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1 T THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 3 SURVEY SHOWS I'KAISKS NATION'S WAK DEAD—The Archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman, who is also Military Vicar of the U. S. armed forces places a wreath before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National Military Cemetery in Arlington, Va„ May 10. He previously presided at a Solemn High Mass in the amphitheater there, and in his sermon praised the nation's heroic war dead. The occasion marked the religious observance of the centennial of the founding of the cemetery, in May 1864. How To Understand Liturgical Changes BY ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALLINAN This is the first of a scries of seven articles written by the Archbishop to assist the people of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in an understand ing of the fuller worship in which they have been called to participate, I, An Invitation on Sunday Most of us are not really at home with abstrac tions, Although they are needed in theology, the Church is constantly translating them into realities; mediation becomes our parish priests at the altar or in the confessional; transubstantla- tlon becomes the host which we receive, and so on. Now, in our time, the Church is undergoing a renewal of her public worship. Some critics will see it all as a noisy disturbance; others as a gimmick to arouse curiosity; still others as a gesture to Protestants, To explain why parts of the Mass will be in English, why the people's part is being stressed, why other changes are coming, the Fathers of Vatican II made several points clear; ''Christ’s faithful should . . . through a good understanding of the rites and prayers, take part in the sacred action conscious of what they are doing with devotion and full collaboration.” "This full and active participation By all the people is the aim to be considered beforTIir But have not our parents and grandparents, (and we ourselves) understood, collaborated and participated? Many have, but they have not Been encouraged by the Latin tongue, enforc ed silence and stiffness, the arrangement of the altar, the time given to parish announcements, if they remained, in the critical words of a re cent pope, "mute spectators,” the fault was not theirs. And if they turned to “side-devotions,” novenas, and the like, it was because they were more interesting.'* Good sermons have never lost their power; personal silent prayer is still the staple of most sincere Christian lives. The Sunday Mass, however, too often has become only an obligation, an interruption and a for mality. Let us think of it as an invitation. Our Lord wants us to be there. We take part as vital mem bers of His mystical body, while He worships the Father as His Son and as our Head. When we say, "Holy, Holy, Holy” at the Sanctus, we are saying it with Christ. And in thlfactof the public worshipping community, we offer ourselves for sanctification — we need to grow in that hol iness, These certainly are no abstractions. The parking of cars, the Sunday splitting up of families, the speed of our lives are all part of modern living. But we can respond wholehearted ly to the meaning of Christ’s invitation — if we really want to. Many parents already explain the Mass to children in advance— it is a meal with Our Lord; an opportunity to praise Cod A year of participation in Latin has prepared us for the new English prayers, More instruction and practice are needed now. Meanwhile the invitation still stands— to Join with Christ. The Sabbath in the Old Testament was "a day of delight” (Isalas), a feast of the home and family, until the Pharisees (and, in later centuries, the Calvinists and Puritans) turned it into a nightmare of blue-laws and legal rigor. Christ protested all that, and His Church made Sunday the "holy day” of mercy and liberty, the day of living contact with the risen Christ, You are invited, with your family, neighbors and friends, to Sunday's Mass, If you understand it and take full and active part in it, your lives will be enriched. The blessings of the Mass do not stop, as you leave the church— they are renewed in everything you do. The Church, in Christ’s name, is inviting us to full active worship. Can we decline? ■m ‘TIME TO ACT• Cardinal Backs Rights Bill BOSTON (NC) — Laws are needed to protect the rights of Negroes, Richard Cardinal Cushing asserted here as he ad vocated passage of the civil *M| IN SUCTIO^CAU,. 2j^-3QjQ rights bill now being debated in the U, S, Senate. In a statement (May 17) for guidance of his people, the Car dinal branded racial discrimina tion as “an evil of enormous dimensions.” He called on all segments of society, particu larly on the clergy, employers, landlords and educators, to co- Elects Atlantan Mr, Thomas E. Medcalf, son of Mr, and Mrs, J. L. Medcalf of 530 Ponce de Leon Pi., De catur, Georgia, has been elect ed to the Board of Directors of the Circle ”K” Club of St. Ber nard College, St. Bernard, Ala. N.AMINCO DKCOR ajT-M',’’...'