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9 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 QUESTION BOX Communion Twice? Q. CAN ONE RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION TWICE IN LESS THAN 12 HOURS? SUPPOSE THAT ONE RECEIVES AT A 7:45 EVENING MASS, AND AGAIN AT 7 NEXT MORNING. WHEN I STUDIED MY CATECHISM WE WERE TOLD ONE COULD NOT RECEIVE MORE THAN ONCE IN 24 HOURS? I UNDERSTAND ONE MUST FAST FROM SOLID FOOD THREE HOURS. IF I AM FINISHED EAT ING AT 5 P.M. AND GO TO 7;45 MASS CAN I RECEIVE OR CAN'T I RECEIVE ATTHATMASS? A. Yes, you may receive Holy Communion late one day and early the next, even though less than 12 hours has intervened. Your catechism told you that you could not receive twice in the same day; and that is still true. The day | is counted from midnight to midnight. Even in earlier days you might have gone to Commu nion at the 12 noon Mass on Sun- W day and the 5 a.m. Mass on Monday. Also, you may receive Com munion at the 7:45 Mass if you have been fasting from food since 5, It would surely be after 8 by Com munion time. • ** Q. 1 HAVE HEARD IT IS A SIN FOR A BRIDE TO WEAR A WHITE VEIL FOR HER WEDDING UNLESS SHE IS A VIRGIN. I PERSONALLY THINK THIS IS A MATTER OF TRADITION RATHER THAN OF VIRGINITY. AM I RIGHT? A. You are right. Q. WE HAVE BEEN READING A GREAT DEAL RECENTLY ABOUT PROTESTANT MINISTERS AND JEWISH RABBISAND EVEN SOME PROTES TANT BISHOPS PARTICIPATING IN CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATIONS. MANY HAVE BEEN THROWN IN JAIL. ISN'T IT A PUBLIC SCANDAL THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT MORE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THIS CAUSE? IT WOULD SEEM THAT PRIESTS SHOULD BE STANDING SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH THEIR BROTHERS OF OTHER FAITHS. I PER SONALLY KNOW THAT MANY PRIESTS WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE. SOME HAVE BEEN EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN TO DO SO BY THEIR BISHOPS. WHAT CAN BE DONE IN THE FUTURE TO REMOVE THIS PUBLIC SCANDAL? A. Certainly most bishops have not forbidden their priests to take part in demonstrations for racial justice. Our bishops as a group, and many of them individually, have spoken clearly and forcibly in favor of the rights of the Negro. And they know as well as we that words are cheap; they fail to impress unless they are put into action. They know that it is the duty of the Church of Christ, in these times of crisis, to bear clear witness to the truths of justice and charity taught by our Master. Of course a priest owes obedience to his Bishop and may not violate a clear and definite precept given by the Bishop. He can, however, try to convince the Bishop to change his mind. Most of those who forbid demonstrations are worried about trouble, worried about what the “nice people" will say and think, concerned about the "dignity" of the priesthood. They may recall unfavorable re actions of some of the “nice Catholics" in one of our eastern dioceses some time ago when priests took part in demonstrations. "Better not to stick your neck out." Priests are moral leaders. How can they teach the virtues of justice and charity if they are un willing to stand up and be counted on the side of these virtues in a practical way? They are teach ers of truth. Will their teaching of the equality of all men before God have real meaning if they do nothing to demonstrate their own conviction of it? In these days of ecumenism will we shift the burden of witnessing to Christ to our Protestant brethren, or let our Jewish brethren outdo us in proclaiming truths which we hold as Christian? And in our own self-interest we may ask oursel ves: once these problems have been solved who is going to get credit for the freedom, equality, justice and charity which may prevail in our land? And who will be blamed for sitting out the crisis - instead of sitting in? *** Q. STATISTICS SAY 900,000 PEOPLE DIE EVERY DAY. HOW WOULD WE HAVE ROOM IN HEAVEN? I ASKED OUR ASSISTANT PRIEST AND HE SAID HE WOULD SEE THAT HE GOT IN, AND HE WOULD SQUEEZE ME IN TOO. A. You have it made, lady. There is nothing like having a confident assistant priest on your side. No one knows how big heaven is; it might be as big as the whole universe, and besides souls take up no room; and even risen bodies will not be in volved with space, it seems. all those 900,000 go to Furthermore, not heaven, probably. Q. 1 AM A MARRIED WOMAN IN MY LATE FORTIES. AND HAVE BEEN MARRIED ABOUT TWENTY YEARS, BUT AM CONSTANTLY TOR MENTED BY BAD THOUGHTS. SOMETIMES THEY NEARLY DRIVE ME INSANE TRYING TO FIGHT THEM. I NEVER KNOW WHERE I STAND. I SEE OTHER PEOPLE GO TO COMMUNION EVERY DAY AND WONDER HOW. I DO GO TO MASS EVERY DAY AND TO CONFESSION FRE QUENTLY, AND TO COMMUNION WHEN I AM SURE I CAN. A. You should be going to Communion every day, and less frequently to confession. For you, as a married woman, there is no sin in those thoughts you have. Quit fighting them. Be casual about that, and you will be a much better