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PAGE 6—THE BULLETIN, November 10, 1962
HERE
AND
THERE
News from St. Bernard Col
lege, St. Bernard, (Cullman)
Alabama, informs us of MIKE
RICHARDSON, son of MR. AND
MRS. ROY E. RICHARDSON of
Warner Robins, Ga. Mike, an
honor graudate of St. Bernard
Preparatory School, is now pre
sident of his college sophomore
class. A pre-med student, he
is President pro-tem of the St.
Bernard Government Associa
tion and is also an active mem
ber of the Circle “K”, a student
organization sponsoring blood
drives. The Circle “K" is a
college-level men’s service or
ganization performing the same
functions on the college campus
that its sponsor, the Kiwanis
Club, does in the community.
Its motto is identical with that
of the Kiwanis', “We build”. ..
Also in the collegiate news
is Macon’s JAMES PATRICK
RYAN. Jim is a Freshman at
Belmont Abbey College and was
initiated into the First Degree,
Knights of Columbus, in August
. . . .And from Sacred Heart
College for Women (Cullman,
Alabama) we have learned that
MISS BONITA (BONNIE)
BOYLE, daughter of MAJOR
AND MRS. C. S. PRESSMAN,
Columbus, is the newly elected
Secretary-Treasurer of the
freshman class. A Liberal Arts
major, Bonnie is a graduate
of Pacelli High School, Colum
bus. She was also appointed
feature editor of the student
body newspaper. .. .BILL CUN
NINGHAM, Customer Relations
Director for Savannah’s Sou
thern Bell Telephone Company,
informing us that the 1963 di
rectory will have the Nuclear
Ship Savannah featured on a
green background. On October
25th JOSEPH K. EBBER-
WEIN was approved as a freight
forwarder by the Federal Mari
time Commission. As a freight
forwarder, Joe will act as an
agent for exporters in expedi
ting the movement of goods
through the Savannah Port.
The son of MR. AND MRS.
GEORGE EBBERWEIN, Joe is
a graduate of Benedictine Mili
tary School (Sav’h.), has served
in the U. S. Coast Guard, a 4th
Degree Knight of Columbus, and
in January, 1963, he will be
married to MISS FRANCES
HAVILAND of Savannah. Identi
fied with both the exporting and
importing phases of the shipping
business for the past five years
Joe has opened an office at 126
West Bay St., Savannah. . .
Salesman of the year is JACK
COBURN, Thunderbolt. Jack is
a member of the Newman Club
of Savannah’s Armstrong Junior
College, which organization is
presently engaging itself with
the selling of doughnuts after
Masses on Sundays. A member
of the Church of the Nativity,
Thunderbolt (Sav’h.), Jack sold
twenty dozen “sinkers” in just
ten minutes on last Sunday. .
HOWARD SIMMONS, son of MR.
AND MRS. HARRY H. SIMMONS
of Savannah, has been appointed
to Jet Flying School at Pensa
cola (Fla.) Naval Base. Howard
.is a graduate of Benedictine
Military School (Sav’h.) and a
1962 graduate of Georgia Tech
. . . .Freshman students at St.
Francis’ Hospital School of
Nursing, Columbus, have elect
ed the following as officers:
NANCY ENGLEKING, presi
dent; JEAN FARRIS, vice pre
sident; MARGARET BECK
HAM, treasurer; DELORES
FISHBOURNE, secretary, and
GWEN JORDAN, social chair
man. . . .The Columbus (Ga.)
Symphony Orchestra entertain
ed the SISTERS OF ST. FRAN
CIS, members of the faculty
and the student body of St.
Francis Hospital School of
Nursing on Monday evening,
October 29, in Ave Maria Hall.
