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AT ST. PETER’S Mourn Pope John On Anniversary VATICAN CITY (NC) —Pope John XXIII was solemnly mourned on the first an niversary of his death CJune 3) in St. Peter’s basilica by Pope Paul VI, 24 cardinals and thou sands of Catholics. Meanwhile, in his home town of Bergamo in northern Italy, a petition signed by 50,000 per sons asked for the beginning of his beatification cause. ST. PETER’S was dark as thousands waited for the memorial Mass to begin. The cardinals entered and took their places without ceremony. Only after they were in their places did the chandeliers of the basilica blaze with light. At 10:30 a.m., the celebrant, Giovanni Cardinal Urbani of Venice, entered clad in a white miter and a black-and-gold cope. Lastly the Pope entered, walking in silence and without any of the fanfare that usually attends his participation in public ceremonies. Wearing a plain white miter and a cope of crimson, a color specially reserved for papal mourning, he took his place on a throne near the altar. The Swiss Guards accompanying him wore black helmets with red plumes. AFTER THE Mass, attended by the diplomatic corps Sunday Strike INDORE, India )C)~Thou sands of textile workers here went on strike in protest aga inst a decision requiring them to work on Sunday. The strike, demanding rever sal of the decision of the Mad hya Pradesh (state) Mlllown- ers’ Association, forced two mills to close* accredited to the Holy See and by members of his household and court, Pope Paul per sonally imparted absolution *r. a symbolic catafalque in the sanctuary. At 7 a.m. that morning the Pope had gone privately to the grottoes of St. Peter’s and of fered Mass at an altar near the tomb of his predecessor. Many Masses were offered throughout the morning in the grottoes by the late Pope’s friends and collaborators, in cluding Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Papal Secretary of State; Msgr. Loris Capovilla, Pope John’s private sec retary; and Msgr. Giovanni Roncalli, his nephew. BEFORE leaving the grottoes, Pope Paul lit a large candle which he had sent there the day before and recited the prayer, De Profundis. He also greeted various relatives of Pope John, as well as Dr, Pietro Valdoni and Dr. Pietro Mazzoni, who had cared for him during his final illness, At Bergamo, Bishop Clemente Gaddi of that See re ceived the 50,000-name petit ion asking for Pope John's beatificatiotl. The petition had been organized by the Fathers of the Sacred Heart of Bergamo, a congregation of priests found ed by the late Bishop Radini Tedeschi of Bergamo when Pope John was his secretary. The priests consider the late Pontiff a cofounder. The petition, which was signed by all bishops of the Bergamo region and by more than 200 parish priests, will be forwarded to the Vatican for consideration by the Con gregation of Rites, POLITICAL SCIENTST AN UNUSUAL SETTING FOR AN ALTAR—Vines growing toward the ceiling behind the sanctuary set off the altar in St. Rose of Lima Church, in Lima, Peru. The parish has the first parochial school in Peru. KENNEDY MEMORIAL WINDOW—The nine stained glass windows devoted to historical themes in the new Our Lady of Lourdes Church, West Orange, N.J., includes one (above) memorializing the late President John F. Kennedy. The top panel depicts Chief Justice Earl Warren administering the oath of office in 1961 and the bottom panel shows the Ken nedy grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Va. How To Understand Liturgical Changes BY ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALLINAN This is the fourth of a series of seven articles writen by the ArchbiBhop to assist the people of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in an understanding of the fuller worship in which they have been called to participate, IV. THE WORD OF GOD When the changes in our format of worship take place this year, it will no longer make sense for Catholics to come skidding into Sunday Mass just in time to be present for the "principal parts", The old term, "Mass of the Catechumens" will be understood - but not imitated. When we invite a Protestant friend, he will find himself very much at home in the "fore-Mass" or "Service of the Word." The entire Mass is made up of two parts: The Liturgy of the Word (up to the Offertory an- tlpnon) ana tne Eucharistic Liturgy, The two are so closely linked that they form one single act of worship. Our Lord Is present to us in sev eral ways; what is pertinent here is that he is present in his word, since it is he himself who speaks when the Holy Scriptures are read in the Church. Do we have for the Bible that "warm and living love" so much a part of Christion tradi tion? We are late, as a general sector of Christianity, in appreciating scripture. Many Protestants excel us in their knowledge and love of biblical texts, For them it began with home-training; Sunday services simply deepened and Increased their familiarity with the Word of God. Their use of the vernacu lar, of course, prevented that wall of misunder- ■tanding that has kept the average Catholic