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PACE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1964 OFFICIAL TEXT OF POPE PAUL VPs CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Food, Aid, Peace, Three Basic World Necessities (N. C. W. C. NEWSSERVICE) VATICAN CITY — Following is an English text of the Christ mas message of Pope Paul VI in which he addressed himself to three basic needs in the world. The message was released here (Dec. 23) in various languages by the Vatican Press Office. Beloved brethren and child ren: We extend to all of you our best wishes for a blessed Christmas. WE WISH this blessing to en ter into the hearts of each one of you and to implant there that sense of happiness, of peace, of serenity and of trust which is born, in such a special man ner, of this holy feast and which forms one of the most consol ing experiences of life. May each one of you who re ceives our affectionate greeting experience internally the sweetness, the comfort and the happiness we wish you. Today people who possess so many objects of so-called ex terior happiness often stand in need of interior happiness, the only kind which is genuine, per sonal, profound and sincere. And it is this kind of happi ness that we desire each of you to enjoy. We send our blessing above all to you who are suffering, be cause you stand in greater need of it, and to you who are sick, to you who are aged, to you who are sad, to you who are weep ing, to you who hunger for for giveness and thirst for justice. We would like to stand beside each one of you to bring you the sweet, sincere and consol ing words of Christ. NEXT, WE send our blessing to our dear children, you who see in Christmas your special feast, the feast of new life, the feast of wholesome affection, the feast of the joy of living. In the years that lie ahead for us, may the Lord preserve and increase your happiness and teach you the secret which is contained in your innocence. We extend our greetings to your families who are reunited around your tables, around your guests, around your crib filled with homespun and life-giving beauty. We extend our best wishes to you, the members of social groups, who on this annual oc casion balance the accounts of your capabilities and your needs, in order that your sense of justice may be accompanied by that of orderliness and love. WE SEND our blessings to those of you who are exiled and fugitives, whose anxieties and sufferings are well known to us, to those of you faithful children who are deprived of the freedom that is due to you, to those of you who are suffering for Christ and for His Church and who to day more than ever are close to our heart. We send our greetings to all th e peoples and nations on this earth, to which the message of peace we send today from hea ven fills the world with trust and good will. A blessed Christmas to all 1 We can communicate our best wishes because Christmas is a religious and a Christian feast; and we know very well the hon ored place it holds amidst the varying conditions of the human life. BUT THEN another conside ration comes to mind. In our de sire to extend to all our bro therly and fatherly best wishes, our eyes try to perceive the view of the whole world. We might call it the watchtower over the world, the lofty position in which our responsibility has placed us. And then we are reminded that our good wishes ought to be related not only to the humble longings that are so common on a happy popular feast, as Christmas ordinarily is, but particularly to the real and pressing needs of people. Our affection cannot ignore the great sufferings, the deep lines, the painful necessities which concern great sections of society or even entire peoples. In our intention of realistic ob servation of the human scene, our mood changes from joyful to pensive because we are point edly asked this question: What are the great needs of the world today to which our desires must be related, if they are to be helpful and wise? The needs of the world! The very question makes one dizzy because these needs are so vast, so manifold, so immeasurable. But some of them are so evident and impelling that all of us un- MOTOR HOTEL • TV A AIN CONOITIONINU • FAMOUS M,AM. aUPPST • ICS A (I.IRA3I STATIONS • COFFES MAKIN, EACH ROOM MS VI OMItTA* A HOLY CROSS BROTHER 'MUCMNO • BOYS' HO«M» • RAMCHINO • OfVICI WORK • TRADES TORSION MISSKMM For Information Writs> I Honsal, CSC 104 Holy Croat School 4950 Dauphin* Street Hew Orleans, La. 70117 “PET...you betl” PET MIIM COMPANY DAIRY DIVISION For Convenient Home Delivery tn Atlanta Call 636-8677 9ndunance in all itd jj&und! 9J it'd* written, we write it . . Sutter & Mdettan 1422 RHODES HAVERTY BLDG. JAckson 5-2086 WHERE INSURANCE IS A PROFESSION NOT A SIDELINE derstand them, at least to some degree. The first is hunger. We knew that it existed, but today it has been recognized. It has now been scientifically proven to us that more than half the human race has not enough food. En tire generations of children, even today, are dying or suf fering because of indescribable poverty. Hunger produces