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LITURGICAL REFORM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 The Aim: Participation BY REV. LEONARD F. X. MAYHEW The first major steps in the reforming of Cathoic liturgy are following one another rapidly. Introduction of English into the Mass, in those parts which are instructional and those prayers which belong to the entire congregation, is set for November 29. This move honors the first principle set by the Constitution on Sacred Liturgy; “In the restoration and promotion of the sac red liturgy, this full and active participation by all the people is the aim to be considered be- fore all else. The use of our own language will create immediate contact between the ac tion of the Mass and the as sembly. No degree of skill in latin or earnest use of mis sal translations can substitute for this immediacy. The second major stage of reform has just been publish ed by the Holy See. Accord ing to Father Frederick R. Mc Manus, president of the Ameri can Liturgical Conference, these new changes aim at stres sing the community nature of Catholic worship. They will also enhance the liturgy's educa tional and formative function. The private pray ers which had been added over the centuries to the beginning and end of the Mass-rite will be omitted. Some of the important public pray ers said by the celebrant in silence until now will be recited aloud to stress their communal nature. ONE DEVELOPMENT in the rite for Mass which will do much to involve the congregation in the celebration is the Prayer of the Faithful. This will be a brief series of invocations or petitions to be said or sung at the completion of the service of God’s Word. These petitions will include intentions for the Mass which will be of tangible concern to the faithful. As a re sult, they will feel themselves more closely in cluded in the intentions of the Mass. Like the Constitution on the Liturgy, this newest instruction on liturgical reform is conceived in pastoral terms. In other words, the one over-riding concern of the Church is that the celebration of the liturgy should promote Christian living among the people of the Church. From a deeper experience of the truths of the Faith should come a clearer and more concrte realization of the demands of our Christian voca tions. THE CONSTITUTIONS on Liturgy teaches that participation in liturgical celebrations “is the pri mary and indispensable source from which the faithful are to derive the true Christian spirit.” This means that the ultimate test of our grasp of the liturgy will be growth in virtue. Our com mon celebration of the Eucharist and our re awakened appreciation of the other Sacraments should bear fruit in charity. Our homes ought to be more evidently filled with a spirit of faith. Ultimately, problems like juvenile delinquency, racial prejudice, lack of business ethics, etc. should be lessened by the stronger impact of the Faith on us. We have a duty to receive the program of liturgical reform not merely as more Church legislation but as an opportunity to grow in grace and zeal. If zeal for promotion of the liturgy is a providential sign of God’s presence in the Church in our time, then zeal for the growth of Christian living which should result is an equally necessary consideration. QUESTION BOX End Justify Means? BY MSGR. J. D. CONWAY Q. Does the Church have any position on the unnatural practice of spading animals. A. Not any more than she has on de-tassel- ing corn. Q. I know that we are taught that the end never justifies the means and a wrong is never con sidered right because of what it accomplished (for instance telling a lie is always wrong even a Mt may save someone’s life), but it is difficult for me to see the justice of this doctrine for me and thus perhaps clear my mind on the subject. I am a convert of four years. A. St. Paul answers this ques tion without giving any explana tion: “And why should we not, as some calumniously accuse us of teaching, do evil that good may come from it? The condemnation of such is just.” (Rom. 2, 8). I believe you have made the problem seem harder than it really is, by giving me an ex treme and improbable example. Just how would you save a man’s lift by telling a lie? I can think of two possible ways: (1) by giving false testimony which might save a murderer from conviction, and (2) by giving misleading infor mation to a mob out to lynch someone. In the first case you would surely agree with me that your lying would not be justified. It obstructs the process of justice and endangers society. In the second case you would not be telling a lie, in the sinful sense of the word. In the past many moralists, following the lead of St. Augustine, labeled as a sinful lie any statement which did not conform to your know ledge and beliefs— and then they provided for skillful mental reservations to take cart of situ ations in which the blunt truth would be harm ful. Today there is more emphasis on the social purposes of speech. We have two obligations: to be honest with our neighbor, and to be reli able about keeping secrets. Sometimes these two obligations may come into seeming conflict; in such cases prudence must guide us as to which obligation prevails, and how we can best fulfill this obligation. In the case of the lynch mob I would simply give them false directions plainly, without fear of sin; because 1 am keeping the just secret of my refugee. I would not get myself tangled up in contrived mental n. servations, which might betray the whole secret. And later, I am sure the best of my neighbors would not consider me a liar. We lie when we mislead