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People And Sanctity
Jottings
By BARBARA C. JENCKS
Souls are bought dearly. They never come cheaply. There
is always enough human weakness and malice at hand to
blind men to the need of repentance.
- Maryknoll Missal
Every face is searched hungrily for something that comes
increasingly difficult to discover. I sometimes feel like the
man in the Scriptures who sought desperately for an honest-
man. I keep looking for that one person in a hundred who is
attuned and aware to the purpose of life and has not let the
gnawing faults cloud his vision. Of course, I should look to
myself instead of to others. Yet I am disappointed in what
I find there, too. I keep hoping that each new person might
somehow be the saint who walks among us. Who can
judge the saint of our times? Would our mortal eyes
begin to comprehend the saint walking among us? Would he be
so different? I find so many people who talk loudly and at
length about sanctity and good works but they, too, like myself
find it hard to rid themselves of the human faults of envy,
anger, impatience, irritability, unkindness, uncharitableness,
dishonesty, and the long litany. We see the mote in our brother’s
eye often but not in our own. We can set the world straight and
save sinners but our own little life is not in order. We meet
hundreds of people.
Only God can judge them. We do not judge but we
become disillusioned. We find so little kindness in the world.
We would say over and over again: “Little children, love one
another.” This brings ridicule and the admonishment “to be
practical”. There is too much anger today about things which
do not matter. There is too little kindness and love.
It seems that I have forever been attracted to those who have
suffered. Their eyes are their badge of recognition. They know
how few things really matter in this life. The fires of passion
have been extinguished with tears. I like the shut-ins, the in
valids, older people whose lives bear the mark of pain, men and
women dedicated to a Crucified Christ. I find that these people
are kind, they are more patient, they see all things in right per
spective. Their pains have showed them how few things really
matter. They see the petty annoyances, which send the rest of
us into fury, in their littleness. Many spend too much time
bringing out old griefs, reconstructing imagined wrongdoings
and pride infractions.
Caryll Houselander was described by a friend as seeing her
own shortcomings, sins, insufficiencies, with even more
piercing clarity than those of others. When she wrote about
spiritual things, she was writing not of the fruit of her own vic
tory but inviting others to join the battle. So it is with my re
flections today. I am very aware of my own failings. They come
up to me dozens of times during the day. We find it is so easy
to accuse and criticize and so difficult to forgive and love. It
will ever be the parados for me in relation to my fellow mem
bers of the human race.
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Once in such discouragement, I spoke this way to a nun.
She said: “I am surprised at you. Don’t you concede there are
saints in the world at all?” I do but my eyes seem unable to
select them amid the talk. The outward signs of sanctity are
often there but so are the human failings which kick up the
dust of disillusion. All this saddens my heart. I want to be kinder
and more patient and I want others to be that way, too. This
is what matters so very much in the world. Talk is nothing.
Action, meditation, these are everything.
COUNCIL TO EMPHASIZE
BISHOP S AUTHORITY
FREIBURG, Germany,(NC)—
A new relationship between the
Pope and bishops can be ex
pected as a result of the Second
Vatican Council, a German
theologian who served at the
council has declared.
Father J ohannes Hirsch-
mann, S. J. , said that exag
gerated interpretations were
placed on the office of the pap
acy after the declaration of
papal infallibility at the First
Vatican Council in 1870. In
some quarters, he said, this
has led to the belief that bi
shops were mere executors of
the pope’s orders.
A new accent on the full
local authority of bishops would
have a favorable effect on the
relationship of the Catholic
Church to the Eastern churches
and to Protestants, Father
Hirschmann observed.
The priest told members of
the Catholic Academy of the
Freidburg archdiocese that
German bishops played a key
part in the council discussions,
because they had led previously
on movements toward liturgical
reform and ecumenical oppor
tunities.
He said the most penetrating
thinking about the inner renewal
of the Church and its relations
with non-Catholics has come
from the heart of old Europe.
Father Hirschmann declared
that despite a number of news
leaks during the council, the
spirit of secrecy was well
maintained and discussions
went forward without danger of
public pressures foom the out
side.
