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Will Also Address Irish Bishops
Bishop McDonough To Visit Savannah Students In Eire
SAVANNAH—“We are grate
ful to Almighty God for the many
vocations to the Sacred Priest
hood with which He has blessed
our diocese in recent years,”
said His Excellency, Bishop
Thomas J. McDonough in an
nouncing his forthcoming vis
it to Ireland to visit semin
arians studying for the Diocese
of Savannah.
“Many of these vocations
have come from Ireland, par
ticularly from the Diocese of
Cork, where His Excellency,
Bishop Lucey has so generous
ly urged students to dedicate
their lives to God in the mis
sion fields of Georgia. I look
forward to this opportunity to be
with these young men, even if
it is only for a short time.
“But our diocese is growing
and we must anticipate the fu
ture. So, while in Ireland I am
going to tell the story of south
Georgia to as many seminar
ians and school children as I
can, praying that God may in
spire many more of them to
offer their lives for His King
dom in our diocese.”
Bishop McDonough also re
vealed that he has been asked
to address the Irish Bishops
who gather in Cork, April 16th
through 19th for the “Christus
Rex” Congress to be held there
under the patronage of Bishop
Lucey.
He will preach at the Sol
emn Mass opening the Congress
on April 16th, in the Church of
the Descent of the Holy Ghost,
Dennehy’s Cross. His subject
will be “The Lay Apostolate.”
When he leaves New York
on April 14th, via Irish Inter
national Airlines, Bishop Mc
Donough will be accompanied
by the Rev. Christopher Walsh,
currently working at St.
Mary’s-on-the-Hill, Augusta.
A priest of the Diocese of Cork,
Father Walsh is conducting a
Mission in Augusta with Bishop
Lucey's permission.
After addressing the “Chris
tus Rex” Congress, Bishop Mc
Donough will meet on Thurs
day, April 18th with seminar
ians currently studying for this
diocese. The seminaries will
be closed for the Easter Holy-
days, and Savannah students will
meet the Bishop in Cork.
Then he will administer the
Sacrament of Confirmation in
several parishes with large
classes numbering seven to
eight hundred, participate in
several “Liturgical Days” —
at which children from an en
tire area gather at a central
church to sing a Solemn Mass,
and visit all the schools of the
Cork Diocese.
He will preach on all these
occasions.
The Bishop will then begin a
strenuous tour which will take
him to nine seminaries where
he will address the students
on “The Missions in Geor
gia.”
He will visit the following
seminaries: Mount Melleray,
Cappoquin; St. Patrick’s, Thur-
les; St. Patrick’s Carlow; Mun-
gret College, Limerick; St.
St. Kiernan’s Kilkenny; St.
John's Waterford; St. Peter’s
Wexford; All Hallows, Dublin;
and St. Patrick’s , Maynooth.
In addition to paying cour
tesy calls on Irish Bishops,
particularly in the home dio
ceses of priests presently
working in the Savannah dio
cese, he plans to visit the
parents of these priests.
They are Rev. William Ah-
erne, Sacred Heart, Warner
Robins; Rev. Stephen Connolly,
St. Mary’s, Augusta; Rev. Eu
gene C. Moriarty, St. Mary’s
Augusta; Rev. John N. O’
Rourke, St. Joseph’s Macon;
Rev. Timothy Ryan, St. Anne’s
Columbus; and Rev. Kevin Bo
land, St. John Vianney Minor
Seminary, Savannah.
Bishop McDonough will re
turn to the United States on Ap
ril 30th. “My visit will be
followed up by Father Bo
land who will go to Ireland in
June, both to visit our semin
arians and to speak with stu
dents in the Cork Diocese, in
terested in coming to Savan
nah,” he shid.
“Then, in September, Mon
signor Daniel J. Bourke, will
visit other Dioceses in Ireland
in an effort to secure more vo
cations for south Georgia.
Vol. 43, No. 30
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In The Holy Land
Ancient Stones Cry Out
“The Redeemer Lived”
NCCW PRESIDENT, Mrs. Joseph McCarthy of San Francisco, at lectern, talks with
Mrs. Norman D. Boatwright, national director from the Province of Atlanta; and Mrs.
Joseph Dembowski, president of the Savannah DCCW during sessions of the Leadership
Training Institute held at Miami Beach, April 4-6.
(By Father Patrick O’Connor
Society of St. Columban
N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
A shepherd leading his sheep,
not driving them, was one of
the first sights I saw on my
way into Jerusalem from the
airport.
