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GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1963 PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES After New York- Savannah Saints in Black and White ST. PATRICK 16 PREVENTIVE AIM BY FATHER R. DONALD KIERNAN A copy of the Savannah MORNINC NEWS carry ing the account of the St. Patrick's Day parade has just arrived and brings with it nostalgic me mories. March 17th. is quite a day in Savannah, and probably with the exception of New York City’, Savannah has one of the largest parades, comme morating the day, in this nation. As a matter of fact, there was an abortive at tempt one year to dye the river in Savannah, green. I note,' however, this year that only the public fountains had green water. The day starts off with Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. It is customary for the Mar shal and his aides to receive Holy Communion at this Mass. Follow ing the panageric on the life of St. Patrick, the Marshal rides at the front of the parade to the reviewing stand located on the steps of the De Soto Hotel. There he joins with the reli gious and civic dignitaries of the city and reviews the pa rade. Of course, the parade gets larger each year. It was inte resting to note that this year one marching band had travelled all the way from Virginia to parti cipate. THE PARADE usually begins on East Broad Street and travels north to Bay Street and then west on Bay to Bull Street breaking up around Forsyth park. It is a legal holiday in Savannah and literally the whole town turns out. The day culminates with two important banquets; one, the Irish Jasper Greens; the other, the Hi bernians. This year marked the 151 anniversary of the Hibernians and the 121st for the Jasper Greens. The Hibernian banquet in Savannah is one of the most exclusive social events in the nation. The Society began in 1812, “to reach out the hand of friendship, to tender the aid of a delicate charity, and to offer assistance which fraternal, manly and kindly feelings may inspire" to Irish men seeking a new life in America. THREE Presidents of the United States have addressed their annual banquet, the late William Howard Taft in 1912; Harry’ S. Truman at the sesqui-centennial celebration last year; and the late F.D.R., via telephone, from Warm Springs on the occasion of their 125th anniversary. Membership in the society is limited to 150 resident members and some have waited as long as 16 years to be elected to membership. A man must be of Irish ancestory or a descendant of one of the founders to be eligable for membership. Bishop John England of Charleston addressed the society three times, 1824, 1827, and 1832. When Georgia was made a diocese in 1851, Bishop Francis X. Gartland was unanimously elec ted an honorary member. This year, our own Archbishop Hallinan was the main speaker at the annual banquet. In Savannah, on St. Patrick’s Day, everyone is an Irishman. Political, social, and religious dif ferences are forgotten and with pride all Savan- nahians recall the importance their Irish heritage played in the development of this Georgia costal city. With the spirit of prayer and sacrifice which characterized the life of St. Patrick, Savannah’s Irishmen have never forgotten their Irish heritage and through epidemics, wars, and depressions their faith has never faltered. To Savannah their forefathers came lacking this world’s goods, but proof conclusive that they have never lost sight of those spiritual ideals of their ancestors is amply attested to by the magnificent Cathedral structure which is the baro meter of Catholic prestige in Savannah. QUESTION BOX Philippine Church? BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY Q. I RECENTLY READ AN ARTICLE ABOUT HE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENT CHURCH ES TABLISHING FULL COMMUNION WITH THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPALCHURCa ITSTATED THAT THE PHILIPPINE CHURCH BROKE FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 1902. COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHAT CAUSED THE SPLIT OF THE CHURCH IN THE PHILIPPINES? A. The man most responsible for this split was a priest, Gregorio Aglipay y Labayan, but its real explanation is in the social, religious and political history of the Philippines, in the war of revolution against Spain, and the American con quest and occupation of the islands. The Catholic faith was brought to the Philippines by Spanish missionaries four centuries ago; they spread and nurtured it. But even af ter the people were convert ed the missionaries stayed on and maintained rigid con trol of the Church. The is lands were portioned out to four religious orders: Augustinians, Franciscans, Dominicans, and the Augustinian Recollects. The Jesuits had a hand in the conversion of the is lands, and had returned to the Philippines about the middle of the 19th Century; but their earlier suppression had deprived them of their lands and their power, so they were not classed with the frailes (friars) in the popular mind. The Church in the Philippines existed in close union with the Spanish government, which largely maintained the churches and paid the salaries. It also kept careful check on the