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satiating his desire for every
sin, since money helps one to
obtain all manner of temporal
goods; and according to ‘Eccles
iastes’, X:19 ‘All things obey
money,’ so that in this sense, de
sire for riches is the root of
all sins.”
Even where wealth does not
lead to sin, it still tends to sup
plant God in the heart, thus
blocking the soul’s passage to
perfection. When one owns
much wealth, he is tempted to
become attached to his posses
sions, even in a limited degree.
Trust in God and union with
Him are consequently some
what thwarted.
Despite such dangers it is still
possible, though from a spirit
ual viewpoint by no means
easy, for a Christian to want
to become, or to be, a million
aire and a saint at one and the
same time. But to do so, one
must be profoundly convinced
(with a conviction based on
reason and faith) that wealth is
just a means given by the Cre
ator in order that man might
care for his needs and those of
his fellow man; that the end
of all riches is God’s honor and
glory; that money must never
draw one from the Deity; and
that in the last judgment God
will demand a strict accounting
from man as to how he used
and shared his earthly goods.
Q. What precisely does the
expression "Canon of Sacred
Scripture" mean?
A. Used in relationship to the
Bible, “canon” (form the Greek
word for “rule”) signifies the
catalogue or collection of books
which the Catholic Church has
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they felt that the dignity of
God would be safeguarded by
some want of completeness in
the humanity He assumed. Thus
very early the Docetists taught
that His body was only an ap
pearance, whereas St. Peter had
said (I Peter 11.24) “Who His
own self bore our sins in His
body upon the Tree.” But the
Docetists were only a kind of
crude beginning. What really
started heresy after heresy was
the desire to escape not from
Our Lord’s body but from His
soul.
There were those who said
that He had no human soul, His
divinity performed the func
tions of a soul in the body
where in He redeemed us. The
Church remembered the terri
ble phrase He uttered in the
Garden of Gethsemane “My :
soul is sorrowful even unto
death.” Far more, admitting the
soul, denied it intellect or will. -
Both these faculties are worth
a closer look, if we are to grasp
at once the completeness and
the mysteriousness of Our
Lord’s humanity.
As God, Christ Our Lord was
omniscent, He knew all things,
His knowledge was infinite.
What could such a person, do
with a finite intellect, which
could only learn some tiny
fraction of the things He al
ready knew? In fact He did,
and did with joy, all that could
be done with it: for He was
truly man. His body was real,
and His senses were real;
through them the external
world made its way to His brain
very much as it does to ours;
and His human intellect pro
ceeded to work upon their evi
dence as human intellects are
meant to. The person who in
one nature knew all things did,
as St. Luke tells us, in the oth
er nature grow .in wisdom.
(Technically this is called ex
perimental knowledge; in ad
dition the Church tells us, He
had by God’s gift two other
ways of knowing, infused
knowledge and the Beatific
Vision. We have no space here
to discuss these in detail; but
observe that both are kinds of
knowledge that the human soul
can receive.)
Towards the end of the fifth
century the Monothelites began
to teach that while Our Lord
had a human soul and a human
intellect, He had no human will.
(This was the heresy which
caused a Council of the Church
to condemn Pope Honorius —
after his death — for not con
demning it with due vigour.) In
a sense it is simply another
form of the objection against
Our Lord’s finite intellect. He
Himself answered it in Geth
semane when He prayed to His
Father “Not my will but thine
be done.” There was never the
faintest disharmony between
the finite will and the infinite,
but one was not the other.
The, real horror of this here
sy, little as its adherents saw it,
is that it would mean that the
human heart of Christ lacked
the power to love. For love is
the act of the will; and what
ever there may be in imagin
ing a person with an infinite
intellect and a finite, an in
finite will and a finite, it is
simply mystery: it d o e s not
horrify us like the bleakness of
a human soul that could not
love.
THE BULLETIN October 3. 1959—PAGE 5
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AT ST. BERNARD’S — Benton Ashby, an Atlanta freshman
at St. Bernard College in Cullman, Alabama, greets college
President Father Brian Egan, O.S.B., at a student-faculty get-
together climaxing freshman orientation at St. Bernard. Benton
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Ashby, Christ the King parish,
Atlanta.
St. Bernard
College Begins
68th Year
NEW SEMINARY
FOR MELKITES
METHUEN, MASS.—A mile-
CULLMAN, — Father Brian stone in the history of the Ca-
Egan O. S. B. officially opened tholics of the Eastern Rites in
the 68th scholastic year at St. the United State is reached with
Bernard College by celebrating the construction of a new St.
