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PRIMARY GOAL Pope Presses For Lay Liturgy Participation (The following article is the seventh in a series on the broad reforms in the public worship of the Church enacted by the ecumenical council. The aut hor, an official council expert, is a professor of canon law at the Catholic University of the Catholic University of America and the immediate past president of the North American Liturgical Confe rence.) BY FATHER FREDERICK R. mcmanus (N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) Pope Paul VI in bringing in to force the ecumenical coun cil's Constitution on the Liturgy has made active and under standing congregational parti cipation in worship a primary goal. Of the consitituion's 130 sec tions, the first one singled out by the Pope for immediate act ion and application is Article 19: “WITH ZEAL and patience, pastors of souls must promote the liturgical instruction of the faithful, and also their active participation in the liturgy both internally and externally, tak ing into account their age and condition, their way of life, and standard of religious culture. By so doing, pastors will be fulfilling one of the chief duties of a faithful dispenser of the mysteries of God; and in this matter they must lead their flock not only in word but also by example.” 1964, the first Sunday of Lent. At the same time it was evi dent that many of the council's decisions would have to be de layed still longer—chiefly be cause they depend upon the re vision of services, texts, pray ers, etc. Most of parts of the consti tution which must wait further and specific action are evident enough. For example, the bis hops decided that during Mass “a more representative portion of the holy Scriptures will be read to the people in the course of a prescribed number of years,” that is, in a kind of cycle. OBVIOUSLY, THIS provision cannot take effect until new lec- tionaries and altar missals are prepared and published. To clairfy any doubts and to make sure that the liturgical rene wal goes ahead without delay, Pope Paul's Jan. 25 instruct ion deals with several matters; (1) Begging “all Christians and particularly all priests” to study the text of the constitu tion, the Holy Father urged bis hops and pastors in the strong est terms to teach the people how to take part in the Church’s worship, with an understanding of its “strength and inner val ue.” (2) Next Pope Paul set up a special commission to carry out the council's decisions— particularly by revising the service books, such as the al tar missal and ritual. Plans for These words sum up the Sec ond Vatican Council’s rules for “the promotion of liturgical in struction and active participat ion.” And they were given first place in Pope Paul’s document of Jan. 25, 1964, on carrying out the council’s plans. “By the very nature of things” the dire ctions for liturgical education and participation “come into force immediately.” WHEN THE Constitution on the Liturgy was promulgated on Dec, 4, 1963, at the public ses sion which closed the second session of the council, a date was set for its regulations to become effective and universal law of the Church: Feb. 16, Office Equipment this commission are found in the constitution itself; “The liturgical books,” says the council, “are to be revised as soon as possible; experts are to be employed on the task, and bishops are to be consulted, from various parts of the world.” (3) Finally the Pope settled specific questions and in a few cases anticipated the reform of rites and services: Immediate permission to celebrate the sacraments of Confirmation and Matrimony during Mass— with special provision for Scri pture readings and the nuptial blessing even at marriages celebrated apart from Mass; permission to suppress parts Business Machines Sales-Service-Supplies PHONE 525-6417 PHONE 525-6417 172 WHITEHALL STREET, S.W. ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA FAMOUS ALl-PUKPOSI DRESSING DELICIOUS ON SajaMeats-Seafood "SOLD AT HADING STORES of the daily office of prayer, in the case of those bound to pray the officer without waiping for the revised texts. SOME SPECIFIC directions given by the Pope insist on more serious steps to be taken with out delay: • Establishment of diocesan liturgical commissions to pro mote understanding and active participation in public worship by the people; • the homily preached at Mass in which “the mysteries of the Faith and the guiding principles of the Chris tian life are expounded from the sacred text” —recom mended by the council as a part of any and every Mass—requir ed, as of Feb. 16, at every Sun day and holy day Mass when a congregation is present; • the teaching of the liturgy in seminaries and similar in stitutions, to be revised ac cording to the council's legis lation. BECAUSE THE Second Vat ican Council has not yet dete rmined with precision the role of “episcopal conferences” or bodies of bishops in the diff erent countries, the Jan. 25 do cument of Pope Paul gives spe cific rules; Such bodies, organ ized on a national basis, must Include all bishops of dioceses, and