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Newspaper Page TextGEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1963 PAGE 5 GEORGIA PINES ‘See Georgia By Car’ Saints in Black and White ST. BONIFACE BY FATHER R. DONALD KIERNAN On the northeast leg of the Atlanta expressway there is a huge advertisement which reads:"See America by car". I often thought as I drove past this billboard that Jack Minter ought to put up similar signs all over the state only saying: "See Georgia first, by car". There is a concentrated effort now being made in the state to attract tourists. As a matter of fact it was one of the campaign promises of Governor Sanders when he campaigned last year. Only this morning Representative Phil Landrum’s office in Wash ington announced the grant ing of a loan to develop a ski resort near Blairesville, long the dream of former G e n e r a 1 Assemblyman, Bonnell Akins. Time was when the "Yan kee" only used Georgia to travel through on his way to Florida. Now he finds that Georgia too has much to offer. I w onder though in our anxiety to attract the outsider if we will loose sight of the vacation potential among our ow n citizens. WHAT prompts these thoughts is a recent trip down the Georgia coast and over to St. Petersburg with the return trip being made up through the middle of the state and back to the mountains. When I returned home I read the February issue of the Catholic Digest. In this issue there is a story about the city of Savannah, mentioning by name the magnificent Cathedral of St. John the QUESTION BOX About Rosary At Mass? BY MONSIGNOR J. D. CONWAY Q. IS IT A LAW OF THE CHURCH THAT THE ROSARY BE RECITED DURING THE MASS DAILY IN OCTOBER AND MAY? I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THIS IS SO, BUT I CANNOT CONCEIVE OF THE ROSARY TAKING PRECEDENCE OVER ASSISTING AT HOLY MASS USING A MISSAL. CAN WE HONOR EITHER MARY OR CHRIST IN PARTICIPATING THUS IN THE PERPETUAL SACRIFICE OF HER SON? I AM CONFUSED: EVEN SOMEWHAT DISGUST ED. DO I DISPLEASE GOD BY SITTING FAR BACK IN THE CHURCH AND FOLLOWING THE ACTIONS OF THE PRIEST AND THE ALTAR BOYS, IN CONJUNCTION WITH MY DAILY MIS SAL? OR WOULD I GAIN MORE GRACE IF I JOINED THE "RACE" OF COMPETITION BE TWEEN MUTUALLY DISTRACTING DEVOTIONS. I MIGHT ADD THAT THE FAMILY ROSARY IS PROPERLY RECITED IN OUR HOME EVERY EVENING. A. On Sept. 3, 1958, the Sacred Congregation of Rites issued an instruction on sacred music and the sacred liturgy; and it gives an official answer to your question. First it clearly defines "litur gical services" and distinguishes them from "private devotions" (which might be translated more lit erally as "pious exercises"). It is perfectly evident that the Mass is a "liturgical ser vice." It is equally clear that the Rosary is a "pious exer cise." Then the Instruction states clearly and definitely that, "It is unlawful to combine liturgical services and pious exercises." ♦ In April 1960, the Sacred Congregation gave a private reply to the Archbishop of Liverpool which confirms my interpretation of the Instruc tion. It advised that the Rosary should not be re cited publicly during Mass. Of course you may • recite it privately, if you wish; but it is evident from your letter that you do not consider it the best way to assist at Mass. And 1 thoroughly agree with you. Between 1885 and 1889, Pope Leo XIII issued three decrees about the Rosary in October: it was to be recited publicly each day of the month in all parish churches, and in those public oratories which are dedicated to the Blessed Mother: and it was to be recited either during Mass or during Benediction of the Blessed Sac rament. The priest’s daily guide for details of the Mass LITURGICAL WEEK Power of Word of God CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 His acceptability before the Father is the Lord’s gift through the mystery of His Incarnation and redemption. Today’s Mass stresses the glory- theme. Hie cleansing of man, the sinner, is not enough. He must be crowned (Gradual) and reign (Gospel). His escape from slavery' leads to a po sitive dominion. FRIDAY, FEB. 8, ST. JOHN OF MATHA, CONFESSOR. Our public worship is not only a momentary incarnation of the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of peace and justice in which all