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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1964 IMPOSSIBLE FORECAST Unknown When Liturgy Changes Will Be Realized CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 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. 1964 - THE FIRST 1 ARCHDIOCESAN DIRECTORY OFFICIAL REFERENCE GUIDE TO CATHOLIC PARISHES AND INSTITUTIONS IN NORTHERN GEORGIA Price $1 (Post Free) Order Now! Your Name Address City State 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 ALLEN GOLLAY SEXTET — Piui 5:30 TO 7:30 BILL FARMER TRIO CSjtttr 9 Humor • Mu»«* Let Our Loung* Be Your Afternoon ond Evening Rctrcot DANCE AT THk ScUtd Scud 7e0 West P'trto TR. 5-4251 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 in. < Tkav East fllissionsj^i 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. 4 it 3, •V