may include coadjutor and auxiliary bishops. The enact ment of decrees requires a two-thirds vote by secret bal lot. The importance of this rule lies in the authority conferred by the council itself upon such bodies of bishops in liturgical matters, especially in the introduction of the vernacular languages into the liturgy. A new papal directive is added, that translations of Latin litur gical texts are to be submitted to Rome for approval. IT IS ONLY natural that most attention should be concentrat ed upon future reforms, upon the commission set up to re vise the rite of Mass and the sacraments, and upon the few changes which become effective without delay. Dramatic chan ges catch the eye; it is all the harder to propose, as Pope Paul and the other bishops have done, the broad program of study, instruction, education and for mation. Just as there is no waiting period before the council’s doc trine or teaching about the lit urgy becomes official or effect ive, so Pope Paul’s first point, even before setting up the com mission for liturgical reform, is the need for training and con gregational participation that is both interior and exteriorly ex pressed. IF ANY SPECIFIC norm is the key to the others, it is the insistence that Articles 15, 16, 17, of the constitution be put in to effect immediately— that seminary programs be revised for the next scholastic year. The council has called for a through reappraisal of the teaching of dogmatic theology, Scripture, spiritual theology, and pastoral theology—all to be unified in the exposition of the mystery of Christ and the his tory of salvation” which is ce lebrated in Christian worship. The liturgy, which is faith in action, is to have new empha sis in the seminary program of studies and in the seminary life of prayer. ALL THIS stems from the council’s recognition that “it would be futile to entertain any hopes of realizing” its pur poses “unless the pastors themselves, in the first place, become thoroughly imbued with the spirit and power of the lit— rugy, and undertake to give in struction about it.” Irrespective of reforms and changes yet to come, the im mediate need is education and participation — beginning with “priests, both secular and re ligious, who are already work ing in the Lord's vineyard” and with candidates for the priest hood in seminaries and other places of study. ONLY THIS can bring to pass the high hopes of the Church, as expressed by the Pope and by ail the bishops: "Participation by the Christian people as ‘a chosen race, a royal priest hood, a holy nation, a redeem ed people’ (1 Peter 2:9; cf. 2: 4-5) is their right and duty by reason of their Baptism.” THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 MEMBERS OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY JUNIOR CRUSADERS Civics Club of Our Lady’s Day School, Atlanta, are shown working on their club project for the sick and the poor. The club has recently received its official charter from the Commission on American Citizenship in Washington, D. C. JESUIT PREDICTS New Techniques Will Soon End Birth Control Battle ST. LOUIS (NC)— ‘The con flict over birth control will be over in five years, maybe even in two years,” an English aut hor and expert on population, poverty and marriage predicted here. Father Arthur McCormack, a Mill Hill Father visiting in St. Louis, said in an interview that science is so near to perfect ing ways to detect—and even to anticipate— fertile periods in women that birth prevention de vices and chemicals will soon be out-of-date. IN FACT, HE said, “In the next few years contraceptives will be achieved by two major methods throughout the world- rhythm and “the pill.” Both rhythm and the pill, said Fat her McCormack, will be per fected to the point that they’ll revolutionize the whole contro versial area of family planning and population control. Father McCormack said that methods of perfecting the rhyt hm method “are in the labora tories and have gone even furt her.” Medicine and science are working on several systems, but their aim is the same: to devise a simple, easy, cheap, and acceptable way to detect the time when a woman is likely to conceive. THIS SCEINTIFIC develop ment would even find ways to anticipate with certainty the time of ovulation in women, Father McCormack said. A SCHOOL ISSUE couple would then know ahead of time when to expect ovulation to occur. Among the scelntific methods being developed are a simply administered urine test or an even more simple saliva test. ANOTHER SYSTEM being worked on, said the priest, is electronic. He described this as a minute transistor capsule that would reveal the status of a woman's ovulation cycle by measuring normal body act ions. The capsule would in dicate other body functions. Father McCormack is pro fessor-elect of pastoral theo logy at the general motherhouse of the Mill Hill Fathers in Lon don. Mill Hill has houses in United States cities, including St. Louis. THE PRIEST IS the author of the book “World Poverty and the Christian, “and is the edi tor of “Christian Responsibi lity and World Poverty” and a new book, “Poverty and