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VOL 2 NO 13 ATLANTA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1964 $5.00 PER»YEAR of Atlanta GEORGIA'S NORTHERN COUNTIES SERVING A HOLY HAPPY EASTER ARCHBISHOP’S MESSAGE Easter- The Radiance Of The Godhead The new Easter Liturgy, of course, be gins on Saturday evening, and every Catho lic family able to do so will be present at the Paschal Vigil. As the years go by, the meaning of the various parts will become clearer to our people - the “Lumen Christi", the chant ing of the Exultet, the prophecies, the short ened form of the Mass, and the blessings involved. The liturgy - especially the Easter Litur gy, - is coming to life. What does it mean to us on this first Easter of the conciliar era ? First, that Easter is not just a feast of the living, but of the dead too; not a feast of saints, but of angels too; not of the saved only, but of sinners too. Everyone is included on this great day. Easter is so great be cause it is the Feast of Our Lord - His “Hour"“the day which the Lord has made." Then as the procession enters the church in darkness, the words “Lumen Christi" come out, loud and clear, “light of Christ". They mean:- (1) The radiance of the Godhead; (2) The light of divine truth that Christ came into the world to teach; (3) our own call, as a vocation to our new Risen Life. 66 If you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above!" It is not a matter of an Easter joy, nor thrill, not emotion. It is not even a matter of good resolutions or good intentions. It is the divine entering our hearts and souls; overwhelming the human reaction. The sacramental grace of the Eu charist - made complete by our Easter con fession and communion - is what personifies Easter. The effect goes deep in the soul. We are invited, nay more than invited, we are urged and exhorted on Easter, to seek the things that are of heaven, not of earth. This Easter, - 1964, is our opportunity. Our families - what challenges they offer, the corporal and spiritual works of mercy in our own midst, family prayers, good exam ples. Our neighborhoods - what opportuni ties for justice, charity, fairplay, for putting aside the littleness of racial and national and sectional differences. Our nation - an elec tion year with all the issues that so often touch on moral questions. Our world - nu clear decisions, automation, poverty. All in all, Easter of 1964 offers us, possi bly more than ever before, the testing- ground of real Christianity - are we ready to follow the Lumen Christi down the aisle of the church to life’s real problems, or is it only a symbol ? God grant that it be a reality. Easter is the day the Lord has made - “if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above". They are so much more signifi- cent than the things we have below! Archbishop of Atlanta TEXAS BISHOP Council Benefit Seen In Delay On Jews, Liberty WASHINGTON (NC) — It may have been a blessing in disguise that last year’s ses sion of the ecumenical council didn’t take conclusive action on proposed statements about re ligious freedom and Jewish- Christian relations, a bishop said here. Auxiliary Bishop Stephen A. Leven of San Antonio, Tex., said this is because a new draft of the ecumenism schema, of which these statements are part, is so much "better" than the or.ginal. BISHOP LEVEN said one American bishop serving with the council body responsible for the ecumenism schema told him that for this reason he was "thankful to God" that the re ligious liberty and Jewish- Christian relations statements weren't voted on last year. (Council Fathers and experts of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity met recently for two weeks near Rome to revise the ecumenism schema. Following their closed meeting, Father Thomas F. Stransky, C. S. P., an American on the unity secretariat staff, called the new draft "bolder" than the original.) MONASTERY SCHEDULE Times of services during the Sacred Triduum at the Monas tery of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost, Conyers, are as fol lows: Today, Holy Thursday - 4 to 6 p.m. Good Friday - 2:45 (appro ximately two hours). Holy Saturday - Easter Vigil begins at 10:45 p.m. Easter Day High Mass - 9:45 a.m. BISHOP LEVEN gave his as sessment of the progress and prospects of the ecumenical council (March 20) at the 1964 president’s conference of the National Council of Catholic Men. The meeting (March 19- 22) brought together some 150 officials and moderators of dio cesan men’s councils for dis cussions on the theme "Plan ning and Action for Renewal." A highlight of the conference was the presentation (March 21) of the NCCM's St. Thomas More Awards to six outstanding lay leaders from various parts of the country. The awards are busts of St. Thomas More, patron saint of the national men’s council. Bishop Leven in his talk stressed the fresh look the ecu menical council is taking at the roles of the members of the Church—pope, bishops, priests and laymen. THE KEY concept being examined with regard to the relation between the pope and bishops, he said, is that of "collegiality." But he describ ed as erroneous newspaper re ports that what the bishops were doing was "voting more power to themselves and taking it away from the pope." "No one ever questioned the primacy of Peter or the pri macy of the pope," he said. Rather, he said, the meaning of collegiality is that as Christ gave the power to teach, rule and sanctify — the "magisterium "--to "the body of the Apostles with Peter at their head that the magisterium is given today." THE ALTERNATIVE to this, he said, is a view that makes the pope a "super bishop" with the other bishops of the world his "errand boys." Bishop Leven said the coun cil was abandoning the notion of the Church as a "pyramid CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Men Who Have Seen Death Conquered Can Challenge The World. They Will Dare All In His Name. Through The Liberation Of His Death We Can Do Nothing Less. FIRST EASTER Pope Has Heavy Schedule Of Holy Week Ceremonies ROME (NC)—The first Holy Week and Easter of the reign of Pope Paul VI saw the new Pope at the center of all major ceremonies, a Pope praying with the world and the Bishop of Rome praying with his peo ple. Like Pope John his predeces sor, Pope Paul chose to observe Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday in the great churches of Rome surrounded by thousands of his people and thousands of others from all parts of the world. In the crowd were persons from Asia, Af rica, Europe and the Americas who have made Rome the cli max of their devotion and the high point of their pilgrimage at Eastertime. UNLIKE POPE John, how ever, Pope Paul chose not to deliver a radio message to the world on the occasion of Eas ter. Instead he chose to cele brate Mass at a temporary altar on the steps of St. Peter's at 11:30 a.m. Easter Sunday in the presence of his own people, and to speak to them and to millions of others watching over Eurovision of the triumph of Christ’s Resurrection and the promise of peace which the feast of Easter holds the world. Holy Week 1964 in Rome opened in the splendor of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls where the Pope cele brated Palm Sunday. At 9 a.m. the Pope began the ceremonies of the day. He blessed stacks of specially-braided palm leaves and presented them one by one to the Cardinals of Rome, officials of the Papal Court and to the community of Benedic tine monks whose monastery adjoins the great basilica. THEN THE Pope and the en tire court and moved in pro cession down the center aisle of the church chanting, while thousands lined wooden bar riers along the procession's route and prayed with the Pope. To many the ceremony was very moving to see the Vicar of Christ on earth commemorating Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. After the procession, the Pope took part in a Pontifical Mass celebrated at the high al tar of the basilica. ON HOLY Thursday Pope Paul went to the Basilica of St. John Late ran. There he fol lowed the precedent set by Pope John by performing the man- datum, or washing of the feet. The Pope knelt before 15 semi narians and washed and dried the right foot of each in humble imitation of Christ, who on the first Holy Thursday washed the feet of his own disciples. The following day the Pope again officiated at ceremonies, this time those of Good Friday in Saint Peter's. Pope Hohn, in the first year of his reign, had taken part in the Good Fri day ceremonies at the stational CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 CATHEDRAL SCHEDULE Times of services at the Cathedral of Christ the King from today, Holy Thursday, through Easter Sunday, are as follows: Today, Holy Thursday - 8 a.m., 5 p.m. 6 p.m. and 7:30 Service at 6 p.m. is a Solemn Service. Confessions before all Masses. Good Friday- Special Service of the Passion, 12 noon to 3 p.m. Stations, 2:30 p.m. Special Liturgy at 6 p.m. Confessions 4:30 to 6, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Holy Saturday - Liturgical Blessing at 10:30 p.m. follow ed by Midnight Mass. Confess ions 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 pm. Easter Sunday - Masses at 7, 8, 9, 10:15, 12:30 and at 6 p.m. No special Mass.