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QUESTION BOX (Continued from Page 4) missa came to be used almost exclusively for the central di vine service, the Eucharistic Sacrifice. This is how Father Joseph Jungmann summarizes the mat ter in his classic work, The Mass of the Roman Rite: "... A CUSTOM grew up of calling every divine service as a unit a missa* because it in cluded a blessing, much as we style every evening devotion briefly as a benediction. This usage had already appeared BALY TIRE CO. SPECIAL SALE: 1 $7.95 for Guaranteed Recapped 6.70-15 Tires Plus tax and recappable tire 4945 Peachtree Road GL. 7-0202 — Chamblee, Ga. General Microfilming Service Microfilming Service Supplies & Equipment Electrostatic Prints of Valuable Records GEORGE E. KINNEY, Owner . 333 Vi Peachtree, N. E. DR. 8-0571 Atlanta, Ga. about 400 .. . So the name mis sa was gradually appropriated to the Eucharist, not (for a long time) exclusively, but at least by preference. Since the middle of the fifth century, examples are to be found in the most widely separated parts of the Latin area — Italy, Gaul, North Africa — examples in which missa is used unequivocally for the Mass celebration.” WHEREAS "MASS" is the most popular term for the Eu charistic Sacrifice today, it is not of course the only one. Nor is it the only ancient one. The word Eucharist itself (from the Greek word for gift) was em ployed as early as the first cen tury. St. Luke, in his ‘Acts of the Apostles’, describes the Mass as the “breaking of bread.” So does St. Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthians, although he also employs the phrase, “the Lord’s Supper.” Other terms once commonly used for the Mass are oblatio (oblation), sac- rificium (sacrifice) and actio (action). The first of these was widely employed up until the sixth century. IN THE Greek Church, still other names were used through the ages. Today, the Greek Church speaks of the Mass as the Divine Liturgy. 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To be a Catholic and not to grasp what it is to be a Catholic — that is a matter for pity, one misses so much. But to grasp it can be frightening too, to see ourselves, through no. merit or excellence of our own, so great. For there is not other dignity to men which can approach this, and it is given to every one of us by baptism. We are united with Christ, who is God, with a closeness which no human relationship even comes near. Mother and son are close, but they are still two. Our union with Christ is closer than that, at its very closest, could ever be: and this for a double reason. First we are members of Christ — we do not think of the organs of our own body, heart or liver for instance, as relations, kinsmen, they are closer to our very being and so are we to Christ’s. 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Moliere were held February 22nd at the Cathedral of St. John the Bap tist. Survivors are a son, H. V. Englade; a sister, Mrs. Ora War ren of Richmond, Va.; and grandchildren. Each issue of ihis Book Page is confided to the patronage of Mary, Mediatrix of All graces, with the hope that every reader and every con tributor may be specially fav ored by her and her Divine Son. Charles A. Gibbons Savannah Services SAVANNAH — Funeral serv ices for Charles A. Gibbons, Jr., were held February 16th at the Blessed Sacrament Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Luisa Gibbons of Savannah; two daughters, Mrs. Luisa Ler- que of Savannah and Mrs. Eliza beth Norman of Charleston; two sons, Charles A. Gibbons, III., of New York and Harry Gibbons of Canton, Ohio; a sis ter, Sister Mary Charles of Fall River, Mass.; and a brother, George Gibbons of North Chelmsford, Mass. SERVICES FOR M. F. KENNEDY SAVANNAH — Funeral serv ices for Michael Peter Kennedy were held February 17th at the Chapel of the Little Sisters of the Poor. THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY, by Flannery O’Connor, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, $3.75. (Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester) “The affliction was in the family. It lay hidden in the line of blood that touched them, flowing from some ancient source, some desert prophet or pole sitter, until, its power un abated, it appeared in the old man and him and, he surmised, in the boy. Those it touched were condemned to fight it con stantly or be ruled by it. The old man had been ruled by it. He, at the cost of a full life, staved it off. What the boy would do hung in the balance.” The “affliction” described above by one of the three prin ciple character's in Flannery O’ Connor’s latest novel is the gift of prophecy, the particular total dedication of oneself to the service of God. 