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2 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1968
New Canons Called More
Effective Eucharistic Prayer
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Asked whether parishioners
would be ready to accept the new
canons, the conference chairman,
Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J.
Grady of Chicago, said they
would be if steps were taken to
prepare them.
Bishop Grady also said * the
prayers “will be translated into
the vernacular for Chicago’s
Polish-speaking and
Spanish-speaking Catholics.”
request for experimentation in
the liturgy, and has sent the
request on to the Vatican where
it is now under study.”
Archbishop Byrne acted as
principal celebrant at a Mass
concelebrated with six priests
from all parts of the country on
the closing day of the conference
here, demonstrating the use of
one of the new alternate English
prayers.
During a press conference
(Nov. 22), Father Frederick R.
McManus, director of the
secretariat of the bishops’
committee on the liturgy, said
the new canons or eucharistic
prayers are “shorter and simpler
texts, offering a better and
clearer expression of wha<»
eucharistic prayer should be.
They all have the same ba r jc
elements, but vary to provide
richness and variety.”
Adapted for various uses,
together with appropriate new
“prefaces,” the new eucharistic
prayers are intended to enrich the
Mass by using more diversified
biblical texts, provide less rigid
and monotonous hearing for the
participating congregation, and
give a greater flexibility in length
and emphasis of the celebration,
according to the occasion.
States by the diocesan
commissions... the energetic
initiatives carried out in the
Chicago archdiocese to deepen
the knowledge of the liturgy
among the clergy, Religious and
faithful, and to provide practical
aids for a fuller participation in
the Church’s worship are widely
known throughout the Christian
world.”
Addressing himself to the
members of the music and
liturgical commissions, Cardinal
Gut wrote: “At this stage of the
liturgical reform, in. our liturgical
celebrations and educational
programs we must above all
concern ourselves with the
spiritual depth of the of the
renewal. We have already seen
many modifications in the layout
of our churches, and many
changes in the texts and actions
of our rites.
“It is to be hoped that further
reforms concerning the Mass and
the ritual will be published in the
coming year. Already there has:
been widespread preparation for
these rites, and in many places
study has been undertaken of
those adaptations which seem
appropriate and useful.
“But in all of this we should
keep clearly in our minds that the
purpose of all pastoral activity
concerning the liturgy is that the
Paschal Mystery of Christ may be
expressed in men’s lives.”
He added: “We are all aware
from our personal experience of
the difficulties involved in
liturgical reform, but we must
never become discouraged.
Speaking of the Church’s
worship, our Holy Father Pope
Paul VI has referred to the
perennial youth of the liturgy.
“The eucharistic prayers which
are to be disucssed in Chicago are
evidence of this: they bear
witness to the life which is
breathed into the Church by the
spirit of Christ.”
John Cardinal Cody of
Chicago, honorary chairman of
the liturgy and music conference,
greeted participants at the
opening session and read a letter
sent to him by Benno Cardinal
Gut, president of the Consilium,
the international congregation
which meets in Rome to
implement the Constitution on
the Sacred Liturgy approved by
the bishops of the world at the
Second Vatican Council.
RECREATION TIME in a Poor Clare Monastery varies little
from normal pursuits of young people everywhere. Seldom
photographed because the Poor Clares live hidden lives in
their cloisters, this photo was made during the transition
period as a new monastery was being prepared for the nuns
at Cambelltown, New South Wales, Australia, in a move
from downtown Sydney. (NC Photo by John A. Mulligan)
Converts Denied Building Loans
Cardinal Gut said the TRIVANDRUM, India (NC) -
“wonderful work carried out in The Kerala state 1 government has
so many parts of the United declared that it is not possible to
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give loans for house-building to
converts to Christianity from the
former “untouchable” or Harijan
communities.
Harijan welfare minister, M.K.
Krishnan, told the state
legislature here (Nov. 7) that
converts can be included in the
grant only if they are listed as
“scheduled castes” in the Indian
constitution. Christians and other
non-Hindus are not included in
the caste system.
The statement came in
response to fwo Catholic
members who stated that it is not
right to deny the loans to
Harijans who join Christianity.
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Mr. Luis Melendrcz, migrant farm worker from California is pictured
as he spoke on the current Grape pickers strike to a crowd of over
100 interested persons who gathered in sympathy of the workers at
the Cathedral Center.
Sour Grapes...?
“How are the American people
reacting to your present need?”
was the pertinent question of one
of the 125 teen-agers from Christ
the King parish after hearing Mr.
Luis Melendrez, migrant farm
worker from California, who
spoke on the current Grape
pickers strike. Randy Roe, North
Fulton senior and youth leader
from the parish, introduced Mr.
Melendrez and asked him to
inform the teen-agers during their
regular Sunday morning study
session of Christianity last
Sunday, November 24, at Christ
the King Cathedral Center.
Americans to be so poor that
they often have no food for their
own tables. The Wagner Act and
its specific exclusion of farm
workers from its added privileges
was discussed.
Teen-agers probed into the
problem through a question
period in which they brought up
a recent article in the Atlanta
Constitution which stated that
migrant workers were satisfied,
the possibility that the strike
-could be communist-inspired and
their interest as far as which
stores of the Atlanta area are
cooperating in the strike.
“The American people are
beautiful”, said Mr. Melendrez,”
and we are appealing to them to
listen.” He asked the youth group
to consider the irony of a
situation which caused those who
put food on the tables of other
Ecumenical Church
To Become Memorial
Father Henry Gracz, assistant
pastor at Christ the King tied the
program together by reminding
the audience to continue to
question and to note that
newspapers, even Catholic papers,
could give only one side of an
issue and as Christians have an
obligation to seek the whole
truth.
PORT MORESBY, Papua
(NC) - An ecumenical church
will be built over the waters of
this city’s Fairfax harbor at
Hanuabada as a memorial to
Australians, Americans, other
allied troops and Japanese who
died in World War IPs Pacific
combat.
Hanuabada is the largest
native village in the area and well
known to U.S. servicemen who
served in Port Moresby during the
war.
The main part of the new
church building, which will be
administered by a local parish
board, will be the church for the
Catholics of the village.
Mr. Melendrez told the youth
group that a December 4 rally at
8 p.m. at Sacred Heart
auditorium would give Atlanta
business and families a chance to
support the cause for which he
speaks.
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