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GEORGIA PINES THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 Final Peal On Bells ST. JOSEPH of CUPERTINO BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN The manipulations of the‘‘Hunchback of Notre Dame'* are a far cry from the electric bells and the electronic devices sounding like bells of the present day. Nevertheless, the purpose of the bells then and now are precisely the same, name ly: attracting the attention of people for some specific reason. There are very few Catholics who are not fa miliar with the ringing of bells at 6 in the morn ing, high noon, and again at 6 in the evening. We know this ritual as the Angelus. It has been depicted in a famous paint ing of a man and woman in the field pausing for afew moments of prayer while in the back- j ground can be seen the tower 1 of the village church. THOSE of us who were fortu nate to be students at the Catholic University of America In Washington, D. C. were singularly impressed when at noon of each day the whole campus became motionless while the Angelus is being rung. From the National Shrine, located on the campus, the bells would signal out a moment of prayer and all would stop and join in "The Angel of the Lord.. There is another time of prayer that comes to us from the monks. It is the hour of 7 in the even ing when the bells of all monasteries in the world ring out a reminder to pray for the souls of die faithful departed. This is known as the De Pro fundus. ("Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord. . .*’). In addition to the monastery of Conyers, this practice is perpetuated in our own archdiocese at Decatur's church of St. Thomas More, every night at 7 p.m. The new St. Paul of the Cross Church conduct ed by the Passionist Fathers in north-west At lanta included a bell in it's architectural design. Likewise the students of St. Pius X Catholic High School on the Northeast expressway are familiar with the ringing of bells whenever the athletic team is victorious. These bells were donated to the school by the architect, the late N. J. Pascu- lous of Macon. THE GEORGIA Air National Guard was used to install the bells at the new monastery of the Holy Ghost at Conyers. A helicopter was used to lift the bells into position atop the sparkling white building. The monks were so fascinated by the "whirley-bird" that afterwards some were treat ed to a ride in the airplane with the "propeller on top". A locomotive bell was donated to Father Wal ter Donovan while he served as pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Athens. Presently it is in the service of the parishioners at Athens' Sacred Heart Church. St. Mary's Church in Rome, Georgia St. Michael's Church in Gainesville, were both de signed by the famous priest-architect of Belmont Abbey, Father Michael The noted Benedictine de signed both of these churches with bell tow ers, but because of construction costs the bells were never added. St. Michael's has a beautiful ivy-covered bell tower that nosts many birds during summer storms, but as yet...no bell. The old time bell has made way today for a new electronic process which occupies less room and costs considerably less. While some argue that it does not have the resonance of an iron bell, it nevertheless has a clear tone to it. About three years ago one of these new systems was installed at Decatur's, St. Thomas More Church. Hearing it ring every day, especially at 7 in the evening, gives one the feeling that it is a real call to prayer in die community. PRIESTS are familiar with bells. From the day on which they first entered the seminary their lives have been regulated by bells. To them it was the Vox Dei (the voice of God). In later lives, the sounding of bells at Mass and during the service of Benediction always bring back reminiscences of many happy days spent in seminary life. I am sorry that construction costs of our day often make the purchase of a bell impossible. Bells will always symbolize an expression of man's Inner feelings and whenever I hear one ringing it leaves me with an impression of a com munity that harkens to the call for prayer. QUESTION BOX God And Pope John aiuo BY MONSIGNOR J.D. CONWAY Q. EVER SINCE POPE JOHN DIED THERE HAS BEEN ONE QUESTION ON MY MIND.