creatures assume their proper purpose. It is also, more humanly, a demonstration of the Christian expectation and vigilance of w hich the Lord speaks in the Gospel. For the kingdom as we know it here is one of expectancy and potency. SATURDAY, FEB. 9, ST. CYRIL OF ALEX ANDRIA, BISHOP, DOCTOR. We know not whom the Church will honor eventually as the doctors of our own great Ecumenical Council whose first session has already startled and given new hope to an at-first disinterested age. Today we com memorate a great teacher who profoundly in fluenced another great Council. During our Coun cil’s recess and at the end of this Epiphany season, we pray that the great epiphany and manifestation of the Word begun in 1962 will be continued in its work this year. MONOLITHIC AIM Baptist and the "Geeche accent" of it’s Rector, Monsignor Me Namara. Although I lived in Sa vannah for nearly two years and have visited the city on scores of occasions, I was not fully cognizant of the rich history' until I read this particular article. I wonder how many Georgians have had simular experiences. This I think would be a great area for the Commerce Department to explore. PRESENTLY the Cathedral structure, which for years has been the barometer of Catholic prestiege in Chatham County, is undergoing a renovation, or rather a restoration. Many of the older priests now serving in our Archdiocese began their early priesthood with service in this Cathedral which dates back to 1873. Down the coast over recently paved highways to the Golden Isles of St. Simon and Sea Island. The breath taking beauty of this natural scenery is impossible to duplicate. Even in the dead of winter it defies description. Nationally known, The Clois ters, is to me the ideal of a perfect vacation. A new section of the federal highway system running from Valdosta to Macon makes the trip most enjoyable. I missed a tornado at Perry, Georgia by ten minutes, but even this did not dampen my idea of a state not yet explored. OUR MOTELS and restaurants are equally as friendly and hospitable as any in our neighbor state to the south. W hen one reads about the speed traps and the clip-joints existing in Georgia, the picture can easily become clouded, and this really hurts us. All in all I think Georgia has much to offer its own citizens, but I still think Jack Minter should put up those signs: See Georgia first, by car. ' A. '<r 1 /? *7 ■ *7 3 M6 v/ v* 7» Ct ll U <•7 'll IS ?r E Educator Warns of Drive To Oust Private Schools ACROSS 1 He restored the church of 5 One of his emblems 9 Intrigue 13 Pouchlike cavity 14 Please reply 15 Vex 16 Portion 17 Solder 53 Its state flower is violet 55 Judean King 56 Pain 60 Aboard 62 Celery-like plant 64 W.W. II Theatre 65 Fodder 66 He is the apostle of 69 Abode 70 Bundle 18 Fifteenth day of March 71 Curvet 17 Abandon 22 Print measure 23 Fabric 26 Exact Point 30 It signifies purity of heart 31 Playing marble 34 Age 35 Blanched 37 Fermented drink 23 Indian Weight 39 Make edging 40 Appropriate 27 and Divine Office is a little book called in "Ordo" - a calendar of concise, abbreviated information issued each year. Old Ordos always noted those decrees of Pope Leo XIII before the first day of October, with mention of Mass and/or Benedic tion. My new Ordo makes similar note of the decrees, but simply says: "The Rosary and the Litany of Loreto shall be recited in parish chur ches, ect., each day during October and up to and including Nov. 2. No mention of Mass or Bene diction. The Instruction of the Congregation of Rites, of Sept. 3, 1960, defines Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament as a true liturgical service. This Instruction was issued with the special ap proval of Pope Pius XII, and with explicit men tion that it is to be effective, "Anything what ever to the contrary notwithstanding." So its provisions annul those features of earlier decrees which are contradictory to it. I hope you will excuse my dissertation. It is my stodgy' way of showing sympathy w ith you in your confusion and disgust. By all means stay in a part of th e church where you can avoid dis traction as much as possible, try to ignore the Rosary which is intruding on the Holy Sacrifice, and be as patient as you can with those who are slow in putting the directives of the Church into effect. *** Q. AS LONG AS THERE ARE SO MANY CHAN GES TAKING PLACE IN THE MASS WHY DON’T THEY CHANGE THE FINAL BLESSING WHICH STATES, "GO, THE MASS IS FINISHED," AND HAS THE RESPONSE, "THANKS BE TO GOD." MY HUSBAND, A CONVERT, HAS ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS TO BE A LITTLE AMUSING. MY NINE YEAR OLD SON CAME HOME FROM MASS THE OTHER DAY AND SAID, "MAMMA, THAT DOESN’T SOUND GOOD TO ME. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU’RE RELIEVEDTHATMASS IS OVER." A. I think it highly improbably that there will be a change in the Ite missa est, except possibly to translate it into English. It is one of the most ancient features of the Mass, used in similar form in nearly every early liturgy'. It was a formal, solemn dismissal of the as sembly: and in the popular mind it became so identified with all that went before that it pro vided us our name for the Sacrifice. Originally in popularized Latin the meaning was approxi mately: Go, it is the dismissal. Missa is a par ticiple of a verb which means to send, or to send away. Maybe a closer approximation of the ori ginal meaning would be: Go, you are dismissed. Lave 72 Woe is me 41 Promise to pay Weight 74 Photography solutions 42 Region in N. Africa Fearful 75 Hem 43 Shallow lakes George .... Am. 76 Away without leave 44 Girl (SL) humorist 77 Skins 48 Court , p|. Prepare Flax 78 System, abbrev. 49 Grain " Culpa" 79 Emmets, (Arch.) 51 Horn Mother; Colloq. 80 Bobbin 52 Observe Tableland DOWN 54 Goddess of youth A flower 1 Appearances 57 He built a after Torpedo boat 2 Raised Curve attacking Thor's He was made an 3 Employ sacred oak apostolic 4 Note, music 58 Circles of Light Orient 5 Dark haired 59 Hear ye Devices to retard 6 Office of strategic 60 Leers motion services 61 Destitute Fall behind 7 Baking Chamber 63 Next to Author of "Brave 8 Kitchen Police 67 Wipers Bulls" 9 Secret 68 Gape An Hawaiian food 10 Island resort in Italy 70 Cow house Consumed 11 An oil, Latin 73 Share Miasmic 12 Feminine nickname 74 To have, Scot Goatee 13 Ecru 76 Assumptionisf Frs Wisely 16 Moved in water 77 Its capital is San Juan NEW YORK, (NC)—A Catho lic educator has charged there is a drive under way to force nonpublic schools out of ex istence through establishment of a "monolithic educational system" in the U.S. Msgr. O'Neil C. D*Amour makes the charge in an ar ticle entitled "Federal Aid: Di agnosis and Prognosis," appea ring in the February issue of the Catholic Educator, pub lished here. The Monsignor is associate secretary of the De partment of School Superinten dents, National Catholic Edu cational Association. THE CATHOLIC education official asserts that actions ta ken on the Federal aid to ed ucation issue during the 87th Congress "brought out with startling clarity the intent of certain elements within our so ciety to destroy the traditional pluralism in American educa tion and to replace it with a monolithic educational system. In analyzing the background of this drive, Msgr. D’ Amour notes that "Catholic schools ...between 1940 and 1960 grew 119 per cent while the public schools grew only 42 per cent." "NON-CATHOLIC religious schools grew even more dra matically," he continues. "This disturbing evidence that the people were beginning to de mand a religiously oriented ed ucation for their children must have been upsetting to the offi cials of the public school asso ciations. "It is felt by many that these KOREAN ORPHAN Pangborns Have Ten- They Make Room For One More JACKSON, Mich. (NC)—Mr. and Mrs. Spence Pangborn now have the comfortable feeling that they are "in." An 11-year-old Korean or phan they adopted two months ago calls them "mommy" and "daddy." The Pangborns learned of the BY SENATOR orphan, w hose name is Dominic, through Mrs. Pangborn’sbro ther, Father Vincent Hoffman, M.M., a Maryknoll priest ser ving in Korea. They have ten children of their own, but decided there was "room for one more." THEY enlisted the aid of the Catholic Social Services Blotting Out God In Public Life Hit LOS ANGELES (NC)—A for mer U. S. Senator scored in creasing tendencies to remove God and religious influence from public life in an address here. William F. Know-land, former U. S. Senator from California, now editor of the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, told