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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1964
GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5
QUESTION BOX
Communion Sunday?
Saints in Black and VX/hitpl VATICAN PAVILION
ST. VINCENT FERRER
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BY MONSIGNOR J.D. CONWAY
Q. Father Hardon’s article on “Eucharist for
Other Christians** prompts me to write. I am
86 years of age, was born and raised a Catholic
always lived by the laws, seldom questioned them;
now I am wondering if I will live to see the day
when little innocent children in Catholic schools
won’t say to adult non-Catholics: “You won’t go to
heaven, because you’re not Catholic?'*
Visiting my friend in a Protestant old folks
home, I found it was Communon Sunday. When
the “Bread and Wine’’ was passed, I refused.
But the atmosphere in that little chapel, the sin
cerity of all there made me think I could have
taken the “Bread and Wine** with the same relig
ious inspiration I had in my own church.
Thank
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God for Pope John
Question: Would I be com
mitting a sin if I joined with
them in “Communion** if the
.occasion happened again? Why?
A. With regard to your first
S paragraph, 1 refrain from add
ing my incompetent voice to the current loud
wave of chatter about parochial schools—chatter
which seems to reflect more violence than pat
ience, and to spring more from reflex action than
from deep reflection. Your own comment deserves
mediation.
As I recall Father Hardon’s statement (I can
not find a copy of it at present), he was doing
some wishful thinking, hoping that someday we
might be able to share our Sacred Banquet with
members of other Christian groups. I am not
sure that he expressed hope that we might re
ciprocate that their communion service. Of course
he knows that present Church law forbids
such inter-communion, and with sound theological
reason; Communion means union-with. This holy
Sacrament not only unites each one of us to
Jesus, but it is also a sacred sign of our unity
with each other in faith and love. Pope Paul VI
recently called the Eucharist a “mystery of uni
fication” and the “font of Christian brotherhood.”
Unity in love is not enough. Were we to join
in Communion with those who differ seriously
from us in matters of faith we would not be act
ing honestly. This would be obvious if we were
to invite to Communion those who deny the true
presence of Christ in the Eucharist; or if we
were to join in the Communion service of those
who reject the true presence, and do in fact
serve only bread and wine.
I have been told that in some lands where Chris
tians are few a limited measure of inter-Com-
munion with the Orthodox has been tolerated on
the local level. But in such cases the differences
in doctrine are not great. At least all those in
volved believe in the True Presence, and actually
have that Presence.
1 am writing this on the feast of St. Hermene-
gild, the Visigoth, who accepted death on his
father’s orders rather than receive Communion
from an Arian priest.
Heartily do I join you in thanking Clod for Pope
John, but we do his memory no favor if we let
religious indifference creep into the mutual love,
harmony, tolerance and understanding which
he inspired. He would not have us overlook
real differences in doctrine or deny them by our
actions; he would rather have us seek to recon
cile them in truth, inspired by love and for
giveness, seeking love and forgiveness.
Q. Some of my friends tell me I am wrong in
not taking advantage of a dispensation from fast
ing during Lent, and that I gain nothing by it. I
do it for penance, because I really like to eat
and fasting is hard for me.
A. All you gain is an increase and deepening of
your love for God, which means that grace is
more active in your soul. You encounter Jesus
in a manner which pleases Him and sanctifies
you. Your critical friends who fast only when the
law demands it will hardly experience a gene
rous encounter of that kind. They serve God grudg
ingly, from fear of sin.
Q. Our non-Catholic relatives say a prayer be
fore meals:
“Thank you for the world so
sweet.
Thank you for the food we
eat,
Thank you for the birds that sing,
Thank you God for every
thing.”
This Impresses me as something that children
understand when they say it, as something which
has more daily ’ meaning than our formal grace
before meals. Does the Catholic Church object to
this prayer, or does it have any simple grace
before meals?
A? Your relatives’ prayer is clearly designed
or children only; and I presume Catholics must
have similar little rhymes. But I must admit that
I don’t know any of them. I do think that we would
benefit from some variations in our prayers be
fore and after meals. We tend to recite habitual
formulas with little attention.
At least we should find a substitute for
“Bounty.” “Munificence” would be worse.
