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BETHUNE & WHISENANT SHOE REPAIR CEdar 3-1966 2581 Piedmont Kd. BKOADVII VV PLAZA Upper Level by Cafeteria BOOK REVIEWS EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 Old Jonesboro Road., Hapeville, Georgia EASTER GREETINGS GRIFFIN COLLEGE OF BARBERING AND BEAUTY CULTURE IT PAYS TO TOOK WELL Vera L. Brown, Pres. Edith B. Murry, Sec.-Treas. MIJ. 8-0438 556 Mitchell, S. W. Atlanta Each issue of this Book Page is confided to the patronage of Mary, Mediatrix of All graces, with the hope that every reader and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. Easter Greetings KWIK SHOP Your Headquarters for Convenient Shopping . . . We Carry A Complete Line of Fine GROCERIES & SUNDRIES 1185 MAIN STREET PO. 7-2107 FOREST PARK, GA. ALL YOUR MUSIC NEEDS © Records • Hi-Fi Players Italian J, J Mouse of Music 103 E. Court House Square DECATUR PHONE DR. 2-1708 SISTER CLARE, by Loretta Burrough, Houghton, Mifflin, $3.00. THE PYX, by John Buell, Farrer, Straus and Cudahy, $3.50. (Reviewed by Flannery O'Connor) Sister Clare will possibly be admired by those who are tired of novels in which nuns decide that convent life is not for them. The nun in this novel does not question her vocation. Her trials are with commonplaces such as washing down the belfry stairs and with a pride which is exhibited several times and is considered by her suneriors a great impediment to Carmelite perfection. Most of the nuns in this book who do not have lov ably tart tongues speak with a pious coyness which may, un fortunately, he authentic. The note of the novel- is authenticity to Carmelite life; it is not depth of characterization. Any novel which seeks to do justice to a religious vocation, and par ticularly one to the severe order of Mt. Carmel, will have to go very deeply into the inner life of its main character, and this is perhaps an impossibility in the case of mystics of this kind. The book may be of interest to girls from tw e 1 v e to twenty who want to know what life is like in such a convent, but the world of near-perfection seldom makes good fiction. At the other extreme is The Pyx, which should be kept away from children twelve to twenty, although it is the better-written novel. It deals with a milieu almost entirely evil in which, nevertheless, martyrs may be found. The martyr in this case is a prosti tute who, when she is about to be forced into participation in something like a black mass, swallows the host which has been given her to descrate and for this is thrown off a balcony to her death. The book proceeds like a mystery novel but is also Bank Of Forest Park Serving Growing Clayton County Member F. D. I. C. 1248 MAIN ST. PO. 6-5337 FOREST PARK, GA. MAGIC GRILL SERVING THE FINEST FOOD IN ATLANTA 515 W. Peachtree N.W, TR. 4-9515 ATLANTA, GA. DeGive - Dunham & 0' Neil, Inc. 1478 Mecasin St, N. W. TR. 6-4303 Atlanta, Ga. a mystery novel in the sense of leaving the reader with a deep er mystery to ponder when the literal mystery has been solved. The evil in this novel is as rarified as the good in Sister Clare. Both books follow their own logic but neither quite get away with it. THE GRACE OF HEAVENLY DESIRES THE CURE OF ARS AND HIS CROSS, by Jean de la Varende, Desclee, $3.75. (Reviewed by Leo J. Zuber) This translation of de la Varende’s Le Cure d ’Ars et Sa Passion gives English readers a subjective, not too profound ac count of Jean Marie Vienney (1786-1859). The author takes a highly personal interest in his subject and freely abandons him biographically to engage in some unabashed first person singular comments and obser vations. His treament makes facile reading which, with the book’s truly remarkable illus trations, 68 of them, should at tract readers in number to an acquaintanceship with the much-mentioned but still little known saint (canonized May 31, 1925). The good Cure must have been a man greatly misunder stood by some as he was great ly admired and loved by others. The salvation of souls was his passion, not just his vocation. In our too soft times and ways, we would be hard pressed to understand and accept him and gladly follow his spiritual guidance. His bishop made him a Canon and conferred on him cap and cape, symbols of the office. But the Cure wanted no such honor or office, least of all fine clothing. He bargained and got 50 francs for it; then he wrote his thanks to his bishop, who probably wasn’t too surprised to read:” . . . the cape you, had the