-IF THERE IS A GOD, WHY DIDN’T HE LET POPE JOHN FINISH HIS GREAT ECUMENICAL COUN CIL? A. It is futile for us to try to grasp the de tails of God’s eternal plans. If our faith is genu ine we trust His unlimited wisdom, and we accept with resignation the decisions which are clearly His own. We must always keep trust in His love for us, His adopted children, even when He seems to afflict and deprive us. Certainly our heavenly Fat- Iher loves the Church even more than we do. It is the Mysti cal Body of His own Son; it is the great mystery of the sanct ifying activities of the Holy Spirit in the souls of His adopted children; and it is the com munity which joins with His incarnate Son in constant, pleasing worship of Him. Jesus promised that He would remain with His Church forever. It has been very evident to us, the past foup-and-a-half years, that He was keeping this promise by giving us Pope John. The evidence is much less clear when He takes him away from us. But our faith does not rest on such evidence. We trust His words. In future years we may find sound human re asons why God chose to take His Servant John at this time. Surely the great contributions which this saintly John made to the Church will live long after him. He has enlivened a spirit of love and freedom which can hardly be extinguished. He has given birth to yearaings for unity so deep in the hearts of all Chris^ans that they must surely keep growing. And he has given such momentum to his trends for an aggioraamento that they can hardly be halted or reversed. LITURGICAL WEEK Sacrament Meaningless Continued from Page 4 Our recently-developed concern for under standing and appreciating separated Christians is nourished by the readings, hymns and prayers today. THURSDAY, JULY 4 MASS AS ON SUNDAY. "Direct, we beseech you, Lord, the course of tnis world. . ." (Collect). Christians mav not have a religious mind and a secular mind, a religious conscience and a secular one, side by side. They may have religious activities and secular activities, but both are directed by one mind, one conscience—and that is informed by faith in the living God, that is, religious. In the United States this national holiday is an important time to pray not only for the nation but especially for all religious men and women in it, that they may make a dynamic contribution to die community and its moral strength. FRIDAY, JULY 5 ST. ANTHONY MARYZAC- CARLA, CONFESSOR. Both readings today teach us about that human virtue which is a gift of close conversation with God: Virtue, in order to attain eternal life (Gospel); virtue, in order to offer an example and so save others (First Re ading). As we gather at the holy table for Com munion, we sing Paul's words: ". . .be imit ators of me. . .*’ JULY 6 ST. MARY ON SATURDAY. So much are we creatures of time and so firmly are we anchored in it, that the liturgy never tires of impressing us with our eternal origin in God's will and our eternal destiny (First Reading). Today this Old Testament lesson is applied to Mary, mother and first sister of that Saviour who wedded time and eternity: "Earth and heaven are in him reconciled" (Gradual). Saints in Black and White | ‘A SON OF OUR EARTH' Pope Paul Home Village Rejoices At Pontificate 9f 1 sy 7<* ? 7 fX y *7 ACROSS 1. He worked As An Apprentice making .. 6. Giving No Heed 10. Vase 13. An Extraordinary ... came Over Him Aftef He Became A Franciscan 14. Mallet 15. By Birth 16. Glucinum 17. Hair Line 19. Pledged 21. Loop 23. Anime 25. Court 26. Woman Personified (Irish Leg.) 28. Intent 30. Quaking 33. Estate 35. Protest 37. Animal Association 38. Epoptic 40. Harsh Breathings 42. Distant 43. Eight 45. Ending 47. No Account; abbr. 48. Bachelor Of Science 50. Home Of the Dead; Gr. Myth. 52. One Masted Vessel 54. in Hoc Signo 56. Downy 58. Heterogeneous 61. Flutters 63. Re-rent 65. Peas; pl.(Arch.) 66. Closes 68. Tripod 70. Mona ... 71. Tropical Fruit 73. Purposeful 75. Has Not; Old English 76. Sherry (arch.) 79. Frozen Rain 81. Yukon Territory 82. Decide 83. Saracen 85. Exit 87. Within; comb, form 88. External Covering 89. Coarse Grasses DOWN 1. Shillings; abbr. 2. Possesses 3. Extraordinary Thing 4. Heron 5. Took Possession 6. Deutschemark 7. Sup 8. Emanation 9. Goddess of Flowers; Roman Myth; 10. He Had An ... Childhood 11. Enclosure 12. New English Dictionary 13. He Was ... and Forgetful 16. Glint 18. Sharper 20. Thomas Hardy Heroine 22. Surface For Painting 24. Wanderer 27. Hawk 29. Laws 31. Economy; abbr. 32. “Peter Pan" dog 34. Person of Great Size 36. Domain 39. Type of Wood 41. Bend 44. Tent 46. Inn 48. Apron-like Clothe 49. Iranian Potentate 51. Thin Piece of Wood 53. Simple 55. A ... prays To Him For Help 57. Ayes 59. Theses 60. Leaven 62. Asterisk 64. Narrator 67. Belt 69. Devoted 72. Irish Republic 74. Area At Base of Bird's Bill 76. Saint; Female 77. Fowl 78. Salt 80. Scatter To Dry 84. Bachelor of Theology 86. Shortstop ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLE ON PAGE 6 CONCESIO, Italy, (NC)—"We thank Providence which chose a son of our earth to rule from the Chair of St. Peter." Storefronts, stables and even telephone poles in this small country village 60 miles east of Milan carried this proud decl aration shortly after the elect ion of His Holiness Pope Paul VI, who was born here 65 years ago. The streets around the church where the Pope was baptized were gay with red velvet hang ing usually reserved for Corpus Christ! processions and the feast of San Rocco, patron of Concesio. On the door of