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Congratulations For Cardinal Designate
Mother Seton’s Life Proves
Sanctity Is American Product
CONGRATULATIONS FOR CARDINAL-DESIGNATE — Among the eight new Cardinals
to be named by Pope John XXIII at the consistory of December 14, is Archbishop Albert G.
Meyer of Chicago. He is shown (center) with Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York (left) and
Cardinal James Francis McIntyre of Los Angeles. The picture was taken as they received news
of the appointment, at the opening session of the annual meeting of the Administrative Board
of the N.C.W.C. in Washington.—(NC Photos)
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does fail to forewarn a patient
of the danger of death, the onus
to do so certainly rests with the
dying person’s family or friends.
They are obliged to see to it
that a priest is called in as soon
as even the slightest danger of
death occurs. In doubt, they
should call the priest anyway.
The premise that administration
of Extreme Unction might dis
turb a seriously ill person is
nonsense; to act upon such a
premise indicates possible ig
norance about the sacraments
and the Faith in general, or else
sinful negligence, or even plain
disbelief. Moreover, the physi
cian who advises a delay in
calling a priest should be com
pletely ignored; it makes no
difference whether the person
in danger is at home or in the
hospital.
In the case of a dying non-
Catholic, too, there is an obliga
tion upon all who attend him—
doctor, family, friends—to see
to it that he is prepared to meet
the supreme moments in life;
the separation of the soul from
the body and the meeting of the
soul face to face with its Cre
ator.
Q. This is just a curiosity, I
suppose, but why is it that
most altars have three steps,
while others have more (or
even less, as in the case of side
altars)? Is there any set rule?
A. By common custom, most
main altars in churches have
three steps, but there is no def
inite rule in the matter. Doubt
less the reason for this is to ac
commodate the assisting min
isters at a solemn Mass (i.e., the
deacon and subdeacon) without
obscuring the celebrant .from
view when these ministers are
standing behind one another.
More than three steps are
sometimes required because of
the particular architecture of a
church, or, very simply, to
make the altar more readily
visible to the people.
Ordinarily, side altars need at
least a single step, since the cel-
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
CINCINNATI — Mother Set-
on showed the world that
“sanctity of life can be an
American product,” a priest au
thority on her career declared.
Msgr. Joseph B. Code of New
York, author of half a dozen
books on the life and work of
the foundress of the Sisters of
Charity in this country declar
ed:
“Mother Seton blazed a trail
of holiness in the wilderness of
those days and . . . symbolizes
the highest aspirations of
American Catholicism.”
He spoke at a luncheon in
Seton High School following
Solemn Pontifical Mass in St.
Peter in Chains’ cathedral
marking the 150th anniversary
of the founding of the U. S.
Sisters of Charity, and the 130th
anniversary of their coming to
Cincinnati.
Archbishop Karl J. Alter of
Cincinnati, officiated at the
Mass and preached the sermon.
He also read a message convey
ing to the Sisters the greetings
of the Holy Father and his
apostolic benediction, as well as
a message from His Eminence
Domenico Cardinal Tardini,
Vatican Secretary of State and
founder of Villa Nazareth, or
phanage in Rome conducted by
the Cincinnati Sisters of Cha
rity.
Also present at the Mass were
Bishop Joseph H. Albers of
Lansing, Mich.; Bishop Rembert
Kowalski, O.F.M., of Wuchang,
China; Bishop Joseph Yuin, na
tive Chinese Bishop and uncle
of a Sister of Charity; and Aux
iliary Bishop Paul F. Leibold
of Cincinnati.
In his sermon, Archbishop
Alter cited the Sisters of Chari
ty as • “pioneers in charitable
and educational work,” and
said they “might properly be
credited with being the found
ers of the parochial school sys
tem in our country.”
Communities of religious wo
men, like the Sisters of Charity,
“alone have made it possible to
develop the Catholic school sys
tem,” the Archbishop said.
He praised the Sisters for
their “patriotic service” in
keeping religion in education.
He warned: “When religion is
blotted out of education, it is
blotted out of human life.” This
leads to substitution of the state
as the only source of human
rights, he added, and “when
that happens, all liberty is en
dangered.”
In his luncheon address,
Msgr. Code, spiritual counselor
of Manhattan College, New
York, declared: “The message
of these days of celebration is
chiefly this — the triumph of
Christ in the soul of Mother
Seton, and the triumph of
Mother Seton through the Sac
rament of the Altar.”