the an nual dinner of the Catholic Press Council of Southern Cali fornia (Jan. 19): "The se paration of Church and State was never meant to take God out of our lives and out of our Government." "THE real strength of our nation now and in the future is in our spiritual heritage, the foundation of which must come from the home and from the church," Know land said. "Otherwise, we w ould merely be confronting the materialistic communist world with the mat erialism of the free world," he continued. "WITHOUT Divine guidance we would not have won our free dom, preserved our union nor survived the aggressions of dictatorial governments bent on world conquest," he said. Knowland observed "the growing tendency in government to keep from the public facts which the public is entitled to have." He added; "Sometimes office holders seem to forget that public business is the public’s business." He deplored a Federal of ficial’s defense of the lie as right if necessary to save the nation from nuclear threat. ARCHBISHOP Zaya Dachtou of Salmas, Iran, is making a three -month tour of the U.S. follow ing his attendance at the Second Vatican Council in Rome. K Of C Ball A "Sweetheart Ball" is being held at the Knights of Columbus Hall 4420 Tell & Butler Roads S. W. Atlanta on February 9, 1963 from 9 to 12 sponsored by the Ladies’ Auxiliary. Tom Fisher’s versatile band will provide the music. There will be a door prize. Admission 53.00 per couple. of Lansing, Mich., which in turn got in touch Msgr. Emil N. Komora, executive director of the Catholic Committee for Refugees of the National Ca tholic Welfare Conference, In New York. Arrangements were completed and Dominic came by plane to Jackson. The orphan came to the strangeness of the Pangborn home on November 11. Like the proverbial ill wind, the flu bug brought the boy close to his foster parents. He was ill abed for a week. The sickness made the boy realize how much he needed his new parents. They worried over him, tended him and loved him. "WE HAD a heck of a lime", said Mrs. Pangborn. Neither could understand the ot her. I had to bring in a Korean man who lives in Jackson to translate. The sickness was a boon, though. You might say it was just what the doctor or dered." The boy’s English has im proved. He’s a fourth grade student at St. Mary’s school here. Mrs. Pangborn said; "He does real well, catches on fast and is very bright. Teaching and talking to him, though calls for a lot of signs and motions.” DOMINIC takes his turn with the other Pangborn children in doing the household chores. His new "mom" said; "All we have to do is ask him once and the job is done." Dominic is treated just like one of the family usually, but once in a while his new "mom" —well, as she put it: "One day I prepared instant rice for Another time I served him chop suey and Dominic went w ild over it. And would you believe it? —he doesn't like chocolate." Mrs. Pangborn said she had a bit of difficulty in persua ding Dominic from sleeping, Korean style, on the floor, ra ther than in a bed with a com fortable mattress. She added: "Now he wouldn’t part with his bed." officials have embarked de liberately upon a program de signed to curtail the develop ment of such schools Apparently unable to compete in the open market place with the religiously oriented schools, they seek to re move these schools from the market." MSGR. D’AMOUR singles out the National Education Associ ation as the key force behind this program. "If we as Americans permit the powerful public school asso ciation known as the National Education Association to seize control of American education, there can be only disaster in our future," he says. Hie Monsignor then urges Catholic educators to present to their fellow citizens the justice of the Catholic stand on educa tional aid. STATING that the SSth Con gress "will react to the people," he continues: "We in Catholic education must pre sent to our fellow citizens the situation that confronts us... If we will show them the things that we are trying to do, if we show them the justice of our position, they will react." "It is not that we should seek to destroy public educa tion," he says. "We seek no such end. It is that we seek to preserve American pluralism in education, to