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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN TWRSDAV, OCTOBER 31, 1963
Archbishop Hallman Preaches In Rome On New Beatus
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who had attended his conferences later wrote:
“for forty years and more, I have regarded him
ds a saint/’ and the most renowned of his converts,
Newman himself, said this of Dominic: “His very
look had about it something holy. When his form
came into sight, I was moved to the depths in
the strangest way/’
DOMINIC'S holiness was not achieved in a clois
ter. It bore the dreary marks of daily, petty,
boring administrative details. It is one thing to
carry, for 28 years, the dream of becoming
an apostle in a foreign country. It is quite ano
ther to have to spend those years directing
novices, teaching philosophy, serving as super
ior and then provincial. He did all these things
well. His words and actions seemed to merge
into a perfect hymn of humility and zeal. The
hymn was never serene, but it was always sub
lime. He never forgot the call he had received
from God when he was only 21: “I understood
that I was to labor in northwest Europe, and espec
ially in England." His health was very poor,
and deteriorating rapidly. One setback after
another slowed up the plans for the proposed
English mission. At the age of 48, Dominic bra
vely began to learn the French language so that
he could preach in Belgium. Two years later he
tackled the English tongue. When he spoke to his
first English listeners, he had to memorize
the little sermon:
“I wish to say a few words for your
edification, but I cannot do it because I
am not yet able to speak English. How
ever, I shall say something, — a very
short Sermon! My dearly beloved, letus
love one another, because they who
love their brothers accomplish per
fectly the will of God. Let you love
God, and man for God's sake, and
you shall be perfectly happy forever.
Amen."
IF THE words came haltingly, the message
did not. His sentences were broken English,
but it was holy eloquence to those who heard
it. With a face and body shrunken by pain, he
spoke to them from his heart, He was living
now as St. Paul said, “Not I, but Christ lives in
me." To the cultured groups at Oxford, and to
rough-and-ready people in the scattered Catholic
missions of the Midlands, this was the voice of
God, because it was quite evident that it was the
voice of a man of God.
That he was kind, and brave, and spiritually
resourceful, that he was an obedient religious,
that he was full of God's fire, —- these marks
are all in the record of his life. In part, they ex
plain how in those nine short years, Dominic's
dream moved toward Its fulfillment: — sermons,
retreats, missions; a hearing for the Catholic
Church; respectful concern on the part of Pro
testants, converts by the hundreds. The present
Archbishop of Birmingham, where Dominic once
lived, has expressed it in this manner:
"He acted as a sort of catalytic
agent between Protestants who were
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turning towards the Church, and Catho- •
lies who were suspicious of anything
within the 'Elizabethan Establishment.*
But the surface record is not quite enough
to explain the tremendous impact of the man. Now,
decades after his death, the hidden record has
come to light. He was in love with God.
THE STORY of his life,— quaint, picturesque
and quixotic, — does not tell it all. But the story
of his soul goes deeper. It explains not only
Dominic the man, but Dominic the saint. He
wrote a great deal, but he set two formidable
barriers against any revelation of his inner life.
One was his own natural self-effacement, the
other was a style of handwriting that challenged
even his admirers. Because he was always in a
hurry, his mystical writings (like everything else
he wrote) were almost illegible. A mysterious
shorthand obscured even those parts that can be
made out. Because he was short-sighted, the end
ing of some words and lines was written, not on
the paper, but on the table. Now because of the
great interest in his beatification, his spiritual
life is being reexamined and freshly appraised.
That he was a true mystic seems beyond ques
tion: his autobiography, a spiritual diary, and esp
ecially his Commentary on the Canticle of Canti
cles reveal a life intimately spent in loving God.
True to his vocation as a Passionist, he found his
own mystical death in Christ’s death. He exper
ienced the desolation of an interior purgatory in
which he shared Christ's agony on the cross,
and then the transforming union by which his
BLESSED POMMC BARBERI
life was spent more in heaven than on earth.
If his colleagues and his congregations did not
know this, Dominic did.
Father Alfred Wilson, a fellow-Passionist, cor
rects those who estimate Dominic's place in
England only in human achievements and natural
gains. "This long, drawn-out martyrdom, he has
written, "and not Dominic’s short ministry, was
his*, major contribution to the second Spring.
The graces that his Oxford converts and hun
dreds of others received came not just because
Dominic spoke to them. They came cheifly be
cause he suffered for them."
It is an appropriate time to pay tribute to
this body of men, the Passionist Fathers, whose
community produced this holy priest. All over the
world, they follow, as Dominic himself did, the
footsteps of their founder, St. Paul of the Cross.
Their aim is to become "Specialists in unfold
ing the lesson of the cross, relating the way of
the cross to daily living, opening up to man
kind a vision of the divine world. Those bishops
among us who are privileged to have them
serving our own dioceses would be the first to
honor them, and to pray God to send us more
Passionists, more men like Dominic Barberi.
THE MIDST OF the second Vatican Council
is a ripe time for the Church to recognize
this early apostle of the ecumenical age. The
humble Italian priest spoke to those not of our
faith in accents we have ourselves heard in the
voices of Popes John and Paul. Dominic always
assumed good faith in others; he refused to enter
Pope Paul Gives
Homily At Rites
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and withal gifted with remark
able powers. He does not know of
my Intention, but 1 mean to ask
of him admission into the one
fold of Christ. . / ••
The Pope said it is his belief
and hope that he would never for
get the significance of the meet
ing of Blessed Dominic and
Newman, and that he expected
“to dwell on the mysterious
meaning of their meeting in
great hope and with prolonged
prayer/'
THE POPE THEN switched
from Italian to English and de
livered a brief series of
thoughts in that language on the
English phase of Blessed Do
minic's life. In the course of
it he called Cardinal Newman's
path to the “fullness" of wis
dom and peace, "the greatest,
the most meaningful, the most
conclusive, that human thought
ever traveled during the last
century, Indeed one might say
during the modern era,”
TEXT OF THE Pope’s Eng
lish remarks, which came after
the Italian, is as follows:
“He had a great love for
England.” Thus did Newman
write of this new beatus, Fa
ther Dominic of the Mother of
God, This phrase would seem to
define the figure of this humble
great follower of the Gospel
of Christ, It seems to sum up
the historical current of the
sentiments of the Church of
Rome toward that Island of
high destiny.
