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CHANGE FOR CHANGE SAKE THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 Liturgical Renewal BY REV. LEONARD F. X. M\YHEW Edmund Burke, the English leader who defend ed the rights of the American Colonies, once said: "A dispostion to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my stand ard of a statesman, *' Whatever shortcomings might be found in this cautious statement by those whose views lean toward either extreme, it does contain a relevant insight for today's Catholic. The renewal of Catholic worship has become so involved, in the minds of most of us, with change in externals that the underlying motives- minds of most of us, with change in externals, that the underlying motives - the “why” of these changes - may be lost sight of. Change does not normally take place in the Catholic Church either suddenly or merely for its own sake. This is true of the liturgical chan ges which are absorbing the at tention of the Catholic world to day. These changes have been prepared for over a long per iod of time- well over a gene ration - and only through the laborius efforts of many individuals and groups. The Church has moved gradually. Pope Pius XII recognized and approved the efforts of pioneers in liturgical work in an encyclical (Mediator* Dei) as early as 1947. Step by step, during the ensuing years, ad vances were made both by individuals and in the official policies of the Church. Finally, as Arch bishop Paul J. Hallinan has written in How To Understand Changes In the Liturgy, “the Vati can Council has crowned these experiments with new liturgical laws built upon the most cogent doctrinal and pastoral principles.” THIS LATTER point is of cardinal importance. There is no such thing in an affair of this kind as change for the sake of change. For the Fathers of the Vatican Council, as well as for the bishops, priests and laymen who are dedicated to liturgical renewal, there is only one import ant consideration - the spiritual benefit of the Christian people. The basic insight that led to the present situation is the recognition i that the faithful were not deriving the maximum bene fit from their Sacramtsntal life. The Council Fathers declared their aim clearly; ' 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 before all else.” Each change, each newly introduced practice, each reform is based on this aim. Moreover, even these parti cular changes all have their own definite and im portant reason. Another consideration may be helpful for those who find the changes in liturgy confusing or dif ficult to accept. Change is normal for the Church. The Church has always been ready to change non-essentials in order to do its work more effectively. The fundamentals- for example, of the Mass and Sacraments- always remain the same, because they have been instituted by Christ. The fact remains that each age in the Church’s long history has introduced changes to meet its own needs. The Mass was celebrated in Greek in the first ceturies. The change to latin was dictated by the faithful’s use of latin in every day life and ignorance* (in the western Church) of Greek. Even in our own time changes have been made. Frequent Communion is a recejit phenomenon, as older people will recall. The re laxed fast before Communion and the introduc tion of evening Masses has been of immense benefit to countless souls. The restored Holy Week services returned these magnificent cele brations to the experience of the faithful, A SPIRIT of faith dictates for all of us- not slavish obedience, but reasoned and free ac ceptance of the mind of the ‘Church and the ef fort to know and possess that "mind” in our selves. QUESTION BOX The Great Pretense? BY MSGR. J. D. CONWAY Q. I heard these words in a sermon, "Let us not pretend that we are something that we are not.” I ask you, is this possible? The first little sin we commit we are told to tell it only to the priest. From that moment we have to pretend thatwe are something that we are not. God has given us a soul, mind and conscience. These do not show, and if He had wanted them to show He would have let them. There comes a time in life when we have to be civil to someone whom we bitterly dislike. We are so afraid our dislike will show that we make a great effort to lean over the other way. Again the great pretense. A. This is another of those “being - honest - about - your - honesty” questions. The primary requisite is that we be honest with ourselves about ourselves; that con science work with clarity and accuracy, and that we face up to its findings. It is seldom impor tant that other people know our secret sins; it is highly impor tant that we recognize and