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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1963 PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES Tom-A Faithful Servant BY FATHER R. DONALD KlERNAN- Of all the virtues that shine forth in the life of our divine Savior, there is none so prominent, none so conspicuous as His compassionforhuman suffering. This was His characteristic virtue; the salient point of His character, if we may apply the term to One who was perfect in every virtue. On every page of the Gospel, that golden word'mercy* shines forth, brightening every page, cheering every heart. Never do we find our blessed Savior exercising the rigors of His justice, but every day behold Him doing works of mercy. Truly then we may say with St. Paul: "Blessed be God...the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation, who comfort us in all our tribulation." SEE IN the Scriptures the miracles of Christ. His miracles were performed to lessen the suf ferings of men and to lighten their burdens. He manifested His power by going about doing good. He gave sight to the blind; speech to the dumb; health to the sick; life to the dead; and the power of walking to the lame. But nothing is more mani fested in the Gospels than the sympathy of Jesus for the poor. He chose to be born of humble parents, in a cold stable and in an obscure vil lage. Nearly His whole life was spent in a town that was looked upon with contempt. He chose his twelve Apostles from the humblest walks of life, men without wealth or learning, or influence, or any of the qualifications re garded as essential for the success of any great enterprise. His command to preach the Gospel carried the clause*'...especially to the poor." These features in the life of Christ are re called to our mind not only for admiration, but still for our edification and example. The closer we resemble the Ideal, the nearer we approach Christian perfection. No matter how insignificant we may be, we can exert some beneficial power QUESTION BOX Say ‘No’ To Grandad? BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY Q. I CORRECTED MY GRANDCHILD, NEARLY 10 YEARS OLD, WHO WAS MAKING THE SIGN OF THE CROSS WITH HIS LEFT HAND. HIS FATHER DID NOT THINK IT WOULD MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. PLEASE GIVE AN ANSWER. A I hope you did your correcting gently. Con form ity has certain advantages, but they are not gre.t enough to be gained at the cost of embar rassment in matters of this kind. Generally, I believe it is a sound principle tiat a parent should make decisions about the faming of his own children without interference fiom grandparents. *** WE USED TO LIVE AMONG SOME VERY SUCERE NON-CATHOLIC FRIENDS, AND THEY HAD A HABIT AMONG THEM WHEN THEY SIGNED THEIR NAMES TO PUT BEHIND IT SOMETHING TO THIS EF FECT: JOHN JONES, PSALMS 23, 1-2. I WAS CURIOUS SO I ASKED "WHAT FUR". IT WAS EXPLAINED TO ME THAT THIS INDICATED A PARTICULAR TEXT OR LINE FROM THE BIBLE WHICH HELPEL ENCOURAGED OR LIFTED THIS PAR- T1CULAF PERSON. THE TEXT QUOTED HERE IS "THE ORD IS MY SHEPHERD, I SHALL NOT WANT.** NOW 1H VE NEVER BEEN GIVEN TO HUNT UP i A TEXT OR MYSELF, FOR I AM A POOR CATHOLIC WHO IS HONESTLY STRIVING FOR A VERY MCH CLOSER RELATION TO OUR LORD. SOMhpiMES AT DAILY MASS AND HOLY COMMUNIONi FEEL ALMOST AS IF I HAVE * JUST ABOUTviADE THE GRADE. THEN EVEN AS I AM RETURNING TO MY SEAT FROM THE CQMMUNW RAIL, THAT NASTY, HORRI BLE THOUGHluiTS ME: "WHAT IF YOU’RE SOME KIND OF a NUT OR SOMETHING, AND THIS ISN'T REA-ly JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF, BUT JUST A PIECE OF BREAD. ORDINARILY I WOULD SAY "THAT SCARES HELL OUT OF ME," BUT INSTEAD IT SEEMS TO PUT A BIT OF IT IN ME. BUT NOW I KNOW I HAVE FOUND MY TEXT. IT IS FROM A LETTER IN ONE OF YOUR RE CENT COLUMNS: "THE PEACE OF SOUL EN JOYED BY A SAINT (WHICH I AM NOT? IS NOT THAT OF A CARNATION COW". BY THIS TEXT I SHALL LIVE. WHAT I WANTED WAS PEACE AND QUIET WITHOUT ANY DOUBT, BUT I HAVE FOUND OUT IT GETS MORE PEACEFUL AFTER EACH BATTLE MAKES ME LESS AFRAID OF THE NEXT ONE. DO I MAKE SENSE TO YOU, OR AM I REALLY SOME KIND OF A NUT? A. You make sense. • ** Q. DURING LENT CAN ONE PARTICIPATE IN