Members of the senior class
of the school served refresh
ments. . . .From BERYL SEL
LERS’ Savannah Evening Press
“VIGNETTE” we learn that
BILLY STARRS, who had a very
successful tenure as director
of Savannah’s Little Theatre,
is directing the Masquers at
Armstrong College this year
and in late November will pre
sent Ben Jonson’s “The Alch
emist” as the first offering of
the school year. . . .Bill is
instructor of English and Speech
at Armstrong. . . .And at the
other end of the diocese, thea
trically speaking, MISS MARY
MARGARET BYRNE, woman’s
editor of the Ledger-Enquirer
(Columbus) led a “Theatre
Holiday” group tour for a five
day visit to New York's Broad
way plays. The tour for
"valley” residents is sponsor
ed annually by the LEDGER-
ENQUIRER. . . .The annual
PACELLI BAND MAKES FIRST APPEARANCE - Pacelli’s pep band made its first
public appearance at the Pacelli-Bremen game. The drum majorette is Allice Berard.
In the above picture Director Robertson is shown with Richard Berard, Pat Martin and
Bobby Spano band members. - (Ledger-Enquirer Photo)
The Liturgy
By Mary Perkins Ryan
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
(Continued from Last Issue)
One question apt to be dis
cussed is that of restoring the
organic structure of each
separate part of the Mass. The
sacrement of the Holy Eu
charist,, as we now have it,
consists essentially of an en-
trance ! : rite (through the Collect
prayer);, a service of the Word,
or instruction; and the thanks
giving service consisting of the
Canon,, with its solemn Sacri
fice, ax^the Communion.
How might this structure
be made, clearer? Should the
Mass b$gin, as it used to do,
with the Introit, which is pro
perly the entrance hymn? What
should he done to simplify the
present, Offertory rites? The
purpose; V.,of this part of the
Mass--sj(mply to prepare the
bread and wine to be used in
the Sacrifice—has turned into
a kind of duplication of the
Canon.
How can it once more be
clearly indicated that the Pre
face and Canon together form
the great Eucharistic Prayer in
which the consecration is car
ried out and the Sacrifice of
fered? Now, because the Canon
has come to be said in silence,
the itpppession is created that
the Preface is a mere intro
duction and the Canon is the
prieat’ s private prayer in which
the faithful have no part.
The, question of bringing out
the essential structure of the
rites leads to the further ques
tion of, how better to bring out
the essential meaning of each
part of the Mass. Should the
three,.quirts, now reduced to the
Introit, Offertory and Com
munion, verses, again become
full-length hymns with several
Psalm verses and the refrain
sung by the people? This would
mean changing some of the
presept, verses which are too
long to serve as a refrain, and
it would mean discarding the
whole treasury of music writ
ten for the texts as they are,
and for choirs, not the people
to sing.
Again, if the faithful are really
to listen to God’s holy Word
given them in the Mass, some
experts think it would be better
to give them more variety to
listen to—a three-or four-year
cycle of readings for the Sunday
Masses, instead of the same
once every year, and perhaps
not two readings, but three—
one from the Old Testament,
blessing of graves tookplaceon
Sunday, November the 4th., at
the Catholic Cemetery, Savan
nah. RT. REV. MSGR. ANDREW
J. MCDONALD, chancellor of
the diocese gave the blessing
and FR. LAWRENCE A. LU-
CREE, assistant at the Cathe
dral, the sermon. On November
2nd., Mass was offered on the
cemetery grounds. . . .Savan-
nahians ought to plan now to
attend the IMMACULATE CON
CEPTION NOVENA, held an
nually at the CATHEDRAL OF
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. It
will begin on Thursday, Novem
ber 29 and conclude on the eve
of the Feast, December 7. . . .
ROSEMARY BRENNAN and KI-
,KI FREEMAN, recent Pacelli
(Columbus} graduates, have
been elected to the Student
Council of Columbus College.
And because of their high scores
on English placement tests the
two students were not required
to register for freshman Eng
lish.
Next deadline: November 15
Fr. Lawrence A. Lucree,
P. O. Box 2227
Savannah, Georgia
one from the Epistles and one
from the Gospels—as was cus
tomary at one time.
Again, an integral part of
every Mass used to be the
solemn prayers for everyone
in the world now said only in
the Good Friday service.
Would it not be well to restore
these prayers in some form,
and so give petition its rightful
place in the Mass, as a trust
ful response to God’s Word,
these experts ask.
