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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1964 GEORGIA BULLET IN
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VATICAN EXPERT SAYS:
Ecumenism Is Concern
Of All Diocesan People
PATHER JOHN Mulroy, P»«tor of St. Joseph's parish, Athena, welcomaa Reverend Mr. Henry
Orecz who hai been assigned to the Athena pariah for tha fummer. On the left la Fr. Wm.
Hoffman, aaalatant paator of St, Joieph'a and on the right Father John Cotter who ia a gradu
ate atudent at the Unlveralty of Georgia for the aummer.
BALTIMORE (NC) — Ecu
menism is not for specialists
only but “should infuse the
whole life ofadiocese,’ a speak
er and writer on ecumenical
affairs said here.
Father Thomas F, Stransky,
C, S. P„said local Church lead
ers must discover how ecu
menism can “help other stru
ctures in the diocese—the CCD,
the CFM and Cana."
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Bishop Gibbons
Is Dead At 95
ALBANY, N.Y, (NC)~Bishop
Edmund F, Gibbons, 95, re
ported as the oldest Catholic
bishop In the world, died (June
19) in the Albany see which
he had directed for 35 years.
Bishop Gibbons retired as
the sixth bishop of Albany on
Nov, 10, 1954, and was suc
ceeded by Bishop William A,
Scully,
FRANCIS Cardinal Spellman
offered a Solemn Pontifical
Requiem Mass in the Cathedral
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of the Immaculate Conception
hers (June 24), Auxiliary Bi
shop Edward J, Maglnn of Al
bany delivered the sermon.
Born in White Plains N.Y.,
on Sept, 16, 1868, Bishop
Gibbons attended Niagara Uni
versity and the Seminary of Our
Lady of the Angela In Niagara.
He was ordained In Rome in
1893, after studying there for
three years,
SERVING for a time aa
superintent of diocesan schools
in the Buffalo dloceae, he was
consecrated bishop of Albany
in 1919, Since that time, the
number of churches in the
diocese increased by 65, the
number of schools by 28, and
two Catholic colleges were
established.
One of his major goals was
to secure the elevation of the
Mohawk Indian girl Katerl
Tekakwitha to sainthood.
Through his efforts she has
been accorded the title of
venerable.
cal orientation, Father Stran
sky said, such groups "run
the risk of becoming self-en
closed and thereby injuring
the very unity and life of the
Church that they are to serve
and express,"
The Paulist ecumenical spe
cialist spoke to HO delegates
from 68 dioceses in the U.S.
and Canada attending a two-
day National Workshop on
Christian Unity, the first of
its kind In the United Stttes,
The workshop was sponsored
by the Baltimore Archdiocesan
Commission for Christian
Unity, formed In 1962 as ths
first diocssan ecumenical com
mission In ths country,
Father Stransky predicted
that ths third session of the
ecumsnlcsl council this fall will
approve and promulgate a eche-
mi on ecumenism,
"WHETHER it likes it or
not," he laid, "the Church la
experiencing the fact of a die-
united Chrlatlan family,"
He said the ecumenism sch
ema takes account of the fact
that Christians are living in s
world In which Christians are s
minority and in that minority
status remain divided,"
He decried the tendency to
consider ecumenism a fad and
said such an attitude causes
some to treat it lightly becauae
it la new and othera to go over
board on it becauae it is dif
ferent,
"One of the top priority tasks
of ths Church Is to change this
enthueisem without depth to s
deep commltmant with enthusi
asm, hs said,
FATHER Stransky said thsre
Is nssd for dialogus about *c-
unwniim within the Church,
"We find some ecumsnlsts
who can listen patiently for
hours with • separate bro
ther trying to find that grain of
truth on which he can base
his dialogue," he said. "But
he comes back to ths rectory
table and within one minute,
when his fellow priest hap
pens to dlssgree with him, the
dialogue cesses,"
He called auch persona * ‘non-
dialoguing ecumeniita willing to
talk to everyone but their own
fellow Catholics."
College Adds New
Twist To Faculty
MUSOMA, Tanganyika (NC)—
The Maryknoll Father here have
added a new twist to their fa
culty of Muaoma College.
Recently the college hired a
mualcal Instructor known local
ly as Bwana Twieti, a well-
known trumpet player who
moonlight* at the Gay Time
Bar. So popular la Twisti that
all other night spots in Musoma
close two nights a week when
he la playing.
SAYING Father Brendan P.
Smith, M.M., of San Francis
co, college headmaster: "Bwa
na Is a gentleman and a credit
to any faculty. Since his ar
rival, the music course has
become the college's moat
popular elective."
Twisti wears a plaid cap,
black and white shoes and twirls
his trumpet constantly. "He's
a cool character In a hot place,"
one priest remarked.
How To Understand
Liturgical Changes
BY ARCHBISHOP PAUL J. HALLINAN
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V«A *'%S
This is the sixth of a aeries of articles written
by the Archbishop to assist the people of the Arch
diocese of Atlanta in an understanding of the fuller
worahip In which they have been called to parti
cipate.
VL Sacraments of Healing: Penance and Anointing
of the Sick
At one stage of the Council's debates on the use
of the vernacular in the Sacraments, some wanted
to keep Latin for the actual form, “I baptize you
... I absolve you, etc." An African biehop begged
that this restriction be not imposed. "If we change
to a strange language at the very heart of the
Sacrament, our people will think we are ueing
magic."
