The Cross Vol L 1959-1960

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It is graven on the of the greatest penances consists in the keeping of the Ten Aren't all who walk about in their health and strength to be must take pride of place . face with the cross , with mortification , with penance . But Truth to tell , her impressions of Massabielle differed little from thousands from every nation under heaven , by the glory of the torchlight procession , but above all by the unearthly courage of the Redeemer's Cross is everywhere in Mary's City . It is February our thoughts should turn to Lent and to the closing we have little difficulty in keeping , but the ' one that we find UST a year or two ago an Irish mother went to 1.nurdes . mean by this ? pondered the pilgrim from Ireland . " What I realised that not for nothing does a huge cross tower over the escaped . It is implicit in the words of Our Lady to Bernadette . spoke of it to one of the famous Lourdes Handmaids . and got it cruelty hard to obey . Do we not remember that it was the in their spirit of faith . " Her maternal heart trimmed over with mortification has its place in Lent , but the penance of duty father dermat , c.P. quiet reply . the pain-wracked invalid . " And you too , Madame , " came the we begin to see how fitting it is that in the same month of we ! " This strange pity didn't seem to make sense , so she pity for all the afflicted , but in particular for one - for a daughter of Massabielle and Lent have much in common . ' In fact , they Finally , don't take the sweetness from your penitential gift NOW perhaps we begin to see why the words ' Lourdes ' and thoughts on paper for publication in a Catholic magazine . pitied if they haven't learned , as the invalids have learned , that ' And you too . Madame ! ' What on earth can she possibly eturn . " Both Lourdes and Lent. therefore , bring us face to the Way of the Cross is the way to heaven ? ' have the Cross of Christ in common . The millions who have Nor will the Church allow us to forget the sign of our salvation Lord Himself who assured us that the proof of our love for God season she uses ashes to imprint the cross upon our foreheads ... . scowl . The Lord still loves the cheerful giver . by offering it to God with the martyred look , with the forbidding Penance , penance , penance . " of France who lay prostrate on her stretcher her face furrived been to Lourdes during the past twelve months must have Remember , man , that thou art dust , and into dust thou shalt Her pilgrimage over , she returned home and set down her what do these mean in practice ? Well , they mean a wide brows of men whose souls bear the pain which their bodies have Pic du Jer to look down on the milling throngs . Indeed the seal ours or mine . She was owed by the flaming faith of thronging s she leads us into Lent . On the opening day of the penitential patience of countless invalids , broken in body but in his for a startling explanation : " Sure of course she titled you it " are placed side by side at the top of this page . andments . " Yes , all ten of them-not just the ni te Lourdes Centenary Year . Quite obviously the discurned in the patient's eyes was limitless pity ... " pity for rned in the patient's eyes was limitless pity ... . is of men whose souls bear the pain which their bo Nihil Obstat : Imprimi Potest : censor Dep. juannes Fitzpatrick , M.A.D.D. , Joannes Carolus , Archiep . Dublinen . --- Page 9 --- faith ever burns before the Grotto . on February 18th , but the flame of The Lourdes Centenary Year closes February 1959 No. 10 . Vol.49 No.10 . In this Issue : --- Page 10 --- agnostics to theism . The lodge offers Christian Anyone with curiosity about the subject can those who believe in them are warned not to including most of Christendom , will sit in the in the immortality of the soul , is better than admission into Masonry ? We find a number of the " profane " ? Are they the keys to spiritual physical , and mental happiness ? universal religion . Masonry carries man back fruitless memorization are not even secret . easily procure all the genuine Masonic rituals the Truth , and the Life . men a pre-Christian religious worship , theology , such advantages dangled before prospective universe ? Are these secrets too blinding in secret grips and ritual mumbo jumbo . The paid in the coin of the realm and in hours of dissatisfied Master Mason must be enticed by Alas , they consist of a few pass-words and the carrot of higher and higher degrees to find the sacraments or established a Church . great nor secret . Are these the secrets of the to deny the claims of Jesus Christ and seek and morality . to convert twenty-century atheists and atheism . Masonry , however does not labour We readily admit that a belief in God and members of the lodge , but none of these with- For all Masonry cares , the Second Person of sectarian " and " peculiar " doamas and In the first place , the lodge promises to What is more , the secrets for which he has the Blessed Trinity might never have become Christ. not Buddha or Mohammed , is the Way , drag them into the temples of Masonry's mass organization of 4,000,000 men are illusory . he wishes . make its initiates privy to great secrets . They Christian revelation . man or died for man's sins , never have instituted alone with absolutely no reference to the to a pre-Christian reliance on human reason never does . The great secrets of the lodge are neither He should have known that real secrets in a will be " in " while the rest of mankind , see in the lodge which would induce him stand examination . Masonry delegates these to the categories of WHAT possible advantages would a Christian the secrets he expected in the Blue Lodge . He darkness outside . Nowhere does Masonry promise more and deliver less . not become Buddhists or Moslems because brilliance for the minds of women , children , and --- Page 11 --- Reprinted with permission of the Bruce senile from its temples . ' The only ones who are who are most unlikely ever to need charitable accepted for Masonic membership are those they do not find in their own homes or in their administers an immoral oath , and often engages Finally , some men are wooed into the lodge Christ is our Saviour . Not by the mock death conformists " may be disposed of by means grandiose titles , to command a respect that by simple vanity , by the opportunity to claim what thanks have ye ? Do not even the publicans Not the Grand Architect of the Universe many lodges . It should . Practically all the help in adversity would do better to put his opportunities to serve his fellow man need not On the other hand , one who is looking for WHEN we deny the compatibility of the Spirit is our God . Not Hiram Abiff but Jesus but their consistency . common , stocks , bonds , bank deposits , or real in or tolerates anticlericalism , we have a occupations . Some find an escape from an propagates an erroneous religion of naturalism not deny that such fellowship flourishes in Christian obligation to love Masons . of Christ which turns no one from her doors . Although we believe that Masonry ultimately and the spirit of religious indifference . oppressively feminine social life in the all-male Anyone so foolish as to rely on the lodge for must find it in the Masonic lodge . south work , in service clubs , and in hundreds Publishing Co. ) . is that any man looking for companionship and resurrection rite of the Master Mason's What no one can seriously propose , however , Protestant , bourgeois . Such jarring topics as fues and assessments into insurance , annuities . exclusive lodge and the all embracing Church of other organizations . of the black ball . but God the Father , the Son , and the Holy members fall into the same social class : white , question the sincerity of Protestant Masons degree but by the sacrament of baptism do we GOOD fellowship is another promise which religion and politics are outlawed . " Non- assistance . " If we love them that love you , look for them in the lodge . He can find abundant opportunities in his church , in Again , what a difference between the undermines the Christian basis of society . become children of God and heirs of Heaven . lodge and the Christian faith we do not estate . the lodge makes its candidates and we will the same ? ' lodge . 303 . --- Page 12 --- glorious . 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Page 13 --- Sometimes it's said that St. John . It is a treasury of literature with a king or parliament . This is the important f a co-operative work between God and human few footnotes , indicate that seven books and (sixty-five by their count ) which were written average Protestant Bible , add and subtract a of the Protestant position : in Catholic Bibles If we are properly to understand and evaluate agree that it is inspired . It is then , the result more than one thousand years , from Moses to hese differences we should consider just what by dozens of different authors over a period of the Bible is God's book ; He is the principal they give the Catholic interpretation . Seldom thing they wrote . So we may rightly say that are naturally slanted towards a justification We call it the Word of God , and all Catholics but a collection of seventy-two different books English versions came to us . impulse to write , and assisted them in every- Testament , and simply publish it with her they used their own intellect , memory , and imagination ; they chose their own words and 0 . Bibles are usually published with the danger is in the notes . a Bible society , or with the authorization of it has an Imprimatur . The Protestant Bible The sacred writers were His instruments . the Catholic Bible is edited , printed , and issued from reading the text of a Protestant Bible ; may be published on private authority , or by abundant footnotes , explanations , and com- law , narrative , in poetry and drama , prophecy writers . " God chose the writers , gave them the mentaries . In Protestant Bibles these notes difference , because the Church could take the could any practical danger come to a Catholic the Bible is and the manner in which its various a few chapters are omitted from the Old with the explicit permission of the Church : Basic Difference . expressed their ideas in their own personal style . nspiring examples of great writing in history . As you know , the Bible is not a single book . Imprimatur and thus make it her own . and parable . God's Own Letter . 1 . The real fundamental difference is that author . 305 . --- Page 14 --- call deutero-canonical , i.e. belonging to the languages . His translation of the Bible into the Septuagint , and it was the version of the consideration of these seven books - which we of that time , or at least by those who were Apocrypha . Other Protestant churches were the first Christian scholar thoroughly familiar Collecting these books was a great task : And they were likewise generally accepted by Latin came to be known as the Vulgate , and the Catholic Old Testament today . Apparently Second Canon-but finally all rejected them for a long time uncertain or important in their responsible for the translation into Greek . there ( some of them even in Babylonia during because of its venerable antiquity it is the world's St. ' Terome , who died in the year 420 , was was for succeeding centuries the most common consonants ; no printing presses or photostat On its own merits as human literature and forgotten their Hebrew and were losing contact Luther rejected these seven books and put entirely apart from all other writings on earth . beyond the borders of Palestine . They had the Captivity ) , scribbled by hand on leather . all these books were accepted by the Jews of them in the back of his Bible , calling them Christ , the Jewish people were scattered widely books , about the fifth century before Christ . as " first-class " Scripture ! IT would appear that the Torah , or Pentateuch the early days of Christianity . Tradition has given the prophet Esdras By the middle of the third century before the year 250 b.c. and all the other books by parchment , or papyrus ; no vowels used , only God's own letter to His people puts it in a class writings of a thousand years , found here and greatest anthology . But the fact that it is credit for making the first collection of sacred machines ; and only a few people able to read into Greek , so that the dispersed Jews could I and II Machabees . It had all the forty-five books which are in scriptures most widely known and used in with the Hebrew Bible and various Semitic the first five books were translated about with their Scriptures and traditions . So a the early Christians . St. Jerome's Translation the year 100 B.c. This translation is called Tobias . Ecclesiasticus , Wisdom , Baruch , and read it . 306 . translation of the Old Testament was made at all . mentioned earlier have ago among the Jews . been the subject of much dispute . It began long The seven books . ago among the Jews . The books are Judith . The seven books mentioned earlier have ago among the Jews . The book robias . Ecclesiasticus , The books are Judith . ch dispute . It began long --- Page 15 --- the eighteenth century by Bishop Richard letter written by Almighty God to His children identifiable with the original . The most know what books are in the Bible with divinely known to the children . As a wise and loving 1948 a similar group of American scholars set Old Testament from the original languages and approval . How can anyone possibly before the recent Confraternity edition of the important of these was made in the middle of by tearing it up and throwing part of it away . mother she acts discreetly . The younger be harmed by some of the passages in it . parts of the Father's letter : they might even children there in that land as their mother . easier excerpts from the letter . But she does and entirely . But even then she exercises to work on an entirely new translation of the She explains it to them in simple words . a Christian denominations ( Herder , 1945 ) . directly to her , that she may make its contents As I indicated before . the only difference visilance that they do not damage the letter and translated into English under the title the thoughtful mother satisfies them " with Bible history . Even some grownups never get but is apparently winning general acceptance given authority ? To explain this more fully Bible as the Catholics in America new it , or by misunderstanding and misinterpreting it . so the Father's letter naturally comes into thoroughly modern English . in a strange land . The Church is with the try to get all of her children to penetrate more The Church has always had the greatest deeply into the knowledge and spirit of that Challoner of London , who made two revisions What Books Authentic ? many revisions which have left it hardly Catholic Scripture scholars completely revised children would not be able to understand all a book written by the Rev. Konrad Algermissen . A Kind of Letter . sharp controversy in some Protestant areas which is basic is that of the Church's authority I am pursuing to paraphrase the words of Father Algermissen quotes St. Gregory the Meanwhile , the Douay Bible has undergone letter . that they may come to greater religious the Rheims New Testament , and it was pub- Great , who says that the Bible is a kind of mother gives them the Father's letter directly in that country . beyond the stage of children in simplicity . Sn. lished in 1941 as the Confraternity edition . In When the children are really grown up , the New Testament , was basically Bishop During the 1930's a group of American maturity . Challoner's in form and expression . of the Old Testament and five of the New . The --- Page 16 --- Lewis , was the first of the seminary priests . to attempt a lone foray into England . because of the influence of his aunt , a nun apostate , and of his five cousins who had who had forsworn her vows to marry the Charles I against Cromwell and later with all , thought the persecutors , it would not married the five Anglican bishops . After strength of religious conviction . One , for nephew of the Barlow who had been the private and to compromise in public . In enforced , the Barlows began to lose their confess that , during the years when in Wisbeck . He was saved from death possibly losing his estates by Cromwell's sequestration . versy upon Tansenism and upon Quietism . the Pretender against William of Orange . school of Port Royal , and he later led a were inhabited almost entirely by Irish political convictions , it is said to have to refusing to swear allegiance to the Dutchman . Angelique , who figured in the great contro- and another Barlow getting into trouble for It does not appear that Pere Archange was proved his identity . in the way of a puzzle . It is not surprising , then , to find a Barlow the next generation the lapse became com- mission to Brazil with twelve other disillusion him , but the fact is , as Mr. Cleary naturally suppose that those Irish immigrants He was arrested and imprisoned at The moral hardly needs rubbing in . Wales the penal laws were less strongly infected with the dangerous opinions of the But while we may honour them for their THIS part of Pembrokeshire has a quite main tool of the reformers . special interest for Irish people , because The Welsh like the Irish sided with celebrated run of Port Royal , Mere do for a Barlow to suffer death , and he the Pembroke . Mr. Cleary has quite clearly who was known as Pere Archange de A NOTHER Barlow was a leading Capuchin example , attempted to be a Catholic in Now the Irish Catholic and patriot might Capuchins . resisted the penal laws . I am sorry to common . We must face , then , something immigrants . at that time several villages thereabouts Pere Anchorage became the confessor to a plete . shows , recusancy in those parts was not --- Page 17 --- to find that the Welsh protomartyr was a 1610 at Tyburn . It is not until the Titus at that time , had the means of keeping the that many of the Welsh retained their maintains it is that of the Vaughans , who in Wales at that time , just like the Welsh have provided the Church with a quite extraordinarily large number of bishops , able example of a Welsh Catholic family like the Barlows without following such a Still , you cannot easily think about a family Roberts of Trawsfynydd , met his death in layman , Blessed Rhisiart Gwyn , cruelly put which maintained the Faith and which still Where there were Catholic gentry . the to death at Wrexham in 1584 . The great Benedictine protomartyr . Blessed John traditional Catholic mood until the middle It occurs to me that I have digressed . Oates Plot that Welsh priests such as Blessed It is safe to assume , then , that the Irish Faith held out . Perhaps the most remark - David Lewis met their death in Wales . of the 18th century . Faith taken from them . Even so , it appears train of thought . Perhaps you may complete priests and nuns . it by remembering the mission field . Why did the Irish in Ireland just across in Wales during the penal days . was quite different a nation from England Was there something in the Welsh air heard Irish Catholics talk " like this : in Ireland . ' It is all very well for you Welsh Catholics . resisted the penal laws as we resulted them ( Cardinal Sega was one of them ) , most of account for the failure of the Irish in the first critical years . It is not surprising the leading Catholic strategists sent Welsh- the sea stick to their Faith while the Irish Pembrokeshire ? No ; the answer is surely to talk about restoring Catholic Wales . But speaking priests to England , at least during of Pembrokeshire lapsed so easily ? The to be found mainly in the death of priests the fact is that Welsh Catholics never EXCEPT for a few who knew that Wales question is fitting if only because I have that slackened the resistance ? Does the --- Page 18 --- f the Church's Code of Canon Law : " A ma t. Needless to say , the Church does not approx o give the right answer . At what age may Catholic In view of obvious present-day needs , why is it after the aforesaid age is valid , yet pastors of souls knowledge alone will solve all sex problems . The behind pronounce of the highest authorities presentation of sex is purely materialistic or is should try to deter young people from marrying under pain of sin . biological and physiological aspects of the problem . more than merely suitable , but are not binding before completing his sixteenth year , and a woman before completing her fourteenth , cannot contract customs of the country , marriage is usually on the point are quite vague . - F.N. ( Co. Cavan ) . will you kindly tell me what is meant by the truths which must be accepted by Faith . It also in this wholesome manner . " Read the late Holy question , but perhaps you would be good enough daughters , father to sons ) to impart information contracted . ' Reader " ( Co. Down ) . I have heard various answers given to this to become occasions of sin . It should be noted In answer to your question , we quote Canon 1067 instruction in this matter , it actually insists upon of children on the grounds of modesty or purity ? other evils ? Drink causes many misfortunes , e.g. , of the same authorities that are intended to be of instruction , instructions or situations where the drinking from the pulpit as strongly as she condemns This phrase signifies the general belief of the that many modern advocates of sex instruction specific direction is lacking ; the intention lying -M.M. ( Glasgow ) . church in matters which have not been defined as expression , ' the mind of the Church ' ? My idea given in circumstances which of themselves ten and religious motives as well as instruction on the Why doesn't the Church condemn excessive that the Church seems to resist the sex instruction marry ?P.M. ( Dublin ) . The Church not only does not oppose proper do not believe in original sin : they feel that valid marriage . Although a marriage contract but not explicitly set out therein ; and directions neglect of family , wife , church , etc. " Thinking indicates the general practice of the Church where before the age at which , according to the received part in the December ' 58 issue of The Cross . ) Church , however , insists that there must be moral Primarily , it is the duty of the parents ( mother to Father's Address to Mothers . ' It was reprinted in ain --- Page 19 --- one of the reasons why He sent his own Son when God did all that for us , He decided at the whole world as the only genuine examples of study , a living example we might follow , and same time to give us a pattern of life we might amongst us , clothed with a human nature so become worthy children of such a Father . and mercy and condescension he decided to at things , as Christ did . They learned to speak to heights we could never have reached by well how far above our full grasp was this thing they all had in common ; one thing all Christlike . They learned to think , and to look share his own very life with us , to raise us up success stories ' ? Because all of them became idea of being his sons and daughters : that's lives in the world ; some reached a very old real lasting success , is as easy and as difficult beloved children ; when in his infinite love of them did : by the grace of God they became have done in their position . Success in life , religious , and some of them lived their whole rich and successful even by human standards , and some were single ; some were priests or ourselves , to decline us to see and love Him in learned , sometimes by slow and painful stages . well for He had made us Himself-God knew Kings and some Queens ; some were married to act in everything they did as He would I Why does the Church offer them to the age , some were more children ; some were and some were poor or even destitute . But one That pattern of life , that living example , was sees and loves His own boundless goodness ; as that . ' " AKE a look at the Saints-any of them . " God's own Son become man for us . God knew which God made them . Some of them were shadow or stain of sin . Our Lord has that idea about people and things , as he did . They like Christ and so fulfilled the purpose for reaven with all the intimacy with which He only his well-beloved creatures , but his well- exactly like ours , only of course with never a You see when God chose to make us : 3 1 1 . --- Page 20 --- truth and the life . ' " He that hath seen me . HERE's how St. Peter puts it in an early us that the disciple is not greater than the in another letter which St. Paul wrote to the of sorrow . A thread that appears even during It's what Our Lord warns us about when He Learning Christ . Loving Christ , living Christ . always topical , and applies always to everyone . adopted sons and daughters of God , younger came , God sent forth his Son , born of a woman , may not perish , but may have life everlasting . ' says : ' If anyone will come after me , let him on the best way to make a success of their there is only one way of doing it . We must make were we called : because CHRIST ALSO at any time ; God only-begotten , who is in the Christ the centre round which everything else pattern we must study and follow - is a thread in mind when He says : ' I am the way , the this is acceptable before God . For unto this in word or in work , do all in the name of the all this is of course the work of a lifetime . Now if we are to become LIVING INAGES . whole pattern is taken over by it . sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts . turns . It is only close union with Him-a real encyclical letter that was inspired by the Holy A ND now just listen to how St. Paul takes at times a hard way . Our Lord Himself warns me . ' And that is why the Sacred Passion is AN EXAMPLE , that we might follow in his crying , ' Abba , Father ! ' If we really want to footsteps . ' It's all stunned up very well way . But we mustn't be disappointed if it is Gospel when he says : ' God no man hath seen Master . And interwoven through the whole you . ' And St. John puts it very clearly in his hath seen the Father . ' ' Abide in me , and I'm writes to his Christian converts , advising them union of our lives with His-that makes us Please God THE FORUM will help us on our early Christians in Rome . In this letter he thread running through our life pattern too . tells the Roman Christians that they are lives : ' Be we imitators of me , ' he tells them , negotten Son , that whatsoever believeth in him SUPFERED for your sake , LEAVING YOU Lord Jesus Christ . ' " When thefulness of time inent until during His last hours on earth the God so loved the world that he gave his only- recognisable as sons and daughters of God . as I am of Christ . ' " All whatsoever you do His Childhood , that becomes ever more prom- as sons . And because we are sons , God hath deny himself , and take up his cross , and follow ... that we might enter upon our adoption of the Saviour , we must expect to find that Ghost : ' If we do good and suffer patiently , bosom of the Father . ' he hath declared him . ' A up this same line of thought when he make the most of the lives God has given us . pattern of Our Saviour's life on earth-the 312 . --- Page 21 --- THERE'S the trouble . That's what makes me oots being fashionable wear for ladies at the time ) . to hold their own in any company . a bit uneasy when I see your smart new Spring # Maybe , as the saying goes , you put everything honestly come by when you pass my door in your But supposing your new suit is bought with the Summer finery . Take it easy now . Let us talk it over . followed so closely on your Autumn tweeds and But I'd hate to think that your finery was not than anyone who knew your income would expect . still more indignantly , did I think you stole it ! " I hope it doesn't lie heavy on your conscience . and have many other responsibilities . # The son of the house puts his wages into CAN'T help noticing that you dress far better VANITY can make us turn dishonest , almost suit on the heels of your smart Winter wear that Father is going to have a new suit - the bills can PARDON my saving such things . Your Spring of " Russian boots and no breakfast " ( Russian ferred fashionable footwear to a rather and egg , go hang ! no matter who suffers . Even the schoolgirl has to inhabitants of a certain suburb that it was a case wear at the Bridge-party . She plunges into debt . that the clothes are honestly come by , can you ? # I really would like to say " Well done . " THAT would be nobody's business . If you pre- you earn on your back . But you have to eat , too , I feel a sort of pride in seeing my neighbours fit indignant tones and you might even demand sportswear , leaving mother to do the worrying money due for food already eaten ? You can't say about where the next meal is going to come from . you could have it so . # Fashionable mother hasn't " a thing " to smart suit . The young girl must have a new dance frock . and pay the coalman and the landlord , perhaps , without knowing . have that tennis outfit that her parents cannot suit looks fine , Sir or Madam , Master or Miss . afford . O.A Dublin comedian used to say of the NOT honestly come by ! " you may echo in 3.3 --- Page 22 --- good and avoid evil . It can be pin-pointed , how- the Vatican : unique letter , and in doing so it gives us a that every man has a right to life . Therefore , men Lost and found ! delightful glimpse of the sender : Dublin Standard tells us the story of that There is a priest in France who , as long which he received a month or two ago . The in the Sistine chapel and forgot it there . The call civil law or human positive law . It can change Holiness Pone John XXIII with Bishop Claude the Natural Law and hence is no law . Such a law as he lives , will treasure a certain letter Private property rights should be respected . Hence munity . The law passed by human legislators we These are general laws or principles , not specific means that civil law must be rooted in the unchanging principles of the Natural Law . sweater was marked with a tag bearing his name . marriage , that men should not commit adultery . have a duty to honour and obey their parents . Rome while attending the corporation of His ever , in various ways . It is clear , for instance , is voided by a higher law . The Natural Law says that we must worship Law . An example of one would be the sanctity of Father Philippe Roncon , a young priest attached The Vatican's lost and found department never Father Roncon recently received this note from stealing is wrong . the sweater you forgot in the ' Sistine chapel during tively by men . Dear son , I will return to you by the next nail today ) which prevents the worship of God violates He had taken off his sweater during a ceremony More remote obligations arise from the Natural rules to meet the given situation of some com- functioned more efficiently or with greater courtesy . the higher law , the Natural Law , known instinc- that civil law is static and can never change . . It Flusion of Saint-Claude . to meet new circumstances . But it cannot violate God . Therefore civil law has in Communist countries should not murder or kill . Children obviously to the Basilica of Our Lady . lost his sweater in the ceremonies of the coronation . You surely need We can see that Natural Law does not mean --- Page 23 --- Catholic Gazette comments are timely : stark reminder . Say what you like about her . Excuse her on the what a great whitewashing the royal lady to climb the r20 ft. , and who remained up there One of the best-known men in Dublin to tourists famous tour of East Anglia when she ordered her about Queen Elizabeth I of England . And To The Montrance are we indebted for and some Dubliners - is Bill Bailham , custodian Catholic host to prison in spite of his hospitality . It is not , we think , possible to fall in love with her is getting in some of the English Sunday newspapers ! Accordingly , we think these even allowing for the distance of time . this sombre news-item from the Far East : What a lot of talk there is these days legislation she had to be got at , worked up into a grounds of vile origins , twisted mind and whatever . Tagawa , drew up a plan for removing the ruins to The one thing she did care about was the power Nagasaki's Heiwa Koen ( Peak Park ) , where it will for any subject of hers . of the Blessed Virgin gazing skywazd , remained he told the custodian he was Lord Nelson . " and she'd in person behaved abnormably . e.2 . on her yonder if the fear of God was not in her at the end . Church of the Immaculate Conception . then explained that he is the present holder of the for at least twenty minutes . When he came down If she had a heart at all one discovers signs of it rain that the authorities , led by Mayor Tsutomo and story of Elizabeth Tudor . No double allegiance eight years . well-dressed man who paid his sixpence admission rage before Cecil could get on with the job of Municipal authorities in Nagasaki . Japan , have good Queen BESS ' serve as another memorial to the 73,884 victims of About 100 people climb the 166 steps daily to standing on the side of the historic Urakami So many petitions were received to preserve the decency . For some atrocious bits of anti-Catholic Bill climbs to the top twice daily , to clean the the second atom bomb . the top of the Pillar . " he says . " adding that " the surnev is becoming more popular with Dubliners . that from death . At other times towards Catholics Of all the Pillar stories , Bill prefers that of the of Nelson Pillar . Bill has held this job for the last strangulating the Church . " That is certain . ' At decided to preserve the sole remaining portion of A side wall , including a broken arch and a statue But the poor old thing had her moments of when she sat on the floor muttering , makes you 315 times too she , for reasons no one will ever know . bomb on the city on August 8 , 1945 . a Catholic church that was destroyed by the atom for revelation , though her two weeks in dying . only now and then . The nicest thing you can say of late . platform up there . about her is that she was no Puritan , and that is rounded on her Councillors and saved this one and title . something . It is doubtful if she cared two straws --- Page 24 --- heir emotions . Far from being an argument only the ignorant could take it seriously . Even lost ( but certainly not all ) Popes have shown serious ones is to put the whole explanation in I that the Church had finally gone off the f an infallible pronouncement , you are . as it aken as Gospel truth ? ' Or that his appoint- the Pope's passing remarks to tourists must be At best the basic logic of infallibility gets swayed by their prejudices and influenced by In such a typical litany of objections , there point of the doctrine . Such human wisdom as for agnostics it was a claim so absurd that variously taken to mean that the Pope cannot to start the discussion by answering even the were , giving a set of operating specifications . heavy artillery of modern psychology directed special divine guidance even in routine " every- declared the Pope to be infallible when he ing past actions and detailing the conditions to be held by the universal Church . " To Pro- supernatural wisdom and that he enjoys " a When you start making distinctions defend- estants this was papal pretension run riot : Few Catholic doctrines have triggered quite ing in preparation for a mixed marriage , " that an unfortunate perspective . is quite irrelevant . Just as irrelevant is the To get off on this track is to miss the whole to many Catholics it seemed a hard saying , an the human mind is in fact a major supporting against papal infallibility , the waywardness of science to realize that even else men are article designed to test the strength of their IN 1870 it seemed to the non-Catholic world are both serious questions and silly ones : but lamanded a woman once whom I was instruct- argument for it . ment of officials is inspired by the Holy day decisions . " " Do you mean to tell me . " THE difficulty of arriving at absolute truth deep end . That year the Vatican Council as many objections . The doctrine has been does not need the paraphernalia of modern somehow smothered in the larger question of ersonal loyalty and obedience to the Pope . being able to offer really detached wisdom are defines a doctrine regarding faith and morals faith . and the improbability of any human teacher in , that he is endowed with extraordinary , gainst the doctrine by secular critics . One Ghost ? 316 Dispel those foggy notions ! --- Page 25 --- policies , decrees and programmes of my church As a Protestant I subject the judgments , is , therefore , a kind of supporting argument endorsement of God and I ask for no approval so , they are logically compelled to transfer orders . ' In doing so ' I believe that I have the not be forgotten , however , is that having done are equally convinced that they are guided by general intellectual ability . He would claim and every other church to the test of the New the Holy Spirit . It also opens the door to the accept its orders . But in those matters in which enlightenment of the individual by the Holy Spirit accompanies him as he reads . He does higher than that . ' possibility of self-deception . Such difficulties has followed the suggestions of the Scribtures . " I teaching society ? ' It is logical that having Scripture , from his theological training or from The inner spiritual certainty expressed by Dr. The Catholic claim is that Christ did establish Smith-and which conservative Protestants so for infallibility . If Christ did establish an teaching church , Protestants should also reject the prerogative of infallibility ( or , if you will , He establish His Church as an authoritatively not claim to derive this confidence in his own I believe my church to be in error , or in conflict authoritatively teaching church , the doctrine this right to sit in critical judgment even if he enlightenment of the individual by the Holy Wovinced that the guidance of the Holy are not , however , the crux of the question frequently reflect in their moral judgments - to the uneducated of his own denomination . THE traditional Protestant concept of the In passing we may point out that this claim means that that church would be infallible . rejected the notion of an authoritatively matters in which I am convinced that my church with the plain teaching of the Bible , I reject its interpretation from his special studies in Spirit has led to such conflict and contradiction the conflicting judgments of individuals who supernatural basis of private interpretation Did He promise this kind of supernatural an authoritatively teaching society and that question is , what provision did Christ actually Testament , that test for me being final . In its equivalent ) to the individual . The fact that this doctrine of the special in Protestant belief makes it difficult to think of the continuing guidance of the Holy Spirit that God would use this means , but the decisive 317 makes for a great deal of difficulty in reconciling MR. Smith goes on to say that he is con- were not thus endowed , nor would be deny it make ? spirit . guidance to the individual Christian ? Or did the notion of an infallible church . What must is considered to be the product of a special --- Page 26 --- the guarantee of infallibility is not merely implicit but is contained in the very words of destruction , could prevail . Prevail in fact more church is His commission of Peter as its visible over the sharp debates of theologians . For effectively than if the Church were wiped out lower levels and could even penetrate to many Rock , " the gates of hell shall not prevail . " hat is " the universal and proximate norm " bomb it out of physical existence , but the more ection of the Holy Spirit reduced to its lowest This is an unmistakable promise of infallibility . Peter to lead the flock to poisonous pasture ? alone has the guarantee of infallibility . This is imagine that the Good Shepherd would allow guidance . For error could be asserted at these that matter even the questions raised by each The " operating specifications " of infalli- that against the Church established on this sectors without the Church itself being led institution of a visible , organized teaching members , the gates of hell , i.e. , the forces of precisely because he is the ultimate judge and spirit operates at all levels in the Church heareth Me ! " ) could come to include error in receive the graces of their station . The Holy the profession ' of faith which it requires of its and loosing . With this office goes the guarantee But though we may be convinced that God bility flow from these principles . " Papal destroying a teaching institution . The simplest way of destroying a university is probably to with His authority ( " He that heareth you , denominator . It is minimal because the Pope age are part of the Holy Spirit's operation of F this Church , speaking in His name and uncovering new treasures in the deposit of head . To Peter are given the keys of then is operating in all of these manifold ways , the which is not infailable is in fact unthinkable ! institution . The clearest indication of Christ's very authority which is enjoys then becomes effective and lasting way of destroying what Bishops as teachers , each of his own flock When Christ told Peter to feed His lambs have no guarantee of the divine protection and infallibility is actually a " minimal claim . " If Spirit broods over the meditations and even and His sheep , He was most certainly com- the very instrument of its own destruction . Kingdom of heaven and the power of binding revelation . To say this is not to deny that the Holy of existence . There are , after all , two ways of It is the teaching of the successor of Peter referee in matters of doctrine . it stands for is by corrupting its teaching . The A divinely commissioned teaching church you will , it is the notion of the abiding pro- manding the flock to follow Peter ; can we 318 astray . point is that at all of these lower levels we --- Page 27 --- Central Catholic Library Information . not known how many Catholics formally left The Nazis confiscated property , seminaries . By SHEILA O'LOUGHLIN of the Habsburgs and was being strongly opposed her schools , hospitals ; they abrogated the Con- destroyed or badly damaged by shellings . State are quite separate though interdependent the Church during the Nazi regime . ' It is was formed , but , after a few years , broke into amounted to only about 3,000 , two-thirds of bombings , etc . In addition , the Allies , during THEN came the Second World War . followed Church lost touch with the working-man . It whom were resident in Vienna . It is con- splinter groups . ' It was in this period that the it was being blamed for the political sins of the was just beginning to regain lost ground when by the occupation of Austria , during which The long alliance between Church and State from bitter experience that the Church and N this period between World War I and centralisation , the extension of the franchise and thereafter no member of the Austrian clergy . withdraw all priests from political positions Catholic TVrol alone . Yet it is often stated marriage laws , etc . Yet , by and large , their immediately after the 1914-1918 War antagon- supported traditional federalism as opposed to as political feelings became steadily more of the Church is often endangered by her entered politics . ' that the number who really left the Church attack on the Church was unsuccessful . ' It is World War II , the Church , which had of churches and Catholic institutions were left Catholics spiritually unprepared for resist- istic Socialist leaders gained power and influence . the Nazis brought about the Anschluss . Bureau . unflamed . the Austrian Episcopate decided to were killed or permanently disabled . Numbers bitter and intolerant extremism . In the period and stirred up bitterness against the Church . and the rights of the common man , found that political friends rather than by her enemies Noc too wisely , an opposition Catholic Party entities . But they learned also that the mission recorded that ro,000 left the Church in the ance to a Hitler . Under his regime they learned hundreds of priests , religious and seminarians cordat " with the Vatican : " they changed sidered that by raw most of the people who had left were won back . 