This problem of bringing out
and enhancing the meaning of
the basic structure of the rite
leads into the more complicated
one of adapting the nonessen
tials in each rite to the men
tality , not only of modern men,
but of all the cultures in the
different parts of the world
where the Roman rite is used.
The recent decree on the
rites of adult Baptism has al
ready led the way in leaving
some matters to the discre
tion of national or regional
bishops’ councils. This prin
ciple of adaptation might well
be widely extended to include
such matters as liturgical co
lors, kissing the altar or not,
postures for priests and faith
ful. . .
Along the same lines, there
is the question of how much
external active participation is
necessary in different cultures
to enable the faithful to take
their full internal part in the
liturgy. Worshipers whose cul
ture stems from the west may
not feel the need for gestures,
processions and the like; the
change of posture at the dif
ferent parts of the Mass and
our “speaking part” may be
enough. But this may not be at
all true, say, of many Africans.
Missionaries say that an ideal
liturgy for them would allow
scope for considerably more
action.
And this question of adapta
tion leads to what perhaps
is the thorniest and certainly the
most discussed problem of all—
that of language. In principle,
there is no reason why, as in
the early centuries and as in
the Eastern tradition, the entire
liturgy should not be celebrated
in any suitable language that is
understood by the people. And
few doubt the enormous gain in
truly active participation which
such a change would help to
bring about.
But the official prayer and
thinking of the Roman Church
have been incarnated in Latin
for many centuries. Some peo
ple feel very strongly that this
whole inheritance would be
practically lost if the Latin of
the liturgy were to go. Some
authorities therefore favor
modern languages for the first
part of the Mass and for some
of the sacramental rites only.
However, even this change
would bring up the problem
of the Church’s music, espec
ially Gregorian chant. Some
musicians believe that prac
tically no adaptation of Gre
gorian melodies to modern
languages is possible. Others
think it is.
But there is no doubt that
this question of music is one of
the most delicate and most
difficult to solve to everyone’s
satisfaction. As a solution to
all these problems, it has been
suggested that the Mass and the
sacraments should still be cele
brated in Latin religious
houses, and on solemn occa
sions in cathedrals and parish
churchs, with the latter using a
^modern language for ordinary
■Sunday and pastoral purposes.
Then there are also the prac
tical problems involved in such
a change. How many modern
languages—only the main ones,
or every language spoken by a
group of the faithful? Should the
translation be literal, more or
less word for word, or some
kind of paraphrase which might
better express the thought of
the original to modern hearers?
The liturgical questions con
cern the very heart of the
Church’s life, her life of wor
ship and sanctification. They
have no easy solution, in spite
of the vast amount of study,
discussion and experiment that
has preceded the council.
Oblate Fathers
Praised By
Archbishop
STOCKHOLM - Among the
prelates attending the recent
consecration of Bishop John
Taylor, O.M.I., as Bishop of
Stockholm was the Most Rev.
Gerald P. O’Hara, Apostolic
Delegate to Great Britain and
former Bishop of Savannah.
The new Bishop has 55
priests; 20 parishes and 25,000
Catholics in his Diocese.
Archbishop O’Hara men
tioned how he had previously
cabled his deep regrets to Bish
op Taylor, saying that the pres
sure of business in the Apos
tolic Delegation, together with
the preparations for the coming
Council, would make it impos
sible for him to be present. The
day before the Consecration,
however, he found it possible to
rearrange his schedule.
“Thus I am here with you on
this historic occasion, ” he
said, “apart from wanting to be
with you I EVEN FELT OBLI
GATED to be here and I will
tell you why.
“Many years ago when I was
a Bishop in a land very much
like Sweden, I like Bishop Tay
lor was desperately in need of
priests to care for whole coun
ties where Catholics could only
assist at Mass a few times a
year . . . namely, only when
there was a 5th Sunday in a
month! At that time I made an
appeal to the Oblates. Im
mediately and generously they
responded and to this very
day they are caring for
those once priestless counties.
“Noblesse Oblige” continued
His Excellency, “and thus I felt
obligated to be present on this
historic occasion IN AN ACT OF
GRATITUDE TO THE OBLATE
FATHERS.”