sick ness and wretchedness; this in turn increases hunger. It is not merely prosperity that is want ing to vast numbers of people, it is mere sufficiency. AND UNLESS this heart rending situation is relieved by opportune remedies, we must foresee that it will grow worse, not better. The demographic increase of starving areas has not yet been balanced by the eco- nomic increase of the means of sustenance, although it has been accompanied by the spread of such means of information and such types of development as impart an uneasy and rebel lious consciencesness to such a state of suffering. Hunger can become a subver sive force with incalculable re sults. One who studies this unfor gettable and threatening prob lem is sometimes tempted to have recourse to remedies which must be regarded as worse than the problem itself, if they consist in attacking the very fecundity of life by means which human and Christian eth ics must condemn as illicit. In stead of increasing the supply of bread on the dining table of this hunger-ridden world, as modern techniques of produc tion can do today, some are thinking of terms of diminish ing by illicit means the num ber of those who eat with them. This is unworthy of civilization. We know that the problem of demographic growth when un accompanied by sufficient means of sustenance is very grave and complex. But it can not be admitted that the solu tion to this problem consists in the use of methods contrary to divine law and to the sacred respect that is due to both mar riage and to newborn life. THIS GIVES added motivia- tion for us to look with pro found sympathy at the multi tudes of men who suffer hun ger and to observe with anxious attention the manner in which men study and handle the enor mous problems connected with this tragic situation. Even though we are not given Christ’s miraculous power of materially multiplying bread for the world's hunger, still we can take to heart the plea that rises from the masses, still oppressed and languishing with misery, and to feel it vibrate in us with the very pity which was felt by the heart of Christ which is both divine and completely human, Misereor super turban, "Ihave compassion on the multitude... They have nothing to eat” (Mark 8,2). We make our own the sufferings of the poor! And we hope that this our sympathy may itself become capable of enkindling that new love which by means of especially plan ned economy will multiply the bread needed to feed the world. We are therefore openly in favor of everything that is being done today to help those who are devoid of the goods required for the elementary means of life. We see with admiration that in the years following the des truction of war great projects of International aid have been launched to give witness to a fresh flowering of human nobi lity and to offer generously to entire masses of unknown peo ples the spontaneous and well organized gifts of indispensable food. We should like to encour age and bless this magnificent endeavor, at once manifold and providential. We are happy to note that Christian principles can rise to pervade and pro mote these praiseworthy and beneficial undertakings. It is also gratifying to ob serve that some of these initia tives come from Catholics ow ing to the merits of persons en dowed with Christian geniuA of worthy pastors who sustain these noble undertakings, and of so manv of the laity who gave heart and money to the cause. Praise must also be given to the able directors who orga nize these works and to the courageous executives who ren der admirable service. We pay a special tribute to these va liant men. THIS, THEN, is our first TRANGE BUT TRU c AS Little-Kn own Fact* for Catholics By M. J. MURRAY E * * * * * * * * * sHT* * Copyright. 1M1. N.C.W.C. Now. Sonic* — m r picture or nLs^'HtiO^RCOMino Satan JtO- j 60° ,H fJoRMARDV MORE THAN kAGO. IN MEDIEVAL BRITAIN"^ THERE WAS A WIDESPREAD TRADITION THAT THE PATHWAY TAKEN BY Funerals proceeding to church BECAME PUBLIC PROPERTY. THIS Routt was never ploughed, ever IF IT PASSED THROUGH GOOD CORN LAND., j0m ST Anthony Mary Claret, who died at PRADES in 1870, Survived a# 4 . by SPANISH^ Revolutionaries. ^Michelangelo's famous Jy *P1ETA* IS THE ONLY WORK WHICH THE GREAT ARTIST IS ! KNOWN TO HAVE SIGNED ~ HIS | NAME CAN DE FOUND ON THE RlBAON OP STONE WHICH CROSSES our ladv's breast. Christmas wish: That charity may reign in the world, that the love brought forth by Christ, ,born as a child in this world, and kindled by Him among men, may blaze forth ever more widely until it can wipe away from our civilization the dis honor of misery weighing upon men like ourselves and our bro thers in Christ. This greeting reminds us of another, not unlike it in its hu manitarian scope, but different in the methods by which it is to be realized. It is the greeting for nations on their way to de velopment. Our universal mission as shepherd of the world makes us look with great sympathy and with loving interest on those new nations which are now reaching that sense of identity, that dig nity, that ability to function which are peculiar to free civil