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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1964
IMPOSSIBLE FORECAST
Unknown When Liturgy
Changes Will Be Realized
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selection in the Epistles and
Gospels;
—Preaching of homilies as
an integral part of Mass — al
ready required;
—Restoration of a form of
“people’s prayer” after the
Gospel and homily, to ask God's
intercession for the Church,
diocese, and parish, for those
in need and for all mankind.
MORE COMPLEX was the
council’s solemn decision to
restore, at least for certain
special occasions, Communion
under both kinds or species. In
effect this means that, once a
new ritual is given approval,
Catholics will have some op
portunity to receive Commun
ion not only under the appear
ance or form of bread but also
under the form of wine.
This is a restoration; it is a
recovery of something lost. The
Eastern Rites have faithfully
maintained the practice, in the
tradition of the Lord’s Supper
itself, at least by dipping the
Host into the precious Blood
before Communion.
In past ages the question con
cerning Communion under both
kinds was: Is it necessary? Is
it essential? And the Church’s
answer was no. Today the ques
tion is different: is it desirable?
Is it profitable spiritually? And
the Church’s answer, given by
the Pope and the other bishops,
is yes.
AT THE 16th-century Coun
cil of Trent the vote on this
matter was close, and the Fat
hers of the council ultimately
left the restoration of the’’cup’’
to the popes. Four hundred
years later, the bishops were
almost unanimous: “Commun
ion under both kinds may be
granted when the bishops think
fit, not only to clerics and Re
ligious, but also to the laity,
in cases to be determined by the
Apostolic See. . .”’
The examples given in the lit
urgy constitution are only
three, intended as instances of
other possibilities for the
future; “to the newly ordained
in the Mass of their sacred or
dination, to the newly profess
ed in the Mass of their relig
ious profession, and to the
newly baptized in the Mass
which follows their Baptism."
Communion under both kinds is
is not some privilege of prie
sts, and thus one example each
is given for the clergy (includ
ing deacons and 3ubdeacons and
even the lesser orders), the Re
ligious and the laity. Al
ready the hope among the laity,
certainly in countries w here the
level of religious education is
high, is that the practice will
be extended to the wedding Mass
to the occasions of first Com
munion and Confirmation, and
the like.
THE CASES may seem few
and rare; this is no widescale
return to ancient practice. But
it is a beginning and at the
very least, it shows the will
ingness of the Church to attempt
a renewal. It should overcome,
as no apologetic explanation
would ever do, the charge that
the laity are denied the cup of
the Lord’s Blood. It shows res
pect for the usage of the Eas-
of the Eastern Churches, both
orthodox and Catholic.
But what, after all, is the pur
pose of restoring Communion
under both kinds? The answer
lies in the nature of the Euch
arist as food and drink, as a
holy meal. The Eucharistic
sacrifice or Mass was institu
ted by Christ in the form of a
family meal, a banquet of the
community which is the Church
Any experience, any sign, any
outward evidence that we eat the
Lord’s Flesh and drink His
Blood makes our participation a
holier thing.
In modem times no Catholic
has doubted that the Mass is a
true sacrifice offered to God
that is beyond question. That
it is a sacred meal of food and
drink has not penetrated very
deeply into Catholic conscious
ness at times. It is not enough
for the council to decree: “Ef
forts also must be made to en
courage a sense of community
within the parish, above all in
the common celebration of Sun
day Mass.” The council must
also put this into effect, by re
storing the fullness of under
standing of the Mass.
SIMILAR reasoning operat
ed in a second major reform
of the Council concerning the
Mass; the decision to extend
concelebration. The decree has
two parts. The first part makes
concelebration of Mass the re
gular practice—once the ritual
has been prepared and pub
lished— on Holy Thursday, at
councils and synods, and cer
tain other occasions. The sec
ond part allows concelebration,
with the permission of the bis
hop or the major religious sup
erior, at the dally Mass in in
stitutions, in communities and
even in parishes when the needs
of the people do not require ad
ditional Masses— in fact on any
occasion when priests are gat
hered together without the
obligation of celebrating indivi
dual Masses.
Again, the doctrine or theory
was already clear enough. The
Church is best manifested or
seen “in the full active partici
pation of all God’s holy people
. . . especially in the same
Eucharist, in a single prayer,
at one altar, at which there
presides the bishop surrounded
by his college of priests and by
his ministers.”
The problem lies rather in‘
practice, where the unity of the
Christian community is lost
sight of, especially when many
priests celebrate many separ
ate Masses in the same Church
at the same time. Concelebrat
ion groups the many priests
around the bishop (or the priest
who takes his place) at the one
altar, offering the one Euchar-
tist in union with the whole body
of the faithful.