the church there is an announcement of a parish pilgrimage to Rome for Pope Paul's coronation—a four -day tour for $24 including room and board. Across from the church the movie house was showing for the first time "Gone with the Wind." THOUGH similar in simplic ity of life, Concesio is not com parable to Sotto il Monte, birth place of Pope John XXIIL Pope Paul was born here because it was September and it was thought better for the family to be out of the heat of the near by city of Brescia, where the ARNOLD VIEWING Four Days Of Naples I believe this was his aim. He probably knew before the Council adjourned last December that he had little chance to guide it to its conclusion. Yet he was patient, delating its second session from May to September. He apparently considered it more important that preparations be thorough than that he be there himself to guide the deli berations. Pope John probably felt as St. Paul: "I planted the seed, and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. . . . With God's grace I laid the foundation, and someone else puts up the build ing." (I Cor. 3, 6-10). Surely no one but Pope John could have got things started so well; maybe another will be more capable at finish ing them. Q. DOES A SHUT-IN OR A SICK PERSON WHO CANNOT ATTEND MASS RECEIVE THE SAME GRACE BY WATCHING MASS ON TV? A. No, the Mass is an action of the congre gation, joined to the priest, all making their of fering and their sacrifice in union with Jesus Christ. You must be in the group to take full part in the group action. However, I am sure that a sick person can worship God and gain much spiritual benefit by joining in a Mass being offered at a distance, but made to seem present by TV. In mind, heart and intention such a person joins in the offering and the sacrifice; and who can put limits to the mystery of the Mass? Q. THE ENCLOSED CIRCULAR MAY HELP TO CLARIFY YOUR BELITTLING OF THE "FAT IMA LETTER*’ IN YOUR COLUMN. IT WAS ARCHBISHOP BRADY WHO DID LIKEWISE AND SUDDENTLY SHORTLY THEREAFTER DIED. COINCIDENCE? A. You frighten me terribly. But I could hope for nothing better than to die in manner as holy as the late reverend Archbishop of St. Paul, BY JAMES W. ARNOLD In "The Four Days of Naples," the Italians have made one of the best action movies of all- time and at the same time helped audiences to share most of the wonder and woe of being born, living and dying as human beings. Within its limited aim, which is to capture the spirit and some details of the brave Neapolitan uprising against the Nazis in September, 1943, "Naples'* is both poignant and exhilarating, a near-perfect tribute to the courage and humanity of Italians, and indirectly, all men. The work of a new writer-director, Nanni Loy, it has quickly earned him a place among the crowded ranks of first class Italian directors. BASICALLY, "Naples" is a rebels-against- the-tyrants picture, a familiar theme to habitues of those anti-Nazi epics of the I940’s now visible on TV. But die focus here is less on Ger man beastliness and more on the historical events as seen, felt and lived by ordinary men, and women and children. There is no pretentious, •semi-documentary, "Longest Day" style. It is not a battle of generals and big shots, but one fought by lieutenants, infantrymen, clerks, deliverymen, housewives, students, juvenile deli nquents. The audience is never formally intro duced to them, barely catches a name here and there, recognizes only a few familiar faces in the various episodes. Even the cast is anon ymous out of respect to the anonymous heroes of Naples. So soon after the Budapest uprisings, the film takes on added meaning, for this also was a fight by disorganized civilians with homemade and captured weapons against a professional disciplined army equipped with tanks and an iron will to win. The Naples struggle had a happier ending chiefly because Allied troops were near ing the city and the German garrison was needed elsewhere. IT IS, of coursef as easy to be anti-Nazi now as- it is to make instant coffee. Yet good anti- totalitarian movies have always been scarce while the hated regime, with its influential adherents and neutralists, was still in power. It would be unrealistic to expect a directly anti-communist film out of politically entangled Italy, but audiences may make their own comparisons and allegories. Marvelously, "Naples" not only shows us what happened, in exciting photography by Marcello Gatti that is equally adept at tender closeups or panoramic street-fighting, but relentlessly engages the emotions, revealing people as they are: brave, cowardly, apathetic, frightened, often funny. The humor is evident right at the start when the camera closes in on a German sign pro claiming it "against the law to get arrested solely to get food in prison." American troops are said to be advancing on foot because "they don’t trust our train schedules." A blackshirt