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BRINGING THE MASS TO
THE PEOPLE, H. A. Reinhold
(Helicon Press) 114 pp., $2.95.
(Reviewed-by Leo J. Zuber)
Relaxation in the commun
ion fast, change in the Holy
Week liturgy, discontinuance
of the Leonine prayers, and
evening masses are some read
ily recognized instances of re
cent liturgical changes. These
changes have the purpose and
the observable effect of getting
the people to mass. Now, Fa
ther Reinhold takes a look at
some of the possible changes in
the mass itself for the purpose
of bringing the mass to the
people in the sense of making
it more meaningful to them.
Any real reason why a cele
brant should have his back to
the people? Why not a physi
cal arrangement whereby
priest and people, face to face,
offer Mass? Is all the bell ring
ing necessary? No. Are the
prayers at the foot of the altar
essential? Haven’t we taken
it all to literally that alcolytes
take the place of the people
at the altar? Any reason why
all those in attendance should
not be active participants by
voicing responses and praying
in unison whether in Latin or
in English? Why are some of
the saints now mentioned in
the Canon? Some were pure
ly local personages whose
names linger from a time long
since past when bishops could
recognize saints.
For many years, under papal
direction, scholars have occu
pied themselves with studies
of the Mass as we now have it
which is an evolution of the
Mass as it has been known for
past centuries. Simply put, the
effort has been to consider and
to evaluate ways in which the
masjs might be made ev'en
more meaningful and graceful
for celebrant and participants
alike by retaining its essence
but by removing some of the
trappings, actions and prayers
less meaningful and appropri
ate now than formerly.
Father Reinhold’s work is in
vigorating, stimulating. It is
proof enough of the perennial
vigor and youthfulness of an
age old church. It promises no
startling changes in the mass
this year or this century; it
aims solely at outlining some
of the thinking that has been
underway, quietly but not sec
retly by any means, for several
years past. While, significant
ly, > the author dedicates this
volume to Pius XII, note the
following jolting quote, and
commentary:
“ ‘A long period of years
must pass before the liturgical
edifice, which the mystical
Spouse of Christ has formed
in her zeal and understanding
to proclaim her piety and faith,
may again appear splendid
with dignity and harmony as
cleansed of the accumulations
of age.’ These words, referring
to the needed restoration of
the Roman rite, are not the
rabid complaining of a discon-
tened reformer, but the solemn
judgment of Pope St. Pius X.”
rapidly disappearing down the
hyena maws of the new-rich.
With warm wonderful comedy,
the author implies in the be
ginning of his book that the
leopard has really become
more like Bendico, the reign
ing prince’s pet great Dane,
than like a dangerous cat, Ben-
edico is out-sized, indescrim-
inately affectionate, and en
dowed with a great fund of
playful perfectly useless ener
gy. At the end of the book
Benedico, who for forty-five
years has been a stuffed floor
ornament (and a favorite har
bor of moth and spiders) gets
hurled out a window to be
carted off by the garbage man.
So ends this glory.
Such is the meticulously de
scribed futulity of the lives
dealt with in this work that
one could make out a consid
erable case from it for the val
idity of pessimism. In reality,
it is cheering; it is the proof
positive that without any fu
ture whatsoever, excellence
and beauty are their own ex
cuse for being. The Leopard
is beyond doubt one of the
stand-out achievements in the
literature of our time.
THE BULLETIN, October 15, 1960—PAGE 3
10,000 MARK FOR INDUSTRIAL ROSARY
A scene duplicated in many industrial plants throughout the United States, a group of
25 Ford Motor Company employees gather in the company’s Rouge Office building for
the noontime recitation of their daily Rosary. Led by Norman De Guise, the group was
photographed on the day they reached the 10,000 mark in attendance. (NC Photos)
THE LEOPARD, by Giu
seppe di Lampedusa, Panthe
on, $4.50.
(Reviewed by Elizabeth
Hester)
There is a short precious
time between ripeness and rot
when friut reaches a peculiar
and fragile excellence. This
would seem to be true not only
of the pear and the apricot, but
of human cultures as well.