less Bible-conscious, The Liturgy of the Word is built around the Epistle and Gospel. These elements will be re focussed in the new changes. In the Sunday Mass, the Epistle will be read to the people in English by a lay-lector • the priest not reading but lis tening. The Gospel (always from the New Testa ment) will then be read aloud in English by the priest. In later revisions, of the liturgy, a much fuller use will be made of the Bible, using a three- or four-year cycle instead of one. It helps if we stop for a minute, and put aside our worries about changes, revisions, the ver nacular and the zones of worship. The vital thing about the first part of the Mass is that it is built of the Word of God. He, — infinite wisdom, — speaks to us with our slow intellects and faltering tongues, The lessons and psalms are right from his eternal mind, the human authors faithfully recording their meaning. The other prayers and songs of the Mass are inspired by the Bible. The meaning of the Eucharistic Action, and sacramen tal signs is derived from its pages. That "warm and living love" for the Bible comes only by fami liarity. "Be still, and know that I am your God". All liturgy teaches. It is chiefly a process of worship but It is constantly instructing too. It proclaims Christ’s gospel, and invites the people's response. One German bishop (behind the Iron Curtain) told us last fall that in his diocese, he was not permitted to have Catholic schools, news papers, or organizations, "Only in the liturgy", he said "can the Church carry out her education function". When you hear next Sunday’s epistle and gospel read, consider this for a moment: if the Mass were the only means of Catholic instruction we had, would we give it closer attention? CHANCE SELLING OUT Schools Drop Child Salesmen PITTSBURGH, (NC) — Dio cese of Pittsburgh parishes have been asked to stop using school children for selling chances, or door-to-door soli citations in connection with charity or religious drives. The recommendation was made by the Laymen's Advisory Council of the diocesan school board. In approving it, the school board asked pastors and parishioners to treat the re commendation as official board policy. THE LAY council said "cer tain undesirable practices" have crept into parish charity drives that threaten to erase the Family Donates Parish Plant CALI, Columbia (NC)— The Caicedo Gonzalez family has donated to this diocese a modem parish center, consisting of a church, schools, parish house, convent, dispensary, coopera tive, halls and an open-air thea ter. Presentation was made to Bishop Alberto Uribe Urdaneta st s public ceremony by Dr. Jaime H. Caicedo on behalf of the family and a directorship society has been set up to run the center, which cost $116,400 and occupies an area of 4,510 acres. The donation includes equipment and material for ope ration of the center and an ad ditional $97,000 to assure- stable growth of the institu tion. benefits which school children can gain by participating. It declared: 'These include: the foster ing of an embarrassing spirit of competition among in dividuals, classrooms or schools; the use of unworthy incentives, such as a pointsys- tem or prizes; and the em ployment of school children for the selling of chances. "ALTHOUGH these extremes may aid the charitable organi zation materially, such bene fits are often gained by jeopardizing the spiritual en richment of the child, and the public image of the Church, Since these efforts are often not voluntary or personal, but Pacifism Seen As No Arms Race Solution motivated by a sense of com petition, or to gain a material reward, they may have little value spiritually," The lay statement said it understood the need for charit able and .religious drives, and. it stressed that proper parti cipation by children can be beneficial. It commented that what should be emphasized is "a sense of duty and responsi bility toward others, and ap propriate spiritual motives in assisting others,"This, it said, would bear greater fruit than any "superficial motives." MINISTER SAYS WASHINGTON (NC) —A Catho lic political scientist said here that pacifism and unilateral disarmament are not accept able solutions to the threat of nuclear war. ‘To secure the peace it is not enough to describe the hor rors of war," said James E. Dougherty of the University of Pennsylvania’s Foreign Policy Research Institute. "SINCE the clear pronounce ments of Pope Pius XII, Catho lic theologians will not defend a strategy which intends the wholesale obliteration of cities. But neither will the Church con demn nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence as in- trinscially immoral." Dougherty urged greater un derstanding and communication between the advocates of peace and the advocates of deterrence, and said the "intellectual schism’ ’ between the two groups is dangerous. "If we remain divided," he declared, "the cause of neither peace nor freedom will be served well. The will to peace is not the will to surrender; the will to freedom is not the will to holocaust," Dougherty spoke (June 2) at a testimonial dinner at