319 --- Page 28 --- the occupation , retained the Church property which had been requisitioned by the Nazis . declared . Austria is a neutral federal state , Austria agreed to pay #153 millions in goods that she could not live alone . was due largely Christian principles in public life . Neither did Austrians a feeling of tolerance for the views Austria Sr. 4 billion in supporting occupation they interfere with education , except to require that existing between the conservative and and the conservative Catholic parties ( supported in concentration camps , also awakened in the common enemy , and , often , common residence by the " black " provinces and small towns ) . estimated that the Russian Occupation cost to the bitter antagonism and lack of co- Austria-Danube Steamship Co. In contrast In 1945 a second Republic of Austria was interfere with Church life in Austria , or with over a six-year period : to deliver to the scripts and incunabula . with an Upper and Lower House freely elected and Volkspartei has lost the passionate bitter- enormous sums spent on propaganda , and the ten years , and to pay Sros millions for the comparatively low living standards of Austrian There were individual acts of vandalism by U.N.R.A. and E.R.P. ( almost all of it of their fellow-countrymen . Austria's failure labour parties in Britain . Communism is chiefly between the Social Democrats ( strongest and Volkspartei have operated a coalition that children be taught Russian . ' major parties already referred to , the Socialists and the deliberate burning of priceless manu- Austria received a total of Sr.24 billions from of the war , the Allied Occupation ended . The for opening Austria's eyes to the reality ness of former days and has been compared to factories , oil fields , customs duties , and other Soviet Union a million tons of oil annually On 27th July. 1955 . ten years after the end operation between the various political groups . working people . Communist influence is private and state property . ' In addition , YET . perhaps the price was not too heavy use of Church vestments to clean out tanks , war and occupation cost Austria clearly . The forces , loss of income from confiscated plant , from the Zisterdorp oil-fields for a period of between the wars , when it was so often said U.S.A. funds ) . in " Red " VIenna and other industrial centres ) both the Nazis and the Russians , such as the practically nil . of Russian rule . Their struggle against a enable to make any headway in spite of by all citizens over 21 . Since then the two 320 good for the Catholic Church , did not , however , Now the atmosphere between the Socialists Austrian Information Service in New York The Russians , whose occupations bonded no --- Page 29 --- in the world , and that for the whole of Austria of her , but she is definitely making progress . had there is a growing appreciation within the but that many of the younger leaders are pro- is making an impression on socialist ranks . It marriage ' and to submit to Church jurisdiction . of Viennese marriages . The number of divorces Austrian working-class of the position of the tions . Religious teachers are appointed by only are contracted , the contracting parties period , and to need about another 500 . The Church as the one valuable protector of basic not yet publicly . ' They are beginning to realise is true that a long and difficult task is ahead have ordained only seventy-six priests in the between the ages of 9 and 14 years . Religious amounted to only 17.1 per 1,000 in 1948 . This the Church and State . Religious teaching is recognised where the contracting parties declare amongst women as amongst men . Several increased from 5 per 1,000 in 1930 to 14 in Catholic , privately and individually , even if an ordination . The Archdiocese of Vienna . for the Catholic Church in Austria is hopeful . smallness of wardrobe flats in the cities . dioces were as many as eight years without themselves prepared to conclude a ' canon-law instruction is compulsory ( parents may ask marriages' of Catholics . Where such marriages than opposed . Archbishop Noering has declared 1957 , as compared with a stationary figure of Church marriages comprise about 7296 of the which are attended by the majority of Austrian not compulsory , however , in the Trade Schools The birth-rate in Vienna is the lowest recorded are considered by the law as non-Catholics . which since the war has lost about 300 priests lack of vocations forced the Jesuits to give up s per 1,000 in Switzerland in the same period The Church is beginning to win back the schools , for pupils under 14 with church affilia- It is said that the old-guard Austrian Socialist The number of religious vocations in Austria human rights . working-man , who was never too far away , and do so ) in all public , elementary and high to have their children exempted . but rarely that religion is a force to be assisted rather nadequacy of child subsidy : the need for is stated to be due to the small wages ; the THERE is no Catholic school system in Another unusual feature of Austrian life is mothers to work , and the housing shortage and has declined considerably , not so much The jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts is through death , was stated a few years ago to Austria . Education is free and compulsory will always be anti-Catholic and anti-religious , total Austrian marriages , but less than 50% he recognition of divorce in the case of civil their oldest house in Austria . Yet , in spite of its difficulties , the outlook youth . 321 . --- Page 30 --- he was received as a novice in the Monastery Benedict's request . Instead , they sent him Labre was so zealous in ministering to the of Septfonts and given the name of Brother of that particular Order lived in little cells , Twice he presented himself at the doors of the A study of the heroism of failure , spiritual and temporal needs of his parishioners torment of body . " Manfully he tried to hide fearing souls : yet they refused to accede to But Benedict merely smiled and shook his back immediately to his uncle's presbytery , Once again Benedict returned home . the parish of Erin , and Fr. Francis Joseph still Benedict persevered ; and in the end he able to stand the austerities of the Order . Yet Benedict was rejected ; but his second applica- and assured him that he was far too young to that he fell a victim to the plague and died . were of the opinion that he would never be Charterhouse , and twice he was turned down . know his own mind . urban . tion proved more successful . In the year 1767 This time his father suggested that he should to do but to give their reluctant consent . At head . It was still his wish to enter a Trappist make up his mind to settle down on the farm . both his physical and mental suffering . But apart from the world and from one another . V down . Anguish of soul was added to his mother's ear : " God does not want me at the He looked so wan and frail that the Superiors uncle advised him to go home and talk the Carthusian Order of St. Bruno . The monks There appeared nothing left for his parents At length his mother advised him to try the In 1766 an infectious epidemic broke out in When he returned home . he whispered in his Charterhouse , but at La Trappe . ' was accepted . matter over with his parents . The boy's parents were pious and God- WEEKS went by . and then his health broke monastery . Benedict agreed to follow the suggestion the first Trappist monastery where he applied it was all to no avail . nonk . Once again Benedict returned home should charterhouse , but at La Trappe . ' --- Page 31 --- our neighbour : and the third must be of when he was finally buried , the crowd that and to file down into the nearby roadways . his face and to touch his winding-sheet . And . " Holy Marv , prav for us ! " rang out on the Goodier tells us that he was " alone with God the name of the pilgrim-beggar was inscribed about any of his wanderings . Archbishop hole in the wall , close to the Fifth Station , he of the neighbouring churches where Mass was knelt within the cemetery was so large that casual observers applied to him was simply people came in countless numbers to look upon even there . Benedict refused to die on a com- kneeling before the Tabernacle in the various bed . Yet he dragged his totering steps to one To the Church of Santa Maria dei Monti his of the Cross had been erected there , and in a insisted on taking him to his own house . Yet doors of the Trappist monastery . The Stations fortable bed when his Divine Lord had died on where the early Christians had been thrown in the world ; and it was in the amphitheatre he possibly could ; and so long did he remain comply with his request . went circulating about Rome within a few FOR thirteen long and arduous years he words that trembled on many a lip and made A kindly butcher by the name of Zaccarelli . Exactly one hundred years later in 1883 - late-comers were compelled to line the streets to the lions that he took up the only permanent there was nothing either aimless or fruitless thousands of feet come hurrying to the house on the Calendar of the Saints . On Wednesday , April 16 , 1783 , Benedict Saint of the Blessed Sacrament " and " the Saint bronze for oneself . ' of the Forty Hours . " But the name which he kept repeating : and they were forced to minutes . . " The Saint is dead ! " were the Rome he loved more than all other places sound of Benedict Labre went winning to the where he was laid . the " Poor Man . Judgment-Seat of God . mortal remains were carried , and still the Sacrifice over , however , then he collapsed . everywhere and wanting no one else . " a rough and shameful gibbet . was scarcely able to get out of his so-called The priest was called in . The sacrament of Litany for the dying was recited . " The Saint is dead ! " was the news that being celebrated . No sooner was the Holy He attended up to six Masses every day that " On the ground-only on the ground ! ' vernal air : and at that precise moment the churches that he became known as " the made his abode . 323 wandered the roadways of the earth : but residence that he ever knew ' since he left the Extreme Union was administered . The Litany for the dying was recited . --- Page 32 --- Ferrat , a high jet of land looking out over in the early thirties , after years of travel these is of course Somerset Maugham who all over the globe , bought a fine Moorish permanently abroad . The most famous of villa , the " Villa Mauresque " on Cap being able to live and work where they First , some of the British authors who have forsaken their native shores to live perhaps which of these dwellings will one choose , and the sort of home an author day become literary shrines , the Mecca of interesting to his readers . ' Picture then , future generations of book-lovers . UTHORS share with artists and com- some famous writers at home , and ponder makes for himself is as revealing as it is posers the rather enviable freedom of works Naomi Jacob , far from her native ITALY is another country that has lured Yorkshire . Noel Coward spends " as much while at Fasano , on Lake Garda , lives and hospitality , surrounded by an exotic garden thousands of British tourists who visit the resort of Rapallo know that behind the elegant home , subsequently the rendezvous film-goers were given such tantalisingly full of tropical trees and flowers , of which from Nice . ' There he made himself an away more than one writer . Few of the brief glimpses in the author's personal introductions to the films of his short stories . town , in leisured and sunny retirement , of half the world's notabilities during Maugham's fabulous pre-war days of lavish the blue have of the Mediterranean , not far lives the incomparable Sir Max Beerbohm , 324 --- Page 33 --- of revelation . To put it bluntly , definitions authority . For these matters are taught with the ( Christian doctrine is a complex whole with divine guarantee is clear . Though such teach- accepted but never officially defined . That INFALLBILITY ( Continued from page 318 ) . pertains to Catholic doctrine . ' theoretical to the practical , from the abstract : of papal messages - no mean question in this philosophical , political , social and otherwise . ordinary teaching authority . of which it is true logically speaking , as the " extraordinary let alone exhaust , all the treasures in its deposit age of mass communication when the Pope's part of this " ordinary universal " teaching vailed against the Church . are in fact constantly being debated . ' There certain particular doctrines must be considered generally what is expounded and inculcated in ings may not seem to boom as large , psycho- for an official announcement . is a large body of Catholic teaching , universally Encuclical Letters already for other reasons in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand to say , ' he who heareth you , ' heareth Me ' and D infallibility becomes more a matter for and Catholic thinkers generally are constantly Furthermore the Church has never made any living Teaching Authority . " To meet such challenges , Bishops , theologians not exercise the supreme power of their teaching many implications . many roots and tendrils . Catholics will take to all expressions of the consideration of whether or not a particular consent since in writing such letters the Popes do authority to be assigned to the different kinds . this " ordinary universal " " teaching of the re-examining and re-expressing the content of is also the further question of the exact " Nor must it be thought that what is expounded are usually made only when issues have come systematic attempt to catalogue and codify . THE difficulty arises from the fact that solemnly defined pronouncements , yet error in Humani Generis : BEYOND this point , the discussion of scrutiny results in a controversy which calls Church must also fall within the scope of the as surely mean that the gates of hell had pre- to a head . Each age poses its own problems , this ordinary , universal teaching would just most casual words are picked up by network HERE , however , we can safely turn from the crete question of the attitude that devout We can do no better than to sum up in the papal pronouncement is infailable to the con- scholar . Questions about whether or not words of Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Catholic teaching . Sometimes this sort of obvious and unanimous . Thus it is that there and news services . the theologian and the technically trained More frequently , however , the solution is not --- Page 34 --- not to the love-battered teddy bear . rib while the father lifted the blankets that the priest moved to the other end of the priest gives at the end of Mass-but nothing priest giving his individual blessing and is quite so satisfying or personal as the aised his hand in blessing , then placed his leave , he stopped short-and whispered to hree-year-old boy sleeping on a tiny bed , bless his two children . The priest tiptoed Together they groped back to the crib . your blessing . Father . " he turned to the crib where the two-year- the father that " her " head felt strange . kneeling before him . blessing was given to the tiny sleeper and Throughout the liturgy of the Church , hand on " her " head . As he turned to intering a cathedral to the blessing every into the darkened bedroom . reached down , and patted his head . " Then With a grim that lit up the darkened room . Often an older priest recalls that wonderful old girl was sleeping . covered the little girl's head . This time the day of many years ago , when a parishione- Softly . he breathed a blessing over the his blessing to his parents , family , and passing by a powerful source of strength . riests give their blessings from a Cardinal If you want to make a young priest feel Edging up to the crib in the darkness . he asks him . " Before you go , may we have the many blessings the Church offers is The first act a priest performs after rising " young father asked the visiting priest to peered down , " and gazed into the fuzzy face ONE evening recently , at the end of a of a " newly blessed " teddy bear . THE Catholic who does not make use of like a priest , ask for his blessing . friends . young , ask him for his priestly blessing . from the altar of his ordination is to give uposing his anointed hands on a person Christian Family Movement meeting , F you want to make an old priest feel 326 --- Page 35 --- to dances and the like and it won't suit if you're in I'm telling you that a few of the boys will be being quite unaware that handsome Aidan Carroll suppose my mother told everyone that came to the to acquaintances as they shed down the Knocklov street and laughed as he remarked to Marion that the visitor , by driving faster than usual . He waved Go on with you , " he teased , " if you're looking to the boys . There will be a bit of a stir . I can tell car , he in high spirits and " showing-off " a bit to " Very well . Mrs. Carroll , if you think it best , " ' Och they told me you were good-looking . you . when I walk in with a nice girl like you . " town , six miles away , and they set off in Aidan's it that point , Aidan became his gay self , relieved they would all be wondering who she was . " But I for compliments , look in the looking-glass . But garments , unobtrusively , and was much relieved this past few years , so how was I to know ? Marion seemed to struggle with her emotions Pray for her , child . That's the best we can do THE Arcadia was not in Knocklov , but in a bigger shop all about you coming . She was looking forward ' Put a bit of a coloured scarf about your neck . in the Arcadia , and I'm drain to show worn off " Will we go to the pictures ? ' There's a good film are gone are with God ? ' to learn that he need not be solemn any more . by Mrs. Carroll's decree . Know what ? " she persisted playfully . talked soft " to girls as a matter of course and She had been wondering how to shed her black neant nothing by it . Had he been asked why , he for a moment . Then she said she had some other agreement . nobody will notice the black . ' might have answered that they liked it . the girl answered quietly . John Carroll expressed himself as in complete Marion felt that she had made an impression . What do we mourn for , when you come to And you ? " she hinted . feel mother's death . " sorrowful . ' hink of it ? Aren't we all hoping that those that Indeed I saw enough photographs of you . but not tothes with her . " But-but , " she added , " I still Yes of course , " Marion agreed . 327 ARKID # EILY McAdam , or something . " Aidan's mother advised , " and black . ' to it . ' for the dead . Be sure she has no wish to see you Be sure she has no wish to see you --- Page 36 --- njoy every moment of the evening , completely dressed , and they were all nice to Aidan's friend . danced with her and she had been very nice to of him as a rich landowner's son or something like discovery that he was engaged to the plump Katie renowned beauty spot . been surprised . Aidan was also " very nice to all the ladies of the him , while probing out his social position . Her maware that she looked father than ever in the plain or pretty , smartly-dressed or less smartly- several presentable young men with partners . for a moment , intrigued Marion Davies . He had dance of the year . " he danced more than once with most of them . was intended only for interval wearing . lest her Marion had noticed that the girl was naturally . MARION appeared for Mrs. Carroll's approval . She heard him pay lavish compliments to some hostess might wish to view the dress minus that sale blue flounces . She had laughing eyes and a of them . One was a very young girl wearing white . them all for a drive round a neighbouring lake , a one night only , " Aidan told the girl . Marion did not mention that the " decent top " o'clock , said it was a lovely summer , night and reaches-and-cream complexion innocent of make- particularly interested in . " No . Well there was nobody going that I was seemed to gather round Aidan Carroll . There were up . Marion had to admit that she had charm . that . It was he who , when the dance ended at two 328 . had , somehow , dumbfounded her . She had thought by name , was one of their party " and seemed to in a yellow lace frock , long and pillow with a party . Marion , in fact , was a bit ruffled because fact she found herself one of a large party that that the running costs would be too high . Phil had . wondering what hit them . We must go to a dance , You're like an angel let down from Heaven for THE men were more respectful in their comments . the dance-frocks you see . " the war it has a decent top to it , not like some of of some of her new acquaintances , she might have on the whole , but Phil Power , who was a bank- pretty but the white frock was home-made and not matching satin coates , which she intended to slip in surprise . Indian seemed to enjoy a couple of dances with her . That's nice now . " Mrs. Carroll said . " I like There's the Nursing Fund dance in the Corner addition and be shocked . blue . flounced and frilled . " The girl , Kate Costelloe Marion had no lack of partners at the dance . in manageress of the London gown-shop , would say And you weren't going ? suggested that those who had cars should take cashier and had the manner of a duke , had declared vell cut . In fact , she criticised many of the dresses of tickets . It's a dress affair , indeed the biggest Hotel tomorrow night . It's always great . I wasn't off when dancing . to the spectacle of a plump and tall girl in powder- tressed , sure of herself . Had she heard the comments going to go but I'm sure I'll manage to get a couple ' And you weren't going ? ' Marion er Marian was not perturbed , however . She felt well- and wondered , with ironic amusement , what Gladys addition and be shocked . --- Page 37 --- MARDI GRAS : Pat Boone continues the good VIRGIN ISLAND : Some of the love scenes in this Sheriff of fractured law . THE : Kenneth Western with a difference . ( G.A. ) . inveigles a young lieutenant to meet her half-case they are engaging in passionate embracing . Many surgeon's knife , THE : This gloomy , melo- SOUTH PACIFIC : Bie. brash and boring . Its dramatic piece , keeps a firm grip of one's attention improbable story are rather close to the margin with the shears is also typical of Fellini . ( A.A. ) , daughter and , within seconds of being left alone but the tone of the film , the gaily romantic and work ( started in " April Love " ) of giving us because it is too full of coincidences . ( G.A. ) more acting than singing and it is difficult to decide if this is any improvement . Obviously this U.S. Army film is heavily weighted in the Indians' is an optical achievement , this first use of it marks idiom . The setting is the Virginia Military Institute ON THE RUN : A young man ' on the run ' from WENDERFUL THINGS : Frankie Vaughan does More and Jane Mansfield in a most untraditional which gives him ample scope for his particular of Richard Rogers are worth seeing and hearing , two main attractions - Todd-AO and the music . name of preventing crime ! ( A.A. ) calantful setting to make this a very delightful favour . Some good battle scenes but little else . PORTLAND EXPOSE : Several brutal beatings-up , SQUARE PEG. THE : A Norman Wisdom vehicle Gibraltar to London yarn is not to be taken seriously and occasionally historians Western . ( G.A. ) may enjoy the musical score ; the ladies may love brand of slapstick humour . ( G.A. ) . a retrograde step in the development of cinematic and romantic interludes are blended together in a particular , when the raucous , leaving Bloodyv Marv suicide Battalion : Good war sequences highly enjoyable entertainment in the modern before almost everyone except those necessary a girl and a man dissected by a train-all in the swINDLERS . THE : A band of confidence art . ( A.A. ) . farcical nature of it , just about saves the day . ( A.A. ) lawless hoodlums . Suspense-filled but adult . ( A.A. ) SIERRA BARON : Fast-riding , sharp-shooting for the conventional happy ending-are killed . is unpretentious and may while away a pleasant 329 , the romance and Rossano Brazzi . But if Todd-AO NAKED IN THE SUN : This Indian versus the tricksters might the very poor and miserable of two threats to blind with acid , an assault ( cut ) on throughout . ( A.A. ) . and the Mardi Gras . a veritable feast of colour , expectively , but the overall impression is that (G.A. ) . sequence , where the censor had to lay about him hour . " ( A.A. ) . MEXICO : This tale of romance and bull-fighting music and gaiety . " ( G.A. ) . Pacific island during World War II - is adult ; in full of good faces . A chaotic , organic party realism is seen in the slum scenes ; very noisy , (G.A. ) . ' South Pacific " is a filmed version of the stage their few hoarded pennies . ' The director's neo- story-of romance in an American occupied South nusual and a very static version at that . The --- Page 38 --- knowledge of the European , about enemies of the past which forced the sixteenth century . But then or the threat of enemies from or brought on by internal discussion . the Kwena tribe and the Newaketsi . of the Newato tribe are shrouded in the beginning of the nineteenth portion of the reserve . The great It is interesting to know for until they came within the continual movement and migration . all we get when we go back as far upon them this great tribal merger authentic account of their history instance , that tradition has it that It is true to say that the origins as well as the mighty Ngwato are for the most part in the eastern under pressure of famine or drought one may place very tentatively in their mighty chief Mzilikazi . suzerainty of the Chief of the century . Oral traditions - very the mists of legend as there is no with the Ngwato . were the Trek sketchy at first-but becoming centuries , go back to a date which Boers and the Matabales under Newatos . " These smaller com- and other smaller tribes located all the descendants of one man . Kaa . the Birwa . the Batswapong more ample as they come down the heroes and the brief story . handed munities include the Kalanga , the another . of their history and Because of internal commotions . down from one generation to as that are a few names of nebulous as " we have them today . " For thev split up into different tribes . centuries their life was one of without . beginning . than themselves , have accepted the protection against enemies stronger else in return for hospitality and To this tribe are attached other been absorbed by conquest , or 630000000000000000000000 communities , which have either the predominant tribe in the north . --- Page 39 --- and support . It is an indisputable Church , with its clear and defined are to-day turning to the Catholic creed and its sacramental solace fact that in such conditions as prevail in Bechuanaland today , where only three priests are toiling is vast work for the activity and few years half the population of edly if all the African Catholics at zeal of a lay apostolate . Undoubt- against such great odds , that there the " Ngwato reserve would be character of their churches . Many Catholic . May you by your prayers in this divine task , then within a present living there were to and we by our labour hasten that co-operate and assist the priests day . also be added to by regular ( or irregular ) ) subscriptions , no matter how appreciated that ET per week will not educate a priest in these days or Very Rev. Fr. Superior . C.P. , St. Patrick's Juniorate of high prices , so while a Unit is complete in itself . the Burse itself can A Burse is a sum of money invested in perpetuity to yield income for be sufficient priests to fulfil the needs of the Church and souls . a particular purpose . " The Burses listed in the adjoining panel are for grow and can do more or less work according to its size . Crossear . Belfast : or even the Mission Editor , The Cross , Mount Argus , the Education of Passionist Priests . Burses can also be established to Retreats , of Brothers on the guest . It often comes as an official query Units therefore can be completed by one person or group . They can Very Rev. Fr. Provincial . C.P. . St. Paul's Retreat . Mount the Missions and their various needs . Only the interest is used Our Burses are established in 21,000 Units which yield about fan or 640 a year according to the rate of interest . It will be readily small , made to : The above question is often asked of our Fathers on Missions and Dublin , will be pleased to deal with them . annually : the capital is left intact . from a solicitor helping a client to draw up a will . ' It always comes from ous hearted people who want to make sure that there will always 1961 62.0006, 331 . 6 EIO . t # EIO . # E16-10 . 6116 . # E63-10 . # E110 . 1956-10 . # E12 . 1 . e ... E1,000 # E21-10 . 0.2-7-6 . --- Page 40 --- There are several letters this while the kettle sings . attract attention from the figure A story of Leonardo . says . " We found it easy to do the Supper in your home ? wall of a convent in Milan about essays " by " the children of Mount Supper was painted on the refactory month and numerous beautiful cards on Francis' desk after the and a writer . He was made royal . Leonardo Da Vinci and his wonder- with a few gracious words , and month's competition . " Therese Then Da Vinci took a brush and A large packet of well written if it were real . I cannot take my remain , " he said . " Nothing shall ful work , which has lived through- dietters to Francis-the CRO If it affects you thus it shall not Art . Have you a copy of the Last treatise on art . It is said that the famous teacher who taught him . painter to King Louis XII " of Many of you have heard of gave up painting through despair . Last Supper , " he asked a friend Donnelly introduces her classmates . eyes off it . " drew it across the sparkling cup . musician , an engineer , an inventor beside us . This was late for last into his studio to inspect it . " Give cup stands out from the table as his friend , with enthusiasm , " That Many copies have been made of known everywhere . The Last the painter . me your candid criticism , " said of Our Lord . " da Vinci . It is marvellous ! " explained . this celebrated painting . It is out the ages , and has won praises . beautiful and worthy in Christian . the year 1497 . The artist was born finished his great painting of " The much interest in a study of his St. " Anne's , Milltown , lies open Learn to appreciate what is Da Vinci was also an architect , a Leo X . Students of art will find France and was honoured by is told of him that when he had many gifts and talents . Leonardo for him from every generation . It of rivelling his pupil ! kettle sings and the cricket chirps . near Florence in 1452 and had season of greetings and handshakes . fire and read them again , while the Let us rather around the February --- Page 41 --- have had and that is to have my has always been one wish that I short leg put the same as the other . Mary F. Burke tells us . " and our school has carried away most of Switzerland and to watch the boys So I hope in the new year I shall and girls ski over the snow . There has been going on all the week . 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TELEPHONE : BELFAST 4.241 ( 4 lines ) Tom McGrattan . vte1974-three # HENHAMARDSHAMARDSHAMARDS tournament information # advertisements . --- Page 55 --- fruit squashes . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6tho' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Page 56 --- Faith . God may not withdraw the gift of belief from such a YOR the Irish everywhere , March-St. Patrick's month - is books : and gross culpable ignorance concerning the essentials answers . But we venture to suggest that if the true answers in clinging to our sacred Catholic beliefs . Truthfully may it be foundations of belief , for example , the reading of anti-Catholic sinner to repent : activities which of themselves attack the very island . Whatever our faults , past or present , we have succeeded faithless outnumber the faithful ? We confidently believe not celebrate the Feast of our National Apostle with deep gratitude neglect of the means of grace the Mass . the sacraments , daily Honest pride in the spiritual triumphs of the past is com- to this fearful loss . Here are some of them : serious and continued portion of its people , then defection on a nation-wide scale of our Catholic religion . Let a man find in his conscience these said that . by God's grace . Ireland has the Faith . ' But as an one . But He may . And He sometimes does . Now should these were known , they would be the cause of previous shock to many dire causes be found in an entire nation or in a notable pro- to listen to the voice of the Good Shepherd beseeching the We thank God that Christian loyalty and fervent Catholic living areas ? In large urban areas ? Obviously we do not know the Sunday through your own fault ? And suppose , furthermore , prayer ; ingrained habits of mortal sin and hard-hearted refusal was asked this one blunt question : Did you miss Mass last individual can lose that treasure , so too can a nation . In proof acknowledgment of the fact that for fifteen hundred years the four causes of defection or indeed even one of them-and he father dermat , C.P. hat every answer was honest . What sort of result would such a WITHIN recent months Archbishop Montini of Milan told a national survey produce ? What proportion of our people would of the story plays into the hands of the devil . Thus , while we this , nothing must be allowed to blind us . little or no excuse ? What would the proportion be in rural petition is called for last in the not-too-distant future we be are glorious realities in the Ireland of to-day . To the truth of the private property of our race . There is merely a humble iving Faith has been woven into the pattern of life on this our becomes a genuine danger . phrase , the Faith of the Irish . " In these five words there is pulpits in every corner of the world , will come the ringing But one wonders about the other side of the picture . Suppose could it be truthfully said of this country of ours that its who will read these lines . of this , history offers grim evidence . mendable . But he who makes no attempt to read the other side had there are more unfaithful than faithful souls in their dioceses . found unlawful to the heritage of St. Patrick . defection from the Faith ? Very many causes can contribute n some particular day every Irish Catholic of church-going age the Month of the Faith . On or near March 17th. from What brings upon a Catholic the supreme tragedy of total have to admit that Holy Mass was missed deliberately and with no suggestion that the gift of belief is , in some way or another , nust realise that he is preparing his soul for the total loss of God for the past , we should not forget that a prayer of conference of Italian priests that they must face the fact erence of Italian priests that they must face the Nihil Obstat : Imprimi Potest : censor Dep. James Fitzpatrick , M.A.D.D. , Joannes Carolus , Archiep . Dublinen . archiep . --- Page 57 --- Mother-House , Rome . attached to Passionist . SS. John and Paul , 1959 march . Basilica of itselforship . No. 11 . --- Page 58 --- luring his early sojourn in Britain . His " digs The Connolly Association is now more than n the hope that " something was being done common determination to defend democracy . ion in those early days should grow strong So , without much thought , he probably joined and suffered and died for the regeneration of doubt be celebrating its twenty-first birthday . whether it would be worthwhile becoming a and West London , to Coventry and Liverpool need of companionship and understanding . home in Ireland , and it was therefore only filled with the memory of him who had fought left-republican and socialist groups among the " Curragh Mutiny " and " Class Struggle . " Freedom . This , after a time , was replaced by An official newspaper was launched and was It was established in the year 1938 at the was made up , to use the official statement , of Association were above reproach . It " based Internationalism " and " British Imperialism " and " The Labour Movement . " The young exile felt lonely and out-of-place given the high-sounding name of Irish should study its history and aims and see Park its speakers discussed such subjects as Was it , any wonder that the Connolly Associa- were not all that could be desired . He felt the people . And the reason is not difficult to was issued under a different name . Irish exiles , " and it was " held together by a twenty years old . In the near future it will no for the freedom of Ireland and the good of the Irish , it was Catholic as well . member . And this is what I found . Engineers' Hall , Doughty Street , London . It Irish who were away from home . Connolly " and immediately his heart was conclusion that , since the Association was Ostensibly the aims and aspirations of the IKE a flourishing tree , the Association Something Being Done " Replaced " and " another " are possibly incorrect ; for it was the self-same paper which THE Association attracted quite a number of spread out its branches to North London another paper entitled . THE Irish Democrat . d Manchester . From the rostrum at Hyde atural that , on my arrival in England , certain . The young exile heard the word reland . And he doubtless jumped to th --- Page 59 --- ook a sudden unfavourable turn . ' Disagree- ame to Czechoslovakia and the government sent centred round the breaking up and which cannot immediately be put to the test . popists out " of Ireland . Meanwhile , the grossly false impression was choice on the capitalist ) is replaced by the right to work ( which puts the ones on you and the being given to the unwary that the fact that ishops led by Archbishop Beran conducted a them nor to stay in Ireland , but take care not time taking one's politics as well . istributing among the peasants of the vast vent so far as to declare that " it has become that there can be nothing good under Com- which you do not agree with in questions . keep you going , you must fend for yourself . must you refuse to associate with him in increasingly clear to Catholics in Czecho- stopping emigration breach to the exiles telling an organisation is Communistized not ensation offered by the Government , the A Bishop Warns . to join the Connolly Association , " was a N the same issue the Soviet Constitution was message in the August issue of 1957 ... In the May issue of 1958 another contributor It was the desire of opening the eyes of the firm assurance . " If the mother bird can't advocated in preference to the Western rave freedom , but no right . ' Parents don't know everything . ' Iconstantly improved . promoters declared that it was possible to take hurch estates . Ignoring the handsome com- one's religion from Rome without at the same ierce campaign of protest . ' a special appeal , intimating that he might " one slovakia as to the Catholics in the People's inwary exile to the dangers that lurked in the People who never bother their heads about matters of instant and urgent concern ? day return to kick the profiteers and mon- pronunciations of the Vatican are moved by Democracies of Eastern Europe - that the necessarily hinder it from being Catholic . The THE method of recruiting Irish exiles was 337 o work . a very different thing . Here you any reason against unity in immediately ? ' To the embittered exile the Association made temporal aims . ' states : " I think we are wrong in thinking In the January issue of 1950 a contributor Soviet Constitution . they asked . " Because a man holds views And so the subtle praise of Communism " Well , you're either in or out , ' was , the In the U.S.R. constitution , the freedom munist rule . ' orms of democratic government ... . " . Is difference of opinion in ultimates went on . time taking one's politics as well . --- Page 60 --- they kept their membership a secret . ' The fact . however , remains that unwary exiles , fresh Birmingham , and have been struck by the attendance for all those seventy-five meeting - But I maintained that you were doing these eyes of Irish Catholic workers . You have put is impossible to give a definite reply . But I meetings' held at Hyde Park , and the total Association . If they were members , at least this would immediately condemn you in the must