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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BL LLETIN THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1963 Pope John’s VATICAN CITY, (NC)— Pope John asked God to forgive "my sins and my shortcomings" in his will which has been publish ed here. The Pontiff also said that as the son of "honorable and hum ble people, I am particularly happy to die poor, having dis tributed all that came into my hands during the years of my Leroy’s Aufo Se rvice Tune U'p - Front End Alignment Automatic Transmission 4011 P'tree Rd. CE 7-1288 priesthood." Pope John’s will was first written in 1925, the year he was consecrated a bishop. It was later revised several times. The final text dates back to 1954 after he had been made a cardinal and Patriarch of Venice. This was confirmed by the Pope in 1957 and 1959, with a final addition made at Castelgandolfo, his summer residence, in September, 1961. The text of the will follows: Spiritual Testament and Last W ishes (dated Venice, June 29, 1954): Cm the point of presenting CATHOLIC TRAVEL OFFICE Invites readers of the Georgia Bulletin to make their travel arrangements, both home and abroad, through their modern facilities. Individual and group arrangements hand led through a world-wide net-work of ex perienced agents. Write for information to: Write To DEPT. G. CATHOLIC TRAVEL OFFICE Dupont Circle Building, Washington 6, D.C. AND SHORTCOMINGS Will Pleads Forgiveness Tor Sins’ myself to the Lord, One and Triune, who created me and re deemed me and wished to have me as His priest and bishop, who showered me with unending blessings, I entrust my poor soul to his mercy; I humbly beg His pardon for my sins and for my shortcomings. I offer to Him the little good that with His help I have suc ceeded in doing, though imper fect and poor, for His glory, for the service of the Holy Church, for the edification of my brothers, begging Him fin ally to receive me, as a Good and Pious Father, among His saints into blessed eternity. I wish to profess wholly once again my Christian and Catho lic Faith, my adherence and subservience to the Holy, Apos tolic and Roman Church, and my perfect devotion and obe dience to its august head, the Supreme Pontiff, whom it Was my great honor to represent for many years in different re gions of the East and West, and who wished to have me In Venice as cardinal and patri arch, and whom I have always followed with sincere affection, apart from every dignity con ferred upon me. The sense of my littleness and nothingness has always kept me good company, keeping me humble and quiet and affording me the joy of devoting myself as best I could to the con stant practice of obedience and charity for souls and to the In terests of the Kingdom of Je sus, my Lord and my all. To Him be ail glory; may my only re ward be His mercy. You are my all, my Lord. You know that I love You. For me this is enough. I ask the forgiveness of those whom I may have offended un consciously and of those to whom I may not have given edi fication. I feel that I have noth ing to forgive anyone, for I recognize as brothers and bene factors all those who knew me or had any dealings with me— even should they have offended me, scorned me, not held me in esteem, as they would have done rightly, or may have caus ed me sorrow. Born poor, but of honorable and humble people, I am par ticularly happy to die poor, having distributed all that came into my hands during the years of my priesthood and my epis copate—which in fact has been rather limited — according to the needs and circumstances of my simple and modest life for the service of the poor and to Holy Church which nurtured me. Appearances of comfortable circumstances often concealed hidden thorns ot afflicting po verty and prevented me from al ways giving with the generosity which I have wished. I thank God for this grave of poverty which I vowed in my youth, poverty of spirit as a priest of the Sacred Heart and real poverty which sustained me in never asking for anything, neither posts nor money nor favors, never, neither for my self nor my relatives nor my friends. To my beloved family of the flesh, from whom I did not in fact receive any material wealth, I can leave only a very great and a very special bless ing, with the exhortation that It preserve that fear of God which made it so dear and beloved to me. That family, though simple and modest without shame, is my only real title of nobility. I have always helped it in its most urgent needs, as a poor man to the poor, but without taking it out of its honorable and contented poverty. I pray and will always pray that it may prosper, happy as I am to see in the new and vigorous offspring the steadfastness and faithfulness to the religious tra ditions of our father which will always be its fortune. My most fervent wish Is that no mem ber of my family and relatives may ever lack the Joy of the final eternal meeting. Departing, as I trust, on the road of Heaven, I salute and thank and bless the many who so successfully formed my spi ritual family — at Bergamo, Rome, In the East, in France, at Venice—and who were my fellow countrymen, benefac tors, colleagues, pupils, col laborators, friends, acquain tances, priests, laymen, Reli gious and nuns and those to whom 1 have been, by