appointment of bishops. Because of this close union the Church shared in the blame and hatred of the native people against the tyranny of the Spanish govern ment. In some ways the Church was more resented than the government. The religious orders had vast holdings of land and hundreds of thousands of Filipinos were their tenants. All the gripes against the landlords became bitterness against thefriars. All the parishes belonged to the friars, and all the bishops were friars. The poor Filipino secu lar priest, who was not acceptable as a friar, was condemned to be an assistant all his life. The parish priests - all Spanish friars-wield ed great influence with the government, each in his own area. So many civil injustices were blam ed on the clergy. The people called their power frailocracia (friar-rule, “frairocracy"). There were also conflicts in educational policies between the friars and the Filipinos. But more important, the natives felt and resented the Spanish attitude of superiority. They believed that the friars looked down on them, even held them in contempt. LITURGICAL WEEK Sunday Of Passion Week Continued From Page 4 of these important days than the personal nature of the Christian religion. Easter’s significance as center of the whole Christian year of worship impresses the believer with the knowledge that no moral code, no great idea or insight, no cere mony, but a Person is the Gospel, the good news. APRIL 2, TUESDAY IN PASSION WEEK. Jesus is hated, Jesus is not recognized, Jesus is reject ed (Gospel). And if this is the fate of the Son it is also the fate of the servant of God (Daniel, in the First Reading). Babylon is symbol as well as his tory—both of the power of evil and of darkness and of its ultimate futility. We pray today for the trust and confidence which is "Babylon’s” great est fear. APRIL 3, WEDNESDAY IN PASSION WEEK. The First Reading teaches us again that the Law comes from God, that it is no abstract code but a per sonal command. And the Gospel completes the pic ture with its affirmation of Jesus’ divinity. Not only the Law comes from God but also a Person—a Person who accomplishes salvation, whereas the Law could only show the need. For in Jesus Christ God answers the prayer of the Tract so familiar in the Masses of Lent; “Lord, do not treat us as our sins deserve." APRIL 4, THURSDAY IN PASSION WEEK. 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Decimeter ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE PAGE 7 NEW ORLEANS, La. -NC- —A vast and expanding study of the health of nuns in this country should have far-reaching re sults in bettering preventive medical measures for all wo men. Religious communities through the nation are cooperat ing in the program initiated and headed by Dr. James T. Nix, of New Orleans. DR. NIX said the protracted study is based on the concept that “your health mirrors your environment" because so many medical conditions and malad ies are traced to environmental conditions. The vast and expanding re search program is delving into the areas of cancer and gall bladder ailments, among oth ers. Religious communities, Dr. Nix said, offer a control group for environmental research be cause Sisters of the various orders live according to cer tain standards and follow cer tain dietary regulations. These conditions, he said, provide a setting for medical analysis that cannot be found in the ordinary life of the lay person. IN THE past, Dr. Nix said, "undue emphasis” was placed on the heredity factor. “Although we are primarily interested in improving the health and extending the use fulness of Religious" he said, "scientific research is neces sary to determine the diseases and conditions responsible for disability and death among Re ligious and (to) open avenues of financial support for their health care. “Research into the cause of death of Religious," he added, "will make possible the institution of preventive mea sures." Dr. Nix is chairman of the Committee on Medical Care of Clergy and Religious of the National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds and the Ca tholic Hospital Association. He founded the committee in 1957. "OUR main object,” he said, “is to improve the health and extend the usefulness of nuns by providing health to match their dedication and stamina for their apostolate.” Dr. Nix's committee is work ing in cooperation with the Hea ing in cooperation with the 180 New Priests DUBLIN (NC)—Of 376 priests ordained in Ireland during 1962, 180 were destined for themiss- ions. Health Committee of the Con ference of Major Religious Superiors of Women's Institut ions. The committees most re cently have been cooperating on a study of gall bladder con ditions in nuns. Dr. Nix’s com mittee hopes to give a report on the study at the .American Medical Association meeting in June. THE RESULTS of the gaU bladder study are preliminary, Dr. Nix said, but interesting. Of 261 nuns who were operat ed on for gall bladder, only one died. This can be attri buted, he said, to their gen eral health condition and the medical care they receive. The nonreligious death rate would have been "at least two per cent,” Dr. Nix said. The study also shows that the average age of nuns who had gall bladder