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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1963 PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES Prize Of Faithful Friend BY FATHER R. DONALD KIERNAN Among the blessings and enjoyments of this life, there are few that can be compared to the possession of a faithful friend, who will pour the truth into your heart, though you may wince under it, or a friend who will defend when you are unjustly assailed by the tongue of lies, who will not forsake you when you have fallen into disgrace, who will counsel you in your doubts and perplexi ties, who will open his wallet to you without ex pecting any return, w ho will rejoice at your pros perity and grieve at your bad luck, who w ill bear half of your burden, who will add to your joys and diminish your sorrows by sharing in both. Holy Scripture defines a friend in the following way: "A faithful friend is a strong defence, and he who has found him hath found a treasure P* A poor man may be said to be rich in the midst of his po verty, so long as he enjoys the interior sunshine of a devoted friend. The wealthiest of men, on the contrary, is poor and miserable, if he has no friend whom he can grasp by the hand, and to whom he can disclose the secrets of his heart. Why then all this about friends andfriendships? The thought occured to me that there will be many friends made and many friendships formed out of the coming archdiocesan census project. NOW THIS might be strange to say, however, let me illustrate it by an example-! recall visiting a church in which classmates from my seminary days were stationed. It seemed that this parish had just completed a successful drive forfundsto renovate the church and to pay off the school debt. The feeling of satisfaction on the part of the pastor was not so much the funds accumulated as the feeling of friendship which was not estab lished in his parish. People who had gone to the church for years now were joined in a bond of friendship as a result of working together over a period of months. Parishioners who had never visited each other's homes were now joined in a bond of friendship and it was now being reflected in other parish projects and endeavors. This pastor also told me that the parish had benefited spiritually too. Attendance at Holy Name meetings and Altar Society meetings had doubled and many had returned to the frequent reception of the Sacraments. IT IS essential to true friendship that it be re ciprocal. A parish project engenders this feeling. Often, people attending church get tofeelingthat their worries and anxieties are of little or no con cern to their neighbors. The frequent reunions de manded by parish projects tend to nourish and fos ter the bonds of friendship, and people begin to find out that their neighbor is really interested in their problems and often wants, like a friend, to add to the joy or diminish the sorrow by shar ing in both. Already in many parishes the bonds of friendshjD have been enkindled by the preliminary planning meetings of the coming census project. More friendships will be formed as the census project •'gets into high gear". People from different parishes have already got to know their neigh bor and have felt the effects of friendship. Yes, the coming census project will be of con cern to us all, but I know that after the last figure has been tabulated on the IBM machine, and the lights of the meeting halls have been extinguished, many, many sparks of friendship will begin to glow in the years ahead. QUESTION BOX Adam’s Skull A Dud? BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY Q. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THE SKULL WHICH WAS DUG UP TOMAKE PLACE FOR THE CROSS OF JESUS ON CALVARY WAS THE TRUE SKULL OF ADAM, AND THAT IT WAS IN THE SKULL OF ADAM THAT THE FALL OF MAN BEGAN, SINCE SATAN SHOWED HIM HOW TO LET EVE TAKE THE BLAME, AS MAN HAS DONE EVER SINCE. A. Adam did place the blame on Eve, but she shoved it quickly onto the slimy back of the ser pent, thus setting an example in rationalizing for her daughters. Your theory has as many holes in it as Adam’s skull probably did by the time of the Crucifix ion. First, it presumes that the soldiers dug a hole into which they placed the Cross of Jesus. Possibly they did, but the Gospels do not tell us so. It is quite possible that the upright pole of the cross was already standing, and that the soldiers crucified Jesus by fastening the cross-beam to it. Secondly, your theory sup poses that the soldiers dug up a skull w hile digging their hypothetical hole. The Gospels make no hint of such discovery. They merely say that the place of the Crucifixion was called Golgotha (kranion, in Greek; Calvaria, in Latin - the skull, the cranium). That was the name of the spot; it doesn’t mean that a skull was buried there. It probably got its name from the shape of the mound - skull-shaped. Your third supposition is that Adam’s skull was buried there; it might just as w ell have been buried in a billion other spots on the face of the earth. It would be a fitting coincidence, but the odds are against you. Finally, you suppose that Adam’s buried skull was still preserved. Are you taking into account the probability that it had been buried for300,000 