Cardinal
Marks 80th
Birthday
ROME, (Radio, NC)—Amleto
Cardinal Cicognani, Papal Sec
retary of State, received greet
ings from his immediate sup
erior, His Holiness Pope John
XXIII, as he celebrated his 80th
birthday here.
Pope John praised Cardinal
Cicognani, who for 25 years
was Apostolic Delegate in the
United States, for his “gener
ous and simple character,” for
his “prudence in carrying out
ecclesiastical affairs” and for
the “maturity and ability” with
which he helps govern the uni
versal Church.
The Pope’s greetings were;
contained in a letter written
in his own hand to his closest
coworker in which he said he is
bound to Cardinal Cicognani by
ties of “benevolence, affection
and gratitude.”
Pope John noted various
milestones in the Cardinal’s
career, mentioning his years
of service in the United States
and concluding with his role
in the ecumenical council. The
Pope said that Cardinal Cicog
nani has been given “very grave
responsibilities” in the council.
Cardinal Cicognani is pre
sident of both the council’s
Secretariat for Extraordinary
Affairs and its Coordinating
Commission.
The Cardinal celebrated his
birthday (Feb. 24) at Rome's
Pontifical Ecclesiastical Aca
demy where young clerics are
prepared for service in the pa
pal diplomatic corps. While
there, he inaugurated the aca
demy’s remodled headquarters.
Schedule
Bishop’s
Consecration
WINONA, Minn.,(NC)—Bish
op-designate George H. Speltz
will be consecrated Titular Bi
shop of Claneus to serve as
Auxiliary Bishop of Winona
on March25in the Cathedral of
the Sacred Heart here. Bishop
Edward A. Fitzgerald of Win
ona will be the consecrator.
Bishops Peter W. Bartholome
of St. Cloud, Minn., and Fred
erick W. Freking of Saline,
Kan., will be the coconsecra-
tors. Archbishop Leo Binz of
St. Paul, Minn., will preach the
sermon.
Obituaries
Clabert J. Babin, Sr.
SAVANNAH--Funeral ser
vices for Clabert J. Babin
Sr., were held February 12th
at the Most Blessed Sacrament
Church with Father Francis J.
Donohue officiating.
Mrs. C. A. Meyer
AUGUSTA—Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Charles A. Mey
er, were held February 20th at
St. Patrick’s Church, Father
Ralph E. Seikel officiating.
Survivors include a son, Ber
nard Meyer, Augusta; brother,
James J. Mura, Augusta; niece,
Mrs. John W. McDonald, nep
hew, Henry Mura, also of Au
gusta. - t .
Philip Tomaento, Sr.
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Philip Tomaeno, Sr.,
were held at the Church of the
Nativity of Our Lord, February
20th.
Surviving are a son, Philip
Tomaeno, Jr.; two daughters,
Mrs. Geraldine T. Schexnayder
and Mrs. Frances T. Tarver;
a brother, Peter Tomaeno of
Chicago; eight grandchildren;
and several great grandchild
ren.
Louis Allen Mikell
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Louis Allen Mikell
were held at Our Lady of Lour
des Church, February 25th, Fa
ther Francis J. Donohue offi
ciating.
Surviving are a daughter,
Mrs. J. G. Smith of Savannah;
three sons, Lee H. Mikell of
Savannah, Jack Mikell of Jack
sonville, Fla., and Earl B. Mik
ell of Columbia, S. C.; two
sisters, Mrs. M. L. Groover of
Savannah, and Mrs. Hettie Mc
Cord of Charlotte, N. C.; nine
grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
Robert E. Torchia
SAVANNAH—Funeral serv
ices for Robert E. Torchia
were held February 18th at the
Sacred Heart Church.
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The Southern Cross, March 2, 1963—PAGE 5
Asks Coiigressional Action
PRESIDENT’S ‘ANGEL’ SCULPTURE UNCOVERED—Examining a long-lost altarpiece
containing a portrait of President Kennedy as an angel (see insert) are Father Nicholas
Maestrini, P.I.M.E., president of Maryglade College, major seminary of the P.I.M.E.