Has this idea of magic poisoned contemporary
Catholice in our Western society? Do we consider
Confession in a mechanical way; — tell our sins,
get our ‘penance,’ say the act of contrition, get
forgiven? Quid pro quo? Has the push-button
mentality or today Invaded even our use of the
Sacraments? It is to restore the idea of recon
ciliation that the Church is now designing new
words and actions for the Sacrament, Our sorrow
and honesty were presumably heartfelt; the
priest's devotion to his role of judge and father
was unquestioned. What is aimed at now is a
better expression of what is going on.
Our confession of sins, our sorrow of heart,
and our will to be converted to a life of grace —
all are brought together in this Sacrament to be
formed by Our Lord's healing power. The priest's
words are: "May Our Lord Jesus Christ forgive
you .. and by His authority insofar as I am able
and you require it, I forgive you .." But if our
Catholic people forget thealgn of the sacraments
and remember them only as causes, with the
Church guaranteeing the result — this looks like
sheer mechanism. As Diekmann puts it, "despite
our protestations to the contrary, it sounds like
Hint II HI T—
magic.*' This was one of the chief causes of the
Protestant revolt in the sixteenth century.
But the sacraments are really signs of Christ's
presence. They cause grace because they are Hla
actions. When our alns are forgiven, it la Christ
who heals. In the new prayers and rites, Christ's
actions will be made more apparent.
It is difficult to see how the term "Extreme Unc
tion" was ever understood. The two words are
heavily Latinized, and "Extreme" surely sounds
ominous. Now the sacrament is "more fittingly
called Anointing of the Sick." And these points are
noted!
1. It Is not only for those at the point of death.
2. It should be adminlatered as soon as the per-
8 on begins to be In danger of death from
slekness or old age.
3. A continuous rite will be provided when the
three sacraments are given together: first,
confession, then anointing, then viaticum.
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with the convenience of the occasion; the
prayers will vary with the different condi
tions of the sick.
Every sanctification of man is at once a wor
ship of Cod. But, as Diekmann observes, toTow
many of our faithful would it nowadays occur that
receiving the sacrament of penance is worahip? We
all need a review of our theology.
Each sacrament is social in nature, yet it is a
part of our excessive Individualism that we ask
first, “What do I get out of it?" Here too we need
to brush the dust off our thinking. The sacraments
are signs of salvation, but that salvation la in and
through the Church. Even in the aecrecy*o! the
confessional or on the lonely sickbed, we are
sanctified as members of Christ'* Mystical Body,
Not by ourselves.
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Notebook
THREE BUSY MEN
The three busiest priests in the Archdiocese are Fathers John
McDonough, Leonard Mayhew and Bernard Quinn. They are out
visiting new parishioners, looking at property, arranging for tem
porary places for Mass, trying to find a temporary home. The
answer? They are the pastors of our three new parishes of Holy
Spirit and Holy Cross in Atlanta and Saint Mark's in Clarksville.
Since World War II, the Church in the United States has gone
through a growth-development unequalled since the great immi
gration waves of the nineteenth century. Since 1956, when Atlanta
became a new diocese, our population hae doubled; last year it waa
over 43,000, That'* why the pariehes continue to multiply,
There ii a quiet pride In the folke wait of Northelde Drive, out
In Tucker and Doravllle, up in the northern counties. They know
there li work and sacrifice ahead, but they are grateful to be a
brand new cell In thii age of renewal, Meanwhile, they are asking
for baptism and marriage dates; there are sick to be visited, and
Instructions to be given. The new parish is growing already.
That's why the pastors are carrying their breviaries, census-
cards, real estate maps and even telephone directories in their
pockets.
TWO ITEMS FROM THE SPQRT PAGE
1, Celebrity stare from Hollywood and Atlanta will cron hate
in the big Fourth of July ball-game at Ponce de Leon Park. It
should bo a rlotoua affair, the sort of classic that draws fans to
watch Caaey Stengel's Mets. And the proceedi will be divided be
tween the Village of St. Joeeph'e and several actors' charities on
the West Coast.
2, The mystery man on the local team will be one of our priest*,
Here are some cluea; he wae signed by Atlanta after a number of
seasons in Brooklyn. He bate both lofty and righty, from a lot of
experience with both aiseta and liabilities. And he covere a large
area of infield with an eye trained by four year* of looking through
fllee. Next week: more cluce,
TO BE A PATIENT, BE PATIENT
To coin a phrase, it'* been a long siege in the hospital. And to
phrase a coin, "In God, we trust." Iam grateful to you all for my
recovery, through your prayers and remembrances, splendid doc
tors and skilled nurses, both religious and lay, and in the divine
plan, God's will. This gratitude has helped lessen the prolonga
tion of the months, especially since Easter. So I am still part-
patient, for medication, rest, testing and diet; but 1 am able to
offer Mass more often, get to my office several afternoons a week,
and carry on much of my other work here at the hospital. Mean
while the liver builds itself back to health.
The finest experience is visiting the patients when I can. A fine
old man and I were contesting seniority at St. Joseph’s, but he got
better rapidly, and was discharged, so 1 won. There was a good
athlete who had managed to get fractures in both his wrist and leg
sliding into third base, and a little girl who struggled much of the
year with an illness that kept he rout of school — now she will have
to repeat the seventh grade. They are learning early how to rise
above disappointment and discouragement.
But three Sisters, all of them suffering much more than 1, have
been the real inspiration. It would embarrass them if I were to
mention their names. But they can put more meaning into human
suffering than all the pious books in the world. As one said, "It's
right in the Lord’s prayer — "Thy Will be done.' "
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