ad mit them frankly. The second essential is that we be honest with ourselves about other people, and about external reality in general. We must be sure to judge peo ple justly and charitably. We must sincerely search for truth, both from experiment and from reliable authority; and we must look that truth straight in the face when we find it. But here one of the first truths we should learn is the humility of honesty: to recognize the limitations of our knowledge. We should never deny to ourselves what we really know; but we must be able to ad mit to ourselves how little we know. The third form of honesty is with other pople. Here we must keep in mind that no one virtue alone can rightly rule our relations with our neighbor. Not even love? True love comes equipped with justice, honesty, prudence, respect and a variety of other virtues. Otherwise it is sentimentality. Possibly love’s most needed virtue is prudence:, sound judgment. Loving honesty to our neighbor may restrict our frankness - often. Prudence is the moderator of all other virtues. Rarely can ex tremes be virtues. Honesty unrestrained becomes bluff, boorish and boresome. Our neighbor has no right to tell him about the secret sins of others. Neither may we in charity - or prudence - tell him the whole truth about himself. Prudent honesty is not mendacious but it does observe the social amenities which prudence has established. Extremism in honesty might urge you to tell each person you meet precisely what you think of him. The result would often be extremely painful to both of you - especially if he is bigger than you. When we meet someone we "bitterly dislike” prudence will guide charity to handle the situation, restraining honesty to its virtuous moderation. But it will then prod honesty to admit frankly our own failure of charity in this bitter dislike. Extremism in the cause of honesty is seldom a virtue. Q. My husband calls himself a Catholic, but he has not made his Easter Duty for the past two years. This worries me greatly. What would I do in the event of death? He goes to Mass only when he feels like it, and having a hangover every weekend he doesn’t feel like it too often. Last spring he hospital ized me with a broken nose. Should I just divorce him? We have a year-old baby. A. Dear lady, you have my deep sympathy, but this problem is much too complicated for my column. I suggest that you consult your own priest. He may be able to help. But I have a surfeit of similar problems in my own parish, and I am usually unable to do much about them, ex cept listen with sympathy— and be thankful for celibacy. My confidence in my wisdom as a marital counsellor decreases as age and ex perience Increase. HOPE FOR LEPERS Your World And Mine CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 basic needs in a normal way. Finally, all through the area are located treatment centers for mild cases. Nobody has to travel more than three or four miles for his twice-weekly medicine and check-up. Bishop McGettrick was fortunate in that pro ject came when research had finally determined the origin of leprosy and was developing effec tive remedies. The disease is caused by a germ akin to the organism producing tuberculosis. Spre ad from the skfh or nasal secretions of an in fectious patient, it enters the body through breaks in the skin. Overcrowding, malnutrition, poor sanitation and hot humid climates facilitate its transfer. TREATMENT until 1950 was by twice-weekly injections of a thick oil, effective only against one of the two main types, Sulphone drugs adminis tered orally have since come into universal use and are effective against both types. What this means is that the Ogoja program is a terminal one for the entire region. More than two thousand are discharged as cured each year, and the month ly load of new cases is already lower than the numbered cured. Within a couple of generations, the foci of infection will be eliminated and lep rosy will be only a troubled memory where from time immemorial it had ravaged and lacerated at will. By the time they are cured, many children and adults have lost fingers, toes or limbs, others are horribly deformed. This is where the magic Dr. Hans comes in. He transfers sinews to reac tivate clenched fists, grafts bones to restore a grip, turns a twisted foot toes-front again. Then the physical therapy department, headed by a cheerful Sister from New England, teaches the un locked hands to spin, weave, sew, work leather. Instead of helpless dependence, they can be self- reliant and self-supporting. Current project is a model farm and fish pond being developed by two Austrian farmers. The bis hop hopes it will help him feed his many dependent lepers, while teaching the peasants better agri cultural methods and adding protein to the starchy diet. Saints in Black and White ST. FRANCIS CAROCCIOLO 106 BACK TO LAND m ' j vn * P TL 7 9 ST- 7TH J /, /V 7*5 17 - If kc t/ 7y xL Z? Hj 5* 7j U J.f cff. J7 TT * ’ * VY VI VT 2 * Hf SO 61 53 SL f. 7 ss Li Li LS ■sL L 7 A* !H 71 7.2 73 7- s 7S yo / H TJ fto i 7T i't Pakistan Catholics Form Villages With Church Aid ACROSS 1. French coin 6. voice 10. soft 13. prudent 68. desert spot 70. Maxwell 71. streak 73. not ever 75. corrode 14. 