.' Mill In MiiIm tiiliMlwIy ftr PanAmerlcan Imports <*«Mhtrp« (la SucMhMd) II). tru IGNATIUS HOUSE RETREATS BY JESUIT PRIESTS Wssksndi For Man And Waakands For Woman 6700 Rivsrtida Driva N. W. 255-0503 Atlanta* Georgia 3032? '•j operate in securing racial jus tice. “ALL HAVE something to give in the solution of this prob lem. When each does his part it can be easy,” the Cardinal said. Commenting on the lengthy debate of civil rights legisla tion in the U.S, Senate, the Car dinal said no law ever should be passed without discussion, but there also is a time to end dis cussion, there is a time to act. “IF WE must delay so long over a law that only reaffirms our nation's basic premise— that 'all men are created equal' —surely there is a fatal sick ness among us. The enactment can be the first step in restor ing our national health,” the Cardinal said. Legislation alone is not the answer to the problem—there must be cooperation for racial Justice on all levels of society, the Cardinal said, MASSACHUSETTS laws on civil rights, he said, are "mod- sis of their kind” but condi tions in Massachusetts for Ne groes remain very far from ideal. The Cardinal observed; “Our Negro population is large ly confined to ghetto areas.” “I call this city and its citi zens to Justice,” the Cardinal said, "I call them to change their hearts and to raise their hands before the evils that we are tolerating,” Christian* Jewish Dialogue Developing BY RELIGIGUS NEWS SERVICE The past several months have seen a widespread, intimate and •soul - searching confrontation taking place between Christians and Jews, with both sides urged to speak “honestly to each oth er" in order to rid themselves of "burdens that have hinder ed our relationship.” Possibly at no time has so much attention been centered on the need for Jews and Chris tians to come face to face as brothers, each entitled to his own special dignity, and both respectful of the other’s free dom of conscience. NOR HAS there been so much practical evidence of the will ingness on the part both of Protestant and Roman Catho lic churchmen and rabbis on national and local levels to join together to explore — in the words of one Jewish leader — “opportunities to improve this world and be a light unto the nations,” Two events — one yet to come, the other already an out standing entry in the religious diary of 1964 — have provided strong points of Interest as efforts continue to create new patterns of mutual Chrlstlan- Jewish friendship and under standing. SEPTEMBER will see the opening of the third session of the Second Vatican Council from which, it is confidently predict ed, will come an historic dec laration on Catholic-Jewlsh re lations that will constitute a ringing denunciation of anti- Semitism in all its forms and stress mankind’s, not the Jew ish people's, guilt in the Cruci fixion of Christ. Meanwhile, in the United States, Protestants, Catholics and Jews are each engaged in fine-combing their religious textbooks to eliminate whatever is found to be “negative and distorted” about those of other faiths, This is being done in the same ecumenical spirit that prompted two Popes — Pius XII and John XXIII — to eliminate from the Good Friday liturgy phrases deemed offensive to Jews. THE SPOTLIGHT has also been on the little market down town of Logumkloster in South Jutland, Denmark, where some 40 Lutheran scholars wound up a week-long consultation — sponsored by the Lutheran World Federation —by pledging to work toward overcoming an ti-Semitism and reconciling Christians and Jews. The participants — repre senting 14 countries — urged congregations ' 'to know and love their Jewish neighbors as them selves; to develop mutual un derstanding and to make com mon cause with the Jewish peo ple in matters of spiritual and social concern, especially in fostering human rights.” Several cardinals, archbis hops and bishops have publicly expressed their confidence that the Second Vatican Council at its next session will approve the chapters on anti-Semitism and religious liberty which are part of a comprehensive schema on ecumenism. Among them are Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Vatican Secretariat for Pro moting Christian Unity; Franz Cardinal Koenig, Archbishop of Vienna, who returned home re cently after a visit to the United States; and Richard Cardinal ON BLUE WAVE—Organiz* lng, among other things, radio classes that begin at 4:30 a.m. and continue throughout the day is Father Robert Kearns, M.M., for merly of the Bronx, N.Y., and now of the Blue Wave radio school in Puno, in the mountains of interior Peru. Cushing, Archbishop of Bos ton. # OTHERS were Archbishop John J. Krol of Philadelphia, Archbishop Lawrence J. She- han of Philadelphia; Archbis hop William E. Cousins of Mil waukee; and Bishop James A. McNulty of Buffalo. All agreed that it was a blessing in disguise that the Council’s second session end ed without any vote being taken on the two chapters, because they have now been greatly strengthened. In a talk in April at the Tem ple Sinai in Marblehead, Mass., Cardinal Cushing, who has spoken before numerous non- Catholic bodies in recent months, asked his Jewish au dience to "pray for the two statements.” Regarding the statement on anti-Semitism, he said he hoped it would hold "everyone who ever sinned... responsible for the death of Christ.” “Charges of 'Christ killers’ leveled against Jews over the centuries are absolutely and totally a colossal lie” he said, adding that “in the name of two million Catholics of Boston, I repent for any injustice, in any form whatever, that Catholics may have ever committeed against the Jewish people.” EARLIER, Archbishop Krol had said, in a talk to some 500 Jewish leaders in Philadelphia: “In recent years some have distorted the Gospel account of the Crucifixion, and used the distortion as a pretext for per secuting the Jews...The New Testament provides no basis for hate or antl-Jewlsh feel ing.” In an address this week at the 28th Boston Archdiocesan Congress of the League of Cath olic Women, a noted ecumenical leader presented a summary of the chapter on the Jews, noting that a translation had been pub lished by several newspapers, .even though the rules of the Vatican Council Insist that any ‘ schema under discussion re main confidential. The speaker was Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher, director of the Institute of Judeao-Chrls- tlan Studies at Seton Hall Uni versity in Newark, N.J. He said the