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PAGE 6—THE BULLETIN, August 22. 1959 Second Encyclical Of Reign BEST WISHES GRANTHAM INSURANCE AGENCY 1521 Newcastle Street — Telephone AM. 3060 - 3061 BRUNSWICK, GA. Visit Our Decorating Department at Trendltlon House, C.McGarvey,lnc. 1709 REYNOLDS ST. "'wasas BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA * FURNITURE OF QUALITY SINCE 1886 ★ COASTALT CHEVROLET CORPORATION 1004 Gloucester Street Phone 161 -162 BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA COMMERCIAL • RETAIL 9 WHOLESALE WHITTLE FURNITURE COMPANY COMPLETE HOME FURNISHINGS 1325 BAY STREET PHONES: 567 AND 350 SAVANNAH • BRUNSWICK • ALBANY • WAYCROSS RAY W. WHITTLE, President Pope Urges Priests To Follow Example Of Si John Vianney Universal Laundry & Dry Cleaners (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service) ' VATICAN CITY, — The role of the priest and the virtues he needs were the themes of the second encyclical issued by His Holiness Pope John XXIII. ^ Entitled “Sacerdotii N o s t r i j Primordia” (From the Begin- j ning of Our Priesthood), the 9,000-word encyclical commemo rated the centenary of the death of St. John Vianney, the Cure d’Ars. The letter, which is the second encyclical, the Pope has issued within a month, was divided into three parts. The first part dealt with priestly aspirations, particularly poverty, chastity and obedience. The second stressed the priest’s need of prayer and devotion to the Eucharist and the third dis cussed the pastoral zeal required of all priests. In each section the Pope point ed out the example set by St. John Vianney, who is the patron saint of all priests, and urged the world’s priests to imitate him with ardor and persistence. “To speak of St. John Vian ney,” the Pope said, “is to recall the figure of a priest whose mo tivation was so strong that, for the love of God and the conver sion of sinners, he deprived him self of nourishment and sleep. He imposed hard discipline on himself and he practiced, above all, self renunciation in a heroic degree.” Citing the saint’s spirit of pov erty, the Pope said he was “rich in giving to others, but poor in himself. He lived totally re moved from the goods of this world and his truly free heart opened itself generously to all the material and spiriual miser ies which occurred around him.” In praising the saint’s observ ance of chastity the Pope warn ed bishops to try to combat the effects of isolation in which many village priests live. “We recommend with lively insistence, venerable brothers, that you provide your priests, in the best possible manner, condi tions of life and work that match their generosity,” the Pontiff said. “There is need, therefore, at all costs, to combat the dang ers of isolation, to denounce im prudence and to do away with temptations to sloth or the risks of exaggerated activity.” Citing St. John Vianney’s obe dience to his bishop, who asked him to remain at Ars as pastor, the Pope said that his “whole adherence to the will of his su periors was, to put it precisely, entirely supernatural in motive. It was Sn act of faith in the words of Christ, who said to His Apostles: ‘Who hears you, hears me.” Turning to prayer in the life of the priest, the Pope said that “faithfulness to prayer is, on the part of the priest, a duty of per sonal piety.” Of ail priestly prayers the Pontiff singled out the Mass as the greatest. “We are not able to forget, moreover, that Eucharistic pray er in the full sense of the word is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. There is need, venerable broth ers, to insist especially on this point because it touches on one of the essential aspects of the priestly life.” The Pope also urged priests to consider periodically how they celebrate Mass and the other rites of the Church to in sure that their spiritual disposi tion is in line with the sacred ness of their function. In the section dealing with pastoral zeal the Pope insisted that priests be encouraged to consider themselves as pastors of their sheep and particularly to devote themselves to hearing confessions, keeping in mind St. John Vianney’s long periods in the confessional and his fame as a confessor. The Pope said that “when, from the height of the supreme pontificate to which Providence has called Us, We view the im mense expanse of souls, the grave problems of evangelizing so many nations and the relig ious needs of the Christian peo ple, there is always and every where present before Our gaze the figure of the priest.” Urging bishops to be close to their priests, the Pope also ask ed Catholics to be generous in giving their sons to the Church. “The Christian family must fully understand its responsibil ity and give its son with joy and gratitude to the Mystical Body,” he said. The Pope said he did not plan to treat of all aspects of the priestly life. Instead, he said, he wanted to emphasize “several aspects of the priestly life which ‘UNIQUE SPIRITUAL QUALITY’ 503 MONK ST. BRUNSWICK, GA. Phone AM. 5-7180 St. Simons ME. 8-3781 This portrait from life, of Pope John XXIII is the work of Bernard Godwin of New York, a widely known portrait painter. It is reproduced in ‘‘America’’ (August 8), the Jesuit national weekly, with an article by Mr. Godwin on “The Face of the Pope,” in which he describes his experi ences during the sittings. “His countenance had about it a unique spiritual quality,” the artist relates. (NC Photos) “SEAFOOD AT ITS SOURCE" On The St. Simons and Sea Island Causeway BRUNSWICK, GA. DECK RESTAURANT in all times are essential, but which acquire so much import ance in our days that We are compelled by the duty of Our apostolic mandate to insist on them in a special way on the occasion of this centenary.” In treating of poverty, chas tity and obedience, the Pope recalled that Pius XII said: “The cleric then is not obliged by divine law to observe the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience.” But Pope John pointed out it “would be an enormous mis take in thinking that that Pops, so concerned with the sanctity of priests and the constant teaching of the Church, could believe nevertheless that the secular priest might be called to a perfection less than that of the Religious.” In urging priests to observe the spirit of poverty, the Pope said: “Certainly in recommend ing this holy poverty We do not wholly intend, venerable bro thers, to approve the misery to which even now ministers of the Lord are reduced in cities and in the country.” In treating of chastity, the Pope warned that this virtue must be accompanied by proper aspirations, so that it does not enclose the priest in “sterile egoism,” but instead “makes his heart all the more open and more ready for all the needs of his brothers.” Touching on obedience, the Pope asked priests to develop a filial sense in their relations to the Church. “It was said of the Cure d’Ars,” the Pope stated, “that he lived in the Church and through the Church like a bun dle of straw plgced in a burn ing brazier.” “Priests of Jesus Christ,” he continued, “we are immersed in a brazier which the Holy Spirit vivifies with fire. We have re ceived all from the Church. Let us act in her name and in vir tue of the powers she has con ferred on us. We love to serve her in the chains of unity, and in the manner in which she wishes to be served.” Addressing bishops on the priests under their jurisdiction, the Pope states: “We recommend that you lis ten to them in their difficulties now very grave, difficulties of their personal life and of their ministry.” . “What cannot a bishop do who loves his priests, if he has won their confidence, if he knows them, if he is near them and guides them with firm but always paternal authority?” the Pope asked. To all the faithful, the Pon tiff appeal “in this centennial year to pray for priests and to contribute as much as they can to their sanctification.” “Today, Christians expect much of the priest,” the Pope continued. “They wish to see him — in a world where power of money, seduction of the senses and prestige of technical knowledge triumphs — a testi mony of the invisible God, a man of Faith forgetful of him self and full of charity.” “May such Christians know,” he concluded, “that they can have great influence on the loy alty of their priests to this ideal by means of religious respect for their priestly character, by a more accurate understanding of their pastoral duties and their difficulties, and by a more ac tive collaboration in their apos- tolate.” T. F. Rybert, Sr. Atlanta Services ATLANTA, Ga. — Funeral services for Mr. Thomas F. Ry- bert, Sr., were held August 5th at the Sacred Heart Church, Rev. John Emmerth officiating. Survivors are Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. 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