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PAGE 4—The Southern Cross, April 13, 1963
HE IS RISEN
The Women At The Tomb
Tho Sabbath ended; came the dawn--
The Holy Women still were drawn
To Christ alive or dead;
A task of love would they assume,
As they, advancing to the tomb,
“Who’ll roll the stone back?” said.
For they had ointments brought, and spice
And every burial device,
Oil, aloes, myrrh, and such;
They sought Him, but they did not find
Christ’s body in its place reclined,
At which they wondered much.
Beside them now two angels stand,
Their faces bright--apparel grand;
The women quail with dread;
They bow their faces toward the ground,
While hearing this angelic sound,
As thus one Angel said:
“Be not afraid! I know you seek
The Christ Himself who, mild and meek,
Was crucified of late--
The ransom for mankind He paid;
Come, see the place where He was laid,
This King and Saviour Great.
“Reward for His atoning work,
The sufferings He did not shirk,
Does Jesus now receive;
No longer buried in the tomb,
His life and vigor did resume--
No more His friends grieve.
“In Jesus’ Resurrection see
A fitting type, a guarantee,
A symbol of your own;
As from the grave arose the Head,
So shall His members from the dead,
As sprouts the seed when sown.’’
--Brother Francis Patrick, F.S.C.
No Excuse For Failure
God’s World
(Leo J. Trese)
If you aim at a vocation which
calls for special skills, you
first must obtain the necessary
training. Specialized training
calls for time and effort. Even
with time and effort, in every
p rofessional
school there
are many who
find the going
too hard and
who quit. In
most such in
stances the
quitter simp
ly does not
have the
necessary talent for the work
he contemplates. Without man
ual desterity, for example, a
person will become neither a
good typist nor a good sur
geon.
There is one vocation to which
all of us must aspire. It is the
vocation to which God has call
ed us—the vocation to be a
saint. This involves a train
ing course that is life
long. Death is our graduation.
It is only then that the diploma
is placed in our hands.
We have one great advantage
which often is lacking to those
who seek a worldly career. We
already have the necessary tal
ents for our task. God has
given as the requisite abilities.
We know that, as long as we
maintain our effort, we cannot
miss. There is no basis for
discouragement. There is no
excuse for failure.
It was in baptism that God
gave us the talents which we
need in order to become a
saint. At the moment of bap
tism God infused into our soul
the three great virtues of faith,
hope and love God’s gift of these
virtues is an indicatign of His
love for us. God is so anxious
(speaking in human terms) to
have us with Himself in heaven,
that He makes our progress as
foolproof as possible. He does
not leave us to struggle towards
Him as best we can, at the mer
cy of our merely natural capa
city for faith and hope and love.
God provides us with a super
natural facility in the practice
of these virtues, to bring us
more surely to Himself.
From the fact that the Greek
name for God is ‘ ‘Theos,’’ faith,
hope and love are called the
theological virtues. Their im
mediate object is God Himself:
to believe in God, to trust God,
to love God. Other virtues,
which are called moral virtues,
have intermediate objectives.
Such virtues as justice, truth
fulness and chastity, for exam
ple, concern our neighbor and
ourselves.
A virtue is defined as “A
habit which perfect the powers
of the soul and inclines one to
do good.” A simpler descrip
tion of a virtue would be to say
that it is a spiritual talent.
A natural talent, such as a
talent for music or art, is an
inborn skill. Such a talent does
not necessarily make one a
musician or an artist. An indivi
dual might be born with a great
artistice talent. Yet, if he had
no lessons in art, never had a
paint brush in his hands, his
talent might lie dormant and
unused.
Similarly, the spiritual tal
ents which God infuses into our
soul at baptism may remain un
used. Having been baptized, we
have a supernatural facility for
“Defense” Of Boxing Fails
It Seems to Me
believing' in God and Hi's teach
ings, for trusting in God’s pro
mises and for loving God. How
ever, if we never had received
any religious instruction, our
talent for believing would re
main unrecognized and unused..
Since hope and love follow upon
faith, these virtues also would
remain uncultivated.
Love is the most perfect of
all the virtues. It is the virtue
which directly unites us with
God. An act of love, but
tressed by faith and hope, is the
highest form of worship that
we can offer to God. This is
why prayers of faith, hope and
especially of love are so essen
tial to our spiritual life. When,
in the Mass, our love for God
is united with the infinite love
of Christ, then our act of wor
ship has reached its highest
culmination.
