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> FIRST SUNDAY English Masses Set For Advent ROME (NC)—-The Bishops of the United States at a meeting here (Oct. 19) formally approv ed Nov. 29, the first Sunday of Advent, as the official date for the introduction of English in the Mass. THIS DATE, the first day of the new Church year, had been widely anticipated as the day that the new English use would go into effect in the Mass throughout the United States. In some American dioceses, however, English was intro duced in the Mass last summer. The Nov. 29 change will put into effect the decisions adop ted by the American bishops at their meeting in Washington last April 2. The decrees they adop ted were made public on May 14, less than two weeks after they were confirmed by the new Commission for the Execution of the Constitution on the Sac red Liturgy. The changes to take effect at the end of November include the use of English instead of Latin for most of the Service of the Word—the opening part of the Mass—and for much of the Communion service as well. THUS the Introit, Kyrie, Glo ria (when said), the lessons, Gospel and Creed, and the re stored “common prayer” or “prayer of the faithful” will all be in English. The Offer tory anthem will also be in the vernacular. In the Canon, the Sanctus- Benedictus alone will be in' English; the rest, including the -prayers, remain in Latin. BUT IN the Communion ser vice, the Lord’s Prayer will be in English. So will the Agnus Dei. At the Communion of the people, the Ecce Agnus Dei and the triple Domine, nonsumdig- nus will be in English. So will the Communion anthem. While the Postcommunion prayer re mains Latin, the dismissal and blessing will be in English. The last Gospel, when said, remains Latin. But it is to be eliminated completely under the further changes which become mandatory next Lent. POPE PAUL VI greets Bishop Ardavazt Terterian of the Armenian Church of Marseilles, France former professor of the patriarchal seminary in Lebanon, and one of 75 council observers representing 23 churches of the world. The Pontiff presented each observer with a leather-bound copy of the New Testament in both Latin and Greek. Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity (center), and Bishop Jan Willebrands, secretary of the unity secretariat, introduced the observers. PROTESTANT CONVENTION Cardinal Cautions Against Ecumenism Becoming Only A Passing Tad’ ST. LOUIS (NC)—Christians should not let ecumenism be come “only a passing fad,” a RETIRING Archbishop Edward F. Hoban (upper left), Bishop of Cleveland, and Bishop Joseph H. Albers (lower left) of Lansing. Mich., have asked for reasons of health and age to be relieved of the active government of their dioceses. Pope Paul VI has appointed Bishop Clarence G. Issenmann (upper right) Coadjutor Bishop of Cleveland, with right of succession, and Bishop Alexander M. Zaleski (lower right) Coadjutor Bishop of Lansing, also with right of succession. spokesman for Joseph Cardi nal Ritter told an ecumenical dinner during the general con vention of the Protestant Epis copal Church. FATHER Paul C. Reinert, S.J., representing the Cardi nal who is in Rome, called ecumenism a “burgeoning spirit” and “a hope that must be kept alive and progressing toward the achievement of concrete results.” ”The danger, as I see it,” he said, “is that the ecumeni cal spirit can remain a vague, vapid and formless idea; in time it might prove to be only a passing fad,” Father Reinert said. ’The ecumenical spirit must be for all of us an abiding atti tude, a permeating atmosphere, a milieu in which we work and think and have our being. “it must become for us what water* is to a fish—the only me dium in which we are at home. Outside of it we should feel un comfortable; outside of it we fear we may die,” he said. CARDINAL Ritter, in Rome for the Second Vatican Coun cil, sent a message to the church’s triennial convention. He said his regret at being absent was “multiplied by the realization that much of the ecumenical spirit abroad in the world today can trace its ori gin to movements within your Communion during the past 100 years.” “At the same time,” he added, ”1 am happy to be tak ing part at this time in the third session of the Vatican Council, which I am convin ced will seal our determination to participate to the fullest ex tent possible in the ecumenical encounter.’’ THE EPISCOPAL convention sent a message to the Vatican Council, assuring Pope Paul VI of the continued prayers of Anglicans and pldeging prayers that the Holy Spirit may guide the deliberations of the coun cil “to the salvation of souls, the further refreshing and in vigorating of the Holy Church and the good of all men every where.” As one feature of the Epis copalian gathering, delegates visited area Protestant and Catholic seminaries with spokesmen for one church speaking in an institution operated by another. DR. ALLEN O. Miller, a member of the United Church of Christ and professor of systematic theology at Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, spoke at Kenrick Semi nary, a Catholic seminary. He said the Christian era is yet to come, adding that “an honest appraisal of our total situation might identify our times as effectively post modern as well as post-me dieval, but surely still pre- Christian.” Dr. Miller called it impera tive that the Christian church today “become utterly what her Lord is—a Christ-bearer, suf fering servant.” “She may no longer be the spiritual imperialist who emas culates the world and is hated for it, nor the paternalistic di spenser of ‘cheap grace* to whom the world becomes be holden and who is despised for it,” he said. FATHER Robert Coerver, C.M., vice rector of Kenrick, major seminary for the St. Louis archdiocese, spoke at Concordih Lutheran Semi nary here. Speaking on Christian wit ness, he said that ”we must love the world, we must really care what is happening to it.” “It may be true that in the past clericalism and the pater nalism of the clergy reduced the role of the parishioner to that of a mere 'consumer,' a spiritual proletarian. “But the day when any Chris tian could say ‘that is not my business, I'm only a parish ioner,* is long past. The lay man who is content to receive from the Church and does not labor for the coming of the Kingdom is a traitor to his vocation,” he said. THE 61ST general convention of the church also reaffirmed a resolution to cooperate in any efforts toward a "common Bi ble” which would include the best scholarship of Catholic and Protestant exegetes. The Epis copalians first pledged their cooperation three years ago. The church body also called the charge of deicide against Jews a “tragic misunderstand ing” and in a unanimous state ment called anti-Semitism “ a direct contradiction of Chris tian doctrine.” “All men are guilty of the death of Christ, for all have in some manner denied Him; and since that curcified Christ were common human sins, the Christian knows that he him self is guilty,” the church said. Baptismal Font MILAN (NC)-— Archeologists uncovered here a baptismal font they believe to be the one at which St. Ambrose baptized SC Augustine in 387. The six-sided stone font is the latest and most important result of three years of arc». ological excavations. It is set in what remains of a black and white marble floor dating back to the 4th century. The present excavations are just in the front of the famous Gothic cathedral of Milan.