IN THE large parish, concel
ebration of Mass on Sundays is
hardly an immediate possibili
ty, but the restoration or exten
sion of the practice— now fol
lowed only at the Mass of or
dination of priests and con
secration of bishops— has a
pastoral, practical goal. It will
be a sign of the unity of the
Church, an exprience and an ex
pression of the Church as a
worshipping community. As the
Canon of the Mass puts it, the
offering is made by the “ser
vants’* of God and by the “holy
people” of God, that is, by pr
iest and people together.
Besides this, concelebration,
"whereby the unity of the
priesthood is appropriately
manifested,” will give a fresh
turn and depth to the piety and
understanding of priests. It
shows the meaning of the holy
order of priesthood—a college,
a body, a community into which
men are ordained to be the col
laborators and cooperators of
the bishop, and the servants or
ministers of the people.
Even though it has not yet
issued its constitution “On the
Church,” the Second Vatican
Council has already proclaimed
the nature of the Church as the
praying people of God, as
an assembly of worshipers.
Pope Appoints
Legate To Fair
VATICAN CITY (NC)—Pope
Paul VI has appointed a special
legate to represent him at the
opening of the Vatican pavilion
at the New York World’s Fair
on April 21.
The papal legate is Paolo
Cardinal Marella, Archpriest of
St, Peter’s basilica and former
Apostolic Delegate to Australia
and New Zealand and Nuncio to
France. Now 69, Cardinal Mar
ella served at the Apostolic
Delegation in Washington from
1924 to 1933.
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Race> Religious
ST, PIUS negative debating team compare notes after recent
victory in the Georgia Invitational Tournament in Athens, They
are left to right, Martin Gussman, Thomas Nerney, Mic hael
Iredale and Raymond Smith,
MAJOR U.N. CONCERN
PAUL PRYOR
National League Umpire
Also Is School Teacher
BY EUGENE HORN
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE
RACINE, Wis. — Question:
When is a classroom full of
students like a baseball game?
Answer: When the teacher is
an umpire, like Paul Pryor.
During baseball season, Pry
or can be found calling balls and
strikes in National League
parks, coast to coast.
COME FALL, however, he
doffs his official blue serge to
teach seventh and eight graders
at St. Lucy's parish school
here.
The desire to be home with
his family as often as possible
during baseball season led the
"man in blue” to move from
North Carolina to Racine about
a year ago with his wife Car-
leen; son Freddy, and fifth gra
der at St. Lucy’s: and daughter
Ross, 3. Another daughter, Me
lanie Renee, was born about two
months ago.
Eventually he contacted Dick
Nelson, an acquaintance living
in Racine, and came here to
ward the end of the season for
a brief visit “to look the place
over.”
"I liked what I experienc
ed here and decided this was
the place,” Pryor said.
Pryor moved his family here
in February 1963, and they be
came members of St. Lucy's
parish. Now he can get home 35
to 40 days during baseball sea
son.
LAST SUMMER while driv
ing the pastor, Father Francis
Vajda, AND and his assistant,
Father Richard Walsh, to
a game in Chicago, the pastor
told Pryor of an unexpected op
ening on his faculty.
“So, just like that I said
"Father I’ll teach for you,’
Pryor recalls.
Pryor began teaching seventh
and eighth graders on Oct. 1
and w ill be on the job until ab
out March 10 when he goes south
for spring training.
DURING his absence, his
teaching duties are assumed by
Mrs. Richard De Schriver, wife
of the football coach at St. Cat
herine’s High School who holds
a bachelor’s degree.
Pryor spent nine years as a
teacher before devoting his
career to his first love—base
ball.
Pryor teaches religion, geo
graphy, history', spelling and -
physical education to the
seventh graders and history,
geography and civics to eighth
graders.
Named Trustee
WASHINGTON (NC) —Father
Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.,
president of Notre Dame Uni
versity, is one of six persons
appointed by President Johnson
as trustees of the Eleanor Roo
sevelt Memorial Foundation.
Intolerance Issue
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
vention of Discrimination,
which for lack of time did not
do a specific drafting job on
this declaration.
The sharp differences of
opinion between the communist
and non-communist members
will undoubtedly reappear on
such matters as the need to
protect freedom of religion,
the state’ s responsibility in
this matter, the social nature
of religion and the supranat
ional character of the major
organized religions.
The Human Rights Commiss
ion has several other sets of
“principles” assigned to it for
definition if it has time in its
three - week session to draft
them. One concerns freedom
and nondiscrimination in the
exercise of political rights.
Another text deals with dis
crimination with respect to the
“right of everyone to leave any
country, including his own, and
to return to his country.”