being conscripted for a labor force tries des perately to convince the soldiers he's a Nazi, too: "How do you say ‘fascist* in German?" TYPICALLY the humor follows close upon the horror and heroism, lightening it and somehow making it bearable. A German patrol advances along a narrow, cobbled street, when suddenly citizens begin throwing down everything they can lift, including, literally, a kitchen sink. In a re fugee camp, amid the rubble, misery and an guish, a mother yanks a thumb from the mouth of her sleeping child. During a running battle, a cabdriver rushes out shouting for the rebels to get out of his taxi; during another, a wife runs out to pull and nag her husband: "Totoi What are you doing here I You were going to the bakery for bread I" While the rebels set up a roadblock, a man shrieks from his balcony: "Go fight under your own win dows!" when the barricade is built, the Nea politans don't know which way to aim their guns. Director Loy makes us examine the confusion and terror on the faces of hostages selected at randoTh to be shot. But there is compassion even for Germans: a closeup of the frightened face of a young soldier caught by the mob, a girl's comment about a captured officer, "I wonder If he misses his wife. . .his children, I wonder if he ever feels homesick." AS IN reality, tragedy, comedy, pathos ace hopelessly confused. A handsome young sailor is executed before a crowd of silent civilians who are told by a Nazi officer, with incredi ble faith in discipline, not to cry. A mother fights her way in to view the body of an uni dentified hero; after a prayer of thanks that It's not her son, she begins to mourn for his real mother. Another woman sadly rocks as she scolds her dead son for running off to the battle. Young convicts bring Nazi prisoners back to their re form school and clap them in cells, then settle down to dinner, telling the warden: "This is the only home we ever had." IF THERE is a central character, he is Gen- naro, a small boy to whom the war is alternately heartbreaking and an exciting game. In one be autiful scene, he shares the luxury of a potato with his mother; in another, he lifts a machine- gun from the hands of a dead soldier while turning to avoid his staring eyes. In the end, Gennaro, angered after an adult has commandeer ed his gun, dies assaulting a tank with a gren ade he hasn't the strength to open. The greatness of "Naples" lies in its bal ance and skill, but perhaps most of all in its insight into the ordinary man's reaction to his tory. For every hero, coward, or skeptic, there seems to be a man shaving, or walking his dog, or battling his wife, utterly oblivious to both the horror and the gallantry. The movie seems to say that for a human the only real dishonor is not to care, to have neither loved nor hated but to have missed it all. If the original Good Friday had been last week, some of us would have watched Jack Parr. CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS: For everyone: The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia, Gigot, The Four Days of Naples. For connoisseurs: Sundays and Cybele, Long Day's Journey into Night. Better than most: The Longest Day, Mutiny on the Bounty, Days of Wine and Roses, A Child Is Waiting. family lived most of the year. While the family of Pope John, the Roncallis, were peasant far mers, Pope Paul's family, the Montinis, were moderately well to do and well educated. The bond between the two families is that of a deep religious and family piety. Concesio is actually a collec tion of small hamlets which con tain in all some 7,000 people The section where the Pope was born is the commercial center of die town where the Montini family had a three-story, L- shaped house which they used only in the summer. With the news of the elect ion of Pope Paul, Mayor Ric- cardo Giustacchini of Concesio put a telephone call through to the mayor of Sotto il Monte to ask: "What did you do when Pope John was elected?" THE townspeople did not wait for guidance, however, and the main street on which the Montini house is located was quickly de corated with homemade orna ments. Colorful chains of crepe paper, hastily stitched flags of the papal white and gold, and paper bells adorned doorways. Newspaper photographs of the New Pope, wreathed with leaves and tree boughs; thefrontpages of Italian newspapers—includ ing Rome’s communist daily, L* Unita—and copies of the civic proclamation written by Mayor Giustacchini were plastered on walls all over town. The proclamation read: "The whole Church and the whole world rejoices and thanks God for the election of Cardinal Giovanbattista Montini to the Supreme Pontificate. "WE citizens of Concesio in particular are proud of such a happy event and we thank Pro vidence which chose a son of our earth to rule from the Ch air of St. Peter. To make our selves always more worthy of our great fellow citizen