years? *** Q. WHY? WHY? WHY7 WE ARE URGED TO PRAY FOR PEACE, AND THE WARNING FROM FATIMA IS WELL-KNOWN, AND YET IN OUR PARISH AND MANY OTHERS THE 3 HAIL MARY’S AND OTHER PRAYERS ARE OMITTED AFTER MASS. I ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD THESE WERE FOR THE CONVERSION OF RUSSIA. I ASKED OUR PASTOR AND HE SEEMED CONCERNED ABOUT THE TIME ELEMENT. A. Your poor pastor. Do you suppose he hasn’t heard about Fatima. He should be so fortunate? If you will stop being frantic for a moment I will try to explain about those prayers after Mass. They had their origin in 1859, when Pope Pius IX ordered special prayers for his secular do main, the Papal States, which were then in grave danger of being infolded into a unified Italy. These prayers w ere continued even after the Papal States were lost. In 1884, Pope Leo XIII was trying to regain the freedom and rights of the Church, especially in Germany where Bismarck’s Kulturkampf had infringed on them. So he extended the prayers of Pius IX to the entire Church, and later changed them to their present form, including an inten tion for the conversions of sinners. Pope Pius X added the threefold invocation of the Sacred Heart, in 1904 - merely granting permission for its use. Custom seems to have made it obligatory'. There is no official version of these prayers in any popular language: so each diocese, or each priest, uses the translation locally or pri vately preferred. For practical purpose these prayers became identified with the "Roman Question" - a solu tion of the thorny problem of the Pope’s inde pendence - and most people had this intention in mind when they said the prayers during all the years the Pope was "Prisoner in the Vati can" - three score of them. After the "Roman Question" had been lhappily settled by the Lateran Treaty, in 1929, queries were presented to Pope Puis XI as to whether these prayers should be discontinued, since their main purpose had been achieved. The good Pope decided in the negative. The freedom and rights of the Church were still being infringed in many parts of the world, and he had particular com passion on the poor Russian people, who were then being deprived of their religion, their lands, and often their lives through the demonic influence of old Joe Stalin, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. LITURGICAL WEEK Approach Continued From Page 4 THURSDAY, FEB. 28, THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY, Today's Mass stresses prayer as a key to the mystery’ of life and health. Lenten re newal is impossible without prayer—worthy, at tentive, devoted prayer. Providence itself was turned by the king's prayer (First Reading). The centurion’s servant was healed through confident prayer (Gospel). Entrance Hymn, Collect, Gradual —all point to prayer as that which brings us into the orbit of God’s protection, forgiveness, grace. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, FRIDAY AFTER ASH WED NESDAY. The dominant note today is the familiar warning against being carried away by external religious practices, by formalism without heart. We ask in the opening prayer of the Mass that our To Lent Lenten practice may be informed by a "sincere spirit." The First Reading expresses God’s contempt for hypocrisy, for pious practices unmatched by love. And the Gospel command to perfection tells us that perfection is interior and that the public esteem won by piety is no measure of its value in God’s sight. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY. Continuing yesterday's theme from the Book of Isaiah, the First Reading speaks again of concrete love and generosity as a princi pal means to the restoration of lost harmony and unity. It also reaffirms the Sabbath as a kind of sacrament of the Lord’s presence. And the Gospel presents Jesus as the restorer of harmony in His mastery over the elements and over the enemy we call sickness. Saints in Black and White ST. 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The beau tiful and sacred Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, nestled as it is in the heart of Atlan ta’s business section, has al ways been an oasis of peace and spiritual refreshment for Catholics and non - Catholics alike. On Ash Wednesday when the Angelus bell peals out over the hustle and bustle of our City, hundreds of the faithful will be seen hurrying towards the Shrine of the Immaculate Con ception to attend the 12:10Mass offered year-round at this same hour. Hundreds will receive Our Eucharistic Lord on this day and on all the following days of Lent, knowing in the Blessed Sacra ment Jesus in His very Person never ceases to give to souls the gifts and blessings He merited for them by His in- camatio'n and redemptive suf ferings. THE FRANCISCAN Fathers are in charge of the Shrine and are noted for their kindly zeal in assisting Catholics of all pa rishes. Rev. Leonard A. Kelly, O.F.M., Pastor, announces as an added convenience for the ones attending the 12:10 Mass each day that Lenten lunches will be served, at a minimum charge, from Mondays through Fridays each week of Lent, im mediately following Mass. The Ladies Guild of the Shrine will prepare and serve an inte resting variety of sandwiches, salads, soups and hot beverages in the spacious Social Hall.. Mrs. Francis