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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1964
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Council
Mass For
LITURGY INSTRUCTION SUPPLEMENT
NEWSPAPER DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Pope John
VATICAN CITY (NO—An A-
merican parish priest was cho
sen to concelebrate Mass in the
{hall of the Second Vatican
Council with 11 other pastors on
the sixth anniversary of the
election of Pope John XXIII.
He was Father Thomas B.
Falls, priest of the Philadelphia
archdiocese. He and the other
eoncelebrants are among the
parish priests of the world in
vited to attend the council’s de
bate on the priesthood.
The council’s secretary gen
eral, Archbishop Pericle Felici,
announced that the Mass was
concelebrated on Oct. 28 in hon-
^^of Pope John XXIII, who
^Poclaimed and began this
Vatican ecumenical council and
guided its first steps.” He urg
ed the council Fathers to pray
not only for Pope John but also
through him for God’s continued
blessing on the councils work. Benedict "Patron Of Europe”
least the second
BLESSING main doer of Monte Cassino Abbey church, Pope Paul VI participated in
solemn ceremonies marking restoration of famous Benedictine abbey destroyed by Allied
bombing. (NC Photos >
It was at
time that Pope John’s power of
intercession with God had been
asserted before the Church as
sembled in council. Leo Cardi
nal Suenens of Malines-Brussels,
in a eulogy of Pope John given
at the second session in the
presence of Pope Paul VI, pub
licly appealed to Pope John to
intercede for the council.
Archbishop Felici referred to
parish priests as ‘‘the right
arm of bishops” and said the
council’s invitation to them to
offer Mass in the council hall
was a symbol of the bishops’
gratitude and esteem toward
their most faithful colaborators.
Pope Consecrates Abbey
Church At Monte Cassino
PRAY FOR OUR
DECEASED
PRIESTS
REV. JOSEPH KADDAH
Nov. 2, 1928
REV. STEPHEN BEYTAGH
Nov. 5, 1876
REV. JEREMIAH
F. O’NEAL
Nov. 6, 1868
Oh God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their sacerdotal
office, a share in the priest
hood of the Apostles, grant, we
implore, that they may also
be one of their company for-
jr in heaven. Through Christ
Lord, Amen.
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
MONTE CASSINO, Italy—Pope
Paul VI traveled from Vatican
City to this ancient yet new
Benedictine monastery atop the
“holy mountain” of Cassino to
consecrate its abbey church and
to proclaim its founder St. Ben
edict the patron protector of all
Europe.
The journey was one original
ly contemplated by Pope John
XXIII, who died before it was
possible to bless anew the re
stored altars and church that
had been smashed to rubble by
bombs of the Allies in World
War II.
The Pope had planned to
make the journey (Oct. 24) by
helicopter, but rain and turbu
lent weather compelled him to
travel by automobile. The wide
winding road leading from the
broad valley of Cassino had
been blocked off before dawn
to all but a few official cars.
Only a few thousand people
could find place to stand on the
summit of the mountain, which
is crowned with the gleaming
white monastery which sits
fortress-like above the plain.
NATION
New Missal In Print
ATLANTA, Ga. (NC)—The first copy in the United States of
a new Latin-English missal was used here in offering the first Eng
lish Mass of the Atlanta archdiocese. Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan,
who offered the Mass in the Cathedral of Christ the King, received
the new missal from Benzinger Bros., its publisher. The first copy
off the press was presented to Archbishop Hallinan. The Mass
marked the opening of a four-day conference on worship, affecting
four Southern states.
VATICAN
Mass For Cardinals
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Papal Sec
retary of State, will celebrate the annual requiem Mass for cardinals
who have died in the past year. The Mass will be offered in St.
Peter’s basilica Nov. 3 in the presence of Pope Paul. The Pope
will impart absolution to a symbolic catafalque, recalling the deaths
of Andre Cardinal Jullien, French-born member of the Roman cu
ria, who died Jan. 11; Carlo Cardinal Chiarlo of the Roman curia,
who died Jan. 21; and Clement-Emile Cadinal Roques of Rennes,
France, who died Sept. 4.
Further Church Agreement
VIENNA (NC)—Hungary’s communist government has hinted
that it would be willing to allow the Vatican to fill three additional
Sees there, in addition to the six provided for in a Church-state
agreement last September. The invitation was contained in an
article appearing in the communist monthly Vilagossag, which has
reached Vienna.
Going To Poland
ROME (NC)—Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., is taking his
rosary crusade to Poland. At the request of several Polish bishops
in Rome for the ecumenical council, Father Peyton has consented
to go to Poland during the 1966 millenium celebrations of the Chris
tianization of Poland and its foundation as a nation.
The Pope began his sermon
at Monte Cassino with a Latin
language salute, “Pax huic do-
mui et omnibus habitantibus in
ea!”
“Peace to this house,” he
translated, “and to all who
dwell in it.”
It was a refrain that ran
throughout his speech — peace,
“an envied treasure,” peace, “a
light risen again after the tur
bulence of war had extinguished
its pious and beneficial flame.”