ACTIVITIES SUCH AS HAVING A CARD PARTY AT ONE’S HOUSE, OR SQUARE DAN CING IN A PRIVATE HOME ON SUNDAY? WHAT ABOUT SUCH ACTIVITIES IN A PUBLIC PLACE? A. It is the spirit of the thing which counts. Lent is a time of penance. The entire liturgy of the Church emphasizes it. But the only law is that we fast each weekday, if our age, health and work leave us subject to this law. Other means and manners of penance are of your own choosing. Penance and mortification are necessary for all of us; so you should do something, and it should be adapted to your special needs and capabilities. However, you cannot do everything. It would hardly be wise to deny yourself all fun and rec reation for 40 days. You might become unbear ably grumpy. But I would recommend that your lenten levities be rather quiet and private, lest you distract other people from the spirit of pen ance. LITURGICAL WEEK A ‘Pnview 9 Transfiguration Continued Page 4 of God, and away from ^ varieties of idolatry. Men may be, and often an His instruments, but they are never Him. Lentw rnsus against placing our trust elsewhere than in'{ im> against allow ing our etiquette to carry us to Vg point of forgetting our basic baptismal equality. MARCH 13, WEDNESDAY, gcOND WEEK IN LENT. Today’s Gospel contirtpg lesson of yesterday’s. The Christian coiC,,^ the new People of God, will have ordei and hierarchy, as will any society of human beL s> j t w m h aV e "lords", but no "lording it ovt*. the resl> It will have power, but no vaunting . power. The Son of Man came to serve and to giv answer to the evil times upon us (First Re^ r ^ ls Q 0( j* s rescue in Jesus' Resurrection (Gosj^ MARCH 14, THURSDAY, SECONL \ VE p^ ^ LENT. Lent’s rehearsal of the grtaL hemes of the Old and New Testaments, its exposv^ ^ sal _ vation history, offers us another chanjjL. ten to Moses and the prophets" (Gow^x t0 place our trust where it belongs (First R ac jmg) Saints in Black and White TERMS IN CATHOLIC USE 13 over tne tide of human sufferings by striving for this Ideal and putting this Ideal into practice in our own life. CERTAINLY in our own midst there is much need to help the less fortunate. In most parishes this cry for help is answered by a group of volun teers, dedicated and determined, known as the St. Vincent de Paul Society. No priest who has ever served as a chaplain to this group has failed to be touched by the sanctity of its members and the self-sacrificing spirit which permeates the organization. Last week, in Atlanta, death claimed one of Atlanta's oldest members, Tom Clark. In a requiem held from the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception many attending were those who had received the kindness of his words or the charity of his spirit. Known well to priests all over the state of Geor gia who had ever served at the "I.C,” and known better to thousands living in the shadows of the mother churches’ spires, physical infirmities failed to keep Tom Clark from serving well this organiza tion to which he was so dedicated up to the end. FOR YEARS he successfully directed and operat ed in a quiet way what is probably the largest dis tribution of food baskets at Christmas time in At lanta. The greatest force of the St. Vincent de Paul Society lies in its anonymity. Tom Clark was true to this ideal all of his days. A sort of official greeter on the steps of the Im maculate Conception Church Sunday after Sunday, Tom Clark never failed to brighten the lives of those with whom he came in contact. Tom Clark’s place will be filled and in time his good works forgotten. This is the plan of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. This is the organization to which Tom Clark was so dedicated and served so w ell. But what is far more important, he will be re membered forever in the prayers, good works and sacrifices of those with whom he served. "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. . .