Periodically, with only ghosts
for company, an affectionate
chronicler aching with nostal
gia sits down and describes
this excellence and the death
always so imminent to it. Some
make it a career, as William
Faulkner has done, as Marcel
Proust did. But occasionally a
gifted amateur will produce
just one novel to cover the
whole force of his nostalgic
compulsion. The appearance in
1956 of Sybille Bedford’s
splendid A Legacy was a land
mark among such works.
And now we have The Leop
ard.
The leopard is the family
emblem 1 of the House of Salina.
The Salinas own great chunks
of Sicily and are the noblest
of princes. As they have now
become too noble to be rapa
cious, however, and too free of
needs to be practically indus
trious, their fortunes are in de
cline. Sicilian Snopeses are on
the march, and the great es
tates of the tamed leopard are
WHAT THEY ASK ABOUT
MORALS, by Msgr. J. D. Con
way (Fides) 1960, 370 pp., $4.95.
(Reviewed by Leo J. Zuber)
For many years, Msgr. Con
way has been handling the
Question and Answer sections
of various Catholic publica
tions. This volume represents
a collection of the questions
asked by every day folk and
the answers given in an ar
rangement by subject matter.
These are chapters on the com
mandments, laws of the
church,, the sacraments, sanc
tions and on modern problems,
to name a few. “Marriage be
fore a J. P.” is under Sanc
tions; “Milk Shakes” and “Ba
con Drippings” are under the
Laws of the Church: “Court
ship and Dating” and the
“Good Night Kiss” come under
the sixth and ninth command
ments. And so on. Your prob
lems and mine 1 are in there
somewhere along with all the
others.
This book is bound to be a
great good for many people;
there are those, I suspect, who
should leave it alone.
The questions are the kind
that we might ask or be asked.
The answers are solid, seldom
if ever evasive; whenever oc
casion permits, the answers
carry a touch of humor. One
questioner (?) wrote in to say
that a priest announced from
the pulpit “There isn’t any
body in this parish who has to
fast.” Msgr. Conway’s 5-word
comment is “Report him to the
bishop.” That’s easy catechism!
The book is readable, in
structive and entertaining —
a rare combination of merits.
You probably should have a
copy. But if you are one of the
scrupulous, I imagine you’d
better read something else, but
only after you have read about
scruples a la Conway (page 31).
PIERRE TEILHARD DE
CHARDIN, Nicolas Corte,
Macmillan, $3.25.
(Reviewed by Flannery
O'Connor)
Until Claude Cuenot’S de
finitive biography of Teilhard
is published in this country,
this long essay on the noted
evolutionist’s life and spirit
will have to fill a place for
which it is an inadequate but
interesting stop-gap. Nicolas
Corte is the pseudonym of a
French Monsignor, a professor
emeritus at one of the French
universities. The biographical
part of the book is hardly more
than a matter of he-went-here,
then-he-went-there, and is con
siderably less interesting than
the even shorter biographical
section in Claude Tremontant’s
book on Teilhard. In an intro
duction, the translator, Martin
Jarrett-Kerr, C. R., remarks
that Corte hardly does justice
to Teilhard’s loyalty to the
Church, an aspect of the Jes
uit’s life that his non-Catholic
admirers find hard to under
stand or take, though it is the
fact about Teilhard that is the
key to his personality. Nicolas
Corte, while admiring it, takes
it for granted as almost any
Catholic would.
The more interesting part of
the book is taken up with
Corte’s assembling and outlin
ing the main critical objection
both from theologians and
scientists on Teilhard’s
thought. This too is inadequate
but balanced. In an interesting
evaluation at the end of the
book, Corte compares Teilhard
—-whom some have compared
to Aquinas since he wished to
reconcile the new learning
with the old — not to St. Tho
mas but to Origen. This com
parison, like the book as a
whole is suggestive and in the
end may prove to be just, but
more thorough study will be
required to indicate the depth
of Teilhard’s life and spirit.
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