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9 ! PRIVATE DEVOTIONS Liturgical Renewal III BY REV. LEONARD F. X. MAYHEW During the long centuries of lay passivity during the liturgy, the Christian people de veloped numerous "private devotions,*’ These devotional practices fed the spiritual hunger of countless generations, 1 he Rosary, novenas and devotions on special occasions strengthened the faith of innumerable heroic Catholics. Unfor tunately, because a full understanding of the pri mary place of the liturgy was lacking, such private devotions sometimes assumed an undue importance. The public reci tation of the Rosary or of some novena in honor of a particu lar saint often took place dur ing the Mass.The custom of infrequent Communion, which Pope St. Pius X reversed only . two generations ago, aggra vated this sad imbalance in the spiritual lives of too many of our forebears. THE PRESENTT revival of liturgical under standing and participation is curing this im balance. Catholics who see the Mass and Sa craments as actions which they celebrate with Christ and his Church will imbibe untold spir itual riches for their Christian lives. At the same time, there remains a very important place, side by side with our public, communal worship, for private devotions. The Consti tution recognizes this explicitly: "Popular de votions of the Christian people are to be high ly commended,..These devotions should be so drawn up that they harmonize with the liturgi-r cal seasons, accord with the sacred liturgy, are in some fashion derived from it, and lead the people to it." This revival of liturgical worship and the new solidity it will give private devotions will greatly broaden the spiritual life of the Catho lic laity. The Constitution makes clear what is the connection to the liturgy which is to be fostered in private devotions. They are to •tress their foundation in Sacred Scripture and their conformity to the liturgical seasons, as well as their relevance to the implications of the Mass, The form they will very likely as sume is also mentioned in the Constitution un der the name of Bible Services. Each evening at the St, Louis Liturgical Week we ended the final session of the day with a Bible Service. Although there can be great flexi bility in these services, they bear a marked and deliberate resemblance to the first part of the Mass liturgy, the Service of the Word, Such devotional services are particularly re commended by the Constitution on the vigils of major feasts, during Advent and Lent and on Sundays and feast days, THE TYPICAL Bible Service begins with an entrance hymn, corresponding to the Introit of the Mass, as the celebrant and servers en ter with crucifix, candles, Incense and, in the place of honor, the Bible. An introductory pray er is recited by the celebrant, followed by the announcement of the theme of the service. This theme is set by the occasion when the devotion is held, A reader proclaims a first reading from the Scripture, followed by a sung or re cited response from the congregation. Asecond reading, usually from the Gospels, is proclaim ed, The celebrant then will address a homily to the congregation. The people recite or sing a psalm or hymn summing up the theme of the celebration. The service ends with prayer led by the celebrant and some "action" embody ing the main lesson of the service. Popular devotions built upon this pattern are certain to spread in the near future. They can be adapted to almost any occasion or need. One of the great advantages they posses s is the allowance they make for a certain spontaneity, which has been so obviously missing from Catho lic worship in the recent past. The Biblical sour ce of our faith will be both spiritually enrich ing for the faithful and will be a clear sign of our desire for unity with our separated brethren. ARNOLD VIEWING “A Hard Day’s Night” BY JAMES W. ARNOLD Since worrying about the younger generation is part of the problem of being an adult, the Beatles* first movie, **A Hard Day’s Night," is hardly calculated to reduce anxieties about What is Happening to Our Adolescents, Some reassuring judgments, however, are pos sible; 1- The first cinema effort of the mop-haired Liverpudlian loved ones is certainly better than the maiden movies of such heroes of ancient history as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Harry Lillis Crosby. The really puzzling thing is why so much skilled labor, particularly in avant-garde photography and editing, went into a product that would have "sold" without a tenth of the bother. PROBABLY very few of the Beatles’ ecstatic 10-to-16-year-old female cultists even notice that ' Hard Day," in camera work at least, is better than 95 percent of movies they ordinarily see. Producer Walter Shenson clearly takes pride in his work and shows an uncommon respect for his young audience. One needs only to make a shud dering comparison with the patronizing garbage foisted on the teenage market by American pro ducers. 2- Always granting that pop music serves spec ial mysterious functions in teenage tribal initia tion rites, adults may find solace in the fact that the sound and beat of the Beatles are a step to ward small-combo jazz and away from that pecu liar blend of rock and hillbilly that may well be the all-time abyss of what passes for music. The truth is that for years Nashville and the worst elements in Southern sub-culture have dom inated and corrupted teenage musical tastes. The Beatles have loosened this hold not only because they are British and inevitably more cosmopoli tan, but mainly because they are musicians, with more respect for sound than all the Presleys, Fabians and brother acts of the last decade put to gether, In restraint, one must add that this doesn't say a great deal. 3 - THE BEATLES do not take themselves ser- LEBANON Your World And Mine CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 of education as the key to progress. Here one may hope to see the start of development of a more open attitude towards other religions. Students of Islam generally believe that its fanaticism is largely a function of the ignorance of the masses. THE LEBANESE, including the Christians, are fully arabized lnlanguage, customs and sentiment. They Joined the Arab League in 19-45. They par ticipated in the war against Israel in 1948, and as already noted, gave asylum to many Palestine refugees. These refugees have in fact created a compli cated and still unresolved problem. 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If one theme dominates this film, it is a barely disguised hostility toward authority fig ures, ranging from Paul McCartney’s fictional grandfather and the group’s agent to police and adult men casually encountered in their adven tures. The grandfather (Wilfrid Brambell) is a repul sive little low-comedy hypocrite who is either chasing women or profits Qjy forging Beatle auto graphs). In one scene, which opens with him og ling a sexy record album cover, the old man ad vises the boys to stay away from a "disgusting" party but carefully pockets the invitation himself. THE BEATLES’ BOSSES (agent, TV director, a dress designer seeking tie-in promotion) are all pompous jerks who give too many restricting or ders. When the boys sass them back, their fans in the audience applaud; disliked adults are often the targets of spontaneous epithets from unamused spectators. In another scene, a grouchy adult chas es the boys off his property, where they have been cavorting (in fascinatingly arty helicopter shots) like mischievous little boys. One Beatle replies: "Sorry we hurt your field, mister." "Hard Day" is more of a documentary than a story film, allowing fans Intimate closeups of their own shrieking hysteria as well as of their idols in in action. The 83 minutes are padded out with sight gags (e.g., an old man reading a magazine with Presley on the cover), the efforts of the singers to escape their fame-built prison world, and a clever Buster Keaton-ish episode in which Ringo Starr, poignant in baggy overcoat, searches out the Mean ing of Life on the streets of the city, DIRECTOR RICHARD Lester has been true to his medium in putting the boys constantly in mo tion, or when they are not, by having hand-held cameras rock and roll in extreme closeups in stark black and white lighting with dizzily rhyth mic cutting. 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