people unjus tly, ,._ien we fail in our social duty of being honest and dependable. We do not lie when the people questioning us have no right or reason able hope of obtaining a factual answer. There are many cases in which you are rightly ex- ected to give your name, rank and serial num ber—and that is all. Lying is betrayal of trust. It is evident that such a rule for ' ’lying’' must be followed with strict honesty. It is open to dangerous interpretations—especially for chil dren, or for those given to rationalizations. But I am convinced that more harm is done by a person nervously scrupulous about the truth, than by one who speaks in frank and open man ner to convey truth or guard secrets as duty may require. I digress from your main question. There is simply a matter of principle involved: evil is evil, and our good purpose cannot change its nature. There was a time when little argument was required to convince most people of this. But in recent years there has developed a new concept of morality, which disdains principles, and leaves it to the individual conscience to judge on the spot and in a given situation which course of action is right or wrong, just by weigh ing or estimating conflicting values. Laws, moral principles and church teachings do not neces sarily influence the weighing. We agrte, of course, that each person must use his own conscience to judge whether a par ticular action is right or wrong in a given situ ation. But we insist that he must know the laws of God, the moral principles which sound rea son and human experience have stablished, and teachings of the Church which Christ establish ed to guide us. Even with all these guidelines moral judgments may sometimes be difficult. But imagine what they are when you throw away the rules and trust to “divine inspiration” or to a vague sense of values which may be much disv. torted by the sentiments or emotions of the moment. Q. I would like to know if a Catholic man who has married a non-Catholic girl in a Protestant church, by their minister, and now is divorced, can marry now in the Catholic Church. A. My opinion is affirmative, but the case will have to be investigated by the bishop’s office. The man should consult his pastor. US. VIETNAM FUTURE Your World And Mine CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 do not want to be satellites of China any more than Ireland wants to be a satellite of England or Mexico a .'satellite of the United States. What we, accordingly, have to seek at the inevitable conference table is an arrangement to permit a normalization of their relations with China with out their absorption by China. To do this will require moving from strength in two senses. First, we must move from mili tary strength. We must have bargaining power. In consequence, it is legitimate to anticipate an increase in our military involvement in the near future as a prelude to negotiations. We must convince the other side that we are not ready to sell out our friends, especially those who left their homes in North Vietnam ten years ago to find freedom, WE MUST also move from strength in the sense of going to the conference table with a program to capture the imagination of the people whose future will be at stake. We must offer them the possibility of building for themselves alongside their giant neighbor a future similar to that of Mexico and Ireland. Such a program will demand a greater con tribution by the United States than its present military commitment. It will also demand more faith and more statesmanship, for we will no longer be in a position to dictate. But I see no viable alternative that will not ensure a rapid absorption .of these countries and their neighbors by Red China. I MAY add, as a footnote, thatprtssure is like ly to mount in favor of allowing Indonesia to absorb Malaysia in order to save it from China. That would, I believe, be a tragic error. It would confirm the Communist charge that ihe concerns of the West in South-East Asia are purely sel fish, that everyone and every thing is for sale. It would also tempt China to enter the race and push militarily all the way south to Malaysia on the pretext of protecting its southern neigh bors from Malaya's fate. Saints in Black and White ST. JANE FRANCES DE CHANTAL 113 Across 1 Her husband was one 6 exceedingly: music 10 solemn declaration 13 lure 14 mew 15 dread 16 a degree 17 coveted award 10 ripple 21 unit of electrical intensity: abbr. 23 mentor 25 prefix: half 26 St. Vincent De Paul saw her----aecend as a ball of fire 28 rent again 30 closes 33 senior 35 restore 37 one 38 bayonet 40 Shropshire 42 Chinese herb 43 German Army rifle man 45 lemon-like fruits 4 7 a title; abbr. 48 sine prole; abbr. 50 tusk 52 musical medl.y • 4 church sitting SO citrus fruit .id restricted 6$ God of Love; Gr. 22 24 27 29 31 32 34 36 63 frisk 65 roll 66 kinks 68 fresher 70 rodent; pi. 71 Lotus (poet) 73 token 75 woo 76 approve 79 survives 81 more than one; abbr 82 quince; Bengal y: 83 land measure 85 amen 87 shaver 88 annum 48 89 eterhal'. poetic. 49 nown 5i 1 to happen 53 2 bustle 3 corrode 55 4 pass 57 5 trimmer 59 6 tierce; abbr. 60 7 crude 02 8 knight's oath C4 9 She lived to l?e 67 -----ty 69 10 St. Francis cabled 72 her “the 74 woman” 76 11 be In debt 77 12 dank 78 13 by-product of flour 80 16 soothed 84 18 parts go ostrich-like bird dumpy of the kidneys valid purposeful oxhide strip; So. Afr sun stately She founded 87 Religious homes for musical instrument.' punitive Latin pluck specification S.A. Country one who lassos plant of the Irish family Her governess was post interest disk swamp endure again wander bolt ‘ verb suffix part of paYrot’s bill outflow modernist time term of address comparative ending lboron; abbr. ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE, PAGE 7 SECRETARY GENERAL — Msgr. Raymond P. Etteldorf, Dubuque, Iowa, has been named secretary general of the international headquar ters in Rome of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. A native of Ossian, Iowa, Monsignor Etteldorf is a former editor of The Witness, Dubuque archdioce san newspaper, and in recent years has worked in Rome with the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. He succeeds the late Archbishop Leone Nigris. Ministers Attend Bishop’s Funeral LA CROSSE, Wis. (NC}~ Twenty-five non-Catholic min isters, some wearing their clerical robes, attended the fun eral Mass (Oct. 15) of Bishop John P. Treacy of La Crosse. Of the 300 priests at the fun eral, 20 are members of the La Crosse Assoc ation of Chris tian Clergymen, formerly call ed the Ministerial Alliance, A year ago the name was changed to encourage priests to join. ARNOLD VIEWING ‘Four Days In November’ BY JAMES W. ARNOLD Since the Great Depression Americans univer sally have shared four great emotional exper iences: Pearl Harbor, the end of the war, the Cu ban missile crisis, and the assassination of President Kennedy. “Four Days in November," a two-hour interpretive summary of last year’s tragedy by skilled film documentarists, is the first major attempt by movies to deal with any of them. Why so soon? The two cynical possibilites are profit and politics. But built-in factors in the assassination encourage this kind of report. There is the in herent drama, involving per sons rather than intangible for ces, with a remarkable cast of heroes, villains and clowns, and a story with a reasonably clear-cut climax and ending. There is the eminently photo- graphable nature of the event (as compared, say, with the missile crisis). And there is the obvious fact that so many of its details were photographed by nearly everyone who had access to a camera. THE PROFIT aspect is a gamble at best. While the Warren Report undoubtedly stirred new interest, this may have been more than satis fied by subsequent press coverage, especially the two-hour CBS-TV report, which used many of this film's techniques and drew an amazing audience of 27 million homes on a Sunday afternoon. Whatever draws the audience- curio sity, sympathy or a morbid desire to punish one self- there can’t be much left of it. “Four Days," moreover, is serious journalism, produced by United Press International with David L. Wiper, one of television’s top documentary men. Unhappily, there is little audience for such material even while it’s free, as indicated by the ratings for programs like “CBS Reports” and “The Campaign and the Candidates.” If the movie makers are to get rich, they will have to do so abroad, where the audience is less informed about the Dallas tragedy and more discriminating. (“Four Days” played only three days in one large city where no film had run less than a week sinc«. Zsa Zsa Gabor played ingenues). POLITICAL chicanery is possible but unlikely, despite the Democratic connections of top United Artists executives. This film will appeal mainly to a “sold" audience, politica *.y; besides, it is calm, balanced, and rather fair. Only rarely is rhetoric used to add emotion to the sheer pow er of facts. However, the flat record of what they suffered and did last November cannot possibly hurt men like President Johnson and Robert Ken nedy at the polls. Regardless of its intentions and dubious box- office prospects, the film serves an important public need. It puts the events of 11 months ago in the perspective of their true context (civil lights unrest, political fenc.-mending by JFK in the South) and organizes scattered details into their logical time sequence. When these are added to the probing of the sound camera, which reproduces the real sights and sounds of the events and locales, there is no doubt the citizen can better understand What Hap pened.- SOME MAY' fault the movie for a lack of taste- in its use of film clips to manufacture tension and suspense (e.g., frequent dramatic cross cutting to clocks or to the Book Depository during the Dallas motorcade). But a reporter can not really be grudged the right to tell the truth artfully. More seriously, it uses pitiful Jack Ruby as a whipping boy ("he had finally made the big time”) while exuding good will toward the law enforcement agencies. Police help, of course, made the film possible. Technically, “Four Days” is a marvel; in truth, the documentary is an art form that has reach ed practical perfection. The basic material, which intensively covers the preceding week as well as the four days, comes from newsreels, TV tapes, amateur movies. The wonder is that so few shots are poorly lighted, grainy or out-of-focus. The editing is often touchingly clever (cutting from a lamenting folksinger to people laying flowers at the murder site, while the music continues behind). OFTEN director Mel Stuart sends hand-held cameras along the route followed by Oswald, with the tape-recorded testimony of witnesses on the soundtrack. (We enter the Texas theater in the dark and see the same empty seats, the same movie Oswald saw). When film is lacking, editor William Cartrightuses stills but keeps the camera panning and tracking. The assassination itself is <jolt, broken only by the thunder of the rifle shots. Why, nearly a year later, is this so heart- breakingly moving? And there are hundreds of those perceptive “little images,’’ some new, some old, that made these events, for those who loved John F. Ken