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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, May 29,1980
In Mary’s Service
BY FR.
JEREMY MILLER, O P.
I.asl In A Scries
The mention of Mary’s
name begins a Dominican’s
life and also ends it. When
a man or woman professes
vows to enter the
Dominican Order, the
austere formula of
committing one’s life to
preaching the Word begins
“I make profession and
promise obedience to God
and to the Blessed Mary
and to . . .” And when
that Dominican man’s or
woman’s life comes to an
end, the community
gathers around the death
bed and sings the “Hail
Holy Queen.” Both of
these are anxious
moments, humanly
speaking, and Mary is
called upon to make them
moments of grace and
faith.
When the Dominican
family was begun in the
early 1200’s, the Blessed
Virgin was looked upon as
its special heavenly
intercessor. St. Dominic
had a strong Marian
devotion, and early
biographers mention that
as he walked the roads to
different preaching
assignments he would sing
the “Ave, Maris Stella”
and other hymns. When
the new houses of
preachers were being
established throughout
Europe, the Solmen Mass
of Dedication was most
often the Votive Mass in
honor of Mary.
The earliest origins of
the black and white
Dominican family habit
are lost in the historical
haze and certainly reflect
influences of the
Norbertine and Cistercian
monks, but there is a story
told within the family,
whether pious legend or
not is difficult to say, of a
vision to Blessed Reginald
of Orleans. Reginald was
the first of the influential
University professors
Dominic attracted to the
Order. The year was 1218.
Reginald resigned his
professorship, but soon
after fell deathly sick. He
later professed that Mary
appeared to him in vision,
encouraging his risky
decision and showing him
the black and white friar’s
habit. The family
continues to tell the story
and lets each one decide
on the historical origins of
our garb.
What is clearly and
historically attested,
however, is the style of the
community’s prayers. The
monastic choir prayers
divided the day. The
evening prayer before
retiring is called Compline.
The earliest Dominicans
made this the most solemn
portion, adding to the
traditional prayer special
antiphons and canticles. It
ended with the
Community processing
from the choir section to
the nave of the Church
singing the “Salve
Regina,” ending a day of
ministry with this Marian
hymn.
Certainly the Marian
prayer most associated
with the Dominicans is the
Rosary. Although it has
been claimed that St.
Dominic begun this
devotion after having
received a vision of Mary,
it is now clear that the
Rosary in its current form
comes from the 15th
century. It evolved from
many directions in the
middle ages, Carthusians,
Cistercians, Dominicans,
etc.
In the late 1400s
Dominicans energetically
popularized the praying of
the Rosary, connecting 15
meditations with the
decades. Alan de la Roche,
a Dominican friar,
founded the Confraternity
of the Rosary in France
and soon Confraternities
spread all over Europe. It
was the Confraternity
movement which
associated the Rosary with
Dominican ministry. In
the United States it
became known under the
title of the Rosary Altar
Society, and Dominican
preaching often had strong
accents of Mary’s role in
salvation history.
Since we live in the
Southeast, I cannot fail to
mention the name of Fr.
Pat Walsh, now almost 80
and nearly blind. Pat
Walsh was one of the great
Catholic evangelists of the
South, travelling rural
roads with his “chapel on
wheels,” ministering to
isolated Catholics and
encouraging rosary
devotion. His labors
humble the rest of us.
Mary in the Dominican
tradition suggests two
values to my own sense of
Dominicanism. The Order
was founded to preach the
Word. Christ is central and
primary. If our prayer life
is to nourish ministry,
then it must be grounded
in Christ and the
scriptures. Mary or any
other saint must not
replace this central focus,
or it would dishonor Mary
and Mary’s Son, our only
Savior.
On the other hand,
Christ is redeeming a
family, and among those
members in the Kingdom
Mary is pre-eminent. God’s
grace has fashioned her a
powerful intercessor. To
be unmindful of her in our
prayer life is to neglect
why there is a communion
of saints, why she can be a
Mother to us, why “future
generations would call her
blessed” (Luke), why we
in pilgrimage to the
Kingdom ought not to
travel that road alone in
our prayer to the Lord.