Governments and nongovern
mental organizations have been
requested to submit their views
on the substance and form to be
MARYLAND WHITE
TOWSON, Md. (NC)—A white
woman has won her fight against
a Maryland law which bans cer
tain interracial marriages.
Judge W. Albert Menchine of
Baltimore County Circuit Court
ordered (Feb. 13) a marriage
license issued to the woman so
she can wed a Filipino phy
sician. The jurist did not rule
on the constitutionality of the
law, but found the evidence
showed the physician was of
mixed races and that the con
templated marriage was not
prohibited by the law.
THE CASE originated when
Elizabeth Medaglia of Towson
complained the court clerk re
fused (Feb. 4) to lsue a mar
riage license so she could wed
Dr. Benjamin de Guzman of
Baltimore, on the ground he was
Filipino and the law bars mar
riages between whites and Fili
pinos.
Miss Medaglia said she is a
Catholic and could notbemarr-
given these proposed sets of
principles.
IN ADDmON, the commiss
ion is asked to consider the
methods by which a universal
police code of ethics might be
prepared and adopted. This re
quest has come from the U.N.
seminar on the role of police
in the protection of human
rights, which was held in
Australia in April, 1963.
Other items on the agenda
include the third annual report
on freedom of information,
covering the year 1962-63, and
the three - year report from
governments on developments
in the human rights field in
their respective countries. The
period under review is 1960
through 1962.
The commission is expected
to make recommendations for
the appropriate observance of
1968 as an international year
for human rights. It is to re
view a report on capital punish
ment and a progress report on
a study of the right of arrest
ed persons to communicate with
those they need to consult for
their defence or to protect their
essential interests.
led in the Church unless the
marriage license was issued.
John J. Sweeney, Jr., her at
torney, said the Maryland law
prohibits marriage between
white persons and persons who
are Negroes, of Negro descent
the third generation, and
members of the Malay race,
which includes Filipinos. He
said the law also prohibits mar
riages between Negroes and
Malayans.
THE ATTORNEY argued that
under the law she could marry a
Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Cu
ban or Puerto Rican.
Judge Menchine said while
Filipinos are classed as Mala
yans, the evidence showed Dr.
de Guzman had a white grand
mother. Under these circum
stances, the judge ruled, the
doctor “is a person of mixed
races — w hite and Malay — and
the marriage of such a person
to a member of the white race”
is not prohibited by the law.
In 1962, his first full year
in the big league, Pryor found
himself getting home only about
five days during the season. So
he began looking around for a
more convenient location.
“I TOOK a map, studied it
and decided on Racine or Keno
sha since they're close to both
Milwaukee and Chicago,” he
explained.
PEOPLE
DUTCH PREMIER Marijenen
has denied rumors that Prince
Bernhard, husband of Queen
Juliana, has followed his daugh
ter, Princess Irene, into the
Catholic Church, which she
joined last December. Prince
Bernhard’s mother, Princess
Armgard, became a Catholic in
1950.
GEORGE H. SMITH of Bloom
field, N. J., a trustee of Serra
International and former inter
national president, has been
named a Kinght of St. Gregory
the Great, civil class, by Pope
Paul VI.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON has ap
pointed Fr. Noel F. Moholy,
O. F. M., of Santa Barbara,
Cal,, to the 1964 Annual Assay
Commission of the U. S. Mint,
which has met in Philadelphia
to examine and weigh samples
of U. S. coins and to report
“any deviations. . . beyond the
legal limits.” Fr. Moholy is the
first priest ever appointed to
the Commission.
BISHOP RALPH L. Hayes, Bis
hop of Davenport, Iowa has sta
ted, in a letter to his diocese,
“To put it bluntly, to deny ano
ther person the exercise of his
God-given rights because of
race or color is a sin.”
HEAD OF CHICAGO arch
diocesan schools, Msgr. Wil
liam E. McManus, says that
current criticism directed
against parochial schools is
“reckless.” He indictaed that-
studies now under way will dis
prove charges of deficiencies in
accomodations, teaching stand
ards and textbook quality.
ALTHOUGH HIS team was de
feated 3-2 by Russia, Fr.
David Bauer, C. S. B. priest-
coach of Canada's Olympic
hockey team, has been awarded
a goal medal by the Inter
national Ice Hockey Federation
for service to the sport. At one
point during the games at Inns
bruck, Fr. Bauer had to calm
a crisis which arose when he
was struck in the forehead by a
stick hurled by an enraged
Swedish player.
