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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 98 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 XXIIL 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. a*4£Ha/ “The rectory is ready, Father.” RENEWED INTEREST / *2 T~ VI w JU m*c |3* 5/ n~ *7 jg|57 AS 3"6 id U 7J 77 B 77 ! l 7 r 3T3T Dignitaries At N.Y. Fair Attend Lighting Of Pieta r>T i V r Mystical Body Of Christ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 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. across 1. Mountain peaks 5. Po tributary 9. Bracket 14. Cut of meat 15. Barrier 10. A dark blue 18. Rib 19. A bunch of branches (Botany) 21. Comforter 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. 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Aloft He converted the Jews of — Marvel He was born in — Verse measure Pray Prefix; thousand One of the seven dwarfs Titles Pop Ash Harangue Eagle Bit of horn tissue (scot.) Front of leg Arabic Headland A continent; abbr. 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.” "Buy Your 8l*x From Max” MAX METZEL. Owntr MAX'S MEN'S SHOPS VU»I P#*chtr»* Industrial Blvd. Chamhi** Plait •hoppinc Cantar Phona «3i-i8n 8TS Pvachtrta. N.E. Phona TR 4-8312 - M MR* Bt. America, America, Dr. Strange Love with the Pro per stranger, Billy Liar, Charade, Pari* When It Sizz les. God Love You 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.