“Generousity” would be somewhat better. But I
suggest an archaic synomym, “Goodness”; or a
paraphrase, “love.” “Bless us, O Lord, and these
the gifts of thy goodness”. ..or “these the gifts of
thy love.”
Q. I have been reading “The Women of the
Bible” by Edith Deen. She takes quotations from
various Bibles, but leans more to the King James
version. Each time she quotes from I Kings I
look it up in my Douay-Rheims version and find
III Kings. In the chapter on Esther she quotes;
to this day the Purim Festival is celebrated on
the fourteenth and fifteenth of March, when the
Roll of Esther is read in Jewish Synagogues all
over the world. Queen Esther’s last decree was
that this feast be held annually, on the fourteen
th and fifteenth day of the twelfth month, the month
of Adar. In other words Mrs. been is calling
Adar March. Douay Bible says December. The
Encyclopedias state June as the Jewish month
Adar.
A. The King James and most Bibles used by
Protestants follow the Hebrew Bible in naming
our books I and II Kings land II Samuel. Then our
III and IV Kings is based on the Latin Vulgate,
which is in turn based on the Greek Septuagint,
which called them the Books of the Kingdom.
The feast to which Mrs. Deen refers is that
of Purim. and it comes on the 14th day of Adar,
which is the 12th month of the Jewish sacred
calendar, corresponding to our February or
March. In some years there is a 13th lunar
month, called Second Adar (an intercalary month
—to balance the lunar year with the solar year).
It corresponds roughly with our month of March;
and when it occurs there is a second celebra
tion of the Feast of Purim.
Q. In the past we were told to disregard any
kind of chain letter. In the mail came a chain
letter asking me to send twenty-five eagle stamps
to each name listed below. The names were all
five nuns. I know some of these nuns and just
couldn’t believe it. What do you think?
A. Why not ask one of the nuns? Sounds to me
like a holy racket.
Q. Since it is Easter time again, I would like
to get a few points clear about the Church law
of going to confession at least once a year.
1. Does this confession have to be made during
the Easter Time?
2. In the event that a mortal sin has not been
committed. Does the law bind at all?
3. What period of time is designated by “once
a year”? Does it mean during 1964, January
through December; or is it rather one year from
one’s last confession?
A. (1) No. (2) No. (3) Commenatators are not in
agreement. Practically : Easter time to Easter
time, if you need Confession to make your Easter
Communion.
I dislike questions like this, which indicate a
disposition to escape hell with singed eyebrows,
rather than a loving effort to attain sancity by
devout and frequent use of the Sacraments, which
are the means of our personal encounter with
Jesus Christ — means by which He renews Hi*
life in our sould and confirms us in our practice
of virtue. Confession is our meeting with Jesus
in mutual love, even when that love has not been
broke by serious sin. It is a re-birth of mutual
love when we have sinned.
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people who generously devoted themselves
to Catholic Action often seemed to become hy-
bfed clergy or religious. They were neither in nor
out of the secular world.
THE NEW EMPHASIS, far more consonantwith
the theology of the Mystical Body, sees the laity
to possess a distinct and posititve role of its own.
The layman is needed, not because there are not
enough priests, but because the total health of the
Mystical Body of Christ demands that each
member fulfill its role and contribute its irre
placeable service to save the world. Only the
layman is involved in constant encounter with the
world on its own terms. Only he can bring the
Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, into that
encounter and thus save the world.
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branches (Botany)
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22. He was called “—
of Judgement”
24. He knew It by
heart
26. Sickle; variant
26. Waste
28. Nest
29. Dogma
30. Offer
33. Toga
35. Peers
36. Pew; (Greek)
38. Resin
39. Lifeblood
40. Besides
41. Pronoun
42. Box
43. Trade
47. Indemnify
49. Weathercock'
50. Single
51. Displaced person;
abbr.
52. Conduit
53. Proofreader’s mark
54. Drink slowly 17
57. Pleated 20
•S9. Mother (French) 23
60. Crony 27
61. Bore 29
62. Rum (Spanish) 30
64. Iowa College Town 31
60. Ground 32
68. Dandle 34
73. Dyak; sea 35
74. Betide 37
76. Pile 39
77. Seventh month of 42
Jewish year 43
79. Female name 44
80. Weariness 45
81. Onion 46
82. Rusts 48
83. Austere 49
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2. Stupid person 55
3. Bullet sound 56
4. Flout 57.
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order of St.— 67.
