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Jottings... (Continued from Page 4) My loneliness, I offer especially in union with His in the tabernacles all over the world where He is alone. I chain my little crosses to His great Cross on Calvary. You see, this is how I spend my day.” One of the most moving articles I have read recently was by a prisoner on Alcatraz and of his conversion. He wrote: “As a convict, I like to think of myself as a com panion of Christ crucified. He alone gives meaninng to my suffering. When the going gets rough, I hear Him say: ‘Behold, I have chosen you to suffer with Me as a compan ion. For you the hill slants more, the cross is of a heavier weight. Loneliness will be with you always, but take heart. I walk in its shadow. And when you seem to suffer most, remember that we are truly companions.’ ” Thomas Merton says that tribulation detaches us from the things that are really valueless, because their attraction cannot stand up under light and all satisfactions that are meaningless appear as such when we are filled with tribula tion. Therefore, we should be grateful for it. Suffering more than anything else brings us to our knees and makes us closer and more at one with Christ as the patient and the convict both so eloquently attest. It is in our sorrows, sickness, pain, heartache, loneliness and disappointments that we see with clearest vision. My moments of greatest sufferings have been my most profitable moments. As I have cried out in pain, I have soon learned to know that the pain was the disguise of love and that only by pain would I learn the many lessons I need know . . . “the arms of our cross have been Thy arms.” Each of us has a millionaire’s inheritance in the coin of suffering. Suffering is not held to the sick and imprisoned and the lonely, each of us knows our particular brand of suf fering and when our life is over may we have suffered more than we have sinned. When we have learned not to resent it or flee from it when we have passed the hardest test. The “Fiat” of the prisoner and the patient is of everlasting value, of far more importance than the parole or cure. “The Cross, I cannot escape it ...” I will not even try for my cross is my salvation! HIGGINS SHOE STORE, Inc. "Always A Step Ahead" ROME, GEORGIA We Are Truly a Family Shoe Store Featuring Quality, Style and Fit! HAMILTON PHARMACY 1425 N. BROAD ST. — Phone 5821 706 AVE. C — Phone 2-2461 "Yours For Service" ROME, GA. HARVEY - GIVEN COMPANY Established 1886 Real Estate Sales & Mortgage Loans Property Management SIXTH AVENUE BUILDING — ROME, GEORGIA Mortgage Loan Correspondent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Fr. O'Brien (Continued from Page 4) disciples of all nations, baptiz ing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have com manded you; and behold, I am with you all days, even unto the consummation of the world’ (Matt. 28: 18-20). “Here was the answer to the question, ‘Did Christ found a particular Church?,’ for which we had been searching for years. These words are the most important in all Scrip ture for every truth seeker. They go to the very heart of the matter. They are confirm ed by Christ’s words to Peter: ‘Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it’ (Matt. 16:18). “What more could anyone ask? To believe Christ, one must believe that He founded the Catholic Church and cloth ed her with His authority to teach. He assured her that through Peter and his succes sors, He would protect her from error despite the human frailty of her officers and members. To nourish our souls with sanctifying grace He in stituted the seven sacraments to be administered by His priests. “During that superb course of instruction, we studied “The Faith of Millions,” “Father Smith Instructs Jackson” and “Understanding the Catholic Faith.” Upon its completion my mother, two sisters and I were received into Christ’s true Church and father enter ed four years later. To spread the Faith my two sisters join ed the Sisters of St. Francis while I’ve addressed 30 Catho lic groups to spur them to share their precious treasure with others.” Question Box (Continued from Page 4) ons and tools, it would logic ally follow that it had attain ed a human phychic level. FINALLY, as to whether man “was sired by an earlier species similar to man in every respect except size of brain and tooth and form of jaw,” the problem is one of termi nology again. What does it mean? If it implies that the father and pregenitor of man was other than a human being (i.e. that the first man was the son of an animal, generated as a human being in the proper sense by the animal), then it is untenable. For whereas the evolutionary hypothesis is ap plicable to the question of hu man origins, its investigations cannot possibly overturn other facts certain from sciences other than paleonthology and anthropology. And among these other facts are those of the special creation of man and his essential (not accident al) superiority over animals by reason of his spiritual soul, which is immediately created by God. Aim to do good in this life— it’ll help miss fire in the next. JUHAN'S CLEANERS Expert - Personalized Service Given to Every Garment Coming > Into Our Plant 112 N. Main St. PO. 1-4404 College Park, Ga. THE