12 month of Jewish 70. 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He had this disease 11. unit 12. moist 13. clasp (Roman' 24. 27. 29. 31. 32. 34. 36. 39. 41. 44. 46. 48. 49. 51. 53. 55. 57. 59. 60. 62. 64. cereal grasses quiets sedate distress eats plaque ancient brown color steel musical composition bristles and Andy wash fortification Russian money small pieces of fer menting dough rearrange He recited It daily Muse of Lyric Pcetry fermented drinks He was called “Preacher of Love cotton thread Spanish title exigency network secondary King Alfred's sister, abbr. bread winner pouch Empire State; aboi Football position; abbr. ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE ON PACE f WASHINGTON (NC) — The Catholic Church in Pakistan is encouraging its people to live separately from the Moslem majority in specially creat ed villages to give them a sense of Christian community life. The program was described here by Archbishop Joseph Cor- deiro of Karachi, the first citi zen of his country to be rais ed to the episcopacy. "THE villages began several years ago with the influx of Catholics from farms into the cities,” he said in an interview. Most of Pakistan's Catholics are in the poor classes, and many were reduced to wretch ed poverty in the urban areas. "Most of these people al ways want to get back on the land, but they could not be cause they had sold theirfarms, said the archbishop. "What the Church did was buy land and create a village for 50 or 75 Catholic families. There we are able to serve them and to teach* them economic independence by developing skilled trades.” ANOTHER prime reason for the villages, Archbishop Cordeiro explained, is to fos ter and protect the faith of the Catholics, many of them con verts from Protestantism, in a country where Christians make up less than 1% of the popu lation. Asked if he thought such a separation would breed mis trust between Moslems and ARNOLD VIEWING 6 Circus World 9 Disaster BY JAMES W. ARNOLD The best moments in "Circus World” are the Grant, disasters. Once producer Samuel Bronston turns over a 4000-ton freighter at a Barcelona pier, and hundreds of people, lions and monkeys splash aimlessly about. Later on, the BigTop burns down in the biggest conflagaration since Mra O’Leary’s cow. The racket and confusion, on each occasion, are delightfully appalling. Otherwise, this big ($8.5 million) Cinerama epic, shot in Spain, is an incredibly old-fashioned soap opera about a sinful-but- repentant aerialist (Rita Hay worth) who returns to her true love (John Wayne) while over coming the animosity of her misunderstanding daughter (Claudia Cardinale). Barely has so much non-acting talent been gathered under one tent with so much indigestible dialog. PEOPLE who should know say the turn-of-the- century circus background is realistic. Certainly it is relentlessly cheerful, despite a somber score by Dimitri Tiomkin and humor typified by a running gag in which Wayne genially kicks a midget in the pants. Story details may have to be left to cryptolo- gists, but near as I can tell, hero and heroine once had an adulterous affair which led to a sui cide dive from the trapeze by Rita’s husband. She fled in shame, leaving Wayne to bring up her child. As the film opens, 14 years later, long- suffering Wayne is still smitten. He takes his circus on a European tour, half in hopes of finding Miss Hayworth, half to steal acts from other cir cus impresarios. The breathtaking moments come hot and heavy. In one, Rita, a dumpy and tattered stranger, wat ches from afar as her daughter prepares to per form, They talk, and like each other right away. "Was your mother in the circus?” Rita asks wistfully. She cannot bear to leave, and much against his virile better judgment, Wayne gives her a job - any little task will do. One day as Rita’s practicing on the ropes, she spots her husband’s vengeful brother, glowering like Vincent Price, She faints. "Did I upset you?” he asks gently. In the hospital, Wayne 4s smoothly comforting and reassuring; “You’ve got guts, Lili.” ALL GOES swimmingly for another reel, but finally the brother (Richard Conte) tells the daugh ter of the scandal by delicately