counsel before it is too late . to write the following letter to " The Irish trimate unwary minds with the Communist have been given to understand that the condemns divorce , godless education , Socialism affiliations and objectives because you know rom home . may feel tempted to join its ranks . for advocating the release of Irish prisoners . come to mock and heckle . we must put wise to the truth . It is these we at Hyde Park in London and the Bull Ring in truth , but by Communist propaganda ... . ' declining in recent years . And I have been have evoked much interest . defenders of Irish workers , in order to indoc- things for an ulterior purpose , namely , to win 338 . attended . " Many of those who did attend could Connolly Association that caused the Most sidering that there are at least a quarter of a on the disguise of being ultra-patriots and and Communism . " If you pretend that these demonstrate that you are guided not by Catholic Democrat " in the spring of 1949 ... . Rev. Dr. Michael Browne , Bishop of Galway , there were others in the crowd who had simply soys and girls in England . I did not blame you are not bound to obey the Pope when he alone . it would appear that the meetings cannot HAVE met very few Irishmen who admitted influence of this organisation has been steadily be classified as " uninterested sightseers . " And and hearts of present-day exiles in Britain ? It Surely , " his Lordship continued , " you million " Irish resident in the city of London of 1957 , there were seventy-five open-air that they were members of the Connolly It is these that we must warn . It is these matters are not part of Christian moral teach- did not exceed twenty thousand people . Con- You dare not openly away your Communist I did not blame you , " he declared , " for ing , that they are purely politics , you thereby sav that between the Easter and October present at some of the open-air meetings both fact that these meetings were so poorly cannot be so ignorant as to assert that Catholics THE question remains : how great a hold recruits for Communism . providing amenities for the benefit of Irish has the Connolly Association on the minds I am quoting from official sources when I Party line . . --- Page 61 --- Smithson begins I'd like to say a few mu- set of travers or devotion or pious practices . ductory words about what the Sacraments as devoutly as we can : that's very important to fill our souls with Christ's life and to make to prepare for the Sacramento or assist at Mass That is ... . I'm not even a convert but I hope to supply the needs of all who draw on them . present us to His Heavenly Father as His true Of course I don't mean to say we don't have That's because they have a special value Our Lord will always and without jail use to produce Our Lord's life in that person's and dying-even then the Sacrament is able and far more necessary to us than any other soul . The Seven Sacraments and Holy Mass Mass and the Sacraments it's quite different . Baptism or a good Catholic who is unconscious should mean to us . Along with Holy Mass , provided we don't approach them unworthy , them to form us to his own likeness and to any effort on our part , as it were , Mass and themselves a tremendous power - a power the Sacraments already contain within brothers and sisters . Even " when a person us ever more like Him . They're His own very tions and on our personal effort . With Holy in themselves . In our private prayers and to be one soon . I've been coming to Fr. Bruno good works , very much depends on our inten- And now Mr. Smithson is going to tell us some- dear friends , " he began , " I'm only a convert . Christ's life , filled to capacity and ever ready thing about Baptism in particular . " profit by them . But even before we have made receiving a Sacrament-like a little child at special , personal gift to each one of us , and place in the Church . They're far more vital and the harder we try to do it , the more we'll can't make any preparation at all before the Seven Sacraments have a very special are therefore like enormous store-houses of up at the monastery for instruction during the 339 IVL as he jumped narrowly to his feet . " My TR. Smithson nearly knocked over his chair --- Page 62 --- have to leave the company of Satan into which wonderful they are and how often we depend past nine months , and I hope to be baptized our first parents have led us , and take sides and received in the Church in a fortnight's terribly embarrassed speaking to you life-long who had deceived them . against the God who I will put enmity between these and the to drive the demon and his legions away from to every word the stranger said . " I feel few peace at the Catholic bookshop in wonderful gifts God had given them , they were said . They said that Baptism and Confirmation woman . between your seed and her seed : he put right . ' And He put it right through Our things they did and suffered for us , so many for his heel . ' But to benefit by the victory of them for granted and is inclined to forget how Lord and His Holy Mother : through all the we're going to baptized . the priest meets us on them in our everyday lives . They said I first part of Baptism is about our renouncing . once and for all , our first parents' dealings with the devil ; with that lost angel who is so And now I'll tell what both he and Fr. Bruno shall crush your head and you shall lie in wait was preparing for my Baptism and fresh from my instructions on it , and therefore I was time . " There was a stir of surprise and interest Catholics to-night-especially as first speaker wearing a purple stole round his neck-it's so to speak taking sides with the devil Allegiance to Christ our King , an oath that Our Lord and His Mother over the devil , we strongly when Fr. Joachim asked me to do it . deceive us into losing God's friendship . When the Church's way of saying she's sorry to see at the first Forum meeting . ' I protested very prays time and again in the name of the Church , We have to make a very solemn Oath of Baptism . When our first parents displayed among the parishioners who were hanging on Fairburgh . It's something well worth reading centuries ago . You remember God's words are the forgotten sacraments forgotten Rite of Baptism' which you can buy for a in one of those little pamphlets containing the 340 envious of us because God loves us , and who is Well then here are a few reflections on round God's Son . the Saviour of the world . the obvious one to speak about it . will bind us as long as we live . first thing that God in His Mercy set out to for yourselves . As I was saying , then , the once and for all with those who are gathered in the sense that every born Catholic takes powerful and running in the shares he sets to God and lost for themselves and for us all the A ND that's exactly what happens in the had loved and created them . That was the A first part of Baptism . You'll find it all to the devil after the fall of Adam and Eve : us still in the devil's company . Then the priest --- Page 63 --- virtue , and " only after this has been proved The governing body established by Our of life and in the manner of his death . Before is now in possession of heavenly glory and rom the Pope . From the first Christian century granting any official recognition of and per- alone could grant public veneration of a saint nised as a saint by the whole Church , since footrine and discipline are " decided by the bishop to bishop , to or from Rome itself , that until the Middle Ages , a bishop's sanction was able to intercede for us , such private conviction n his own province . The Supreme Pontiff the reputed holy person were truly of heroic for heroic sanctity of the proposed saint was and how Patrick came to be universally recog- neir divinely appointed office . All matters the martyrs , Laurence the Deacon in Rome and public devotions in church in honour of a a bishop's decree confirming the reputation command for the whole Church . The effect of explains why some saints obtained universal may , suffice only for private devotion . The sufficient for public ecclesiastical honour to be lways will be so be among the faithful that a martyr or other throughout every diocese . It was recognised , Prime or Patriarch exercised this authority recognition , and others of the early saints are , saint and for the public veneration of the body of his diocese regarded as a saint in holiness ord Jesus Christ in His Church is the Pope approval of the Pastors and Rulers of the even yet , honoured only locally in parish , In addition to his own episcopal power and In the first few centuries of the Church's ishops under the guidance of the Pope , or by was entirely local in the sense explained above . quickly given public honour as saints through- Church was always needed for liturgical and all martyrs , and " canonisation , " so to speak , mission for liturgical honour , the bishop had first to be satisfied that the life and death of lusive argument . " In some places , only the Yet it was by devotion spreading locally from how our Irish saints were " canonised " locally . given in his diocese to one whom the faithful Cyprian , Bishop , in North Africa , were very by common repute for sanctity and by con- history , the saints , with few exceptions , were Authority , a bishop can receive further authority No matter how widespread a conviction may discipline of the Church . equivalent to Beatification in the present he Pope himself acting as Supreme Authority diocese , province or country . It also explains and the Bishops . They are Peter and the or the whole Church . It has always been and out the entire Church . This " local " method and relics . 34l . postles for us , and are their successors in holy person was heroic in virtue on earth and as it always must be , that he alone could --- Page 64 --- r634 A.D. put an end to all discussion regarding Church in times gone by . Not many of the councils . " The Bull of Pope Urban VIII in tion , by withdrawing it altogether and reserving episcopal authority to beatify for local venera- tion examined in councils , particularly general this was the method by which public veneration early Irish Saints were martyrs for the Faith , the end of the eleventh century , several Popes vas granted officially by the Pastors of the miracles of persons proposed for public venera- had restricted the authority of bishops , and also the right to " beatify " which bishops and to the Holy See all right and authority to Urban VIII finally and exclusively reserved Pontiffs , with restriction to certain places and the Church now , was not made until com- locally , as bishops hitherto had been permitted outside of the place for which permission is to do . In other words , he reserved to the Pope out their extraordinarily hard lives and penances mission to generate granted by the Roman required them to have " the virtues and alone , not only the right to " canonise " but unlawful to pay to the person known as Blessed Patriarchs had exercised formerly . From about Our modern Beatification is then " a per- to certain liturgical exercises . Thus it is paratively recent times . In 1634 A.D. Pope ( i.e. the Beatus , Beatified ) public reverence were indeed a form of martyrdom . granted , or to recite an office in his honour , or Saint " which obtains in the discipline of approve a saint for public veneration . Even it to the Holy See . The distinction between " Blessed " and 342 --- Page 65 --- I am speaking of our early weeks in our new If you think they don't learn a lot from that instead of about trivialities or worse ? while there is a social evening , with no formal triplets so that we could enjoy all the chances good time in a Christian way , right at home , some system or committee or organization . to almost in the position of wishing we were all that some of the pain of bereavement is initi- ing of a few or of many , and you'll never hear invite them in for a friendly class of something , dozens of homes , where you can have a gather- gated . If anybody is ill , people offer to help like a flood , and everybody is such good friends talking about God and religion and morality , It has created a big circle of Catholic families - we have for friendly evenings , friendly visits family to family , until you can almost feel it . we've lived in this new suburb , but I wonder people , was to start a study club . That one believe me , we're not lonely now . We're real love going like electrical current from a word you shouldn't hear - and neither will how many hundreds of other parishes need to programme . The youngsters some of whom home , and emphatically I am not saying any Can you imagine the wonderful influence it is all over the place . on children to have parents gathering and do the sort of thing that we got started . get them started in new friendships . for this or that gathering . BUT they are like people everywhere . They finer folks you won't find anywhere on this . short of marvellous . Here are dozens of families , VOBODY we know about moves into our homes of members , and every once in a your children . club subsequently has grown into six or eight . The Christian Way . and invited over to this house or that house Nobody is angry with anybody : there is a YOU see . all our study clubs meet in the and some Protestants , too who know other If anybody dies in this circle of ours , the sympathizers with their Mass cards flow in Varea nowadays without being called upon , like to go brashly up to somebody they never are teen-agers now-see Christians having a circles of families , and they others , and so on . What was needed was some kind of set-up , in any way possible . Revolve in certain circles , and they don't saw before . They have a certain shyness . thing against the people of our new parish . The Christian effect on families is nothing 343 Well , we've remedied the situation since What we did , when we got to know a few earth . Shyness . --- Page 66 --- sort of thing , you've got another think coming . But the point of all this is not study clubs . parish is a spiritual family . It is the business parish is something that the parish ought to knowing that the telephones are ringing around because when that many people live closely and women in the circle of families formed by of the Faith , learn their immense significance . our study clubs who are Catholics largely because that circle reached out and embraced because people get their teeth into the truths get busy praying for you . member of the family is given plenty of oppor- the circle , and families are being tipped off to something of the sort-there's nothing like That's not so in cities , and for good reasons . work of any parish . There are not a few men of the people of a parish to see that each they were children . You can hardly over-emphasize the import- places , and have known one another ever since having for a raise or a better job , or when one you , in time of worry or trouble , or when you're ance of social relationships in the life and the People in cities take on a kind of reserve . together . it's almost a necessity to erect a bit and live them better . It is a wonderful thing lonely family in the spiritual family of the a study club although I think you would if tunities for them to be friends . Maybe you don't want to start , or belong to . be ashamed about-and do something about . Another thing-there's nothing that comforts MITY people aren't apply or anything like to have a bunch of families working together panionship to make people realize that machinery for getting them together when of the kids isn't doing so well in school , or of privacy around yourself . to understand the Faith better to become Now if this isn't a parish job then I don't In a small town , or out in the country . family is a natural and physical unit . ' The tunity to be sociable and not to be lonely . A under that make neighbourliness more difficult neighbourliness . they're strangers , and for arranging oppor- anything of the sort , but fine people . for them than for folks who grow up in small broadens your mind . The point , however , is neighbourliness is automatic . It just happens . meet anywhere , but there's got to be some you knew what fun it is , and how it opens and snow the meaning of the word parish . A Parish Need . What . It's just the conditions they live No ; city folks are as nice as any folks you'll THERE'S nothing like good Christian com- Catholics are not agree and not hermits or them . 344 . Personally I favour a study club etcircl --- Page 67 --- inishment on a child , and so has the man , woman , # The mean , low streak of cruelty can show things beyond my understanding . are disgring the human race . sinking to the level of hell for entertainment . lame or the rags of the beggar . are all alike , all cruel , all indulging a vicious love are instruments of cruelty , cutting into the heart then , it becomes a form of madness . anger , the boy or girl who hits the younger children look at yourself and ask yourself what exactly are cruel to others or to animals . others , who mocks the infirmities of the old or the more that God sends suffering to those who are boy or girl whose tongue tutters cruel words to in many ways - all ugly . GOD must hate cruelty , I think . It makes man and wounding the God Who made you , that you " And there is a truly terrible side to it . that is for inflicting pain . you doing . The answer is that you are insulting a stray dog or cat . falling in with such ideas of " fun , " take a " the father , or mother , who inflicts severe corporal the flesh . ' so like Satan , doesn't it ? cruety is in danger of becoming a slave to it and , WATCH out . won't you , and if you find yourself who were dragging Christ to a pitiable death took YES , the iceberg . ibine tongue , the magazine # I have a notion-it's only a notion and no SO has the teacher who enjoys weilding the cane . # I have seen it happen , though it is not for me It was that horrible streak that showed when those like to hear that or not . You have a cruel streak in you . time off to crown Him and mock Him and jeer at Him . tongue that tortures husband or wife these Yet there are boys who think it fun to stone TERRIBLE to think of that . # Oh yes . tongues can be instruments of cruelty . and soul just as cruelty as a whip could cut into hat the man , woman , boy or girl who indulges i the taunting boy or girl who goads the teacher to nantiness in you ! ' And I don't care whether you & Fun ! . There is nothing very amusing in 245 . to judge them or to pretend that I understand # You are mean , cowardly ! There is no --- Page 68 --- Peter's invitation . Churches said in Istanbul . Turkey , that he received with joy the Pope's appeal for lines which we found in a recent issue of the world leader of the Eastern Orthodox name of Christ and who read His holy Gospel , and where the communist regime has completely The joyous note of hope is struck in these gressing so well as in S. Korea . Here the problem is not seeking converts but attending the large appeal to the dissident eastern churches to return Patriarch " Athenagoras , referred to the Pope's Although several thousand Catholics remain in in the whole world is the work of the Church pro- this appeal comes from a Christian centre such as Patriarch Athenagoras , of Constantinople , told According to this Catholic Times report , his clever marking the New Year . He had revealed ious piety , of beneficent and blessed charity . brothers , who also carry on their foreheads the tion . There is a mass movement towards the Church . " In some cases , " writes Bishop Henry from wherever they come , but particularly when achievement in Korea We salute with joy all sincere appeals for peace the day before that he had written a reply to Pope John in his Christmas message specifically Pagan Missions : that area there has been little news from N. Korea of Kwangju , " whole villages have asked for In his address , the Patriarch said he prayed referring to his title as " Patriarch of New Rome , " new year in Jesus Christ " if the Pope's call for Christian reunion : Pope John . he would " pursue humbly . but fervently " the that of Old Rome . " mentioned the Orthodox Church . " He promised 346 he added : his clergy that " it would be the dawn of a really reunion could be fulfilled . " Loving invitation to unity " to our dear separated continuously for the " unity of all . " Implicitly umbers who come of their accord seeking instruc- to communion with the Holy See in an address to who are not insensitive to the inspirations of relig- disorganized the missionary church . But nowhere --- Page 69 --- THE DALLY MAIL may help you to a decision : story of her homeward journey to the true a picture ? The following clipping from of the ' shooting ' took place in the ' burned- out shell of the old Abbey . For the final his home . Was this a fitting finale for such to take some " shots " of Sean O'Casey in THE ROAD HOME . National Theatre was made recently . Most scenes , however , the unit moved to England A documentary film on the history of our entered the fold . sooks . all right . I've never asked them to do so . In the January No. of the Catholic attended services with the Gilchrist children . Digest , Mrs. John A. Harris tells the brief nent . If the Soviet Union wants to print my attend church . So" one day I explained to Mrs. Soon after that our youngest child Freda , having 347 . get money from West Germany . Israel . Hungary ... ... Gilchrist that because of a church quarrel our They have a different system there . They pay on baptized and confirmed , the rest of us had heard gave me literature to read , and said she would pray mission was readily granted . By the time she was Mrs. O'Casey does all the business . She pays Mrs. Sean O'Casey , who has been in New York . were Christians they could see that we did not that we would be granted the peace we so fervently Stride in our own Protestant congregation and They were Catholics , and while they knew we asked permission to take instructions . The per- fitting finale ? he taxes and bills , answers the letters , and receives youngsters drew us all together . " We had four children , and the friendship of the congregation was split , and we , not caring to be I try to get naid for anything I do . I'm sure Bernard Faith : Of course I get royalties from the Soviet what they print and not what they sell . ' shaw got his royalties . the cheques . fact and everybody knows it . But as a trade unionist recently received a chance for fr.000 royalties from cager to attend . In a few weeks , our entire family involved , were staying home . " I also told her that parents of a large family , moved next door to us . Russia . At first , she said she thought it was a I am a Communist . I've never hidden that of St. Cyprian's started a convert class , we were Union , " he said . " There's no secret in that . I Twenty years ago Mr. and Mrs. Cappie Gilchrist . the good will of neighbour's brought me and the I pay half of it over to the ... . Tory Govern- Over to Mr. O'Casey , at his Devon ( England ) soap coupon . quite a bit about Catholicism , and when the pastor told Americans that the O"Casey household had where three of her husband's plays were running . Mrs. Gilchrist spoke to me about Catholicism , tested . rest of my family into the Church , continuous strife did not find it in our church ve desired religious peace , but because of the home . --- Page 70 --- In 1950 , because of the wild rumours which structural collapse . Tomb of St. Peter has not yet been identified . ' four letters of Peter's name . ejaculations , and , in bold characters , the first having been erected as a monument to St Peter , and upon the wall which they discovered to be restarted . Pillars supporting the Basilica until they reached a wall of red tiles bearing to Roman Christians . There were many pious began to waver and had to be quickly rein vere spreading , the Vatican revealed its guarded secret " and the authorities announced " The some three years later , the experts at work Basilica . But there were plenty of delays in included men of many nationalities and forced with concrete . Many places had to be the name of the Emperor Aurelius Caesar . religions . Undisturbed they worked deeper This placed the date of construction as mid- second sentury . Early writings tell of a wal the work . Landslides occurred and work had left unexplored because of the danger of into the earth and extended further northward extended almost the entire length of the oleums along an underground pathway which were scratchings in Greek which were attributed In the dark passages beneath the Basilica the to penetrate into the dark world beyond the remain unknown to the world until such time as something definite had been established . Pius XII . An important decision had to be considered the matter with the late Pope their own families could be told of the task work continued . A few weeks later they began found , and inscriptions on sarcophagi identified The Administrator of St. Peter's , Monsignor urns which contained the ashes of pagans were Ludwig Kaas , listened to their story and then walls and soon an opening was chiselled into wise bound to secrecy . Everything was to made . And the Pope's answer was clear : ologists commissioned to supervise were like- for certain that the people buried in them were Christians . Coins , which were also found , So the work continued and all the Sampietrini indicated pre-Christian days . TS walls were covered with mosaics , many were sworn to complete secrecy - not even incredible beauty . of which depicted Christian themes . Several they were undertaking . A group of archae- Look and see what is there . ' what proved to be an ancient mausoleum of These two sources of witness around ancient outside --- Page 71 --- Peter's , Rome the excavators . St. infinite care . toiled with The world's museums hold priceless antiques the fact that a skull which is enshrined in the Basilica of St. John Lateran is traditionally Vespasian , the Emperor whose reign began a the bottom of which was found a simple , plain the original one , and on it were Latin writings . said to be that of the Saint . So , if the skeleton A curious circumstance , however , arises from of which were traditionally said to have existed . It is known that St. Peter was crucified . by the Vatican the only evidence acceptable is were placed led to the discovery of a shaft at And there was no skull . those of a large man of strong and powerful In the immediate area , a number of sarcophagi and the remainder from earlier times . The evidence must be irrefutable . be without skull . ' Slowly and patiently the as dating from the third and fourth centuries few months after the crucifixion of Peter . All were found some of which were identified within the sarcophagus was his , then it should covered it were labelled with the name of definite proof-no presumption is allowed . The peculiar manner in which the sarcophagi After three shrines were discovered - all the evidence seemed to point to one conclusion . evidence alone , but in the case of discoveries and unadorned sarcophagus . The tiles which NO the right was a second wall which had and opened it . The bones found within were build . Examination showed them to be the been built by Constantine in order to support experts worked their way to the sarcophagus the identity of which is based on circumstantial bones of one who died in the first century . I homes both were found to match in size , WHEN the skull was compared with the --- Page 72 --- and not the individual , and that anything readily realise how wrong that hunch could whose downright gullibility would have left mised . I was altogether wrong when I chose he shook his head . And , when I asked whether eradicate freedom in any shape or form . He Party all individual likes and dislikes , are or individual aspirations . The citizen of tolerance . And , as long as the Reds retain their Not even the slaves who used to toil and Tse-tung , there is a liberty and tolerance in be . Like all Communist-governed countries , Indeed , he goes out of his way to suppress and has built up a powerful Party in the China that particular adjective . I should have gone which Mr. Mao Tse-tung has drawn up for the evidence which must inevitably bring happiness . assurance that we of the West are entirely of Communism and the rise to power of Mao A trouble of looking at the Constitution compelled to go by the board . ' There is no China which he has come to dominate will " Before 1949 , " he declared . " the country Party must never be allowed to rear its head . many of my readers will have instantly sur- shrug . " I've just been reading about the Communist-governed China must always re- ascendancy there , there can definitely be no place here for personal hopes or private dreams munist China , he was compelled to answer : interested in the liberty of the individual . progress they're making out there and I had member that it is the Party that is important a fool completely in the shade . For. when I he had ever studied the Constitution of Com- Mr. Mao Tse-tung is not particularly that he governs , and in the interests of the which may conflict with the progress of the I'm not quite sure . " he answered with a mistaken as to the real conditions in Communist liberty in evidence ? " was my next question . in their train . ' further than that and referred to him as a man was poor and backward : but , since the advent there is no liberty in China . There is no inquired whether he had ever been to China . Then what makes you imagine there is china . NY man or woman who has taken the sweat beneath the glare of a tropical sun ever passage as merely " credulous . " But , as so L journalist who gave me the swift and firm HAVE recently come across a credulous described the author of the foregoing happiness . a hunch ... . 350 No . ' --- Page 73 --- every action which he does , should - if he is pretty-bourgeois ways of thinking and styles Documents of the " Eighth National Congress advanced socialist state , and on this basis to China into a great , mighty , prosperous and There are those in the Western hemisphere of the Communist Party in China . " And for sististarchin would appear mild and benign all its members to place the Party's interests one end only , and that one end is the further- further proof of the subjugation of the prevent and resist corrosion of bourgeois and and unpretentious , to study and work hard , By hook or by crook , " the Party must who would raise their voices against each and which I have quoted are taken from the room for a Liberal and broadminded outlook . overcome all difficulties in order to build above their personal interests , to be diligent a real member-be directed to one end and to advance towards the achievement of the this form of government . " There can be no ance of the Communist regime . every dictator : but even the harsheet form of There can be no leniency or clemency under loftiest ideal of mankind-Communism . ' Rightist or " Leftist' opportunist deviation The Communist Party of China requires individual in the interests of the Party take of work and guard against and defeat any to unite the broad masses of the people , and to & Far from it . The rules and regulations a look at the following passage ... . inside the Party . ' YOU think I am drawing the long bow ? --- Page 74 --- Would you consider this a good form of uttered a single word in praise of what Com- If you know anyone who utters or has pare the existing forms of government in the more in the Ireland of 1959 who will open their which he had made in the first place . foolishness and gullibility . There are many and the hardship under which the people of I asked my gullible journalist acquaintance and quotations which I had penned . very beginning . If he had known , he would Sure he didn't know . I knew that from the But the point to remember is this . This government to live under ? article on to him to read and ask him to com- this question when I had come to this point mouths and stupidly opine , when anything in my article and handed him over the facts particular journalist was not alone in his goes wrong , that " there is something to be munism stands for , do me a favour . Pass this didn't know before , " he added , by way of an free democracies of the West with the slavery Communist-governed China are compelled to said for Communism , after all ! never have uttered the foolish statements had read what I had written . " You see , I apology . pass their days . " Of course not ! " he explained , when he and it will surely amaze you . The Party ! lished have their quota of shortcomings . But a multitude of punishments , of which death and endeavours freedom and happiness are would imagine that the Party was a ' Deity to his shortcomings because through his ambitions The Party ! It is always the Party ! One Tse-tung and the regime which he has estab- he and his minions had since 1942 " done much to strengthen Marxist-Leminist education within they are not the ones he has in mind . He has It was Mr. Mao Tse-tung who declared that is used in the extracts which I have quoted . to-day absent in Communist-governed China , blotted out before the fierce onrush of Soviet- the Party ... ... But , " he added a little later is the speediest and not at the most unlikely . and because the highest and nobles of arms are in the same speech , " we still have , our short- Yes , make no doubt about it . Mr. Mao Count the number of times the word " Party ' be set on high and constantly worshipped . delightfully vague . It conveniently covers And this is freedom ? born ideas . 352 . THE wording " disciplinary action " is comings ... ... . lished have their quota of shortcomings . But and endeavours freedom and happiness are --- Page 75 --- Why is it that there is so very little about St. judge . We should concern ourselves with our own not , for with the judgment you judge , you shall be are externally pious and fulfil some of the external more prudent to keep St. Joseph , as it were , in the the good and the bad live side by side . Our Divine time break God's law in everyday life . God is their him who has authority to do so . St. Joseph is mentioned by name six times in St. just possible that there are certain Catholics who he had always deserved . He has been named this they cannot return to the practice of their faith . earlier ages is still evident in the absence of his dispassionate answer which follows . In this life How can the Church tolerate hypocrites so easily ? We confess that on reading your question in full to certain specified crimes . If an excommunicate is truly repentant , the penalty can be removed by lead Catholic lives for the rest of the week . F.G. the divinity of Jesus and the peerless holiness of for our sins and not for those of others . " Judge receiving Holy Communion who certainly do not because he has remained away for a long time from ( Dublin ) . If such a person wants to make a new start , all he Some lapsed Catholics think that they have been Will you please tell me whether or not this is true ? St. John's . In the first centuries some thought it interested Party ( ( Co. Armagh ) . Sr.M.T. ( Nottingham ) . has to do is to commence practising his religion excommunicated after spending a certain length of but only later in the Middle Ages did he begin to name from the Canon of the Mass . we were tempted to give a rather vigorous reply . Nevertheless , he was always accepted and honoured , that he is mentioned so little in the New Testament . A Catholic is never excommunicated simply Patron of the Universal Church and is honoured background , so as to underline the glorious fact on special feast days . but the partial neglect of time away from their duties , and that , because of receive that special place in our affections which Mary , that we find it easy enough to understand second thoughts , however , we decided on the of Our Saviour's miraculous conception and birth . again . Excommunication is a penalty attached his duties , e.g. Sunday Mass , Easter Communion . oseph . He effected himself so completely before Matthew's Gospel , five in St. Luke's , and twice in not mentioned at all in the Canon of the Mass ? - state before the Lord , realising that we must answer Joseph in the Gospels ? And is it not true that he is e seen people I know ... . going to Mass and ever Lord reminded us of this . Thus , it is more than Few saints lived such a hidden life as did St. " Interested Party " ( Co. Armagh ) . observances of their Faith , but who at the same --- Page 76 --- F. HURREY tells us the touching story of a Louvesc , and recalled the details of his life , a neighbour who was present soon told of opportunity of giving help . By active one of his pupils fell ill of fever and dysentry , the way of the boy's recovery . People came Overwhelmed with relief and joy , the parents In 1616 Regis entered the Jesuit novitiate was able to leave his bed immediately . sidered as a protector , a father . No one praise of Regis to all and sundry , but the hitherto unregarding of the family at his greatly for his ability and his holiness . When could ask too " much of him : inconvenience family kept their promise but nevertheless bedside , revived when Regis entered , and to pay greater attention to Regis's activities it seemed that he came closer when con- did not count if he could be sure of an priest begged them to keep silence . individuals , he showed souls a " practical assistance , and above all a 'loving care for and all hope of recovery had been abandoned , ' It is not I who have done this , " he said . at Toulouse and in due course was sent to a There the boys of the college admired him but God . Give your praise to Him . " The imitation of Christ . wanted to spread the good news and the teaching position at Le Puv in the Vivarais . to see for themselves and everyone began and to his preaching . Regis was called to speak to him . The boy , --- Page 77 --- seeing in each broken body the figure of ordinary folk who understood and began bishop's party to prepare the people for the a consequence , he drew huge crowds or One of these set up a whispering campaign suffering , were specially able to give glory of God in an excess of personal enthusiasm . the bishop " apologised and recalled him to and succeeded in making the bishop believe soever , and was removed from the mission . to go with a second priest in advance of the quickness of his mind and the surety of his the humiliation , making no protest what- that John Francis was forgetting the glory Regis was rebuked vigorously . He accepted his worth spoke for him so that eventually too , appreciated his apt illustrations , the vision . During that mission year , John respectable townsfolk objected to the odour and who , because of their poverty and had on occasion , however , to meet a number decided to visit the outlying villages and of lax priests who resorted his activities . Francis showed his compassion and reform- self particularly to them , showing himself He sought after and cared for the lost sheep , stantly . Always the reply was that he must By 1636 he was back at Le Puy doing Fortunately , priests and friends who knew as individuals who muttered , who were Outs " because of the services that he gave visit . John Francis did excellent work . He of these unwashed , battered wails and straws . to practise his counselling . Learned men . wait a little longer . Meanwhile he was sent thereby a model of the Good Shepherd . souls that were lovable despite appearances , specially for the ragbag vagrants . The more to God . ' So he gave time , services and him - and it was when he returned from this that himself the name " Father of the Down and John Francis , however , saw the unwanted again on a winter mission to the Vivarais . catechetical work and there gained for bodings of the townsfolk . women of the streets , despite the fore- dreamed of going to the mission fields of Canada . He petitioned his superiors con- ing ability when he started a refuge for IT was at this time that John Francis a friend , the saintly old rector of Aubenas , Le Puy . The following year , the bishop of Viviers hamlets of his diocese . Regis was chosen told him , " Canada , for you , will be the Vivarais . ' Canada , for you , will be the --- Page 78 --- them by leaving any request for his help to retire . he continued to give absolution St. John . To this spot , in a short time . priests realised how ill the man was . They on call for his people until St. Stephen's sought guidance for the future . From her that he might be given straw instead . Christ of paradise to him . With the whispered a great desire to help the poor and in due Day . After Mass there were still so many December 31st . Just before he left them . Duchesne" to pray to John Francis for light unanswered . He remained in the church to know God's will . She had been a course she became the foundress of houses . words , " Into Thy hands , O Lord , I com- nend my spirit ... ... " he slipped away to pilgrimage she returned filled with love and to get down the aisle to the professional . Pneumonia developed . Jesuits' came from pressed at the Revolution and she now Le Puy , Annonay and Tournon and were JOHN Francis was buried on January 2nd their beloved father . They maintained that Late in the afternoon , he fainted , falling He took a chair near the altar and sat there he . Regis , have such comfort ? The parish Canada . Mother Duchesne loved those for priest refused this request . Christ and His Mother opening the gates above him poured down an icy draught . Visitandine nun until her order was sup- pilgrims began to come , seeking to pav waiting for confession that he was unable resting-place for his body . The Jesuits for the Religious of the Sacred Heart in to hear his penitents . A broken window with him when he died near midnight on for another two hours . Again his strength he told his brothers that he saw a vision of those who awaited him . had had all taken from Him , so why should hustled him to bed but even then he begged On May 3rd. 1800 came Rose Philippine failed and it was only then that people and would have liked to have taken him to Le he should rest with them and they reburied 356 . For four days the man lav in fever . reverence and to ask the intercession of that he should not have to lie on a mattress . him under the altar of the side' chapel of