the de signs of Providence, though un worthily, brother, father and pastor. The kindness to this poor person from all those I met on the way have made my life serene. I will remember on the threshold of death each and all those who have preceded me on the last journey, as well as those who will survive and fol low me. May they pray for me. I will reciprocate their prayers from Purgatory or Paradise where I hope to be received, not through my merits, I re peat, but through the mercy of the Lord. I remember all and I pray for all. But my sons of Venice —the last given to me by the Lord for the final consolation and joy of my priestly life—I wish to name here particularly as a sign of admiration, grati tude and very special tender ness. I embrace them all spi ritually, clergy and laity with out exception, as I love them without exception as members of the same family, the object of equal paternal and priestly solicitude and affection. "Holy Father, keep them in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one even as we are"(John17,11). In the hour of my farewell, or rather au revoir, I once more point out to all what Is most worthy In life: Jesus Christ; the Holy Church; her Gospel; and in the Gospel, above all, the Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster) In the spirit and heart of Jesus and the Gospel; truth and kindness, the mild and be nign kindness, active and pa tient, Invulnerable and victo rious. My children, my brothers, un til we meet again. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus, our love; Mary, our and His most tender Mother; of St. Joseph, my first and favo rite protector; in the name of SS. Peter, John the Baptist, Mark, Lawrence, Justinian and Plus X. Amen. (In 1957, Pope John added in his own hand:) These pages which have been written by me further attest my absolute will in the case of my sudden death. (Later, in 1961, he added:) Under the dear and confident auspices of Mary, my heaven ly mother, to whose name to day's liturgy (September 12) is sacred, and In the 80th year of my age, I hereby lay down and renew my testament, canceling all others previously made in written statements on several occasions. I shall await and receive sim ply and gladly the arrival of Sister Death according to the circumstances with which the Lord pleases to send her to me. First and foremost I ask pai> dom of the Father of Mercy for my numberless sins, offenses and negligences, as I have so often said and repeated in of fering my dally sacrifice. For this first gracious pardon of Jesus of all my faults and of my entering into the blessed and eternal Paradise, 1 entrust myself to the prayers of all those who have followed me and known me during my lifetime as priest, bishop and the humb lest and most unworthy servant of the servants of the Lord. I renew integrally and fer vently my profession of Catho lic, Apostolic and Roman Faith. Among all the various forms and symbols with which the Faith expresses itself, I prefer the priestly and pontifical Creed of the Mass, the most vast and melodious elevation, as in un ion with the Universal Church of every Rite, of every cen tury and of every region, from the "Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem” (I believe in God, the Father Almighty) to the "Et vitam venturi seculi” (and in the life of the world to come). Taking a Peruvian bishops’ pastoral letter literally, Bishop Julio Gonzalez Ruiz of Puno, packed up his per sonal belongings and moved out of his episcopal palace, converting it into an educa tional radio center for the peasant farmers of Peru. OFFICIAL Archbishop Paul J. Hallman announces, through the Chancery Office, the following clerical appointments: Reverend Alan M. Dillmann from Assistant Pastor of the Ca thedral of Christ the King to Assistant Pastor at the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Atlanta. Reverend J. Douglas Edwards from Assistant Pastor at St. Mary’s, Rome, to Assistant Pastor of Our Lady of the Assump tion, Atlanta. Reverend Noel Burtenshaw from Assistant Pastor of St. ! Thomas More, Decatur, to Assistant Pastor of the Cathedral ; of Christ the King, Atlanta. , , # Reverend Edward A. O'Connor from residence at the Cathe- ■ dral of Christ the King, Atlanta, to residence at Our Lady of Lourdes, Atlanta, Reverend Daniel J. McCormick from Assistant Pastor at Im maculate Heart of Mary, Atlanta, to temporary residence at St. Anthony’s, Atlanta, before beginning studies in Sociology at Ford- ham University, New York. NEWLY ORDAINED Reverend Matthew W. Kemp to Assistant Pastor at St. Thomas More, Decatur. Reverend William E. Calhoun to begin studies at the School of Education, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. All appointments take effect this Saturday, June 15. r i i i i i i i i CLUBHOUSE TENNIS COURTS SWIMMING POOL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 5 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHS BUILT-IN KITCHEN LARGE RECREATION ROOM LARGE STORAGE AREA GARAGE OPTIONAL C^ountru (^(ub ^dtaled THE COMMUNITY THAT IS A WAY OF LIFE VA TOTAL CASH 8195 FHA TOTAL CASH 81,045 PAYMENTS $119 INCLUDING TAXES AND INSURANCE DIRECTIONS TAKE THE NE EXPRESSWAY TO THE NORTHCREST - PLEASANTDALE EXIT, TURN LEFT OVER THE BRIDGE. 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