And in our pilgrimage’s
last moments, when death
draws near, we
Dominicans share with
you the power of that
moment when Mary can
be addressed as “Hail,
Holy Queen, Mother of
mercies...” as we hand
over our life’s endeavours
to the merciful mystery of
her Son, Jesus.
CHRIST THE KING
School Re-Accredited
BY JAMES TARBOX
Christ the King School
h is been reaccredited by
the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools.
The reaccrediting
process involved a ten year
self study, and a three day
on sight evaluation by a
visiting committee of the
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Calling the educational
program at Christ the King
“outstanding,” Elliot
Galloway, chairman of the
Association’s Visiting
Committee said that one
of the strong points of the
school is “the community
spirit demonstrated by the
parents, parish, faculty
and students.
Established in 1937 by
the Grey Nuns of the
Sacred Heart, the
Cathedral school has an
enrollment of 432
students in the first
through eighth grade.
Starting in the
basement of the Cathedral,
the school now has grown
to encompass 16
classrooms, a library-media
center, music and art
rooms, a gymnasium, a
special education center
and a dining area.
Christ the King School
has been accredited by the
Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools since
1970. The recent renewal
of the accredation came
after ten years of self
study and the previously
mentioned visitation.
Sister Jean Liston,
G.N.S.H., principal of the
school since 1976, said
that the recent action by
the Southern Association
has helped the school
towards “continued
growth toward the best
possible education for
each child.”
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CNN Debuts
With Pope
A VIEW OF THE CITY of Paris.
Pope John Paul will make a three
day visit to Paris from May 31 to
June 2. The new Cable News
Network opening
carry the Pope’s
in
Atlanta will
visit on June 2
which is the first day of the
Network's operation.
new
Catholic Graduations
Archdiocesan high
schools and elementary
schools are busy this
week with graduation
ceremonies.
St. Pius X. High
School will graduate 180
students this year. The
Baccalaureate Mass will
be celebrated with the
graduates on May 29th at
7:30 p.m. at the
Cathedral of Christ the
King. Father Richard
Lopez, Archdiocesan
Vocations Director, will
give the homily. —
The following
evening, May 30th at
8:30 p.m., graduation
ceremonies will be held
at the St. Pius
gymnasium. Dr. Paul A.
Montello, Professor of
Educational Administrat
ion at Georgia State and
Chairman of the
Archdiocesan Board of
Education, will address
the graduates. Elizabeth
Mary Barkley of St.
Thomas Aquinas Church
will deliver the
valedictory.
Marist High School
has a graduating class of
159 students, marking
the seventy-ninth
graduation in the history
of the school. Seniors
will attend a Baccalaur
eate Mass on May 30th in
the Kuhrt Gymnasium at
Marist. Father Francis
Hamilton, pastor of St.
Lawrence Church in
Lawrenceville will be the
homilist.
Graduation
ceremonies will be held
on the same day in
Atlanta’s Symphony
Hall. Mr. Hamilton
Smith, who graduated
from Marist in 1953, will
give the address. He is a
member of Christ the
King Church and is
employed by the Trust
Company of Georgia.
The valedictorian is
Gordon Tuttle of St.
Jude’s Church.
In addition to the
Archdiocesan high
schools, twelve
Archdiocesan elementary
schools will graduate
over four hundred
students, according to
Sister Valentina
Sheridan, R S M ,
A rchdiocesan
Superintendent of
Schools.
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NOEL BURTENSHAW
It almost seems that
Pope John Paul II and Ted
Turner got together on the
story. On June 1 Ted
opens his brand new Cable
News Network and star of
opening night is the Polish
Pontiff. Cable News
Network, based in Atlanta,
the first all news television
Network, programmed to
be on the air 24 hours
each day, will enter into
three and a half million
homes across the nation
on Sunday, June 1.
“All week long, final
preparations are coming
together,” says Jeanne
Von E ssen at the
International Assignment
desk. It’s hectic but most
exciting.”