Puv but the peasant folk refused to lose from his chair . He was revived , and , refusing in the La'Louvesc church . Immediately there arose an argument about the final John Francis . --- Page 79 --- urist Fathers , Balg dei . onvent of St. Louis ood Shepherd Conv. sil . athers of Charity , Cappoquin , Co. Wat- Nazareth House , Fal do . per , Co. waterf. do . Passionist missions and retreats . Retreat , Mount Argus , Dublin . --- Page 80 --- Forgotten Sacrament to introduce the second speaker . and even from the temporal punishment that Easter Baptisms ; and he places in our hand a of the Baptismal Rite changes . The priest puts on the white stole of joy , because he is about Holy Ghost , descends from heaven and takes thy baptism blameless : observe the com- this sacred ' washing ' is Christ's own sign . he of the Son and of the Holy Ghost . ' And because lighted candle a symbol of the Christ-life in together with the Saints in the Heavenly reminder of the white robes of baptismal done ! " from Fr. Joachim as the priest rose the priest having administered the great Sacra- him very much to hear a whispered " Well possession of those souls of ours-loving them . Christ : then he anoints our back to make us would otherwise have to be expiated once the Divine Life . The waters of Baptism are poured charity . ' Receive this burning light , and keep to make us true children of God , brothers and were born , because Adam , our first head and Court and live forever and ever . ' Amen ' . ' to a new life which flows into them from the the father of our race . had dealings with the sins were forgiven . Our souls are marked with henceforth we must be fearless crusaders of come to the nuptials thou movest meet Him another by the common sharing of His own sin : from the original taint with which we our souls which must now grow day by day at having survived his ordeal . It encouraged uniting them to Himself in a union that nothing ment , now anoints our heads with the same Our souls are strengthened , enlarged , raised uses it to cleanse our souls from every stain of living in them , filling them with Himself , hands of a priest at his Ordination . The priest strong athletes in the difficulties we must mandments of God , that when the Lord shall under the light of faith , fed by the flame of Heart of Christ , from the Wound in His Sacred Mr. Smithson sat down , obviously relieved three times on our heads as the priest says : sisters of Christ . United to Him and to one churches . Then before he bids us ' Go in peace . ' he places on us a small white linen cloth-a ( Continued from page 340 ) . demon ; and , in the case of an adult , from every Christ's own seal which can never be effaced . holy oil of Christism which is used to consecrate save sin can ever break . stain of personal "sin committed up to then . Side . The Great God Himself . Father . Son and baptized in the early Church , after the solemn who is within you , ' says St. Paul to his newly innocence worn for a week by the newly I baptize thee in the name of the Father and first anoints our breast to remind us " that " Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit face for Christ . And now the whole atmosphere baptised converts . Little wonder then that --- Page 81 --- could point out the remains of an ancient church- bobbing boat . though Sundays " up-the-river " It could be that Aidan Carroll had seen the possi- keeper , had packed for them . As he paddled the boat slowly into the needs that fringed the lake and and one to the far end of the lake so that Aidan But the set-up on an Irish lake was more romantic . little-girl air of being afraid last she fall out of the for the lunch and I won't be a jiffy . Don't be nervous , for Marion . several erratic expeditions to look at small islands the contents of the lunch-basket Ellie , the house- don't want to tip you out . There we are . Now life in London and boats were no novelty to her . dead mother's school-friend . They go boating on a mented lightly , and then . " Hold steady now . I She made the most of being helped , assuming a Everything is wonderful , " she said softly . he enjoyed the exercise of pulling the boat . like it , she thought . " Your hair looks wonderful with the sun shining Jumping catfish ! " he explained happily , IDAN was in high spirits . Summer sun elinted Maybe you'd " soon get tired of it . " he com- Are you any good at climbing ? " he demanded , with the excitement of a schoolboy in his voice . bilities . She smiled to herself . husband in the shape of Aidan Carroll , ' son of her laughed . The sight of the tall story rock-face was enough chapter four . on it . like that . It's few girls have hair that bright . " coldly , " Why ? " The water , the sun and the peace of the scene . Well , look , you get the things out of the basket There would be a great view from it . " ' Och , I'd love to get up on top of that rock . I'm afraid not , " she answered , somewhat A on the water and on Marion's golden hair and No. I couldn't climb that . " she stated firmly . The Story So Far-Mavion Davis , good-time-girl v the time they had reached the far shore-after from London , is set on capturing a prosperous wish I could stay for ever in Ireland . " take . sought a landing-place he glanced at Marion and he was healthily tired and hungry and eager to see I step out . Give me your hand and I'll help you . " on the Thames had been part of the fun of her gay Marion's heart leaped . This was something --- Page 82 --- Cordial greetings were exchanged and the permitted to enjoy the society of one so fair in an to the point of being almost ginger-haired , with and proceeded to lay out the provisions' they had slightly cocksure air and an affected manner of attractive blue eyes . " was called the Duke . He was tall , plump to you in preference to other mortals . that you are speaking . He was slim , well-turned-out and fair necessary introductions made and , in the course don't worry , ' Marion and ' I will be setting out for He turned to Aidan : " Why has fortune favoured that they must have a glass of wine . ovely a spot , made , surely , for romance ? " their lunch , though they explained that they had already eaten . When they declined , he insisted of them . Marion Davis saw why Peter McGovern into the Duke's hand with a laconic , " Here you Various took heart . ' thinking that he had resorted There was a general laugh and Derek Clair and pale blue eyes . she tried to keep track of what that fellow gets Derek Clair was older , twenty-six or so , with a announced that he was unromantically hungry and the Duke took the opportunity to reclaim home and I suppose Peggy and Derek can bear you naking a fuss of her and wondering if possibly " Worrying about him , " the Duke jeered . " the #R. mucilionsly enquired of Marion how she He bent over her hand , as he was introduced , up to . " are , old son , your loaf . " re fairer far . Ma'mselle , I am honoured . " only nineteen plain but with a pleasing expression meekly , " Your mother might be worrying about laughed . Bull in a china shop . " Aidan corrected . " but simple and she had " very little to say for herself . Lady . I salute you . The scene is fair . but you poor woman would be in her grave from worry it Omar Khayam , " A boat of bread , a glass of wine brought . Peggy assisted him . She was young , the bliss of man and maid . ' At me . ' flabbiness , and not unhandsome , with fair hair coiled round a shanelv head . ' Her manner " was liked Ireland " and " what she thought of the Aidan made them laugh by pushing a sandwich Aidan could be made to feel a little jealous . lake scenery and listened with deep interest to Yes . I suppose we should be going . " she agreed and proclaimed : and abundant dark hair which she wore in a plant the arrival of the others . as they brought you here . " Marion played up , secretly pleased that he was Hey there , " Aidan protested , " You should a sort of servant in the garden of Eden , disturbing I'd love a glass of wine . " Marion confessed her replies . " He invited her and Aidan to share have brought your own lady to the wilderness . and thou beside me singing in the wilderness , 260 " And your glass of wine " Derek The Duke turned to Marion , He did indeed , seem eager to be gone and beside me , " he pleaded . And wilderness were paradise now " - with hand Fair enough . " the Duke agreed . " I am. indeed . in heart and his eyes on Marion . The Duke turned to Marion , " And now , to Derek added . " You do things in style don't you , " Aidan You're gate-crashing , old son . " You're gate-crashing . old son " in it --- Page 83 --- me and the colonel : A proud , aristocratic Eckberg keeps nothing up everywhere for no Laughter in Paradise : The scene is set for several amusing incidents when a wealthy stances to accept as travelling companion on a Polish Colonel ( Curt Tureens ) is forced by circum- his mute son and a willing sympathiser and bene- French comedy ( English sub-titles ) on small town diamond robber across the world : while Anita minute brawl which leaves nothing to be desired nerve-racking moments . Good of its class . ( G.A. ) VIVE , MONSIEUR BLAIREAU : Amazing enough and as an expert doacher of fish and poultry . has place as a detective tracking a murderer and century ago . High-light of the action is a twenty- practical inker dies and leaves 150,000 to each of highly resourceful Jewish refugee ( Danny Kaye ) . flight from the advancing Germans , a quiet but life . Louis de Funes ( with his dog ) is a good clown , round the life of a small town in Missouri half a Confederate soldier searching for a doctor to cure disappointed in love seeking satisfaction by trying excellent comedy . but the general impression is of a valuable inventor from behind enemy lines all . " (G.A. ) . MissOURI TRAVELLER : Human drama centred better reason than to provide a love interest . the organisers of a boys' club , discovers a novel proud rebel . THE : Alan Ladd is an ex- four relatives . provided their fulfil conditions . man who liked funerals , ' The : One of which run completely against character . Good The interplay of personalities produces some An average comedy in an improbable setting . ( G.A. ) MAN INSIDE . THE : Jack Palace looks out of TWO-HEADED SPY. THE : Based on a true story by turn ) of student life in Paris . ( A.A. ) , by fans of static combat . Harmless entertainment plot , good fun and good active . plus a sound moral in North Korea . Abounds in action and incredi- problem ( medical , agricultural and romantic ) . views of well-known places appear in this disjointed of how an Anglo-German was planted in the hero is forced into a gun battle which solves all Uninspiring crime thriller . ( A.A. ) . way of making money to augment the club funds . collection of incidents ( light-hearted and tuneful through HELL TO GLORY : ' The exciting rescue ever in the title role and we get many exciting and German army after World War I , just in case his situations out of taste . " O.P. ) dialogue worse than vulgar and many of the me of humorous episodes of uneven quality 361 . factress is Olivia de Havilland . Eventually the by legitimate means . Good entertainment for MY FORBIDDEN PAST : A nasty story of a girl good clean and competent Western . ( G.A. ) . to break up the marriage of the girl who innocently for the discerning . ( G.A. ) . in Paris on furlough . Many will consider the PARIS IN SPRINGTIME : Many pleasing colour his best scene when he wins a fishing competition World War II . " Jack Hawkins is as competent as displaced her . ( A.A. ) . Pleasing entertainment for adults and adolescents . arising from a sex-starved U.S. Corporal arriving silities . ( G.A. ) . for all . ( G.A. ) . STRICTLY FORPLEASURE : Comedy of errors services as a spy would be needed in the event of g.a. ) --- Page 84 --- large enough for the ordination of Motsumi , O.M.I. was ordained a planted , was in fact well watered For on that day . Fr. Joseph that the tree which had been many people had felt annoy- Catholic priesthood . Bechuanaland to be raised to the priest by Bishop " Mabathoana of ed at the teachings of Christ and instead of producing thorns had produced very good fruit . ' In Ireland the ordination of a Basutoland ; the first boy from heard this saying changed to . many priests . There are also many Catholic Church in the village , each diocese has its own cathedral priest entails little trouble . for many thorns . " This meant that But on December 21st , 1958 , I since the establishment of the priest can be accommodated and supplanting the pagan way of life . hotels where the relatives of the there which had produced too Ramoutsa we had neither church obtain refreshments . But in a tree had been planted . a saying in Ramoutsa , that NOR many years there had been --- Page 85 --- from the ceiling . ' Pictures which festoons in many colours draped from golden tapered baskets . Gay nor hotel . The most we could the Church in Bechuanaland . splash of whitewash . Papal colours by Sister Rosina . for the relatives of the priest , and fingers . " Paper " daffodils hung space for the crowd and we could rely on the weather . Boys were THE football pitch was selected employed , and they were sent to was tastefully decorated in the this the most important day for as the most suitable site for the Fifty bluegum tree poles were Sister Laurence of Francistown looked elegant after getting a work to a lifting Tswana chorus . ceremony . We needed a large ogast of was a little oratory . So set aside as reception rooms , one were produced by their nimble herself . Three classrooms were back and sides of the altar , which drawed the whole structure with with poles and a blackboard used as a canopy . Sister Damien placed at intervals around the Columba , Sister Clare , and Sister the other two for visitors . Sister Ireland . ' had sent down a large scroll with They sang their way through the the football field in two days . that hour by hour grew higher than that Mr. Joseph Motsumi was to 15,000, sun-dried bricks . " With the perimeter of the field and they wonderful artistic decorations that when word was received in October form for the altar . sufficiently high these bricks we made a big plat- the middle of a pile of bunting the river ' bed , where they made THE Mission proper was humming neighbouring huts came and hoed and planned the best way to make beautiful coverings sent out from the words " Introibo ad Altare Berenice looked after these , and inclosure was erected around the for all to see the ceremony . An sisters and people all got together many times I Deeped in to see the field from which to hang bunting . see Sister St. ' Liam as she sat in with activity . You could scarcely The women and girls from The Bishop's throne was made be ordained at Ramoutsa , priests . Dei' printed on it , and this was forest . Stones were placed round Little boys rolled out old oil drums . whitewashed them and used them hung across the front of the altar . for holding nice green fern-type bushes which they cut in the --- Page 86 --- white page that is in front of the be thankful for God's one's eyes they are so good . neat Ni Oireachtaigh . Siobhan " Beincid . Spring breezes blowing over a Mary Cochlan . Rosemarie Ryle . Butler . Nora Pollard . Pauline Fahy , and admirably expressed . ' The petitors who are highly commended . Linse , Aine Ni Ici , Veronica Killeen . Hannon . ' Bernardino Clearv. Roisin Cummins . Eileen , Birmingham , Pauline Whitehouse . " Christine She will write my name on the Rosalind O'Donovan . Anita Romaine Roniller , Mary Graham , The letters of my young friends . Hackett . Maureen Cantwell . Marco teachers , schools and pupils from Peggy O"Shea . Margaret Ryan . are as fresh and cheerful as the their subject . One would think Maureen McEVov . Mary Sheridan Hilton . Diane Gould . ' Rita Smyth , classmate was when she heard she Mary Maher . Miss Byrne . Noreen O'Mahony . each of the countries so graphically Margaret Bimsden , Angela Ive . Francis . ' Here is a list of com- a time . She thought it very good . Mammy she said it was a good and gifts . Sylvia Prince . Bridget Brierlev . each one " had been on a visit to Eleanor Fennessy . Lily Byrne Burnham , " Eileen Lally . " Marie writers have a remarkable grip of Mavis Hodkinson , Angela Gannet , Helen Dunn . Colette Carr , Aingeal described . Congratulations to of it read . When I showed it to She tells of how surprised her Eibulin Nic an Mhaistir , Maire de Grainne Ni" Chatai , Niamh . Ni . Mary Harding . Celeste O'Keefe , Mary Keaney . Teresa Ashe , members , are captivating . " All the Mhathuna . Kathleen Tobin. Valerie she read the same book once upon Rosemarie ' Sumner . Patricia had won a prize . Eleanor Fennessy . de Paor . Anita Ni. Mhaoldomhna . essays on " The Country I should beautiful prize to get . Sister said Cummins sends three pages of news . Like to Visit . " written , by Senior a buchmann from the patient to be the herself , writes to say " Thank you I won . I have nearly every bit very much for the beautiful book to read their messages . Anita field of early flowers . It is good and cheered : --- Page 87 --- exciting times , especially Nineteen remember all your life , Eibhim . girl living in England would love THE CROSS , " says Pauline White- for a long time . " A delightful Leydon of Collooney . Always sign description . All kind wishes to a tour . " I am writing to say how rish boy and girl should visit the Walsh enjoyed reading her prize . pleased I was to see my name in Geraldine and Deirdre Smith and captured her heart . It would be young writers have expressed their she travelled to Dublin . The city It was the best evening we had England , ' Norway , etc. One little Denmark , Sweden , Africa , Holland , songs . We also danced a big , a of the Midnight Sun , Joan Sheehy . the songs that we are to sing at the to come to Ireland . Others are hornpipe , a reel and a ribbon dance wishes to visit places all over the Dublin Museum with its wonderful your name on your essay paper . to ourselves singing our lovely Irish globe . Some select Russia , America , Mary and Jim Lundon . Ursula other school day . At 4 0/c. Fr. Josephine . Hope you get your experience to sit back and listen with a tape recorder and we sang to the lively Irish dance music . Festival . It was a delightful Dingle : " We were in school collection of historical treasures . heart's desire to see Italy with its noble and beautiful cities . Our Perhaps the Guild would organize was excitingly different from every keen to see Canada , Australia and yesterday until 5.30 p.m. but it Sixteen . " That was a day to thrilling to see Norway , the land Patricia O'Sullivan writes from O'Sullivan and Fr. O'Leary came book which she found exciting as A warm welcome to Josephine New Zealand . at the same time ! a bed of Marigolds just inside the window from are planted ! the next thing I know , a wee dark one about books to the children and watch his Marigolds six or seven years of age is through the sticks which I dish out the books and I only wish job bend down to get a pencil or a ruler - and know that the feet of the six-year-old Wobb God love you all through Lent ! himself had planted and watered and watched them increase and then come and try so sell I have around them and is standing with his feet The poor Missionary is exasperated ! The Marigold seems a goler ! But it's grand to planted on one of the best plants . 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Baptisms , marriages the Passionist Fathers have already established convents to the faith . " Lay folk can reach the are gratified that the people come to be married Frequently the priest knows nothing about Iregularity is a feature of missionary life pagan population with greater facility than grooms who are baptised Catholics have not for the enclosed retreat movement may be is Rev. Father Aquinas ( McCarthy ) , C.P. " on while others have not been to the sacraments were placed in the spiritual care of the Fathers . lishments have already proved their worth six large new parishes in the Cotobato area Japan . " The Passionist Nuns' have opened Action is strong in Japan and has won many since their first Communion day . D.Ph. , Archbishop of Adelaide , officiated at Australia . Some idea of the Australians' zeal is going from strength to strength . Last year formed at the strangest hours . But the Fathers church ! This may happen at any time from At present , the Retreat-Master at St. Joseph's the Pontifical High Mass celebrated at a culate Heart of Mary at Mefu , Takarazuka , gained from the fact that about 20,000 attended priests or religious , and , during enclosed Although accommodation is limited . everyone specially prepared " altar in front of the new a similar Retreat-House for girls . Both extah- a funeral until the body is carried into the Catholics and non-Catholics alike . Catholic at St. Joseph's Retreat . Hobart . Tasmania . loan from St. Patrick's Province . Retreat-House at Urbrae . Mitcham . South the flourishing Retreat-House of the Imma- in the church . Unfortunately some of the noon . Marriage ceremonies , too , are per- and funerals may take place at any time . is enthusiastic about the success of the project . retreats . stress is laid on the importance of Philippines . The Passionist apostolate in the Philippines Recently . Most Rev. Matthew Beovich . 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Todd , Burns are also renowned for their furniture all men's , boys' and youths' household goods . requirements , all men's , requirements , household goods boys' and youths' --- Page 104 --- Pontiff is of a certainty the cherished work of God . It now ayer from January , 18 ( Feast of St. Peter's Chair at Rome ) to viduals and peoples may spurn , but only at their peril . It is tower that is Rome , surveys the earth and all the men upon it . effort to bring all his separated children back to their Father's increased since the moment when , despite our unworthiness , they seen by the Supreme Pontiff who , from the great watch- true sheep-fold of Christ . " The work initiated by the Supreme were to accompany the Church down the centuries and never Rock of His earthly Vicar . This latter fact is one which indi- ission to the ' See of Peter . The idea is no new thing : it is as under , and , as he himself has told us , this anguish has approaches , the paternal arms of the Holy Father-like the is sublime objective the unity of all Christians' in final sub- be held probably in 1961 . As the opening of that Council to fall into object slavery . Witness , for example , the horrors of Arians , Nestorians , Lutherans and a host of others have torn indeed true that ever " nation that casts off its allegiance to House , Pope John has called an Occumenical Council which will those who sprayed in the past and now long to return to the one Holy Father , keep them true to thy name ... ; that they f the yearly Catholic cycle . ' It is " an octave of intercessory ay that a divine yearing for the union of all men in the Mystical Body was uppermost in the mind of Christ as the agencies of Peter tends , sooner or later , to spawn a fearsome dictator and great colonnades of Bernini - will be open wide in welcome to o scan a wider horizon tinged with blood . " In a tremendous lay be one , as we are one . " ( John XVII , it ) . Indeed we re night before He died , turned his eyes to Heaven and prayed : hemselves from the sacred unity of the Apostolic and Roman of Nazi Germany , the sub-human " atrocities of Communist Father . What a noble thing it is to play even the smallest part Vith , anguish of heart he sees his great Christian family torn remains for us to support by our prayers the efforts of the Holy # HE phrase , " Church Unity Octave , " may mean 1,000 to to abandon it . He chose to build that Church on the permanent men have frustrated the loving designs of the Master . Manichees , and thereafter allowed by Him to fend for itself . The Lord Id as Christianity itself , for was it not the Saviour Who , on Russia . All these nations , once united around the throne of We were elevated to this high position from which it is possible average Irish man-in-street . " In many lands , however , Good Friday drew night . scarcely reaches the horizon . But with far greater clarity are see . And the plight of our twentieth century world tells of the this octave has been for several years an important feature January 25 ( Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul ) , and has for Elizabethan or Cromwellian England , the homeless brutalities in satisfying the yeaming of Christ " that they may be one , grim consequences of the reading . These things can be easily observed even by us whose vision But history has shown how horribly the pride and malice of father dermat , C.P. THE Catholic Church is not an organisation founded by Christ as we are one . " Peter , had cast off their sacred allegiance Nihil Obstat : Imprimi Potest : Censor Dep. Joannes Carolus , Archiep . Dublinen . initi-s Fitzpatrick , M.A.D.D. , --- Page 105 --- 1961-000s000s000 # the first time was written to the the first time was written to No. 12 . --- Page 106 --- your voice breaking into the waiting silence your fingers had slipped a bead and you made them break like a badly hung door thing about the trimmings they were sure still comfortable and there was the terri- swishing of Rosary beads announced that bless yourself than an inexorable voice finally , sundry throat-clearines and impatient would remain on her knees for a further half-way through the Hail Marv and only ron , was the bean a tight-end chief since you first could speak , the sound of inaccessible places , " you were quite sure were a Hail Mary in front or was it one No sooner did you raise a number arm to immune , with knees of tea's and elbows of circulation to your bruised limbs . Herself never quite certain when they had finished . with the knees as every shift in position even the man of the house was ready to cry a decade . Though you knew the prayers the sympathetically hastened " wave of brought definite , stage-fright-especially if lying anticipation of the duty of giving out morrow and shame , your mind went blank on an interninable Novena prayer . When , to go on for a long time . And you were there was a visitor present . You'tched in But as time passed and I became head of quits and you could at last restore the Uncle Joe in Canada or , worse still , started WHEN the relief following this ordeal had behind ? Sometimes , to your incredulous poor-spirited and soft-bodied Christians that were under war . There was only one certain answering sound saved you from complete The only one in fact who appeared to be my own house I found that times had not announced a further three Hail Marys for and drew threatening glares from the head All this is , of course , in the past tense . of the house , who was suffering himself . 15 minutes or so , a silent approach to the subsided , you realised with sinking heart , knees and elbows , that the ' trimmings ' changed that much . Male limbs still groaned made up her household . During the Rosary itself everybody was alert and attentive . knees and elbows were torturer . ignoming . --- Page 107 --- cause of our joy with the whole world of Catholics ... . pinched . And female knees were still made of teak and female elbows were still capped " ... the additional joy of reciting the Rosary curled over on itself under pressure and and the loose skin of male elbows still with steel . There were just as many uncles to be prayed for and , while the Saints in feminine favour may , change with the feminine favour may generations , the Novena prayers are just as sary to the family Rosary . Prayer , in fact , held the thrilling feeling that you were one without pain ! And the additional joy of that would get stiffer with the passing years . delight to a life of holy suffering , on knees of millions answering in divers tongues . You of Catholics , free and persecuted , healthy Rosary and , immediately after the Salve long-drawn-out . I looked forward without Vatican Radio . Admittedly , it was in Latin , consider the ' trimmings ' absolutely neces- that the Rosary was recited nightly on implication that the Vatican itself does not and suffering . the Rosary was over . No trimmings , no decade to recite . There is the delicate The transmission commences with the Regina , the Lourdes Hymn again-and Irish or French or Russian or Polynesian , or you could answer in the universal language but that was no impediment . Instead it could answer in your own language , be you of the Church . the radio dial , I found release . I discovered reciting the Rosary with the whole world Lourdes Hymn , then the recital of the THEN one evening , idly doubling round NESPITE a widespread belief to the --- Page 108 --- man hath , that a man lay down his life for his in one of his letters to the early Church when s linked up with Our Lord's Sacred Passion . Catholics , came to us through Our Lord's life friends . ' St. Peter too puts it very beautifully tells us so plainly when he says : ' The Son spoken on the general effects of Baptism . of you here present to-night than I care to Baptism , like every other gift we enjoy as a lot from the way Mr. Smithson described the on earth , and especially through his Sufferings the Sacrament of Baptism . " Mr. Kellv began . he's baptized in a fortnight's time , and I know remember . But I can honestly say I've learned of Man had not come to be served but to he'll be very happy in his new Faith which he Toachim . Of course I did know already that St. Gemma's Passionist monastery , had already ' And now it's my task to show how Baptism reremonies of Baptism and their meaning . I'd with the precious blood of Christ , as of a lamb serve , and to give his life a ransom for many . ' I've often instructed school children on unspotted and underiled . corruptible things as gold or silver ... but local schoolmaster , was to be second baptized and I've acted as godparent for more life for my sheep . ' " Greater love than this no I am the good shepherd ; and I know mine . until I had one or two long talks with Fr. of our salvation . It's what Our Lord Himself be a welcome new member to the parish when speaker at to-night's Forum meeting : Mr. has studied so well . ( R. Kelly cleared his throat as he rose to IVI address the parishioners . Mr. Kellv. the connection between Our Lord's Passion That's something I knew hardly anything about BUT I had never discovered any particular Smithson , a non-Catholic under instruction at like to assure him on behalf of us all that he'll and mine know me . " . and I lay down my and Death on the Cross . These were the price " I've seen most of my own eight children he writes : ' You were not redeemed with 370 --- Page 109 --- sed for Baptism during the year . In those hese Holy Saturday ceremonies by descending in this process of dying and in this struggle of out of the grave , seeking its gratify its every when He says : ' If anyone will come after me , a new life in Him . But every time I'm tempted fledged Christians . What a meaning St. Paul's of all that is opposed in me to God , must Then on the evening of Holy Saturday to a new life in Christ on the very Feast that to mean more to me this year than ever before let him deny himself , and take up his cross whim and desire whether in keeping with God's hey gathered in the local church along with in Christ . The death and burial at Baptism of a pagan world that ' has forgotten God or the faith coming up out of the sacred waters to join the faithful of the district as full- to rise with Christ in forgetfulness of paltry ill the Christians of the neighbourhood . At through that death agony again and I'll have and follow me . ' By Baptism I have renounced to renew my efforts to rise up to my new life . or Holy Saturday night . which we'll be taking fter the blessing of the water that is to be the waters of Baptism - to allow the real me law or not : that part of me which would play tomb on Easter Sunday morning . over them , and then rising out of the waters As I renew my Baptismal vows . I hope I'll into the pool . being completely immersed in to go back on my promises , I'll have to go easily caught up by the glitter and the pleasures selfish interests , in pursuit of the one true and rising , to remember that I carry my cross NHESE thoughts of St. Paul were beauti- after Christ who is leading the way : " that I selfish part of me which keeps ' trying to rise the devil and everything associated with him . suffered death for me in his own human flesh . continue all through my life on earth . That arly days , adult converts were instructed had time the Baptismal Font was really a was set aside to celebrate Christ's victory over words must have had for those first Catholics arge pool : the converts were " baptised at the devil's ally again against God , which is so death in His glorious Resurrection from the I have died with Christ to sin . I have risen to realise more clearly what Our Lord means the early Church ; and in the new ceremonies never known him ; that part of me must be or Baptism during the forty days of Lent . art in very soon , we catch a glimpse of them he water as the words of Baptism were said daily put to death and buried over again under final source of all human happiness which is God Himself . What a consolation it is for me " The Holy Saturday ceremonies are going as they saw their ' newly born ' brethren in fully expressed in the Holy Week liturgy die with Him and in Him , who has ' Himself the solemn renewal of our Baptismal vows --- Page 110 --- rise again . " Drink , poverty , disability , even the evening . Each man must take a bath himself , and in the morning refolds the at night-someone else will have his bed As in most of the other hostels , a night- unshaven , he'd reached the stage when he with the pillow on top of the turned mattress health had eventually cost him his job , and suitcase , a brown paper parcel , or a well- Labourers , bank clerks , ' civil servants , from then . things had gone from ' bad to stringently enforced . When a bed is available . room . Then into hospital and discharged known schools line up for their real tickets . pillow . Some have their own pyjamas odd jobs followed , and then , losing heart . was unemployable . That was over ten years carried with a few belongings in a battered a mental kink , bring men to the streets . All or can put it behind , his head to raise the worse . He'd moved from digs to a tenement the hostels , the cultured voice can be heard types of men , from every walk of life . the times of entry-from eight to nine in It is easy enough for a man to come to hospital ward . " Officially , shelter can be report a total of 36,799 admissions and with little or nothing to his name . A few teachers , sailors , journalists , businessmen- now , and anyway , he doesn't really care . shirt is provided . He can use it if he wishes , at Francis Street , with those who have never ago . There is little that can be done for him had for only one night , but the rule is not in Dublin is growing . The hostels and sheets , the two blankets , and leaves them the following night . He makes the bed food centres report an increase in admissions . with something of the atmosphere of a alongside the gutteral . Old boys of well- he began to drift . until finally , ragged and for beds and food . The St. Vincent de Paul told me . " and often impossible for him to for a man to be turned away . clean and comfortable , centrally heated , the list is endless . ' In the food kitchens , in packer in a city warehouse . Constant ill- typical of many . He'd once been a this level . " a prominent social worker heard of an alma mater . A weather-warped notice outside gives Society's Free High Shelter in Back Lane there would need to be some other reason . THE number of destitute men and women worn kitbag . WHO are the destitute ? This man was --- Page 111 --- the streets of Dublin . T is true that no one need starve in Dublin . cost him 1/2 a night . That leaves 10/10 personal tragedy . But once he had a job cannot , those who came back and found he might possibly find work . His fare and new outfit will cost him perhaps f12 or f15 There is little chance of his ever leaving of the forgotten men and women who roam How much can a man save out of 19/ ? 