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worship can he express his soli
darity with the society on
whose behalf it is offered.”
Implicit herein is a hint as to
the fundamental reason why
the sin of missing Mass is so
grave. Serious disobedience
against a Church precept is in
volved in such a sin, true. But
more basically, missing Mass of
one’s own fault on a Sunday or
Holy Day of Obligation entails
refusal to worship God publicly
and as a member of society;
hence, constitutes a transgres
sion of the Natural Law insofar
as it has been defined by the
Church.
In his section on the Bible,
Father Trese says; “The Bible
is not everything, but it is a
big something that no Catholic
can afford to overlook.” His
book too is “a big something
that no Catholic can afford to
overlook.” It is a must for soul-
growth.
Each issue of ihis Book Page
is confided fo ihe paironage 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.
Q. What is the rule for determ
ining what series of mysteries
should be used when saying the
Rosary?
A. Each of the three sets of
Rosary Mysteries (i.e., the Joy
ful, Sorrowful and Glorious
Mysteries) represents a chrono
logical succession of events re
lating to the Incarnation and
Redemption. Thus, the Joyful
Mysteries relate to Christ’s
birth and childhood; the Sor
rowful Mysteries, to His passion
and death; and the Glorious
Mysteries, to His resurrection
and ascension. Hence, it is cus
tomary, in accordance with the
days of the week, beginning
with Monday. (There are spe
cial norms for Sunday.)
On Monday, then, the Joyful
Mysteries are ordinarily used;
on Tuesday, the Sorrowful; and
on Wednesday, the Glorious.
This same cycle is repeated for
Thursday (the Joyful, again),
Friday (the Sorrowful) and
Saturday (the Glorious).
On Sundays, as a general rule,
the set of mysteries selected
will depend upon the liturgical
season. For the greater part of
the year, the Glorious Mysteries
are proper, since Sunday is
principally a Little Easter, the
anniversary of Christ’s Resur
rection. During Advent and the
Christmas season, however,
the Joyful Mysteries may be
used, because they pertain di-
dectly to the historical events
commemorated during this sea
son. And in Lent when Christ’s
passion and death are particu
larly commemorated, the Sor
rowful Mysteries may be used.
THE HIDDEN FACE by Ida
F. Goerres, Pantheon, $4.95.
(Reviewed, by Cecilia L. Hines)
The subject of this remark
able study is Therese of
Lisieux, the Little Flower, the
Saint of the Little Way, who
entered the Carmelite Convent
at the age of fifteen, died of
tuberculosis nine years later
and whose life attracted very
little attention. Yet in 1909
devotion to the little obscure
nun became so widespread that
pleas for her canonization liter
ally poured into Rome and
Carmel, often at the rate of
fifty letters a day.
Much has been written about
St. Therese of Lisieux. To many
writers she seems to typify the
world of bourgeois French Ca
tholicism prevalent in her time
and to others a certain aspect
of mysticism and intellect. Nei
ther approach is satisfactory so
that, at the present time, she
has become a fascinating and
enigmatic figure somewhat un
appealing to 20th century
minds.
Frau Goerres has traced for
us the development of an au
thentic human character and at
the same time given us a con
vincing interpretation of her
sancity; an interpretation based
on the facts of the Saint’s life
itself. The author developed
this with a candid approach
Theology for
The Layman
(Continued from Page 4)
But because He was God, His
act had an infinite value, by
which it compensated, out
weighed, not only all the sin
men ever had committed but
all they ever could. That, in
essence, is why it is redemptive.
Every act of Christ was infi
nite in value because He who
performed it was God. Why
then did He offer His death,
and some lesser act — the tears,
for example, that He shed over
Jerusalem? It is always peril
ous to think one knows why
God does one thing and not an
other. His ways are unsearch
able, our mind is not His.
But at least we can say that
had He chosen some offering
less than His life, there would
have been a permanent feeling
in the mind of man — not a
dissatisfaction exactly, but not
total satisfaction either. We
should have been left with the
sense that in our redemption
the human nature had played
only a token part, leaving the
infinity of the divine Person to
do the whole work. Whereas He
chose that His human nature
should give its all, leaving the
Person to provide only the in-
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finite value which human na
ture never could provide.