chapter acknowledges that the roots of the Church are in the Israel of old, and that it is unjust to consider Jews as “an accursed race,” as Christians have often done. H E SAID the chapter goes on to declare that “as the Church unyieldingly rejects Injustices committed against any man, any community, any nation, any where, so she laments and con demns the abuse and persecu tion suffered by the Jews in the past as well as in our own time.” The chapter concludes, Msgr. Oesterreicher added, by sug gesting theological studies and brotherly colloquies between Christians and Jews so as to further mutual knowledge and esteem. It suggests, he said, research and dialogue “be cause of the marvelous heritage Synagogue and Church have in common.” In essence, the chapter re flects the statement adopted by the Lutheran scholars at Logumkloster, who met under the chairmanship of Bishop Heinrich Meyer of Luebeck, Germany. Anti-Semitism, it declared, is not only a “denial of the dig nity and equality of men,” but is “primarily a denial of the image of God in the Jew;| a dem onic form of rebellion against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a rejection of Jesus the Jew directed upon His peo ple.” (The statement paralleled a resolution unanimously approv ed by the World Council of Churches' Third Assembly in 1961 which denounced anti- Semitism as a “sin against God and man” and urged member denominations to "do all in their power to res 1st every form of anti-Semitism.”) THE LOGUMKLOSTER doc ument went on strongly to en dorse “dialogues” with Jews, stressing that this "presuppos es the existence of common ground as well as differences.” It said these conversations should aim at understanding rather than conversion and should not be "aimless exercis es which do not dealwithfunda- mental beliefs and problems.” At the same time, however, the Lutheran scholars agreed that Christians must continue missions activity because of their belief in the uniqueness and centrality of Jesus Christ and that to exclude as a matter of policy any person or group from the Christian witness to this belief would be discrimi natory. On this point, Bishop Meyer stated that anyone who thinks that Lutheran missions engage in a “Christian witness” that violates the personality or the freedom of another person, treating him simply as an ob ject of conversion, is dealing with a “caricature.” That the fight against anti- Semitism is far from won was indicated meanwhile when dele gates from seven European countries, gathered at Flo rence, Italy, for the annual meeting of the International Consultative Committee of Or ganizations for Christian-Jew- ish Cooperation, heard reports of what remains to be done in Europe. ONE EXAMPLE: The dele gates from Germany, where 38 of the approximately 62 chap ters of the committee are found, reported that a growing number of books appeared last year in that country praising Hitler, and right-wing and nationalist papers rife with anti-Semitic views have increased in cir culation. One of the bright spots of the meeting was an address by May or Giorgio La Pira of Florence, a renowned Catholic layman, who declared that “the winter in Jewish-Christian relations is past. Now the spring is come, We must find ways to abolish hate and live together as broth ers in the world.” Confirming the mayor’s be lief in the new "spring” in Christian - Jewish relations have been a number of recent developments in this country and abroad. In New York, Francis Car dinal Spellman, addressing the American Jewish Committee, declared that anti-Semitism “can never find a basis in the Catholic religion.” SPEAKING in New Orleans, La., at the first Catholic-Jew- isK symposium on understand ing held in the South, Father Thurston N. Davis, S.J., editor- in-chief of ^An\epica, national Catholic weekly, said that though there are differences in belief, there exists a kinship between Catholics and Jews that derives from the antiquity of the two faiths and "the worship of the one true God.” In Argentina, for the first time in the history of the Ca tholic Church there, a rabbi was present at the consecration of a bishop. Attending the con secration of Bishop Italo D’ Estefano as head of the new Diocese of Saenz Pena was Chief Rabbi William Schlesin- ger of Argentina. In Vatican City, Pope Paul VI, receiving a delegation of U.S. Jewish leaders, expressed pleasure at the growing “cor dial relationship and construc tive cooperation between Ca tholics and Jews” and hoped that these would "continue to advance both in spiritual and temporal matters.” IN BROOKLYN, N.Y., some 50 seniors in a Catholic high school were led in prayer by an Orthodox rabbi, as part of a three-day interreligious semi nar sponsored by the school. Finally, in London, Catholic Archbishop John C, Hjenan be came" the first head of the West minister See to address a mcet- in of the British Council of Christian and Jews in ten years. Referring to the wtth-drawal of Catholic participation in the organization in 1954, he said this had been done reluctantly and was based on a “misunder standing,” In Lo.ndonalso, Rabbi Herman S, Stern, acting senior spiritual leader at a Liberal synagogue, created what was believed to be an interreligious “first'' by preaching on Easter Sunday night before an all-Christian congregation. audio stereo me., i High Fidelity Component* Sales and Service A. J. "DOC" SCHIER 2929 Peachtree Road, N. E. Atlanta, Georgia 231-4374 9tuUrtaHce m all iU jjosuni! 91 iii written, we wAite it . . . Sutter & McLeUan 1422 RHODES HAVERTY BLDG. JAckson 5-2086 WHIM INBURANCI II A PROFESSION NOT A •IDILINI 1964 PILGRIMAGE SHRINES of EUROPE July 21 to August 11, Sponsored By The Georgia Bulletin RESERVATIONS WRITE TO! 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