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PAGE 2 — The Georgia Bulletin, April 2,1970
Rome Easter Rites
(Continued from Page 1)
were on the ascent of the
back of the Palatine Hill,
amid the ancient ruins of
Pagan Rome.
The Pope ignored the
drizzling rain, although
everybody with an unbrella
had it open, and was deeply
devotional as the prayers
Were recited in various
languages. He returned to his
theme in his brief homily
after the Way of the Cross
was completed.
“The terrible affliction and
dishonor of the Cross,” he
said was endured by Christ
“without pain killers which
mitigate our suffering.
On Holy Saturday the
Pope attended ceremonies in
St.Peter’s and presided over
the,blessing of the new fire
and the baptismal waters. On
Easter he celebrated Mass at
St. Peter’s and then gave his
blessing from the balcony
above the city of the world.
During the Mass at St.
Peter’s on Easter the Pope
distributed Communion to 20
men and women from Korea
dressed in their national
costumes. The sections of the
Old and New Testaments, as
well as the Prayers of the
People, were read in a variety
of modern languages.
Earlier on Easter morning
Pope Paul went to Acila, a
suburb of Rome, to celebrate
Mass for 5,000 people, most
of them low-income workers
and refugees from Europe
and Africa.
Enormous crowds,
estimated at more than
100,000 by Vatican Radio
commentators^ turned out for
the Mass at St. Peter’s and the
traditional “Urbi et Orbi”
(To the City and the World)
papal blessing in Latin, which
the Pope delivered from the
great main balcony
overlooking the thousands
massed below in St. Peter’s
Square.
In his Easter message, prior
to the blessing, the Pope
proclaimed the triumph of
Christ’s Resurrection and
warned men against
forgetting the Risen Christ’s
message of peace and justice.
As he had done at the
earlier public ceremonies of
Holy Week, the Pope dwelt
on the religious and spiritual
significance of the season.
Without going into specific
problems of wars around the
globe, he made his theme the
words of the risen Christ:
“Peace be with you.”
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Describing problems
confronting man today, he
said:
“The more man seeks,
studies, thinks, discovers and
builds his giant tower of
modern culture, the less sure
is he of the validity of his
reasoning, of objective truth,
of, the existential usefulness
of*knowledge, the less sure he
becomes of his own
immortality.
“Doubt assails him, clouds
his mind, shakes him,
humiliates him. He takes
refuge in the evidence of his
wonderful achievements, he
sustains himself with the
sincerity of his experiences,
he relies on high-sounding
words in vogue at the
moment. The reality is that
fear costs him into reeling
doubt as to thy value of
everything he has done.”
Stressing the need for man
to pay attention to the
demands of the spirit, the
Pope said’
“If you, men of our time,
do not wish to be deceived by
your very wisdom, nor wish
to turn your very progress
into a weapon of destruction,
remember the prior claim of
that kingdom of God which
Christ proclaimed as the
supreme justice of the
world.”
Bishops Secretariat
Elects Cdl. Dearden
VATICAN CITY (NC)- Pope Paul VI has
announced the names of the 15 bishops who will
make up the new council of the general secretariat of
the Synod of Bishops, including Cardinal John F.
Dearden of Detroit.
POPE PAUL VI in his Easter message proclaimed the triumph of Christ’s Resurrection and called
for peace in the world, warning men against forgetting the Risen Christ’s message of justice and
peace. (NC Photo) ■ ■
Both he and Cardinal Paul
Zoungrana of Ouagadougou,
Upper Volta, were elected by
bishops from around the
world on the first mail ballot.
The names of the 12
elected members, chosen in
two mail ballots by the
bishops, and three members
appointed by Pope Paul, were
released by the Vatican
March 23.
Only two of the 12 elected
members, Cardinals Dearden
and Zoungrana, were elected
with a dear majority on he
first ballot.
(Speaking in Detroit March
15, Cardinal Leo Suenens of
Marines-Brussels, revealed
that Cardinal Dearden was
No. 1 in the voting.)
The other 10 were selected
on a second ballot, which
contained the names of those
bishops who had received the
relatively highest number of
votes.
The council of the synod’s
general secretariat will assist
Bishop Ladislaw Rubin,
general secretary of the
synod, and the Holy See in
preparing the synod meetings.
The other elected members
are:
Cardinals Norman Gilroy
of Sydney, Australia;
Valerian Gracias of Bombay,
India; Julius Doepfner of
Munich, Germany; Leon
Duval of Algiers; Agnelo
Rossi of Sao Paolo, Brazil;
Antonio Poma -of Bologna,
Italy, and Francois Marty of
Paris;
Also Archbishop Joseph
Cordeiro of Karachi,
Pakistan; Archbishop John
Zoa of Yaounde, Cameroon,
and Archbishop Marcos G.
McGrath of Panama.
The three members
nominated by the Pope sue
Cardinal Pericle Felici,
president of the Pontifical
Commission for the Revision
of the Code of Canon Law;
Bishop Stepan Trochta of
Litomerice, Czechoslovakia,
and Maronite-rite Bishop
Michael Doumith of Sarba,
from Lebanon.
The elections were
presided over by a three-man
commission composed of
Archbishop Enrico Nicodemo
of Bari, Italy, Bishop
Johannes Vonderach of Chur,
Switzerland, and Bishop
Rubin.
1st Mexi-American Bishop Foresees More
HOUSTON (NC)-Father
Patrick F. Flores, the first
Mexican- American priest
elevated to the rank of
bishop; hopes he won’t he the
last.
