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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN TWRSDAV, OCTOBER 31, 1963 Archbishop Hallman Preaches In Rome On New Beatus CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 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 WE WELCOME THE PATRONAGE OF OUR NEIGHBORING CATHOLIC PARISHES LIGGETT DRUGS... rexall 2#4&l 5136 ROSWELL ROAD, N.W. / FR££ prrkingI Miles m na roue NEW PRESCRIPTION OR refill your old PRESCRIPTS •RBSSUfB? m; • GENTtE Jws -LI1TLEGIRL U RES JERGEMSAQi par jo i X *iv LOTION v9' tosufS £ ssamst Jr* MBM1F fliSia! . f|- ^(KOTEXiM* Dhrrrpiki 59 rrr rARfl NOME AO. t,]n MAMD 8<HDBG.tla 1 '• cream.® (|| i pmoAitmi V PORKER m THUD, mi, SAT-OCT. Vetiveuf life 69 31-NOV 1 AND 2 rfccotutfo You Can Dopond on Any Drug Product that Boars the Name exalt Roxall Drug Products aro Ouarantood to Give Satisfaction or Your Money Back 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 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 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. COMMEMORATIVES — The Vatican City Post Office has released a new issue of four postage stamps, designed to commemorate the coronation of Pope Paul VI on June 30, 1963. Shown above are the tw'o vertical designs. The 15- 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- of-arms of Pope Paul VI. All stamps have the date of the coronation. Vatican Workers Get Salary Hike VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope Paul VI has raised the salary of every Vatican employe 20 per cent. The salary increase was ordered "in consideration of the increase in the cost of liv ing,” the Vatican Press Office stated. Bishops Vote Broad Power CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 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 of Chicago. Adult Clubs Fall Frolic A FALL FROLICS weekend is being sponsored by the Atlanta Area Council of Catholic Adult Clubs. All of the following activities for only $5. For tickets call 627 - 5202. Friday November 8 - Re freshments and Juke Box Dance at Knights of Columbus Hall, 2620 Buford Hwy. Time; 8:00. Saturday November 9 - Hootnam Decorating Party at K of C Hall. Time: 2:00. Free Happy Hour and Ballroom Danc ing at K of C Hall. Time : 8:30 - 1:30. Sunday November 10 - Mass and Communion Breakfast at St. John's Mel- kite Church, 1428 Ponce De Leon Avenue. Time: 11:30 Live Jazz Farewell Session at K of C Hall. Time: 2:30. 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. SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN 231-1281 LEBANON: WHERE CHRIST ONCE WALKED Christ upbraided the cities which saw his miracles and didn't do penance. lie said: “For if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes”. . . Tyre and Sidon are cities in what today is Lebanon, a coun cil try where Christ once walked. At ^ Jeb-Jannine, a large village with 500 Meikitc Catholics, the poor peo pie. rich in faith but poor in mi terial resources, are trying to re build a church damaged by earthquake. With their own hands they are trying to reconstruct the walls, pave the floor, reinforce the roof with cement, piaster the walls and build new pews and confessionals. They have been able in many years to collect only a small sum of the money needed. They ask us to help them to the extent of $4,000. Will you please help them a little bit or a lot? Please send the help now. The Holy Pst bet's Mission Aid for the Oriental Church MISSION MINDED The Junior Sodality of Our Lady in one town through their secretary, Janet D. writes us: “Enclosed please And a money or der for two dollars which our Junior Sodality wishes to give for the Mission needs . . . We hope to be able to send this small donation once a month”. . . Thank you, girls, and may Our Blessed Mother thank you too with graces. 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