With the same salute of
“peace” Pope Paul greeted the
sons of St. Benedict, students
of the monastery’s school, civil
and military authorities, and fi
nally the “brothers of the Holy
Church.”
The Pope continued: “It of
ten happens that, since the idea
of peace is connected with that
of tranquillity, with an end to
disagreements and of their res
olution into order and harmo
ny, we are easily led to think
of peace as inertia, repose,
sleep, death. There is a whole
psychology in this, with its rel-
a t i v e literary documentation,
which accuses a peaceful life of
immobility and laziness . . .,
and which in the other direc
tion boasts of struggle, agita
tion, disorder, and even sin as
sources of activity, energy and
progress.”
Pointing to the rebuilt walls
of the once - ruined monastery,
he said: “These walls speak.
Peace has made them rise a-
gain. As it still seems incredible
to us that war directed one of
the most savage and blindest
acts of its fury against this ab
bey, this peerless monument of
religion, of culture, of art, of
civilization, so it scarcely seems
possible today to see this ma
jestic edifice risen again, al
most as if it wanted to make
us believe nothing had happen
ed, that its destruction was a
dream and we can forget the
tragedy that made it a mass of
ruins.
“Brothers, let us weep with
gratitude. Through our office
with Pope Pius XII of venerat
ed memory, we are a well-in
formed witness of how much
the Apostolic See did to spare
this fortress, not of arms but
of the spirit, the outrage of its
destruction. That supplicating
and sovereign voice, the un
armed champion of the faith
and of civilization, was not
heard. Monte Cassino was
bombed and demolished. One of
the saddest episodes of the war
was thus consummated.
“We do not want to pass
judgment now on those who
were the cause of this. But we
cannot help dfeploring that civil
ized men had the audacity to
make the tomb of St. Benedict
a target of unbridled violence!”
Once again referring to the
splendid new monastery, he
said “It is peace that achieved
this prodigious effort.”
Important For Church
by Father John P. Donnelly
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
ROME—The Church must walk with two legs—
one ecumenism and the other evangelization — Leo
Cardinal Suenens of Malines-Brussels (told a press con
ference here.
Speaking on the coming council proposition on
the missions, the cardinal pointed out that it must
He said to bring the Gospel to
every creature—but with kind
ness. The priority of evangeliza
tion must be stressed, since this
is what Christ wishes ‘impati
ently,’ since love is impatient
to communicate itself.”
He said a particular debt of
gratitude was due to the Italian
authorities and to the Italian
people themselves, who rebuilt
the monastery.
Referring to the form of mon-
asticism founded by St. Bene
dict, Pope Paul said “The
Church still has need today of
this form of the religious life,
and the world still has need of
it.”
He added that “when man
has found himself again in
monastic discipline, he has been
found again for the Church.”
When he arrived at the mon
astery, the Pope was greeted by
Bishop Ildefonso Rea, O.S.B..
Abbot of Monte Cassino, and by
Abbot Benno Gut, Abbot Pri
mate of the Benedicine Order.
Acknowledging the cheers and
applause of the crowd, the Pope
paused to pray at the Church
of St. Agatha, a chapel for the
abbey’s guest house. After put
ting on a short red velvet cape
and stole, he got into a waiting
car and was driven to the ab
bey’s main doer, where again
he was greeted by Abbots Rea
and Gut and the whole Benedic
tine community of the monas
tery and four chief civilian of
ficials of the area. Above the
doorway is carved in large let
ters a single word signifying
the Benedictine search for peace
-PAX.
Pope Paul in a rapid proces
sion strode along the arcade of
an open courtyard inside the
monastery in which stood a
bronze statue portraying t h e
death of St. Benedict. Monks
explained that they found trac
es of a tiny church in the court
yard and believed it was the
Continued from Page 3
balance extensive talk thus far
on ecumenism. Cardinal Sue
nens, one of the four council
moderators, said:
“We discussed ecumenism at
length. But the ecumenical ap
proach is one-sided—an attempt
to know each other better with
out the intention of conversion.
We cannot, however, say con
version is no longer the duty of
the Church. On the contrary, we
must bring Christ to the whole
world and this duty cannot be
destroyed by ecumenical dia
logues.”
Ecumenism might give rise to
the idea that now the Church
should leave everyone to follow
his own conscience, the cardinal
said. “Christ did not say this.
Session
To Close
Nov. 21
VATICAN CITY (NC) — The
ecumenical council’s third ses
sion will end Nov. 21 with con-
celebration of the Mass by Pope
Paul VI and 24 council Fathers.
The Saturday morning cere
mony in St. Peter’s on the feast
of the Presentation of Mary in
the Temple will be followed by
formal closing ceremonies the
same afternoon in the basilica
of St. Mary Major in down
town Rome. Takng part in the
morning Mass will be prelates
in whose dioceses the world’s
major Marian sanctuaries are
located.