*’ / 3 \ /i ■ | u iP 'a a /j. rzr- w 37 Ur sc 37 U~ ■ Li u \ ■ rr ■ ■ IN CONGRESS Youth Program Benefits Cited ¥0 ZT rr ACROSS 1. Phonograph Record 5. Smart 9. Giving No Heed 13. Affirm 14. Burmese Viol. 15. Ram 17. Bull 18. Scottish Highlander 20. African Antelope 22. Eradicatori 25. Joined 26. Wild Plum 27. Scythe 28. Ideology 29. Retin 30. Annoy 31. Early (Comb. Form) 32. Extra Pay 64. Boundary, Comb. Form 65. Degree 67. Ascend 69. Biblical High Prieit 70. Male Graduate 72. Complete 74. Emperor 76. Combining form; of the air 77. Song Bird (Europe) 79. Leaf Bearing Plant 81. Feminine Nickname 82. Sediment; Wine 83. Period of Time 84. 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Algerian Governor, 78. Saints 63. State of being; Pi- 80. Vocalized pause Suffix ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE PAGE 7 WASHINGTON - NC— The administration’s youth employ ment bill would be of particu lar benefit to boys who drop out of high school, the secre tary at the National Conference of Catholic Charities told a Senate subcommittee. Msgr. Raymond J. Gallagher said that under the Youth Em ployment Act of 1963 such young men would be able to continue the basic learning process in terrupted when they left school. He testified (Feb. 28) before the Senate subcommittee on em ployment and manpower. THE $100 million youth em ployment program seeks to es tablish a 15,000-member Youth Conservation Corps to work in the countryside and a Home Town Youth Employment Corps of 50,000 for the towns and cit ies. "It is my conviction,” Msgr. Gallagher told the subcom mittee, "that the provisions of this program, far from pro posing to turn out highly skil led technicians, will nonethe less turn out young men pos sessing many basic skills. When the participants in this program have completed their tour of duty, it is conceivable that they will have enough knowledge of and respect for tools, and what they could accomplish, to be readily employable." MSGR. Gallagher said it is his understanding that the pro gram "will provide opportunity for a training, supervision and living regimen that will include adequate opportunity to practice the specific religious observ ances." "These three ingredients seem to me," he added, "to be essential to character build ing within our young people un der all circumstances of their life." He said the "most signifi cant contribution" of the pro gram lies in "the fact that these young men will learn to know the dignity and nobil ity of labor.’’ Peachtree Road Pharmarmacy Pick Up and Delivery Service CE 7-6466 4062 Peachtree Rd. Atlanta ARNOLD VIEWING 6 A Child Is Waiting BY JAMES W. ARNOLD Lazarus’ poverty is a symbol of the helplessness of the human race, a helplessness which has great potentiality for receiving and responding to God’s blessings. MARCH 15, FRIDAY, SECOND WEEK IN LENT. Even our sins, the sins of which we repent es pecially during this lenten retreat (Collect, Tract), cannot frustrate the providence and the design of God. His messengers, and even His Son (First Reading and Gospel), we may reject, persecute and kill. Yet that stone "has become the chief stone at the corner" (Gospel). CXir confidence and trust finds expression in today’s Communion Humn: "You will watch over us, Lord, and keep us safe from this world for eternity." MARCH 16, SATURDAY, SECOND WEEK IN LENT. The failure of Israel to respond with love to God’s love, generously to His generosity, is held up to the New Israel, the Church, frequent ly during Lent. Both Scripture lessons today, as yesterday’s Gospel, tell the same story. Esau, the first-born, loses his blessing to Jacob-come- lately. And the repenting wanderer displaces with the passion of his return even the complacent ha bitue of God’s household. Stanley Kramer specializes in first films about challenging subjects. In an industry which some times seems to feel that the only adult theme is adultery, producer and sometime-director Kram er has persevered in a long string of films grappling with issues important to oyr times: race relations, nuclear war, religion and evolu tion, war crimes. Often they’ve been propagan- distic, and not all have been good ("Pressure Point"), but some have been extraordinary ("High Noon," "Judgment at Nuremberg"). Now comes "A Child Is Waiting," which reflects in creased national concern for the problem of mental retar dation. Kramer insists that his films be entertaining as well as public-spirited: "If 1 don’t make it