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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 (Continued On Page 6) 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 (Continued on Page 6) The Southern Cross P. O. BOX 180. SAVANNAH, GA. Vol. 43 Saturday, April 13, 1963 No Published weekly except the last week in July and the last week in December by The Southern Cross, Inc. Subscription price $3.00 per year. Second class mail privileges authorized at Monroe, Ga. Send notice of change of address to P. O. Box 180, Savannah, Ga. Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough, D.D.J.C.D., President Rev. Francis J. Donohue, Editor John Markwalter, Managing Editor Rev. Lawrence Lucree, Rev. John Fitzpatrick, Associate Editors