The cardinal said another
coming council proposition, the
one on seminaries and ec
clesiastical formation, should
be widened to include Religious
scholasticates and even Sister
formation centers. He said he
would propose a new idea of
seminaries based on the original
idea of St. Charles Borromeo
at the Council of Trent (1545-63).
where seminary training was
first formulated. He said:
“Today the moment has ar
rived for a soulful examination.
The Second Vatican Council
must create a new kind of sem
inary in line with the needs of
today. If there is one place
where Pope John’s updating is
needed, it is here.”
Using the new seminary in
his own diocese as a pattern, he
described his hopes. The new
seminary should deal with the
problems facing priests of to
day, who feel they are isolated
from the current of the modern
world as well as from the com
pany of their fellow priests and
even from God. This last is
true, he said, because seminary
spirituality is not in line with
the needs of the priest working
in the world but is based more
on monastic spirituality. He
called for the formulation of a
BASILICA of St. Mary Major, where closing ceremonies of
the third session of Vatican Council II will take place, Sat
urday, Nov. 21. Pope Paul VI is expected to make solemn
proclamation of one or more council decrees on that occa
sion. (NC Photos)
Friday Abstinence
Prompts Discussion
called tor toe termination oi a ROME (NC) — Whether the members of, ^
spirituality Cor an active life the Church will change its laws ^ p “ u * cl \ du f tog discussion
and said that unity between regarding abstmence from meat "J r v, llrc h in
prayer and the apostolate is es- on Friday_ and church attend- “f th ^ e ^ n * 0 ™ d
sential today.
“We must never stop stress
ing the need for prayer — but
(Continued on Page 3)
ance on Sunday, it is already
clear that some bishops want
at least a change in attitude on
these subjects.
This was the reaction of
From Region To Region
Variations To Be Found
In Celebration Of Mass
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON — A “modest,
healthy” degree of variation in
the way some parts of the Mass
can be said will be a central
note of liturgical reforms to
go into effect in the next five
months.
Leaders of the national Li
turgical Conference said here
variations will be found region
to region, diocese to diocese
and even parish to parish.
They said such variations are
“built into” the latest major
document in the fast-moving re-
AL KIRK, Executive Secretary of the Catholic Committee on Scouting, addressed
a luncheon meeting (Oct. 27th) of Savannah Area scout executives and officers of
Parish Home and School Associations. Pictured at the head table are left to right:
Hugh Grady, Diocesan Lay Chairman on Scouting; Rev. Herbert J. Wellmeier,
Diocesan Scout Chaplain; Mr. Kirk.
form of the Church’s public
worship, an “instructic/n” pre
pared by the Vatican Liturgy
Commission and made public in
Rome Oct. 16.
The variations will depend
much on such natural factors
as the physical characteristics
of churches, the tastes and cap
abilities of particular congrega
tions, the solemnity of particu
lar feasts and the needs of in
dividual regions, the liturgists
said.
The new instruction guaran
tees a certain “minimum” of
reform and uniformity every
where. “The thing that will dis
tinguish one parish from anoth
er,” it was said by one liturg-
ist, “is the spirit with whichi
each implements the reforms—
the enthusiasm, generosity and
fulness with which each acts.”
Interviewed by the N.C.W.C.
News Service at Liturgical Con
ference headquarters were six
liturgists: five priests and a
layman.
They are: Father Gerard S.
Sloyan, head of the religious ed
ucation department at the Cath
olic University of America; Fa
ther Joseph Connolly of Balti
more; Father John Corrigan of
Washington; Father Charles
Riepe of Baltimore; Father Ke
vin Seasoltz, O.S.B., of Catholic
University; and John B. Man-
nion, executive secretary of the
Liturgical Conference.
(Continued to Page 3)
Father Charles Davis, British
moral theologian, pointed: out
that the bishops’ objection was
not to the laws themselves but
to the deeper question of the
mentality of issuing such laws
under pain of mortal sin.
“The simple statement of such
binding force represents a pri
mitive approach to morality,”
Father Davis said: “There is
no recognition of the psycholgi-
cal working of consciences.
“Mortal sin comes about when
an action performed embodies
a fundamental rejection of God
or a fundamental choice against
Him. Development of conscience
is demanded for an understand
ing of the positive precepts,
which many do not have, and
consequently they do not sin
gravely in acting against such
precepts.”
Father Davis said statements
saying that missing Mass on
Sunday or eating meat on Fri
day damn one for eternity are
“crude and confused,” since
they do not take into account
the circumstances which can
change the morality of an act
and the degree of knowledge of
an act’s sinfulness required for
sin.
“Hence authorities should not
announce mortal sins — only
God should do that. Church au
thorities should rather say they ,
regard this or that matter as
serious, something which can-*
not be ignored without turning
away from God.”
Father Francis J. Connell,
C.SS.R., former dean of the
School of Sacred Theology at
the Catholic University of" A-
merica, pointed out that the
Church could -change its abstin
ence and Sunday obligation
laws, since they are “purely ec
clesiastical, although connected
with divine commands to fast
and to worship God.”
Christ’s Impatience Stressed
Convert W ork Remains