19/ - a week assistance . His bed and supper with which to buy a mid-day meal , clothes , Ireland , but one of the most tragic is that There are those who want to leave and nothing , and there are those who do not He has never told me the story of his own food . Michael - was once an accountant . But men need other things in life besides care at all . We have many problems in and tobacco . If he were across the water , and a home . Now he has nothing . He draws ublin , and in his heart , he knows it --- Page 112 --- There seems only one , way by which I can open their eyes to the fact that Catholicism even one hitherto-misguided and misinformed other creed to stand in the war that led to the or silver , cloth of gold or cloth of silver , precious and must always be like poles apart . the aims of the Soviet and the ceaseless struggle Nor can I put on record the prayers and famous which it has waged against the Catholic Church soul that Catholicism and Communism are way . To then Communism was a religion , the shows of Russia with the cascades of their Curtain and the refusal of free elections in the centration-camps of the White Sea borders . work in the salt-mines of Siberia or the con- work " under the guide of prosperity and in his mind the memory of atrocities that make that one way is to write an article , setting forth were willing to allow no other religion and no to the effect that all Church property was going over to the local financial body for disposal at of the ordinary Russian people : and both the which follow will be instrumental in showing from the moment of its inception down to our describe these things . Refugee upon refugee include all the details of Soviet oppression and the Soviet Constitution was a god : they and injustice . I cannot recount the names of own day . And I can only hope that the words to be nationalised . It was quite apparent that the myriad Catholics who have been sent to Union are sufficient evidence of the desire of and Communism can never be reconciled , and rid of any obstacle which they saw in their the plea for free elections allow the big bosses achievement of their own political ends . has sought asylum in the West and has carried the Kremlin to prevent the people of the the Communist leaders were not going to let Iron Curtain and the refusal even to consider And on January 23 , 1918 , a decree was issued to the credit of the State funds and were handed No Church or religious society has the much grass grow under their feet in getting Western world from learning the real wishes any judicial rights . " dissolved and looted . " All articles of platinum ornaments and precious stones were placed cannot , of course , in this brief sketch who'reside in Moscow to carry on their " dirty even the brutalities of the sadistic Nero pale last words of the countless others who bedewed Books upon books have been written to S every schoolboy probably knows , the in the same year the monasteries were right to own private property . " ran the words non-resistance . their discretion . ' of the decree : " such societies do not enjoy to insignificance in comparison . The Iron A" Russian Revolution occurred in 1917 . blood . --- Page 113 --- months later the prohibition went even further . Religious instruction was strictly forbidden is obvious that religious education results , in partner to send a postcard to the other and being darkened by religious superstition . ' erraneous , " rang the edict of the Kremlin . " It to be given at either a school or in a home to According to a decree dated June 13 , 1921 , Catholic girls of their religious freedom . religious instruction was strictly forbidden stupidity . As the Soviet Government is responsible for the children of the country , it destiny only on the basis of the Gospel is in all schools within the Soviet Union . A few the union was automatically annulled . Anyone any person under the age of eighteen . who had the courage to practise his religion must prevent the minds of these children from obtainable that it was only necessary for one The idea that man can fulfil his high has long since deprived these two Bulgarian Soviet " Liberation " Church marriages . Divorce was so easily and no official recognition was given to FAMILY life was being steadily undermined , --- Page 114 --- implication that " the two great C's " could of gods , saints , angels , finds , goblins , were- acts as a bandage over the eyes of man , pre- religion from Rome and one's politics from with the people of Byzantium and later with and Mammon . And every intelligent Com- stopped at the Kamerny Theatre when it was culties which confront us ... it is necessary the peoples of the West , namely with peoples wolves , and other spirits , good or evil . Religion venting him from seeing the world as it is . ' It agents tried to conceal the fact that atheism is our task to tear off this bandage and to teach get on amicably together with the veiled for nothing more than the way in which it had to clamp down on those " hooligans " who the masses of workers and peasants to see failed to achieve its object . An attempt was The Militant Atheists' League took on a and Catholicism in particular . An analogy for now made to destroy Catholicism by the some of these would-be wise-cracks appeared Moscow . Cleverly-oh , so cleverly - the Soviet November of 1936 the opera Bogeryri was would-be wise-cracks against religion in general if his brain is poisoned by religion , " he stated . the attitude which ever . Soviet follower must relegated to the political sphere . assertion that it was possible to take one's munist is fully aware that he can harbour only Church which is the biggest obstacle on the YET surely everv intelligent Catholic should was one of the principal factors in the rap- even went so far as to criticise the anti-religious demonstrations . Policemen were empowered could not therefore be so lightly dismissed and bear towards God and religion . on the following day in some of the Russian apology . " that the Christianisation of Russia that every person , that every peasant and works had accordingly been made and was remarkable noticed that some of the actors were uttering prophement of the backward Russian people In order to overcome the tremendous "diffi- which lay within the bounds of religion and and divorce and godless education were matters Clearly did Yaroslavskv. the great exponent less militant tone . One of its principal members and retain his religion . One cannot serve God A person cannot act correctly , cannot act broke up religious services . And in the and agent of Communist views and ideas , show know that he cannot become a Communist The open attack on the One True Church newspapers . pathway of his godless ideals . hatred and bitterness in his heart for the continued on page 378 . sees things as they are , without the intervention of a higher culture ... . It is well known , " ran the gust of the in an organized manner as a Communist ... ... bear towards God and religion . --- Page 115 --- wide ' religion . ' The non-Christian religions . of the Church this century has taken place Hinduism , Buddhism , Judaism and others , here also the challenge is formidable when figure includes , of course , a large percentage In other words , the Protestant population Protestantism , an assemblage of so many constitutes 44,6 of the world population . of the entire population . tinues to be a stronghold of Catholicism Buddhism is not confined solely to China . ality . By virtue of its extensive distribution includes Anglicans , ' Lutherans , ' Presbyterians , population is as high as 210million . This Roman Catholic population . The Greek 859 of its people . Australasia also con- has now a total of 16million Catholics . But Protestants in the world today . This figure orthodox Church , which is confined almost Methodists and the numerous smaller sects . quarter are Catholic . throughout the whole five continents , it while numerically strong in Asia , cannot alone can be aptly described as a ' world- ne-fifth of the world's population , has In Europe alone , the Catholic population gure is not surprising as one-seventh of exclusively to Eastern Europe , has 128 pwards to 300million Confucianists . dissimilar sects , does not constitute a single It is estimated that China , which embraces spread throughout the world , is its univers - the Catholic Church , in its growth and U.S.R. ) . The number of Catholics in European population ( excluding the The total membership of the various the figure for the Christian religions is 30.9/ # of the peoples of the world . claim a comparable universal distribution . is somewhat less than half that of the he world's people live in India . PERHAPS the most significant feature of in South America . It has an estimated of the world's 350 million pagans . and has an estimated 150million followers - There are an estimated 201million North America is 84 million , about 40% with a population of which more than one- we remember this continent's estimated unified religious force . Africa , traditionally the dark continent . Undoubtedly the most spectacular growth non-Christian religions , " Mohammedanism , Catholic population of 106million-fully million followers . of 230million is more than half of the total 377 --- Page 116 --- and less dreadful enemy in former days . But lose the peace . " Let us ponder on that saying both Catholics and Communists at the same BUT to return to the gullible man whom I villingly forsake their religion in order to join and when it was not yet realised how dismay concerned with giving the workers of the world and see in what way it can be applied to our they disguise their real aims under the twin are misguided by the belief that they can be when the Greeks , despairing of capturing Troy Irishmen worthy of the name who would of war and comes to woo us in the guise of loveliness . Yet the same spirit lurks beneath stands for . They would noble man the breach especially where the Russians are concerned fight Communism if they really knew what it own lives . And pray God that we may be price when Communism discards her weapons so outspoken now as they were in the far-off the Communists . The bulk of those who do so to wipe out its bigotry and cruelty and godless - Anyone who is familiar with Virgil's " Aeneid " time . The agents of the Soviet are not nearly of Irishmen would be ready and willing to garment . She has endeavoured to transform policy is to give freedom to all the small to wipe it out by hidden methods . will recall the famous comment that was made For , like the Greeks of old , they have done the fair array . and Communism remains at which I have previously quoted . Nowadays ness , as their ancestors did against another wise enough not to lose our heritage beyond and the agents of Communism are at work . a fair deal . They assure the gullible that their nolidays and the many others who may be herself from a witch into a maiden of dazzling cloaks of patriotism and humanitarianism . Communism has put on a very deceiving The remarkable thing is that the majority They assure the gullible that they are merely D met in Dublin during the Christmas in the past-even in our own country and in such persecution was going to fail ! and a wooden horse . " Timeo Danaos et dona . means . Now they are doing their level-best truth that " we Irish win the war , but always days when Yaroslavsky penned the passage ferentes " : " I fear the Greeks , even when their level-best to destroy Catholicism by open by open hostilities , resorted to coaxing means been known to swallow such stuff and nonsense that self-same comment at the present day today , and presumably the same tomorrow . countries of the world . And the gullible have I am of the opinion that there are very few peace . It has been said with a great measure of they bear gifts . " It is worthwhile to remember heart unaltered - the same yesterday , the same just as gullible as he ... . our own capital . --- Page 117 --- a bare five years , Germany achieved a marvel the German people . But apart from what has present prosperity ( which incidentally applies not ruled by rigid authority . They were won't of recovery . She had regained her own self- cratic government has been tested by the land of dust and rubble , people by a half- answer clearly lies in the hard work done by there has been no check in the expansion of currency is the hardest in Europe and to date tinguished , not even that of nationalism , so German people and found to work . Tradi- live and work again . Her recovery in the ditionally to four Victor Powers , who looked Though the chief factor conducive to the with a greatly depleted man-power . But after intervening years has been described as the respect and the grudging respect of the world . definition . No apparent ideal can be dis- tionally , the Germans have had neither an a state of shock , and then , in 1948 , began to behind the recovery is puzzling and escapes starved and apathetic population . For three with dismay at their prize . Germany was a both economic and political spheres . " Her work as other races work in order to live . ' to vote for three main and innumerable splinter , her industries , or in the growth of the standard evident in the German character . The people miracle " to what has taken place , for the today would have had a sceptical audience . Curtain ) may be that , for the first time , demo- themselves freely admit that they " live " to German miracle . " The work of reconstruction and literally to be begun at ground level , and Today Federal Germany is again a power in THE self-confident prophet forecasting , in only to the Germany this side of the Iron Ultimately one cannot apply the word 1945 , the position of Germany in the world diligence of termites , " the motive power been cynically described as the " heedless years Europe's outcast lay inert , as though in parliamentary Government . Formerly , when Religion and politics were closely The once-mighty Reich had surrendered uncon- enthusiasm for , nor an understanding of , of living . parties . The wealthy Protestant ascendancy related . In West Germany today , we see . --- Page 118 --- and west remained Catholic . In the nineteenth have such an unreasoning fear and hatred of the Concordat . In the meantime the Church Protestant power and subjugate the Catholic were provoked into organizing to fight for their of German youth from about 15 years onwards ; political struggle for the rights of the Church Germany was a heterogeneous collection of almost equalled those between Catholics ; he dissipited Ghetto-existence of pre Kultur- suffers from the lack of solid religious training century a United Germany was achieved , but unqualified praise , as the German birth-rate is East is mainly deplored because it has increased the Church that the Russian domination of the danger of a situation where more priests are influence of Catholics today . The so-called its architect . Bismarck , feared the effect of Reformation , born on German soil . had divided only about 50% go regularly to Sunday Mass . the people into two camps : what we now call had as its most lasting achievement the revival divided creeds . The remedy in his eyes was Church was passed . The plan failed in its Kampf days and marvel at the position and lost . " Other couples go through the civil liberty . The subsequent " Kulturkampf " or ceremony only , and in ignoring incremental according to Cardinal Frings of Cologne . " a by the Red Line are almost all Protestants , marriage cut themselves off from the Church . the percentage of Catholics in the Federal simple : eliminate the Catholic minority . A hundred years as a century of progress from than the general average , but that is not needed and fewer are available . The current primary aim . Instead , the apathetic Catholics industrialized areas . Mixed marriages in 1957 The birth-rate amongst Catholics is higher Republic . The 20million Germans separated little states . Of these only those in the south lack of priests would be even more marked of the Church in Germany with complacency , is a paucity of vocations , which intensifies the therefore the Catholic population of the West . were it not for the number of refugee priests the second lowest in Europe . Above all , there from West Europe now ministering in the series of suppressive laws and decrees to increase The over-all attendance is roughly the same EVEN yet there are small sections , successors but falls as low as 25 9 in some of the highly in the existing schools . The Hierarchy takes THERE is no reason to view the situation . but German Catholics themselves see the last of the Catholic Soul of Germany . grave account of the low church attendance disastrous flood , in which half the children are of the old Protestant League demands , who reinforced by refugees , is proportionately West . --- Page 119 --- greater , approximately 40,90 . Some extremists admit their disapproval of the prospect of a completely Communist if United Germany , but the growth of tolerance and understanding in power , have constantly to face accusations of been described as Hitler's one good legacy to express their preference to such a state than to formed the basis of the prevailing good rela- recognize the justification of the claims of the fact , the present harmonious co-operation has tions . The enorm of the post-war problem like Chancellor Adenauer , are in positions of insincerity in their efforts to achieve German sanguine expectations . positive relationship with the Roman Catholic Church . " In working towards Christian Unity , Reich , the fight for the rights of Church and Western Germany has been beyond the most and the less rapidly bigoted Protestants . In being " dominated " by Rome . Catholics , who been nothing on the lines of a mass return , Catholic Church . Though , as yet , there has group of Protestants to " establish a new Germany . The mutual danger in the Nazi reunification . school , the meeting of Catholic priest and Lutheran pastor in concentration camps , of Communism helped to strengthen the some fair-minded Lutherans have begun to of the refugees and the common menace undoubted deep and sincere spirit of co-opera- tion and mutual respect between Catholics . On the other hand , there exists today an rapprochement which has been cemented by a movement amongst a small but important political unity . Simultaneously there has been he be converted and live , Almighty and most merciful God , Grant them , we beseech You , Imprimatur , # Robert J. Dwyer , Jan. 20 , 1955 . Through Jesus Christ our Lord , Amen . Grant a greater appreciation of the Mass , From carelessness or indifference , Holy Sacrifice of the Mass . adore You , Our Father , Hail Mary , Glory be to the Father . free will , A right understanding of their obligation to Whose hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee , tenderness , those . Are not here today to worship Who willest not the death of a singer but that And the courage to return to their Father's house . The light to see how empty life is without You , Hear our prayers for those who , of their own And an apostolic spirit to work and pray for And to us here present , O God of love and Are not here today to worship You in the You in the --- Page 120 --- been subjected to so many injustice . This while we , who possessed all the Christian truths , But before they could even commence my postolic zeal . This , perhaps , accounts for our instruction . I quickly assured them that I had courage to speak out on what they believed , is well calculated to arouse anything but our obviously in need of such help . To quote that tching for another chance to meet a couple just come from church where the Gospel had that they were there to bring me the Gospel . God must love them , because their race had Church . This kind of reasoning finally brought me to the point where I found myself just already been preached to me . THAT opportunity came one Sunday mom- display when confronted by that extremely manner of slamming the door in the faces of fantastic amount of anti-Catholic propaganda , I ought to know - I plead guilty on both ing when two of Judge Rutherford's followers things as sarcasm , door slamming , or plain Yet . I could see that these people had the so often replied to them with such childish ince in the interests of the Lord and His urselves to become angry , we pass up the fuming silence . of our hand " to those whose brand of religion kinship with One , Who while on earth , suffered appeared on my front doorstep and announced Negro women , I began telling them how much vocal " sect " known as Jehovah's Witnesses . use of sarcastic inveclives , or our scared rabbit is an insult to our own . And when we allow speech , " I should hesitate to use that inherit- counts . Even more , I used to feel that by such ancestry known for its " flowing rivers of of these Witnesses . or if we refuse to instruct when we see someone AM thinking now of the attitude we usually eciting Gospel texts interspersed with a He who does not hold out a hand , he it is these irritating visitors . defender of the Faith . ' their method of standing at our doors and alone , I informed them , gave them a certain conduct I had truly acted as a militant chance to be apostolic . As for myself , I began to ask why , with an who is not a Christian . ' rdent French promoter of the truth , Peggy , Then , noting that both my visitors were re sometimes too quick to offer " the back The trouble with so many of us is that we already been preached to me . --- Page 121 --- study of theology . In other words , this lofty to know our religion , and we also need to have of the militantly well-informed to knock all and dogmas of our faith . To do so is to enable but every time she worked up the courage to be easily overlooked by the Catholic who is annot presume that his zeal alone will supply is to speak out in our common apostolic quite as much as by those from without . such logic has been deduced from false premises , secure better acquainted with the doctrines is now beckoning those of the lady with the though , is an all-important point which can rears she had wanted to become a Catholic . rocation which is to acknowledge the truths save our modern society . " What is most misrepresentation by those within its fold of the Trinity to planned parenthood , we had contrary to salvation , " says Dom'd Van Zeller , letermined , and really apostolic . ' better be equipped for battle . sim with the correct answers to this diabolical necessary at the present time , " he declared . is to have in each parish a group of laymen to explain it to others-lest the Church suffer time and the desire to do so , to take up the philosophy with terrifying logic . The fact that at the same time virtuous . Well-instructed , the way to Rome are sometimes set up by ill about us and they are able to argue their paratory to Baptism . ' She told me that " for ranging from the seeming unreasonableness cardinals of the one thing most necessary to uninformed Catholics themselves . And the developed the prudence to know when and how that would hold her back . see a priest , she would invariably hear some desirable though it is , will not be possible for ecularism is loud in its attempts to refashion he Will of the Almighty , the Catholic layman So it often happens that the road-blocks on bligatory , is that we continually strive to all of us . But what is possible , and even materialism . For the educated Godless are of God before men . " It isn't only sin that is the clerical state alone . ND so , as it is not uncommon nowadays A who is presently taking instructions pre- In the world today where the voice of science is no longer a subject of usefulness to Catholic make a remark about the Church it is ' silence . ' CASE in point is that of a young woman of them down ! A study of this " queen of sciences , " highly of the painted Pope Pius X when he told his This condition must have been in the mind pity of it is that there are still not enough unschooled . A to find ourselves embroiled in discussions The Church , alert to this present day need , 383 --- Page 122 --- he merits of the saints , the quiet steadfast tradition BOY or girl , man or woman , be warned . If you a decent family history . maybe marked by some imagine you are clever or prettier , or know clan , the family , from which you spring , proud of to the Catholic Church , sharing in its richness , of just be humble , remembering the Fall and the YOU can be proud of belonging to your native Most High , child , too , of Mary , ' Mother of Men . Remember , proud one , as you go your way . THAT'S the difference between the good sort look out , I tell you . Beware of soul-destroying but we must be humbly proud , remembering that p The richest , the cleverest , the most powerful , But you can still be proud . ' There are a lot of But you must be HUMBLY proud . lived and served God and died in acceptance of of loyalty of all the humble , unknown members who have not merited them . is no reason at all for pride for you are abusing the are evil in source or evilly used . ' You have nothing Redemption-man's perfidy and God's mercy . of pride and the evil sort . " You can be very very proud indeed of belonging hat you are richer and more powerful than others , good works or ' noble deeds . ' about the possessions we feel proud of . " # YOU can find source for an exalted feeling of to be proud of . the favours come from God and we , of ourselves , things of which you can be rightly very , very proud . pride in the vast consciousness of being creature . If you wealth is ill-gotten or you use it ill , there You have great reason to be proud , you proud AND we must not forget that the Pharise you take pride in . AND don't forget God gave you your good looks . opportunities God has given you . country , being heir to all that is best in its ARE you rich , proud creature ? Be not over-proud . # The good sort is mixed with humility . Mystical Body of Christ , son or daughter of the We can be very proud of our position as favoured You should be ashamed of your riches if they pride . called him a " white sepulchre . " children of God . ' to whom much has been given A prided himself on his virtues and Christ Sounds odd but we need to be very humble raditions . " You can be proud of belonging to the his will . or your talents , or whatever other possession opportunities God has given you . heir to the Kingdom of Heaven member of the good works or ' noble deeds . ' --- Page 123 --- contribution helps to sustain interest right to theme , and the ensuing pattern is a repeat of the end . combined voluntary effort can be far " more Patrician Circles are not debating societies three , flavoured with a distinctive quality of the first session . recitation of the Creed and the priest's blessing heresies ' are all righted by the Spiritual suggestion there is guidance into the correct convincing than the reasoning of any one Director , and the proceedings close with the brilliant speaker , provided that by careful and-answer forum . It is a combination of all nor is the method a lecture system or a question- groove . Another advantage is that variety of questions , doctrinal difficulties or minor its own . The main idea is that the logic of When the debate is finished , any unanswered build up to a final conclusion , and strengthen eloquence from the platform tends to create Well-read Catholics are asked to subdue their Patricians , and the ideal is that everybody upon . Stimulation is the key-word of the personalities or uncharitable remarks are Faith , and are given a better grasp of the these gatherings should not , in fact , be an is the fact that Catholics brought within below , with a resultant reluctance to speak . It is very desirable that the lay speaker at tolerated . Destructive criticism is frowned present should take something new away with authority on his subject . Too perfect a dis- purpose and importance of an active apostolate . the general morale in the process . No politics , an inferiority complex amongst those down inclination to answer right away , thus giving the influence of the system are convinced of the necessity of learning more about their the body of the meeting ample opportunity to course would limit the scope of discussion , and BUT perhaps a more important achievement 385 --- Page 124 --- to become involved or technical , and a difficult sims and object in view . and is encouraged to and the results speak for what they have preaching to the converted . We would like to chairman , can inject new life into a waning have any doubt about the great potential of oring other priests along from time to time , well-briefed substitute is available . The priest with the subject , and who , at a nod from the best encouragement for the shy and timid . to be aired from time to time . because very few there will be placed among the members here and the Legion of Mary , when one considers audience . If the organisation is good , however , sort , and they generally manifest themselves the specific teaching of the Church is required , achieved . Mind you , it is remarkable how alike at gatherings such as the Patriicians . distributed by hand , and this gives the Legion- the right people to attend , and feel a sense of s able to correct the false ideas that are sure technique for the process of idea-formation , ing silences which tend to discourage a sensitive as a final word on the subject under discussion . the movement , but we find it difficult to get Apart altogether from the possibility of nembers . The prepared agenda is usually and this air of organised informality is the wrong beliefs getting approval from a body of laymen , there always comes the time when subject at one meeting can have the attendance nust , however , have a thorough grasp of the Legion's eye , home to home visitation . prospective emigrants in particular , for whom bring in the teen-agers in general , and any sound religious knowledge can be a tremendous The presence of a priest is essential to the and there , Legionaries who are acquainted debate , or gently turn aside the discussion into area , and we have mixed feelings about the people are free from erroneous beliefs of some had their ends are diametrically opposed . ' against a weakening negative . Not too high- brow , either , because God never meant religion bulwark against the anti-Catholic influence of the ' positive ' title is recommended as are the patterns of the Communist organisation THE Prassidium to which I belong was the eries an excuse to introduce the apple of the OUBJECTS can be as varied as you like . but so that in his occasional inevitable absence , a results of our efforts to date . Not that we The Communists have adopted the same frustration in so far as we consider we are continued success of a Patrician group . He at the next , as well as creating those embarrass - Our meetings are held in a warm , comfortable first to have a Patrician Group in the Curia a new train of thought . Speakers may stand or sit , as they please , the world . --- Page 125 --- those who are solid in their Faith , help for flourished through the channels of primitive those who are likely to be questioned , and the anything bordering on religion is utterly dull . that the early Church spread so rapidly from night . The Circle provides instruction for action by " coming along on each successive thing new . It is as old as the Church itself . sall , and in a pleasing atmosphere of round- Emigration . Communism , Purgatory and the the very gates of pagan Rome ? After all , the sacraments , and all have reflected their satis- towards the urgent need of an active apostolate are encouraged to pull up a chair and gather munism tears its ugly head on all sides , and he chairman's table , facing the members , who not over-awed by the forces of evil . But , this Have you ever paused to consider how it was Apostles were only twelve in number , with general apathy that exists among Catholics Catholic Action , and , in particular , through the Roman soldiers who embraced Christianity come along ? Mainly because of the idea that East from the desecrating Turks and the a little corner of the Holy Land right up to But on the whole it is a further proof of the he-fire friendship . The Legion altar , with the leads us down to our own time , when Com- together to defend the sacred shrines of the symbolic Verillum , is arranged on one side of raze all that Christians hold dear . Which fanatical Saracens , who sought to mutulate and Among many other things , we have discussed Catholics everywhere " are rallying to the complete answers for the unfortunately whose as an army set in battle array , ' the Legion is widely-scattered homelands . answer to this new threat of barbarism . With beliefs are already endangered . in times of war , and , in peace , back to their possibly limited gifts of oratory , or powers of The Legion of Mary is almost the perfect defence of their Christian ideals and the free Mary as its Queen , ' bright as the sun , terrible apart , there is a certain sweetness in doing IFT us not imagine for one moment that and carried the faith to invaded territories in the world of today . participation in Catholic Action is some- Crusades , when armies from the West banded And why don't we get the young people to way of life . persuasion . The answer is simple . The Church And then on to the Middle Ages and the Archbishop Kinnane Monsignor E. Kissane James Molchev . round . Readers' pravers are asked for the following : lately deceased . Margaret Griffin . Thomas Howard something for God's own Mother . bravers are asked for the following : --- Page 126 --- necessity of a living wage . The use of all social viously thought impossible . ' It is wronging men certain circumstances it may be periodic , ' subject a majority vote . Discerning men and women will to the periods of natural sterility . In this practice , not impose a heavy burden upon society . She has mother's health is in jeopardy . When medically agencies to preserve the sanctity of marriage , the mother . The adequacy of family housing , the medical reasons . She has urged that married couples intellectually well , who can be cared for , who do man . This relationship of man to God and man and women of our times to label them incapable . true , that requires heroism - but one within the children , the preservation of society . The simplest makes clear that in marriage , from the will of the founded upon the unchangeable nature of God and Creator , the primary end is the proclamation and appabilities of man and more ennobling to him . necessary , she has advised abstinence from the She has warned against childbirth when a Morality is never subject to personal whim or bring forth children who are physically and inluring or hindering the consumption of the education of offspring . This does not deny secondary integrity and dignity of home , the blessedness of abstinence need not always be permanent , " for in of men as the expression of love between husband man's freedom , for these truths are not the exclusive the couple makes use of marital rights in no way be surprised at these views , but not deceived . sossession of any church , but the law obliging all admonished husband and wife not to have children caprice . ' It is not determined merely by vote . It is study of the Church's teaching on marriage and and the dignity of man's nature . It does not deny may be unable to bear children due to financial or to man is the source of the natural law . The Church is well aware that certain couples exercise of the natural faculty a practice , it is with God's help , of sacrifice and self-masterv . " The To state these truths is to affirm the will of God the family reveal her great balance on the institu- The Church also seeks those social and medical . purposes for the exercise of the generative faculties This natural law , reaffirmed from scripture , heroism is exercised to a degree and ' extent pre- neans that preserve the physical well-being of the and wife . when physical conditions would so dictate . natural act . Today for many reasons in many countries , men . --- Page 127 --- strange holiday in the United States . Bu" it is still difficult to estimate the results o tion of marriage . the well-being of the individuals , us . We hope it will to you . He bought it immediately and wore it thereafter . from nervous exhaustion or psychosomatic aches these years never to have a nervous breakdown ? ' that trip . We quote from THE CATHOLI thoughts of a visitor . the rights of society - a balance determined and cross which belonged to Abbot Comi of St. Ambrose . new cross and so he went to a goldsmith in Milan . woman wishfully , " I've always wanted to have : full of gadgets to lighten work , but who suffer When he was named Patriarch of Venice he added Pope's promise . Mikoyan returned to Moscow after his farm , fed them and the farm hands , done all her his promise . cross which Pope John wore as an archbishop for Mrs. Jones had raised a children on a Michigan the coat of arms of the city and its famous lion . We came across this news item in the to buy a secondhand one . The dealer had one maintained by adherence to the will of God . of St. Ambrose here , has been given the pectoral Archbishop Roncalli stopped by the goldsmith's have only one or 2 children and whose homes are housework and helped with outdoor chores . She'd sages of The Standard . It appealed to However the price was still too high and Archbishop never been ill a day in her life . A doctor asked her and pains . How is it that you managed through all In a letter accompanying the cross , Archbishop to get around to it , it was time to get somebody : Some two or three months ago , Mr. uture Pope did not have enough money to buy a he Ambrosian basilica and recounted the cross's again and found that the cross had not been sold . Angelo Dell " Acqua , Substitute Vatican Secretary graphs : About six months ago the future Pope visited Abbot Ennio Bernasconi . O.S.B. of the Basilica MILAN , Italy (N.C. ) You know , doctor , " said the hard-working Times : no time ! history to Abbot Bernasconi . Before leaving he before becoming Pope . a'meal . " I constantly see young women . " he said , " who which the then-Cardinal Roncalli made six months romised eventually to give the cross to the basilic ? to be worn by its abbots . He has now fulfilled of State , said the gift was the fulfilment of a promise When he was named an archbishop in 1925 , the nervous breakdown . But every time I was about almost 25 years . Roncalli was unable to buy it . Several years later , during a brief visit to Milan secret . se delightedfully ' tongue-in-cheek ' para- Weekly we've called From Capper's tongue-in-cheek " para- these delightfully . From Capper's Weekly we've called --- Page 128 --- Church . Also , if the parties live in a very remote contracting parties may pronounce their marriage of the Church-provided there is no impediment . tinue for thirty days . The marriage vows of two without the presence of a duly authorised priest- and Divinity under either form . The communicant vitnesses . constitute a valid marriage in the eyes majority of them do not believe in the real objective A non-Catholic friend has said to me that Catholics ment of the Eucharist under both species . Neither and it is foreseen that such a condition will con- is sufficient for them unto salvation . " ( Session 21 , marriage is considered valid in the eyes of the Eucharist . The Council of Trent teaches : " Lav- ecause they don't receive under both forms emerges that one of the parties had the definite cannot be receiving Holy Communion properly when it is impossible for a priest to be present , the living Christ , and that he receives not His Body reply . Yes , it is possible for Catholics to marry being present ... . ? ?F.D.K. ( Liverpool ) . read and wine . What can I say to this ? - run counter to the teaching of Christ or of St. Paul . under the form of wine , but His Body , Blood , Soul Not long ago a somewhat similar question was intention of never having any children . Would this ch. 1 ) . It is easy to understand why non-Catholics Two Catholics get married . . Shortly afterwards the Catholic believes that the Eucharist is the is a situation which does not arise in these countries . alone under the form of bread , not His Blood alone who receives under both species receives the same will be readily appreciated , of course , that this men , and clerics when not offering ( Mass ) are not munition under one form only , does not in any way can it , by any means , be doubted , without injury mean that the marriage was really no marriage at but only in very rare cases . In danger of death , rin any way destroy the essence of the Hol Will you please tell me whether it is ever possible presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament . But Ignorant " ( Co. Derry ) . vows in the presence of two witnesses . Such a are confused regarding this matter . since the area , where there is no priest present or accessible tholics , pronounced in the presence of two to the faith , that Communion under either species obliged by any divine precept to receive the Sacra- answered in THE Cross . We shall now give a brief for two Catholics to get married without a priest only . living Christ as he who receives under one species The Catholic Church , in prescribing Holy Com- 390 vows in the presence of two witnesses . --- Page 129 --- ing and repulsive in its aspects , has become limpid lagoons , and pine-crested islands . as footballs , ploughing their way slowly In truth , beauty and evil are nowhere prospector and the seekers of health and resemblance to a medieval helmet ) as large stretching for 1.250 miles from near New large sums have been spent in searching for four feet long , weighing hundredweights , about 80,000 square miles . able search for oil , that coveted liquid upon Barrier Reef , that mighty wall of coral oil that may be hidden in the three million more incongruously mixed than in the Great along . half-buried in sand : giant clams Yet there is plenty of room both for the oil a favourite holiday haunt of Australians in recent years and big-game fishermen even fly in from America to pursue their sport . This is the latest scene of man's indefatig- which the wheels of the world turn . Although stone fish , which inflict days of blinding But other things are there too ... . Giants Geologists consider the Great Barrier Reef land , no spectacular finds have resulted . Guinea down the eastern coast of Australia . that have claimed men as victims ; poisonous helmet snails ( so-called because of their square miles of the Commonwealth's main- warm seas broken with small coral atolls , recreation , for the Great Barrier Reef covers will provide better prospects . YOME saw it is the most beautiful place T is the world's novelist coral kingdom - pain , and even death . And on the other It lies east of Australia . This wonderland of Nature , both fascinat- I on earth-others that it is the most evil . --- Page 130 --- it to be . The temptation is overwhelming to close one eye , the weak eye naturally . There are many big turtles , some of which and religiously illiterate produces an un- salance within the man . He finds himself thinking of your on the barrier . Its spines penetrated his vegetation of scrub and palms . Between with two eyes which do not focus a strong Soldier of the Cross more dangerous . ' To be secularly' literate weak eye which sees life as Faith declares exported to tickle the palates of gourmets . Gulf of Mexico and the Casnian . " Yet even But what we have now is stranger and this struggling chain of high islands and the Great Barrier Reef Expedition recorded : at home or on the foreign the other like the details of a gigantic flower . banquets , and one species provides the practically nobody was literate anyway . Queensland trod on a stonefish while walking and pearls are found at the northern end . tortoise-shell " of commerce . these has a pair of poison sacs , which dis- Pacific Ocean , and is mostly under water . (beche-de-mer ) , which are collected and In some places the Great Barrier Reef almost unimaginable loveliness , as Dr. Religious illiteracy was bad enough when by water movements on to sandy patches . foot . and he lingered in torture for three to have an underwater oil field , like the coast , in others as much as 150 miles . The There are graceful staghorn corals . There have been cases of people stepping unbearable pain and ( if not death ) three or the north Queensland ports . back the quarantine and health officer for Oysters of the edible kind are abundant . gleaming white sand , others crowded with now the reef is not without its commercial on these creatures in bare feet or sand shoes . with created margins , sometimes one within are destined to end up as soup at city and suffering terrible agencies . Days of Grand Canal . through which ships said to eye which sees life as the world sees it . a is only 10 miles away from the Queensland branched like delicate trees , and so brittle outer wall of the reef is washed by the serving as a value . For on it are found several species . that they crumble beneath the feet : thin ON the other hand , some of the coral is of Passionist Priest ? the rounded mushroom coral which grows charge a deadly venom into a victim . of the edible but unhandsome sea-cucumber Yonge . Leader of the British Association coast lies the channel of deep , clear and on a stalk and then breaks off and is carried between the coral heads . ' Director of Vocations , erected vertically along the back . Each of Then comes the reef proper , a wide band of "mount Argus , Dublin . days , then died . THE BLIND Eye coral , capped by little islands some of them . comparatively calm water known as the plates , as delicate as the finest porcelain . Possibly the Great Barrier Reef is destined . Frank Sheed . Passionist Brother ? missions ... ... as a the world over . or as a four months of illness follow . Some years If you have , write to : Have you thought of Boys ! you've been future ... ... . 