His Excellency concluded by
saying, “I am sure that this new
Oblate Bishop and all Oblate
priests working with him, under
the guidance of Mary Immacu
late, for whom they have such a
strong and tender devotion, will
find for themselves and for the
souls entrusted to them, every
grace, every blessing and every
gift necessary to do God’s work
here in Sweden in the same noble
fashion as in Southern Geor
gia.”
MARRIAGES
THOMPSON-GUIMOND
COLUMBUS - Miss Joanne
Gale Guimond, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph R. Guimond
and William Clark Thompson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Thompson, were married Sep
tember 15 th at St. Anne’s
Church. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Her
man Deimel performed the cer
emony.
COLLEGE WELCOME - Oliver F. Frails, an achieve
ment scholarship winner as a mathematics major at
Providence College, Providence, R. I., is welcomed to the
campus by the Reverend Edward B. Halton, O. P., Dean
of Freshmen, during freshmen week activities. Oliver,
second highest in the 1962 graduating class of Immaculate
Conception High School, Augusta, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jabus Frails of Augusta.
PRESENTS CRUCIFIX - Capt. John J. Kastigar, Catholic chaplain for Robins AFB,
presents a crucifix to Mrs. William Havron, newly-elected president of the Catholic
Women of the Chapel. Witnessing the presentation are Mrs. Ralph W. Hamilton (right),
vice president; and Mrs. Joseph Buchta, secretary. - (Official AF Photo)
CONDUCTS TRIDUUM —
Carmelite Father Sebastian
Ramge, O.C.D. was preacher
for a Triduum held at the Car
melite Monastery. The Tri
duum commemorated the
400th anniversary of the re
turn of the Disalced Carmel
ites to the primitive rule un
der the leadership of St. Ter
esa of Avila and St. John of
the Cross.
Statesboro
Catholic
Women Meet
STATESBORO - The Catho
lic Women’s Club of St. Mat
thew’s Church, held its Octo
ber Meeting at the home of Mrs.
Francis Henry. Mrs. Wallace
Gacek and Mrs. Stephen Poliak
acted as co-hostess.
The meeting opened with a
prayer to Our Lady of Good
Counsel after which the regu
lar business of the club was
conducted.
Father Loftus, pastor of St.
Matthew’s showed slides of Our
Lady of Springbank Retreat
House at Kingstree, S. C., and
gave a talk on the spiritual ad
vantages of making a retreat.
An evening of Recollection
was held on Thursday evening,
November 8th.
Business Educators
To Meet Nov. 16
AUSTIN, Tex., (NC) — The
southern unit of the Catholic
Business Education Associa
tion will hold its annual con
vention at St. Edward’s Univer
sity here on November 16 and
17.
About 100 delegates are ex
pected from schools in 11 states
Principal speakers will be Fa
ther R. C. Baumhart, S.J.,
school of business administra
tion, Loyola University, Chi
cago; and Kathleen Barnard,
chairman of the department of
business administration, Loop
Junior College, Chicago.
MARK OPENING OF ECUMENICAL COUNCIL - Parish
ioners of St. Clare’s Church, Albany are pictured with their
pastor, Rev. Martin Bangert, O.F.M., as they gathered for
evening mass marking the opening of the Council.
Pictured at the right in the picture is Miss Marietta Mc
Namara, lay apostle, who served one month in the parish,
working among the parishioners.
Pastor’s Death Ends
Family Succession Line
In Priesthood
FARRELL, Pa., (NC)-Life’s
end for Father Aurelius A.
Petrick, 73, here also closed
an unusual succession within
his family in the priesthood.
Father Petrick, a married
Byzantine Rite priest, had fol
lowed his father, grandfather
and great-grandfather into the
priesthood. The Byzantine Rite
permits married men in most
countries to be ordained to the
priesthood, but a Holy See de
cree prohibits such ordinations
in this country and in Canada.
A Pontifical Divine Liturgy
of Requiem (Mass) was offered
for Father Petrick by Auxiliary
Bishop Stephen Kocisko of the
Pittsburgh Byzantine Rite dio
cese (Oct. 17) in St. Michael’s
church, where Father Petrick
had served as pastor for 31
years.
