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Newspaper Page TextI THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 DEVOTIONS IN THE RETREAT HOUSE CHAPEL • • • focal point of program followed by the retreatants DISCUSSION OF PERSONAL PROBLEMS • • • director always available ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA • • • basis of retreat program ‘BLESS YOU - COME BACK TO US AGAIN* • • *goodbye to departing retreatant What Can A Retreat Do For You? L Help you awaken to the reality of God and His rightful place in your life. 2. Help you develop a sane, workable, and adequate philosophy of life, adjusting to reality. 3. Help you make a spiritual and moral inventory, evaluating your shortcomings and your virtues to handle them better. 4. Help break the tyranny of sin in your life. 5. Help you straighten out mental confusion. 6. Give you new hope and encouragement. 7. Give you the opportunity to discuss pressing and intimate pro blems most confidentially with trained spiritual advisor. 8. Your family or fellow workers will welcome you back with en thusiasm, because you will be a much easier person to live with. 9. Give your SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, PEACE OF MIND and PHYSICAL REST. 10. In short a retreat can and will make you a better person. RETREAT exercises Anticipated Modern Psychology 400 Years Now in its third year, At lanta’s Ignatius Retreat House has already given retreats for over 1,800 men and women of all faiths. The Director of Ignatius House, Father John L. Hein, S. J„ a member of the New Or leans Province of the Society of Jesus, describes the purpose of a retreat as a way for men and women to “evaluate their goals to reorder them in conformity with the will of God, and by so doing to bring peace into their lives." Father Hein points out that the basic tool of the Igna tius House retreats, the "Exer cises" of St. Ignatius Loyola (founder of the Jesuits), anti cipated modern psychology by 400 years in developing the personality by directing it to ward its rightful goal. Dr. Wil liam Menninger, noted Ame rican psychologist, has empha sized the need for such orien tation for modem man. THE doors of Ignatius House are open to all - to men and women, to Catholics, Protes tants and Jews alike, who are seeking in any way to better their relationship with God. Men’s and women's retreats are alternated, and fifty re treatants can be accomodated at a time, each in a private room with bath. The House is completely air-conditioned. A Schedule of Retreats with a list of area leaders, is print ed in each issue of THE BULLE TIN. Retreats open on Thurs day at 7:30 p.m. and close on Sunday at 4 p.m. There is no set charge, Ignatius House be ing supported solely by contri butions which are made in blank envelopes. 1 BECAUSE IT’S THERE Jesuits Discuss World And Space In Symposium RIVER FOREST, Ill. (RNS) —Hope, speaking as the "gen uine voice of Christian cour age," is the answer to man’s despair at overwhelming con cepts of infinite space and time, a prominent Jesuit priest-edi tor said here. Father Thurston N. Davis, S. J., editor-in-chief of Ame rica Magazine, stressed this theme at a two-day symposium held by editors of his magazine at Rosary College, a Catholic women’s school conducted by the Dominican Sisters. " The Dilemma of Hope and Despair" was the subject of Father Davis' talk at the semi nar sponsored by the Thomas More Association and the col lege's Department of Library Science. Eight America editors participated in the symposium entitled "The World Today." FATHER DAVIS observed for tho best in... js*. pest ^.control* ^service that: "When long reaches of space are impressed upon the popular imagination by science writers and the mass media, the common man is tempted to think that his little world, occupying so small a fraction of an area in the vast plains of space, is negligible and meaningless." In the portrayal of the uni verse which has begun to domi nate the popular imagination, the editor said, there is no God sitting in judgment. "We are not seen. Our ac tions are not weighed and scru tinized," he noted of this inter pretation of the universe. "By an unconscious process, we are tempted to conclude...that our tiny souls and bodies no longer really matter.” However, Father Davis said, this concept will lead to despair about man’s condition. "From the high ground of faith we realize that the reach of God’s eye and the thrust of His long arm are not shortened by our new know ledge about the age of the world,” he declared. "And if we live and move and have our being within His pro tective hand, then we are seen and judged, and all will be made justified and right in a grand denouement that He, with His mind and will, plans and will encompass." At the center of the con LISTED STOCKS PRIMARY MARKETS IN APPROXIMATELY 100 UNLISTED STOCKS CORPORATE BONDS - UNDERWRITINGS TAX-FREE MUNICIPAL BONDS PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS J. C. Bradford & Co. Members of the New York Stock Exchange & American Exchange Thomas H. Stafford, Resident Manager Joseph G. Smith, Account Executive SUITE 736, BANK OF GEORGIA BUILDING PHONE JAckson 2-6834 ATLANTA, GA. £ temporary temptation to de spair stands the notion of a monistic universe, Father Da vis said. On the other hand, he said, belief that human life and strivings have purpose leads to hope. "If the will is free.,.then we live in a universe in which hope is not only possible, but, for sweet reason's sake, impera tive," he declared. Hope, Father Davis said, the "genuine voice of Christian courage, which refuses to be downed by adversity or to dis solve in despair." FATHER C. P. McNASPY, S. J., an associate editor of America, explored man's reac tion to modern stimuli in ano ther area - culture. Father McNaspy questioned the value of the current craze for all things cultural in Ame rican society. Constant overex posure to culture, he held, dulls the appetite for it. Observing that classical mu sic has become too easily heard, he asked: "If one has been drenched in Beethoven — as though he were Andre Kostalonetz — what chance has one to respond to the Eroica Symphony when he sits down seriously to listen to it? Has he not forever elimi nated appetite by being glutted The danger of the cultural explosion, Father McNaspy contended, is that "it may prove counter-productive, resulting in our becoming jaded to some of the world's highest arti facts." The Jesuit also observed that television has come informuch criticism as an anti-intellec tual force in American life. But, he said, it may be a good