NATIONAL CITY BANK OF ROME GEORGIA Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation First Copy Of Holy See's 1962 Yearbook Presented To Pontiff THE BULLETIN, January 20, 1962-PAGE 5 RANSOM FLORAL COMPANY FIVE FOURTH AVENUE VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC) — The first copy of the 1962 yearbook of the Holy See was presented to His Holiness Pope John XXIII by Arch bishop Angelo DelFAcqua, Substitute for Ordinary Af fairs of the Papal Secretariat of State. For the first time in 36 years the yearbook — the 1962 An- nuario Pontificio — lists the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, although it is not strictly a pontifical order. It was listed in yearbooks from 1913 to 1926, after which it was eliminated because it was decided that it did not merit inclusion with papal or ders. The decision to return it to the listing — although the yearbook separates it from other papal orders — was bas ed on three reasons. In the past the pope used to be the order’s grand master and even today the post is always held by a cardinal. The order’s con ferral of degrees is certified by the Apostolic Chancery. The order’s constitution was approved by an apostolic brief. The new yearbook has 1,826 pages, 84 more than last year. To avoid the difficulties en countered last year when a cardinal died just before pub lication, the pages of the sec tion covering the Pope and the cardinals are numbered sepa rately. The death of Joseph Cardinal Wendel of Munich, Germany, on December 31, 1960, delayed publication of the 1961 yearbook while all pages were renumbered. Un der the new system only the pages in the separate section would have to be renumbered in case of unforseen events. Statistics for the year, com pared with 1960 and 1961, are the following: 1960 1961 1962 Cardinals 79 85 80 Residential and Titular Patriarchates 15 15 16 Residential Metropolitan Sees L 328 335 345 Residential Archiepiscopal Sees 42 41 46 Residential Episcopal Sees 1,334 1,368 1,370 Ocupied Titular Sees 882 882 972 Prelatures and Abbeys Nullius 86 88 98 Apostolic Administrations 11 10 10 Oriental Rite Prelates with Ordinary Personal and Territorial Jurisdiction 16 18 17 Vicariates Apostolic L 178 158 139 Prefectures Apostolic - 120 123 107 Missions and Independent Districts 6 6 6 PHONE 3606 ROME, GEORGIA Dlie ^t)och ^Approved t^eitaurant ROME, GEORGIA ROME PAINT & WALLPAPER COMPANY Gilman Paints and Varnishes Oil, Glass, Wallpaper 12-14 THIRD AVENUE ROME, GEORGIA Miller Bros. Co. Fashion Specialists 246-248 BROAD ROME, GEORGIA GREETS NEW AFRICAN AMBASSADOR—His Holiness Pope John XXIII points out the African nation of Senegal on a huge globe in his Vatican apartments during a special audience in which the Pontiff received Senegal Ambassador Louis Le Gros. The first minister from the newly independent nation to the Holy See presented his creden tials to the Pope a few days before and called on the Pontiff to express his New Year’s wishes.—(NC Photos). Northwest Georgia's Finest and Most Complete Department Store! MANY CATHOLIC HONORS FOR JOHN W. HcCORMACX, NEW SPEAKER OF HOUSE WASHINGTON (NC) — A World War I veteran wielded the gavel as the new boss, bringing the second session of the 87th Congress in the House of Representatives to order. Gray - haired, bespectacled lawmaker John W. McCor mack, new Speaker of the House, had come a long way since he embarked upon the practice of law in Boston in 1913. On hand to share his lat est triumph was his No. 1 fan — the former M .Harriett Joyce, whom he married in 1920. McCormack, who turned 70 on December 21, was elected Speaker (Jan. 9) at a caucus of the Democratic party mem bership of the House to suc ceed the late Sam Rayburn of Texas. Since 1947 McCormack had served under Rayburn as the Democrats’ No. 2 man in the House. And as Speaker of the House McCormack is now second in line of succession to the Pres idency under a law approved by Congress in July, 1947, which changed the old line of succession. He follows the Vice President in succession. The Boston native embarked on an uninterrupted career in politics in 1920 when he was elected a member of the Mass achusetts House. He advanced to the Massachusetts Senate in 1923 and was its Democratic leader in 1925 and 1926. He came to the U. S. House in De cember, 1927, and has been re elected ever since to serve his state’s 12th District, which in cludes Suffolk County and 10 wards in Boston. Many honors have been heaped over the years upon the longtime power in the House. He holds honorary doc torates of law from 11 univer sities and colleges, including seven Catholic institutions — Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., Boston College, Villano- va, Providence, Stonehil in North Easton, Mass., George town and the Catholic Uni versity of America. He was decorated by Pope Pius XII as a Knight Com mander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. He is a Master Knight of the Sov ereign Military Order of Mal ta and among other Catholic awards hold the Peace Medal of the Third Order of St. Fran cis and the Bellarmine Medal of Bellarmine College, Louis ville, Ky. A Knight of Colum bus, McCormack also has re ceived honors from several foreign governments. 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