Father Petrick died (Oct. 14)
of a heart ailment. A few hours
before his death, he called his
assistant Father John Danilak,
to his bedside and sang all of
the Divine Liturgy.
Father Petrick, his father,
grandfather and great-grand
father had served in the same
parish in Presov province in
eastern Slovakia. It was there
in 1912 that he and Ann Kas-
csac were married, a year
before he was ordained to the
priesthood in Uzhgorod, Hun
gary, now a part of the Soviet
Ukraine.
Father Petrick and his wife
came to the United States in
1920. He served at parishes in
Taylor andWindber, Pa., before
coming to Farrell. He and his
wife observed their 50th wed
ding anniversary last June 24.
Father Petrick offered the Di
vine Liturgy in thanksgiving on
that day.
He is survived by four sons,
none of whom had a vocation for
the priesthood, two daughters
and 22 grandchildren. He would
have celebrated his 50th anni
versary in the priesthood next
March.
English Bishop Calls
For Increased Help
For Catholic Schools
LONDON, (NC) - The British
government has been urged to
provide 75 per cent grants to
ward the building of all new
Catholic schools in England and
Wales.
Otherwise the schools will
face “agitation, bitterness, re
crimination and discontent
which may well bedevil our
education system for years
ahead.”
The call and the warning
came from Bishop George Beck,
A.A., of Salford, the English
Hierarchy’s spokesman on
schools, in the new annual hand
book of the Catholic Education
Council of which he is chair
man.
The government, under a sup
plementary Education Act in
1959, increased its grant toward
building, enlarging or improv
ing Catholic schools inside the
free state system from 50 to
75 per cent.
But it refused to make such
grants for future Catholic pri
mary schools for children up
to the age of 11 or for the se
condary schools needed to
match them.
Catholics have to provide
millions of dollars annually to
ward such school developments.
“There is a growing feeling
that the millstone of school
building costs is dragging us
down and strangling our efforts
in many other directions,” Bi
shop Beck stated. “Catholics
do not expect to receive 100
per cent grant assistance to
enable them to build new 1 vol
untary schools—though they
think such a claim can be made
in full justice. They are pre
pared to contribute 25 per cent
of the cost of these schools from
their own resources, thus offer
ing a substantial saving to the
government.
“They think a flat grant of
75 per cent on the cost of all
new voluntary schopls would
be a statesmanlike concession
which would in the long run
mean a saving in public funds
and would avoid many tensions
and difficulties in educational
administration for the future.”
Despite the concessions in
1959 “in this field we still
seem to be running a losing
race,” he added.
The Bishop gave three main
reasons for this;
1. The government’s refusal
to aid reorganizing Catholic all
age schools.
2. The financial burden on
Catholics.
3. The unprecedented rise in
the Catholic birth rate as well
as the high proportion of Catho
lics among the immigrant popu
lation.
Bishop Beck said ” it would be
a mattp - ' of wise administra
tion and sound planning to allo
cate the bulk of future expendi
ture in education, particularly
for primary schools, to the pro
vision of the new schools which
this rising Catholic child popu
lation will require. This, how
ever, is the problem which may
sow seeds of future difficulty
and resentment.
“If the Catholic community
wishes to provide new primary
schools to meet the needs of
a growing population it must
meet the whole cost from its
own pocket without any grant
assistance from the Ministry of
Education. At a later date the
secondary schools required to
match these new primary
schools will also be expected
to be built by the Catholic
community out of its own funds
without any grant assistance
from the government.”
Bishop Beck said there would
be a very serious shortage of
trained teachers in the immedi
ate future but that this is a pass
ing problem. Soon greatly in
creased facilities for training
teachers will be available and
plans are going forward for the
establishment of four new
Catholic training colleges at
Liverpool, Nottingham, Bir
mingham and Leeds.
Be a full time citizen - reg
ister and vote in every election.
Reduce your speed on the
highways, and you’ll find that
safety is no accident.
WALTON TRIBUNE PRESS. MONROE. GA.