Now I was truly in the land
where God became man and
lived and spoke as man. Here
something He used as an exam
ple in His teaching—something
the Psalmist had used, longer
ago—was still to be seen. He
likened Himself to the shepherd
who “calls his own sheep by
name and leads them forth. . .
He goes before them and the
sheep follow him.”
Rounding the great grey walls
of Jerusalem City, we came
close to the place where the
Good Shepherd chose to “lay
down His life for His sheep.”
“There’s Gethsemani,” said
a young Arab fellow-passenger,
pointing down to the left, where
a grove of olive trees stood
beside a porticoed church. Be
hind it rose the broad, gradual
slope of the Mount of Olives.
On our right, above the uneven,
crowded roofs of Jerusalem,
was the dark dome of the basi
lica that covers both Calvary
and the tomb of Our Lord.
In Jordan and Israel today,
places in which Our Lord lived,
taught and suffered are identifi
able with a precision that quick
ens the pulse. Bethlehem and
Nazareth, Bethany, the site of
the temple, Gethsemani and
Calvary. . .these are still local
realities under the same blue
sky that was over them 19 cen
turies ago. From them you can
look out and see the same un
dulating hills on the horizon
that Our Lord, His mother,
St. Joseph and the disciples
saw.
Of course the buildings, the
surface levels, the roads and
other superficial aspects are
not the same as they were then.
Sometimes the present-day
town or village is 500 or 1,000
yards from the site of the old
one, as uncovered by the ar
chaeologists.
One of the Passionists, taking
me through the olive-planted
field beside their monastery
near Bethphage, pointed out
fragments of pottery in the
earth. Dwelling-houses where
people kept their food and cook
ed and ate it, had stood there.
This was part of the Bethany
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chair during the observance marking Palm Sunday. The
Pontiff looked unusually drawn and moved more slowly
than usual during the hour-long ceremony.—(NC Photos)
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1963
HOLY FATHER OPENS HOLY WEEK RITES—Holding a
spray of palm in his hands, His Holiness Pope John XXIII
is borne through St. Peter’s Basilica on the gestatorial
Addressed To “All Men Of Good Will”
Pope John’s Encyclical
Urges All Men To Strive
For Peace Based On Love
VATICAN CITY, (NC)—
Peace is a problem of morals,
-not power, Pope John XXIII
said in his new Encyclical which
urges everyone to strive for a
peace founded on love instead
of fear.
Entitled “Pacem In Terris”
(Peace On Earth) it is the'first
encyclical to be addressed not
only to Catholics but to “all
men of good will.”
The 11,000 word document
called for elimination of all
racism, encouragement of eth
nic minorities, and voluntary
establishment of world author
ity capable of dealing with prob
lems of universal common good
on a world scale.
Dated April 11, Holy Thurs
day, but issued April 10, the
Pope’s eighth encyclical is an
analysis of the nature of peace,
means of attaining it and prac
tical measures for ensuring it.
The document opens:
“Peace On Earth, which men
of ever era have most eagerly
yearned for, can be firmly es
tablished only if the order laid
down by God is dutifully observ
ed.”
The encyclical’s preamble
contrasted the order of the uni
verse with the disorder exist
ing among men. The Pope said
this stresses the error of many
who think “that the relation
ships between men and states
can be governed by the same
laws as the forces and irra
tional elements of the uni
verse.”
But, the Pop e said, laws
governing men are quite dif
ferent from those governing
brute nature and are to be
found where God wrote them—
in the nature of man. Since
the problem of peace is root-
POPE JOHN XXIII
ed in man’s nature, the pope
said, it is fitting for his words
to be addressed to all people
and not Catholics alone.
The first part of the ency
clical emphasized that every
human being is a person with
rights and duties. Society is
based on truth with rights and
duties. Society is based on truth
when the rights and duties of
each are sincerely recognized.
Justice rules when societypro-
vides for effective respect for
rights and duties.
But to complete and vivify
society, the Holy Father said,
charity must enter to ensure
mutual collaboration based on
the essential social nature of
men. Moreover society must
be based on freedom which re
spects the dignity of man when
he assumes the responsibility
for his own action.
These qualities—Truth, Jus
tice, Chairty and Freedom—
belong to the moral order and
therefore such an order has
as its objective foundation in
one true God. Pope John said
three characteristics of mod
ern society give him hope for
a society premeated by these
principles. They are the pro
gress made by the working
class, participation of women in
public life, and the widely held
conviction of the equal natural
dignity of all men.