Popu lation.” As to the much-publicized "pill,” an oral tablet for re gulating ovulation cycles, Fat her McCormack said it has “Quite good uses besides as a contraceptive.” He predicted that it too will be improved by science, so that its theraputic uses will become more import ant to allowing a married couple to use it as an aid to family planning, but not as a contra ceptive. FATHER McCORMACK ple aded for more responsible dis cussion of the whole general area of population and birth control. He said misunder standings and exploitation have prevented a balanced view of the subjects. “We don't pay enough attent ion to the responsibilities of sex,” he said. "We have neg lected to concentrate on the beautiful doctrine of love in a marriage. “BIRTH CONTROL is not the only sin you can commit in marriage. It is as great a sin to be selfish and not loving enough,” he said. He stressed that the determ ination of size for a family is up to the parents. “Thenumber of children per family is now a matter of personal, respon sible, religiously - oriented choice by the parents alone. No doctor or priest has a right to lnterfer in this intimate mat ter,” he said. FATHER McCORMACK not ed that the discovery of new and widely acceptable methods of family planning could make the subject of birth control for un derdeveloped nations with large and expanding populations “a dead issue.” He warned of a danger that “doctrinaire family planners” will seek to exploit population problems for their own ends. But he also said: “I do not see how the Catholic Church will be able to hold out against the pressures for much longer in international programs. I do not think that the Church is bound to have an all-out campa ign against such moves.” Priests Jeered By Racist Mob CATHEDRAL CEREMONIES Boy Scout Week Starts Tomorrow Scout Week, marking the 54th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America, will be observed from Friday, Feb. 7, through Thursday, Feb. 13 by the At lanta Area Council. On Feb. 8, Anniversary Day, all Scouts and Scouters in the Council will re dedicate themselves to the ideals of Scouting. Exhibits and demonstrations of Scout craft will be held at Lenox Square, Cobb Center andStewart-Lake- wood Shopping Center. outs, Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls are invited to attend the sixth annual dedication and award ceremonies at the Cath edral of Christ the King on Sun day, Feb. 9. The procession in to the Cathedral will begin pro mptly at 2:30 pm. Because of space limitations the ceremony is restricted to those above Cubs, Bluebirds and Brownies. Refreshments will be served in the auditorium by theCadetsof Christ the King. 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I© 1 © ©I i©* © © © K* © IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS RV JESUIT PRIESTS Weekends For Men And Weekends For Women 6700 Riverside Drive N. W. 255-0503 Atlanta, Georgia 30328 Thousandaire WEST END oonoon at Aanar TENTH STREET 1114 4IACMTMI ■UCKHIAO PIACHTfllt AT PIKOMONT Ileadq uarters LAKEWOOD LAKCWOOO AT aTIWANT COLLEGE PARK SIS' MAIN ITRKST ■ftOOKHAVEN 4001 -ACACMTftlK MAIN OFFICE AAICTTA 4 * I <40 A D Atlanta Federal Savings CLEVELAND (NC)—Twelve priests tried unsuccessfully here to quell a disorder-bent mob of about 600 persons from violence over a school racial Issue. The priests, along with po licemen, were jeered and struck with garbage thrown from the crowd in the predominantly Catholic “Little Italy” neigh borhood. THE CROWD, gathered to protest integrationist pickets at the neighborhood Murray Hill Public School, also smashed the windows of automobiles be ing driven in the area by Negroes . No pickets showed up. Anticipating trouble in view of violence the day before (Jan. 29) at Brett public school when integration pickets appeared, the priests appeared (Jan. 30) in front of Murray Hill school where the pickets had announ ced they would march. THE PRIESTS were gathered by Father Anthony Gasbarre, pastor of the neighborhood’s Holy Rosary Catholic church, and Father Vincent Hass, direc tor of the Cleveland Catholic Interracial Council. The priests and neighborhood civic leaders joined police in moving through the crowd and urging it to disband. But they were ignored. SOME MEMBERS of the crowd went back into alleys and dragged out garbage cans, hur ling their contents at the police and priests. Father Gasbarre, whose church is one block away from the public school, had scheduled the night before the picketing a Holy Hour at 9:30 a.m., the hour pickets from the “United Free dom Movement” were to ap pear. PROBABLY BECAUSE there was not time for advance notice, less than 50 attended the Holy Hour. To attract attention to it, the bells on Holy Rosary tolled several minutes before ina after the Holy Hour, As the bells were ringing, the mob got out of control. MARIST A Military Day School for Boys FULLY ACCREDITED • OPERATED BY MARIST FATHERS ANNOUNCES ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS February 1st and 8th. Time: 8:45 A.M. Openings in Grades 7* 8, 9, 10, 11 Call the Principal—457-7201 — for complete information