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PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1964
TELLS RELIGIOUS
Poverty Vow Should Work
From lst-Hand Knowledge
CINCINNATI (NC) —Sister
ought to learn the cost of a
pair of shoes, the price of
meat and the amount of the
monthly bill for electricity in
order to make her practice of
poverty more realistic.
Sister Margaret, president
of T rinity College, Washington,
D. C,, made this suggestion
here (Aug, 25) to the Con
ference of Major Superiors of
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SOME 400 top officials of
women’s religious communities
attended the national meeting
held at the College of Mount
St, Joseph on-the-Ohio,
Sister Margaret, speaking
on "Poverty:' Detachment and
Trust," told the superiors:
"If today's religious is not
to become identified with by
gone ages, if she is to under
stand what poverty means and
is in the lives of those who
have not vowed it, she must
in training come face to face
with the reality of the cost
of things, with the grim exis
tence known to so many as
'life'."
SISTER Margaret said that
"through reading contemporary
studies and reports, through
some apostolic project carried
on in so-called leisure time
wherever possible, one can at
least _know some of the pro
blems of poverty,"
This kind of knowledge and
experience will give the Sis
ter "greater understanding
of financial worries ex
perienced by the people who
comprise her apostolate,"
AS A result, "perhaps year
book drives, patron drives,
chance books and the like will
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not so often be her solution
to solving problems of need,
she observed.
The speaker referred to the
* many people in and out of
religion" who are "strongly
questioning" the practice of
poverty by religious, and re
marked that they seem toj*.
asking for "total material po
verty" on the part of the Sis
ters,
"POVERTY cannot be view
ed as negation, consisting in
series of small privations and
of petty dependence for such
articles as soap, toothpaste,
etc. Rather it will be the large
gesture of confidence by one
who knows full well that the
heavenly Father knows all our
needs," she said,
"Poverty in the life of the
true religious will be the tes
timony of love from one who
knows herself one of *God’s
poor,' possessing only one am
bition: the furtherance of God's
kingdom,,."
Says Churches
Interdependent
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, (RNS)
The interdependence of
church reunion plans, dialogues
and goodwill in the modern
ecumenical movement was
stressed by a Protestant dele
gate-observer at the Vatican
Council in addressing about
1,500 Catholic priests and nuns
here.
Dr, Douglas Horton, noted
United Church of Christ min
ister and former dean of Har
vard Divinity School, said
"there is nothing to give point
to our dialogue, nothing at once
to feed and to challenge good
will like the development of a
plan to unite,"
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Archbishop Karl J. Alter call
ed for "more emphasis on the
ecumenical movement as a
first step in strengthening the
missionary role of the Church."
The Cincinnati archbishop
told more than 4,200 high
school, college, and seminary
students and faculty moderators
at the 21st Catholic Students'
Mission Crusade national con
vention here at the University
of Notre Dame (Aug. 28) "there
Is no choice left to us but to
espouse the cause of Christian
unity."
"NO Christian can be neu
tral, no one can be indifferent
All followers of Christ must
with conviction and with per
sistent effort promote every
action which will bring Christ
ians together into the one
Church of Christ," said the pre
late who is the CSMC nation
al president,
"No sincere Christian," he
added, "can be in favor of
separation, disunity, or con
flict concerning the truth of
Christ."
He urged the CSMC to
"place more emphasis" on the
ecumenical movement,
"IN ORDER to be more ef
fective in our program in for
eign lands, we must cultivate
an ’ understanding of the
ecumenical movement," he said
"Only thus can we give reality
to Christ's prayer for unity
and build a sure foundation for
the total missionary program of
the Church,"
To insure progress in "re
conciling our differences with
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our separated brethren," the
Archbishop said, "we first must
have an adequate understanding
of the nature of these
differences."
He advised CSMC members to
know the teachings of Luther,
of Calvin, and of the Anglican
Church— "three fundamental
versions of Protestant doctrine
which must be understood in or
der to evaluate the Protestant
mind,"
THIS knowledge, together
with "an understanding of the
disturbed historical situation
afficting religion in the 16th
century" are a preparation for
following the ecumenical move
ment and relating it to the
CSMC program.
