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DOMESTIC COVERAGE Archbishop Hallman: “Promises New Spirit In Public Worship 99 First Session Produced Major Liturgical Changes, Foundation Laid For Further Development BY JAMES C. O’NEILL VATICAN CITY, (NC) - The first session of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council ended not with a bang but a promise. The promise is the enthusiastic and forward-looking attitude of most of the 2,300 participants who day by day have sat through the general meetings—36 in all—and have transformed a conucil- on-paper into a council of flesh, faith and hard work. In the estimation of the men i eighth place to first place on who took part in them, the council deliberations to date have been surprisingly gratify ing and full of expectation for further development at the next council session, which opens September 8, 1963. “A meeting of 2,300 persons is not an easy thing to put into motion,” said Archbishop Jo seph T. McGucken of San Fran cisco, a member of the coun cil’s Commission on the Dis cipline of the Sacraments. “But we are moving now and have laid foundations for much solid work during the next session. "A council is not like an American convention in which groups get together and choose spokesmen to present their view in a single speech. In the coun cil there has been complete freedom of speech, and this was necessary so that we could obtain the right orientation. “Next September will see things moving more quickly because ways and means for processing the work of the coun cil have now been worked out.” By no means can the just- concluded session of the council be thought or talked about only in terms of the future. For the council has already opened the way for a tremendous intensi fication of liturgical renewal and reform. The result will be that Catholics the world over will find a growing shift in the public worship of the Church with the accent on the unity of all. The council Fathers have by overwhelming majorities ap proved the amended preface and first chapter of the liturgy pro ject discussed by the council. These are the most important parts of the project since they lay down guiding principles, while the remaining seven chap ters spell out the details of their application. Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta, Ga., a member of the council’s liturgical commis sion, said that the liturgy pro ject was one “of compelling interest the world over and an attractive aspect of Christian life as it is seen and felt, heard and expressed. The liturgy in the life of every Christian is the daily meeting place of man and God in a manner that even the bland Catholic cannot ig nore.” Archbishop Hallinan said that the project had been moved from the council agenda. Referring to the preparatory meetings which had drafted the project, he quot ed one of the three Iron Curtain bishops on the commission who declared to the council: “We have no schools, we have no press. For our teaching of re ligion we have only the liturgy.” Speaking of the project’s first chapter, Archbishop Hallinan said: “First, in its practical ef fects, it promises a new spirit in the public worship of the Church. . .For example, the theology of the liturgy is sum marized in close connection with the Mystical Body of Christ.” Pointing up the importance of this chapter, which has been a major accomplishment of the council’s first session, Arch bishop Hallinan said that in ad dition to this theological sum mary there were other major advances made in the chapter. He declared: “Secondly, it states clearly the general norms which will govern all these details in fu ture years. “Thirdly, it allows much free use of the principle of adapta tion (use of local forms) in the worship of the Church with the approval of the Holy See in each case. “Fourthly, it gives to the ver nacular a much more prominent place in the liturgy in the Mass, the sacraments and other parts of the liturgy. “It also opens up the possibility of such litur gical forms as concelebration (the joint offering of a Mass by more than one priest) on certain occasions and also of reception of Holy Communion under two species (bread and wine) on certain occasions.” Archbishop McGucken, com menting on the amendments to the liturgy project that had been voted by large majorities, said that when he first received the project as drafted by the pre paratory commission, he had “thought it was wonderful.”, “But,” he continued, “when the bishops began to take it apart I saw many things that had not occured to me.Mymind was broadened. My initial im patience (at the hundreds of speeches delivered on the pro ject) was turned into eagerness to hear what these great minds had to say. My attitude was SAVANNAH Georgia State Savings Bank Savannah's Largest and Oldest Savings Bank BANK BY MAIL SERVICE Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Bull & York Streets Savannah’s Only Discount House DIXIE FURNITURE MART "Where All the Irish Trade" 2517 BULL STREET SAVANNAH, GA. PHONE AD 6-8616 Vatican Has No Knowledge Of Mindszenty Offer VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC) --Highest competent Vatican authorities have said they know nothing of a Hungarian offer to make a deal with the U.S. to release Jozsef Cardinal Mind szenty, Primate of Hungary. Queried about a report to that effect at United Nations Headquarters in New York, au thorities said that no such of fer exists at the Vatican and there is no knowledge that any such offer exists outside the Vatican. 