Immediately after her con
version, Elizabeth Seton “be-
ebrant of Mass is directed by
the rubrics to “ascend” the al
tar. But even this single step
may be dispensed with in cer
tain circumstances, as for ex
ample, in the case of infirm
priests or temporary altars.
Q. If one interrupts a series
of nine First Fridays, musi he
begin the series over again?
A. One of the conditions of
the First Friday Devotion is the
reception of Communion on
nine consecutive first Fridays.
If the series is broken, it must
be begun anew.
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gins to stand out radiantly vic
torious in a land which, since
its very discovery, has been de
cidedly Eucharistic,” said Msgr.
Code.
“Elizabeth Seton, the new
lover of the Blessed Sacrament,
now becomes one with that he
roic band of saintly mission
aries who carried the Bread of
Everlasting Life into the wil
derness of our country.”
Mother Seton’s life has a
“certain epic quality” about it,
he continued. As a result it is
“attracting the attention of
many outside the Church, of
those who are recognizing that
here is a story of love and holi
ness altogether unusual, if not
extraordinary; that here is a
story of one of America’s most
charming women, a story of
holiness so heroic that she
stands out gloriously triumph
ant in these days of a sick and
increasingly secularistic Ameri
ca,” he said.
Speaking of Emmitsburg, Md.,
where Mother Seton brought
her newly established commun
ity and where she is buried,
Msgr. Code called it a “valley
of holiness” which deserves the
title of “America’s Assisi.”
“There are nearly ten thous
and Sisters of Charity in the
United States and Canada,” hq
said, “as well as on the foreign
missions, carrying on Mother
Seton’s work in colleges, acad
emies, parochial grade and high
schools, schools of special serv
ice, training schools for nurses,
and in orphanages; to say no
thing of the corporal works of
mercy which they are perform
ing in hundreds of hospitals and
sanitariums, and even in a lep
rosarium.”
Theology for
The Layman
(Continued from Page 4)
We might lose the Way, as
we might lose any way, either
by wandering from it through
error, or by lacking the strength
for the effort—“the fear and
trembling”—that following it to
the end demands. As against the
danger of losing the Way we
need Truth. As against the dan
ger of falling by the wayside
we need Life—the life Our Lord
came that we might have “and
more abundantly” (John 10.10)
—the life of sanctifying grace.
And what in any event does
Our Lord mean by calling Him
self the Way? He tells us the
answer Himself: “no man com-
eth unto the Father but by me.”
It is in union with Him, and
only so, that men come to that
everlasting union with God
which is their destiny.
Salvation then involves
Truth, Life, Union with the
God-man. How these are to be
ours He tells in the last words
He utters before ascending into
heaven to present before the
throne of God the sacrifice of
our salvation. To the Apostles—
the eleven still with Him—He
says: “Going teach all nations;
baptizing them in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Ghost; teaching them
to observe all things whatso
ever I have commended. And
behold, I am with you all days
even to the end of the world.”
(Matt. 28, 19-20)
Observe how closely this fol
lows the great formula of the
Last Supper—Truth, Life, Union.
Truth first. They are to teach,
all things. He had told them
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earlier (Matt. 13,11) that where
as He had taught the rest in
parables, to them He spoke
plainly. He had promised them
at the Last Supper (John 16. 13)
that when the Holy Ghost came
He should lead them into all
truth: how? by bringing to
their mind all that Our Lord
had told them. And now they
were to teach this great mass
of truth to all nations.
Next, Life. They were to bap
tize: baptism means being born
again of water and the Holy
Ghost (John 3, 5). To be born
means to enter into the life of
this world. To be born again
means to enter into a higher
Life. And these were the men
to whom He had given other
powers for the dispensing of
Life. They were to forgive sins
(John 20:23): that is, to give
back the life of grace to those
who had lost it by sin. And
they were to change bread and
wine into His body and blood
—the very food of our Life:
for He had said to the multi
tudes “Unless you shall eat the
flesh of the Son of Man and
drink His blood you shall not
have life in you” (John 6. 54).
What of Union? Look again.
“Behold I am with you all days
even to the end of the world.”
Through the Apostles—and,
since it was to be till the world
should eqd, through their suc
cessors—we were to find the
Truth, the Life, the Union by
t
which we shall be saved.
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