operation (cholecystectomies) was "ap proximately 10 years older than lay women with similar con ditions. Also, the nuns were found to have more and small er stones." ARNOLD VIEWING Days Of Wine And Roses in repentance—these occupy our minds as we lis ten to God’s Word and offer the holy Sacrifice today. The Old Testament First Reading gives us a beautiful owning-up to sin, a prayer of repen tance. The Gospel shows us not only the prayer (in the action of the sinner) but also its answer: “Thy faith has saved thee; go in peace.” APRIL 5, FRIDAY IN PASSION WEEK. Both lessons speak of man's condemnation and God’s vindication. Man’s condemnation by his sin and because of his sin. God’s vindication because man has nowhere else to turn and because even in the plotting of Jesus’ death (Gospel), even in this sin, men were plotting their own salvation. Re pentance and the huge grace-gift repentance brings is the happy side of our sinful condition. APRIL 6, SATURDAY IN PASSION WEEK. To day’s Gospel, in which Jesus calmly prophecies His death, is an unusually long excerpt of His recorded teaching. Unusually long for Mass in modern times. Yet the liturgy, the Church’s pub lic worship, exists partly to bring us such teach ing. "Yes, if only I am lifted up from the earth, I will attract all men to myself" (Gospel). For this reason we pray, in the Opening Prayer (Col lect) of the Mass, that “taught by these sacred rites, the more graced (we) become, the more pleasing to your majesty (we) will be." BY JAMES W. ARNOLD "Days of Wine and Roses" is a toboggan ride into the horrors of alcoholism with several new twists and turns. There are two alcoholics instead of one, and each of them needs not only drink but the drinking companionship of the other: an ironic switch on the Christian ideal that husband and wife, by pooling their strengths, draw each other to heaven. The victims are also much closer to the au dience than the frustrated writer of "The Lost Weekend" or the tormented actress of "I’ll Cry Tomorrow", up to now the classic Hollywood treatments of alcoholism. The boy and girl of "Days" are types who rarely suffer in American films - the Brash Young Executive and the Happy Pretty Secretary. Their entry into reality, after decades of hiding behind Rock Hudson-Doris Day smiles, is truthful and moving, but likely to shock viewers who cherish their fantasies. PERHAPS "Days" is most remarkable in its insistence that indulgence, even when socially ac ceptable and downright delightful, ultimately de grades man. In a society based on consumption the idea is as heretical as making cars that never wear out. But let’s not wax too sanguine. In film ing J. P. Miller’s script, one of the half-dozen finest ever created for television, producer Martin Manulis has made some nervous and destructive concessions to the box office. A crucial flaw is the cast ing of Jack Lemmon as the anxious young public relai- tions man who leads his bride into the sleepy-gay world of the always-full Double Mar tini. Young Lemmon has quickly become a master of screen comedy, equally art ful with word gags or sight gags. He can also play drama with the intensity, and sometimes the awful sound and thrashing, of a tiger. But Lemmon, like Tony Randall, has become the ptototype of the light comic hero - the earnest, likeable fellow in the Brooks Brothers suit, slightly befuddled and inefficient, but ever deter mined to make a show of expecting the best. Here Lemmon must assume the role again, but as a real, not a mythical person. LEMMON is victimized by the character that has made him famous; the audience wants to laugh, and he encourages it. A great natural clown, drunk or sober he makes an ambiguous situation funny. He is Ensign Pulver turned loose on Madi son Avenue (San Francisco version). His PR job is collecting girls for orgies, or getting a client's cow-like wife a spread in Harper’s Bazaar. He makes funny faces at girls, bumps into transpa rent glass walls, and sprays so much bug juice that other tenants rage that cockroaches are fleeing into their apartments. He has a comedy PR boss who says things like: "Let’s pull some thing out of the hat and see if it hops for us." When it comes time for sadness, Lemmon again produces all the right sights and sounds, but the audience cannot cry. It has been told, in this and several films, that PR man-on-the-make Lemmon is unreal but comic; it cannot suddenly accept him as real and tragic. The worst part is that one of the prime deterrents to common under standing of the complexities of alcoholism is the image of the drunk-as-funny. Our admiration for director Blake Edwards ("Experiment in Terror”) borders on the irra tional. Yet one must wonder if the talents of Ed wards and his familiar cohorts (composer Henry Mancini, cameraman Phil Lathrop) are in the right style for “Days.” The Edwards-Mancini touch is silken sophistication: the screen almost purrs. The director is fond of clever cuts and camara tricks, and wry observation (cf. “Peter Gunn” and "Breakfast at Tiffany’s"). YET “DAYS” needs more power than charm, more sandpaper than velvet. Only once or twice (as in the hair-raising scene when the moralis tic father drags his drunken daughter to the shower) does