Fathers in Memphis, Mich., and Brother Ronald Doneda, a college staff member who
found the altarpiece. President Kennedy posed for the sculpture in 1939 while vacationing
in Latvia. The altarpiece, which depicts the life of St. Therese of Lisieux, is thp_,work of
Mrs. Irena Wiley, wife of American diplomat John Cooper Wiley. Intended for a church in
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HONORED AT NATIONAL SHRINE—This full-length fig
ure of Mother Elizabeth Seton in stained glass has been
placed in one of three new chapels in the National Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, just prior to her
beatification in Rome, March 17. The window, honoring
the foundress of the Sisters of Charity in the U.S. will be
located in a chapel dedicated to St. Louise de Marillac, co
founder with St. Vincent de Paul of the Sisters of Charity
of St. Vincent de Paul. -(NC Photos)
Mother Seton Window
For National Shrine
(By J. J. Gilbert)
WASHINGTON—A new like
ness of Mother Elizabeth Bayley
Seton will go on view here at
almost the same time the found
ress of the Sisters of Charity
in the United States is being
beatified in Vatican City.
The likeness is a full-length
figure of Mother Seton in a
stained glass window in the
National Shrine of the Immcau-
late Conception. The window is
in one of three chapels grouped
together in the southwest corner
of the Shrine’s nave. The chap
els are expected to be complet
ed on March 15. Mother Seton
will be proclaimed “blessed”
in St. Peter’s Basilica on March
17.
The National Shrine, inciden
tally, is growing impressively
as an attraction in the National
Capital. Officials estimate that
well over 3,000,000 persons
have visited the great church
since its dedication in Novem
ber, 1953, and the trend, they
say, is toward a steady in
crease. Even in recent months,
when Washington, like many
other places in the U. S., has
been having an unusually severe
winter, the number coming to
the Shrine has been impressive.
The group of three chapels,
taken together, are known as
the Miraculous Medal Chapel of
the Shrine. It was donated by
the Vincentian F athers and the
Sisters of Charity. The center
of the three chapels is the Mi
raculous Medal chapel and is
dedicated to the Blessed
Mother. To the left, facing the
three, is the chapel of St. Vin
cent de Paul, founder of the
Congregation of the Missions,
or the Vincentians.
To the right, is the chapel of
St. Louise de Marillac,
cofounder with St. Vincent de
Paul of the Sisters of Charity
of St. Vincent de Paul, in Paris
in 1655.
The Mother Seton window is
in the St. Louise de Marillac
chapel. In domes above the three
chapels are mosaic depictions
of the works conducted in the
U. S. by the Vincentians and
Sisters of Charity.
Mother Seton will be the
first native of the U. S. to be
officially declared “blessed”.
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, who
was canonized in 1946, was a
U. S. citizen, but was born in
Italy. Mother Seton, a convert,
was born in New York City in
1774, and became interested
in the Catholic Faith while living
in Italy in the very early years
of the 19th Century.
While the Miraculous Medal
Chapel will be completed on
March 15, it will not be dedi
cated until sometime later.
Leading officials of the Vincen
tian Fathers and of the Sisters
of Charity are expected to be in
Rome for the beatification cere
mony.
WASHINGTON, (NC)—An Or
thodox Jewish educator has told
Congress that it should face
head-on the issue of how to meet
the educational needs of chil
dren in religiously oriented
schools.
Rabbi Morris Sherer, exec
utive vice president of Agu-
dath Israel of America, told
the House Education Com
mittee (Feb. 20) that Congress
must avoid “sweeping under
the rug” the question of Fed
eral aid to these schools.
He testified before the com
mittee on President Kennedy's
omnibus educational aid pro
posal (H.R. 3000). The bill’s
recommendations on the ele
mentary and secondary level
would assist only public
schools. It would provide a
four-year, $1.5 billion pro
gram of grants.