(Father Trese welcomes let
ters from his readers. The in
creasing volume of letters pro
hibits personal answers but
problems and ideas contained
in such correspondence can be
the basis of future columns.
Address all letters to Father
Leo j. Trese, care of this
paper.)
The central truth about prize
fighting—the truth that stands
like a mountain no matter how
hard people try to talk around it
—was expressed in six words
by Pope John after Davey Moore
died of injuries
suffered in a
feather-
weight title
bout in Los An
geles.
The Holy
Father, who
always tries to
find good in
every thing
could find none in professional
boxing. "Barbarities inflicted
by brother upon brother,” was
his scathing description of the
‘‘sport’’.
Nat Fleischer, editor of Ring
magazine who is regarded as
“Mr. Boxing”, was asked the
following question by Freder
ick H. Treesh of United Press
International:
"Unlike other contact sports
where injuries occur, it has
been said that the very object
of boxing is to hurt. Does that
raise any questions about boxing
not applicable to other sports?”
"I testified at the New York
State legislative investigation
and I said this: the aim of box
ing is not to kill or to attempt
to severly injure. The aim is
to win—the same as football,
basketball or hockey. How often
do we hear a football coach yell
to his team, * ‘Get in there and
fight.” It’s the same in boxing;
to get to the top—but by fair
means.
“It’s not a question of foul
fighting—but of science and hit
ting power. It’s like in football
JOSEPH BREIG
where you tackle hard and try
to win. And remember, unlike
football, once you’re knocked
out you can’t get up and go back
in the game.
"Those who cry out against
boxing are utterly wrong. The
Object is not to maul or maim.”
Observe how “Mr. Boxing”
fogs the issue and contradicts
himself.
He says the aim of boxing is
not to kill or severely injure,
or to maul or maim. Nobody
asked him that. He was asked
whether the very object of box
ing is to hurt. And of course
it is. Boxing is the only "sport”
in which the very object is to
hurt. It is the "sport” of "bar
barities inflicted by brother
upon brother.” So much for
Fleisher’s attempt to talk
around the point. He didn’t suc
ceed.
Further, he destroyed his own
arguments. He said that boxing
is a question of "science and
hitting power.” Hitting power in
the ring can have only one pos
sible purpose. That purpose is
to hurt—and if possible to beat
the opponent senseless. Fleis
cher, not thinking what he is
saying, admits this. "Once
you’re knocked out,” he says,
‘‘you can’t get up and go back
in the game.”
"Once you're knocked out."
Does Fleischer expect us to be
lieve that being knocked out is
no injury to a man, and to
what a man is—a reasoning
being made in the image of
God?
Reporter Treesch quoted Dr.
Leo M. Davidoff, professor of
neuro-surgery at the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine,
Pope Receives Ceylon’s
Chief Buddist Monk
VATICAN CITY, (Radio, NC)
—His Holiness Pope John XXIII
and the chief Buddhist monk of
Ceylon met in St. Peter’s basi
lica and exchanged greetings
and best wishes for their efforts
for peace.
The encounter took place dur
ing a general audience held
(April 3) in the huge church
in order to accommodate more
than 10,000 members of an
Italian farmers' federation. Af
ter addressing the farmers,
Pope John talked individually
to their leaders. Then he met
and conversed with Buddhist
monk G. Wisuuddhananda of
Ceylon.
Msgr. Thomas Ryan of the
English-language desk of the
Papal Secretariat of State serv
ed as interpreter for the two
spiritual leaders. The Popetold
the Buddhist monk he appre
ciates what is good in all reli
gious. He said also that men of
good will cooperate in working
for the good of mankind.
After chatting with the Cey
lonese visitor, the Pope met
and talked to technicians from
Ghana who are being trained in
Venice. Also present were the
Pope’s brothers, Giuseppe and
Zaverio Roncalli.
Pope John spoke of spring and
peace in his speech to the farm
ers.
He said that spring "has
made its timid entrance after
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Second Glorious Mystery
THE ASCENSION
Our Father
Now he led them out towards Bethany,/
and he lifted up his hands and blessed
them.
