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Full Reform Of Missal, Breviary, Will Be First In Four Centuries By Msgr. James I. Tucek (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) VATICAN CITY — Reforms of Ihe Roman Missal and bre viary which go info effeci next January 1 will be ihe firsi com plete revisions of the two litur gical books in almost 400 years. A third liturgical book, the Roman Ritual, is also expected to be published in revised form in the near future. Announce ment of the coming changes in the Missal and breviary was made in a document issued by His Holiness Pope John XXIII on July 25. Details of ihe reforms in the breviary and Missal have yet to be published. Some details have been revealed in the course of ihe past year, how ever. If has been learned from an authoritative source that ihe breviary — containing the text of each day's Divine Office, which must be recited or read by all priests — will be contain ed in two volumes instead of the present four. It has also been indicated that amount of time needed for the breviary’s recitation will be greatly reduced. Taking an hour as the normal length of time for its daily recitation, the reformed breviary will require about 40 minutes to recite. Exactly how the breviary will be.shortened has not been offi cially revealed. But it is gen erally accepted that major sim plification will come in Matins, the principal and longest hour of the Divine Office. It is ex pected that the three divisions of Matins called nocturns—each of the three composed of three psalms, the Our Father, an ab solution, a blessing, a respon- sory, and three lessons taken from Scripture, the life of a saint, .or a homily — will be re duced to one nocturn. Authorities of the Sacred Congregation of Rites have re vealed that the actual decree on the.. reform of the Missal and breviary — a Latin docu ment of some 150 pages — can not be expected to be published before August 15. Its final form is still being proofread and edited. The Missal in its present form dates from 1568 and the brevi ary from 1570. Their reform had been authorized by the Council of Trent (1545 tq 1565) when it codified and unified the litur gical practice of the Latin Rite Church. During the centuries that fol lowed, many additions and par tial revisions were made in the liturgical books, always under the authority of the Congrega tion of Rites, which was set up by Pope Sixtus V in 1588 to direct the carrying out of divine worship. Changes have been made in the breviary many times, par ticularly by popes Clement VIII, Urban VIII and Benedict XIV. In 1856, almost a century after Benedict XIV’s death, Pope Pius IX set up a commission charged with the study of whether or not a complete re form of the breviary was oppor tune. The work of this commis sion found its way into the acts of the first Vatican Council in the form of certain recommen dations for simplifying the bre viary. But its work never went beyond that point. In 1902, Pope Leo XIII ap pointed a permanent commis sion, making it part of Congre gation of Rites, and entrusting to it the duty of studying pos sible changes not only in the breviary but also in the Missal, Pontifical and the Ritual. That commission, its power broaden ed by Pope Pius XI in 1930, re mains part of the Rites congre- MARRIAGES o- -O SWANCY-COLLINS O- -O AUGUSTA — Miss Harriett Elizabeth Collins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Joseph Collins of Augusta and Mr. Wil liam Roy Swancy, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. William Roy Swancy, Sr., of Augusta were married August 6th with a nuptial Mass at St. Mary’s-on- the-Hill Church, Very Rev. Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke offi ciating. O O PRICE-BLISS O- -O MOBILE, ALA., — Miss Bar bara Jean Bliss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Glen Bliss and Mr. William Anthony Price of Augusta, son of Mr, and Mrs. J. 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Pope St. Pius X shortened the Divine Office somewhat in 1911. And a major step toward sim plification of the breviary was taken by Pope Pius XII in 1955. He reduced the rank of a num ber of feasts, thus cutting the length of the Divine Office as signed for them. But his sim plifications were only part of a greater reform he envisioned. It remained for Pope John XXIII to see the work of reform through to completion and to announce it in his motu proprio of July 25. Under the new reform, ihe number of feasis in ihe liturgi cal calendar is expecied io be sharply curtailed. Many feasis heretofore observed more or less solemnly are expected to be made simple feasts. It is also believed that secondary feasis of mosfs saints will be elimi nated. For example, the feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi might be eliminated and only the single feast