entertaining," he says, "I'm lost." To achieve this he uses highly dramatic stories, well-known stars and heavy promotion. The ap proach always risks pleasing no one: there may be too many concessions for serious filmgoers, not enough for the mass audience. "JUDGMENT at Nuremberg" was certainly bet ter art than box-office. On Saturday night, custo mers preferred not to meditate on Nazi war guilt, even if the cast included Tracy, Clift and Lancaster. Hollywood has so long brainwashed au diences to believe that entertainment equals escape that few people will accept that hard rea lity, even tragedy, can also entertain. To entertain means to amuse, to divert; we get this kind of entertainment from golf, poker, do ing the twist, or even (in desperation) from TV. Life without it would be Intolerable. But enter tainment also has a deeper meaning: the intellec tual pleasure or delight one gains from good art, whether it be painting, music or drama. This pleasure need not always be "happy" (witness "Hamlet" or "Oedipus") or escapist (as film- goers discovered in "Marty"). About this sort of entertainment one thing is certain: to be fully human, man needs it as desperately as he needs, sometimes, to laugh and to forget. Whether the blame belongs to the schools or simply to the general brutality of modern life, many people leave this kind of pleasure unex plored. Serious drama, they feel, offers little but tedium and depression: boy loses girl, and bodies litter the set. Perhaps the artist is partly to blame, for people no longer trust him. Nobody, they feel, can make a repulsive subject interesting or "en tertaining." Many viewers avoided "West Side Story" because they doubted beauty could be found in slum-bound juvenile delinquency; they did not know, or trust Bernstein, Laurents and Robbins. The same was even truer of "Judgment at Nurem berg," which had no pretty girls, songs and dances. "A CHILD Is Waiting" is neither tragic nor de pressing, but it is a serious picture about an un- UNIQUE KNITTING COMPANY MANUFACTURES OF ENGLISH RIB & SPORT HOSIERY Acworth Georgia pleasant subject. The retarded, through history, have been feared, mocked and abused as much as the insane. The film at times is unbearably sad, because it concerns children who want and need love, but do not get it. Yet the dominant note is one of hope, even joy. The important thing is that audiences should trust Kramer and his gifted young director, John Cassavetes, to entertain them on several levels. The failures, in fact, oc cur in the direction of box-office rather than art. The film has too much "Ben Casey" in its blood, the syndrome of souped-up medical soap opera. More crucially, the picture is an uncertain cross between documentary and drama: a horse that is half-racer and half-dray is unlikely to be good either at Hialeah or at pulling milk wagons. Writ er Abby Mann (who won an Oscar for "Judg ment”) wants to move us to love and action for the retarded. So he tells us about them: who they are, how they got that way, what they need, how they can be helped. THIS ELEMENT in the movie is superb, chief ly because of the children from California’s Paci fic State Hospital. Simply by being themselves, under the shifting, probing camera of Joseph La- Shelle, these youngsters eloquently describe not only their needs but the heartbreaking beauty of the human personality. But to hold that slippery audience, Mann adds a story about one boy, his divorced parents (Gena Rowlands and Steven Hill), and a sympathetic teacher (Judy Garland). Miss Garland comes equipped with several standard neuroses, and meddles enough to cause the child to run away; she draws the wrath of the stem, dedicated head psychologist (Burt Lancaster). One problem is the child-actor, who is not con vincing as "retarded"; the viewer is not quite overwhelmed by the miracle of it when, at the end, he is able to recite a speech in a play. The adult actors all seem larger than life, straining to shrink into real people. None approach the effectiveness of one nameless actor who, in a bit as a father bringing his son to the hospital, breaks down describing their last moments in the car. NOT ENOUGH can be said about the