wife. They do not detract from your love for your hus band; they are rather a part of that love. You are scrupulous, of course; try to relax. *** Q. I GO ALONG WITH, AND UNDERSTAND EYE TRANSPLANTING. BUT WHAT ABOUT ANI MAL TRANSPLANTING TO MAN. THERE HAS BEEN SO VERY MUCH IN THE PAPER LATELY. JUST WHAT IS THE FEELING OF OUR CHURCH •ON THIS SUBJECT? A. It seems to me a medical problem with which the Church is not concerned. I believe that success has been very limited to date; but it has only been tried in desperate situations where there is nothing to lose. Q. CAN A PERSON OF AN ORTHODOX CATH OLIC CHURCH GO TO CONFESSION TO A ROM AN CATHOLIC PRIEST AND RECEIVE COM MUNION FROM HIM WHEN THERE IS NO ORTHO DOX CATHOLIC CHURCH CLOSE BY? A. Unfortunately the answer is negative. But neither may a Roman Catholic go to confession to an Orthodox priest, or receive Communion from him. For both one and the other there might be an exception when death is imminent, confes sion seems necessary to salvation, and the ser vices of no other priest are available. Even then, I believe the majority of theologians would frown on a Roman Catholic’s receiving Communion from an Orthodox priest; and would censure a Catholic priest for giving Communion to a dying Orthodox, Of course the theologian is not facing death when he does his censuring. In all of this I presume that you are really speaking of an Orthodox, as the term is conven tionally used; one separated from communion with the Pope of Rome. Those who belong to the Rom an rite may confess freely to Catholic priests of the Eastern rites; and Catholics of Eastern rite may confess to Roman rite priests. And each may share Communion with the other. I said it was UNFORTUNATE that we cannot share the sacraments with our Orthodox brethren; by using that word 1 do not imply that our rules should be greatly changed. 1 rather mean that it is sad and sinful that our separation from them has continued with mutual bitterness and recrimi nations for nine hundred years. Brothers of the same Saviour, children of the same Father should not be like that. The reason for our not receiving Communion from each other is readily apparent if we consider that our offering of Sacrifice together and our re ception of Jesus as the fruit of that Sacrifice is the primary sign of our union in love and brother hood; union with Jesus, even as the Apostles were united with Him at the Last Supper, and un ion with each other as children of the Father to whom we offer ourselves, as one, in Sacrifice. It is not right for us to pretend union when we are actually separated. It is not right to join in the signs of love and brotherhood when we are bitter and estranged. Thank Goodness, after 900 years gestures of re conciliation are being made. Sometimes they are reluctant, revealing the age-old bitterness. But the Pope invited the Orthodox to attend the Coun cil as auditors; the Russians and some Orthodox groups in the West accepted. Then the other Or thodox groups accepted Rome's invitation to a dia logue after the Council is over. And most hopeful and edifying of all. Pope Paul and the Ecumenical Patriarch met as brothers in the homeland of Jesus, our common Brother. Their meetings were in Christ-like contrast to the last previous meeting of Pope and Patriarch in Ferrara in 1438 when their initial encounter was delayed a whole day while their envoys argued whether or not the Patriarch should be required to kiss the Pope’s foot - as protocol seemed to require. However, we must not heap too much personal blame on Pope Eugene or Patriarch Joseph. They were honest, zealous men, and once freed from protocol they embraced as brothers and worked hard together for months trying to iron out their difficulties. One thing we should learn from the Council of Ferrara-Florence; the spirit of unity must be achieved in the hearts of the common people, by eliminating their prejudices. To no avail did Pope Eugene and Patriarch Joseph reach ac cord; the monks, priests and people wouldn't accept it. So while we are edified by the brotherly ges tures of Pope Paul and Patriarch Athenagoras, we must each of us imitate them by embracing our fellow Orthodox - in spirit at least; a spirit of humility, love and brotherhood. GEORGES ROUAULT Significance Of Pain CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 THERE IS, in the portraits of the suffering Christ by Rouault, an ideal of personal dignity that never descends into sentimentality. He expresses a sense of nobility, of heroism, of courage which honestly faces death and pain. Rouault’s pictures reproach our callousness and self-deception. The “Miserere" series tells us that we have not truly faced the sufferings of Christ, if we have shown no effective pity toward those countless millions who suffer and die in our midst. The calm and beautiful Christ of Rouault is the absolute antithesis of all that is brutal and cruel. If we are insured to death, to violence, to cruelty inflicted on any of Christ's living, flesh and blood brothers, we have failed to penetrate the meaning of the bruises He bore for our healing. 