8. Of Arabia 69.
9. Before Christ 70.
10. Caviar 71
11. Maligner
12. Summerhouse in 72.
Italy 75.
13. Football team 78.
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Arabic Headland
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7
FLUSHING MEADOW, N.Y.
(NC)—One thousand persons,
including high Church and civic
dignitaries, attended the bles
sing and dedication here of the
Vatican Pavilion at the New
York World’s Fair,
The ceremony (April 19),
which included a symbolic un
veiling of Michaelangelo’s fam
ous statue, the Pieta, was fol
lowed by a Pontifical Low Mass
in the exhibit’s chapel. Paolo
Cardinal Marella, Prefect of
the Sacred Congregation for
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and
legate of Pope Paul VI, presid
ed at the ceremony. He was as
sisted by Francis Cardinal
Spellman of New York, Arch
bishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Aposto
lic Delegate in the U.S., Bishop
Bryan J. McEntegart of Brook
lyn and 43 archbishops andbis-
shops from 11 eastern states.
BISHOP McEntegart, preach
ing the sermon during the Mass,
said the Catholic Church,
* more than all other exhibi
tors” at the fair, is “anxious
to let its light shine upon men.**
’This Vatican Pavilion,*’ he
said, “must demonstrate what
the Church has done in the past,
what she is currently doing, and
what the Church plans to do in
the future. Hopefully, by the
brilliance of her light, she may
lead men closer to God and
bring God closer to men.”
BISHOP McEntegart said that
it is to the countless thousands
of persons who will visit the
ARNOLD VIEWING
Paris When It Sizzles
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
Among the nations at the beginning of “Paris
When It Sizzles,” the new Audrey Hepburn movie
(Bill Holden, one concedes grudigingly, is in it,
too), is a line crediting Hubert DeGivenchy not
only with Miss Hepburn’s gowns but also with her
perfume.
This is an odd citation for a sight-and-sound
medium, like giving credit for the screenplay
of a symphony. It opens vast and vulgar possi
bilities for a critic who detests the movie.
(So does the title, which suggests several nasty
rhymes). As luck would have it, this is one
sophisticated comedy that
turns out to be funny.
THE TRAPPINGS are
astonishingly simple. An ele
gant typist (Miss Hepburn),
looking as much like a work
ing girl as Princess Grace,
comes to work fora hard-booz-
ing scenarist (Holden) who has
a 48-hour deadline for a movie
script. The setting, for obvious
photogenic reasons, is Paris. While he writes
the movie, they fall in love, and that’s all there
is to it.
It s been a long time between good scripts
for George Axelrod (who adapted both "Break
fast at Tiffany’s” and “The Manchurian Candi
date ’). His work tends to be both tasteless and
tiresomely bright. “Paris’* has a few moments
of dubious propriety, but next to most Doris
Day films it looks like “The Good Ship Lolli
pop.” Axelrod’s lines are still labored: Holden is
so persistently gay and clever (“You call your
bird Richelieu because you always wanted a car
dinal”) one longs to blast him with a custard
pie.
But the real delight is the way Axelrod and
director Richard Quine “Suzie Wong” have built
their comedy around the whimsical abilities of
film to capture the outpourings of a scriptwriter’s
garish imagination. The Holden character is a
hack, and the movie he writes is an outrage
ous thriller (with striking similarities, including
Mancini-type music by Nelson Riddle, to Miss
Hepburn’s recent “Charade”).
THE CAMERA carries us right along into the
story-within-a story, with Holden and Hepburn,
aided by alcohol, co-authoring as well as playing
the lead roles. There is splendid camera trick
ery (not to mention gorgeous stmight shots of
the City of Light in technicolor) and filmland
satire. Among the latter: a marvelous chase in
volving about 50 trenchcoated spies shooting
everything in sight, a spoof “Dolce Vita” party
in which one guest drinks a smoking chemical
and actually turns into Mr. Hyde, and a desert
ed movie lot pursuit in which the actors splash
through a swampy jungle set lighted by a dozen
Louis XIV chandeliers.
