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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 the GEORGIA BULLETIN (ftftMMMftHI * s 1 SS WM < * 1 i WmMM > "■ - 1 kw SERVING GEORGIA'S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES „ — ' ■" ■» i — "" VOL 1, NO. H ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY APRIL 11, 1963 $5.00 PER YEAR 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)