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POPE JOHN COMPOSES
PRAYER FOR PERSECUTED
‘CHURCH OF SILENCE’
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—His Holiness 1 ope Jonn XXJ.il
lias composed a prayer lor tne
Cnurcn oi science now under
going communist persecution.
Tne prayer was recited at the
Roman isasilica oi St. Faui-
Oursiue-ttie- W alls when the
Tope visited it on January Zo,
the least ot the Conversion oi
St. Taul.
A translation oi the text of
the prayer follows:
O Jesus, Son of God, You
loved Your Church and You
gave Yourself for it so as to
sanctify it and to enable it to
appear before You glorious and
immaculate (cfr. Ephesians 5,
23-27). Consider again with
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mercy the afflictions to which
Your mystical spouse is subject
ed in some parts of the world,
but particularly now in the
great nation of China.
You see, O Lord, the snares
which threaten the souls of
Your faithful and You know the
calumniating insinuations
brought against Your shepherds,
Your ministers and Your faith
ful followers who eagerly desire
to spread the truth of the Gospel
and Your kingdom which is not
of this world. How insistent and
pernicious are the attempts to
tear the seamless robes of Your
spouse, the Church — one, holy,
Roman, catholic, apostolic —
separating hierarchy and local
communities from the sole cen
ter of truth, authority and sal
vation, the Chair of Peter.
Before the spectacle of such
grave evils we ask of You above
all forgiveness for offenses per
petrated against You. Indeed,
the words You spoke to Saul
of Tarsus on the road to Damas
cus — “Saul, Saul, why doest
thou persecute Me?” (Acts 9, 4)
—-may well be repeated again
today as has happened in the
course of recent and past his
tory.
We always trust in the effica
cy of the sublime words which
You spoke to the Father from
the Cross. “Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they
do” (Luke, 23, 34). In the same
way as Your sacrifice is the
source of universal salvation, so
may the martyrdom which the
Church, Your spouse and our
mother, suffers in various re
gions be salutary to all men
through Your grace.
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Oh Prince of Peace, may the
bishops and the priests, the Re
ligious and the laity be always
and everywhere “careful to pre
serve the unity of the Spirit in
the bond of peace” (Ephesians
4, 3). May Your almighty
strength defeat every human
calculation, that shepherds and
flocks may remain obedient to
the voice of the only universal
shepherd, the Roman Pontiff,
who feels in his heart the re
sponsibility of that supreme
command of love, “Holy Father,
keep in Thy name those whom
Thou has given me that they
may be one even as We are one”
(John 17, 11).
And lastly, Oh our Savior,
cast a glance of approval on the
merits and prayers of Your mo-
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ther and ours, the august Queen
of the Missions and the Uni
versal Church; on the toils, on
the sacrifices and on the blood
of innumerable heralds of the
Faith, who have given You ev
erywhere and still give heroic
testimony. And mindful above
all of Your Precious Blood, shed
for many as the remission of
sins, give Your peace to China
and to the whole world, since
in no one else is there hope,
victory and peace if not in You,
Our Lord and immortal King of
the centuries and of the people.
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Not many priest visitors drop in at our northern outpost
in Greenland, the Thule Air Base. But Father Emile Ver-
hrugghe iright), a Carmelite and U. S. Air Force chaplain
was glad to greet Father R. Belair, Canadian mis
sionary and Air Force chaplain, who stopped over on his
1 visitation of the eskimos up in the extreme north of Can-
' «da. Photo by USAF. (NC Photos)
How Does Catholic Family
Feel When Told
Will Visit In 10
SAN FRANCISCO, (NC) —
How does a Catholic family feel
when the Deputy Premier of the
Soviet Union pays a surprise
visit to their home on Sunday
morning?
When Anastas Mikoyan, on a
tour of San Francisco, asked to
see a typical policeman’s home,
James P. Cavanaugh, State De
partment security agent, leaned
over to Police Captain Daniel J.
Quinlan and said, “You’re it.”
Ten minutes later, after a
hurried call via police radio, the
family’s home was ready for in
spection with Carol Quinlan, 14,
a freshman at Presentation high
school, playing hostess.
Mrs. Quinlan was at Mass at
St. Anne of the Sunset at the
time. She said afterwards, “It
was a ticklish situation — on
the spur of the moment like
that, and we’re glad the chil
dren handled it so well.”
The other girls — Maureen,
who studies at St. Joseph Col
lege of Nursing, was at Mass
with her husband and Anne Ma
rie, a senior at Presentation,
who was practicing for a school
event — are proud that theirs,
a Catholic home, was chosen for
the visit.
“The younger , boys (Danny, 9,
and Gerry, 7), were more inter
ested in the gold braid on a
police official’s uniform, and
the radio cars parked out front,”
added Mrs. Quinlan.
If Mikoyan was impressed
with the religious objects in the
home, no one knows. He was in
terested in economic standards
—how the Quinlan’s lived.