IT SEEMS TO give expres
sion to this present spiritual
moment of the Apostolic See
which now raises to the glory
of the blessed this generous
missionary whose arms are
open wide toward all that Is
,most venerable and most sig
nificant in that blessed coun-
’ try's present portion of its
magnificent Christian heritage;
and it seems today to rise up
from the heart of die ecumeni
cal council, being celebrated
in this basilica, like a sign of
still-suffering hit always con
fident Catholic brotherhood,
“He had a great love for
England/' Newman’s phrase,
if properly meditated upon,
means that the love of the
pious Religious, the Roman
missionary, was directed to
Newman himself, promotor and
representative of the Oxford
Movement, which raised so
many religious questions and
excited such great spiritual
energies; to him who, in full
consciousness of his mission—
“I have a work to do"—and
guided solely by love of the
truth and fidelity to Christ,
traced an itinerary—the most
toilsome but also the greatest,
the most meaningful, the most
conclusive, that human thought
ever travelled during the last
century, indeed one might say
during the modern era—to ar
rive at the fullness of wisdom
and of peace,
AND IF THAT phrase was
true and salutary for so dis
tinguished a representative of
a great people, so high an au
thority of a time like ours, will
it not be still true and salutary
today, in heaven, in the heart
of this beloved beatus, and here
below, in the hearts of all those
who celebrate his glory and wish
to Imitate his example?
In regard to this also We shall
nourish great hope and raise
long supplication in prayer.
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commemorate the coronation
of Pope Paul VI on June 30,
1963. Shown above are the
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lire and the 115-lire depict
the Pope wearing the triple
crown and raising his hand
in blessing. The 40-lire and
the 200-lire show the coat-
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stated.
Bishops Vote Broad Power
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by Abbot Christopher Butler,
O.S.B., of Downside Abbey,
England. The second was drawn
up by the Bishops of Chile. A
third was done by the French
theologian, Father Rene Lau-
rentin. All three, Father Har
ing said, try to present Our
Lady in a more ecumenical
manner.
Father Gustave Weigel, S.J.,
brought out that there are two
tendencies in the Marian move
ment today. The U. S. theolo
gian said there are the "maxi
malists" who want to say all
they can about the Blessed Vir
gin and consequently stress her
importance. There are also the
"minimalists" who want to
stick to Scripture and Tradition
and say no more.
FATHER HARING said that it
must be pointed out that the
question here is not a matter of
"maximalists" or “minima
lists," but a question of good
doctrine. It is a matter of ex
pressing the fulness of the doc
trine as far as it enters into
the balanced perspective of the
Church and presents the vene
ration of Mary in its proper re
lation to the adoration of Christ.
Apart from the theological
significance of the decision to
incorporate the schema on Our
Lady into that on the Church, it
was agreed by many bishops
that the schema on the Church,
discussion of which had already
extended through two session of
the council, would now almost
certainly be prolonged into a
third session.
DUE TO THE length of the
Mass which opened the meet
ing, the time spent distributing
the various ballots and the
length of the presentation of
Chapter VII of the schema on
the liturgy, there was little
time left for speeches. Only
seven Fathers had time to
speak.
The opening Mass was con-
celebrated by three Ukrainian
Rite prelates: Archbishop Josyf
Slipyi of Lvov, Bishop Isidore
Borecky of Toronto and Bishop
Jaroslav Gabro of St. Nicholas
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into empty controversy; he put a high value on
tact and courtesy, and above all, charity. He
went to England because he loved, in an amaz
ing way, the People, — all the people, — of
that great nation.
Three short sentences sum up the ecumen
ical approach that Dominic used. To a Protest
ant minister, he wrote; "If we seek the truth
simply, we shall easily find it, and it will free
us from our bonds." But he always carried truth
in the vessel of charity. "Endless patience and
charity, and above all, good example”, he wrote
to Rome, "these are the great needs." And while
he plied his apostolic trade with truth and char
ity, he never missed the basic lesson of all ecum-
encial effort; "Anyhow, this is a work of God's
own," he said," and we have to let him take His
own way, having a care on our part to follow
faithfully the path which the divine mercy lovingly
points out to us." To speak the truth, to live in
charity, and to trust in God,— these are the real
instruments of Christian unity, today in the 1960's
as well as in Dominic's time, the 1840’s.
THIS IS A MAN whom history’ barely knows,
or knows only because he was John Henry New
man's first priest. When he met Newman,
Dominic’s life spoke far more eloquently to the
sensitive Auglican clergyman than his halting
words. He was the right man for Newman and for
countless others, at the right time and right
place. May God give us, in the twentieth-century
manner, men like Dominic Barberi who can
speak of Christ, and Christ's cross, and Christ’s
Church to a troubled world. The great fruits
of the harvest of souls come not to those who are
quick with words or ready with answers. The
conversion of the world awaits those who are
steeped in Christ’s life,— His sufferings as well
as His glories, His Cross as well as His words
of consolation. May God provide, through the gra
cious intercession of his servant, Blessed Dominic
of the Mother of God, this kind of men, this kind
of priests, this kind of saints.
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