Not all the kidding is uniformly brilliant. One
motif, involving Tony Curtis as a second-string
policeman who keeps insisting on a bigger part,
gets more repeat footage than the girl who sells-
hair-spray on TV. Much better is such raucous
nonsense as a wild Holden-Hepbum chase through
Les Bois. This starts in an underground cave
with Holden in a Dracula suit and ends in World
War I serial combat, with Hepburn shooting Hol
den down in flames and tearfully throwing a bou
quet to mark his grave.
This is (dare we utter the word) imaginative
film comedy, even if it doesn’t always click. Its
free-wheeling technique recalls another highly
recommended new comedy, the slightly more art
ful “Billy Liar” (directed by Britian’s JohnSchl-
esinger). e g :> when Billy, a funny-sad day
dreaming type, is angry at someone, he suddenly
turns into a soldier with a tommy-gun and rat-
tat-tat mows the -culprit down. They can't do
that on stage.
AFTERTHOUGHTS ON THE OSCARS:
The traditional grumbles are still valid: one
can’t get too exicted about awards that are not
based entirely on merit. It’s also clearly possible
for a film to pile up technical awards and manage
to look better than it is (cf. “Cleopatra”).
Academy members are still inclined to mistake
hard-nosed commercial competence for talent.
Thus the Oscar for best original screenplay went
to “How the West Was Won.” a spit-and-patch
job if ever there was one, over such competi
tors as “America, America,” “8 1/2” “Love
With Proper Stranger,” and “Four Days of Nap
les.”
Still the show had its moments. There was
Sammy Davis superbly timed use of one of his
stock lines about theNAACP. There was the award
for the veteran pro, Melvyn Douglas. And there
was the moving tribute to Sidney Poitier (al
though my personal preference among the nomin
ees was Richard Harris).
THIS AWARD was also a tribute to “Lilies
of the Field,” that joyous $250,000 wonder. The
film was a labor of love and talent far removed
from the materialistic values that have come to i
be associated with Hollywood and were so evi
dent on Oscar night.
Now we learn that “Lilies” was made entirely
in two weeks, with actors and technicians work
ing for minimum scale. Poitier, scenarist James
Poe, and director Ralph Nelson together collect
ed only $70,000. TTiey had enough faith in the
taste of moviegoers to take their chances on a
percentage of the gross, now expected to be about
$2.5 million.
This happy ending sounds almost like a Norman
Vincent Peale sermon. But it may restore sanity
to an industry which has come to depend more on
bankers and holding companies than on the vital
impact of talent and originality on the customers.
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS:
For everyone:
It*s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World;
Lord of the Flies, Lilies of the
Field.
For connoisseurs:
Tom Jones, 81/2, The Leopard
Better than most;
fair and pavilion “that our Pieta
and our entire exhibit must
speak."
“If, in this Vatican Pavilion,
by showing the works of Christ’s
Church,” he added, “we help to
broaden and deepen mutual un
derstanding among men, than
truly His Church shall have
made a valuable contribution
toward world piece.”
THE CENTRAL theme of the
New York World’s Fair is
“Peace Through Mutual Un
derstanding.”
Cardinal Marella, who cele
brated the Mass, said at its
conclusion that it gave him
"tremendous satisfaction” to
know that the Catholic Church
is taking part in the fair. He
said the aim of the Vatican Pa
vilion is to “accurately por
tray” the reality of the Church
so that “all those who visit
may gain a clear knowledge
and deeper understanding of
the Church.”
A PAPAL benediction was
bestowed upon all those at
tending the Mass.
The ceremonies began with
a procession of the clergy to
the area in which the Pieta is
displayed. It was actually a
lighting of the statue, rather
than an unveiling. Because of
technical complications, it was
decided not to drape the mas
terpiece. Instead, after a bles
sing from Pope Paul VI was
read, the statue portraying the
fragile corpus of Christ in the
arms of His bereaved Mother,
was slowly lighted by Cardinal
Marella pushing a button.
THE WHITE marble statue
is encased behind bullet-proof
glass in a setting of blue cre
ated by Jo Mielziner, noted
theatrical designer. The first
reactions of the viewers were
mixed. Some warmly applaud
ed the new setting for the 15th
century statue. But others were
critical.
After the unveiling, the cler
gy, with members of various
religious orders and papal
knights, proceeded up the stairs
to the chapel on the mezzanine
level for the blessing of the
chapel and the celebration of
Mass.