What was the Captain’s sal
ary? What had he paid for his
home? How much did he pay in
taxes?
“He went into all the rooms,”
said Carol, “and wanted to know
what the appliances did—es
pecially the electric ironer.”
If Mikoyan could go in silence
past the Sacred Heart shrine,
with the family prayerbooks
assembled in front of it, he
couldn’t do the same with the
children.
“His eyes lit up when he saw
the children,” says Carol. “He
shook hands with me and the
boys, and was gentle with Ka
thy (four-year-old whom he
kissed). He seemed kind.”
General reaction from the
family’s circle of friends is that
Mikoyan Not
Welcome In
Argentina
WASHINGTON, (NC) — Ar
gentina would not welcome a
visit by Anastas I. Mikoyan,
Soviet First Deputy Premier,
Argentine President A r t u r e
Frondizi said here during his
visit.
Dr. Frondizi, speaking at the
National Press Club, pledged his
country’s determination to resist
all Soviet economic and ideo
logical penetration. The state
ment about a visit by Mr. Mik
oyan arose during the question
period following his talk.
Dr. Frondizi emphasized that
he did not criticize the United
States for receiving Mr. Mik
oyan, since this was a matter
for the United States Govern
ment to decide. He pointed out,
however, that Argentina would
not welcome Mr. Mikoyan or
any other representative of an
alien ideology.
Mikoyan
Minutes?
the members of the Quinlan
family were put on a spot, but
who knows, some of the Cath
olic atmosphere might have rub
bed off.
Weekly Calendar
Of Feast Days
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
SUNDAY, February 8 — St
John of Matha, Confessor. He
was born in Provence, France,
in 1169, renounced wealth and
a promising career for the
priesthood. With St. Felix of Va
lois, he founded the Order of the
Holy Trinity lor the redemption
of Christian slaves held by the
Moors in Africa. He died in
Rome in 1213.
MONDAY, February 9 — St
Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop-
Doctor. He was an Egyptian by
birth and in 412 succeeded his
uncle, St. Theophilus, as Patri
arch of Alexandria. He wrote
commentaries on the Holy
Scriptures and other notable
works, but achieved his great
est fame in his work of over
throwing the heresy of Nestori-
us, which was condemned in the
Council of Ephesus, in 431. In
trigues at Constantinople led to
his imprisonment, but strong
action by the Pope brought his
liberation and he returned to
Alexandria, where he died in
444. Pope Leo XIII proclaimed
him a Doctor of the Church.
TUESDAY, February 10 — St
Scholastica, Virgin. She lived
in the sixth century and was the
sister of St. Benedict. She is
regarded as the first nun of the
Benedictine order and founded
a community near Monte Cas-
sino. She died about 543.
WEDNESDAY, February 11—
Ash Wednesday, the first day ol
Lent. Also feast of Our Lady oi
Lourdes. This feast commemo
rates the 18 apparitions of the
Blessed Mother to St. Berna
dette, then a girl of 14, neat
Lourdes, France. In the appari
tions the Blessed Mother re
vealed her identity: “I am the
Immaculate Conception.” The
feast falls on the anniversary of
the first apparition.
THURSDAY, February 12 —■
Seven Servite Founders, Con
fessors. The seven were Floren
tine noblemen — Bonfilius Mon-
aldi, John Manetti, Benedict An-
tella, Bartholomew Amidei,
Hugh Uguccioni, Gerard Sosteg-
ni and Alexis Falconieri: In 1233
they retired from the world and
founded the Order of Servants
of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the
Servites), which has a particu
lar devotion'to the Seven Sor
rows of the Blessed Mother.
Each of the seven founders be
came famous for working mira
cles. Their orders spread rapid
ly. They died in different years
but share a single tomb. They
were canonized by Pope Leo
XIII in 1888.
FRIDAY, February 13 — St
Benignus, Priest-Martyr. He was
a priest of Todi in Umbria, Italy,
who was tortured and put to
death in the persecution under
Diocletian about 303.
SATURDAY, February 14 —
St. Valentine, Martyr. He was a
Roman priest who with St. Ma
rius and his family aided the
martyrs persecuted by Emperor
Claudius II. He was beheaded
about 270.
THE BULLETIN, February 7, 1959—PAGE 3
Vatican Quarters Say It Is Too Early
To Say What Council Will Discuss;
Cardinal Montini Hails Meeting Plan
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
ROME — His Eminence Gio
vanni Batista Cardinal Montini,
Archbishop of Milan, has fore
cast that the forthcoming ecu
menical council will be “the
greatest which the Church has
ever celebrated in its 20 cen
turies of history.”
This estimate of the import
ance of the coming council of
the Church by a former substi
tute secretary of state, a keen
observer of Church affairs, gen
erally summed up the first com
ments of high Italian, and par
ticularly, Vatican churchmen.
