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BOOK REVIEWS EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 Old Jonesboro Road, Hapeville, Georgia Each issue of this Book Page is confided to the patronage of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, with the hope that every read er and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. ABOVE ALL A SHEPHERD, by Ugo Groppi and Julius Lom bardi, Kenedy, $3.95. (Reviewed by Cecelia L. Hines'! Within six months after Card inal Roncalli became Pope John XXIII there were nine full bi ographies published about him. No matter how many facets of the present Pope’s life and character are presented by those who “knew him when” or those who attempted to pre dict his future actions, it seems reasonable to observe that all this sudden spate of writing must show signs of a “rush job” by both writers and pub lishers. Above All A Shepherd is one of these books. It is authored by Ugo Groppi who seems to have the necessary background knowledge for since the age or thirteen he has known the pres ent Pope and has followed his career at close quarters (he was eight years in the Vatican Sec retariat of State), and by Jul ius Lombardi who now teaches Romance Languages in Seton Hall- University and is the au thor of several books in French. This collaboration brought forth a rather jumbled result which pictures the present Pope, the son of a humble pea sant, a pastoral figure, and also as a prelate who served the Church well in places and com plicated situations which called for competent political experi ence, talent and diplomatic fin esse. How much the translator (the book was first written in Italian) is responsible for giving this impression cannot be as certained. Sentences like the following certainly do not “march” well in English: “The firm and re peated protests of Pius IX and his immediate successors, the political absention of Italian Catholics, were not, therefore, expressions of resentment over a loss of material good but at tributes imposed by the duty of preserving for the Church, in extended form, her universal character.” “The directress, an Augustine tertiary, although certainly zealous and kindly, lacked a comprehension of methods of modern pedagogy.” Neither does the intimate style of the first chapter which tells of Pope John’s early life and family seem to tie in with this style of writing, nor the last chapter which consists of rambling observations of what kind of a Pope the Holy Father will turn out to be. After all, Above All A Shep herd does contain much good information reported in great detail and interspersed with a number of interesting photo graphs. It does not have smooth readability, continuity of thought, or spontaneity of ex pression, which are all among the requisites of what can be called “a good book.” SAINT JEAN-MARIE VIAN- NEY, Cure of Ars, By Margaret Trouncer, Sheed & Ward, $3.95. (Reviewed by Martha Fowler) If you are not acquainted with the Cure of Ars, then you owe it to yourself to read this excel lent biography written in honor Gramling - Davis Realtors RENTALS — SALES INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE "INSURANCE TO FIT YOUR NEEDS" ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GEORGIA E)i SPAIBT F ...i DIX 'hat Famous Paint IE PAINT AND C VARt 0., Inc IISH BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA JOTTINGS (Continued from Page 4) These books by Wolfe and Aggee celebrate the American who rarely receives either criti cism or praise in a lifetime. He is legion, He is born, suffers, loves, dies. He is the universal man, understood by all peoples of all times. Yet the background is America, a recognizable America. These are the types of books which as Germany’s “Diary of Ann Frank” can wrought invaluable bonds of harmony and good will amongst all nations. of his centenary. Mrs. Trouncer gives an inter esting and factual account of the saint’s humble childhood, his rise to the priesthood, the ter rible visits and temptations he suffered from the devil, and finally his climb to sanctity. You are probably familiar with the stories of his long hours in the confessional (some times 16 hours consecutively, certainly penance enough), but did you know that for years he ate his meager meals standing? His food consisted mainly of boiled potatoes and often he would give to the poor any food he had been given by those who worried about his health. St. Jean-Marie had a great devotion to Mary, and there lies the only criticism of this book. There are only a few words about his love for the Third Order of Mary. He was received in the Third Order by Blessed Peter Julian Eymard in 1846, having attended the same semi nary with the Venerable Jean- Claude Colin, founder of the Society of Mary. He lived to the fullest the interior life nre- scribed by the rule of the Third Order of Mary and sent many vocations to the Marist congre gation. It is difficult to understand how this imoortant part of his life was omitted from an other wise excellent biography. WITH MARY IN MIND, a Guide to Mental Praypr, edited bv Howard Raffertv. O. Csrm., Carmelite Third Order Press, 6415 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago 37, 111., $1.50. In a sequence of essays on mental nraver, members of the Carmelite Order act as guides to the soul from its first feeble stens in meditation to full union with God in contemplation. Ad dressed to men and women in the world, the chapters sneak with clarity and fervor of: How Mary Teaches Us to Pray; The Spirit of Carmel; Quest for Per fection: Meaning and Nature of Mental Prayer: The Necessity of Meditation; How to Make a Meditation; The Law of Prog ress; Higher Degrees of Prayer; Difficulties in Mediataion; Spir itual Direction; Mystical Life. SERVICES FOR LEO M. KINSTLE BRUNSWICK, — Funeral services for Leo M. Kinstle, Sr., were held August 26th at St. Francis Xavier’s Church, Rev. James M. Cummings officiating. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Jennie Kinstle; one daughter, Mrs. C. D. Burgess, Brunswick; two sons, Charles F. Kinstle, Brunswick, Ga. and Leo M. Kinstle, Jr., Panama City, Fla., 11 grandchildren; two brothers, T. N. Kinstle, Beardstown, 111., Aloysius Kinstle, Ohio; a sister, Mrs. Matilda Hummell, Dayton, Ohio. QUESTION BOX (Continued from Page 4) either title is used with the priest’s full name). Whereas “Father” may be used alone, or with a priest’s first, last or full name, “Reverend” is never prop arly used of Catholic priests un less it is followed by an individ ual priest’s full name. Needless Theology for The Layman (Continued from Page 4) question who. In every rational nature there is a mysterious something which says I — that is the person (and this is true not only for man, but for every angel and as we have seen for God Himself). That which says I is the person, is the an swer to the question who any rational being is. There is a further distinction. Nature decides what a beiiv* can do; but the person does it. My soul and body make all sorts of actions possible to me, but I do them. Whatever is done, suffered, experienced i n a rational nature is done, experi enced, suffered by the person whose nature it is. Left to ourselves, we might simply assume that each person has one nature, each nature (if it happens to be rational) has one person. We have already seen how wrong we should be. it is simply one more way of treating man as the measure of all. In God there is one nature, totally possessed by three dis tinct persons. This plurality of persons over nature is reversed in Christ Our.Lord, for in Him the person is one, the natures are two. That one Person who in Christ said I. is the Second Per son of the Blessed Trinity, God the Son, God the Word. Christ is not the First Person or the Third of all three (in their pro found way theologians have dis cussed ail these as theoretical possibilities for an Incarnation different from Christ’s). We have already seen why when the first order of creation was wrecked, it fell to God the Son to make the new order. To make it. He became man: He who from, eternity nossessed the di vine nature did. at a point of time,, take to Himself and make His own human nature, a body conceived of a woman, a soul specially created by God as our souls were. Because Christ Our Lord, uniquely, had two natures, He could give two answers to the question What are You — for nature decides what a Person is. And He had two distinct prin ciples, sources we may say, of action. By the one nature He could do all that goes with be ing God — He could read the heart of man for instance, He could raise Lazarus to life; by the other He could do all that goes with being man •— He could be born of a mother, could hunger and thirst, could suffer, could die. But whether He was doing the things of God or the things of man, it was always the Per son who did them. Actions are always done by the person, and in Him there was but one per son. Everything He did — down to the smallest, in itself most commonplace act — was done by God. C. L. VAN MERE CONTRACTOR AMERICAN OIL CO. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA Best Wishes to say, “Sir” should not be em ployed with reference to priests. Q. Some time ago it was ex plained in your column that women cannot be ordained. However, how is it that there were "deaconesses" and pries tesses" in the primitive Church? A. What of the so-called “dea conesses” and “priestesses” sometimes referred to in the primitive Church? The fact is that both these terms were em ployed for those women who, for the sake of propriety and to avoid possible scandal, assist ed in works of mercy and chari ty undertaken by the Church; or else led lives of prayer and penance. Neither group of wom en was admitted to the Church’s hierarchy. “Priestess” for that matter, is an unfortunate mistranslation of the feminine counterpart of presbyter, the Latin-Greek noun from which our word “priest” derives. Fundamentally, presby ter does not signify “priest,” but “an elder.” By the same declen sion, “priestess’ really means “a widow.” BEST WISHES FROM PALMER’S ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA. Crandall Hardware Co. BRUNSWICK, GA. COMMUNITY SUPER MARKET AT THE PIER ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GEORGIA READDKK SHEET METAL WORKS P. O. 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