preserve American freedom of choice in education." "These are the things," he concludes, "that we must bring before our fellow citizens and before our representatives in Congress during the coming year." God Love You MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN This is the third in the series, "What I Saw at the Council." The first was “I Saw Poverty”: the second, "I Saw Holiness." This column is called "I Saw Martyrdom." There has never been a Council in the history of the ^Church where there were I more martyrs present than at Ithis Twenty-Second Council. The only one which could com- jpare with it was the Council ! of Nicea, which took place af ter the Roman persecutions, but the total of bishops at that Council did not equal the num ber of martyrs at this one. When we speak of martyrs, we do not mean "wet martyrs" but "dry martyrs". "Wet martyrs" shed their blood and die once; "dry martyrs" are brought to the point of death through brain washing, torture apd imprisonment and "die" a thousand deaths without dying. The Romans during the persecutions wanted the blood of Christians. The Communists know that "the blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians"; they seek their souls, not their blood. If we added up the number of years served in prison by the bishops at this Council, they would amount to at least 500 years. Two of the bishops whom I saw walk to their seats every morning had taken part in death marches. An American Officer wrote of one of them: "Every time I saw him, exhausted though he was, he was carrying a man on his back." Ano ther bshop, from Yugoslavia, was imprisoned at the same time as Archbishop Stepinac. Wit nesses state that whenever he went out fora walk in the prison yard doves would fly down and rest on his shoulders. The Communists killed the doves because they said they were "carrying messages." Who are these men? They are, as Scripture calls them, "Witnesses to Christ", for that is the meaning of martyrs. And there we were, Ameri can bishops from our prosperous land, privo- leged to walk, talk, sit and eat with those who could say with Paul: "I am glad of my sufferings on your behalf as, in this mortal frame of mind, I help pay off the debt which the afflictions of Christ still leave to be paid, for the sake of His Body, the Church." The Divine guarantee of the success of the Council is the Holy Spirit; the human guarantee of success is the martvr-bishops who help re deem the rest of us. The God in heaven knows that we in the United States have to become martyrs too— not blood-martyrs, not brain- washed-martyrs, but prayer-martyrs and money- martyrs for the sake of the Church. We American bishops, priests, religious and laity are part of the same Mystical Body as they are. They are saving the world; we must save them. To say to these martyrs, "There are no more Mass sti pends” or "Remember that we only get an average per-capita contribution of 27 cents from United States Catholics each year to aid you" is to break one’s heart. In the name of the Lord, lawyers, doctors, nurses, students, housewives, everyone ...pray, sacrifice, do something for our martyr Church. When you send an offering to The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, it goes directly to the Holy Father for those suffering in mission lands. GOD COVE YOU to W.X.C. for $100 "For the the Holy Father to use wherever he feels it will do the most good." ...to Ronnie and Pat for $3.60 "We gave a puppet show when it rained last Sat urday and made all this money for the Missions." ...to D.L.D. for $10 "Instead of going out to the movies during the past money, I stayed home and watched television. I know it is more important for others to be fed than for me to be entertained.” MISSION combines the be t features of all other magazines: stories, pictures, statistics, details, human interest. Take an interest in the suffering humanity of the mis sion world and send your sacri fices along w ith a request to be put on the mailing list of this bi-monthly publication. Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen. National Di rector of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx, N. Y. or your Archdiocesan Director, Very Rev. Harold J. Raine . P. O. Box 12047 Northside Station, Atlanta 5, Ga.