nedy, half-nightmare, half-Greek tragedy: -Jacqueline Kennedy, in that unforgetable pink suit. I had never seen Mrs. Kennedy cry until this film. The break comes at a crushing mom ent; the last playing of “Hail to the Chief” before the Capitol. - The weeping Negro waiter behind the serv ing table at the Trade Mart, the candlelight pro cession in Berlin, the grinning newsmen carry ing Oswald’s coffin. - The Image of Oswald as a cherubic second grader, with the background comment that his mother had just divorced her third husband. - The Secret Service man beating his fist in despair against the presidential limousine; the woman in Ireland who sent a letter “with deep regra. . .” (her voice chokes into silence as the camera moves in). - Cardinal Cushing, “the great craggy arch angel,’’ praying “I am the Resurrection and the Life" in that flat melancholy voice echo ing among the tombstones at Arlington; the bugl er whose expert composure, like so many hearts, cracked as he played “Taps” in the bright, grim sunshine. S.H. KRESS & COMPANY SCHOOL SUPPLIES - SUNDRIES- TOYS - SEWING ACCESSORIES - YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING HEADQUARTERS ATHENS, GEORGIA OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday, October 22, 1964 “David *ln<uvuuice All Forms of Insurance Business - Personal STRESSING .... SERVICE 1424 Northeast Freeway Atlanta, Georgia 636-1461 God Love You BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN Provety has been mentioned many times here at the Coun cil, but the most concrete testimony of its existence is the real poverty of over half the bishops present. We from the land of wealth daily look on our brothers in Christ who have nothing! Here are extracts from letters written to me by missionary bishops attending the Council here in Rome: “In my diocese neither I, the bishop, nor any of my priests have enough Mass stipends to buy food for daily living. Our people are too poor to make any offering.” Another letter reads: “My diocese extends 40,000 square miles. In this area there are 151,000 inhabitants, but only seven priests and seven sisters to care for them. We have no cathedral or seminary, neither do I have a house. Our priests serve the faithful on horseback. A jeep is necessary for this area, but we are too poor to afford one and so are the people. Maybe you could help us with some Mass stipends?” Another writes: “My cathedral is a tiny little shack which holds only 60 people. If I had any personal needs I would never dare to write you, but because of my love for my little flock I have to undergo this torture and I hope not, your refusal.” And still another: “In order to come to the Council I sold an icebox, a little portable radio and a portable typewriter. With aid from my old mother, I had $400. What wealth! The other day a pick-pocket took all I had left—$330. Will you give me something?” This is a side of the Council that few know about, the poverty of the bishops. These letters come from all over the world, for The Society for the Propagation of the Faith cares for not one area or one group, but the entire world. What a pity it is that those who write critically of the Church, while pro fessing to be loyal members, do not know of the deep spirit of sacrifice in which many priests and bishops live day by day. We received another letter from a bishop in the United States who had been a missionary in China. He lived in China for 27 years and spent some time in a Japanese concentrationcamp. When the Chinese Reds took over, he was in solitary confine ment for two years, spendng four months of this time in a small cell* He was served two meals a day: one of poor grade rice and the other of boiled leaves. He writes; “Whereas it is im possible for me to send any money to China, and whereas 1 am privileged, able and happy to confer ordinations and con— firmations, give a gew days of recollection and receive a little honorarium, 1 feel I should give some of this superabun dance to help the Holy Father's Missions. Enclosed is a check for $500." This is not the first time this Bishop has sent $500. to the Holy Father. Only the wounded know how to care for those who are wounded. Bishops and priests who have suf fered for the Church are always the first to come forward to help. May those of you, both priests and laity, who read these letters be inspired to make sacrifices to help The Society for the Propagation of the Faith bear the burden of the poor bishops of the world. The Church is so blessed in such men! GOD LOVE YOU to F. W. for $100 “Enclosed is a token of my gratitude for all the blessings God has showered on my family, my business and myself.” ... to a new R. N. for $10 “Today I received notice that I passed my examinations and am now a registered nurse. I promised God that when I became a nurse I would send $10 to T1k Society for the- Pro pagation of the Faith. Here it is for those who have so little” . . . to M. M. H. for $70 “This year 1 received a generous increase in salary. This good fortune I wish to share witn the poor of the world.” The ten letters of GOD LOVE Y'OU became a decade of the Rosary as they encircle the medal originated by Bishop Sheen to honor the Madonna of the World. What better way to remind yourself to pray for the world, and especially now, for the bishops of the world in Council? $2 small sterling silver $3 Small 10k gold filled $5 large sterling silver Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mall it to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. or your Archdiocesen Director, Very Rev. Harold •J. Rainey P. O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.