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ARCHBISHQES EASTER MESSAGE
Who Will Roll Back The Stone?
In a book of meditations soon
to be published, Paul Claudel, the
French poet, asks us to “lie still
with our eyes closed a moment
Deiore dawn breaks on the day
of the Resurrection”. It is a
novel suggestion, one that is apt
to surprise people in our times.
Why do it on Easter morning?
Why at dawn? And, most of all,
what would one think about?
Claudel was a man with his
head in the skies of the poets,
but with feet planted firmly in
the reality of our world. He
suggests we think about the quest
ion that the three holy women
asked, - “Who will roll the
stone back from the entrance?”
They had brought ointment to pre
pare the body of the Lord. We,
too, as the Christians of the
twentieth century, are bringing
our gifts today - prayers, good
wishes, a kind word, a collection-
envelope. But there is a stone
between us and the Body of the
Lord.
The stone is our tendency to
give up, to grow cold, to forget
and to put off. We get busy with
the things of the world, and the
things of Goc become unappeal
ing. The whole talk of Christian
renewal, heard today in every
pulpit, and talked about in every
mention of the Vatican Council,
hinges on this. Why do our wor
ship and our meditation need
renewal? Because we offer God
a routine mind. Why do we close
our eyes to injustice and need
and starvation around us? Be
cause we offer God a routine
heart.
The Church stood by on that
first Easter morning - the Church
in the person of the three women
who were awake and ready, in the
person of the apostles who were
fitfully' sleeping and frightfully
scaled. There was a sense of
Christian urgency that day, and
the Church knew it. There were
people to wake up, people to stir
up, people to help, and people to
do the helping. It was urgent
then to be a Christian. It was a
day of hope, the peculiar Easter
virtue.
Today our faith is strong- es
pecially in regions where there
are few Christians, in areas
where there are few Catholics.
We are known, thank God, as a
nation of frequent communicants.
Now our faith is being nourished
on the words of the Scripture,
much more than in past centur
ies. And our charity is wide and
generous. Again, we are known
as a nation of unselfish givers.
Now our charity is affecting our
hearts as well as our wallets. We
are learning how all-embracing
Christian love must be.
It is that third virtue - the
Easter virtue of hope, - that
needs enkindling in our times.
In the climate of fear and hate
that surrounds too much of our
world, too many of our commun
ities, we must practice justice
with a full confident hope. In a
society that is still more con
cerned with mate rial gain than the
growth of the intellect, we must
hope that the scholar will find
elbow-room, whether he be a
young scientist, an old philoso
pher, or perhaps a little child
looking for his first gem of truth.
In a nation of many religions, we
must hope for the best in each
of them, neither compromising
our own nor downgrading others.
This is hope at work in the
world. It is a natural virtue for
every man, but for the Christian,
it is a theological virtue, linked
to faith and charity, produced by
the grace of God. It is our
special responsibility as Catho
lics to nurture it, to treasurer
it, and especially to use it. It
may be symbolized by a hand,
- not clenched for gain or for
gunfire, - but reaching out to
help, to comfort, to lead.
That hand, guided by Christ,
can roll back the stone of our
weakness.
May God renew us all, and
give to our beloved nation and
state, our families and our
homes, this Easter sift of hoDe.
^ Archdiocese of Atlanta
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A HOLY
AND HAPPY
EASTER
SOLEMN RITES
Archbishop
To Officiate
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
will be the celebrant of the
Mass of the Chrism today, Holy
Thursday, at 10:00 A.M. in the
Cathedral of Christ the King.
Before the Mass, there will
be the Solemn Blessing of the
Sacred Oils by the Archbishop.
Officers of the Mass are a£
follows:
Assistant Priest - Right Re
verend Monsignor Joseph G.
Cassidy, V. G.
Deacons of Honor:-Reverend
Michael Manning and Reverend
Patrick C. Connell.
Deacon of the Mass: Reverend
Clarence J. Biggers, S. M.
Subdeacon of the Mass: Re
verend Walter J. Mattiato, F.
S.C.J.
Priests of the Holy Oils:
Reverend Marian Shuk, O.F.
M., Reverend John J. Mulroy,
Reverend Richard B. Morrow,
Reverend Joseph J. Beltran,
Reverend Richard McGuinness,
S. M., Reverend Edward Banks,
C. P., Reverend Wenceslaus
Hlavac, C.SS.R., Reverend Mi
chael McKeever, Reverend Ri
chard Wagner, C.SS.R., Rev
erend Walter J. Donovan, Re
verend Joseph F. Ware, and
Reverend John D. Stapleton.
MONASTERY
SCHEDULE
Times of services during the
Sacred Triduum at the Monast
ery of Our Lady of the Holy
Ghost, Conyers, are as follows:
Today, Holy Thursday - 4:00
P.M.