Moreover, the 40-year-old
Houston, priest, named
auxiliary to Archbishop
Francis J. Furey of San
Antonio, hopes his
appointment will become a
“source of encouragement”
for Mexican-American priests,
seminarians and prospective
vocations.
‘‘If this can be
accomplished,” he said, “I’m
very willing' to be the first
victim.”
Bishop-elect Flores, a
native of Ganado, Tex., who
was reared in the
Galveston-Houston area, has
identified closely with
Mexi can-America Catholics
and their causes.
He has served in three
predominantly Spanish-speak
ing parishes in Houston and
has headed the Galveston-
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Houston diocesan Bishops’
Committee for the Spanish
Speaking. He has also been
diocesan director of both the
Cursillo movement and the
Christian Family Movement,
and was a charter member of
“Padres,” the organization of
Mexican-American priests.
He has helped
Mexican-Americans find
better housing and jobs, has
helped Spanish-speaking
dropouts resume their
education,- and has
encouraged other
5 M exican-American students
to remain in school.
He has also sided with farm
workers seeking collective
bargaining protection.
Father Flores is currently
serving as pastor of St.
Joseph-St. Stephen Parish in
Houston.
As auxiliary bishop, he
emphasized that he would be
“interested in every person,
regardless of color, race or
religion. My main interest will
be to help people develop
religiously, intellectually and
humanly.” But he added:
“My call of duty would be to
those who need the most of
my services.”
The San Antonio
archdiocese, which covers 32
Central and South Texas
c o untie s , i n c ludes
approximately 500,000
Catholics-70% of whom are
Mexican-Americans.
(Archbishop Furey, who
recently established an
archdiocesan Commission on
Mexican-American affairs,
said at a news conference
(March 18) in San Antonio:
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organization of
Mexican-American priests,
has been awarded a $7,000
grant by the Interreligious
Foundation for Community
Organization (IFCO).
Announcement of the
grant was made at IFCO
offices here by Father Ralph
Ruiz of San Antonio,
national chairman of Pr.dres,
which was formed last year.
Father Ruiz said the funds
will go toward implementing
plans to establish mobile
team? of priests who would
work with churches and other
institutions, trying \to use
their resources better in
support of self-determination
. efforts of poor Mexican-
Americans.
The community
organization proposal was
among the major resolutions
adopted by Padres at its first
national convention last
month in Tucson, Ariz.
Father Ruiz also
announced that he had been
loaned for a two-year period
by the San Antonio
archdiocese to help organize
Padres.
“There are hundreds of
thousands of Catholics in the
archdiocese, the majority of
whom are of Mexican-Ameri
can descent. I felt, therefore,
that I should ask Pope Paul to
appoint Bishop-elect Flores
to assist me with the many
and varied tasks that are mine
as archbishop.” The news
conference was held to
announce Bishop-elect Flores’
appointment as auxiliary.)
In a telephone interview,
Father Flores told NC News
that he views the emerging
self-determination , mood
among Mexican-Americans as
a “rising star of hope.”
The Spanish-speaking, he
said, are behind the times
socially, economically and
politically.
“At last we are beginning
to do things for ourselves,”
he said. “Mexican-Americans
want to help themselves, but
we admit honestly we cannot
do it all.”
He said members of that
ethnic group should be
helped to help themselves.
Bishop-designate Flores
plans to continue working on
a limited basis with Padres.
He said he was heartened that
the organization’s leaders are
indicating “they want to do
things constructively, not
negatively.”
He also said favors
adapting the liturgy to fit the
Mexican-Americans’ cultural
needs, which he said, “must
be taken into account.”
As an example, Father
Flores noted that in St.
Joseph-St. Stephen Parish in
Houston, he purposely
scheduled Mariachi Masses for
services which were poorly
attended. “Now they are
packed,” he said, describing
the faithful’s response to the
Mass in Spanish.
Mexican-American
Catholics, he said, prefer the
Mariachi Mass “because they
feel its their ‘thing.’ They feel
they Eire really taking part,
rather than being spectators.”
Bishop-elect Flores will be
consecrated May 5 in San
Fernando Cathedral in San
Antonio. That date, known in
Spanish as “Cinco de Mayo,”
has a special significance for
Americans of Mexican
decent.
One of Mexico’s two
greatest independence
holidays, it is observed in a
festive manner by some
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Our English word, “Eucharist,” comes from the Greek,
‘eucharistia,’ meaning “thanksgiving.” The Lord’s Supper,
the Passover Meal, was actually a Thanksgiving Meal. It
celebrated the Chosen People’s exodus from Egypt’s slavery
to the freedom of their own land.
Each time we celebrate this meal our Lord gave us, we
express our thanksgiving as God’s People freed from the
slavery of sin to live in peace and brotherhood with all men
in every land.
When we receive the Eucharist we accept all others as
brothers in Christ. Is not Holy Communion a sharing of our
Christ-life with the commun-ity of men? To receive the
Eucharist is to thank God for the blessings of Our life by
sharing with those in need.
As Catholics and Americans we have much to be
thankful for. We have, when needed, our doctors, dentists,
hospitals, and drug stores. We have good food and water,
supermarkets, and cooking appliances. We have clothes,
shoes, warm homes, and sanitation. We have education,
career opportunities, the theater, arts, and television. We
have the means to live Christian lives, and the freedom and
personal dignity that America provides. We reap the good
things of America from automobiles, highways, and space
pioneering to welfare, insurance, and social security. And
on and on...
Thank God for the good life he has provided you and your
family. Receive the Eucharist and accept in your heart
those of our world who are illiterate, diseased, homeless,
hungry, and naked. Those imprisoned by inhuman poverty.
Thank God for the goodness you have received by
sharing some good with the missionaries bringing to
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