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. . . .And raising his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the hour has come! Glorify thy
Son, that thy son may glorify thee, even as thou has given him power over all flesh, in
order that to all thou has given him he may give everlasting life. . .“I pray for them;
not for the world do I pray, but for those whom thou hast given me, because they are
thine. . . .Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they
may be one even as we are.” (John 17:1-2, 9 and 11) The gift of the Holy Eucharist is
the legacy bequeathed by Jesus to all men at the Last Supper on the Thursday night
before He died. Through it, he transforms sinful men and women into His own image
and likeness - into dearly-loved children of an Eternal Father, united as true brothers
and sisters sharing His Divine Life.
(Staff Photo By Bob Ward)
Solemn Holy Week Rites At Cathedral
The Diocese of Savannah
will begin its annual
observance of Holy Week
with the blessing of palms in
the churches of the diocese
on Palm Sunday, April 7th.
A Tenebrae Service is
scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at
Savannah’s Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist, or.
Wednesday, April 10th. This
day is popularly known as
“Spy Wednesday” recalling
the betrayal of Jesus by
Judas.
The solemn ceremonies of
the week will begin at 10:00
a.m. on Holy Thursday (Apr.
11) in the Cathedral with the
Mass of Holy Chrism. At this
Mass, Bishop Gerard L. Frey
will consecrate the Sacred oils
to be used in the
administration of the
Sacraments of Baptism,
Confirmation, Holy Orders
and the Annointing of the
Sick for the next year.
Concelebrating the Mass
with the Bishop will be: Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Andrew J.
McDonald, Vicar General and
pastor of Savannah’s Most
Blessed Sacrament Church;
Rt. Rev. Msgr. John D.
Toomey, pastor of St. James,
CALLS EXECUTIONS ‘POLITICAL’
Catholic Bishop Lashes
Out At Rhodesia Regime
LONDON (NC) - A
Catholic bishop in Rhodesia
has strongly censured premier
Ian Smith’s government there
in a letter to the. Tablet,
Catholic weekly review in
Britain.
The prelate, Bishop Donal
R. Lamont, 0. Carm., of
Umtali, said he thought that
the recent executions of three
African murderers in
Salisbury, Rhodesia’s capital,
were “carried out just to
prove a political point.
Human lives should not be
treated so lightly even the
lives of murderers. The
hanging of these men was a
triumph for a particular
faction of a particular
political party -- nothing
else.”
The bishop, a Carmelite,
admitted that the executed
men were undoubtedly guilty
of most brutal murders, and
that they were given a fair
trial and sentenced according
to the law of the land. On the
other hand, he said, the delay
in carrying out the sentence
(some two years) was
excruciatingly long and could
be regarded as an additional
punishment not prescribed by
law.
“It seems, too, that
sentence was finally carried
out because of a strange
concatenation of purely
political events and that the
men. . .were hanged to prove
an argument, to show that it
could be done, to put beyond
all shadow of doubt that
whatever Mr. Wilson (British
prime minister) might say the
Smith government had the
power to put people to
death.
Bishop Lamont also
criticized Rhodesian
Catholics who were reported
Easter Communion
In accordance with the Instruction on the proper
implementation of the Constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy (Ch. 11, Art. VI, No. 60), the faithful who
communicate in the Mass of the Easter Vigil may also
receive Communion again at another Mass on Easter.
to have protested against
Pope Paul Vi’s plea for
clemency.
“How they could do so
and still call themselves loyal
members of the Church is
beyond me,” he wrote. “It
looks to me that loyalty to
the Pope counts for a good
deal less with some of our
Rhodesian Catholics than
loyalty to the Rhodesian
Front (Ian Smith’s
party). ..
“Is it not time that serious
efforts were made to seek out
the causes of civil disorder
and try to remedy them
rather than try to hide them
with childish censorship of
press and radio and
television? Useless to censor
the bishops’ pastoral letters
(as has been done in the
native language versions);
Humiliating and futile to raid
a Cathedral and have the
police confiscate such letters
and then have to try to
apologize for the action (as
has been done); incredibly
like a fascist regime to watch
the bishop’s residence and
then interrogate him about
his visitor (as has been done).
Much better to face up to the
problems courageously and
honestly try to solve them,
not cover them up.”
Savannah; Very Reverend
Aired Beck, O.S.B.,
Headmaster at Benedictine
Military High School; Rev.
Terence Kernan, pastor of
Savannah’s Sacred Heart
Church; Rev. Robert Teoli,
pastor of Nativity of Our
Lord, Savannah; Rev. Francis
J. Donohue, pastor of Our
Lady of Lourdes, Pt.
Wentworth; Rev. Raymond
Bane, S.M.A., pastor St.
Benedict’s, Savannah; Rev.
Denis Begley, S.M.A., pastor
of St. Anthony’s, Savannah
and Rev. John Mulvey,
S.M.A., pastor of Savannah’s
Most Pure Heart of Mary
Parish.
Chaplains to Bishop Frey
will be Rev. William Simmons
and Rev. Michael Smith, both
of Most Blessed Sacrament,
Savannah.