Archbishop Alter also em
phasized that the ecumenical
movement "is not based on
some sort of compromise or
some artificial synthesis of
Christian belief and practice,"
"IT IS not intended to seek
unity by an effort to cultivate
merely a fraternal spirit of
love," he said, 'This is an
essential beginning, but the ec
umenical movement goes much
farther,
"It seeks to reach an agree
ment on the basis of one or
ganic living Church— one if
faith, in worship, In the sacra
ments, and one in its recog
nition of the same discipline
or Church authority. This is
far removed from the idea of
a mere federation of churches
or a common front on rellgio-
social questions,"
The ecumenical movement
' looks more to the future than
to the past," and therefore
tends to "de-emphaslze the po
lemical or apologetic elements
In the history of Christian dlf-
femeces in religion," he as
serted,
THE MAJOR differences, he
said, can be summarized under
two subjects,
"First, there is the question
of the Sacred Scriptures, What
is their precise function as a
rule of faith 7 Which came
first— Church or Scripture?
Who interprets them when there
is a doubt as to meaning?"
The second major subject of
difference is "the nature, funct
ion, and structure of the
Church,"
"IF THE dialogue between
Christians is to be fruitful,"
he said, "it will have to wrestle
with these fundamental ques
tions and strive to bring about
a mutual understanding and a
common acceptance of their
meaning."
LITURGICAL PORTRAYAL
Benedictines Join
In Concelebration
ST. LOUIS (RNS)— St. John’s
Benedictine Abbey at College-
ville, Minn., is demonstrating
concelebration of the Mass,
according to one of Its priests.
Concelebration is the cele
bration of Mass by several
priests together, all consecrat
ing the same bread and wine.
FATHER Godfrey Diekmann,
O. S, B., editor of Worship
magazine and a noted expert
on the liturgy, disclosed that
priests at the abbey concele-
brated five times with a few
weeks.
He made the disclosure in an
address here to the 25th an
nual Liturgical Week as he
discussed the Constitution on
the Sacred Liturgy adopted by
the Second Vatican Council.
THIS Constitution provides
for concelebration, butpermis-
sion to practice It generally
has not yet been given by the
Vatican.
However, St. John’s obtain
ed permission for 20 priests
to concelebrate once a week as
an experiment, according to
Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, 0,
S.B., head of the abbey who has
been chief celebrant at the con-
celebrations. It is believed to
be the first abbey In the Unit
ed States to obtain this per
mission.
ST. JOHN’S, Is required to
report the reactions of its
priests to concelebration. When
the reports are In from St.
John’s and other abbeys, a
Vatican commission may make
some revisions in the rite be
fore the final form Is decided
upon. Abbot Dworschak said.
Eventually, it expected that
priests in groups more than 20
will be able to concelebrate and
to do it daily, the abbot said,
adding that the reaction at St.
John’s to the new rite has been
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Concelebration will have ser-
eral- practical advantages
at St. John’s where almost 100
priests must celebrate Mass
dally, it was noted. In the past,
each priest has had to celebra
te a Mass dally by himself.
FATHER Diekmann, in his
address, said concelebration
mades It possible to manifest
the unity of the priesthood, the
unity of sacrifice and the
unltyof the worshipping Church.
Theologians, he noted, "still
argue whether and in how far
many Masses celebrated by
many priests might give grea
ter honor to God than one
Mass celebrated by many pri
ests."
But the Vatican Council, he
said, "not only permits conce
lebration when the needs of the
faithful do not require multiple
Masses, in a startling revis
ion of discipline, It recommends
concelebration as 'more con
ducive to piety.’"
"WE MIGHT say," Father
Diekmann continued, that the
Council "tolerates the Mass
privately celebrated only to
safeguard freedom of indivi
dual action.
"One can only add the ar
dent hope that this new dis
cipline will stimulate also s re
thinking of the whole vexed
and sometimes, als unsavory
matter of stipends."
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MONROE, G«. (RNS)—A B.p-
tist congregation which voted
not to allow Negroe* to attend
its services here "might take
another vote on the matter,"
the Rev, Clifford Jett, pastor,
reported, ’There was a dif
ference of 50 votes, and I think
the conscience of some who
voted against desegregating the
church may impel them to have
a change of heart," he said.
GOD’S HELPER: SISTER Flfl
TOMORROW S INDIA RESTS IN SUCH DELICATE HANDS
. . Wan and weary, she works 18 hour* every dsy with serious
minded teen-nger* In MERALA,
mud * lint village. The school she
directs has 400 boys. They are bet
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they’ll be leaders in INDIA tomor
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OF THE VISTATION, SISTER PIA
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tomb-like room Intended to be
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