Good Friday - 2:45 P.M.
Holy Communion - 4:15 P.M.
(approximately)
Easter Vigil - 10:45 P.M.
Easter Day High Mass -10:00
A.M.
Deacons of the Holy Oils:
Reverend Jarlath Burke, Rev
erend Richard J. Albert, Rev
erend Daniel J. McCormick,
and Reverend Robert McCrief,
C.SS.R.
Subdeacons of the Holy Oils:
Reverend John J. Cotter, Rev
erend Denis Dullea, Reverend
Daniel O'Connor; Reverend J.
Douglas Edwards, and Reverend
August Gappenberger.
Deacon of the Oil of Catech
umens: Reverend Noel Burten-
shaw.
Deacon of the Chrism: Rev
erend Edward A. O'Connor.
Deacon of the Balsam and
Subdeacon of the Oil of the
Sick: Reverend William G. Hof
fman.
Metropolitan Crossbearer:
Reverend Jarlath Burke.
Subdeacon Crossbearer: Re
verend Daniel J. McCormick.
Masters of Ceremonies Rev
erend Harold J. Rainey, and
Reverend Eusebius J. Beltran.
Priest Narrator: Reverend
Alan M. Dilmann.
Tomorrow, Good Friday, Ar
chbishop Hallinan will be the
celebrant of the Pontifical
Ceremony commemorating the
Passion and Death of our Lord,
at 6:00 P.M.
On Holy Saturday the Ar
chbishop will officiate at the
Solemn Easter Vigil Services
of the Blessing of the New
Fire and the Paschal Candle
at 10:30 P.M. Msgr. Cassidy
will be celebrant of the Mass,
with Archbishop Hallinan pre
siding, at midnight.
On Easter Sunday morning.
Archbishop Hallinan will cele
brate Solemn Pontifical Mass
at 11;00 A.M. Officers for the
Mass will be from the Cathe
dral staff.
NEW ENCYCLICAL
Pope Pleads
World Peace
VATICAN CITY—Peace is a
problem of morals not of
power, His Holiness Pope John
XXIII said in his newest ency
clical, urging “all men of good
will" to strive for a peace based
on love rather than on fear.
Pacem in Terris is the first
encyclical addressed not only
to Catholics but also to all men
of good will.
The closely reasoned 11,000-
word papal letter calls for eli
mination of racism, encourage
ment of ethnic minorities and
voluntary establishment of a
world authority capable of deal
ing with problems of the uni
versal common good on a world
wide scale.
DATE April U, Holy Thurs
day, but issued on April 10,
Pope John’s eighth encyclical
analyzes the nature of peace,
the means of attaining it and
practical suggestions for in
suring it.
The opening sentence sets
the tone of the document:
"Peace on earth, which men
of every era have most eagerly
yearned for, can be firmly est
ablished only if the order laid
down by God be dutifully ob
served.”
The encyclical’s five main
parts deal with: order between
men, relations between indivi
duals and public authorities in
a single state, relations among
states, relations of human
beings and of political comm
unities with the world com
munity, and pastoral exhortat
ions.
THE encyclical’s preamble
contrasts the marvelous order
of the universe with the dis
order existing among men.
This, the Pope noted, points
up the error made by many who
think "that relationships bet
ween men and states can be
governed by the same laws as
those governing the forces and
irrational elements of the uni
verse.”
are quite different from those
governing b*ute nature and are
to be found where the Father
of all things wrote them; that
is, in the nature of man. Since
the problem of peace is rooted
in man’s nature, it is fitting
that his words should be add
ressed to all men and not to
Catholics alone, the Pope said.
The basic principle of the
encyclical, as outlined in the
first part, is that every human
being is a persom with rights
and duties. Society can be con
sidered to be founded on truth
when the rights and duties of
SPECIAL
NOTICE
The Georgia Bulletin hopes
to be able to bring its readers
the complete text of the new
Papal Encyclical on Peace with
this issue in the form of a
special supplement. Up to the
time of going to press, there
was a question as to the arri
val of the official text.
each subject to each other sub
ject are sincerely recognized,
it states. Justice rules that
society when it provides for
effectual respect of those rights
and loyal fulfillment of the cor
responding duties.
CHARITY must enter to com
plete and vivify society and to
insure mutual cooperation
based on the essential social
nature of human beings, the
encyclical states. Moreover,
this society must be based on
freedom which respects the dig
nity of man when he takes on
responsibility for his own act
ions.
These qualities — truth,
justice, charity and freedom—
pertain to the moral order,
the Pope said, and therefore
such an order has as its ob
jective foundation the one true
God.
LA PIETA - BY MICHELANGELO IN ST. PETER’S - ROME
On the contrary, the Pope Th e P°P® s ®ld three charact-
said, the laws governing men (Continued On Page 12)