Wins Fight Against
Race Marriage Ban
They’re On Dean’s List
Ed Curtin
Presents
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INDIA: A SCHOOL UNFINISHED
NF.LLIKUNIJ Is a slum quarter in the eity of TItICHCK. in |
southern India. The Sisters of St. Clare opened a small house
there to take care of children, espe
cially young girls. The number of
these ha - increased to 130 and now
the Sisters are eompelled to turn
many away. There just isn’t enough
room for more. The Sisters lack
even a ehapel for themselves and
a place for w chaplain . . . Some
lime ago. they began the necessary
enlargement program hut had to
stop for lack of money. Their ap
peals for funds met little response
for the people were as poor as them
selves . . . The Bishop has asked us
to intercede for them. S4.800 is needed to enlarge the school
and provide the needed chapel and chaplain's quarters. Will
you send what you can—81. S3, S10 or more—now? You will
be assured of the prayers of the Sisters and their charges.
Tht Holy Father's Mutton Aid
for tht Oriental Church
LECTURE NOTE
A distinguished theater director has said: “The lecture is
the most unsatisfactory method .vet invented for getting across
an idea.” College students have long suspected this. We don’t
wish to lecture but \vc would like to plant an idea . . . Why not
send your LENTEN SACRIFICE this year to the missionaries
in the Near and Middle East? You can help in so many ways.
For instance:
□ FURNISH A MISSION CHAPEL. Vestments — $50. Mon
strance— $40. Chalice — $40. Ciborium — $40, Tabernacle—
$25, Stations of the Cross — $25. Censer — $30. Sanctuary
Lamp—$15. Altar Linens—$15. Sanctuary Bell—$5.
□ EDUCATE A SISTER-TO-BE like — SISTER MARY .JOB.
The cost is $150 a year for two years.
□ HELP EDUCATE A SEMINARIAN. One like D1AU
L’AINE. The cost is $100 a year for six years.
n FOR SISTERS. A habit costs $lo. Shoes—$5. A year’s in
cidentals—$7.30.
□ MEDICAL NEEDS FOR THE MISSIONS. $50 provides a
complete MEDICAL KIT. For $3. S10, $15. $20. $25 we can
provide DRUGS. SPLINTS. JNXOCULATIONS.
~ SCHOOL SUPPLIES. A desk costs $4. A blackboard costs
$1.50. For $5 we can provide BOOKS. CATECHISMS or
SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
□ FIRST COMMUNION DRESSES. It takes $10 to outlit a
child for First Communion.
STRINGLESS GIFTS enable us to help where the Holy
Father thinks the need is great. Our missionaries do appreciate
your MASS STIPENDS, often their sole daily support.
POPE JOHN XXIII
In his encyclical. Mater et Magistra, the late Pope wrote:
‘‘Me all share responsibility for the fact that populations arc
undernourished”. . . You can share your goods by sending a
TOOD PACKAGE to a needy PALESTINE REFUGEE FAM
II.Cost: $10. This will help them through a month.
KINDLY REMEMBER THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST
WELFARE ASSOCIATION IN YOUR WILL. Thanks.
Dear Monsignor Ryan:
Miss Mary Alice McMahon,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.
J. McMahon, 264 Lakeridge
Circle, Rome, has been nam
ed to the Dean's List at Siena
College, Memphis, Tenn. She is
a graduate of Sacred Heart Ac
ademy, Cullman, Ala.
Bryan M. Cavan has been
named to the Dean's List for
the first semester at Belmont
College, Belmont, N. C. The son
of Mr. and Mrs. John. F. Ca
van, 1280 Spring Mill Lane, NE
Atlanta, he is a graduate of
Bisop Kenny High School,
Jacksonville, Fla.
Miss Ellen Fitzgerald, a jun
ior at St. Mary’s College, No
tre Dame, Ind., has made the
Dean's List for the first semes
ter. A graduate of St. Pius X
LAKE CHARLES
LAKE CHARLES, La., (NC)
—The Lake Charles Seamen’s
Center created through the
combined efforts of Catholic
and non-Catholic ministers
was dedicated here.
High School here, she is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ger
ald A. Fitzgerald of College
Park and is on a working scho
larship at St. Mary.’s
Enclosed please find .. .. . , f or
Name ..
Street
City Zone State
JOHN GILL, first Catholic
Negro to enter Georgia Tech,
has finished the first quarter
on the Dean’s List, with A’s
in all subjects and a B in phy
sical training. Son of Dr. and
Mrs. John Gill, 1508 Mozley
Dr., he is active in the Newman
Club.
A
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FRANCIS CARDINAL SPILLMAN, Pratidani
M»gr Jauapi T. lyaa, Nat‘I $o>
Sod all caMMoicatlaat ta:
CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION
4GO Laxingfon Av«. at 46th St. N«w YoHc 17, N. Y.
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