states. We look especially to those of Africa and Asia, and it pleases us to salute, on this birthday of Christ, their own birth to independence and to the harmony of international life. WE WISH to recall with them the high origin of their voca tion to liberty and to human re ceptivity to the Christian mes sage, and we pray that they may always know where to dis cover the sources of true hu manism and where to find that reserve of moral energy with which a people acquire the ex act concept of common life and find the wisdom and strength to express in its laws and in its customs both the great prin ciples of civilization and the pe culiar forms of their native genuis. We know that these new na tions are justly proud of their sovereign liberty and that they can no longer admit the domina tion of another state overtherti. But we know also that these na tions have not yet reached that degree of self-sufficiency which is required to enjoy all die cul tural and economic benefits of a complete modern state. It is clear, then, that our cha rity this Christmas, in its search to discover the great needs of the world, recognizes the necessity of helping these emerging nations, not with hu miliating and self-seeking ben eficence, but with scientific and technical assistance and the friendly solidarity of the inter national world—in brotherhood in place of paternalism. This is what we desire for these new nations—that they may enter as brothers into the family of na tions, bringing with them their own original civilization as well as their recent cultural and so cial progress, in the spirit of solidarity, harmony and peace. May they find in thesamefami- ly of nations the respect due to them and the help of which they are still in need. WE CANNOT pass over the ‘fact that the Catholic Church herself, by means of the mis sions among these peoples has always striven, without thought of temporal gain to develop them to their utmost capacity, always holding in honor all their human and upright quali ties, while proclaiming to them their vocation to the true and supreme destiny of redeemed man, and offering them at great sacrifice and out of pure love the benefits of education, of health services and of social formation. In all of these ac tivities the aim is not to es tablish a relationship between superior and inferior, or be tween strangers, but to educate them to attain Christian bro therhood and civil autonomy. We, therefore, wish that Ca tholic missioners may always find a friendly welcome among the new nations and may al ways know how to render devot ed and loyal service to promote their spiritual, moral and ma terial development. While we view the entire pa norama of nations, we cannot but mention again another pres sing need of mankind—peace. This is suggested by Christ mas itself, since, as we all know, this feast is presented to us as a message of peace bestowed from heaven upon all men of good will. THIS. IS treated in the great encyclical of our venerated pre decessor, John XXIII, who ad dressed himself to the funda mental question of peace in our modern world. The develop ment of controversies in our times force us continually to consider the nature of peace, its forms and weaknesses, its needs and progress. This en cyclical has shown us, if we may so put it, new problems of peace and the dynamism of the elements from which peace must develop. St. Augustine’s classic de finition of peace as the "tran quillity of order” seems to be applicable today in the sense FACED WITH CRIPPLING the remainder of his life from rheumatoid arthritis, Father Stanley J. Ogorzaly (right) of the Diocese of Buffalo, N. Y., recently consented to surgery on both hips and the insertion of stainless steel ball>and* socket joints (as seen in X-ray viewer). Here he Is getting a check-up from Dr. Peter A. Casagrande, chief orthopedic surgeon at the March of Dimes Arthritis Center, in Buffalo, that the tranquillity and secu rity of peace are the products of well-ordered movement of component parts, rather than being something static and fix ed. Peace is well-balanced mo tion. There are other reasons for mentioning peace in our Christ mas message. FIRST IT is necessary to heed the yearnings of the new gene ration. Youth desires peace. Secondly, we see that peace is still weak, fragile and threat- ened, and that in not a few, for tunately limited, regions of the earth, peace is violated. We observe with some appre hension other obvious facts. Peace in the present time is based more on fear than on friendship. It is maintained more by the terror of deadly v weapons than by mutual har mony and faith among peoples. And if tomorrow peace were to be broken—which God forbid— all humanity could be destroy ed. HOW CAN we celebrate Christmas with serenity when such a threat hangs over the world? And, therefore, we ur gently beseech all men of good will, yes all men who hold re sponsible positions in the field of culture and politics, to con sider as fundamental the prob lem of peace. True peace is not that hypocritical propaganda aimed at lulling the adversary to sleep and concealing