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(Continued from Page 4)
ture or the human, was the act
of the Person that He was.
When Christ prayed, it was the
Second Person of the Trinity
who prayed. And prayer is of
its very essence the utterance
of the finite creature to the in
finite God. Once again we face
mystery, yet some small gleam
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“. . . The papal texts do often
and clearly refer to St. Dominic
as the author of the Rosary For
this . . . claim, although not all
writers accept it, we do have
really respectable evidence.
Hence it is preferable to sup
port the traditional view on this
. . . point, particularly out of re
gard for both the authority and
the scholarship of the many oc
cupants of the See of Peter who
have favored and do favor it.”
Independent of St. Dominic’s
authorship of the Rosary is
whether or not the saint acted
in accordance with instructions
given him during an apparition.
Although many earlier chron
iclers openly state that the saint
received the Rosary from our
Lady, during a vision at Prou-
ille, in 1206, the evidence in be
half of such an apparition is un
questionably weak. At least it
cannot meet the precise stand
ards of the modern historical
method. Moreover, no papal-
pronouncements explicitly con
firm the Prouille vision; several
early accounts of the life of St.
Dominic do not even refer to
the vision; and the vision did
not figure in St. Dominic’s ca-
nonizaton trial.
To reject the vision at Prou-
iile as unhistorical is not to af
firm that St. Domonic did not
institute the Rosary under spe
cial heavenly guidance. Rather
all the evidence available indi
cates that he acted in accord
ance with what Pius XI de
scribed as “inspiration from the
Virgin Mother of God and hea
venly admonition.”
The fact, finally, that count
ing beads similar to Rosary
beads were in existence before
St. Domonic’s time, poses no
special problem insofar as the
whole question is concerned.
Rosary-like counting devices
for prayer certainly have been
in use for centuries; it would
be absurd even to try to attrib
ute their invention to St. Dom
inic. Nor must the practice of
saying Our Fathers and Hail
Marys on beads be attributed
exclusively to the saint. As one
Dominican authority has ex
plained:
“St. Dominic did not invent
these things, though it would
seem that he popularized them.
To him, however, a papal tra
dition points as the originator
of the division into decades or
groups of ten, separated by
larger beads called Paternos
ters.”
Indeed, it may have happened
that St. Dominic’s Rosary was
so similar to a devotion existing
during his time, that his con
temporaries failed to take spe
cial note of the new type of de
votion he was introducing and
fostering. Hence, the historical
confusion.
of light we can get. It is the
function, the duty, of a person
to utter his nature; having taken
and made His own a human na
ture, God the Son must utter it,
and this includes uttering its
adoration and thanksgiving and
petition. But realize that though
it was truly human prayer, it
could not be simply as the
prayer of men who are no more
than men. Our Lord could
teach His apostles to pray; but
He never prayed with them.
Because He had a real soul
and a real body, Our Lord had
real emotions too. Love, for in
stance, can be perfectly real
simply as the total turning of
of the will to the good of others,
without having any emotional
accompaniment. Angels, we are
told, love like that. But it is an
odd man who has never known
the emotion of love, a man in
that not like Our Lord. He loved,
and must have shown His love
for, one of His disciples — St.
John is especially “The disciple
whom Jesus loved;” and one
gets an overwhelming sense of
His love for the family at
Bethany.
He wept, too; not only over
Lazarus of Bethany but over
Jerusalem. And He could storm
in anger. The long attack quoted
by St. Matthew upon the Phari
sees is the very high point of in
vective, just invective, stimulat
ing perhaps to us who are not
Pharisees, but terrifying to ev
ery man who has ever examined
his own conscience.
The temptation is to con
tinue with the Man we meet in
the Gospels. Let us consider one
final question which in a way
is a summarization of what we
have been discussing. What does
a Person who is God do with a
human soul?
Clearly He does with it all
that can be done with it, using
every power it has to the utter
most of its possibility. And that
is something that no merely hu
man person has ever done. Most
of us use our minds when we
have to, under compulsion so to
speak, and not very brilliantly.
The geniuses of our race are a
constant reminder of our own
mediocrity. But not the greatest
genius does all with his soul
that can, by the uttermost use
of its own possibilities, be done.
In fact, men do show a certain
development in their realization
of the human soul’s possibilities,
there have been very considera
ble advances in the last hundred
years in the understanding of
the mind’s powers. Men have
glimpsed the possibility of a
profounder control, for instance,
of soul over body. Our Lord had
to wait for none of this. For He
had made that soul of His, and
it had no hidden surprises for
Him. He knew what it could do.
He could do all that could be
done with His human soul —
but not more! We have seen
that man’s destiny is to do
something which by nature he
cannot do — see the face of
God. He cannot do it not be
cause his own use of his nature
is defective but because unaided
human nature cannot do it. That
superb, that incomparable soul
of Christ was given sanctifying
grace. It was, as every spiritual
soul should be, indwelt by the
Holy Ghost.
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FATIMA, Portugal, (NC) —
The statue of the Pilgrim Vir
gin of Fatima has been flown
back to Portugal after a five-
month tour of 92 Italian cities.
Bishop Costantino Caminada
of Sant’Agata de’Goti, vice
president of the Italian Nation
al Committee for Marian Con
gresses, led the group which ac
companied the statue on the
flight to Lisbon airport. Among
those meeting them at the air
port were Archbishop Giovanni
Panico, Apostolic Nuncio to
Portugal; and Bishop Joao Per
eira Venancio of Leiria.
Three white pigeons which
accompanied the statue from
Italy were released when the
statue was returned to the Cha
pel of the Apparition at Fatima.
One of them perched on the
hands of Bishop Caminida who
was praying in the chapel.
THE BULLETIN, October 17, 1959—FACE 5
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freed from household drudgery
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charity.
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Through the existence of “so
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privileges of being Christian
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