of St. Francis celebrated. The importance of the “com ing reform lies in the fact that the “praying Church” will be given new impetus on the eve of the great manifestation of the “teaching and ruling Church” in the coming ecumen ical council. EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 Old Jonesboro Road., Hapeville, Georgia 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. GOLDEN RULE Take time out for reflection now and then—see if you are as reasonable as you exepet others to be. «; THE HISTORIC REALITY OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE, by Christopher Dawson, Harper, $3.00. (Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester) Christopher Dawson is an English professor of theology with a particular concern for the survival of the Christian Church. Dr. Dawson, like Dr. Toynbee, stresses that all phases of civilization have charactis- tically been associated with a religion. He demonstrates that totalitarian states of the Fascists and the Communists have not escaped or destroped the reli gious compulsion in man, but have themselves gained or held strength only by appropriating the prerogatives of religion; thus Communism is, though nominally godless, actually a sort of religion with the State itself serving as a godhead. However, whereas Dr. Toyn bee anticipates a future world with a religion which is an amalgam of all religions, or a mutation from the mingled many, Dr. Dawson, a Catholic, hopes for the spread and tri umph of Christianity. He faces that it is by no means positive ly assured to us that this tri umph will come of itself. Con ceivably, in a world of vigorous ly pursued Communist activity with only a highly secularized Wester civilization to act as a foil, the Church could be de! stroyed. To ward off this catastrophy possibility, Dr. Dawson urges a sort of de-secularization of our; society. One cannot help but feel that he would really like, to come out flatly for the re newal of Church-State ties in all Western countries, but as this is obviously not feasible^ he settles for the alternative of education. Particularly, he ad vocates a renewal of intensive religious education at high (col lege and adult) levels. In es sence, Dr. Davison,.is dominated by the urgent conviction that Western civilization to act as a understanding of his religious heritage or free annihilation by the Communist juggernaut. From his view, we have not bombs to worry about as much as cultural asphyxiation. The Church, he says, can save us. Father John F. Magner, S.J., (above) of the faculty of tha University of San Francisco, a veteran of 23 years service ’ in the Far East has been ap pointed Catholic chaplain of the hospital ship SS. HOPE I. In a privately financed progfiram, the ship, equipped as a floating medical train ing center, staffed with. 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Much modern so-called tragedy avoids this penetration and makes a leap toward transcendence, re sulting in an unearned and spa cious resolution of the work. The principle of this thorough penetration of the limited is best exemplified in medieval scriptural exegesis, in which three kinds of meaning were found in the literal level of the sacred text: the moral, the al legorical, and the anagogical. This is the Catholic way of reading nature as well as scrip ture, and it is a way which leaves open the most possibili ties to be found in the actual. If Fr. Lynch’s book could have a wide Catholic audience in this country, particularly in the colleges, it might ultimately help in the formidable task of raising our level of literary ap preciation. Father Alfred F. Mendez, C.S.C,, 53, (above) of Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Ind., has been named bishop of the newly created Diocese of Arecibo, in north western Puerto Rico, com prising half a million Catho lics. A native of Chicago, he was ordained in. 1935. His grandfather, Jose Mendez, was the last Spanish gover nor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in v 1898. (NC Photos) j THE LONG ADVENTURE, by Franz Weyergans, translated by Joseph Cunneen, Regnery, $3.50. (Reviewed by Marlha Fowler) This book is a study on happi ness in marriage. The prime purpose of a man and his wife, the author tells us, is to lead each other to God. This can be achieved osly by a true, unself ish love for one another. Every chapter is an essay with a wealth of common sense advice combined with a spiritual beau ty rarely found in hooks on marriage. For instance the chapter, “A Retreat From the World,” be gins: “We often hear, ‘Look how they act after a few years of marriage. He used to hold her arm tenderly, but now see how he strides along beside her.’ Well, I should hope so! They have learned to stride along, and it is not easy to do it to gether. 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