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Prelates Pay Tribute To Poland On 1,000 Years Of Loyalty To Catholic Faith THE BULLETIN, November 25, 1961—PAGE 5 Says Peace Corps Question Box (Continued from Page 4) the chief benefits denied the infant by such neglect: remis sion of original sin and the right to enjoy eternal happi ness before the throne of God in heaven, infusion of the su pernatural virtues and the gifts of the Holy Ghost, be stowal of the baptismal seal by which the recipient be comes a child of God forever, aggregation to the kingdom of Christ, incorporation into the Mystical Body of Christ, and spiritual rebirth to divine son- ship. SUCH NEGLECT is espe cially shameful, moreover, for the date of baptism becomes a matter of permanent record, ever attesting to the procrasti nation of those responsible. By the same declension, it be comes a lasting source of em barrassment to the child. Q. Was Sunday observed as "the Lord's Day" from the very birth of the Church, or did its observance gradu- ally evolve in place of Sat urday? A. Sunday, the first day of the week, was observed as the principal day for “the break ing of bread” (i.e., for Chris tian worship; in particular, the Mass) as early as the middle of the first century, or within a decade or two after Our Di vine Lord ascended into hea ven. Sunday was unquestion ably the only special day for worship in the non-Judiac churches of the primitive Christian community. Among the Jewish converts, however, the Sabbath was also kept for a while as a secondary holy day, sanctified by rest from servile work and by Bible reading in the synagogue. Such are the conclusions of Father Josef Jungmann, a leading his,- torian of the liturgy. THE PLACE of Sunday in the early Church is attested to by the New Testament it self. The evangelists, who oth erwise never draw attention to a specific day unless they are discussing the Sabbath laws, emphatically note that Christ’s resurrection occurred “on the first day of the week.” This very phrase is used by St. Paul in two separate passages wherein he makes mention of church meetings on the part of the first Christians. Again, this same expression appears in the Acts of the Apostles in a con text referring to liturgical worship as such; to wit: “And on the first day of the week, when we had met for the breaking of bread” (XX :7). “The breaking of bread” is one of the most ancient syn onyms for the Eucharistic Sac rifice. FROM APOSTOLIC times too the first day of the week was known as “t h e Lord’s Day,” i.e., “Christ’s Day.” (The Greek term for “lord” desig nated Christ insofar as the first Christians were concern ed. Thus St. John used the word in the Apocalypse: “I was in the spirit on the Lord’s Day.”) AN interesting significance later added to the concept of “the Lord’s Day” was brought out by Father Jungmann in a series of lectures at Notre Dame University in 1949. He maintained that the expression eventually implied opposition to emperor worship, which came into vogue from the first century on. (Nero started it all; Domitian was the first to call himself “Lord” and “God.”) To the Christians of the first few centuries, then, the “Lord’s Day” was a profession of faith in Christ, who had proved his divinity by raising himself from the grave as he predicted he would, in demonstration of his divinity. Q. Where can I obtain in formation regarding instruc tion in the Catholic religion by mail? A. Several correspondence courses in Catholic doctrine and practice are available. These courses are free and in volve no obligation. One such course, all of the material for which is sent in unmarked en velopes to protect the privacy of the inquirer, is offered by: Home Study Service, St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, Philadelphia 51, Pa. Don’t just coast around curves, the Allstate Motor Club cautions. Slowing down before you come to a curve, then using a little gas com ing out of it will hold the wheels on the road better. YCW PRESIDENT — Bar- tolo Perez, 35, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been elected new international president of the Young Christian Workers at that organization’s second world convention in Petro- polis, Brazil (Nov. 2-11). — (NC Photos) Laymen Given Annual Jesuit Mission Award NEW YORK (NC) — For the first time the annual Xavier Award for the Jesuit Seminary and Mission Bureau was pre sented to laymen. Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Finn, who have served for the 13 years at Ponape in the Caro line Islands, were presented the award before some 2,200 people at the Jesuit Mission Benefit Dinner in the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel. The award, made annually since 1953, in previous years had gone to members of the Hierarchy and clergy. Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York, national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, said the growing army of lay mis sionaries are “social martyrs” and examples for the less for tunate peoples throughout the world. He paid warm tribute to the Finns, originally from Laurelton, N. Y., who gave up their homes and jobs to work for the Jesuit missions in the Pacific. Father John J. McGinty, S.J., Provincial of the Jesuits’ New York province, announc ed that the New York pro vince in 1962 will take aver mission work in Nigeria. It now staffs foreign missions in the Philippines, the Caroline and Marshall Islands and Puerto Rico. Father Robert I. Qannon, S.J., former president of Fordham University, was toastmaster at the dinner. Says Encyclical Blend Of Logic, Sound Theology CINCINNATI (NC) — His Holiness Pope John XXIII’s encyclical, Mater et Magistra, is “a happy blending of sound theology, realistic psychology, social science, and irrefutable logic.” This was the judgment of Father Louis A. Ryan, O.P., author and professor of sociol ogy at the College of Mount St. Joseph, when he spoke (Nov. 12) at Xavier University in a symposium on the encyc lical. The meeting was spon sored by the Xavier faculty committee. Other speakers, and high lights of their talks, were: Lawrence I. Donnelly, pro fessor of economics at Xavier: “The question still remains — will the ‘have’s’ of the world heed his message concerning the reconstruction of the socio economic system?” Dr. Raymond F. McCoy, dean of the Xavier Graduate School: “The U. S. has meas ured up to Pope John’s ap proach to the problem of the underdeveloped nations to an extent which, compared to the past and to other nations to day, has been truly remark able — but not