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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, March 12, 1964
Expelled Missioners
ROME (NC)—The vanguard
of the great exodus of mission
aries from southern Sudan has
arrived here.
Twenty - three priests and
Brothers of the Verona mis
sionary society, many of them
without their personal belong
ings, disembarked at the airport
here from Africa (March 6).
Another 150 Verona mission
ers were expected to arrive
within a week.
All missioners in the three
provinces of southern Sudan
were ordered out of the country
last month by the predominantly
Moslem government. Most of
them are Italians and members
of the Missionaries of Verona.
School Activities
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STUDENTS peruse books to be sold at the March
Book Fair. Seated around the table are: Robert Muller,
Mahaney Cromartie, Clinton Trahan, Velma Haslam and
Janice Magee. At the bulletin board are Barbara Tirone and
Mary Jane Russell.
SEVENTH GRADERS display their history project which
was featured at parish "open house.” Seen in the photo are
Ray Wallace, Steve Spring, Tommy Toglio, Terence Hen-
nessy and Harry Haslam.
SECOND GRADERS Marcia Delk, Joe Cliett, Timothy
Whelan and Mary Ellen Persse study the Bishops’ Relief
Fund chart.
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Vietnam—
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presumed, the Russian com
munists attach to Vietnam at
present.
Up to now the North Vietnam
regime has not sided definitely
with either Moscow or Pekin in
the communist family quarrel.
It has echoed the Chinese pro
nouncements more than the
Russian. The Chinese com
munists are too near to be safe
ly contradicted by Hanoi.
The Polish delegate in the
International Commission
spends time in Hanoi as well as
Saigon and maintains represe-
tatives continually in each city.
It is noteworthy that last Sept.
2, four days after Gen.de Gaulle
had made his first statement
hinting at neutralist reunifica
tion of all Vietnam, the then
Polish delegate was seen to visit
the French embassy here.
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The Mass-A Bond
Of Charity
The Rev. Edward Frank, as
sistant pastor at the Church of
The Most Blessed Sacrament,
is one of the speakers partici
pating in the Lenten Series being
held every Wednesday evening
in six Savannah Area Chur
ches.
Father Frank’s topic is “The
Mass — A Bond of Charity.’’
The following is quoted from
his sermon:
‘ ‘In the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass, we come to offer our gifts
of love and gratitude to God.
The Church, in her liturgy
brings to mind this nearness and
kinship among the faithful. At
the offeratory all your gifts
are gathered together in the col
lection. They are heaped toge
ther and brought to the altar.
They are then symbolically of
fered as the bread and wine are
offered by the priest. Here on
the paten there is bread made
of the many kernels of wheat.
The cup of wine is made of
many grapes. The priest prays
and says, “We offer to thee, O
Lord, the chalice of salvation...
for our salvation, and for that
of the whole world.” If we are
Catholic, we must have concern
for all men. No one is too in
significant for our charity and
sympathy.
“Therefore, through a devout
attendance at Mass we express
not only a love for God but also
a love for one another.
* ‘We must break down every
barrier between ourselves and
our neighbor. Our Lord said,
“If thou art offering thy gift at
the altar and there remember
that thy brother has anything
against thee, leave thy gift be
fore the altar and go first to be
reconciled to thy brother and
then come and offer thy gift.
Through this teaching of Christ
we see the priority of Charity.
* ‘Our Lord knew our need for
sacrifice, He knew the weakness
of human nature. We are so
inclined to be selfish and self-
centered. The love we have for
Christ in the Mass must expand
to all who stand with us at
His Sacrifice. So that we might
envelope all in our love for God,
he said, “Deny Thyself and take
up thy Cross daily. . .” If we
do not put aside our continued
self-interests, we will never be
aware of the needs, problems
and hardships of others. St.
Francis of Assisi had the sec
ret when He prayed, * ‘O Divine
Master, grant that I may not
so much seek to be consoled as
to console; to be understood as
to understand. . .”
WRITERS
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READERS
EDITED BY LEO J. ZUBER
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SAINT PATRICK, by the St.
Patrick Fathers.
Reviewed by Rev. Leonard
O’Brien.
So much legend has come to
be associated with St. Patrick
that it is refreshing to find a
life of the Saint that is critical,
penetrating and perceptive.
This historical evaluation of the
Patrician story may well herald
the day when the saint will lA
stripped of the snakes and the
shamrocks. Patrick’s great
ness stems neither from the use
of the shamrock to illustrate the
mystery of the Trinity nor from
his supposed extermination of
snakes but rather from a suc
cessful mission that was mat
ched by personal sanctity.