These characteristics make
him hopeful, he said, because
“If a man becomes conscious
of his rights, he must become
equally aware of his duties’’
and this brings man to the
sphere of spiritual values. Thus
men are brought, the pontiff
said, “to a better knowledge of
the true God who is personal
and transcendent, and thus they
make the ties that bind them to
God, the solid foundations and
the supreme criterion of their
lives.”
Speaking of relations between
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By Jerusalem Rites
Scandal Of Christian
Separation Spotlighted
JERUSALEM, Jordan, (NC)—
Pious pilgrim and sophisticated
sightseer blended as one as
Christendom held solemn serv-
Cites Duty
Of Women
In Apostolate
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., (NC)
—Catholic women have duties
both in and out of the home,
the president of the National
Council of Catholic Women said
here.
“If you are conscious of the
importance of your responsibil
ities at home, you will not shirk
them because you are working
for the Faith outside your
home,” commented Mrs. Jos
eph McCarthy of San Francisco.
“The Blessed Mother was
very young when she was given
the greatest responsibility any
one could have,” she said.
Mrs. McCarthy, here for an
NCCW leadership training in
stitute, stressed in an interview
that Catholic women have an
obligation to work for the cause
of Christ.
“In Baptism we are made
Christians. Through Confir
mation we are obligated to go
out and do something about it,”
she said.
Mrs. McCarthy, a widow, at
tends Mass daily at St. Emy-
dius church in San Francisco.
Besides heading the nine mil
lion-member NCCW, she is ac
tive in the work of San Fran
cisco’s Catholic Interracial
Board, Catholic Professional
Club and the Dominican Third
Order. She has two daughters.
ice marking the great events
of the Redemption at the very
sites of Christ’s Passion, Death
and Resurrection.
For the first time in several
years, the Holy Week commem
oration coincided in the calen
dars of the Eastern and Western
Churches. But the fact served to
spotlight the scandal of Chris
tian separation in this place
where Jesus the night before He
died prayed to His Father that
all “may be one, even as we
are one.”
The holy city of Jerusalem—
sacred to Muslims and Jews as
it is to Christians—remained
divided. Barbed-wire barri
cades and sentries demarcrat
ed the Jordan-Israel border.
The focal point for the Holy
Week rites is the Basilica of
the Holy Sepulchre, a dilapidat
ed church surrounding the site
of the Resurrection. It is shar
ed by five communities—Greek
Orthodox, Roman Catholic,
Gregorian Armenian and Coptic
and Syrian Orthodox. The Holy
Week liturgies of each are long
and complicated, and must
follow a complex timetable.
The schedules cannot be chang
ed without the unanimous con
sent of representatives of the
Greek Orthodox, the Catholics
and the Armenians. Because of
this—since unanimous consent
has not been forthcoming—the
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Catholics still must hold the
main services of Holy Thurs
day, Good Friday and Holy Sat
urday in the morning hours,
as Latin Rite Catholics did
everywhere before the reforms
of Piux XII.
In any case, the cavernous
old basilica was the scene of
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Bishop’s Office
Dxocese or Savannah
223 Abehcohn Stheet
Savannah, Georgia
My Dear People:
Easter Sunday morning, you, the Catholics of this Dio
cese give to God the fullest expression of your charity
in behalf of the children domiciled in St. Mary’s and St.
Joseph’s Homes. Your love of these children of God is
undoubtedly the most articulate expression of generosity
in out state. What can express more tangibly our love for
God than the love that we have one for the other. What you
give to Catholic Charities in the Easter collection will
give you untold joy, even if it demands a sacrifice.
Please use the envelopes which you have received
for this purpose. It is suggested that every wage-earner
contribute at least $10.00.
Assuring you of a special momento in my Mass on the
Feast of the Resurrection and imparting to all of you
my blessing, I am,
Devotedly yours in Christ,
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Bishop of Savannah.
Cathedral
Holy Week
Ceremonies
His Excellency, the Most
Reverend Thomas J. McDon
ough will be the celebrant
at the following Solemn Pont
ifical ceremonies of Holy
Week at the Cathedral of St.
John The Baptist.
Holy Thursday— 10:00
A. M. Mass of the Conse
cration of the Sacred Oils.
8:00 P. M., Mass of the
Lord’s Supper.
Good Friday—12:00 Noon,
Liturgical Action.
Holy Saturday — 11:00
P. M. Easter Vigil.
Bishop McDonough will
also preside at Stations of
the Cross in the upper
Church of the Cathedral at
3:00 P. M. on Good Friday.
Stations of the Cross will
be conducted simultaneously
in the lower church, the
Chapel of Our Lady.