the flesh-and-blood show through the satin. Even the good scare scenes (Lemmon in the violent ward, Lemmon tearing apart a greenhouse looking for a bottle) seem to have been slickly staged rather than experienced or en dured. As the girl who learns drinking from her hus band and then desperately needs his weakness to justify her own, Lee Remick is impressively con vincing. But Edwards has her underplay it like a lady. Her big scene (in a sleazy motel where Lemmon finds her after a bender) exposes the fault in this approach: it’s simply too comfor table, too smooth and refined. In the TV origi nal, frazzled and tempestuous Piper Lauri play ed it as if she were about to scratch her way through the tube into the living room. One not only felt heartache; one’s skin crawled. WHATEVER its flaws, "Days" is a fascinat ing account of the progressive stages of alco holism, so relentlessly moral and logical that it is often more instructive than entertaining. The suggested solution, the Alcoholics Anonymous ap proach, is hastily sketched but worthwhile; com pletely effective in 75 percent of its cases, it is still the only non-institutional treatment that works. With more than normal skill and subtlety, the film makes the required points: that alcoholism is the symptom, not the disease (the wife’s fa ther preaches at her but does not love her); that it causes lie in subjective inability to handle reality (Lemmon doubts the dignity of his job, Miss Remick says, “I want things to look pret tier than they are”), Despite at least one sequence worthy of “La Dolce Vita” (Lemmon’s havoc among the green house plants has much of the fierce animalism of Fellini’s feather-pillow orgy), “Days" ends on a note of hope. "Will she get well, Daddy?" the daughter asks a sober Lemmon of his missing wife. "1 did," he says simply. God Love You MUST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN When the time came for the Jews to pass into the Promised Land, two of the tribes refused to cross the Jordan because some struggle and warfare would be required for its possession. So there are many of us who, during Lent, re fuse to cross the Jordan, the thin dividing line between the flesh-life and the Christ-life, be cause it requires a little bit of self-abnegation. As a result, we live in mediocrity, in a half- baked condition that is so near to inner joy and yet so far. The tragedy of life is not what people suffer, but how much they miss. By just a few tiny acts of self-denial every day, they would create an em ptiness within them which would make room for the Lord in their souls. If a box is filled with salt, it cannot at the same time be filled with pepper; if our soul is filled with the ego and its selfish pleasures, there is no room for Our Lord. He breaks down no doors. He occupies only as much as we allot Him. De *ades ago, a young Ital ian priest came to the door of a young French priest’s lodging. The latter gave the Italian priest a small room in the attic because he was dressed so poorly. Years pas sed, and the French priest lived to see his visitor can onized as Don Bosco. On hear ing it, he reflected: “If 1 had known he was a saint, I would have given him a better room". Our Lord said the same words to Jerusalem: I would...thou wouldst not! But what happiness reigns in the heart when there is an all-out dedication to Our Lord. A noble woman who devoted her life to the poor, even though she was very sick, used to say each morning: “Today I again have the privilege of being about my Father’s business. O my poor body, how tired you are I But we are now going to try to get going. Up to now you have shown yourself obedient and patient when love spurred you to work. I thank you. I know that you will not leave me in the lurch today.” Why not speak that way to your body for the cause of Christ Crucified in thepoorofthe world. Make a dozen tiny little mortifications during the day: one lump less of sugar, one less cigarette, a walk instead of a bus, a cheaper lunch in stead of the more expensive one. Each time you do it say: "Dear Lord, I know you are hungry and sick and in prison somewhere in the world. I join my cross to your Cross in order that I may send the Holy Father, through his Society for the Propagation of the Faith, a sacrifice at the end of this month. As the mountains were made from the valleys, so many emptiness make You grow in me." GOD LOVE YOU to S. P. for $1 "I am thirteen years old and am sending you 100 pennies. A penny saved is a penny earned for the Missions”. . . .to T. S. for $3 “In gratitude to St. Theresa, Patroness of the Missions, who miraculously saved us from being injured in a serious automo bile accident." . . .to J. V. P. for $50 "This is part of the money we received as wedding pre sents. We know God will bless our union if we bless His poor.” This Lent, find out how an annuity with The Society for the Propagation of the Faith helps both you and the millions of poor, aged and sick throughout the world. Send your request for our pamphlet on annuities, including the date of your birth, to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, 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 tl*e 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.