Luke 24:50
Hail Mary
Saying, 'All power in heaven and on
earth/
has been given to me.’
Matt. 28:18
Hail Mary
'Go, therefore,/
and make disciples of all nations.’
Matt. 28:19
Hail ® Mary
'Baptizing them/
in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Spirit.’
Matt. 28:19
Hail S& Mary
'Teaching them to observe/
all that I have commanded you.’
Matt. 28:20
Scriptural 3\osar?
Part 12
'He who believes and is baptized/
shall be saved.’
Mark 16:16
Hail $8 Mary
'But he who does not believe/
shall be condemned.’
Mark 16:16
Hail Mary
'And behold, I am with you all days,/
even unto the consummation of the
world.’
Matt. 28:20
Hail & Mary
And it came to pass as he blessed them,/
that he parted from them.
Luke 24:51
Hail® Mary
And was taken up into heaven,/
and sits at the right hand of God.
Mark 16:19
Hail^&Mary
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit./ As it was
in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be,
world without
end. Amen.
Editor’s Note: This is one of the 15 decades
of the Scriptural Rosary, a modern version
of the way the Rosary was once prayed in
the Middle Ages. We are presenting the
complete Scriptural Rosary in 15 install
ments as a service to our readers. You are
invited to save these meditations for future
use. Or you may obtain the complete set in
illustrated prayer-book form by sending $1
to the nonprofit Scriptural Rosary Center,
6 N. Michigan A venue, Chicago 2, Illinois.
Killer Gives Eulogy Uganda Girl
NORFOLK, Mass., (NC)—A
man convicted of murdering a
nun spoke a eulohy at a Re
quiem Mass offered for prison
chaplain Father Leo B. Flynn
in the chapel of the Prison
Colony here.
The man, who is serving a
life sentence, surprised the
congregation of prisoners by
rising unexpectedly to give the
eulogy. He praised Father Flynn
as "a selfless man” who was
"not interested in station or
position. . .he was interested
KAMPALA, Uganda, (NC)—
Girl guides of all races and
creeds in Uganda have given
special fund to send Miss Syl
via Mary Namanda, a student at
Trinity College, Nabbingo, to
Rome for the International Ca
tholic Guides Pilgrimage (April
15 to 18).
Armenian Prelate
ROME, (NC)—Bishop Lorenz
Kogy, 68, who served an Ar
menian parish in the United
States for ten years before be
ing named to an episcopal po-
in human beings and their im
mortal souls.”
Father John F. Fitzgerald,
who was offering the Requiem
Mass (April 4), waited while
the man spoke.
The prisoner later explained
that "someone had to say some
nice words for Father Flynn,
so I didn’t think God or Father
would mind if I said them.”
The casket was borne out of
the chapel by 10 inmates of
the Prison Colony. The ser
vice was held at the request of
prisoners.
Yeshiva University, New York.
Dr. Davidoff said that “the
good Lord protected the human
brain carefully with a bone cas
ing, but I am sure the Lord
did not intend the abuses which
men were going to inflict on
this protection." Dr. Davidoff
went on:
"Any kind of blow delivered
to the head is potentially dan
gerous . . . When the head is
jarred, the brain is pushed
in its fluid toward the interior
face of the skull. If there is
contact of brain with bone, dam
age is bound to result. It may
be slight bruising involving very
small blood vessels, or it may
result in blood vessel ruptures
leading to major hemorrhaging
and death ... It doesn’t matter
really where the jarring blow
falls—whether on the jaws, the
nose, the neck or the chin.”
"Mr. Boxing” Fleisher ad
mitted to reporter Treeschthat
headgear is no help. Two years
ago, he said, a University of
Wisconsin student, wearing a
headgear in the National In
tercollegiate Boxing Champion
ships, was killed in a bout.
In fact, Fleischer thinks there
is more, not less, chance of
injury with headgear. Neither,
he says, do heavier gloves de
crease injuries—they increase
them.
Fleischer’s "defense" of
boxing fails miserably. Boxing
is immoral because it is the only
sport in which the direct object
is to injure in order to win.
Boxing should either be abol
ished entirely, or reduced to
mere sparring—and then we’d
see how many of its noble pat
rons would pay to see a match.