Observe the words “He
chose.” No man could inflict
death upon Him aganist His
will. He says again and again
that He would “lay down” His
life for His sheep. “I am laying
down my life to take it up again
afterwards. Nobody can rob me
of it; I lay it down on my own
accord.” (John X.17-18). He did
not choose that men should slay
Him, of course. But since men
willed to slay Him because He
had fearlessly spoken the word
of God against them, He chose
to let them do the worst that
was in them. Through love, He
Himself would be the victim of
fered in sacrifice: they would
slay Him, He would offer His
death for the sins of all men,
including theirs.
It is essential at this point to
re-read what Matthew (Ch. 26)
Mark (Ch. 14) and Luke (Ch.
22) have to tell us of the Agony
in the Garden.
He would take upon Himself
the sins of men that the offer
ing He made of Himself might
be real expiration. In Gethsem-
ani we get some glimpse of
what the taking meant to Him.
For nothing He does is fiction or
pretense. He could not make
His own the guilt of other men’s
sins: guilt can be only in the
sinner. But He took the burden
of them, the weight: above all
the weight of all the sorrow
that we, all men, should have
felt for our sins and have not
felt. It all but killed Him.
But His Father, answering
His agonized prayer, sent an an
gel “to comfort Him.” For that
hour He lived. Death waited for
Calvary.
and brilliant craftmanship from
painstaking research among the
processes of Canonization and
documentation from the ar
chives of Carmel. She does not
ask us to believe in a “neurotic
saint” but an extremely egocen
tric personality battling to
achieve holiness in a way no
more easy or natural than it
would be for any of us. This
portrait in writing — like the
original photographs — is not
radically different from the
other versions but it is certainly
more believeable.
Some readers, reviewers too,
may be disturbed by this very
candid appraisal and feel that
the writer has belittled the
Saint’s contemporaries. Those
who have been confused by too
much “sugar coating” in many
biographies will get a clearer
view of the girl who “lived the
sanctity and transparency of
ordinary life” and learn the
significance of this sanctifica
tion. For the saints are not
static; they are always growing
in love and grace.
Saint Pius X called her the
greatest saint of the century.
She stands on the crossroads be
tween the “old” and the “new”
piety. Not for nothing was the
Little Flower made the patron
of the missionary field or the
close bond between her love of
God and her love of sinners
(made obscure by the early
translations of “sinners” in the
Autobiography and Letters as
“unbelievers” or “those ignorant
and full of worldly thoughts”
recognized for what it is — the
opening out of vistas of spirit
ual growth for every soul.
Frau Goerres who has writ
ten many books in German
about saints and sanctity has
made a major contribution
(reverent and brilliant) to the
literature on St. Therese and
literature itself. The very read
able English translation has
been done by Richard and Cla
ra Winston.
Services For
Alien Cuiley
MARIETTA — Funeral serv
ices for Mr. Allen Cuiley III,
were held October 14th, at St.
Joseph’s Church, Rev. A. A.
Walls officiating.
Survivors are his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Allen J. Cuiley,
Jr., Marietta; one sister, Mrs.
Geraldine Ellen McCloud of
Coral Gables, Fla.; naternal
grandmother, Mrs. Marion M.
Cuiley, Marietta; maternal
grandfather, Mr. Riley W. Col
lins, Levittown, Pa.; several
aunts and uncles.
St Anthony's
Altar And
Rosary Society
ATLANTA — On Sunday af
ternoon, October 4th, the Presi
dent, Mrs. Bill MeAdam, pre
sided over the meeting follow
ing the recitation of the Rosary.
Mrs. Ben Waldron, Program
Chairman, introduced Father
Daniel McCormick, who pre
sented the ladies who had serv
ed as Past Presidents. Father
King introduced the guest
speaker, Father Richard Albert,
of Our Lady of the Assumption
parish.
Following Father Albert’s in
teresting talk on woman’s place
in the world, a social hour was
held, with Mrs. Ira Driskell ac
ting as official hostess. Mes-
dames Moltz and Brisbane pre
sided at the coffee table.
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This book brings together in
one volume all of the wonder
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has written for the Confrater
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the language of today. He clari
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question and answer, is limited
in scope. Father Trese uses a
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anyone can understand, be he
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Specifically, he was asked for
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The book follows the lesson
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