J. Walsh, the Guild’s President, assures us of prompt service so those rushing back to their offices will be able to report back on time. A very warm and cordial x welcome is extended all those wishing to take advantage of this pleasant time-saving ser vice. PAUSE FOR COKE BOTTLED UNDER BUTHORITY OE THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY MARIETTA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE nsra lrtrj onnBrji linn riEEM Linnnr.1 an linnnj nwma a hsaaaa anana ■ apaanna aanaoI emu m am □m man tmaa ana baa aaa an an anni boa ana □□□□ ■■■ ARNOLD VIEWING Kookie Bronx Bohemian? God Love You MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN What did I see at the Council? I saw the fruit of tribulation and the operation of the basic law of our Faith: unless there is a Good Friday in our lives, there will never be an Easter Sunday; unless there is a crown of thorns, there will never be a halo of light. Only those who suffer with Christ will have glory with Him. One day at the Council, a certain archbishop spoke in favor of putting St. Joseph’s name in the Canon of the Mass. His voice was nervous he spoke very quickly, in an oratorical fashion which was a bit out of place in a deliberative body such as the Council. He exceeded his time limit and was stopped. After he had finished, I turned to the bishop next to me and said: "This archbishop will put St. Joseph in the Canon of the Mass." Because of that talk? No I But few knew his background. He was from Yugoslavia, had suf fered through one of those long trials made famous by the Communists and was then sen- BY JAMES W. ARNOLD Once upon a time a fortyish, just-becoming- successful writer named William Gibson ("The Miracle Worker") decided to write a play about a bad girl who was not really bad but, in an offbeat way, rather touchingly good. She was to be one of those rare persons who is a giver, instead of a taker, in the ratio of two-to-one. The idea wasn’t very fresh, since modern au thors seemed to have dedicated their lives to describing the golden hearts of bad girls. Gibson hoped to add novelty by making this girl a kookie Bronx Bohemian named Gittel Mosca, who is end lessly either brash "Am I too sexy, I mean, over-sexed?"), ■j "somewhere out in Califor- nia’’) or philosophic (her life ^ is "a little here, a little there, the rest is unemployment in- E9yKW] surance"). Yet even in the kookie category Gittel is not jUUv V'-' unique: She is a kind of Jew ish dialect, downtown reading of HollyGolightiy ("Breakfast at Tiffany’s"). AS HE explains in his book, "The Seesaw Log," Gibson’s Gittel never quite came to life. The two- character play that arrived on Broadway in 1958 was shaped instead by demands of producer, di rector, box-office, and especially of the male star (Henry Fonda) who didn’t want Gittel (Anne Ban croft) hogging all the snappy lines and sympathy. Now the movie version of "Two for the Seesaw" has been further filtered through scenarist Isobel Lennart, among others. The inspiration, small enough to begin with, has all but disappeared. "SEESAW" l' s still Gittel’s show, mainly because of the remarkably cinematic Shirley MacLaine, whose capability for suggesting moods and com plexity is second only to Freud’s. (She is less effective as a speaker of Greenwich Village argot, whose perfection requires something like Bronx- born Miss Bancroft’s life-long study). Her co- star is the likeable but clearly outmatched Robert Mitchum, who is able to look either bored or very bored and recites with a casualness that makes Perry Como seem hypertense. In her final evolution, innocent-bad Gittel emer ges as nearly a saint: "You are," the hero tells her with numbing sincerity, "the way people were meant to be." She is a Major Scobie-type saint. who sins out of unselfishness and a childlike love for life and other humans. Yet she lacks Scobie’s awesome self-knowledge, and her love next to his is microscopic. GITTEL, to be sure, is hard to dislike Her compassion pops up at the darndest times, The phone rings. Why answer it? "It’s another human being," she says. "At least you find out why they’re calling.” But is it charity or sentimen tality? She decides to give herself to the lawyer from Omaha because he’s lonely and it’s his birthday. The world in which Gittel, for all her attractiveness, can stand as an ideal, is a world peopled by emotional, wise-cracking children. In outline, the story seems lurid; in person, it is not. The lawyer is drifting in New York while being divorced by a rich, over-protective wife. He meets Gittel at a beatnik party (righly stereo typed, with vacant-faced girls doing the twist, beards, berets and debates on whether art should communicate), finds himself attracted by her warmth, generosity and unique approach. Samples: she won’t scream for help because nobodv’ll come, it’s New York." When there are bugs in the apartment at night, you go to sleep and "tomor row you get the kerosene and find where they come out of the wall." All seems smashing for the Bronx dancer and the Omaha lawyer (they seem concocted out of a writ er's plot cards: let’s see now, what would make a really wild combination. . .), but apparently he is unwilling to let go of that wife back on the plains. Mitchum, in fact, is unable to register much of