Basil’s Seminary now underway
in Methuen, Massachusetts. This
project is under the patronage
of Richard Cardinal Cushinff,
Archbishop of Boston, and will
cost approximately $600,000.
The purpose of this institution
is to prepare young, men of the
All classes began Thursday, nriestho0( , in the Catholic East-
Rent. 17 and have been going in
full swing since then. The fresh
men class finished their exten
sive Orientation urogram in the
early the first week. The
tests were onlv a nart of the
the Mass of the Holy Spirit.
A record enrollment of 450
students and many other night
students and special, students
comes from nearly half the
United States and many foreign
countries.
ern Rites in America. The pres
ent house of studies was estab
lished in 1954 in what was once
the home of the late multi
millionaire, Daniel J. Tenney.
The Very Reverend John Jadaa,
program, which included meet- K , mPrior stated that occupancy
ing with heads of detriments of the new facilities is expected
and advisors to the different or- by September of next year The
sanitations and was climaxed quarters now in use will then
by a student-faculty get. to- gerve ag g monasterv for the
gether in the college student Bagjlian Salvatorian Order,
center.
The new Seminary was de
signed by John Guarino of Bos
ton and Will be built bv the
Clemenzi Construction Co. of
Beverly, Massachusetts. It will
include a new chapel, twenty-
six; dormitory rooms, six class-
ter.^ These tests are given to roorns> a library, a kitchen and
St. Bernard’s record enroll
ment of Freshmen is to be es
pecially noted since this is the
first year that students have
had to take the College Entrance
Examination Board tests to en-
senior
s at various tifnes during
a dining room, an auditorium.
their last year of high school infirmaryj and a number of
and the results are highly con- other rooms avai]able for vari _
sidered by St. Bernard in the
question of admission,
ous purposes.
„ „ , „ . , „ „ A total of eleven students are
St. Bernard Regis rar • a er currenBy enrolled,.at the semi-
Roger Lott O. S. B. announced
that this year St. Bernard is
offering nine courses of study
leading toward a B. A. degree;.
Chemistry, Biology, Business
Administration, Medical Tech
nology, Accounting, History,
Philosophy, Education, and
English.
The millenium will have ar
rived when the opportunity of a
lifetime appears with a label on
it.
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.
THE CURE D’ARS, a pictorial
biography, text by the Right
Reverend Rene Fourrey, Bishop
of Belley, pictures by Rene Per
rin, Kenedy, $10.00.
One hundred years ago, “at
about two o’clock in the morn
ing, on 4th August, 1859,” the
parish priest of Ars “fell asleep
in the Lord.” His contemporaries
knew that Father Jean Marie
Vianney was a saint. His sancti
ty had been evident in numerous
ways during his 41 years as pas
tor of this tiny village in the
diocese of Belley, France. He
was beatified in 1905 by Pope
St. Pius X, canonized in 1925
by Pope Pius XI, and proclaim
ed by Pope Pius XI in 1929 “ce
lestial patron of all the parish
priests of Rome and of the Cath
olic world.”
This magnificent volume, con
taining four full-page color pho
tographs and 115 black-and-
white pictures, in addition to a
new narrative of the saint’s life
written by the present Bishop of
Belley, is surely one of the finest
of the books published, this year
to celebrate the centenary of the
death of St. Jean-Marie Vianney,
the Cure of Ars. The text is fas
cinating, the pictures even more
so. The reader feels surrounded
by the very atmosphere of the
little French village and the
sanctity of its heroic pastor.
The story of the floods of pen
itents who came to Ars from
many places, of the saint’s long
hours in the confessional, his
amazing penances, his attacks
by the devil, has been frequently
told. Yet readers already well
acquainted with the Cure of Ars
nary which, early next year,
will see its first ordination, that
Solomon Makoul of Wil-
liamantic, Connecticut, who will
receive Holy Orders in the
Maronite Rite in the early
Spring.
The new quarters will he a
maior seminary for philosophy
and theology. The seminary will
be the first major house of
studies in the United States for
the Catholic Eastern Rites other
than Slavonic such as Ukranian
or Ruthenian.
The faculty is staffed by Reli-
will find here unknown inci
dents, for instance the fact that
“his penitents went away . . .
surprised at the lightness of the
penance he imposed on them,
never dreaming that their con
fessor intended to supplement it
liberally on his own person.” “I
will tell you my recipe.” he re
plied when asked, “I give them
a small penance and do the rest
for them.” The thought follows
that perhaps many confessors
today follow his example.