Discrimination
Charged
LAWRENCE, N. Y., (NC)—
The local board of education
has been charged with discrimi
natory and illegal application of
the state pupil transportation
law.
Protests have been register
ed by State Sen. Edward J. Speno
of Nassau, author of the law,
Rabbi Marcus Chrlich of the
Hillel Hebrew School and Dr.
Mark Murphy of Citizens for
Educational Freedom.
The school board has ruled
that in accordance with the
State Education Law, written
requests for transportation
must be filied by April 1 by
“parents of children who will
attend private and parochial
schools next September.”
Noting that "no similar re
quest is required of children in
public school, the objectors
claim that the state law re
quires that all children be treat
ed alike.
sition in Lebanon, died at the
Armenian College here.
Bishop Kogy was born in the
Transcaucasus, which is now a
part of the Soviet Union. He
joined a community of Mekhi-
tarist monks in Vienna, Aus
tria, and was ordained there in
1917. He served Armenian com
munities in Russia, Bulgaria
and Rumania before he became
pastor of Holy Cross Church,
Watertown, Mass., in 1940.
In 1951, more than 2,000 Ar
menian Rite Catholics from all
parts of the U.S. went to Boston
to attend his episcopal conse**
cration as patriarchal vicah
for the Beirut diocese of the
Armenian Rite Patriarch of Cil
icia.
Food For Peace
ST. PAUL, Minn., (NC)—
Praise for the U. S. Food for
Peace program was voiced here
by the executive director of the
National Catholic Rural Life
Conference.
Father Edward O’Rourke,
speaking at a St. Paul arch
diocesan Catholic Rural Life
Day observance, said the Food
for Peace program is a strong
force for world peace.
Sudan Persecution
PARIS—A protest againsl
the current anti-Christiar
campaign of the government of
Sudan has been made by the
International Union of the Ca
tholic Press at a meeting here.
The journalists from eight
countries stated their opposi
tion to restrictions against
freedom of information and ob
jected to racial and religious
discrimination. They then sing
led out the acts of the Sudan
government in Kharatoum
against the Christian minori
ties in South Sudan.
(Latest reports on the Sudan
ese situation are that two more
priests and three more nuns
are being expelled. This infor
mation, received in Kampala,
Uganda, brings the total of Ca
tholic mission expulsions to 44
priests, 19 brothers and 45
Sisters. In addition, about
50 Protestant missionaries
have been expelled from the
Sudan.)
The Catholic press group
urged its members in all coun
tries to promote celebrations in
December noting the 15th anni
versary of the adoption of the
Universal Declaration of the
Rights of Man. The union also
applauded the work of Catholic
publications in all countries in
the struggle to end hunger in
the world.
QUESTION BOX
(By David Q. Liptak)
Q. When we say that Christ
suffered every possible kind of
suffering in his passion and
death, are we to take the words
literally? Or is the saying only
figurative?
A. Christ did in fact endure
every type of suffering with
which man can be beset. St.
Thomas treated this very ques
tion at length in his Summa
Theologica.
THUS our divine Lord suf
fered at both the hands of his
own race, the Jews, who were
God’s Chosen People, and from
the Gentiles, represented by the
Roman world in Pontius Pilate.
Not only him, but also his
closest friends (Judas and Pe
ter, for instance); not only rul
ers (the high priest, the San
hedrin, Herod, Pilate), but or
dinary men and women.
FROM ANOTHER viewpoint,
Christ suffered with respect to
his reputation (by being called
a blasphemer), his honor (by
being mocked) his glory (by
being arrayed in royal vesture,
then maltreated as a slave),
his simple belongings (by being
stripped of his robe), his facul
ties of soul (by the sadness and
fear he experienced from the
Garden of Gethsemani to the
Consummatum est); his mind
(by the thought of man’s past
and future crimes); etc.
HIS ENTIRE BODY was sub
jected to horrible physical ago
ny: his head, pierced with
thorns; his face, bruised and
spat upon; his hands and feet,
dug into with nails; his flesh,
wholly reduced to a mass of
open, bleeding furrows.
NOR WAS a single sense
spared: not that of touch (alive
from the nails); nor taste
(stung by the vinegar and gall
on the reed); nor small (as
saulted by the reeking atmos
phere of Golgotha, the "place
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