Speaking on behalf of 268
Jewish schools in 27 states,
the rabbi said that “logic and
fairness” demand that the needs
of children in private schools
be considered.
“To discriminate against
these children is to deny them
their sacred birthright as Am
ericans to benefit along with
all other children,” he said.
Rabbi Sherer stressed that
his association does not seek
any government assistance for
school religious studies pro
grams. “Our parents shoulder
this heavy obligation willingly
and in good grace,” he said.
“We seek equal government
Possible
Remains
Of Saints
SUBIACE, Italy, (Radio,NC)
—A lead casket believed to con
tain remains of the bodies of
SS. Benedict and Scholastica,
6th century monastics, has been
found in the monastery church
of St. Scholastica here.
The , six-sided casket was
found under the main altar of
the church during restoration
work. It weighs about four
pounds and bears the inscrip
tion: “Ex oss. SS. Bened. et
Schol.,” which means: from
the bones of SS. Benedict and
Scholastica.
The Benedictine monks of the
monastery know there were im
portant relics under the main
altar, but they did not know
exactly what they were. It is
known that several centuries
ago relics of the body of St.
Benedict were sent from Monte
Cassino—where he founded a
monastery about 529 -to a num
ber of Benedictine shrines in
cluding Subiace.
Verification of the contents
of the casket awaits authori
zation from the Sacred Congre
gation of Rites.
St. Benedict founded 12 mona
steries while he was at Subiace
which is about 32 miles east
of Rome. About 529, he retired
to Monte Cassino where he or
ganized a large monastic settle
ment. St. Scholastica, his
sister, is believed to have been
abbess of a monastery she
founded about five miles south
of Monte Cassino. She is said
to have met her brother once
a year for long discussions on
the spiritual life.
support only for the general
studies program of these
schools which meet all the
educational requirements of
each state,” he added.
He appealed to Congress to
pass such legislation now and
avoid “festering endless de
bate.” The issue, he said, must
be “tested and resolved.”
Rabbi Sherer maintained that
his statement was "necessary”
for the committee’s work be
cause "a fallacious image has
been projected to the American
public of the Jewish position of
this issue.”
“The prevailing view of the
vast majority of Orthodox Jew
ish citizens of our country, who
alone because of personal com
mitment are intimately involv
ed with the fate of the Jewish
day-school movement, strong
ly favors enactment of legis
lation which would provide Fed
eral aid to all the school chil
dren of our nation without dis
crimination,” he said.
Rabbi Sherer also stated that
the issue before Congress is
not a religious one. “It is pure
ly a fundamental educational is
sue which goes to the very roots
of our American democracy,”
he said.
The Founding Fathers, he
continued, never intended that
all children be reared in a
"Monolithic educational
straightjacket.”
“Our educational plant is a
mosaic, with the free play of
the many-faceted cultures of
our people blending into the
molding of an informed, dedi
cated and loyal citizenry,” he
said.
In observations after the rab
bi’s testimony, Rep. Roman C.
Pucinski of Illinois, who was
presiding at the hearing, said
he believes there is “a seri
ous, substantial element” in
Congress which is coming to the
conclusion that “perhaps we
ought to try and include some
thing in this legislation which
would serve as a basis for a
constitutional test” of aid to
private schools.
Pucinski's comment drew
from Rep. Hugh A. Carey of New
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Carey, a freshman committee
member reportedly named be
cause he is a leading spokes
man for the so-called “tuition
grant” aid proposal, said Con
gress must frame legislation
“which we are solidly and sure
ly agreed will meet any consti
tutional test.”
“We can’t ask the court to
write legislation,” said Carey.
He is sponsor of one of the
“G.I. Bills for Junior” which
would offer parents of school
children a flat Federal grant to
be spent at the school of their
choice.
Pucinski agreed, adding: “We
will try to write it in such a
manner that it will withstand
the test of the Supreme Court.”
Carey also expressed doubt
that Congress must manufac
ture a test of the constitution
ality of Federal aid for the secu
lar education offered in church-
related schools.
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was packed away pending expansion of the chapel.—(NC Photos)