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Therefore, it was added, comment from the Vatican would be unwarranted. changed from a decent opti mism to a very great op timism.” Archbishop Hallinan summed up the changes contained in the first chapter as being able to help “produce a more vital, more conscious and more fruit ful participation of our people in the liturgy.” The changes were made, he said, “first, that the faithful may better understand what they hear and what they say; Second, that they may under stand and accept the public na ture of divine worship as dis tinct from the exaggerated in dividualism of our society to day; third, that the Church may open new avenues of return to our brothers who are separated from the unity of the Mystical Body of Christ.” The liturgy project, in addi tion to broadening liturgical horizons, also had the side effect of providing insights into the actual development of the council itself. As discussions continued for more than two weeks of general meetings— more than 300 Fathers spoke individually on the project and another 300 turned in writeen speeches—the procedural shape and development of the council began to emerge. Archbishop Hallinan said that at least in procedure and pro bably in spirit the liturgy pro ject pointed the way for all that came after it. Certainly the unwieldly mass of speeches gave rise to the intervent-ion of His Holiness Pope John XXIII when he autho rized the termination of dis cussion of any part of a project when the council Fathers agree that the subject has been treated sufficiently. This was a great step forward and was used in all subsequent discussions on the projects on the unity of the Church, communications media and the nature of the Church. In a larger sense, the im mense flood of words expended on airing the views of the Fa thers concerning the liturgy set the tone of the council. For it immediately became apparent that the Fathers had not come to Rome simply to en dorse prefabricated projects. This, as well as the adjourn ment voted on at the council’s first meeting to give the Fa thers time to examine the lists of candidates for the 160 posts on council commissions, came as a surprise to many, both Catholics and non-Catholics. The wide divergence of opinion on all phases of the liturgy also served to shatter the often held image of the Catholic Church as a monolith incapable of change and without dif ferences among the members of its hierarchy. Many American bishops ex pressed their pleasurable sur prise at the developments of the council and in the changes that have come about as a result of the council debates and the mutual exchange of ideas among the bishops of the world. Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan of Worcester, Mass., put it one way when he said; “The council has let fresh air into the Church.” Bishop Thomas K. Gorman RECEIVES RELIC OF FRANCISCAN FOUNDER Bishop Jose Lazaro Neves of Assis, Brazil (right), receives a relic of St. Francis of Assisi from Father Basil M. Heiser, O.F.M. Conv., Minister General of the Conventual Franciscans, during a meeting in Rome. Bishop Neves will deposit the reliquary of the Franciscan founder in his Cathedral which is dedicated to St. Francis. Father Heiser, a native of Terre Haute, Ind., was joined by Father Cyprian M. Sullivan, O.F.M. Conv. (left), who is a penetentiary at St. Peter’s Basilica. Recently, a group of 57 Brazilian bishops visited the tomb of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy. (NC Photos) of Dallas-Fort Worth, Tex., put it another, saying: “When we started we were like the famous bird that flew backward because he didn't care where he was going but just wanted to see where he'd been. . .But this was a forward looking council and much more than just voting on the preface and first chapter of the liturgy project has been accomplished. There has been a tremendous growth in the bishops' know ledge of the problems of Chris tianity throughout the world.” w Carol Singing Austrian Style In the mountain regions of Western Austria, entire villa ges join in carol singing on Christmas Eve. Beginning with the family living farthest from the village church, torch-bear ing carolers form a proces sion. At each house along the way greetings of “Froehliche Weihnachten” are exchanged, and the inhabitants fall in line. Eventually, the whole popula tion is part of the parade as it arrives at the church steps in time for midnight Mass. Northeast Plaza Barber Shop Satisfied? Tell A Friend, If Not Please Tell Us 3357 Buford Hwy. Atlanta Fine Arts, Paintings and Antiques antique art (Ballerg, Inc. In the heart of Brookhaven 3988 Peachtree Road, N. E. Atlanta 19, Georgia THE KIRBY’S CE. 7-971f> for the best in... ^ pest ^ control* Service C&S REALTY COMPANY “Specialists in Commercial and Industrial Real Estate” Suite 200 Henry Grady Bldg. 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Servicemen NEW YORK, (NC) -- Francis Cardinal Spellman’s 12th an nual Christmas visit to Ameri can servicemen will take the Archbishop of New York around the world. The Cardinal, who as Military Vicar is the spiritual shepherd of Catholics in the armed for ces departed from New York on December 15 and will return during the first week of January. He will visit Anchorage, Al aska; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Okinawa; Formosa; Ma nila, the Philippines; Saigon, Vietnam; Bangkol, Thailand; Karachi, Rawalpindi and Pes hawar, Pakistan; Teheran, Ir an; and Frankfurt and Ber lin, Germany. Cardinal Spellman will spend Christmas in Vietnam. He will celebrate Midnight Mass in Sai gon and then offer two other Christmas masses for U.S. per- sonnell at Nha Trang and Dan- arig. 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