Very Rev. Kevin Boland,
Chancellor of the Diocese and
pastor of St. Michael’s,
Savannah Beach and the Very
Rev. Lawrence A. Lucree,
Rector of the Savannah
Cathedral, will serve as
Masters of Ceremonies.
Other clergy participating
and the offices they will fill
are: Deacon of the Mass -
Rev. Sean O’Rourke;
Subdeacon of the Mass - Rev.
Joseph Otterbein; Subdeacon
of the Cross - Rev. Eamonn
O’Riordan; Subdeacon of
Balsam - Rev. William O’Neill;
Subdeacon of the Oil of the
Sick - Rev. Patrick McKenna;
Deacon of the Oil of
Catechumens — Rev. Michael
Burke; Deacon of Chrism —
Rev. Finbarr Stanton.
Serving as Deacons will be:
Rev. Thomas McCarthy; Rev.
Timothy Ryan; Rev. Mario Di
Leila, O.F.M.; Rev. Michael
O’Sullivan; Rev. Michael
Collins, S.M.
Fulfilling the office of
Subdeacons will be: Rev.
John Garvey; Rev. Stephen
Connolly; Rev. Timothy
Flaherty; Rev. Albert
Turcotte, S.M.A. and Rev.
Timothy Dwyer, S.M.A.
Students of St. John Vianney
High School Seminary will
serve as minor ministers for
the Mass.
Narrator for the Mass will
be the Rev. John Cuddy,
Superintendent of Diocesan
Schools. Music will be sung
by the congregation,
composed of area High
School students and eighth
graders of Catholic
elementary schools and the
sophomore Choir of St.
Vincent’s Academy. Leader
of the congregation will be
Rev. John Fitzpatrick and the
St. Vincent’s Group will be
under the direction of Mrs.
Joseph Schreck. Mrs. Schreck
will also be organist.
At 8:00 p.m. Bishop Frey
will preside at a sung Mass of
the Lord’s Supper and carry
the Holy Eucharist in solemn
procession to the repository
where it will remain
throughout the night and
Good Friday Morning.
Concelebrants of the Mass
will be the Very Rev.
Lawrence A. Lucjee,
Cathedral Rector; Rev.
Joseph Otterbein; Rev. Louis
Wheeler, S.J. and the Rev.
Malcolm McGuinn, C. P.
Music will be by the
Cathedral Mens Choir under
the direction of Mrs. Schreck.
At 12:00 Noon on Friday
Bishop Frey will be celebrant
at the Solemn Pontifical
Liturgical Action Service.
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CITES NEGLECT OF POOR
Catholic Charities Raps,
Criticizes Housing Act
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DIOCESE
School Registration
Registration for the 1968-69 School Year at St. Pius X
Diocesan High School, Savannah, will be held next Tuesday
(Apr. 9) from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. Eighth Grade students
in parochial schools of the area and others planning to enter St.
Pius’ ninth grade next Fall are particularly urged to pre-register.
NATION
C.U. Meeting
WASHINGTON (NC) - The board of trustees of the Catholic
University of America in Washington, D.C., will meet April 21
at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, to consider a wide
range of recommended changes resulting from a year-long study
of the pontifical university by a committee headed by Dr.
Carroll Hochwalt. The meeting will be held in conjunction with
the spring meeting of the National Conference of Bishops.
VATICAN
English Weekly
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The First issue of the English
weekly edition of L’Osservatore Romano, Vatican City Weekly,
made its appearance April 2 and with it its editor, Irish
Dominican Father Lambert Greenan. The paper was presented
to the press, in Rome at a Vatican press conference.
WASHINGTON (NC) - A
statement of support, mixed
with criticism, came from the
National Conference of
Catholic Charities for the
Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1968
now being considered by a
senate sub-committee..
Msgr. Lawrence J
Corcoran, NCCC secretary, in
a statement submitted for the
hearing record on the act
(Senate bill 3029), to the
housing and urban
development subcommittee
of the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee, said it
becpmes “more apparent
each year that the housing
problems are among the most
important facing the nation.”
The NCCC criticism
centered around the
contention that the measure
does not offer sufficient
low-rent public housing for
the poor in the proposed
legislation.
“Our primary concern in
housing programs assisted by
public monies must be for the
poor -- those who, to the
shame of the nation, have
been ill-housed for decades,’
Msgr. Corcoran stated.
“We support the increase
in the low-rent public housing
included in the housing and
urban development bill of
1968 (S. 3029), but only as a
minimum, figure,” he
continued.
“Rather than the goal of
75,000 units in 1969,
specified by President
Johnson in his message to
Congress on housing and
cities, we think that the
program should be doubled,
beginning with 150,000 in
fiscal (year) 1969. Only with
this more ambituous
approach can the problem be
met with any sense of
urgency,” Msgr. Corcoran
stated.
He said the 1960 census
report shows 2.6 million
occupied housing units, 24%
of “all such units then in
existence, were deteriorating,
delapitated or lacking some
or all plumbing facilities.”
The NCCC statement
reiterated support of the rent
supplement and model cities
programs, but again urged
that bbth he enlarged.
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