AMONG THE guests at the
ceremony were R. Sargent
Shriver, director of the Peace
Corps; Lt. Gov. - Malcolm Wil
son; Mayor Robert F. Wagner
and Sen. Kenneth B. Keating.
Robert Moses, president of the
fair, spoke after the iWass at a
gathering at the fair's Terrace
Club.
He took direct issue with
those who had raised objections
to having the Pieta brought to
the fair because of the dangers
involved in removing it from its
pedestal in St. Peter’s. “Art
pundits who had hardly been
aware of the existence of the
Pieta became its self-annoin-
ed guardians and had the ef
frontery to instruct the autho
rities of the Church as to their
responsibility to mankind,”
Moses said.
‘Throughout the fair in all
out trials the critics have kept
up their incessant yapping,” he
said, adding: “Critics build
nothing.”
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Wf MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEElT
Is not love of the poor of the world tied up with the love of a par
ish for the poor in its area? Suppose a frontiersman had cleared a
small piece of a forest and, with the trees he had chopped down,
built a log cabin. The trees yet uncut, or the land yet uncultivated,
could be likened to souls still in the order of nature, knowing not
Christ. The trees subjected to the axe of discipline and made to
minister to a human habitation might be likened to souls who be
came members of the Mystical Body of Christ, or the supernatural
order. Would not such a woodsman seek to extend the arable land
and diminish the wild foliage? Is not a pastor of a parish bound in
like manner, out of love of Christ, to bring lost sheep into the fold,
to become involved in every aspect of human life because Christ
affected all humanity by His Incarnation?
Will there not be, as a result of the Second
Vatican Council, involvement and identifica
tion of the parish with every single soul in
the parish? The parish is not to minister to
the saved alone; it serves the city, the com
munity, the world, the uncut trees which are
capable of becoming crucifixes. As the parish
must not be a ghetto or a spiritual fort under
siege, but rather a leaven in the mass of the
city’s corruption, so the diocese and the na
tion are not to hoard their treasures as if they were national, but
rather share them with Moslems, Buddhists, the hungry, the slum-
dwellers and the wild foliage of the Communists* forests. The pas
tor who is worried about the soul of the city in which he lives, as
Lord, wept over Jerusalem, is also the pastor who will share all
his blessings with the world, as His Master shed His Blood on the
Cross at the crossroads of the civilizations of Jerusalem, Athens
and Rome.
In a recent survey, 92 per cent of Catholics asked for more em
phasis on the world obligation of the parish and the Mystical Body
and less on parish needs and particular devotions. The “sense of
the faithful” is right I We are members of the Mystical Body of
Christ, and wherever there is “bodiness” there is our ministry,
for the Incarnation was the “en-fleshing” of God in the form of
man. There is humanity in the dope-fiend, in the Communist, in the
juvenile delinquent who calls himself an atheist; in Harlem, in
Vietnam, in the slums of Latin America. In other words, we are
Catholic not just because we belong to an institution or a parish,
but because we have a universal obligation to all mankind. The pas
tor who helps the poor in his parish, even though they are not
Catholics, is the pastor who makes sacrifices for the 2 billion who
know not Christ. And the same is true for you. If you love humanity,
for whom Christ died, you will seek to propagate the Faith all over
the world. Won’t you?
GOD LOVE YOU to Anonymous for 35^ “This was for a Beatle
fan book, until I realized that people who can’t even read need it
more.” ....to B. V. for $3 “Thanks to St. Jude for a favor re
ceived.” ....to H.B.F. for $100 “For the poor in the Missions.”
....to E.J.T. for $5 “I won this at the race track. Please use it to
help the poor of the world.”
The ten letters of GOD LOVE YOU spell out a decade of the
rosary as they encircle the medal originated by Bishop Sheen to
honor the Madonna of the World. With your request and corres
ponding offer you may order one in any of the following styles:
$2 small sterling silver
$3 small 10k gold
$5 large sterling silver
$ 10 large 10k gold
SHEEN COLUMN: Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and
mail it to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of Tlie
Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New
York lx, N. Y. or your Diocesan Director, Rev. Harold J. Rainey,
P. O. Box 12047, Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Georgia.