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PASSIONTIDE—TIME FOR MORTIFICATION AND PENANCE
special liturgical services on Palm Sunday, referred in
the revised Holy Week liturgy as Second Sunday of
Passiontide. Jame Fink of Fort Wayne, Ind.. diocese, at
right, traces year 1957 on the Paschal candle in prepar
ation for the Easter Vigil service marking climactic
end of Passiontide. (NC Photos)
Passiontide, embracing the last two weeks, and final
days of Lent, dramatizes the Lenten spirit of morti
fication and penance by draping of crucifixes and saints'
images in our churches. Prayers, epistles, gospels and
whole liturgy of this time show the Passion of Christ is
now the sole thought of the Christian world. Left photo,
Charles Lenhard of Columbus diocese, drapes the cru
cifix on the Saturday before the First Sunday of Pas
siontide; Paul Le Saute of the Erie, Pa., diocese, at cen
ter, arranges Palms to he blessed and distributed at
Official
Newspaper For
The Diocese Of
Savannah
Vol. 37, No. 23.
PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1957.
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NEW HOLY WEEK CHANGES SEEN RESULT
OF HOLY SEE’S DESIRE FOR ADJUSTMENTS
THAT WOULD MOST BENEFIT THE FAITHFUL
The renter of the following ar- seems to underlie all the changes.
Archbishop Is
Knight Of Malta
LONDON, (NC) — Archbishop
Gerald P. O’Hara, A p o stolate
Delegate to Great Britain and
Archbishop of Savannah, Geor
gia, has been invested as a
Knight of Malta.
In a ceremony conducted by
Lt. Col. Guy Elwes, British presi
dent of the Knights of Malta, the
Archbishop was made a Knight
Grand Cross of Magistral Grace
of the Sovereign Military Order
of Malta.
Officers present at the cere
mony included Lord Robert
Crichton-Stuart and the Earl of
Gainsborough.
Two Fires
Believed Set
By Arsonist
SAVANNAH—Fire damaged a
storeroom in the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist Monday eve
ning, April 8th. Police and fire-
Eosfer Collection
For Saint Thomas
Vocational School
SAVANNAH—The annual col
lection, in behalf of Saint Thomas
Vocational School, will be taken
up in all the churches of the Dio
cese of Savannah, Easter Sunday.
April 21st.
In urging support of this col
lection the Most Rev. Thomas J.
McDonough, Auxiliary Bishop of
Savannah, reminded that St.
Thomas Vocational School, for
many years, has provided a home
for teen-age boys, who would
have otherwise been deprived of
a Catholic environment and a
Catholic education. “Our mission
is to continue the charity of’
Christ—and we must emulate
Him in providing care for those
who look to the Church for help
and direction.”
men are investigating the possi
bility of arson.
Discovered during Lenten Serv
ices attended by a large congre
gation the fire was reported at
8:12 p. m. There was no panic
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tide is assistant-professor of liturgy
at the Catholic University of Am
erica and the author of “Holy
ff eek Manual for Priests.’ pub
lished by Bruce. He analyzes the
recent modifications made in the
Holy Week liturgy by the Vatican.
(By Father Waller J. Schmitz,
S. S.)
(Written for N. C. W. C.
News Service)
The newly announced changes
for carrying out the Holy Week
ceremonies indicate primarily the
Holy See’s great desire to make
adjustments that will be most
beneficial to the faithful.
Because of these modifications,
tire faithful can participate more
intimately and more frequently in
the liturgical services of Holy
Week, the greatest time in the
Church’s calendar. This thought
On November 16, 1955, when
the Revised Holy Week schedule
was announced, it was the most
startling change in liturgical prac
tices for over 400 years. W r hen
time-honored traditions and cus
toms affecting thousands of peo
ple are made, adjustments of ne
cessity must follow. And. so, too.
with the Catholic world as re
gards Holy Week. The decree dat
ed February 1, 1957, then, pro
vides for modifications rather than
regulations or laws, because for
the most part it is a clearing up
of difficulties that were notice
able in the Holy Week services of
1956.
When Holy Week was over last
year, bishops throughout the
world were asked by the Sacred
Congregation of Rites to report to
Rome on the success of the litur
gical ceremonies adapted to these
new specifications. They were
free to make suggestions to
smoothen the Revised Holy Week
program.
The reports were most encour
aging and the new decree with
its various modifications is a re
sult of these investigations. To
both priests and faithful it rep
resents the solicitude of the
Bishop McDonoygh
Dedicates New
Saint Anthony's
SAVANNAH—The new St. An
thony’s Church was dedicated
April 5th by his Excellency, the
Most Reverend Thomas J. Mc
Donough, Auxiliary Bishop of
Savannah.
Present for the dedication were
the Very Rev. Anthony P. McAn-
drew, Provincial of the Ajnerican
Province of the Society of Afri
can Missionaries and more than
25 members of the clergy.
The new church was construct
ed at a cost of approximately
$50,000 and was completed the
early part of December. The Rev.
Patrick Fleming, S.M.A., is pas
tor of the parish.
church as a devoted mother for
her children, her desire to do
what is in the best interests of
all. If at times we are inclined to
wonder why this or that change
was not passible, we must beat
in mind the universality of the
Church, and that these regulations
are to be effective not in our
country alone, bub that they will
affect Catholics throughout the
world.
The modifications that will ef
fect both the clergy and the lai
ty are the reception of Holy Com
munion and the element of time.
By insistence on this latter point,
the Holy Week ceremonies will
be placed in a setting that best
commemorates and recalls these
events as they took place in. the
time of Christ.
The Congregation of Rites re
peats that on the Second Sunday
of Passiontide (Palm Sunday), the
faithful participate in the proces
sion that follows the blessing of
the palms. It is further stated that
the blessing of the palms may take
place at a suitable outdoor shrine
or even in the open before the
processional cross, and then all
go in procession to the church
where the blessing of the palms
ceremony is concluded and the
Mass begins.
Where it may prove beneficial,
the bishop of the diocese can per
mit the blessing of the palms pro
cession and Holy Mass to take
place between 4 and 8 p. m.
On Holy Thursday, hours for
Mass and the reception of Holy
Communion have been extended.
Mass may now begin at 4 p. m.
but no later than 9 p. m. Further
more, where it is necessary so that
all the faithful may receive Holy
Communion on this day when the
institution of the Holy Eucharist
is solemnly commemorated, per
mission is granted for one or two
low Masses in addition to the prin
cipal Mass when the procession to
the repository takes place. These
Masses must all be celebrated be
tween the hours of 4 and 9 p. m.
As another evidence of our Holy
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NEW SAINT ANTHONY'S CHURCH