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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. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation SAVE. t t TO mm% THE MOST OP AUGUSTA FEUERAL SAfKGS & ten mctim Member Federal Home Loan Bank System Member Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation 767 BROAD ST. AUGUSTA, GA. CURRENT RATE 3'A% Returned To Fatima 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 MEREDITH'S OPTOMETRISTS and OPTICIANS 737 BROAD ST. — AT THE MONUMENT AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Optometrists: Dr. A. H. Meredith Dr. O. M. Murphy, Jr. Opticians: Miss Lura Seigler Jack Johannsen Men who sing their own praises usually get the pitch too high. USE LEISURE FOR CHARITY BUCHTEL, Ohio, (NC) — The American woman, largely freed from household drudgery by modern conveniences, should use her increased leisure time to perform more acts of charity. This advice was given at a meeting of the Catholic Wo man’s Club by Father Anthony G. Nickel, pastor of Holy Cross church in nearby Glouster, Ohio. Through the existence of “so many wonderful household ap pliances,” Father Nickel said, the American woman has “more time to assist those less fortunate neighbors, as well - as to participate in the work of or ganizations that help make bet ter communities.” The priest called on those at tending the meeting to “strive to live up to the high ideals and privileges of being Christian American women.” RIVERSIDE SALES COMPANY NO. 1 — 5TH STREET AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Best Wishes MARRIAGES o- | BURKE-KEARNS | O — o AUGUSTA — Miss Loretta Rhodes Kearns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Kearns Sr. of Augusta and Mr. John Wil liam Burke Jr., son of Mrs. John William Burke Sr. of Au gusta and the late Mr. Burke, were married at high noon, September 26th at St. Mary’s- on-the-Hill Church, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke, V.F., of ficiating. Thomas H. Brittingham & Company AIR CONDITIONING & SPRINKLERS PLUMBING & HEATING CONTRACTOR 919 TWELFTH STREET AUGUSTA, GEORGIA You might call it determina tion when you object to a cer tain policy, but it’s obstanacy if the other fellow objects. Cgreetings and idedt lAJidhed RICHMOND COUNTY BANK MEMBER F. D. I. C. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA FOR. ALL PURPOSES MULHERIN LU MB COMPANY 625 THIRTEENTH STREET AUGUSTA, GA.