charity to give me has af forded me great pleasure be cause I was able with the fifty francs for which I sold it to finish a foundation I was build ing. I was very much pleased.” Such were his values. And, as the author comments about the time in which the Cure lived: “There were priests, learned, chaste, knowing their theology, but lacking the fire of the s p i r i t.” If such there were, the Cure was clearly a priest apart. Spain To Decorate Cardinal Spellman MADRID, (NC) — The Span ish goverment has announced it will award the Grand Cross of Order of Isabel the Catholic to His Sminence Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York. It is the highest decoration that Spain can bestow upon a foreigner. Date for presentation of the Grand Cross has not been set. By Rev. Bernard Wuellner, S.J. A chapter from the book "Graces of the Risen Christ" by Rev. Bernard Wuellner, S.J., (il lustrated by Frank Kacmarcik) and published March, 1960 by The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee. The Christian puts to himself one searching question at Easter: Am I risen with Christ? One proof that one is living the risen life of grace is a heart burning with love of Christ and all that belongs to this Friend of our solus. For this must be a feature of the new life of grace that we have a buoyant interest in Christ and a keen ambition to possess His treasures. LOOKING FOR JESUS If we listen to the Church urg ing us to live the Christlife more fully these days, we will spirit ually rise from our religious sloth, our moral faults, and our absorption in worldly interests that take the mind and heart away from the risen Lord. It would be a pitiable mistake to let the slackening of the Len ten penances become at Easter a signal for a decrease in our daily living for and yearning for Christ. The paschal season sought rather be a sustained cli matic union of our souls with His joy and victories. The angels standing by the slab of the opened tomb have a message for all of us. They said: “You have nothing to fear. We know that you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth who was cru cified. But He is risen; He is not here. See the place where He lay. He goes before you in Gali lee, as He predicted. There you shall see Him.” (Matt. 28: 5-7 and Mark 16: 6-7). The angelic welcome is based on their search for Jesus. This sincere motive, interest in Jesus and service to Him rather than selfish curiosity, is what they would recommend to all of us. Seek for Jesus: all will be well. You will find Him, risen of course, whether in Galilee or elsewhere. And having Him, you will have all that can bring you joy. But do not seek Him in the tomb. Do not seek Him in the graveyard of your sins. Do not seek Him in the buried past. Seek the true, living Jesus. “Seek and you shall find.” (Luke 11:9). One of the major instructions of the Church to her children at the Easter season is that they put their minds on heavenly things and look to heaven as the Apostles did at His final de parture. Their upturned faces should be copied by our minds ascending heavenward to our beloved Lord. This is one more way of living the risen life. THE CHURCH REMINDS Desires for spiritual goods, as well as these goods themselves, are gifts of God. Thoughts of heavenly goods and cravings for them are actual graces coming from the Holy Spirit. But we can RICARDO’S BEAUTY SALON FINEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN HAUTE COIFFEURE 1843 Peachtree Road, N. W. TR, 4-7556 Atlanta, Ga. CHEROKEE ELECTRIC CO. .CTRICAL CONTRACTORS — RESIDENTIAL CE. 7-3531 3111 Peachtree Rd., N. E. Atlanta, Ga. ATLANTA MOTOR LINES, INC. FAST, DEPENDABLE MOTOR FREIGHT SERVICE JA. 3-5955 1268 Caroline St.. N. E. Atlanta, Ga. ATLANTA MATTRESS COMPANY MATTRESSES INNERSPRING ANd' BOX SPRINGS MU. 8-2747 715 Edgewood Ave. Atlanta, Ga. DEL’S HAIR STYLISTS INDIVIDUAL HAIR STYLING AND CREATIONS CE. 7-9533 3224 Peachtree Rd., N. E. Atlanta, Ga. do our part in preparing for these graces, accepting them, fostering them, a n d deepening them. The Church tells us how to do so. First, she sets the stage for the Spirit’s action within us by bringing back the annual mem ory of Christ’s glorified body and His entrance into heaven. These remembered truths awak en us earth-bound men to a better appreciation of invisible spiritual benedictions which God would gladly bestow upon us. Appreciation stirs hunger in the soul. This hunger is fed by the promises of Christ to shower