scrawling “sui cide” in what looks like blood across her wardrobe mirror, adding appropriately garish news clip pings and wall posters. This sets up Miss Cardi- nale’s big Denunciation Scene, and one is not likely to forget her shrieking at Wayne and Miss Hay worth, in broken English, "You kill my fodderl” For sheer balderdash, however, nothing tops the scene in which Wayne finds Rita’s room in a sleazy Hamburg bordello. The room, furnished as starkly as a monk’s cell, has a three-foot crucifix on the wall and religious baubles in the closet amid the empty bottles. The script tells us she had tried to "get lost” in a convent at first, and implies, rather vaguely, that convent and bordello are com parably extreme avenues ofescape,The scenario, sadly, is the last work of the late Ben Hecht, in collaboration with Julian Halevy and James Edward The climatic fire, with all three principals swinging in the rafters engulfed in flames, is suitably spectacular, and may have revealed a subconscious urge by director Henry Hathaway to send everything up in smoke. Regardless, the show goes on that night as usual. My six-year-old son was amazed: "It’s better-lookin’ now than it was before I” IN SPITE of everything, "Circus World” has its points, especially for young children who can ig nore the story and acting and concentrate on the ■ circus performers, clowns and animals. Most cir cus sequences are beautifully shot, often with mov ing cameras, and zestfully edited. Photographer Jack Hildyard (“River Kwai”)contributes several lovely moments: a view from above as circus folk rush from the bottom of the screen, toward a long aisle of trees to greet an approaching wagon, a stunning shot of roustabouts striking the huge blue canvas among swirling yellow ropes. Cinerama, if still far from aesthetic, is func tional. If you can get used to the clown's smile shaped screen, the vertigo when the camera pans, and the fact that everyone seems to walk down hill, you may note with satisfaction that the screen can take in a whole circus ring and a full side view of three swinging trapezes. Bronston has al so selected impressive locales to simulate the European circus palaces of the 1900’s. The veteran Hathaway, who has been in movies since 1908, hasn’t directed any great pictures late ly. But he had a mess of them 15 or 20 years ago, when his films (“House on 92nd Street,” “Kissof Death,” "Call Northside 777”) were known for their hard-bitten realism. His best moment here is a corny but imaginative sequence in which Wayne first sees Rita and pursues her through the noisy, delirious rush of circus and Wild West acts hurt ling in and out of the arena. When he finally catches her, they are perspiring in a lonely bistro in al most absolute silence. IN FAIRNESS, Miss Cardinale gives signs of be-, ing an infectiously entertaining light comedienne when producers can forget her image as the logi cal sultry successor to Sophia Loren. But her gowns and good-natured posses, A-1 Legion rating notwithstanding, seldom leave much to the imagi nation. CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS: For everyone: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Bridge on the River Kwai. For connoisseurs: Tom Jones. Better than most: What a Way to Go, Black Like Me, Becket, Fall of the Roman Empfre, The Pink Panther, Is land of the Blue Dolphins. Christians, the archbishop said: "I hope it doesn't breed mis trust. At the moment the pre servation of the Catholics’faith is more important than integra ting them into society. I believe they will be fairly integrated in time.” HE NOTED that some Catho lics already hold high positions in public life. Several Catholics are high-ranking military men, and a Catholic serves as chief justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court. Archbishop Cordeiro hopes that Pakistan’s Catholics will heed President Kennedy’s ad vice and will ask what they can do for their country. He is very hopeful that the new Sec retariat for non-Christian Reli gions established under the dir ection of Paolo Cardinal Marel- la will create better under standing among religious grops in his own country. "IT IS too early to say, but I’m sure this will be a great means for establishing con tacts,” he said. "There Is no question of unity with Moslems, but there are great opportuni ties to create understanding and orotherhood among men. "You must remember,” he continued, "that Christians and • .. t Mg y Mdftg p JMftttjti&j jttg ft Moslems have many points in common. Both are strict mono theists. They believe in com munity prayers and religious fasts. We can stress these points in common when we talk with Moslems.” THE 46-year-old Oxford- educated