which Father Edward A. Conway, S.J., director of the Center for Peace Research at Creighton Univer sity, Omaha, was honored by the Catholic Association for In ternational Peace. Several hundred persons, in cluding government officials, attended the dinner to pay tri bute to the priest for his ef forts on behalf of peace. Long active in governmental and citizens' groups concerned with peace and atomic energy, Father Conway in 1962 was chosen by President Kennedy as one of 15 citizens on the Gen eral Advisory Committee of the U, S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Dougherty, speaking on "Arms and the Western Conscience," said the nuclear pacifist is wrong if he "assigns to himself a monopoly of virtue—if he thinks that his own approach to the problems of nuclear weapons constitutes the only authentic moral re sponse," "FOR PACIFISTS to look upon all supporters of a nuclear defense policy as potential Dr, Strangeloves is no more justi fied than for the advocates of deterrence to brand all demon strators for total disarmament as communist sympathizers," he said. Rejecting pacifism as a solu tion to the problems created by nuclear weapons, Dougherty said the existence of such weapons is "tragic, but not immoral; we often confuse the two." "Morality is determined by purpose and intention," he said. "How and to what ends shall we use this power in our hands? These are moral questions. The pacifist says that they will sure ly come to no good and hence must be renounced. My answer is that we hope they will be productive of some good and Vietnam Archbishop Will Not Be Tried VISITATION — Very Rev. James A. Kielt i above i. Su- perlor General of the Colum- ban Fathers is visiting the four seminaries and eleven houses of the Society of St. Columban in America, He will return to the headquar ters in Ireland in June. WASHINGTON (NC)—Nobody in South Vietnam today pays any attention to the case of Arch bishop Ngo dinh Thuc of Hue, according to that nation's foreign minister. Phan huy Quat said after a speech at the National Press Club here (June 3) that the Archbishop "is regarded simply as a priest, and that is all at present." He spoke in answer to a question from the floor asking if South Viet nam's government planned to bring the Archbishop to trial, ARCHBISHOP Thuc has been living abroad since the regime of his brother, the late Pre sident Ngo dinh Diem, was over thrown last November after months of Buddhist agitation. President Diem and his brother, Ngo dinh’ Nhu, were killed while in custody on Nov, 2. A third brother, Ngo dinh Can, was ex ecuted on May 9, Foreign Minister Quat spoke here a day after a Catholic of ficer charged in Saigon that government agents had tried to force him to accuse Archbishop Thuc of ordering repression of Buddhists. Maj. Dang Sy made his accusation during his trial on a charge of being responsi ble for the death of eight Budd hists during demonstrations In Hue last year. that the worst thing to do in the present historical context is to downgrade the deterrent by adopting a lopsided, unilateral pacifism." DOUGHERTY argued that the West deserves the right to pro tect itself, not only its own sake but for the sake of the world in general. "If the West should ever go under, mankind would be incomparably poorer; the loss would be incalculable," he declared. He said it is necessary to remember that there are real ly two great dangers facing the world today—the threat of nu clear destruction and the danger of its being turned into an "ant colony" society, "Both of these represent high moral challenges to our in genuity," he said. "We shall fall if we worry about only one of them." any opportunity s for "mean ingful" arms agreements with the Soviets, it should at the same time guard against "un warranted optimism" on this subject. "NO ONE CAN rule out the possibility that Soviet corn- possibility that Soviet com munism may evolve in a more benign direction. But after only one year or so of ambiguous 'detente,* it is premature to declare that the Soviets are per manently mellowing in their foreign polich," he said. He noted that the arms con trol problem presents "almost a bottomless pit" in its com plexity, but said it "does us no good to wring our hands and lament that there is so little time," "If we have only a little time, then we are in bad shape, be cause we are going to need a long time. We have been moving into our present predicament for a long time, for several decades; we cannot untangle ourselves as easily as some pacifists believe — through a sudden moral con version of governments. "Man has divided the secrets of the atomic universe," Dougherty said. "He cannot erase from his mind this awful knowledge by any form of politi cal or scientific exorcism, but must live with it for the rest of time. The best he can hope to do is manage this power with wisdom until it can be organized under the ’world public authority’ for which Pope John XXIII called." SPANISH WEDDING VEILS Exquisite handmade with silk thread, imported directly from Spain. Also mantillas. 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