these heavenly benefits on us if we faithfully follow Him. Recognizing that such desires are a heavenly gift beyond our unhelped reach, the Church in her paschal prayers often ani mates us to pray for these. She opens the Easter vigil by bless ing the new fire, begging God that through this feast of Easter we may be inflamed with hea venly desires and come with pure minds to the festival of Christ’s undying radiance. After the first prophecy we pray so to lead our new life that we may persevere in combating sinful desires and attain everlasting joys. Other liturgical prayers of the season direct us to love what God commands, desire what He promises, and keep our hearts fixed on true joys amid life’s changing patterns. We are urged to pray for thoughts and desires of the right. On Ascension day we join in requesting that our minds may dwell in heaven where our Re deemer now is living. On the vi gil of Pentecost we ask the Holy Spirit for burning heavenly de sires and deep draughts of life. Perhaps the most remarkable of these petitions for a heaven-bent mind occurs on the fifth Sunday after Pentecost: O God, who have prepared in visible goods for those who love You, pour into our hearts a longing for Your love: so that by loving You in all things and more than all things, we may at tain Your promises which out run every desire and expecta tion. Through Christ our Lord. The Postcommunion of the Mass of the Sacred Heart, charg ed with the spirit of charity, begs for a love of heavenly things and contempt for earthly ones. Indeed, so great is the wish of the Church that we of ten lift our attention heaven ward that she joyously bids us at each day’s Preface: Sursum corda, Lift up your hearts. If only our daily answer were completely true: We have them lifted up to the Lord. 'THINGS ABOVE' These numerous gifts which we desire from our heaven ly Father include knowledge of God in our lives and its accom plishment in the conduct of oth ers; sanctifying grace and its growth; opportunities to prac tice many Christian virtues; un ion with Christ laboring and suffering for our redemption; universal justice and the reign of Christ’s peace on earth; hea ven, the sight of Jesus, our re wards, and the means to get to heaven; contentment with our Father’s provident care over us; and all other gifts for which the Spirit working in our souls urges us to plead. The swinging of the mind towards higher things and its distaste for the lower may be a critical moment in development of the interior Christian life. As the divine captures our attention and deepens our motives, we be gin to lose our preference for material goods, bodily comforts, worldly honors, and temporal blessings. These things lose their former importance in our esti mation. Earth, after all, is but for a while; heaven is forever. The means, the goods of time, are far below the end — God — in value. A true rating of the worth of earthly things is sometimes spoken of as contempt for them. But we need not regard them as wicked or worthless. Yet part of the spiritual effort to live with Christ risen must consist in counteracting all those desires which the world hostile to Christ, our own unreasonable flesh, and the tempting devil would give us if we but wanted them, must be banished from our desires. We must not let ourselves be overthrown by worldly desires, as was the. rich young man who approached our Lord. Love of pleasures of the sense is the cockle that chokes the good seed of Christ’s truth in the lives of average sinners. Love of honors in this world pulls other strong er souls away from Christ. SPIRITUAL FREEDOM All such desires that stand against Christ’s mastery within us must be controlled, starved, and never allowed to compete with our desires for the gifts of Christ. To win this freedom from choosing these earthly, selfish, and evil things usually takes long spiritual training. That is why the asectie life must mark those who are risen with Christ. A religious vocation by de manding daily sacrifices great ly assists this denial of self and of wickedness that leads to de tached purity of heart with re gard to lower goods. But in or out of the religious state, every Christian who would be close to Christ must labor for his spi ritual freedom from all things except God and His will. Besides her suggestions on prayer and combating worldly desires, the Church also tells us to think. “Set your minds on things above,” (Col. 3.3) she re peats from St. Paul when he was advising Christians risen from sin. Turn the mind to the divine WORLEY SHELL SERVICE STATION For Tires, Lubrication, Road Service See Us For Honest To Goodness Savings. 