11 iPISSfM m isDur yiiifytr ©fa art in rJ fa fjravfn, bollouxfc be tfa twm^thy came. if Xfa Mill bt hv# in g as 4 ts in fan»en. Go* US If ^ tl)i* tai) our toily br«b. m fwojve us our t7«s- pofcs,a* w forgot tfam W s fbol tr^pojf a^ah[tu4. \tu\ 14 notitfctanp- ttttiofyfoit 0«(nKr u* from i. V fol. 58mm, *7Le Words of the OUR. , father: 1 ARE INSCRIBED IN OVER FIFTY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES ON THE WALLS or we CHAPEL AND CLOISTERS OF THE PATERNOSTER Convent NEAR, Jerusalem. St Stephen was -we First follower of CHRIST TO DIE FOR. his Faith. ST luke DESCRIBES -HIM AS MAN FULL OF WE FAITH AND WE •HOLY GHOST." PmSTC EGG DAY IS AN ANCIENT ENGLISH NAME FOR EASTER SUNDAY — PASTE BEING A CORRUPTION OF PASCHA, THE PASSOVER. AND THE EGGS A REFERENCE ID THE CUSTOM OF EXCHANGING BYBEBT • PRINTING 4 4I7HOGKAPHING COMPANY TRinlty 5*727 550 FORREST ROAO. N, I ATLANTA. GEORGIA Srrvim Atlanta Stare J9JI IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS RV JESUIT PRIESTS Weekends For Men And Weekends For Women 6700 Riverside Drive N. W. 255-0503 Atlanta c Georgia 30328 OF THE 206 MILLION People in latiN AMERICA TO-DAY, AT LEAST qofe 9ruUuiance in all ili l&utuL! 9I; i£i weilten, we wAite it. . . Sutter & McLettan 1422 RHODES HAVERTY BLDG. JAckson 5-2086 WHERE INSURANCE IS A PROFESSION NOT A SIDELINE Seminary Fund Remember the SEMINARY FUND of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in you** Will. Be quests should be made to the “Most Rev erend Paul J. Hallinan, Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta anti his suc cessors in office”. Participate in the .claily prayers of our seminarians and in the Masses offered annually fox the benefactor s of our SEMINARY FUND, OFFICIAL CATHOLIC DIRECTORY God Love You SY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN What mystery is hidden behind the scars-worn by the Risen Christ? They were not wounds, for His Body was glorious in His Resurrection. As a Captain who fought a great fight may wear rib bons as a token of his victory, so Our Lord wore His scars. But what have the scars to do with us? Amy Carmichael answered it well: "No wound? No scar? Yet as the Master shall the servant be, And pierced are the feet that follow Me; But thine are whole: can he have followed far Who has not wound, nor scar?" Are we like Christ in ourno- venas, our petitions, our searching for new devotions, our pietistic practices, if all of these are not related to our neighbor, to his service, to his salvation? Did not Our Lord say; "For their sakes, do I sanctify Myself"? Was not Paul willing to become accused just to save his brethren, the Jews? The scars in the Hands and Feet and Side of Our Savior would not be there if He did not love men unto death. Did not His Heavenly Father allow Him to be edged out of the world onto the Cross"? You Catholic laity are comfortable: we Catholic priests are popular. It is hard for the comfortable to feel sympathy with the distressed; it is hard for the popular to be one with the unpopular in the slums, the sick beds and the leper colonies. Where are our scars? It is not a religious act which makes a Christian layman a priest, but a participation in the suffering of Christ in the day- to-day life of this world. Our parish is a ghetto if it is insensitive to a straw hut in Rwanda; our priesthood is not a victimhood if we are not worried about the hunger of our brother priests in Latin America and elsewhere I Woe to us who leave our altars and our Communion rails with hands unscarred and white I Thanks to you priests and laity for scarring your hands with a sacrifice in Christ's Name for our poor Church. GOD LOVE YOU to Mrs. D. B.for$2 "My grandfather gave me these silver dollars when I was a little girl. I have treasured them since, but gladly give them up to the Missions." ....to F.J.H. for $50 "This offering is for the intention of a Holy Death for me and my wife. I am 81 years old and my wife is 75." ....to Mr,-and Mrs. L. H. for $100 "On our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary I was going to buy my wife a new diamond. She said she would be satisfied with the old one if we would send this to the Missions." ....to T.B.L, for $750 "Crops in North Dakota were good last year, and I can share with the Holy Father." Givi a WORLDMISSION ROSARY to each member of your family for Easter. Blessed by Bishop Sheen, each decade is a dif ferent color, representing the five continents where missionaries are laboring to bring Christ to the pagans. Send your request and an offering of $2 to The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10001. Cut out this column* pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of the Society for the Pro pagation* of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx^ N. Y. or your Archdiocesart Director, Very Rev. Harold Jw Rainey P, O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga. 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