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YORK PEST CONTROL SERVICE Our Slogan — Nearly Right Won't Do Our Service — Always Guaranteed Our Products on Sale at Office CALL FOR FREE INSPECTION OR INFORMATION 766 State St., N. W. Atlanta, Georgia ther the boy is to accept or to reject his gift is the entire theme of The Violent Bear It Away. Francis Marion Tarwater, a Tennessee backwoods boy of fourteen, has no strenuous ob jection to being something as important as a prophet. What he does object to is any infringe ment on his belligeranf inde pendence. As the book opens, all he has on his hands in his ca pacity as a prophet is (1) the duty to bury his dead great- uncle (the willing prophet who has raised Tarwater) in ten feet of ground and set a cross prop erly at the old man’s head and (2) an obligation to baptize his imbecilic cousin, a child of about six who is the son of Rayber. These duties had been relayed to him by his dead great-uncle and not. by God per sonally. Tarwarter, in his inde pendence (and greatly assisted by a carefully articulate devil), rebels against these prosaically acquired instructions, deciding he’ll take his orders from God or nobody. He decides, too, that he’s not even sure there is a God; after all, he didn’t have anybody’s word for it but the old man’s, and he was crazy. In a work which is at once intensely poetical and electrical ly funny, the author propels the protesting Tarwater to ultimate acceptance of his destiny. The boy’s fiercely scrappy resistance is a splendid show of free will at work, with glad cooperation from a wonderfully comical devil. And at last, of course, by his capitulation, Tarwater dem onstrates that God will not be denied nor, in lesser degree, even dictated to. In our time in the United States there has been a spate of grotesque fiction designed to show off the deleterious effects of fundamentalist faith, or, as such authors would have it, su perstition. More popular in the thirties than the fifties, their message is still extant, though, in the grey-flannel-suited hero who is the sane ideal of his time; religious faith is to him at best an embarrassment and, at worst, an irrelevance. There have been reactionary Ameri can fiction writers who have spoken up in favor of faith and an early spring (such as Parkin son Keyes and Bracelen Flood) and even a small handful who have met the crushing tide with serious work (such as Caroline Gordon and J. F. Powers), but Flannery O’Connor alone so far has fought fire with fire. In her work people are ridiculous but may derive dignity through faith. She is in exactly the opposite corner from the writers who take the position that man has dignity but becomes ridiculous when beset with a consuming faith. It is an interesting aspect of Miss O’Connor’s career that when her first work was being published in the early fifties she was gleefully identified by many as her own antithesis. At a great distance grappling an tagonists often have a confusing way of looking like lovers; un happily, so far away are the great majority of the active in tellectuals of our time that any intense and personal involve ment with faith is a far field indeed, and thus the early mud dled concepts of Miss O’Con nor’s meaning. Now that the sixties are here and the author has published her third book, she is not misunderstood. This does not mean, however, that she is yet properly appreciated. On the contrary, now that many of her erstwhile admirers have learned that she means precise ly the opposite of their original assumption, she may, in some corners at least, be even less appreciated. Be that as it may, The Violent Bear It Away is a substantial addition to a small body of work which already has established Miss O’Connor as one of the fin est craftsmen now writing fic tion in the English language. A Coed Man Is Hard to Find, pub lished in 1955, is a collection of short stories which deservedly has won the author internation al fame in highly discriminating circles. Her first novel, Wise Blood, was published in 1952, and is one of those books which receive at publication time a great many harsh reviews in popular publications with wide circulation, and which are still inspiring heated essays in liter ary magazines many years lat er; the harsh reviews do not mean that the book is no good, but the critical yammering does prove that it matters. So, we think, does The Violent Bear It Away. 4% Insured to $10,000 by FSLIC We Pay Postage On Mail Accounts Current Rate on Savings Standard Federal Savings & Loan Assn. 48 Broad St. NW, Atlanta 3 Ga. MU. 8-6619 [ GOING TO THE PICKRICK?* Tell A Friend Liver Trouble Responds to Ch iropractic Core DR. CHARLES L. 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