Inquiries by the N.C.W.C.
News Service into authoritative
Vatican quarters brought the
general response that it is much
too early to state anything with
certainty as to details of the
time of convocation or matters
to be tested.
The general impression is that
the Pope’s thought is convoking
an ecumenical council has been
a closely guarded secret and
that many high Vatican au
thorities had been taken by
surprise.
Whether this impression was
accurate or not, there was every
evidence that, after the first
shock, work immediately began
in all Vatican congregations on
early preparations for the his
toric event.
A clue as to the general nature
of the matters to be considered
by the council — and therefore
perhaps also his reasons for de
ciding to call it — were given
by the Pope himself when, fit
tingly, he made it known first
of all to an assembly of Cardi
nals.
The Pope pronounced his de
cision form a Latin text to 17
Cardinals present. Only a short
resume of his statement was is
sued to the press.
The resume declared that the
intention of the Pope “is to
make the ecumenical council
prove beneficial not only for
edification of the Christian peo
ple, but also to be an invitation
to separated communities to find
that unity in the Church desir
ed today by so many souls
throughout the world.”
It was generally believed here
that dissenting Oriental groups
and Protestants will be invited
as they were at the time of the
Vatican Council. The Pope him
self has given indications re-
Famed Jesuit
School Seized
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (Radio,
NC) — The Cairo government
has stepped up its war of at
trition against Catholic educa
tion in Egypt by taking over
one of the country’s most re
spected schools, it was reported
here.
The United Arab Republic’s
Ministry of Education announc
ed the closing of the College de
la Sainte Famille, Cairo boys’
school established by French
Jesuits a half century ago. Re
ports received here indicated
that besides closing Sainte Fa
mille, which consists of prepara
tory and secondary departments,
the Cairo government also clos
ed two Sisters’ schools which in
effect serve as primary schools
feeding Sainte Famille. The Jes
uit school at Minya, in upper
Egypt, was also reported to
have been taken over by the
government.
The UAR Ministry of Educa
tion is understood to have
charged that the schools taken
over were giving courses which
provided misinformation about
Egypt and the Arab world, and
were encouraging religious dif
ferences.
Archbishop Silvio Oddi, the
Apostolic Internuncio in Cairo,
reportedly called at the Foreign
Ministry to discuss the seizure
shortly after it was announced.
It was Archbishop Oddi, who
in the summer of 1956 — sev
eral months prior to his appoint
ment as Internuncio — con
cluded an agreement with the
Egyptian government which
agreed to provide instruction in
Islam to Moslem students at
tending Catholic schools. The
government had passed a law
the previous year requiring such
instruction, and had stipulated
confiscation of any school which
did not comply.
The law called for religious
instruction by Moslem teachers
within the school. This law was
strongly protested by the Chris
tian communities. Under the
agreement accepted by Arch
bishop Oddi; the government
conceded that the Islamic in
struction for the Moslem stu
dents might be given in sep
arate premises as long as they
were on the school grounds.
peatedly in the first months of
his pontificate that Christian
unity was the greatest of his de
sires.
In the homily after his coro
nation he had said “We have at
heart in a very special manner
Our task as shepherd of the en
tire flock. All other human
qualities . . . can succeed in em
bellishing and complementing
the reign of a Pontiff, but they
cannot in any way serve as
substitutes for this.”
The problem of unity was re
peated afterwards in several of
his important speeches. It was a
problem he knew first hand
during his missions in Bulgaria,
Greece and Turkey whSre he
was in contact with Oriental
dissidents for nearly 20 years.
When the Pope announced his
intention to convoke an ecu
menical council, it was also
stated that bringing canon law
up to date would be one of his
special concerns.
According to reliable sources
in the Roman curia, this will
come after, and as a result of,
the council. This means that re
form of the code will include
not only amendments made af
ter 1917, when the code was
promulgated, but also those
changes that might be suggest
ed by the council.
Comment in Vatican circles
following announcement of the
council were unanimous in their
admiration for the Pope’s great
and decisive action.
“It is a gesture of the his
torian Roncalli, and is in keep
ing with the best traditions of
the Church,” said one prelate.
Another commented that the
“reigning Pontiff has the un
usual gift of making decisions,
even the most momentous, with
greatest simplicity, and render
ing them uncomplicated.”
Cardinal Montini was the
first of the prominent church
men in Italy to make a public
statement about the council. On
the day following the Pope’s
announcement, he addressed a
letter to clergy and faithful of
his archdiocese in which he told
them that “an historic event
of the first importance is about
to take place.”
He declared: “This council
will be the greatest which the
Church has ever celebrated in
its 20 centuries of history, a
great confluence both numeri
cally and spiritually, presenting
the total and pacific unity of
the Church’s hierarchy. It will
be the greatest for the univers
ality of its dimensions and its
true interest to the entire
world.”
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