The prime international
story of opening day is the
visit of Pope John Paul to
Paris. “Both Sunday and
Monday, we will feature
his visit,” says Ms.
VonEssen. “We think it
will be spectacular.”
The commentator for
the Pope’s visit on CNN
will be Denis Troute, who
is based in Rome. The
Network will televise the
open air Mass celebrated
by John Paul at LeBourget
Airport and also the
torchlight procession and
prayer service on Sunday
evening at Paris stadium.
Pope John Paul will
also visit a Catholic
training college to speak
with priests and
seminarians on Sunday
and the new Network will
cover that story too.
Highlights of the Mass
celebrated at the Cathedral
of Notre Dame on
Saturday will also be
shown.
On Monday the Pope
will visit the Paris
headquarters of UNESCO
and make a major speech.
He will then visit Lisieux,
where St. Therese lived
and died. Another open air
Mass will be celebrated
here before the Pope
helicoptors to Orly
Airport and returns to
Rome.
“It will be a Major
story for us,” says Ms.
VonEssen “and provide a
grand opening for our
historic station.
Cable News Network is
the first all news effort
made by television. News
commentaries and articles
will appear each day, as
the new brain child of Ted
Turner goes to the nation
and to the world.
Pope Stands By Decision
VATICAN CITY (NC)
-- The Vatican censure of
Father Hans Kung resulted
from the church’s desire to
protect “a fundamental
right of the human person
- the right to truth,” Pope
John Paul II told the West
German bishops.
In an eight-page letter
to the bishops’ conference,
the pope strongly
reaffirmed the December
1979 censure of Father
Kung, answered some of
the Swiss-born priest’s
controversial theological
concepts and prayed that
the priest would soon
accept Catholic doctrine
and “be able to be called a
Catholic theologian
again.”
The German-language
letter was dated May 15,
Ascension Thursday, and
released by the Vatican on
May 22.
Pope John Paul
commented on the need
for collegiality and
“authentic dialogue” with
all elements of the church.
“In dialogue the church
seeks to understand man
better and thus its own
mission,” he said.
But, the pope added,
“it would be in contrast
with the essence of
dialogue if the church
would wish in this
dialogue to suspend its
convictions and turn its
back on the knowledge
which has already been
given to it.”
Father Kung, a
professor of ecumenical
theology at the University
of Tubingen, West
Germany, was told by the
Vatican in December that
he could no longer teach
as a Catholic theologian
because of several of his
positions, especially on the
infallibility of the pope
and the divinity of Christ.
In his letter to the West
German bishops, the pope
said the case raises several
questions.
“Does a theologian,
who does not integrally
accept the doctrine of the
church, still have the right
to teach in the name of
the church and on the
basis of a special mission
which it received? Can he
still want to do so, if
several dogmas of the
church are in contrast with
his personal convictions?
And then, can the
church ... in such
circumstances continue to
oblige the theologian to do
it despite everything?” the
pope asked.
“The decision of the
Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith,
taken in common accord
with the German bishops’
conference, is the result of
the honest and responsible
reply to those questions,”
he added.
“At the base of these
questions and this
concrete reply one finds a
fundamental right of the
human person, that is the
right to truth which must
be protected and
defended,” Pope John
Paul said.
Briesch To Serve As Deacon
Mr. Forrest R. Briesch
will be ordained to the
Sacred Order of Deacon
for the Archdiocese of
Atlanta this Saturday, May
31, at 10 a.m. in the
Cathedral of Christ the
King.
Mr. Briesch is a member
of the Church of the
Transfiguration in
Marietta, and he will
continue his ministry there
after his ordination.
Although Mr. Briesch
will be a permanent
deacon for the
Archdiocese of Atlanta, he
had diaconate training at
St. Mary’s Theological
Seminary in the Diocese of
Cleveland for three years.
He and his wife, Kathy,
have four children, and
Mr. Briesch is employed
by the Firestone Tire and
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Atlanta.
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