remarkable enough.” James M. Shea, associate ed itor of the Catholic Telegraph- Register: “Christianity and So cial Progress contain an urgent appeal by Christ’s Vicar to us to renew and intensify our efforts to restore all things in Christ.” UNIVERSITY GIFT NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) — Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of Notre Dame University, announced that a new $350,000 center for concerts and convocations now under construction on the campus is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Stepan, Jr., of Winnetka, Ill. Stepan is found er and president of the Stepan Chemical Company, North- field, Ill., and a 1931 graduate of Notre Dame. (NCWC News Service) PITTSBURGH — Archbish op John J. Krol of Philadel phia saluted as “lovers of free dom and friends of Christ” some 17,400 persons who crowded into the new Pitts burgh Civic Arena to com memorate the millennium of Christianity in Poland. The observance was arrang ed to complement in western Pennsylvania the ceremonies in Poland commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of the conversion of the nation and its centuries of loyalty to the Church. But the Polish com munist regime has been trying to divert attention from the religious aspects of the ob servance by calling it the mill- enium of culture in Poland. “We have assembled, not to (NCWC News Service) BUFFALO, N. Y. — Chris tian young pepole should battle against their ultimate enemy— Satan—and realize that com munism and secularism are only “transitory agents” of the enemy, Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh said here. The Bishop asserted at the National Council of Catholic Youth convention that “com munism, heresies, secularism and fascism are all superficial signs of the enemy, and we should not be fooled into sup posing” they are the real ene my. Bishop Wright addressed a plenary session of the young adult section of the convention on the same day (Nov. 10) that Bishop James J. Navagh of Ogdensburg, N. Y., spoke to the teenage section. Bishop Nav agh said members of the Cath olic Youth Organization should conform to its supernatural ideal or they have no right to be in it. Bishop Wright drew a paral lel between the time of St. Paul and the present era, and stated that “the epistles of St. Paul continue to provide our guidance and instruction.” Citing the convention theme, “Youth Wearing the Armor of Courage,” the Bishop stated that the description Paul gave of the armor of men of God is still valid for us.” “The enemies whom Paul identified as the ultimate ene mies of Christianity are the same today as they were then,” Bishop Wright continued. “The ultimate enemy remains Satan and those invisible powers of darkness which are arrayed against Christ and those who wear his armor. “We must be on our guard Bishop Offers Mass For Plane Crash Victims BETHLEHEM, Pa., (NC)— Bishop Joseph McShea of Al lentown offered Solemn Pon tifical Requiem Mass here in Holy Infancy Chjurch for 29 victims of this area who per ished in the crash of an Im perial Airlines Constellation near Richmond, Va. The plane was carrying new Army inductees to Fort Jack- son, S. C. Twenty-nine of the 77 victims were from the Al lentown - Bethlehem - Easton area in the diocese of Allen town. Eleven of the 29 area victims were Catholics. Bishop McShea, in announc ing the Mass, said: “The mag nitude of grief occasioned by the disaster moves us to an equal magnitude of prayerful sympathy. It is our desire to try to alleviate the sorrow of the bereaved by the fullest possible demonstration of our concern and condolence.” Priests of the various par ishes to which the victims be longed assisted at the Mass. At the Bishop’s request, the newly organized diocesan priests’ choir sang at the Mass. The sermon was given by Father Owen P. Donnelly, pastor of SS. Simon and Jude Church here. Obstructing the free flow of traffic leads to accidents, the Allstate Safety Crusade em phasizes. That’s why vehicles pulling away from the curb or from the side of the road must yield right-of-way to moving traffic. Patronize Our Advertisers fan flames of indignation, but to pray ‘lifting up pure hands without wrath and conten tion,’ ” the Archbishop told the multitude. “We are here in response to our Holy Father’s invitation ‘that a chorus of entreaty and prayers from every nation may rise to the most merciful God for our persecuted brethren. We come to pray, not to pro test; to supplicate, not to dep recate; to improve, not to dis approve, and not to deplore but to implore God’s help.” Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh closed the observ ance with the observation that “the case of Poland is a case for Christendom.” He said “the patriotism of the Polish people is an affirmation in these cir cumstances of their Catholic piety.” against communists or others who wage superficial war against the Kingdom of Christ. But it would be vain to con sider as Christ’s ultimate ene mies men who grow old, fat and tired; who die and are buried, only to be dug up again and buried in another part of the city by those who were yesterday their lieutenants and today are divided against them.” Not 1 Designed To Americanize World WASHINGTON (NC) — Americans should not think of the Peace Corps as a way of “remaking the world in our image,” a Catholic specialist in Peace Corps work said here. F. Robert Melina, director of the Peace Corps Desk, Na tional Catholic Welfare Con ference, said the corps “is not a ‘buy American,’ ‘be Ameri can’ or ‘think American’ ope ration.” “It involves no ‘imperialis tic’ invasion of an economic, social or political nature. Re- Enjoy that ligious activity geared to gaining converts is strictly for bidden,” Melina told the In ternational Student Organiza tion at the Catholic University of America here (Nov. 12). Melina, whose agency pro motes and coordinates Catho lic participation in the Peace Corps, said it “may well be” that the United States will in the long run profit from the corps. This, he explained, is be cause U. S. participants in the program “will undoubtedly re turn to these shores culturally enriched, more compassionate toward the peoples and the problems of the world in which we live.” Willingham & Payne INCORPORATED INSURANCE and SURETY BONDS Calder W. Payne -- Alberta D. Williams 350 SECOND STREET v MACON, GA. ★ 2010 Riverside Drive, Macon, Ga. ★ 1424 Rocky Creek Road, Macon, Ga. ★ 1307 Watson Boulevard, Warner Robins ★ 1513 Rice Avenue, Dublin, Ga. 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