one’s own preparation for war. Peace does not consist in pacific rhe toric which refuses the indis pensable, patient and tiresome negotiations, which are the only efficacious means. It is not bas ed merely on the precarious balance of opposing economic interests, nor on the dream of proud supremacy. But true peace is based on the aboli tion or at least on the mitiga tion of the causes which endan ger its security, as nationa listic or ideological pride, the arms race, lack of confidence in the methods or in the orga nizations that have been con stituted to render the rela tions among nations orderly and friendly. Peace in truth, injus tice, in freedom, in love. This is the peace we pray fori At this point our Christmas wishes touch upon another need related to that of peace. And it is the answer to this elemen tary question: Why are men not at peace with one another? Be cause their minds are not unit ed. UNION OF minds is the great need of contemporary man. Cul ture, which awakens and in great part fills this want, in the end does not satisfy it. On the con trary culture exacerbates the minds of men by putting into circulation an indiscriminate pluralism of ideas. Men lack unity in their principles, in their ideas and in their view of life and of the world. As long as they are divided* they will continue to be ignorant of one another, to hate and to fight against one another. From this it is easy to see the importance of th e doctrinal element in the fate of humanity. We clearly see how blessed we are by the com ing of Jesus Christ into the world. He came to forge a uni que link between all mankind and God, the heavenly Father. This religious link, respecting and ennobling each man’s person as it doe*., is the most solid and hopeful basis for unity be tween men. The true sociology of human peace takes its rise from Christian religious unity. It is this unity, introduced by the peace, concord, mutual un derstanding and happiness of all men of good will. This is the greeting we send out with the pealing of the Christmas bells. We direct it especially to those whom we believe to be most ready to receive it: to Christians still separated from us and to Catholics happily united. Ut unun sint, that all may be u n 1 t e d: That was Christ’s sublime and final plan before His Passion. We make it our own on this day which commemorates His coming in to the world. SONS AND brothers and all men of good will, these are the desires with which Christmas fills our heart. They have been so profound and so insistent during these first days of our pontificate and during the Sec ond Vatican Council that we have decided, as you know, to go very soon to Palestine, the land in which Christ, the Son of God, came down from heaven, lived, taught, suffered, died, rose from the dead, and from which He ascended again into heaven. We have been moved to do this be cause we wished to express anew our faith and love for Him and also because we feel that, by uniting ourselves with Him in the GoSpel setting, we shall be able to carry out with great er perfection and success the mission entrusted to us for the world’s salvation. Once again we declare clear ly that the nature and purposes of our pilgrimage are solely religious. Our journey will be that of Peter’s witness; we wish to in clude in our own faith that of the whole Church and with Pe ter at Caesarea Philippi, say to Jesus; "Yes, Lord, you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” IT WILL be a journey of of fering. As the Magi from the East, the symbols and precur- surs of all peoples of the earth, so we from the West wish to bring to Jesus the offering of His Church and to acknowledge in Him its Founder and its Mas ter, its Lord and its Saviour. It will also be a journey of search and of hope: search for all those who are for us sons and brothers in Christ; in the atmosphere of the Gospels and as evoked by this land of bene diction, how can we not ask ourselves: Where is the full flock of Christ? Where are the lambs and the sheep of His fold? Are they all here? Which ones are missing? And so we cannot but implore Jesus the Good Shepherd, using His own words: May there be one fold and one shepherd! And our heart will reach out also to those outside the fold of Christ and our good intentions will embrace all the peoples of the world, those far and near, with sentiments of respect and of love, wishing them happiness and peace. We shall greet re spectfully and cordially all, whatever be their origin, whoni we shall meet on our way, es pecially those in authority, the^ people, the pilgrims, and th4 tourists, but without stopping ii) our hurried pilgrim’s journey and without allowing ourselve to be distracted from the soil religious purpose of our trip! IT WILL thus be a journey oil prayer, made with humility andl with love. In our heart will be present the whole world; no one ■ will be forgotten. In asking pardon from Our Lord, the Merciful One, for all our faults, for all our weak nesses, we win not hesitate to beg for all men mercy and peace and salvation. 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