archbishop declared that the liturgical changes have been the most valuable result of the Vatican dialects in Pak istan, and work is now under way to transcribe folk themes into liturgical music. In another area, he said na tive vocations to the priest hood are proceeding satisfac torily. Four or five priests are ordained each year for the approximately 350,000 Catho lics in west Pakistan. Never theless, the Archdiocese of Karachi is the only see in the nation under the full direction of native clergy. ARCHBISHOP Cordeiro was born in west Pakistan of an aristocratic family that came originally from the Portugese colony of Goa, now a part of India. He attended school in Karachi, entered the seminary of Kandy, Ceylon, and after or dination in 1946 he received his masters degree in education from Oxford University in Eng land. Seminary Fund Remember the SEMINARY FUND of the Archidocese of Atlanta in your Will. Bequests should be made to the “Most Reverend Paul J. Hallinan, Archbishop of the Catho lic Archdiocese .of Atlanta and his successors in office**. Participate in the daily prayers of our semi narians and in the Masses offer ed annually for the benefactors of our SEMINARY FUND. God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN It is the wounded who know best how to bring sympathy to the wounded. That was why, if the God-Man was ever to have full compassion for the hungry in this world, He had to be hungry. If He was to offer hope to the despairing atheists, He would have to feel that loneliness, which He did when He cried out on the Cross: "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” If God had not come down into the slums where He had “nowhere to lay His head,” the slum dwellers of Latin America might have com plained: "What does God know about human suffering?” Some of this Divine compassion has passed into the soul of a little girl in Ohio, She quoted a passage from MISSION magazine and then wrote as follows; "Just as you said, someone cannot realize the sufferings of another until he goes through them himself. For now I understand a little better how the poor in Asia and Africa are suffering. You see, I have to wear a brace on my back. 1 used to have self- pity, but now, when I think of those poor suffering children, it is like comparing the earth with the sun. With this letter I am enclosing $1.30. I was going to spend it on a present for my mother, but when I thought it over, I could not buy much for $1.30, while a European or an Asian mother could buy food and medicine for herself and her children. Please send this to the Missions for me.” could buy food and medicine for herself and her children. Please send this to the Missions for me.” How beautiful to know there are such souls in our midst who help redt . the rest of us Catholics 1 As Our Lord, Who said to the soldiers in the Garden: "Take Me and let the others go,” this child thinks of the Missions even when Our Lord leads her into another Gethsemane. How she inspires us priests to be victims as was Our Lordl May she inspire you who are woundless to wound yourself with a sacrifice that you may be blessed by the scarred Hands of Our Lord. GOD LOVE YOU to Mr. and Mrs. J. McC. for $5.20 ‘This is the money we would have spent on wine to go with our dinner. We send you our sacrifice to buy wine for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Missions,” „„to Mrs, A.N.T, for her jewelry “With this note are a few pieces of jewelry which I hope you can sell and then give the money for the poor of the world. I would like to help more often but my husband and I must clothe and feed our six growing children. Sometimes the going is rough, but we know how blessed we are compared to millions of other families in mission lands,” ....to A.L.F, for $4,726.38 “God has been very good to me and I am most happy to give back to Him a portion of the material goods He has blessed me with.” The color of each of the WORLDMISSION ROSARY’S decades symbolizes one of the five continents of the world where mission aries are laboring to bring souls toChrist.Those of you who can not go to the Missions can strengthen those who work in your place by praying for them. To receive the WORLDMISSION ROSARY, which has been blessed by Bishop Sheen, send your request and an offering of $2 to The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10001, Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to Most Rev, Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of the Society for the Pro pagation of the F^ith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx, N. Y. or your Archdiocesaii Director, Very Rev. Harold J v Rainey P. O t Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.>