392 . --- Page 131 --- Nancy Grev and she knew well that Nancy would there was something between Aidan and Nance There was a little silence in which Marion Davis . wondered if she could insinuate that she suspected Grey , but she did not dare . Surely , she thought , But would she believe it ? Evidently she imagined Mrs. Carroll wouldn't be too pleased if she knew But it wasn't a thing she would mention to anyone spoke . he came into the room . He was in gay spirits . which she sat and she looked up , smiling . Marion read it , quickly , and while she read , she Aidan to be above reproach . built up was being sold . Marion explained , " and , as Mr. Weldon was coming Huh , that makes it easier . I can knock him So you don't want him knocked down ? It's not leave her motherless brothers and sisters . a pity . I fancy myself as a hero , scattering your and added , " I can guess a cup of tea . " in all sincerity . " You don't look the sort that was , also , thinking quickly . She did not want the Mrs. Carroll laughed . to Ireland on a holiday , she suggested that he should call here to discuss it with me . " foes . ' I'm great as a defender of fair ladies . Carrolls to know that the business her mother had What did you come in for ? " she enquired , Who's going to bother you about business ? " You're a wonderful girl . " Mrs. Carroll remarked . rather than knew , that Aidan was fond of It's just something Gladys could not deal with " Perhaps there is a special one ? " Marion should be bothered about business . " business . It's nothing really . " nazarded . up at him . He kept up the fun . He put his hand on the back of the chair on MRS. Carroll suppressed a sigh . She enessed . down , " Aidan joked . set the dog on them ! Aidan had breakfasted earlier but , as his mother Had a letter . A man is calling to see me on Not at all , child , " her hostess assured her . ' Not ' they , ' only ' he , ' " she remarked . Ellie came in , a letter in her hand . " For Miss She made the most of the opportunity to smile Davis . " oll , A man is calling to see me on a business he demanded laughingly , " Say the word and I'll I hope you won't mind , " she said to Mrs. 393 . Maybe so . " matter . ' EILY McADAM . Say the word and I'll I hope you won't mind , " set the dog on them ! " carroll , --- Page 132 --- with both in the hope of making Aidan jealous . Grey would be there . ' Still , ' she could watch what If you're going . I would like to go . " Any excuse does him , " his wife added , and explained . " with the added charm of a call on a business hut as he was about to take his leave , suppose it wouldn't be much sport for you just Now her plan was spoilt by the fact that Nance playing off Eric Weldon against Aidan , couvette He seemed charmed and assured Mrs. Carroll that he would willingly accept the hospitality offered , mention the nature of their discussion . But she young lady and your most unexpected hospitality , him out of the house in case he might , casually . ' This is more than I hoped for . " Eric Weldon if he were sure he would not be putting her to any conspired together to make me feel like visiting could do nothing but make the necessary intro- Mrs. Carroll appeared . AIDAN'S father had looked at the speaker with spoke in a low voice to Aidan , AMIDST the laughter that followed , Marion said , " I came on a matter of business and you have don't you come . Nance ? " shop half-holiday . We'll follow on after lunch-time . who . as usual was at table with them , " Why expose to go fishing . in the name of hospitality " Anyway it will maybe need two cars to bring the Why not . " his mother encouraged . " The day's ( To be continued ) turned to Marion . " Would you like to go ? But I Marion . " she said . " Won't you ask your friend on and Nance Grey together , she thought . am enjoying myself indeed . " day's fishing tomorrow . " ductions and leave him to reply to the invitation . weather is right . We might get good sport : That's grand . " He turned to Nance Grev. outing would do you good . ' went on between Nance and Aidan . been interest , when fishing was mentioned . try the lake ? " he invited . " It's not far and the Tell you what " Aidan broke in , " It's the I saw your rods in the car , " Aidan said and ' Would you like to stop the night with us and Yes . I'm here on a fishing holiday , " the guest ' You'll be doing me a kindness , giving me an I love the lake , " she said simply . of a couple of days . Now , she only wished to get You're a fisherman too ? " Eric Weldon royalty . " Marion Davis was furious . She had seen herself ' I see you fish . " Aidan remarked at table watching them . " What a fool Mrs. Carroll was to be throwing her " Not the least , " she assured him . discussion had been satisfactory and Eric Weldon Indeed I am . I'd ask nothing better than a Marion Davis did not look too pleased . The catch home . " was to write and give his final decision in the course to remain " and have " a meal with us ? " But this is too kind . I'm a stranger to you , " his father " broke in . trouble . exclaimed . Eric Weldon protested . Patrick Carroll laughed . o kind . I'm a stranger to you , " ' But this is too kind . ' But this is too kind . I'm a st --- Page 133 --- refrain from drinking for one day and so ' bring not what they do " - is clearly pointed . ( A.A. ) Our fears are often of our own making . ( A.A. ) placed in a London home for unfortunate essentially as an anti-war film that this scores in a scoop with which he can redeem himself ? pretty cowgirl gun down menfolk in cold Reasonably good thriller . ( G.A. ) blood is not a pleasing sight . ( A.A. ) the plight of orphans and unwanted children sentimentality but it is generally kept within who is afraid . Interesting adult fare . Moral : vincing , slant on the Western . To see a FEAR : A psychological study of a wife and the final message " ... for they know (G.A. ) . delightful Chaplin comedy about dictatorship . youngsters . . Apple scope here for sickly bounds . ( G.A. ) . ducers seem to have a genuine concern for CRY FROM THE STREETS , A : The pro- THE BIG STORY : Can the alcoholic reporter doctor of Stalingrad , THE : It is DALTON GIRLS , THE : ' New , but uncon- Great dictator , the : Reissue of A.A. Suitable for Adult Audiences G.A. Suitable for General Audiences O.P. Objectionable in part O. Objectionable --- Page 134 --- one morning after a journey of SHORT time after my arrival catchist . It was not a very joyful news . He arrived at the Mission St. Joseph's , Khale , I had my by bicycle . In a few words he told occasion , for he had brought bad the story of a Catholic baby who first meeting with Arthur the local the burial was to take place that had died the previous evening : in Africa and my settling into fifteen miles from his native village --- Page 135 --- and together they trangled the clay until it became quite hard . in he was joined by another man grave was dug . It was about three earned was the father and mother's it took three-quarters of an hour . In the very centre of the room the and addressing all the people . the grave came level with the burial . Then turning to the relatives eyes were still moist with weeping THE instruction over the long so it continued until the filling of them and against the wall was a entered another road level . This I BEFORE departing . we said the feet long and four deep . Two small top . As more clay was shovelled I expected a grave to be due . we the baptised soul safe with God allowed to harden . seldom do so many non-Christians . On one side was a bed where First of all some clay was shovelled and a half for adults . In this case condolences with the parents whose last few prayers and renewed our neals with their family . Between sealed with wet soil which was priest as at a funeral . Then is the began . This takes up to an hour of the family circle . I thought of spread the clay evenly over the dresser with some crochet on it . the truck and all along the way floor of the dwelling . It was then holy religion . Its meaning and of ceremony of filling in the grave they slept and on the other a plain come within the influence of a got deep enough a man lowered I to some place in the spell , where heaped up on each side . The priest bility of death and the afterlife . down upon the coffin and when it forget the little grave in the living allowed to witness this last act of himself down and with his hands outside as well , the priest gave a kitchen table where they took their short instruction on the meaning Only the immediate relatives were room of her home , still a member coffin was gently lowered down . and with the angels . Angel . I mounds of deep red soil were and importance of baptism , a the wonderful consultations it brings at the hour of death . humble home . for their child . As I climbed into opportune time to tell them of our back to the Mission I could not pertinent reference to the inevita- " Why keep for an then blessed the grave and the thought . Angel ? ' thought . Why keep for an --- Page 136 --- thank the Lord for having bestowed chool to produce such brilliant How delightful to hear news of gift which " brings us much " con- us and far more ... . Having n the art of Music and know how good and beautiful and that which Confitemur . " Margaret Ganley . Lord who cares for them " cares for oung people are truly interested who claims to be Irish ? We Irish s mediocre or repelling . Eilis re outstanding . What a splendid " Donoghue writes : " One of the music-a God-given gift . beautiful stores of melodies and considers " music an appealing human boundaries . " Freda White upils . It is gratifying to see our solation and soothes us , let us chief reasons why music appeals to Eilis , and so patriotic . Francis delight us with their tunes . They when we are out in the air , " says xpressed and should do credit to to discriminate between what is scale long before it was perfected music in the blood of every person he Convention of Mercy . Ballymahon . ong line of music lovers - the Celts applies to other writers too . " Even counterpoint . " A splendid essay , effects of music extend beyond n the postbag . They are admirably ne is that I am descended from a summed up Music as a God-given other music ever collected in any for the tasks and the thrushes without music to keep us company , real good music will last forever . " Margaret Cronin , " we are not by Guido of Arezzo . They were its troubles too seriously for the have probably one of the most beautifully written essays on Music transport of joy and admiration acquaintance with the diatonic country ... . Dr. Grattan Flood the first to employ harmony and it upon us mortals and say in a Te Deum Laudamus , Te Dominum form of relaxation " and thinks -and God has not left me without in an ally written essay , says the regrets space will not permit a says the Irish had an intimate ancestors . How could He ? Is not seem to tell us not to take life and much older writers . Those from a share of the joy He gave my to many friends . There are some longer quotation from essay . This --- Page 137 --- are grateful to our little Mission- Babies will benefit . May Our Lord Freda White , Brigid Ahern , Eileen Anita Cummins , Patricia Hackett , take you all to His Heart . St. Gabriel smiles on you . Lily Byrne , Kathleen Tobin , Valerie Murphy , Mary O'Brien , Rita Farrell , Bernardine Cleary , Irene Mullins , Rita Barrett , Rita Smyth . Deirdre Ni Dhubha , Maire Toibin , Mary F. Burke , Eleanor Fennessy , Summer , Noreen O'Mahony , Eileen aries in Scoil Bride . 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Obviously , therefore , a huge daily offering , we place ourselves , our work , our frustrations . the health of those unrelated to us , about a business concern in Indeed a degree of tension is both normal and necessary , since began the examination of millions of her subjects , few there tension is caused by mere naked " self-centredness . " We never mark of His Saving Cro's and not the ugly , deforming stamp of physician is qualified to deal . This much , however , is certain , chief place ... . Go straight to the lowest place and sit down all emotional upsurge in the presence of overwhelming events . spirit of one who sets out to deal with a problem which it is the given time , with any responsibility , any tragedy . Some have were who grew tense about the agony involved . But to-day , Far from it , since suffering of some sort-physical or mental- when the Soviet stands as a threat to the entire world , tension that , as we reduce our anxiety about ourselves , our pride . our sychiatrist . It is part and parcel of a sermon preached by that it is one of the great enemies of man's health and well- property , our career , we lower the degree of tension in our lives . being . Its victims succumb largely because they cannot help on the attack , but rather tension prolonged over a period of years do not affect us personally . When , some years ago , Russia demand . But , allowed to pass this point , it depresses the spirit , school of psychiatrists but by our own parents . ' Through that our own selfishness . The custom of making - and meaning- Our Lord Himself : " Be not solicitous ... . " And there is of this " tension " question with which none but the expert it , for tension is an emotional thing , and very few have their grow tense about wars or tragedies that do not come to our own emotions under such control that they can deal placidly , at any voice of Christ , our sufferings will have upon them the ennobling TENSION . therefore cannot he altogether eliminated from heart-attack , for the specialists who attended the eminent doors . We never break down over other people's worries about the outward manifestation of emotion , ' but are unable to prevent our" suffering in the hands of a loving Father Who is more the earth when President Eisenhower fell victim to a it summons extra alertness and energy to meet an increased our Morning Offering was not bequeathed to us by an advanced altogether eliminated ? We pose these questions not in the is part of the divine plan for all of us . But if we listen to the amount of " self " lies hidden behind our worries . The fact is to the counsels of Christ that we shall have nothing to endure . the further advice of the Saviour : " Do not sit down in the This , " of course , is no new discovery of some learned patient insisted that it was not physical exercise that brought to make a frontal attack on selfishness . Truth to tell , much wrecks the constitution and units a man for his responsibilities . concerned even than we about our real welfare . there . " This is not to say , that if we give practical attention human life , but it can be controlled by those who are willing Well " tension . " The talk became a great rear encircling TE hear an amount of talk these days about what doctors father dermat , C.P. --- Page 153 --- these associates of yours were well-educated . faults , was nevertheless very dear to the Heart of all that he possessed . Yet , because he much more easily practised than the " rigid should go with the crowd ? ' Might there not He. too . fasted and prayed and gave titles blown higher and thither by every wind that gloried in his own powers and because he be the tendency to leave your cold and cheerless spurned the Publican' who , in spite of all his self the question whether you who remain at Public Schools , and you had only covered the you ever were , since they had been to push come to think of it , far more educated than it not occur to you that their philosophy was feeling that , while one is in England , one friendly shelter of a comfortable public-house ? blows . But have you ever paused to ask your- hour and opined that no-one but a fool would the road of exile ! The world , the flesh , and to live in cold and cheerless " digs , " where you temptations there ? Would there not be the are also Catholics . Your film-fare is carefully religious code to which you were forced to is part and parcel of the daily life of the people . Might there not be the thought that , after all , censored . Are you not , therefore , compara- fifth book in the Primary Department ? Might others ! Suppose you had to work side by aired their views day after day and hour after bother his head about religion or the things were the order of the day ! Suppose you had home really prove one not stronger than they ? spineless creatures who , like poor straws , are of the spirit ! Would there not be some You live in a Catholic country , where religion By Barry O'Rourke share of failings and imperfections . were forced to share a room with three or four digs " of a winter's evening and seek the even the smallest snare to lead you from the give their philosophy a trial ? that the majority of our exiles are weak and adhere . and that it might indeed be sensible to of God , his prayer proved less meritorious than side with would-be-erudite associates who the devil call out to the wayfarer ; and it is tively free from_temptation ? Wherein lies Your employer is a Catholic ; your associates the prayer of him who frankly admitted his PERHAPS you seek to give the impression home to a great industrial city in the heart only people like myself who have travelled suddenly transplanted from the serenity of of England , where materialism and agnosticism A and the pitfalls that lie on either side of H , such are the temptations and the miles But just for a moment suppose you were Ancient Faith ? --- Page 154 --- tion of children to look after their parents' couple of shillings a week and expected them , will give the young people of Ireland a decent day in , day out , for this wretched pittance . to work on the holding from dawn till dusk , employers could have given their employees a wage . I have heard of maids who were for even the slightest offence ; and , when they keepers who took in young boys and girls as of farmers who gave their grown-up sons a apprentices and then dispensed with their foolish as to place the burden entirely on the during my eleven years in England I have public-houses of Birmingham and Manchester . about emigration . I grant you : but " more a decent wage , but would not . I have heard services as soon as they were entitled to earn trink ? And shall I cap the climax by adding words are surely drab and inadequate when but no-one , on the other hand , would be so interests as long as it is necessary to do sn : never seen a person under the influence of impleasant sight ? Shall I inform you that means of livelihood . Did you for your part the eyes of our young men and young women were sharply reminded that they had forgotten its prerogatives . No-one will deny the obliga- exiles from going abroad ? ' You have spoken applied to this particular problem . ' What is Parenthood has its responsibilities as well as I have heard of numerous cases where Irish public-houses in Ireland are an equally- children's shoulders . I have heard of shop- hauled over the coats by arrogant mistresses the vast majority of our emigrants in ignoring shall I also remind you that the crowded in a suitable job at home ? Did you ever seek ever endeavour to place even one of our exiles But you must also believe me when I saw that ever done to try to keep even one of those sorely needed is a source of employment that to make conditions at home so attractive that ventured to put in a word in their own defence , the primrose path and in clinging so tenaciously would not necessarily have to turn to the their position that they were nothing more answer ; " and I am willing to believe you . that I have seen during a certain Irish race- island on the eastern side of the Irish Sea ? " THE opportunity wasn't mine , " you to the Pearl Without Price which their ancestors But-talking about you-what have you week last summer at least a score of people than " domestic-servants . ' that road who fully realise the sturdiness of them close to the heart of our exiles . have handed down to them . The sufferings endured by the Holy Family in Egypt bring You talk about our exiles frequenting the the flight into Egypt . in a drunken condition ? --- Page 155 --- the high Mass to-morrow , Father ? " not wishing into their own hearts and truthfully say that charity of the Good Samaritan . thousands of my readers can honestly look sufficient , conceited Pharisee . house on a Saturday night and asks , " Which is What a contrast in spiritual appreciation from in their hearts , they can see some trace of the Patrick's became a thrilling experience for me . ' I used to go to Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral . Going to Mass , especially solemn Mass , at St. Or are you the Good Samaritan who in a quiet , about our exiles are no better than Pharisees . the information so that he can " attend " the Mass Too few look upon our emigrants with the do I ask the questions . Too many who talk For the first time , I felt that I was in the presence only that its ritual was warm , majestic , powerful . unobtrusive sort of a way endeavoured to help Good Samaritan , but not a vestige of the self- columnist George Sokolsky , in writing of his con- a neighbour in distress ? Not without reason I had no idea of what the Church taught . I knew Eric Sokolsky , son of the well-known newspaper version from Judaism to Catholicism in the the " born Catholic " who at times rings the parish I can only hope that some out of all the gloried in his own strength and self-sufficiency ? A convert's comment Catholic Digest , " says : " of God . ' but so that he can " avoid " it . " Msgr. J. P. Kief foregoing piece . foregoing piece . Are you the Pharisee that lately deceased . --- Page 156 --- ully baiting their advertising matter with have perished but for a follower who had to our homes . As one such programme is Advent of Christ . When his prediction failed , the world would end on both December , 1843 . who took to Bible reading and got wrapped of the Scriptures he became convinced that ness and sincerity of view . The survival of the ' creed ' was due to the efforts of Mrs. to warn mankind , he enlisted 500 lecturers have turned to the radio to bring their waves come to fulfil the prophecies . Not to earth- the whole movement . There Adventism would advanced the date to March , 1844 , and then Seventh-Day Adventists , a word about that thusiasm that tens of thousands accepted p in the idea of the Second Coming or Advent hundreds of American towns . Such was his away and his followers waited for the expected features , seek insidiously to catch our ear and publicised . Inevitably . " commercial " religious of Christ . As a result of his unguided study in a vision , had informed her that Christ had being beamed regularly to this country by the and , with them , ' preached his ' message in Facts had to be explained away or perverted . Ellen G. White , an illiterate and neurotic shared his faith . but lacked his mental robust- (1782-1849 ) , an uneducated American farmer here Miller had misunderstood ! but into our time . Sponsored programmes , skil- metics , television sets . all have thus ' been to October , 1844 . his views . Crops were abandoned or given his theory was wrong and washed his hands of attractive music , popular variety and sports a mathematical error for the first fiasco . he judge all mortals , living and dead . When this To do this . Mrs. White announced that God . FALSE prophet though he was . Miller seems young woman who had been one of Miller's to mould our mind . Patent medicines , cos- W broadcasting is an established feature of the second chamber of His sanctuary " to obscure sect seems opportune . judgment " was completed , the great day most ardent disciples . he essayed another prophecy , and , blaming HETHER we like it or not , commercial The first Adventist was William Miller to have been sincere . After the third Liviary Illinois . Great Disappointment " he admitted that --- Page 157 --- word of Holy Scripture , which warns us ( Matt . White to rest upon " the fundamental error of for her , however , the very Scriptures upon the rich man , Dives , who , after death , was day thou shall be with me in paradise " a dead , all wicked humans and all evil spirits Lord's memorial of creation , " says Mrs. White . the teaching of the Scriptures . " Unfortunately The outstanding doctrine of the new religion in a suspended animation until the General worship by the law of Moses and was observed beast " are threatened with perdition . " Ad- The mark of the beast is the exact opposite granted a vision of Lazarus in heaven . To the week . " Those who accept this " mark of the authority for the change of Sabbath to the and Wycliffe ) that , at death , the soul remains Fear ye not them that kill the body , and promise of immediate and conscious bliss . penitent thief on Calvary He promised . " This by Christ himself , while Sunday worship they coffee , flesh meats , butter , spices , rich Christ's chosen ones will be raised from the sinners " shall go into everlasting punishment . " of man's soul after death was declared by Mrs. 25 : 46 ) that , on the Last Day , imperitent immortal . " Christ Himself told the parable of claim , was a second-century innovation without We bear a positive testimony against ventists deny that there is " any scriptural " Biblical authority . indicating that the soul is not mortal . are not able to kill the soul , " said Our Lord , reconditioned into a suitable eternal home tobacco , spirituous liquors , snuff , tea . of this the observance of the first day of the is the observance of a seventh-day sabbath . natural immortality , a doctrine opposed to which she leans teach clearly that the soul is will be " annihilated " and the earth will be THE idea that the devils and wicked souls Resurrection . At a first resurrection , only The sign or seal of God is revealed in the CCORDING to the Adventists , man's soul adopted the belief ( held at one time by Luther Saturday , the seventh day , was set aside for for the saved . A is not naturally immortal . ' Mrs. White Judgment is no less contrary to the explicit and all sweet substances used as articles . first day of the week . They ignore texts such The doctrine of the suspended animation cake , ' since pies , a large amount of sugar of food . observance of the seventh-day Sabbath , the will be " annihilated " after the Last to salvation . The prophetess herself wrote Testimonies for the Church " ) : 14 --- Page 158 --- to such a simple question . In dealing with your question : Why is it that Catholics are not taught good of your family had this piece of linen blessed by a the painting of a chatel is it necessary to have them Confession frequently , however , even though not may receive the blessing of the Church , for there to think twice about the answer , you should give omnia " ( for all things . i.e. unspecified objects ) . restored again to their places , neither a new erection going to Confession as long as one is free from mortal often and for as long a time as one wishes without We might therefore conclude that some member one has had the misfortune to commit mortal sin . going to Confession . One is advised to go to place to place in the same church to secure better him ask his Catholic friends who do attend Mass Church is indifferent to truth and good living . Let The same crosses may be changed about from must be in the nature of a sumise . Many articles When the Stations of the Cross are taken down for and afterwards preserved it in a spirit of devotion . its own special sacramental grace , with which one as a preparation for Holy Communion only when If for any reason the crosses are removed , but Kingdom . ( Co. Kerry ) . can ill afford to dispense . this : it does seem extraordinary that you had good living . blessed again ?M.M. ( Glasgow ) . stations of the cross week . What should I answer to this ? - R.T.M. sin ? " Reader " ( Louth ) . Blessed linen . A non-Catholic neighbour of mine has but me this guesses . friend , you should deny flatly that the Catholic number of times over a period of several weeks without is obvious that an answer to this question tell me what this is and why it is so ' called ? - in mortal sin , for the Sacrament of Penance confers I have a small piece of linen . carefully wrabbbed up priest , possibly on the occasion of some illness , is included in the Ritual a form of blessing " ad Frequent communion . what they are taught , instead of making prejudiced nor the blessing is required to gain the indulgences . May one lawfully receive Holy Commission a ( Belfast ) . Otherwise , one may receive Holy Communion as and marked " Blessed linen . " Could you please s. Confession becomes indispensable necessary Without wishing to give offence , may we say arrangement . " Matters Liturgical , Wuest-Mullaney . living instead of being told to go to Mass week after blessed again ? M.M. ( Glasgow ) . week . and marked " Blessed Linen . " --- Page 159 --- be within my power to give him . I gave Eight years , maybe ! And in the interim viously mentioned , simply because he had had insisted . He never needed a scolding . kept lurking . And in her own mind that to stay out late at night , not the slightest I never deprived him of anything that might weeping woman was undoubtedly doing her hindrance , from that senseless and doing anybody dared suggest that he needed a could see that same woman , with anger on paragon of all the virtues . times the father who is thus foolish ) . If he felt inclined to see an objectionable film , he was not prevented . ' If he wished invariably retort that he would be young SO what had happened in school had gone pocket-money he needed . " I never said easy and comfortable for the boy . I loved No' to any of his wishes . I was never a of his own , whims and fancies . And if liked . He was permitted to tread the path obstacle was placed in his way . Sunday morning , he was allowed to do so . Oh , it is unthinkable unthinkable ! Tonv was encouraged to do exactly as he ventured to " tell Tony off . " Tony was mother . ' If he wanted to stay in bed on a loomed up before my mental vision , and I to think how badly he has let me down ! her face and venom in her voice , rebucking minute in order to wipe out that sorrowful question . For behind that question I under- on unchecked throughout the years . Young only once ! ' How true it was ! him with a deep and totally unselfish love . stood that a whole series of other words little restraint , his foolish mother would happened ? " I found myself wondering . spoil-sport to any of his plans . And now scene ; and , as I did so , another scene Tony had got his own way . without let or when he was and always had been a CLOSED mv even for the fraction of a I did all that any mother could possibly I signed involuntarily as I listened to the him the best of clothes . I gave him all the only once . " ( Needless to say , it is some- the colleague of mine whom I have pre- do for Tony , " that woman was possibly not the same as the general run of boys , she saying # herself . " " I tried to make life There was no point in reprimanding him But I for my part clearly understood that level-best to solve a guilty conscience . How long was it now since that had --- Page 160 --- him to plant his feet firmly on the path of dishonesty was the best policy . So he took fester during the crucial and formative years . to realise that the responsibility that rests remember that their sons and daughters Cruelty or harshness there must never be , pleasant to be able to say ' Ves ' - even authority were foolish enough to allow to character . Now was the time for instilling No" and mean it , is not worthy to be mistaken impression that your boy could and of eradicating the faults which those in bottle " and ended up a hopeless drunkard possible for the sound formation of the lad's On the eve of his twentieth birth day Tony never be in the wrong . You failed to be though in your heart you realised that it to theft . ' At first , indeed , it was no more say ' No . ' because it was easier and more carry out their responsibilities will in large the man who started with " a slip out of the uprightness and goodness and to acquire untruth " and ended up a confirmed liar . will be young only once , and that once to work . He learned their dictum that on their shoulders is a by-no-means-easy but the father or mother who cannot say so now was the time to do all that was would have paid dividends to give a negative or the story of the lady who started on the firm , because firmness might have caused his heart's content , and it is you-more than rippling through my heart . toved with the responsibilities which God his being young only once made it all the children will tread . I would like them to thinking , ' because you were never worthy than petty pilering : but the habit grew those habits which would remain with him the boy . He would be young only once : all the days of his life . like to be able to bring the moral of that blessed with children . planned to pull off what he imagined would went . I was thinking how clearly I would they have grown up there will never again more necessary to be extra careful about one and that the manner in which they you a moment's discomfort . You failed to path of mendacity with nothing greater than YES . Tony would be young only once ; entrusted to your care . You formed the into his heart a desire for all that was noble and good . And now was the time to help but during his youth he fell in with the decision . You let your son drift along to the example which they so cheerfully set him . Again I looked across at that grief-stricken of being a mother , in the first place . You hoodlums of the city streets . He followed and the inevitable results followed . be the chance of moulding their characters He imbited the notion that it was foolish measure , decide the paths which their mother . and the answer to her question went scene home to the minds of fathers and mothers the world over . I would like them with the years . ' And it was like the story of my heart full of thought . " And , as I turn out to be the coup of a lifetime ; but It happened to you . " I found myself at the last moment his plans went wrong , Why should this happen to me ? " LEFT the courtroom that morning with what she was pleased to term " a white he has made of his young life . " had ever seen . was the most sublime example of obedience the world The loving obedience tendered by Jesus to His Mother he-who is to blame for the sorry mess that Madonna and child . --- Page 161 --- them little stories . To cheer them up she had only she kept smiling through her own fatigue and bothered the largest single gathering of beoble in the recorded born , and the journey from the baptismal font to neither . It is a partial view of what is probably Always gentle and kind says one of her patients . good spirits , so she used to distract them by telling herself well under control . Saints are made , not and graces and who loathe hypocris . By temnera- immensity . " The consensus of opinion of cool The photo may at first sight be puzzling to our at the scene estimated the number of people present There is a gentle rebuke for all of us in at one million ; others even said twomillion . One In an old issue of Leaves , we found an unity of Faith and devotion to their Heavenly Polish loyalty . this brief excerpt from an article which Queen by the Catholic people of Poland . But with the help of God's grace Bernadette one of those friendly saints , who never put on airs describe the size of the crowd as " terrifying in its the following commentary appeared : but , for the most part , she succeeded in keeping well how important it was to keep her patients in made , not born " amazing picture of a crowd scene . Beneath This breath-taking scene took place on August flowers , or perhaps a pebble-beach-but it is The days she was not ill herself she spent in nursing observers placed the estimated number at 26 , 1956 , at " Jasna Gora , " the monastery-shrine III-health dogged Bernadette all those 13 years achieved what most of us only admire from a far . probably a million and a half . " in the convent : asthma , rheumatism , tuberculosis . others , and she was an excellent infirmation . Poland . It was a tremendous demonstration of of Our Lady of Czenstochova , in south-western appeared in a recent No. of the Word : history of mankind . Some experienced observers ment she was rather stubborn and hot-tempered . to give rein to her natural vivacity ; for she was Bit by bit she became more humble , more obedient . the altar of canonization is a long and weary one . veteran European news correspondent could only is with untiring and affectionate care . She knew readers , because it seems to represent a field of " probably a million and a half . " --- Page 162 --- aid which ignores that belief . anti-God forces . to produce a new melody and a new culture . because we have been silent on the fundamental can be made sympathetic to the free world more by won over some of their Governments , and largely recognising its belief in God than by more economic God has played on the white keys long enough ; Already the anti-God forces of the Soviets have have placed ourselves on the same level as the difference between them and the Soviets . Islam and in the future , God will play on the black keys Because of our insistence on the economic we e between them and the Soviets . Islam your rating ? obvious . paragraph clipped from The Monstrance : versation ; fourteen years in work ; three years would it be distributed ? " Statistics , he reported , Bishop Gannon put a personal question and answer : years would be spent in education ; eight years went to Mass every Sunday and prayed for five of down-to-earth self-examination in " this Perhaps you can find material for a piece Suppose God granted you a life of 70 years . " five years in transportation : four years in con- wrote Bishop Gannon on " one occasion . " How The conclusion is How much time do you give to God ? If you in amusements ; six years at the dinner table ; minutes every morning and evening , you would seventy years of your life . ' seventy years of your life . " The conclusion is eading ; twenty-four years in sleeping . Then be these seventy years as follows : Three be giving five months to God evening , you would THE CROSS . Meredith caught up with him . persons' feelings were involved . caused him to fall occasionally . The two men were far greater than any relief I could give him . ' had heard nothing . He had judged correctly from fall behind him . also had a great sense of delicacy where other Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , the creator of Sherlock novelist , when Meredith was old and infirm . Doyle later explained , " and my instincts told me He once paid a visit to George Meredith , the nothing , Christopher Morley has remarked , " I can Conan Doyle did not turn ; he strode on as if he walking up a path toward Meredith's summerhouse , Of this perfect assist , which consisted of doing Meredith suffered from a nervous complaint that Conan Doyle in the lead . He heard the old novelist He was a fiercely proud old man . " Conan Holmes , had a hearty , ' virile personality , but he could not have hurt Meredith . An instant later , hat his humiliation in being helped up would be could not have hurt Meredith . think of no true revelation of a gentleman than sound that the fall was a " mere slither " and the sound that the fall was a An instant later , --- Page 163 --- May 1958 . vol. 49 . NO. I . --- Page 164 --- was being noticed , and a man appeared full- had received his first grace and been made reading , and that Benedict XV had said to away to try their vocations , one to be a ended up by remarking that maybe one day priest and one a brother . By this time I bus , an old lady engaged me in conversation . Irish Wool Co. I wondered had he heard lated into all European languages . That looked out . Behind me , a door opened and of the Abbot . When I eventually got away raised and a puzzled face of a little boy especially when I'm cleaning the baptism . " a child of God a hundred years before on length in the window of No. 56 which now Obviously she had never heard of him nor families living there now had two boys to know that a priest had been born in that Abbot Marmion's story again . She never with the opening gambit , " Do you know all the graces that went to make up his house , and she informed me that one of the even the Popes had used them for spiritual a Bishop on one occasion , pointing to one I'll start praying for his beatification now . houses the offices and warehouse of the Father McCarthy - a grand man ? " I told born over the way . ' That he had written heroic sanctity had begun here at this little black marble font where Joseph Marmion four spiritual books which had been trans- class of people came from Queen Street . " may become a place of pilgrimage . " 6th April , 1858 . I told her his story and he would be canonised and that if he were , curtain on one of the lower windows was font . " Who knows ? " I said , " this place clean . Together we looked at the plain it would be a wonderful thing to think that had her companion , but she was very glad Abbot Marmion had been baptised . into the parish church of St. Paul's , where of Abbot Marmion's books , " Read that . and came back down to the Quay . I dropped ' Are you looking for someone . Father ? AS , I entered the Baptistry I met the Outside the church , while waiting for the I explained that a very famous Benedictine It is the pure doctrine of the Church . ' Abbot of a monastery in Belgium had been two women stood beside me . One said : The woman's comment on that was : " I always did hear . Father , that a very good never heard of him before , " she said , " but chapel-woman ' who keeps the church heard of him . As I mounted the bus she --- Page 165 --- effects , especially on young people , " are easy modesty . The most compelling reason for the vulgar and indelicate , whether at home Guest by sins of impurity to which it leads . hidden even in the most humble human and only too often drives out the Divine so great a part of to-day's civilization has not to wear . Shorts , T-shirts , on the part elevated to an incompatible dignity by family , and the image of the Godhead is whether in the presence of many or of few . matter when , modesty is always in place , in public or for daytime social activity is and irreverent , and whose spiritually ruinous the office , on the beach , the dance-floor . YET special points regarding modest need human person , and adjoining it as the temple hard and fast rule regarding what should be to imagine . " ... . " Even such pagan leaders that the human body is the Temple of the virtue , a protecting virtue that never permits suitable . The emphasis is rather on what invested with sanctifying grace , by which also tainted Catholic thought and ideals , Holy Spirit , and should be preserved from and has left nefarious effects in matters of it is transformed and made the very above No matter where , no matter with whom , no their children good example , and to dress for church attendance . ' There is no creature . Above all is this true of the soul teach them to avoid the dangers of immediately . of the Godhead-degrades and debates it , worn to church . Any decent costume worn Christ became a member of our human its observance is the divinely revealed truth FATHERS and mothers are urged to give approach . " The human person has been faith and morals . The Catholic must be out against styles of dress offensive to This teaching is best incubated by a positive instead of elevating and ennobling the modest everywhere . Modesty is a safeguarding Certainly Catholics are ( or should be ) as Cicero and Seneca , " he continued , " spoke to be stressed in the matter of proper or elsewhere in the street , on the bus , at all modesty and decency . ' always in season . instructed in the whys and wherefores of reason of the incarnation of the Son of God . wear dress that is unworthy of the occasion , The materialistic spirit that has prevented of the Blessed Trinity . any profanation . Immediately clothing - --- Page 166 --- THE CROSS we wish that all ... would gather around proclaim her loveliness . We can but call and the Lily of the Valley , " and to His call her . " " Heavenly Mother . " - Oh , how XII , " to learn from her example the secret in this " battle of the ages " against indecency pleasing to Jesus , " the Flower of the Field Virgins , " is purity of body " and soul . and Mary . The flower that is genuinely to all who wish to buy them . We are of every greatness and how to fulfil in them- Women and girls cannot give the excuse of the world's Salvation ! No tongue can of hell , " and every individual who enlists most pure Mother , the " Spotless Lily of the flowers of praise and offer them to Jesus that it is difficult and almost impossible to the throne of the