thing that television supplies light entertainment. "At the end of a concentrat ed day of writing or study,I see no disgrace, nor do I personally feel guilty, at enjoying, say, the Andy Griffith show,” he said. There is always a knob to turn off the TV set, he noted. FATHER BERNARD LEEM- ING, S.J., professor of dogma tic theology at Heythrop Col lege, England and correspond ing editor for America at Ox ford University, pointed out that true Christian unity can only be built upon truth sincerely ac cepted. Catholics, he said, do not want unity with other Christians merely to end the scandal of a divided Christianity. "We want unity in presentation of the Christian message in order to bring all men to Christ,” he stressed. Father Leeming also directed his attention to the need for more competent theologians, particularly in the English- speaking world. "Many a man who might have been a first-rate theologian has been ruined by being made a bishop," he declared. v "On the sacred sciences to T.J. Gilmore Mass Here Thomas J. Gilmore, who died on June 4, was the recipient, in 1958, of the papal honor "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifica.” Mr. Gilmore was active in Ca tholic circles in Atlanta and in the state, having served as state head and as state deputy of the Knights of Columbus, in the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Sacred Heart Parish and in the Holy Name. Mr. Gilmore, who lived at 1388 Wessyngton Rd., NE, was associated with the newspaper field for many years, having worked for the Nashville Ban ner, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Georgian-American and the Hearat newspapers. He is survived by a son and two daughters, three grandchildren, three sisters and a brother. The Requiem Mass took place June 7. Archbishop Hallinan presided. Dental Graduate Miss Mary Teresa Finn has graduated from Marquette Uni versity, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received her diploma in dental hygiene on June 2nd. While attending Marquette Miss ( Finn was a member of Alpha Delta Eta and of the Dental Hygiene Council. She will pract ice in Atlanta. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. Finn of Christ the King Parish. a large extent,” Father Leem ing held, "depends the mainte nance of the faith of an in creasingly educated people, de pends the unification of Chris tians, and depends the spread of the faith among non-Chris tians.” Proper development of the sacred sciences, he said, de mands men, money, and ser ious planning for the future. FATHER BENJAMIN MASSE, S, J., an associate editor of America, discussed world eco nomic problems in his paper "The Old Order Changes.” Discussing Mater et Magis- tra, the social encyclical is sued in 1961 by the late Pope John XXIII, Father Masse re marked that it had repudiated the idea of an inevitable con flict between government and private enterprise. Pope John not only showed an awareness of the movement to wards economic planning "but calmly and matter-of-factly ac cepts it,” he said. Change is not synonymous with progress, Father Masse said, "as a generation that ex perienced Fascism, Nazism and Communism well knows." How ever, he emphasized, "we are not the playthings of mechanical forces, powerless to direct change toward human and Christian goals." There are dangers as well as promise in future economic de velopments, he said, but "it is our Job to see that the dangers are averted and the promise richly realized.” FATHER EUGENE CUL- HANE, S. J., the magazine's managing editor and an expert on Latin America, told the seminar to expect rapid growth in the countries south of the U. S. "What evolves in Latin Ame rica will in all likelihood be different from what we Catho lics of the United States think ideal," he said. "But it will not necessarily be bad because it is different from what we want." Latin America, Father Cul- hane said, needs native leadei*- ship and massive amounts of seed capital. However, he said, people in that area "will prob ably depart from us in their economic planning.” Latin Americans, he noted, do not view capitalism in the same light as North Americans. Unfortunately, the priest- editor said, there are many good Latin American Christians "who cry out against capita lism but who have only the ha ziest idea about what will re place it." Turning to the advent of com munism in Cuba, Father Cul- hane observed that the U. S. public is growing less tolerant of the Castro regime. "Americans are impatient that the Russian troops remain in Cuba and that there seems to be no way for us to thwart Castro's efforts at sending trained saboteurs,,, to every country of Latin America," he stated. But until Castro can be "muz zled,” Father Culhane said, Americans must continue to support the Alliance for Pro gress program..."and pray that we yet have time." FATHER FRANCIS CANA- VAN, S. J., assistant editor, held that the United States must choose between exploring space or helping two-thirds of the world’s people reach an ade quate standard of living. The goals are incompatible, he said. It will take an Investment of about $70 billion, he claimed, to help underdeveloped nations reach the "take-off point" of paying their own way in the con quest of poverty, hunger, igno rance and disease. "I submit that in this decade, faced with a world economic problem of these dimensions, the United States has no busi ness spending a sum estimated as between $30 billion and $100 billion, which our space pro gram will have cost by 1970, Father Canavan asserted. "In a world which is faced with mass misery and potential re volution, yet fully capable of remedying its ills, this kind of spending is badly misdirected." FATHER DANIEL L. FLA HERTY, S. J., book editor of America, took the opposite view: that space is the chal lenge of today. Meeting the challenge of — "because it's there" — is necessary to the growth of our nation and the continued great ness of our civilization, Father Flaherty maintained. ". . .Even if there were no va lid military or scientific or eco nomic necessities to be served by the exploration of space...it would still be necessary...be cause being there it provides the challenge, the enterprise, for this generation and this nation which we so badly need in order to continue great and which we must not miss if we would not be blind to the teach ing of history and the dynamics of civilization — growth and decay.” HYBEHT • MINTING • LITHOGRAPHING Peachtree Road Pharmacy Pick Up and Dsliverr Service CE 7-6466 4062 Psschtree Rd. 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