Among the photogranhs are
pictures of Blessed Marcellin
Champagnat, Founder of the
Marist Brothers, and the Vene
rable Jean-Claude Colin, found
er of the Marist Fathers and
Sisters, both of whom were
schoolmates and friends of St.
Jean-Marie Vianney. The writer
of the captions remarks that
“Later, the Cure .d’Ars joined
the Third Order of their Insti
tute . . . .” (that is, the Marists’),
a fact not mentioned by Mon
signor Fourrey. The silence of
so many modern biographers on
this point is regrettable, espe
cially in view of the fact that
two of the primary sources make
much of it: Monin’s “Spirit of
the Cure of Ars,” and Trochu’s
“Concerning the Cure of Ars.”
The latter, for example, says:
“ ‘In the beginning of the day,’
the Cure would explain, I try to
unite myself closely with Our
Lord, and with the thought of
this union in mind I set about
mv work.’ That is what Marv
did the whole day long, united
bv ineffable affection with her
Divine Son . . . The whole spirit
of the Society of Marv and its
blessed Third Order is there; nor
is it rash to say that the Cure
of Ars, a very holy priest, was a
verv holy tertiary, and that the
priest in him owed to the ter
tiary of Mary the fine flower of
his perfection.”
Miss Mary C. Devine
Services In Atlanta
ATLANTA — Funeral serv
ices for Miss Mary C. Devine
were held September 15th, at
the Sacred Heart Church, Rev.
John Emmerth officiating.
Survivors are a sister Mrs.
Kathryn E. Hayes, Atlanta; two
nephews, Capt. E. J. Hayes,
Little Rock, and W. S. Hayes,
New Orleans, and a niece, Mrs.
W. A. Rosser, Bainbridge, Ga.
Ireland Nuncio
The new Papal Nuncio to
Ireland, Most Rev. Antonio
Riberi, is pictured on arrival
at Dublin Airport aboard an
Irish Air Lines flight from
Rome. Archbishop Riberi
was formerly inter-nuncio to
Nationalist China and served
in the Dublin Nunciature as
Secretary, and later, auditor
from 1929 to 1934. (NC
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WHERE CURE D’ARS PREACHED—This pulpit was used
by St. John Vianney, Cure of Ars in the old parish church where
the 19th century French parish priest preached.;This is one of
some 200 photographs in a new pictorial biography of the saint,
published by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, New York.—(NC Photos).
The Franciscan Sisters ax*
looking for girls who are will"
mg to serve God as nurses, aim
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ministrators. technicians dieti
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seamstresses, sacristans, and is
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diocesan) director of the CCD.
In July, 1938, Pope Pius XII
named him Bishop of Burling- pious of the Basilian Salvatorian
ton. He was consecrated on Oc- Order, whose Mother House is
tober 26 in the Burlington ca- in Lebanon. The new facilities
thedral by Archbishop (now will provide services which
Cardinal) Amleto Giovanni limited space has made imnos-
Cicognani, the Apostolic Dele- sible in the present structure
gate to the U. S. 0 n the large estate. A full
Bishop Brady was enthroned library included in the plans
in Manchester on January 17, will afford students an onpor-
1945, bv the same prelate who tunity for research and expand-
celebrated the Requiem Mass ed studies. Also made possible
for him — Cardinal (then Arch- will be an auditorium for meet-
bishop) Cushing. ings an d an infirmary which
In 1948, the Catholic Con- have not been available in the
ference on Industrial Problems seminary thus far.
was held in his diocese and the Th e ' preservation in the
New Hampshire State Industrial United states of the ancient
Council praised him for his and venerable Catholic Rites of
humanitarian interest m the the Middle East is dependent on
welfare of the people. the graduates of this unique
Bishop Brady suffered a heart j nstitution . In keeping with the
attack in February, 1957, while
present ecumenical concern of
taking part in the dedication of the Homan Catholic Church,
a meditation room foi patients fjb s sern ; n ary has a great future
at the State Hospital for Men- potential influence on the reli-
tally 111 at Concord. After sev- gious ]ife in America,
eral weeks rest, he resumed
his duties. Starting on the right road and
To act as administrator of the facing inthe right direct ion pays
Manchester diocese until ap- f ew dividends unless you keep
pomtment of a new Bishop, the mov j n g
diocesan board of consultants
elected Msgr. Edward A. Clark, and rector of St. Joseph Cathe-
Bishop Brady’s vicar general dral.
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