nature to exist.
God does not have to receive ex
istence, because He is existence.
Now we understand the name
God gave Himself. The story is
in the third chapter of Exodus.
God had appeared to Moses in
the burning bush. When Moses
asked Him His name, God said
“I am who am. Thus shalt thou
say to the children of Israel:
He who is hath sent me to you.”
This is God’s name for Himself,
I AM. Our name for Him is
HE IS. (The Hebrew word for
this is Jahveh. The Jews, out of
reverence, avoided writing
God’s name in full, they wrote
the consonants only JHVA.
Somebody in the 13th Century
made a bad guess at the missing
vowels and produced the word
Jehovah. Actually there is no
such word, which is hard luck
for Jehovah’s Witnesses).
That is the primary truth
about God. He is. He exists, with
all that existence in its fulness
can mean. We shall look deeper
into that.
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the late Mrs. Wright, were mar
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on-the-Hill Church, Rev. Robert
J. Bauler of Birmingham, Ala.,
officiating.
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