we must jealously preserve the pat rimony of faith, religiousness and civic virtue, of which the entire family of the Supreme Pontiff has always been a most shining example. "Imploring his most high ble ssing, we rejoice." With the news of Pope Paul's election, Giuseppe Roncalli, Pope John's brother, came here with his son and daughter. All three were dressed in mourn ing. The late Pope's brother explained his visit by saying he wanted to "congratulate the new Pope's relatives and towns people." On the night of the election, the Roncallis visited with Fat her Renato Zucchini, assistant pastor of the Church of San Roc- pastor of the Church of San Rocco, who had become a sort of unofficial greeter of the press and visitors. Only a small part of the house where Pope Paul was born is still used by the Montini family. The Pontiff's first cousin—Vit torio Montini, an engineer, and . his wife—visit the home during the summers. The rest of the ’ large house is rented to work ing families. The second-story window of. • the room in which the Pontiff was born was decorated with white bunting, flowers and a hastily strung row of light bulbs. A cross of lights was placed above the front door. God Love You MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN HOW MUCH SOME DO FOR THE LORD, AND HOW LITTLE OTHERS DO! This is the overwhelming thought that besieges the mind and the soul of anyone who works for the improverished Christ in mission lands. We have recently been in personal contact with a bishop and a priest who have given us supreme examples of "emptying" themselves, as Our Lord emptied Him self of His glory to take on the human form. The bishop had one of the finest dioceses in a very large mission country. His family, who were of noble line age, lived in die diocese with him and added to the joy of his being a beloved apostle among a loving flock. The Holy See then asked three priests to take charge of a new diocese in this mission land, one where the people were quite improverished. Each of the three were also offered the bishopric if they accepted the diocese, but all refused because of the rags, the disease and the hunger that spotted the new area. The Church then asked this bishop to resign his See and to start the new diocese; he did so promptly. There are many examples in the Church of bishops looking for better diocese, but this is one example of a bishop looking for a poorer one. The priest is one who spent fifteen years building a beautiful rectory, church, convent and school in his diocese. He then turned it over to American missionaries who came into the land to work, and took the poorest area in the country as his new parish. His rectory, his school and his church are, in all, 24 feet long and about 12 feet wide. Partly in the water and partly on the shore, they are supported by 12 wooden pegs driven into the soil. There is not an automobile in the United States that is housed in a garage as poor as this shack. Once again inspired by the example of Our Lord, the priest has "emptied" himself and taken upon himself the form of a servant. (In a future issue of MISSION, we will show the parish the priest left and the par ish which he now has.) We have tried to help both the bishop and the priest with our limited means, although they have helped us a thousand times more by reminding us not only of the privilege but also of the "penalty" of being a Christian. You, our good readers, are al ready conscious of the privilege. May we pass on to you the pen alty, which is that of emptying yourselves just a tiny bit that stomachs may be filled, hearts gladdened, minds illumined and human beings introduced into die glorious liberty of being a slave of Christ. Please let us hear from you! GOD LOVE YOU to J. F. C. for $40 "My son left this offer ing for the Missions before he went into the service." . . .to D. L. for $1.50 "We had a circus in the backyard. Three of us were clowns and there was a mindreader. We want the Missions to have the money instead of buying things we don’t really need." . . . .to Mrs. B. L. for $15 "This represents the small savings of our daughter, who died at the age of eight from a brain tumor. She loved the Missions and wanted you to have this money." . . .to R. D. W. for $85.86 "This is my Income tax refund which I want to give to the poor of the world." Send us your old gold and jewelry—the valuables you no longer use but which are too good to throw away. We will resell the earrings, gold eyeglass frames, flatware, etc., and use the money to relieve the suffering in mission lands. Our address; The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 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 Director of The Society for the Pro pagation of the Faith 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx, N. Y. or your Diocesan Director. Rev. Walter W. Herbert, 811 Cathedral Place, Richmond 20, Virginia.