864 GORDON ST., S. W. PL. 5-6989 ATLANTA, GA. WEST CHEMICAL PRODUCTS, INC. LEON HUTCHINS, Representative General Building Maintenance — Complete Washroom Sani tation — Industrial Dermatitis Prevention —Insect Control — Public Health Protection — Floor Maintenance. 1248 Zonolite Rd., N.E. Atlanta TR. 3-2016 McConnells cloth shop shop McConnell's FOR SPRING SEWING DR. 3-9209 149 SYCAMORE ST. DECATUR, GA. MUTUAL OF OMAHA COMPLETE FAMILY INSURANCE PROTECTION PLANS . . . HOSPITAL, SICKNESS, ACCIDENT. GROUP, SURGICAL, DISABILITY, INCOME PRO TECTION. MUTUAL BENEFIT HEALTH & ACCIDENT ASSN. ROY F. MORGAN, Agent Fulton National Bank Bldg. JA. 3-5891 THE BULLETIN, April 16, 1360—PAGE 7 and the good; let these heavenly blessings seize your imagina tions, thoughts, and affections. Cardinal Newman echoed St. Paul in this bit of advice: “Let me put my mind on things above, and in God’s good time He will set my heart on things above.” Desire follows know ledge. One of the ways to holiness is to long for it. One of the paths to heaven is to desire heaven. If I but occupy my mind with God, it will not be long before He will shower on me that interest and love for these heavenly goods. Love will soar heaven wards where our thoughts have already risen. The Church further suggests that we cultivate holy desires by giving some of our time to spiritual reading. From it we can gain higher esteem for spi ritual realities, a sense of true values, a closer mental affinity with the judgment of Christ, and a centering of thoughts and sentiments on the treasures of the soul. The Church, moreover, admiringly points out to us saints whose lives seemed to be a flame of desire for heaven and a leap of the spirit towards Christ. St. Paul desired to be dis solved in order to be with Christ. The autobiographies of the two saints Teresa and the letters of St. Margaret Mary are famous examples of souls ab sorbed in thoughts of heaven. The practical St. Ignatius Loy ola sighed deeply when he look ed at the silvery stars and felt how petty was earth when he turned his thoughts to heaven beyond the stars. St. Stanislaus Kostka, dead at eighteen, had three great ir repressible longings which sum med up his whole spiritual life: the desire for Holy Communion, the desire for the religious life, and the desire for heaven. Many a martyr fixed his mind on hea ven while his body suffered. THE PROMISED LAND When the wings of the spirit spring upwards, we will take the right means to make heavenly goods come true in our lives. Our conduct will become more heavenly in quality. Desire will become hope, and hope will car ry us forward to our meeting with Jesus in heaven. During these years on earth we are fugitives and pilgrims journeying to the Promised Land where our Father dwells and which we are to inherit. In our Passover years while we slowly travel from the land of slavery to sin through the bar ren Sinai desert of this world, we must not give way to foolish longings for Egypt’s fleshpots, to the weariness of the long march, and to disappointment with our long waiting before we come into the promised king dom. With high hope we must keep reaching forward to the won ders which God is preparing for us in our final homeland. That is one,reason why Easter is so spiritually helpful in giving us glimpses of His glory and strengthening our hopes to pos sess it. God knows how to slake our thirst for Himself,, and He means to give Himself, face-to- face and heart-to-heart, to all who rise with His Son. “When Christ, your life, appears, then you shall appear with him in glory.” (Col. 3:4) Each Sunday, we are taught, is a little Easter, a weekly me morial of our Saviour’s Resur rection. Let me, then, at least on Sunday, put earth aside and climb closer to God by the lad der of heavenly desires. Father in heaven, bring me to heaven. Father of Christ, bring me to Christ. The genuine self-made man never considers himself finish ed. Some people cast reflections just to show how brilliant they are. BEAUDRY MOTORS Atlanta's First Ford Dealer CELEBRATING OUR 44TH YEAR JA. 3-3424 143 CONE ST., N. W. ATLANTA, GA. EASTER GREETINGS PLANTATION RESTAURANTS • 211 E. PONCE DE LEON • 140 CLAIRMONT DR. 8-6202 DECATUR, GA. J. W. EWING & SONS REALTORS 65 Forsyth, N. W. 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