Virgin , " said Pope Pius our day by the co-operation of those who buy modest clothes . These are available her God-given mission to crush the head of engaged in a conflict with the very " gates the informal Serpent . But those triumphs must be renewed in selves the Divine designs ! the purity and beauty of Mary , the Mother No human language is able to express leagues himself with Mary Immaculate in 1961 62m. gative , please ; we want to see ourselves in white . " ( By courtesy : ( By courtesy : " Extension , " Chicago . --- Page 167 --- ourselves a question : " How many people , in my with set-backs , one after another . We can ask on top of THE WORLD O . There was an old man , once , whose reaction AND here is a humbling exercise we might all try . OR it may be something quite different . by thinking of the thousands of people in this knew his out " father , " meaning that the successful though it seems they deserved to succeed . # Whatever it be , something has occurred " QUIZ " looks out at you- GOOD . It's great to find someone who is com- world who work hard for a success that never you're on top of the world . saying is . " comes , whose best efforts end in failure , even whether we are on top of the world or meeting that you should be very thankful for your success . A bit of thinking alone those lines will show was that makes you very pleased with yourself . happiness is something worth having . No wonder You're delighted . ' You're walking on air . to be married if you are at that stage of life . It could be that you have become engaged prize of some value , or a big competition . # There may be envious people about , of course . some scornful remark - A favourite one was " Him ! come out top in an examination , or won a me's " nul" father " was no great shakes , as the to any success story was a joke amongst his friends . them to share your happiness . audition for a singer , or an actor , to take some The old man always managed to come out with The best war to avoid amusing envy is to # Or. possibly , you have been chosen at an TERY pleased with yourself , aren't you ? You important role . you smile on those around you , inviting have" done well . made money . perhaps or # Well , you can't help that . pletely happy . even if it is only some fleeting been fortunate . ' You should be thankful . Some people . take success modestly , not to put on airs , to be that is to say you admit that others have deserved cannot bear to see others succeed . her , " or " He thinks he's somebody . " and they may scoff and saw " Will you look at humble about it . That can easily be arranged joy that brings the happiness . ' There is plenty of success just as much as you and that you have just LONG may you continue so . ' Long mar sadness in this valley of tears . A real burst of --- Page 168 --- visual government , pledging themselves islands in the great archipelago , Sumatra . December . " a move which sorely on February 15 last , they set up a pro- threatening to form an independent govern- about expelling 46,000 Dutchmen last was one tactic the President adopted to parliamentary democracy restored , and a the country's economy . At the height of strong as those of Italy or France . By June Djakarta , capital of Java . munist Party . This , incidentally , is as suddenly went off on a tour of other Asian had become overshadowed by the growing from the central government . They wanted that the campaign of violence against the the rebels' demands , and ordered their a new government formed under a former distract attention from his failures . He set groups in the 80million population . revolt of the outer islands against neglect the situation he had created . During his New Guinea ) , and representatives of various The only notable exception was the " Com- the representation were members from other Vice-President - who had resigned over the THE measure of political support available greater share in the country's wealth for attempt at "guided democracy " in the Islands , Moluccas and West Irian ( Dutch THIS venture did little to improve matters last . ' plans for a National Council' were The rebels , under Colonel Ahmed Hussein . Communists had taken full advantage of by the central government and against the Dutch for the handling over of New Guinea finally issued an ultimatum to Sukarno for the young State , and it is believed ment if Communists were not dismissed countries to find on his return that the arrest . But no one dared carry it out , and the trouble with Holland , the President to the rebels is , however , uncertain . The the outer islands . The President rejected Java , Borneo , the Celebes , Lesser Sunda The two parties with the biggest repre- own party and the Communists . Also among to overthrow the central administration in absence , moreover , the anti-Dutch campaign sentation on the council were the President's President is still regarded as the hero of the issue of Communist representation in 1956- complete . Communist manner . continued on more Dr. 1961- " Continued on hard 75 . --- Page 169 --- some interesting information Slippery Customer " Watcher . Those about eels - provides . " WATCHER " provides --- Page 170 --- 25 --- Page 171 --- trouble with widowed and single landladies before eventually pursuing his true love across Dublin's Halfpenny Bridge " at the final fade out . ' Th nurders his wives four in all . What started well which falls flat was introduced . The schoolgirls interest sufficiently and , so , a comedy element and well-photographed hut so hardly edited that San Quentin prison . The inmate ( Jack Palace violence and irresponsibility . This film was rated incompetent . " Suitable for all but rather loosely in an American frontier cow-town . ' Well-acted GOD IS MY PARTNER : A wealthy and elderly it remains a very unhealthy production . ( Adult bachelor dustbin-man ( John Gregson ) who has COUNT FIVE AND DIE : A story of espionage in put together . ( G.A. ) . are very advanced in looks and even more eenagers and appealing to their love of speed ROONEY : A pleasant bit of blarney about a are cleverly edited and direction by George Pollod the German crew are depicted as ordinary human is helped from the outside by his wife and his morally objectionable in part for all " by the the story is hard to follow . ( G.A. ) . SISSI-THE YOUNG EMPRESS : Another court case brought to prove that he is legally seaside town is a wolf in sheep's clothing . He impact here might be less strong than in the U.S. 1930s satters House of NUMBERS : An exciting escape from A.A. - Suitable for Adult occasions when one can say that a sequel is as good a U-boat Commander and the Captain of an The range of suspects is too narrow to grip the O.P. # Objectionable in part . is neat and well balanced . ( G.A. ) All-Ireland Hurling Final sequences , though short ... Audiences . as the original . Recommended for all . ( G.A. ) FAMILY DOCTOR : The family doctor in a small beautiful film about the adventures of Sissi . All advanced " in moral outlook . " A.A. ) " the charm , romance , colour and pageantry of the THE ENEMY BELOW : A battle of wits between DRAGSTRIP GIRL : Another film directed at film . The destroyer's Captain outwits his rival but FORTY GUNS : A story of the last days of violence American destroyer . Naturally , being an American deteriorated into sloppy melodrama . ( A.A. ) Audiences Only ) . Audiences . brother ( Palace also ) . " A.A. ) American Legion of Decency and , even though its also news under cover of secret information sick children and the church and succeeds in a GIRLS' DORMITORY : Who murdered the girl in her bed in a select French school for young ladies ? beings , and not as friends . " G.A. ) London , in 1944 . German agents are being given surgeon suddenly distributes a small fortune to first film are retained and this is one of those rare O. Objectionable . de is neat and well balanced . ( G.A. ) Mildly exciting . ( G.A. ) --- Page 172 --- St. Mungo's , Parson St. , Glasgow April-May-June , 1958 Sisters of Mercy , Ballyshannon , Co. Donegal ... Passionist missions and retreats . St. Machan's . Lennoxtown , Glasgow Killybegs , Co. Donegal . Clergy Retreat , Diocese of Kilmore Our Lady of Consolation , Bonnvrigg , Midlothian Tempo , Co. Fermanagh . Eastown . Naas . Co. Kildare Little Sisters of the Assumption . Camden St. , Dublin Vullinavat . Co. Kilkenny ... Ballinlea , Ballycastle , Co. Antrim , cappoquin , Co. Waterford military Mission , Cavan ... FF. Paul Mary & John Francis Cappawhite . Co. Tipperary St. Patrick's , Pennyburn . Berry 30 . FF. Hilary , Luke & Alban . Tracton , Co. Cork . Shinn , Newry , Co. Down Community . Fathers of Charity Ferryhouse . Clo FF. Dermot . James & Sebastian St. Thomas's , Addiewell , Midlothian Johnstown , Co. Kilkenny FF. Leonard & Xavier thkennv. Slane . Co. Heath FF. Fabian , Conleth , Neil & Lir- Oswald . Damastown . Naul . Co. Dublin --- Page 173 --- doing so much for young Irish immigrants , might distance to the suburb where he lodged ... . A walk had again thoroughly enjoyed the hours spent in Robin joined Michael and himself again . Valley , ' he suddenly felt nearer home and he continue functioning . He knew how much Robin That was what Kathleen had said , and , true enough , I'll introduce you to Joe Trent in the mom- he himself now felt closer to home than he had felt looked at the varying shades of green in ' The it . The only answer was that he would sell some- the friendly surroundings of Sycamore Street and down on Coolnaloon , the day when he had finished room at Number Eight . after all , it was only a picture , he felt more than watched him approaching across the hall he was painting has much chance in the competition , but painting his picture . ' I think that , no matter in corner of Minnow Street , Robin to walk the long thing . Then I asked myself what had he got to the illusion , brought about by the quiet power of since he had , come to Dulchester . although when they had both stood on the crazy heights looking ing ! " Robin promised him , as they made their I'll be certainly grateful for your friend's advice . " new friend had made so that this club , which was Vincent and Robin parted company at the Vincent to have his supper in the homely living- must be a great blow to him , he told himself as the painting , passed and he became aware that , he was more appreciative than ever of Robin's LATER , when Vincent went to his own room , he way homeward from the club that evening . Vincent self-imposed because of his sacrifice for the club ... " stood for a while gazing at his painting . As he great sacrifice for the club . it would carry me back here to Coolnaloon ... ... . I'll Robin , " he said quietly . " I don't expect that my You mean ... . I wondered why he hadn't got it with him to-day . ... he sold his , motor- JUST then Robin returned to them , and as Vincent It's very good of you to go to all this trouble , O"Shea had prized his motor-cycle , and its loss illed with admiration for the sacrifice which his what part of the world I was , if I saw that picture , Vincent was startled . remembered Kathleen's words on that day when sell ... ... then I knew ! " I have no doubt about it ! " said Michael . cycle ? " great sacrifice for the club . --- Page 174 --- knew in his heart that it presented the only serious competition . Vincent , for his part , was thinking and also of the fact that each passing hour brought picture which the judges will have to examine , concerned with Vincent's chance in the poster might remain in existence , but that he was mainly he had cared to admit by ' The Valley , ' for he his motor-cycle in order that the Irish Club might hopefully of the chances which his painting stood , replied Robin . " It certainly won't be the worst will it ? I know it is a foregone conclusion that But back in the room they had just left , Joe for Vincent's painting knowing no bounds . mind was not filled with regret for his having sold suburban streets in the direction of Minnow Street nearer the likelihood of a letter from Kathleen . him , Vincent left for home . Robin accompanied him some of the way . ' They walked through the challenge to his own entry . But Joe was determined Trent stood at the window , gazing moodily at the It was characteristic of Robin O'Shea that his street below . He had been more impressed than comperation . I told him he should ! ' Don't you in silence , each occupied with his own thoughts . Of course , I don't wish to discourage you , " he you yourself will win the contest , Joe ! Joe Trent shot a quick glance at Robin , then he think he ought to , Joe ? " said Robin , his enthusiasm said , " but there are several very good pictures SHORTLY afterwards , carrying his painting with ' Well . he should have a shot at it anyhow ! " to win the competition ... at any cost . looked at the painting . being submitted ... . vte1961 establishments in Australia . --- Page 175 --- up to Clonliffe College to take the pledge So , in 1886 , he resigned his professorship at Mountain Gaol , he tried to lift weak souls returned during the holidays from Clonliffe . holiness . Joseph Marmion had returned Mgr. McCabe , sent him to the Irish College listed in the City Directory of the year as to Dublin where he was appointed curate of thought in exposition with an unwearying Iona Road he strove to make generous souls or as chaplain to the Redemptoristines on impelling need of living as a religious under William Marmion , the Abbot's father , is studies with distinction . winning the gold Greek . It would be interesting to know if During the next four years he proved more generous still . Later as Abbot of himself a brilliant teacher , combining clarity an Accountant . It was to that home he ordained priest in June , 1881 , and returned to Clonliffe to fill the chair of Philosophy . In those years , too , he made his first efforts just around the corner from Queen St. , and of the parish of Dundrum . But he was not patience to make a difficult subject easy . Then in 1879 the Archbishop of Dublin , to remain at parochial work for long ; in obedience ; " I became a monk . " he said were living at No. 2 , Blackhall Street . a Benedictine Monk in the Abbey of at directing souls when , as chaplain to these two , whose causes are now being later to a friend , " because God had revealed back on to the narrow way of the Cross ; that was to initiate him into a life of great medal for general brilliance . ' He was to me the beauty and greatness of obedience . " spiritual guide that he was to achieve world- in Rome where he completed his theological Maredsous it was as director of souls and there as a priest to teach Philosophy and September , 1882 , the Archbishop called him contemplative in character , he felt the His own spiritual life becoming more Clonliffe and set out for Belgium to become of those seemingly chance happenings which led him to Maredsous . On his way home considered for canonization , ever heard of IN the year 1874 . the Marmion family each other or ever met . wide renown . That time there was no Benedictine . foundation in Ireland , and it was one Maredsous . wide renown . --- Page 176 --- that Africa may follow the Cross walks as well as his white brother . there is goodwill . Different cul- Cross . " If Palm Sunday was dif- tures conflict before they merge walking to the Cross . It is the and acknowledge the best in each and not to run from theirs . Pray Only a woman who stood by her the Cross in everyman's heart . ferent it was because they were THE Cross leads us and the cross makes living difficult , even where is in everyman's heart . Colour bar other . Only a Mother can ease standard under which the African Cross can teach men to stand- ALL God's Children , walking in and first-the cross procession are led by the and bear it . --- Page 177 --- all the same to him . Perhaps to the Glory of God and Mary would mean more men should . More song with Four part ! Five part ! it's a day is coming when Africa harmony . And harmonising -and then the men the same song in many parts will teach the world to sing is an African natural gift . Procession are singing as THESE African men in May the peace of men . " --- Page 178 --- of him I would not like anything he is a wonderful mouser . At one stole a chicken " he was very cross not give , him away for anything like him best because he is harmless It was a small sin compared with THE DONKEY AND THE her daddy heard the little cat writes Ann Marie O'Loughlin . " but animal , " says Maria McEvoy . " Smarty makes friends with every- now . " says Frances Troy , " because the big ones humans commit . pet belonging to another Francis another chance so he consented . " to school every morning he wants to come with me , but of course he are all gone . thanks to Smarty . Daddy is very fond of Smarty Ireland now . When I am going all the rats that were in the straw was spared . " St. Francis of Assisi my favourite one is the little all pleaded with him to give him school every evening he is there to happen to him . the house . Mr little sister is afraid of cats , but she made friends with Smarty because he is so God has made many animals , " him , now he is quite big . I would four legs . I feed him three times was always longing to have one to greet me . I have grown so fond I got it I could hardly speak . garden to get some fresh grass , but The little cat did not understand He deserves the best of cheers . and threatened to shoot him . We until he was taught . Francis of THE Cross is glad that the wee The donkey is my favourite must have guarded Smarty . gentle . " . Hurrah ! for Smarty . horse . called him Bonnie . " " Daddy made my Auntie gave me a lovely little a lovely little house for him on one . ' He is the favourite pet of watch him carefully in case he cannot . " When I come in from and warm . I let him out in the rabbit . For my birthday this year White rabbits are very scarce in rabbit . I was so delighted when green vegetables . When it is nice He was very small when I got time our barn was full of mice , but now it is hard to see one , and a day with cabbage and other and now I was simply thrilled . I because he is so white and soft . would run away on me --- Page 179 --- and thin . We have three horses fluffy coat . ' She has a very sad stables in Ireland and England . very young . They are nice fluffy working and more for hunting and I spend many happy hours riding . feed her and she deserves it . mostly bred in the south of Ireland . there are cruel people in the world , rear foals . A foal is lovely when There are a lot of training stables . stative , scourge and decide them Palm Sunday . To thank the kind to him Our Lord placed a all animals , but many people racing . Some horses are thorough- donkey and to remind men to be there . Some horses are bred for Where there are blood mares they should be the most honoured of ings ... ... I think donkeys . her during the long summer even- because they are dumb . " Yes , and others are small . little animals . Some foals are big cry . " Daddy uses her now and Patch has a wonderful grey . Our Divine Lord to Jerusalem on intelligent of all . Horses are breds and more are not . ' A There are some very big training thoroughbred horse is very light joyously . " " He is the most Also it was the donkey that carried again on the farm . Every day I I like the Batty horse best . He at home . Two for hunting and animals , " sings Dolores Purcell Maria . I like the horse best of all the and gentle when treated properly . one for work ... ... a cross on his back ... ... one for work ... 0 0 --- Page 180 --- Extra . 1934 1934 --- Page 181 --- FRANK BRYAN , Electrical Contractor & Engineer Phone : 26315 IO WELLINGTON STREET , BELFAST ' Phone : 26315 Devoto & Hassan , Ltd. sawers chambers . 12 high street , Belfast Heating and ventilating engineers BELL and MARTIN . Hugh McCullough Leaney . Kelly & LEAHY. Ltd. Belfast for power lighting and heating installations and remember the pleasure We advertise none but reliable firms . Kindly note : This is our only address . 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" street . --- Page 185 --- 1907 --- Page 186 --- genius and originality as a thinker have always observes , " The enormous extent of St. Augustine's perhaps a more difficult task . but with equal with his three missionary journeys . the Jerusalem he does to the sketching of her life-story ( and a Paul's life in this respect . Finally chapters deal serve as an introductory study to larger works . A lesser-known subject is Master Eckhart , the In St. Augustine Henri Marrou has attempted The divisions are excellent . Having placed the this slim volume has admirable merit , and may well serves as a sample of his style , for , as the author purpose of God's work , and the significance of life and works , and this is followed by an excellent influence on the thought of his time . It is true This excellent biography , while of small interest that tragedy darkened his later years , but his the influence of St. Augustine through the ages . success . The preliminary section deals with his to Rome , a voyage which has well been called " the most valuable maritime document of antiquity . " to present a concise account of them . " ( P. 47 ) , personal character was beyond reproach . ' His except to educationists , will be found of real value It may be thought that little remains to be said far more space to the Dottoressa's methods than been recognised , but not all minds were able to MARIA MONTESSORI . Her Life and Work . By expected , considerable attention is given to the The last section attempts a judicious estimate of Dominican mystic who exercised a profound Conference , and the last journey from Jerusalem author deals in broad outline with the design and works , and still more their variety , make it difficult new series under the general title Men of Wisdom . to the latter . But perhaps ' biography ' is not London : Longmans . Green & Co. , Ltd. PP. 190 Apostle in his time , place and background , the These three volumes are the first of a projected pen-portrait . " A well-chosen selection of texts be based upon the Acts and Epistles . Nevertheless remarkable story it is ) . As one would have ST. AUGUSTINE . Henri Marrou . normal . Towards the end of the work , a thoughtful E. M. Standing . London : Hollis & Carter , should prove welcome to a discerning circle of quite the word to use , since Mr. Standing devotes about St. Paul , for all that is written of him must understand or assimilate his teaching . special problems of children who deviate from the readers . ' 25 Ashley Place , S.W.I. pp. 354. 21/ - each . 6/ net each . All three volumes are lavishly illustrated and MASTER EOKHART . Jeanne Ancelet-Hustache . e.b . ST. PAUL . Claude Tresmontant . understand or " assulate his teaching . --- Page 187 --- Arran Quay , to pray for his Beatification . myself to Theementively , body , soul , judgment , art the only Way to go to the Father ; nor to wholly , through Thy Spirit , for the Glory of kneel awhile in the Church of Saint Paul . seek my joy outside Thy will , because Thou They Gospel may be my Light and Thy Will come back to me ? Your absence from my side be fulfilled in me , namely that all things may I wish to follow There as my Chief and that will , heart , sensibility , imagination and all maybe , will find themselves turning in to Thom art God , True God begotten of True God . I believe it . And because I believe it , I submit Let's Start Again ! in spiritual difficulties - and Dubliners . forgive me and let us start again . Truth ; nor to act without Thee , because Thom be subjected under Thy feet in homage . having broken our engagement . " Will you please Though thinkest , because Thou art the infallible art the very Fountain of Life . Possess me leaves a void which no one can ever fill . Please A friend of ours has submitted a letter received I do not see Thy Divinity , but because Thy I wish neither to think otherwise than as one of the books by " The Abbot from May we end with a prayer taken from an Act of Faith . Lord Jesus Incarnate Word , I believe that my energies . a classic among the love letters of our time . We from a female admirer which he believes ranks as I wish that the words of the Psalmist may reprint it in the interest of social science . Father tells me : " This is Mr. Beloved Son . ' my Guide . Words cannot express the deep regret I feel at They Father . Amen . Your ever adoring . Dear John : I love you . I love you . I love you . Sweepstake . P.S. Congratulations on winning the Irish Dublin " sally . --- Page 188 --- I no longer doubted His existence ! ' It was spree . ' What made me really sit up and take dispel the darkness and misery to which I had method of moral rehabilitation employed by only then that A.A. began to work for me . he said , " I refused to pay the price of adult- happened which I cannot even yet understand . a Higher Power Who could help us overcome turning point in his career . I knew there had notice , though , was the fact that for every evil I actually wanted to believe in God . I found on His Omnipotent Strength . I shall be pre- wanted to better their lives , while admitting single person , place , or thing but himself . As And I know that as long as I continue to rely of the nightmarsh distortions produced from the evils within us . It was only after I realized had the kind of faith I so frequently scorned Only when the time came that they honestly From the very moment I was conscious that became impatient to hear what caused the served from ever again evaluating life in terms . see some new discovery of psychology in the this gentleman revealed , he blamed not a and just as many times I failed to make a go A.A.I. Even the noted psychiatrist , Dr. picture of the physical and moral deteriora- my utter helplessness , that I began to wish I now been reduced . Then it was that something already told us he had been " dry " for three their inability to do so alone , was their salva- Society of Psychiatrists , " At first I was amazed that of the first speaker . They were simply to be a turning point because the man had unable to resist the urge to become intoxicated . first . I merely wanted to believe in this Some- of it . You see , I refused to believe there was life stories of two more members . The pattern tion already at hand . I was impressed . of their alcoholic existence was very much like hood which consists in an honest acceptance one that others said had plenty of strength to affiliated myself with Alcoholics Anonymous . Harry Tiebout , declared before the American By P. O'Brien Mahoney psychology can do ! " and chagrined when ' A.A. accomplished a tion he experienced from interference . I Oh , I didn't go so far as to pray - not at Mr. isn't it marvellous what modern of responsibilities . ' On seven different occasions , " he said , " I intoxication . ' Modern psychology ! How could anyone ND to think , after all this , I was to overheard in others . THEN . as he continued to draw a merciless A another visitor like myself give out with : What I had just heard was followed by the years . --- Page 189 --- his wonderful to-days without alcohol , he furnished by the final speaker of the evening . taught the necessity of keeping past sins ever charted a course for his happy to-morrows . that by herself she was incapable of doing In it he outlined a campaign in which he would for centuries . ' This is especially true with After telling of his sorrowful yesterday and Encourage your alcoholic's new interests . on his Creator . For example , far back in the Take a personal inventory of yourself . to the effectiveness of working together in regard to man's need for absolute dependence very well hear others give first-hand accounts alcoholic . For the early Church Fathers anything , but with God's help she could do relapses . So here , again , the success of A.A. Pass your knowledge of alcoholism on to others . those strange paradoxes of life , it need take basic spiritual principles the Church has held work on just one predominant fault each year . build numerous convents despite her scant member's constant reference to himself as an which , to this day , continue to bear witness the problem of consultsive drinking after change in a patient who was a failure under Talk to someone who understands alcoholism . one visit to an A.A. meeting . But , by one of Go to a clinic or A.A. spiritual goals held in common . no more than this to make you an authority alcoholism ! . In her case it was her boundless Take a relapse lightly if there is one . out in the long history of religious communities . everything . And she did not say this in to be helped . provided her with the courage to go out and make saints of us all . nine do's . Learn the facts about alcoholism . presumptuous attitude which could lead to Develop an attitude to match the facts . announce with almost childlike joy that , once BEGAN to realize that there was ancient Maintain a healthy atmosphere in your home . NOW one does not become an authority on trust in the strength of the Almighty that fifteenth century , St. Teresa of Avila declared he had overcome his interference , he happily before the mind as a safeguard against a on some of your own shortcomings . This . I reference to any leaning she had toward The most striking example of this was choloev . then its chief purpose must be to St. Augustine , too , found it necessary to rely of their own accord . This struck me as a page for me , as a Catholic to hear every speaker groups as a way to facilitate progress toward spiritual giant . my therapy . ' Now I am amazed when the with temptation . If you have an alcoholic Nor was the need for group therapy , as As he said , " I have a lot to repay , and I can patient fails under the A.A. programme . ' modern era . ' Nearly two thousand years ago , tion , nevertheless embodies some of the same " wisdom in the seemingly " cured " A.A. do it only by making myself more and more its evils and temptations , and a firm desire acceptable to God and my fellowman by seeking right out of the religious life . formula for combatting man's ageless struggle on God's help before he could change his life In addition , it was somewhat reminiscent basic principles found in A.A. namely a trust racticed by A.A. , unheard of before " our there was a divine injunction instructing us to believe , was my experience . For you can't from that of a gross lifetime to that of a found many others of his faults slipping away cannot be ascribed to the discovery , of some new bear one another's burdens . This was carried Medical science , too , has admitted its failure In fact , everyone who ever became a saint did so by putting to practical use the first two though not by any means a religious organiza- to obtain the effective and permanent kind material resources . of sobriety achieved by A.A. n Divine Power to help fallen nature overcome after perfection ! " If this is modern psy- The way I see it , Alcoholics Anonymous , the cross . after perfection ! ' right out of the religious life . --- Page 190 --- are seldom as despised for their faults as are everything . Then he said . humility is increased work . He says that the majority of singers Don't make threats you won't carry out . helving another thief stop robbing , one glutton Don't try to protect him against alcohol . I was wishing I could join some group that that it would be much more difficult to eradicate Don't hide his liquor or pour it out for him . Don't use the " if you loved us " appeal . admit our faults , but also seek divine help in they'd not think it necessary to undertake the Then and there I came up with what I con- feeling challenged to " go thou and do likewise " alcoholics . For this reason , he concludes , public confessions I heard seemed to fit right the weakness of alcoholism appear to be one Don't have a " holier-than-thou " attitude . of those " happy faults " when out of it can only begins to be humble when he acknowledges his complete dependence on Providence for as Alcoholics Anonymous . Don't make an issue over his treatment . in his efforts to improve his life , and I end up old philosophy teacher telling us that this into this last category . No wonder I was than would alcohol addiction . After all , the But my " better half " says my plan won't one of the highest forms of humility . Those public scorn meted out to the intoxicated at the point where we are willing that others virtue has several degrees . He said that one self-discipline required for overcoming them . fact that every time I felt like applauding So what ? " my conscience would party . I could see his point . ' All of which makes that night in the inspired organization known overcoming them . However , should we arrive ANONYMOUS ! Thus I could see one thief By this time I was feeling mighty uncomfort - applause might generate in me a feeling of Don't expect an immediate , 100% recovery . Don't argue with him when he is drunk . come such strength of spirit as I witnessed Are you willing to have all these people here when we reach the stage where we not only organization which would be called SINNERS . stance , what if I really were proud ? ' In that know our faults , then we are in possession of now about your predominant fault and how , apparent in those who addressed us that night . sidered a great idea for the reform of non- Don't preach and lecture to him . getting another to go on a diet , etc . self-complacency which would be so blinding conscience would start raising a hubbub over one of those reclaimed drink addicts , my own specialized in therapy for my kind of sins . without wondering whether you yourself might individual can well be a saving grace which be somewhat lax in seeing to your own spiritual what I was doing to correct some of my own nine don't's But I don't drink ! " I kept protesting . WHAT aroused my envv even more was the Perhaps this was because I remembered our to now , you have made only half-hearted able . Here I had come to encourage a friend attempts to conquer it ? " those pharisaical characters whose pride is a Then maybe your besetting sin is pride ! ' of their sincere efforts to overcome their faults far more evil thing than drunkenness . alcoholics like myself . I would found an seen in its true colours , would appear twice as as up against a long list of " what ifs . " For that drunkenness is a sin that shows its ugliness . exclaimed my to-mentor triumphantly . fosters humility . " This stems from the fact housecleaning . case I might easily degenerate into one of THEN , too what if I have faults which in your family . That did it . All of a sudden I saw that I " others mistake for virtues ? If so , their What if I were harbouring some sin which , if loathsome ! envious . failings . " Absolutely not ! " I sniffed , thereby cutting I actually envied the kind of humility so What happened in my case was that I found uself down to size . Absolutely not ! " I sn the cross . --- Page 191 --- The purpose of the devotion is to help those to come up behind an Arab butcher's or baker's boy galloping at top speed on an overworked After rain , on the other hand , the fetid mud couraged you from " doing the Stations , " a and underfed donkey , you are stiffled by dense devotion that could be so profitable to you . painful journey on earth . Though it was not until the fifteenth century that anything like original . From the site of Pilate's judgement- Every one of the senses is offended as one Dolorosa follows fairly closely the line of the century relates that crowds of pilgrims from you walk over the roughly cobbled sections , seat the road runs westward past the Convent our Stations appeared , it had been the custom to say , nevertheless , that the present Via clings to you with viscous tenacity and where to the places made holy by Our Lord's last we must not let our imagination paint too religious " a picture of the Via Dolorosa . many countries came on pilgrimage there , and according to an old tradition Our Lady used the surface of the road is so slippery that the # on His painful death-march now lies buried In the hot season , if you have the misfortune Land to make in spirit a pilgrimage of penance to visit daily the scenes of the Passion of her same , it would be a pity if that fact dis- stretches of the streets are not paved at all . St. Jerome who lived in Palestine in the fourth Though it is the hottest street in the world , in depth from four feet to eighty . It is safe Divine Son . writes a modern pilgrim to the Holy Land . THE actual road trodden by Our Saviour more of a slide than a walk . ' walks through the gloomy , ill-smelling lane , of us who can never hope to visit the Holy of the Eccre Homo , in the basement of which from very early times to visit these holy places . beneath the rubble of the centuries-varying church may not be art-treasures . All the feet have but a slender hold and progress is clouds of unwholesome dust , for lengthy WHOSE pictures on the walls of your parish --- Page 192 --- Jesus " " staggering and waving under " His have weighed about 125 lbs . Even this lesser His own cross , " guarded by the four soldiers ings of the last twelve hours : the sweat of neck was hung the board which boldly pro- other soldiers appointed to keep the crowds suffering . As we " keep our eyes fixed upon the crossbeam was generally tied with ropes . the execution and certify the death of the in the procession his job was to superintendent the same time strike terror into prospective boyhood of Jesus in Nazareth two thousand who were to act as executioners ; on His head He still wore the crown of thorns ; around His In order to prevent any attempt to escape . the butt of many a cruel jet and sneering beam-and this may well represent the truth . rounded by their " bodyguard , " walked the was common , and that the sight of men nailed with blows and kicks from his executioners : fell under his load he was helped to his feet to carry the crossbeam only , the upright being claimed to the world His name and the cause we may gather from the fact that during the This was the custom at least where crucifixion in order and prevent any attempt to rescue permanently planted at the place of execution . would have been no need for this in Our Lord's and as he continued on his way he was made blood in the garden ; the vicious beatings the prisoners . " Bringing up the " rear was a prisoner . After him came Our Lord " bearing rebels were crucified in a neighbouring village . weight was considerable for one exhausted by of His condemnation . Behind Jesus , sur- of 300 pounds : the crossbeam alone would heavy load we remember the dreadful suffer- trouble-makers . " If the unfortunate wretch taunt from curious onlookers' polling at the the complete cross His shoulder bore a weight companions in death . Perhaps there were to the prisoner's outstretched arms , but there to a cross was not an unfamiliar one in Palestine . But the more usual method was for the prisoner two other criminals " who were to be His else to do , were going out to Calvary to see the back . He was the second most important man before the Jewish court and during His sleepless straggling crowd who , for want of something doorways or crowding on to the roofs to watch spectacle of a crucifixion . case . 