Father Needham, by analy
sing the recent spate of schol
arly writing on St. Patrick, has
produced a concise and accur
ate summary that carefully dis
tinguishes fact from myth. Pa
trick’s own writings are dis
cussed while other chapters de
scribe the political and social
milieu which he evangelized, the
chain of events leading to his
appointment to the mission in
432 A.D., and the missionary
journeys themselves. Among
the subsidiary matters discus
sed are such provocative ques
tions as "Were there two
Patricks?” and “Was St. Pat
rick a Protestant?”
This illustrated book may be
obtained by sending .50^ to the
St. Patrick Father’s 35 So. 29-
th Street, Camden 5, New Jer
sey.
JOSEPH, THE MAN CLOS
EST TO JESUS, by Francis Fi-
las, S.J., St. Paul Editions,
1962, 680 pp., $5.50.
Reviewed by Marcus Stein-
our.
With this volume a much
hoped for biography of St. Jo
seph has at last appeared, do
ing for this greatest (but of
ten neglected) of saints what
church historians and centuries
of biographers have failed to
do—provide the standard, def
initive “Life” of this humble
but great man.
Joseph remains, next to Je
sus and Mary, the most sin
less life ever lived. But the
true facts of his biography must
be sorted from a veritable
mountain of myth, legend, and
other miscellaneous and un
trustworthy information. Writ
ings of the early church fath
ers are also researched, along
with church documents, by Fa
ther Filas until the fully com
piled summation of his life is
given in the most complete form
ever attempted.
In six parts the work pre-
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sents the literary sources, the
life, the marriage, the father
hood, theological questions con
cerning him, and this history
of devotion to Joseph. Truly
this can be called the “little
Summa” of this beloved saint.
Father Filas has accomplished
a splendid tribute.
SHORT CUT TO DIVINE
LOVE, by Martial Lekeux,
of O.F.M., Franciscan Herald
Press, 1962, 320 pp., $4.95.
Reviewed by E. Matthews.
Father Lekeux gathers here
in one volumes samples of the
spiritual writings of members
of his order and makes a com
plete work of them with his
commentary. To give continuity
to the whole, he outlines the
material in three stages of
spiritual development and the
temptations, consolations, and
exercises peculiar to each. At
the same time, he makes it
clear that these stages in spi
ritual growth are not so clearly
defined in actuality that all
souls at all times undergo a
purgation, are given illumina
tion, and encouraged to a union
with God, though one phase may
be stressed more at one time
than the other. The universality
of these authors is demonstrat
ed by the ease with which atti
tudes expressed centuries ago
can be adopted today. Though
each author has a different style
of writing, simplicity is the
keynote. Such words as union,
mysticism, renunciation, which
have come to have fearful mean
ings for some Christians today
are given their original mean
ings in the life of a soul intent
on loving God. These words lost
in a darkness of misunderstand
ing are everyday tqrms for
these men of single and sincere
piety who desired to share their
secret of a SHORT CUT TO
DIVINE LOVE.
Father Lekeux uses the writ
ings of David of Augsburg, St.
Peter of Alcantara, Blessed
Roger of Provence, Francis of
Osuna, and many others. The
book is concluded with ten pages
of biographical notes on these
spiritual authors of the 13th to
the 18th century. The transla
tion is by Paul J.Oligny, O.F.M.
CHAIRMEN OF CATHOLIC BOOK WEEK activities at St. Joseph School in Macon exa
mine contest entries with library board advisors. Pictured (1. to r.) standing: Mrs. Jack
Kemper, librarian; Ellen Bunch, chairman of awards committee; Mrs. Betty Bunch, lib
rary consultant, John D. Cassidy, general chairman. Seated: Margaret Faircloth, chair
man of junior monitors; Joey Shaheen, publicity chairman; Bill Lackay, chairman of dis
play committee; Peggy Koschin, script chairman; Alyce Gibson, chairman of elementary
monitors; Elisa Pascullis, promotion chairman and Janice Farrell, chairman of primary
monitors. (Photo by Mrs. George W. Currey)
Catholic Book
Week Held At
Saint Joseph’s
MACON — To emphasize the
importance of reading good
books the National Catholic Li
brary Association sets aside a
week called “Catholic Book
Week.”
At St. Joseph’s School, the
eighth grade helped organize
and plan contests and daily ra
dio programs on the public ad
dress system. Students were
encouraged to participate in
the poster, bookmark, book re
ports and essay contests.
The theme for the week was
* ‘Read and Unite Our Changing
World,” so the students called
their radio station “W.U.I.R.”
meaning “World Unites In
Reading.”
The activities of the week
were supervised by Sister Mary
Agatha, principal, Sister Mary
Valentina, Mrs. Harold Bunch
and Mrs. Jack Kemper, libra
rian.
Three Priests
Held By Reds
BONN (NC)—Three priests
still remain in jail in Hungary,
according to reports received
here. Two of these, not named,
were among a group arrested in
1961 for so-called illegal rel
igious instruction activity. The
third is Father Joszef Szabo,
S.J., arrested last October on
the same charge.
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