vigorous work of director Cassavetes, whose creative use of camera angle and closeup is the most re vealing and incisive by a young American since Blake Edwards' "Experiement in Terror". The sequence of shots of Visitors Day, when no one comes for the "child who is waiting," and few of those who do arrive come with understanding, is a cogent summary and commentary on the pic ture’s central theme. "Child" is most entertaining when it is edu cating, and rather too supercharged when it is being dramatic. It’s a near-miss for Stanley Kramer, but this is a man who deserves respect, who has spent his creative life opening windows, and encouraging us to look out and see, not what we’d like to see, but what is there. Shamrock Knitting Mills Marietta, Georgia Phone: 428-9007 Place Your Classified Ad Today In The Georgia Bulletin Phone: 231-1281 God Love You MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN A Russian Orthodox priest was asked how, in a Communist government, seminarians were re cruited for the priesthood. He answered that such a young man never enters the seminary without a complete and total renouncement. One day he walks out of his home without telling a soul and without saying goodbye to anyone, for no one can be trusted. He walks to the seminary, often a dis tance of a 100 miles; there he assumes a new name, so that he cannot be traced. Not even the seminary officials know his family name. Go now to another part of the world. We recently inquir ed of a Bishop of Borneo con cerning the spiritual lives of his primitive people. He told us that they quickly reached an eminent degree of sanc tity, because when they en tered the Church they put a period after their old lives ra ther than a comma. The old ways of living were completely broken off, leaving more room for the Lord. This is true also in other countries behind the Iron Curtain, where every Catholic lives ready for martyrdom. This brings up the question: What is it that makes a saint? It is always having something to do for Christ and the Church, something to give up for the spread of His Gospel — perhaps a neighbor to convert, someone sick to visit, some poor sinner to bring back to the Sacraments. A Borneo chief, whenever he assists at a board meeting in Australia, makes it a point to ask each of the members if they have prayed to God that day. A saint never has time on his hands. Thus, Our Lord was described as "always going about doing good." Fellow Catholics of the United States: Be not just "Sunday Catholics," but "Take-up-your-Cross- daily-and-follow-Me-Catholics. ’’ Give yourself a Mission. Don’t just sit there making money! Do something! While you are ascribing "otherness" to someone else, everybody else is pinning "other ness" on you. That is why the world is the way it is. Why not start with this idea? Every morn ing, resolve to deny yourself during the day some little luxury worth a dime. Make a like sacrifice daily; do it for the poor in Asia...or Africa...or Oceania. At the end of the month, send the $3.00 to the Holy Father. He, knowing the Mission needs of the world better than anyone, will see that it goes where it is most needed. This he does through his Society for the Propagation of the Faith. GOD LOVE YOU to D. T. for$10 "In answer for a favor received." to J. R. W. for $6.83 "This represents savings from eating some meals in a cafeteria instead of a good restaurant, on a recent business trip." to P. A. D. for $5 "Please accept this money which was giventome by my recently ordained cousin. The money was a gift to him; he gave it to me; I give it to you." to F.M.C. for $6 "This is in thanksgiving.” Are you on our MISSION mailing list? MISSION, you know, is the SPOF magazine containing arti cles, anecdotes, cartoons and pictures which is published every two months by The Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Our March-April issue is a special issue, directed to American Catholics. Won’t you write in now and ask to be put on our list? A subscription is only a dollar. If you al ready subscribe, watch for this special issue. 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 tlje 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.