what he is fretting about, and everyone in the theater is likely to be surprised (and perhaps disappointed) by his decision at film’s end. VERBALLY, at least, the institution of marriage comes off rather well. The distress of both charac ters is plainly related to the impermanence of their relationship. The lawyer also makes one elo quent little speech about the futility of "severing the bonds of matrimony" between persons who have lived so closely for 12 years one can hardly tell "where one leaves off and the other begins." Ul timately both he and Gittel face reality and act, with courage, like adults. But that Omaha spouse sounds like a witch on the phone, and Mitchum returns to her with the enthusiasm of a recaptured convict going back to Alcatraz. In his first movie since "West Side Story," di rector Robert Wise uses the city of New York and languidly pretty background trumpet music (by Andre Previn) to distract us from the fact that nothing much except talk happens on the screen for two whole hours. In the later scenes, when Miss MacLaine is vaguely apprehensive and Mitchum is vaguely dissatisfied, the movie seems as endless as riding a local from Coney Island to Yankee Stadium. Ted McCord’s photography is so moody and murky one often has to squint to see, but some sequences (g.g., of Gittel dancing alone in a bare loft studio) are lit with poignant insight. "Seesaw" is variously funny, sad and g«ntle, and in its best moments, brave and real. Too often, it is merely cute and glib. But most cru cially, its people are neither as important or as moving as author Gibson, in a dream once, hoped them to be. Altar Society Meet St. Jude The February meeting of St. Jude’s Altar Society was held at St. Jude’s School Cafetorium last week. The program consisted of a panel discussion and review ional Convention of the National Council of Catholic Women re cently held in Detroit, Michi gan. Panel members were— Father Michael Manning, ACCW Spiritual Moderator, Gladys Gunning, ACCW President, Eleanor Bochman of the Cathe dral of Christ the King parish, Dorothy Chapman of St. Joseph's parish in Marietta, Georgia, and Elsie Dennon and Murphy Faust of Saints Peter and Paul parish of Decatur, Georgia. The Panel Moderator was Hazel O’Donnell, President of St. Jude’s Altar Society. tenced to four years in prison. He and other pri soners were then put on a train, which was de liberately wrecked in an attempt to kill all aboard. The archbishop survived, but both his hips were broken. Broken in body but not in soul, he dragged his poor body, so frail and nervous after imprison ment and brainwashing, to the Council. Then he had the added humiliation of being interrupted for overtime and for "preaching". Aware that God sends a cross before a crown, a Gethsemane before an Emmaus. this writer knew that, by suf fering, the Archbishop had merited, as much as one man can merit, to have St. Joseph in the Canon of the Mass. The Holy Father, who followed the proceedings on television in his apartment, an nounced two days later that St. Joseph would be so honored. It would have been worth going to the Council just to have met brother bishops such as this. No American bishop can ever be the same again. We rubbed shoulders with saints; we touched the hem of the garments of martyrs; we spoke with brothers in Christ who are strong, as the Cardinal of Poland said, "because we have nothing material to defend"; we say how much we bad and how little they had (of wealth), and how little we had and how much they had (in their con-Crucifixion with Christ). Friendsl We cannot go on building larger and larger gymnasiums and richer and richer semi naries while bishops, priests and laity elsewhere in the world go on suffering. What good does my voice do in this column week after week!Now and then it inspires readers to sacrifice for such as these: "Oh, 1 ought to send something to Bishop Sheen!" Bishop Sheen is not begging for an or ganization, for one area of the world, for one missionary society. As head of the Holy Father’s own Society for the Propagation of the Faith in the United States, he is begging in the name of the Holy Father. All he receives goes directly to the Pontiff. God grant that your Faith may inspire you to daily sacrifices, so that St. Joseph may inter cede to give you a happy death for having shared the death of Christ! GOD LOVE YOU to A. for $454 "This is my annual contribution to help the Holy Father’s Missions." ...to Mr. and Mrs. N. M, for $10 "In gratitude to God for happy times, times of trial and times of spiritual fervor." ... toR.W.B. for $1 "Many times I have given my last 50< to the Missions, only to receive an unexpected $5 before the end of the week. The returns on charity are always high." WORLD MISSION, a quarterly magazine of mis sionary activities edited by Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, is the ideal gift for priests, nuns, semi narians or laymen. Send $5 for a one-year sub scription to WORLDMISSION, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, New York. Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Di rector of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1 N. Y. or your Archdiocesan Director, Very Rev. Harold J. Rainey P. O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.