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Mary Street , Dublin . --- Page 198 --- difficult for anyone who is not acquainted with the history of This is the type of double-dealing that is part and parcel of Red of Proletarian Writers , with the early significant initials , RAPP . religious purposes ? And isn't it now admitted on both sides . the nation and its history , that to attack that religion is to make If the Red regime in Poland is as bad as it's painted . " he Communist regime ! True , an interesting development has are now quite pleased to talk about as well as the toleration revolution was still in the air . Everywhere , enthusiastic admirers Then a most amazing thing happened : RAPP itself was between Catholics and " those of materialist world outlook " a series of events which took place as far back as the early They will use it again whenever they feel that it is needed for join were accused of deviating from the Party line . Eventually organisation had served its wicked purpose of bringing human of a new intellectual climate by the authorities . ' This climate beginning . We must never forget the famous zig-zags of policy war on the masses themselves . religion is coming back into fashion anywhere behind the Iron T can hardly be over-emphasised , however , that any official Poland Communism has come face to face with something which which the Reds follow in obeying Lenin's dictum to " take one The Double-Dealers the almost unbelievable amount of duplicity which it contains . created by the Government ? " presents it with an insoluble difficulty . In other words , it has quiet and sinister efficiency it undertook its task of swallowing father Dermot , C.P. believed . Cultural organisations flourished , and argument was thought under the control of the Party ; its members , even difficulties between Church and State and " honest discussion " he had no alternative but to join RAPP . Those who refused to though loyal Communists , simply disappeared from the scene . curtain . both heated and free . Then one very special organisation its control over what people think , say and write can be seen in should recall whenever we hear that freedom of thought or of is supposed to be one which encourages the ' free ' airing of some anxious questions to arise in the mind of one of our readers . One must be very careful about drawing conclusions - An example of the lengths to which the Party will go to maintain some up against a religion which is so much a part of the people , A pilgrims assembled at the famous Polish shrine of Tasna appeared on the scene . It was called the Russian Association step backward in order to spring two steps forward . " It is es , " why was that huge crowd allowed to assemble especially when these are based on the apparent virtues of a ad the wholehearted support of the Government . ' Gora for the Feast of Our Lady of Czechoslovakia caused of the Iron Curtain that a new and freer atmosphere is being v. The Communists have used it many a time in the in all similar societies . If a writer wanted to keep on writing , let policy on cultural and religious matters to approve It was the only organisation for creative minds allowed to exist . ities . Communism was then new , and the excitement the accomplishment of their evil designs . It is a pattern we Communist cultural policy anywhere is suspect from the very n place recently in Poland . It might be called the cre darism , of all things , is one of the problems the Commons dated , and its leaders were never heard of again . and thinkers were writing public declarations about what they BRIEF reference in our May No. to the mammoth thr. of religion . Party spokesman have even admitted that in created by the Government ? " --- Page 199 --- June 1958 . no. 2 . vol. 49 . sixpence . --- Page 200 --- NEAR interviews with Lucy and the late Bishop of F. Armstrong , Tr. , this volume records personal is drawing 1954 by April Oursler Armstrong and Martin when she spoke to Lucy , Francisco and Jacinta . r. Is there any hope ? ' Or will Russia predictions have been fulfilled will doubt for vided by the Blessed Mother on July 13 , 1917 , What secrets will it reveal ? of the Titanic struggle already underway manner in which each of Our Lady's other the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph . The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me , to do to please the Blessed Virgin ? four questions are invariably asked . lasting peace would ensure ? IPUTNIK I and II have directed the atten- Leiria , two personages eminently qualified to # frequently raised questions in regard to shed light on the last three inquiries . an instant that Russia will eventually be Only those who are unaware of the precise And answers are contained in a book entitled continue forever to spread its errors throughout Dion of a tense . uneasy world to Fatima . The answer to the first question was pro- converted and peace will result . " and she will be converted , and the world will In answer to this , Mary declared , " ... in 3 . Is there anything special for Americans And , with attention focused on Fatima , HERE then are the answers to the most enjoy a period of peace . ' What's all this business about a " third Fatima : Pilgrimage to Peace . " Written in that Russia would one day be converted and Fatima , " Communism and the ultimate outcome Was any definition ever given of what They are : T. J. CAWLEY reminds " the world ? I . Did the Blessed Virgin give any hope Mary meant by the word " penance " 1960 secret " ? that ... . --- Page 201 --- the truly holy . her husband obtained an interview with Bishop play of lively imaginations . Some are completely wrong . make a league for modesty in dress - ' 3 . Did the Blessed Virgin or Lucy have that Americans who are concerned with In trying to arrive at an accurate picture When I think of the United States I think modesty in dress are doing more than they be very popular or smart ... . think to stave off the spread of godless Com- most intriguing since it involves mystery and about this : One of the things Our Lady speculation and gives the widest range for the Our Lady , and it would please her . of the matter . April Oursler Armstrong and no special message for the United States and nodesty would be a good sacrifice to offer to question of all . " And , in some ways it's the without that difference which characterizes ' If the Catholics in your country could any special message for the people of the It would appear from this " special message " Some of the details surrounding the " third munism's " fetal breath . Portuguese peasant pilgrims enjoy a picnic . It was expressed after long thought and not all to fulfil . ' anyone is to keep the straight way . It is a did not even mention its name . in the life of the women of your country . But especially asked for was modesty in dress . Lucy , however , did have a special message . munism and the ills this ' scourge has spawned . Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong that Our Lady had " The very first sacrifice that God asks of secret " are clear and exact . Others are happy . " very simple request . But it is the hardest of In response to this query Lucy informed There seems to me to be not much modesty Americans , on the contrary , who permit , This is probably the most heatedly discussed What about the third secret ? WHEN the Armstrong assured Lucy that when they too may be smothered by Comi- encouraging this spread and hastening the day have nothing to say . " she began . " that is very unusual or startling . And it will not promote or are indifferent to immediately are please Our Lady . ' United States ? implement that league and it will greatly outside fatima . such a league had indeed been formed , Lucv explained enthusiastically . " Oh. try to say , " she began , " that --- Page 202 --- The clipping which follows is taken from Croegaert , of Antwerp , says that last year , in one Christ Crucified in the homes of our own people . Though holy pictures of all sorts are to be seen , seldom does one see a large Many shops in Belgium are displaying numbers display on church notice boards , in shop windows only infrequently does one see the image of the " Universe " of March 21st , 1958 : are devoted to a special display . the crucifix " and bringing it back to the place of which he hopes will spread to other countries . Canon As a result of the Crucifix campaign , in Belgium , prominently also in shops and offices , in the waiting Promoter of the movement , Canon A. G. Brussels and Antwerp last year . Special Lenten sermons and appeals in news- This year small posters have been issued for printed below . In his covering letter , he and outside houses . ' In many homes there is room for everything the principal rooms of private houses , but hung papers and magazines urged the people to bring honoured place in every Catholic home began in crucifix on the wall of the living-room . ' FROM a zealous Tyrone layman we have The movement to give the Crucifix the most Like Christmas for the crib , Good Friday offers writes : " The Belgian crusade for the more of crucifixes at all prices . In some , whole counters up while a priest blesses them from the altar . honour in homes . ' except a crucifix , " says Canon Croegaert . received , the " Universe " cutting re- homes is surely needed in Ireland too , for He has put into practice also the Christmas poster They bear the slogan " The Crucifix in the Home . " At the end of the service the crucifixes are he crucifixes to the collective blessing . scheme that originated in this country . homes . Those who buy the crucifixes will take them to rooms of doctors , dentists and lawyers . Croegaert wants to see the crucifixes not only in crucifixes to the Good Friday service . twemp church alone , 1,500 parishioners bring in unique opportunity for spreading knowledge of hurch to be blessed before being hung in their prominent display of the Crucifix in Catholic Brussels and Antwerp last year . --- Page 203 --- of Christ's sufferings have given us what Dr. soldiers proceeded to strip Him of His garments . world that He gave up his only-begotten Son , Barbet calls " the Passion according to the perish , but have eternal life . " And what which we cannot be certain , for example : called it . For our information we are indebted In the following paragraphs we shall try cross lay on the ground or after it had been manner of death did He die ? This is a question to gain some idea of what was meant by death to the eminent Catholic doctors whose studies cup of drugged wine . " It was customary among I of His previous malttreatment : a blinding of blood . Someone - it may have been one of the Jews to give this mild anaesthetic to those loved me . Jesus died for me . And what that should be of vital interest to us all . whether Our Lord , was crucified while the the good women of Jerusalem-offered Him a terrible truth contained in the simple statement are , it must be admitted , several points about to the many wounds of the scourging . We all the one that was lost until He found it . Jesus alleviation Jesus denied Himself . Then the so that those who believe in Him may not inspiration of our life . " God so loved the with a burning thirst caused by shock and loss not very important : they do not alter the Christ' Our Lord did for the world in general . Remember that the clothing had stuck fast He did for each of us in particular , going after fixed in position : whether four nails were inhuman of tortures " as an ancient writer loved me and delivered Himself for of the Gospel : " They crucified Him . " used or only three . But such questions are me . " This faith in the Son of God must be IVL faith I have in the Son of God , who ESUS reached Calvary suffering the effects for each of us , as it was for Paul , the sole TY real life , " said Saint Paul . " is the surgeon . " We are grateful to them . ' There headache and attacks of dizziness , together upon a cross , that " most hideous and most about to be executed , but even this slight --- Page 204 --- he had the feeling of being slowly strangled to of the torture called the Aufbinden which he the great chest muscles which control breath- turned red , then purple : the body was covered feet was increased so that He was almost time . Then the body would say once more to act as a model . Rope loops were affixed to the crossbar , and thrusting his hands . by slowly straightening . His knees a little . demned man by his hands from a post so that the future Cathedral in Galway . In order to carved the crucifix which many will admire in with every movement of the Crucified during the three hours of His death-agony . The only difference between the two was that and which the Nazis carried to the point of he man of strong physique though he was while violent contractions appeared in the sought relief by raising himself . This painful his feet barely touched the ground . After a ending in a state of general cramp . At last and the asphyxia were renewed and again . He but the sufferer could not breathe out , so that His movements became feedler : the pale face raised Himself the pressure on the wounded while he was a soldier in the first World War , standing on the nails . It was a position that saw inflicted in the Austro-German army have confirmation of this fact from the descrip- for the Victim could raise Himself to breathe the hands would have been atrocious . We murder in the concentration camp of Dachau . But how much this cost Him ! When He thus The death agony of Our Crucified Saviour included all the sufferings of this Nazi torture . tion given by Mrs. Clare Sheridan of how she accurate was the prophecy which spoke of Him . get the details perfect , she asked her brother writing continued for three hours . " How the cross , the mere agony of suspension from through them he hung there while the artist ing were locked . The lungs were filled with air . was able to endure the fearful discomfort for This punishment consisted of hanging the con- only a few moments at a time . and the head fall forward . Soon the cramp feverishly made a small model in clay . But muscles of the arms , sides and lower limbs . Even if the Victim had not been nailed to THE whole weight of the body of the crucified the death of the cross was more prolonged , as a worm who had no manhood left ! Gradually could be maintained only for a very short raising Himself on His poor wounded feet that we know from the account given by Dr. Hynek . with a profuse sweat . ' It was while painfully hung from his hands . What this involved death . --- Page 205 --- about the mysteries of life ... when they seek information It is knowledge , plus moral motivation and that climate of loving acceptance and personal and cultivation of right emotional attitudes . sex education . ' SEX education is the duty and the privilege It belongs in the home . Only in the home can enable the child to possess what is called , " adequate even the " well-intentioned " youth guides . about " men and women , but the moral training interest be achieved , for the home is the proper of the parent . It does not belong to the the child have his unique needs known and priests or Sisters , the student counselors , or God . It involves not only " information training , plus good emotional health that will served as they arise . Only in the home can God . It involves not only image and likeness of God . this reality that it may be seen and loved in it means to be a woman ? ' This is " sex- not only what is involved in being a man or a education , " and Catholic sex education teaches the reality of masculinity and feminity to our their children , and then refuse them a children . Most important , it is presenting very important area of knowledge - the know- W to be interested in the " education " of The word " sex " is a good example of a and a " person " is a creature composed of word that has lost its original meaning , and WHY do so many Catholic parents profess body and soul . Sex education is presenting ledge of what it means to be a man , and what acquired one which only partially expresses that man or that woman has been made in the what it should . " " Sex " is the quality of woman , but also , what is involved because being a masculine person or a feminine person , being a masculine person or a feminine person , --- Page 206 --- the two people involved consider to be love . of all answers' ought to be God and love . love is not present . True , love as it exists in older , the original answers do not need to be body , of mind and of soul that God has given New life comes about through the love of man truth , it is the great gift of God that enables a gifts of love that it has to give and receive . job in providing adequate sex education for mother or father can give an honest " yes " to love . Because it has , it has lost the meaning It is a similar situation in teaching a child person . It comes from the willingness of the himself , " Do I know what it means to be a parent to share with the child the great ions enlarged upon and enriched according to the woman , do I know and appreciate the gifts of love of the parent . It comes from the accept- What has happened in our present-day about life and love . In the very beginning he in the field of giving sex education by asking nearest biology book to discover the " facts that it comes . first of all , with the acceptance of life . " Naming the parts of the body will work and to give the love involved in being TN order to begin properly a child's sex who would say that under certain circumstances the children entrusted to his care . If the and woman , blessed by God . ' There are those be a boy , or it's wonderful to be a girl . This should be given truthful answers . As he grows person to be made in the image and likeness of of being a man or a woman . It could be said accordance with my vacation in life ? ' " If a ance of the child as an individual and as a of the parent of his or her own sex , and the is not learned in books it comes from the joy of life the gift that says it's wonderful to reversed or made new , they need only to be child's maturity . given to it by God . ' It has come to signify a reality may not be , but there is always an answer is " no , " then he need not rush to the ingredient that appears to be love , and that these questions , then he or she can do a good me ? " Do I know how to use these gifts in man , or a woman ? Because I am a man , or a A parent can begin to measure his competence purely physiological accident of birth . ' In culture is that sex has become divorced from either one . never explain the purpose for which they were education , we must give them the gift of IN sex education , the two main ingredients of their potential Identities was grown . God made as a man or a woman-to do the made . That purpose is to be found in the THE CROSS --- Page 207 --- is always doing things the wrong way and even Church keeps ever before its people the values If the parish is making some spiritual effort such fulfits his duties punctiliously . He wouldn't dream reluctant Catholic person made in the image and likeness of God . privilege to give a further gift of life - the gift that proves over the years , what it means to seldom likes any given parish priest . The Bishop Catholic parents , we cannot turn our backs on 00 . She does not hold with being dragooned given to them by God and His Son Who gave the parent who shows its worth . It is his is denied knowledge of its true worth . the is the parent who has given life - it should be where new life is not desired , and existing life the teachings of the Church , nor fail to give the Church of which he disapproves . He very as a retreat or a mission , you can count her out of missing Mass ' on Sundays and quite often he is ization because the people in it are too stuffs . " If the far-off Holy Father does not meet with his a word about the the gift that says this is how you'd love as a electant Catholic is always sure his fellow-Catholics . masculine and feminine alternately , in desperation ) the parish is making a big effort to pay for some ' whole woman ' begins with the parent . ' It There are all sorts of Catholics-good , bad and This is sex education ! are quite wrong . Their attitude , whatever it is , When a controversy blows up in the Press the money . " The Church to her is " they , " never " we . " approval . For example , you may find that he has great out-of-doors . She is in fact a first-cousin- be a man and what it means to be a woman- between . " But the oldest of all is the reluctant Education of the " whole man " and the heading of Good . He I'm going to use the into prayer . You almost expect her to pull that She will usually refuse to join any parish organ- Catholic . He or she usually falls under the general one about being better able to worship God in the His life that they might live forever . ' As ince-removed to the Nature types . a weekly communicant . But he gets no joy out indifferent , with about a thousand shades in his children at a non-Catholic college , for no good orts . But the reluctant Catholic is missing so too aggressive , too unaggressive ) irritates him . often tell you that the Church is always asking for much because he is not living up to his capabilities . In the Church , thank God , there is room for all -Information . In the first place there are so many things about them to our children . non-Catholics but he has no feeling for his own He is hypersensitive about suspected slights to reason : he just thinks he knows better than the of it . brethren . majority , you can count her out . She will quite pipe . --- Page 208 --- opportunity of examining your purchases . were hidden defects that only time or an expert of the cloth scapular after one has been enrolled It appears that you saw the articles before being only in lessening his payment in proportion . being in the instance submitted by you-the defects only recommendations of a salesman . If , in these scapular , which it represents . so your subsequent disappointment is due in some new one blessed when the old one is worn out or again . The scapular medal may be worn in place stantially different from what the buyer thinks it , position as the unsophisticated purchaser who You had an opportunity of examining them fully : particular scapular , it is not necessary to have a lost . The new scapular may be put on without by the terms of the advertisement , and that there always careful not to sway the balance unduly in both suppositions . You were in much the same there is really no " consent in the same matter . ' if as is generally the case , and is probably true Renewal of secular What should one do when a scabulary needs renewal ? the money . I paid nothing more for them . Am I Is it a sin to brav for money when you don't want what stronger if , as sometimes happens . you were listens without much criticism to the eloquent asked to sign the agreement before getting an must receive as many blessings as there are cloth and no valid contract ; the buyer may tell the To pray for such a favour and in the spirit Carmel " ( Co. Dublin ) . his own favour . This is the solution we recommend Must the new scabulary be blessed by a priest ? - needs of the family ?V.N. ( Cork ) . enters a large shop , is impressed by everything , is inclined to take things at their face value . and bound to pay for them ? " Caught " Dublin . mentioned in your question is certainly no sin . for granted that you were very much influenced seller so , and get his money back if he can . But to you . The case in your favour would be some- any ceremony . It is not necessary to be enrolled measure to yourself . At the same time we take it could detect . The case as stated seems to warrant lessen the value of the article , the buyer is justified the latter . ' Note , however , that that m circumstances , the defects make the article sub- When a person has been duly invested ; much but just enough to provide for the reason sked to pay anything beyond the original deposit . --- Page 209 --- high wages will dwindle away in the form of ears to the insidious whisper of crudity and sign of courage to lie in bed on a Sunday income-tax and the high cost of living . The along to the ocean of perdition . novelty of new surroundings and freedom number of conquests they have made in the from parental control must here be men- irreligion and scepticism and with the knack womanhood up to scorn and to boast of the tioned . These are the streams that may may change , you most assuredly will not . to drink to excess . Fools may consider it a man ! Be a man with the ability to morning and to eat meat on days of abstin- fancy you are old enough or clever enough the crowd . But take my advice , Eamonn , and keep tions . Don't be pulled by those who tell would-be-romantic sphere . Be a man with the power to close your a tight rein on your thoughts and inclina- mother's knee . Fools may consider it clever who will tell you that it is right to follow sweep you off your feet and carry you rapidly look things straight in the face , and make Take my advice , Eamonn , and don't ever up your mind that , though circumstances ence . Fools may consider it clever to hold to outgrow the lessons you learned at your BUT take my advice , Eamonn , and be a of saying an emphatic " No " to the associates are old enough to have outgrown the lessons you learned at your mother's knee . " " Take my advice , Eamonn , and don't ever think you --- Page 210 --- you have a soul to save and a mission to And in the land of the foreigner you may I'm that man no longer speaks at Marble Arch. confessor , and don't be afraid to tell him of can achieve all this only if you are a man sin . Think of the lessons you learned as a in the best and nobles meaning of the term the problems that may worry or perplex you . of home . Remember the people who really be never too busy to help you . Eamonn . to do wrong , " Eamonn , remember the lights done it in the past : and so can you in the future . But of one thing be certain . You than that you should commit a single mortal . you . Remember , too , that in the ultimate your new-found associates . " Others have wonderful things both for yourself and for set out that you will have difficulties before have been told that some five years ago love you-who would rather see you dead Eamonn . Be careful of the dance-halls you have it from good authority that his insanity if you are honest enough to look things . child . Think of the peace that was yours whether you succeed in saving your attend . Be regular in your attendance at The confessor may seem busy , but he will Wass and the sacraments . Those a definite that it will matter - and matter a great deal on that halcvon day when you first received analysis it won't really matter a lot how he was confined to a Mental Home ; and I immortal soul . Whenever you feel tempted air and square in the eyes - if you retain much money you managed to amass , but accomplish . the depravity of his ways . England , Eamonn . You can accomplish your sense of values and if you are wise enough never to lose sight of the fact that Jesus into your soul as Guest . was caused by the rottenness of his life and need help far , far oftener than you now the best of luck and grace in the road that You can do a great amount of good in you say it ! ' And I can only wish you all lies ahead . Be careful of the companions you choose , shall not pass this way again : therefore , remember . ... " Remember before you SO. Eamonn. be wise in time ! YOUILL be going to England next imagine . Thursday , Eamonn ? " Thursday , Eamonn ? How bitterly How bitterly --- Page 211 --- manner of organizing the contributions of the converted by Rome , whence through Pope St. came to end his days at these glorious tombs in a special way with the Holy City and the Church and is insepar from the dignity and Gregory the Great they had received the and various facilities for the spiritual and near the Vatican which is still called the Borgo . Pontiff and those associated with him in the Gospel , they regarded themselves as united Basilica of St. Peter . With similar intentions . Sovereign Pontiff . From very earliest times , to St. Peter and the Church of Rome . " This with that zest for travel which has remained Insofar as it constitutes a precise and accepted Pence appears to-day under a new aspect . family in his kingdom of Wessex . This tax glory " of receiving Baptism and of dying there , desiring to enter into life from the very material welfare of the pilgrims . It was known Its foundation is attributed to King Ina . and here there came likewise many nobles and buted to the Anglo-Saxons . " Having been discharge of his office , is as ancient as the his successor , Ina (689-726 ) , abdicated his throne after a reign of thirty-seven years and the first , perhaps , of the Scholae Peregrinorum as the Schola Saxonum , and gave its name , pilgrimages to the tombs of the Apostles . so characteristic of the English , they undertook the foundation of a kind of Pilgrims' House - Burgus Saxonum , to that quarter of the city by Offa II , King of Mercia , in 794 , who out of faithful . to-day's Peter's Pence can be attri- IN its name and form of organization . Peter's gratitude to St. Peter , made a vow in his own peasants , laymen and clerics , men and women . The influx of Anglo-Saxon pilgrims to Rome name and that of his people to pay a special of King Offa II . King Ceadwall journeyed to Rome to have . the faithful towards the support of the Sovereign at the end of the eighth century resulted in FOR the support of this foundation . Ina although some maintain that it was the work children to their Father . of the country , was called Romscot , to be paid amounted to one penny , which , in the language as Venerable Bede recounts , the " special offerings which they rightly make to him , like annual tax of three hundred mangons to the Faith , taught and propagated by him , or in the offering was confirmed , if not re-established . Thus Peter's Pence , as the contribution of imposed an " annual contribution on every provided with a church , living quarters . the freedom of the Church . in spite of enormous difficulties , to make These contributions were organized definitely Holy See . by King Ethelwulf 1853 ) . According to the According to the by King Ethelwulf ( 853 ) . --- Page 212 --- 48 . --- Page 213 --- and having rejected the so-called Law of of the Cardinal Vicar. issued various pertinent century' brought on a financial crisis for the committee of Catholics was organized to assist France has not had the honour to welcome the other things , the following : " Since Catholic rule , supported by the income from the Papa' The principal reformers generally confiscated appeared before the Christian world as the through collections gathered in the various tianity . they readily and freely accepted , along with a programme for " aiding the Holy an eloquent exponent in Charles de Monta- Tournai was particularly flourishing . which was the offering for the Pope . It con- the holdings of the Church , thus wiping out the Confraternities of St. Peter were established created and fostered for the welfare of the charitable assistance , and art which had been of St. Peter , which operated under the direction positive and immediate and all countries found sovereignty of the Popes in the nineteenth lembert who , in a speech to the Chamber of offerings of Christian peoples to the Holy See . Guarantees , found himself in dire financial name of Denier de Saint-Pierre . by its deeds that it shares in his trials ? " A they come to his aid with financial assistance , A issued on 31 October and 4 November . incarnation of the homeless and destitute the Holy See found itself cut off from its A like civil governments , was , as a general when Pius IX , having lost the Papal States unity of the Church ; so also , in many countries , stituted a bond with the centre of the Christian The Protestant Reformation divided the refugee . " The compassionate reaction was T Rome , in the year 1860 through Briefs Pope in his exile , should it not at least show the Pontiff and suggested to the Bishops that Holy See , which worsened when the Pontifical States were withdrawn from its control and people . In Ireland , the Protestant " bishop it rent asunder the bonds represented by the See . " Also in Rome , the Archconfraternity also appeared in France , and the unit at with their Faith , that expression of Faith very source of countless works of culture . States . " The struggle against the temporal Peers in France dramatically asked among instructions . A Confverie de Saint-Pierre These organizations became more important world and , through it , with all other Christians . ordinary sources of revenue . dioces . Collections were made and con- simply collected Peter's Pence for himself . siderable sums were gathered under the ancient FFER the " Reformation , " the Holy See Pius IX , forced to flee to Gaeta in 1849 . Tournament was particularly flourishing . --- Page 214 --- of enclosure , sometimes good mixed with evil . He countrymen in the struggle for national recovery . from the stormy political scene , most obser- most people and cause confusion and instability and emerged with a strong Parliamentary party . is one of withdrawal . He doesn't stop " to " think It is said that he wants to introduce a system vers thought that the world had seen the end De Gaulle has always seemed to think that he Gaulle could use his personal prestige as leader . If he insists on is the reform of the electoral system . When France's General De Gaulle retired and encourage the good in its weak and vacillating Since then things have gone from bad to worse he wartime Free French movement to unite his discrimination . efforts to survive . He has heard but doesn't under- similar to that in the United States . most outstanding public figure in France to-day . claimed great kudos from Resistance activities , The ramifications of French politics hewilder . but the integrity of the men who operate it . He will not quench . ' a new angle on an old theme : The general also quarrelled with his own followers This STANDARD news-item merely provides stand what the prophet said of Our Lord : " A come-back ? An English reporter says that De Gaulle's of France is now so bad that he can no longer look We feel that it is not the system that matters had there is a lot of good out there beyond his well of him . But has it ? The writer of this Northern Ireland is an old and bitter story . This became the focus of opposition to De Gaulle . and left the political field . from the shadows to attempt to do so . ' One thing on passively . had a mission to save France . He may now come comment in the Universe thinks not : But the Communists in France , as elsewhere , imised reed He will not break , and a smoking wick sees only the evil . He's just not the type to nurture restige has never stood higher , and that he is the and the General is reported as saying that the state in France . ' In 1945 it seemed that General De Discrimination against Catholics in --- Page 215 --- fault in not knowing its people from top to bottom , sets the example for other employees who look on the boss , to find employees identified with the Catholics in the Six Counties are arising from the a few days , " other work , while the Catholic These scathing facts and figures clioned Exchange , and contemplate emigrating to Britain . serious problems concerning the employment of lesson which might well be learned in these try to place the non-Catholics in suitable alternative from The St. Louis Review carry a pointed workless must continue to sign at the Employment It comes as a shock to read in print the state- ment that America's No. I swindle is stealing from Not only does such thievery cast the nation's They are completely material in outlook and businesses at least Sr,000,000,000 a year , but it This answer may be an adequate one , but one this dishonesty as an open invitation to turn thieves . employment , while the Catholics are left to fend Excuses made to justify these thefts include the in not knowing what is going on in its own business . ynasty is in outer space following in Sputnick's particular article cited is that management is at feeling that management has never appreciated present wave of unemployment and , to a lesser neither man nor God . lost their employment have been taken on within and the other half is basically honest . The article presenting the facts indicated that In other words , highly regarded " old fashioned " word thieves , and to read that so per cent of all half honest . behaviour . They are the products of a society in the employee and this is the one way of righting people are honest or dishonest according to circum- the problem arises-efforts are at once made to The conclusion drawn by the author of the extent , strikes . answer is that too many people are losing their the swindle comprised the stealing of merchandise , culture . Others may have " personal reasons , grudges . trusted supervisors or executives . countries : moral sense . They have no shame . They fear A third may enjoy trying to outwit management . quick-fingered profit-sharing . of different religious breeds . But-and this is where position is measured in terms of dollars rather than and this , in better than half the cases , by well-paid , for themselves . real or imagined . which money counts more than talent and where Unemployment hits all . If a business or industry Of the remaining 50 per cent. half is dishonest equipment , and time from the nation's businesses , themselves . stances . the balance . Cases are known where Protestants who have orbit . In other employee may see no harm in a little closes down there is no distinction between those trusted supervisors or executives . and the other half is basically honest . neither man nor God . --- Page 216 --- spent nearly no minutes looking down at the this article by E. R. YARHAM Trollope wrote that " of all the sights on Trollope , who was one of the most hard-headed pressure tourist . Niagara Falls have created a Not that there is any need of this , for whatever bend of the Canadian Horseshoe Fall , and the opinion of the modern sophisticated , high- timetable and estimating his profits to a penny . sense of wonder in tens of millions . Among businessmen of his day , writing his novels to a them was the " famous novelist , Anthony walked on to a spur of rock jutting into the as these . Queen Elizabeth ( then" Princess ) The idea behind the new colour floodlighting , water and the rainbow that hangs over it . on the American side , and on the Canadian THE Falls are 167 ft. high and 1,080 ft. wide impressed when they visited the Falls . They t may surprising you to know that of none " so beautiful , so glorious , so powerful ' and the Duke of Edinburgh were tremendously earth which tourists travel to see , " he knew of course , is to make Niagara more impressive . interesting facts you'll find in side 158 ft. high and 3,100 ft. wide . The This is just one of the --- Page 217 --- 155 ft. to 170 ft. blunging with mighty thunder and the " whispered prayers of the early mis- encounters the precipitous drop of around for the marvellous sight , and then said Mass . hour . " Particularly during the hours of dark- of standing on the brink of eternity . With enough to repeat Oscar Wilde's typical but precipice represents the drainage of nearly a miles long and connecting Lake Erie with Lake 1678 , after their ears had heard its thunder Ontario . It is at almost the midway point may still hear above the thunder the crack of is computed at 100,000 million cubic feet per of lovers , the terrifying yell of the red man , sionaries to redeem the children of the Iroquois . to the sea via Lake Ontario and the picturesome Well , there's nothing to stop them . " stream of life been more varied or colourful . sweeps over the embankment and rushes away who accompanied the famous French explorer . and following spray into the gorge known as often almost overpowering fascination - a sense waterfall to the onlooker who regards it with . undeservedly famous remark : " It would be In no other spot of North America has the dropped upon his knees to thank the Creator The universe does not afford its parallel . " an imaginative eve . If he listens carefully he volume of water sweeping over the cataracts believed to have been the first white men to for many hours . At the sight , the Franciscan a Franciscan friar , Father Louis Hennepin , muskets , the roar of ancient cannon , the vows their vision on a cold morning , December 6 Rene Robert Cavalier de la Salle . They are the Te Deum from the little party being lost In reality the Niagara River is not a river ness water is withdrawn for power production , quarter of a million square miles of the mid- the Lower River . The water careering over the wards . " or the insane remark of the tourist , water is calculated at four to five million some the effect is hypnotic , even terrifying . of the strait where the vast flow of water at all , but a great spillway or strait some 37 many people viewing them feel a strong and St. Lawrence River . The energy of the falling horse power . much more interesting if the Falls ran back- nevertheless every week a cubic mile of water in the thunderous sound . WITHOUT question the Falls are among THE magnificent spectacle first burst upon continent of North America . But Niagara is much more than a mere These words uttered by a tall man in grey . have set eyes on the Falls . the greatest of Nature's wonders , and and there are very few who feel flippant --- Page 218 --- " Life as we live it requires us to wear masks . . But , in the sort of mask we are thinking inter control , and let our heart's almost love express # We can slip off our mask when we kneel to # YOU WITH THE MASK-examination of " There is the man whose appearance pro- put his mask on . onscience is another name for taking it off . from his house with a wild look in his eyes and A man in desperate need of money does not emerge Possibly . nobody ever oversees that he is wearing a He will not think it odd . " ir worried minds raise troubled eyes to Him and He bids good-morning to those he meets and does You with the mask-you and I and all of No . He puts on the mask worn by his neighbours certain's think he had gone crazy , if he behaved about . John Jones or Mary Murphy is perfectly is a cook either within or without the law . # Our feelings need to be respectably clothed . We can take off the mask we wear among our His after-business hours could not hear looking-into . AND He sees into the worried mind . too . He THE accepted lover who goes around beaming claims him a respectable citizen . " If he really do so , quite apart from the fact that beable would pray , without anyone knowing . We can show Him , at everyone is laughed at . ' He has forgotten to fellow-men , the ordinary mask that keeps our feelings he knows full well that he is wearing a mask to moan loudly . " A sometimes people who are considered iorries and fears . ' His self-respect requires him to recognisable and so are you and I . But there is another sort of mask , worn by people to get by just as our bodies do . are wearing masks . The false face cannot shield the false heart . Where about his business , whatever it is . He masks his mask . " He remains respected . He is concerned . knows when a brave face masks a troubled to put a mask on . A person who draws aloud These people may , or may not , be aware that they 1934 James itself . heart . His kind eyes look beneath the mask that we have to wear to pass ourselves among our odd " are simply people who have forgotten of the time , or all the time . Our friends and equaintances recognise the mask and think they who put it on for the purpose of pretending to be face , making him unrecognishable . fellow-men . He knows our real self as no other to wearing it that we don't even know we have it on . THE reason ? Because we all wear masks most hide his real self from all eyes . recognise us , and we , ourselves , are so accustomed is need to remove it when we turn to Him . But , the trouble is that we cannot mask face and see beneath , the man he really is , a man repentance may remould us . had they are not or to hide what they really are . in church and beats his breast is considered to he acting a bit queerly . He is probably a holy who lives a double life . man who has forgotten to put on a mask of knows it . " Quiz " looks out at- black cloth affair which concealed most of his THERE is the sedate businessman . neatly attired . THE Mask MAN with a mask would certainly attract ourselves' from God's eyes . He sees through it . show it . involved but he masks his holiness . He does not surprised if he could lift the sedate mask from his ND if the mask we wear is one worn to cover our eyes brim with tears of sorrow so that at the office , each one of whom would be horribly otherwise . upposition , if we were talking about a man wearing really need to tear it from our faces and let acknowledging respectful salutes from his knows it . chauffeur , the newsboy at the corner , the liftman sedate behaviour . " He could also be a hypocrite evil , to hide it from the eyes of men , then we A attention in the street " Quiz " would not but you or I have no right to decide whether uiet man kneeling beside him may be equally Dr so we might suppose . It would be a correct he is or not . He is showing holiness . The --- Page 219 --- of the soul . " Scepticism took possession of that Gilbert Keith Chesterton first saw the thing might not be merely the essence of a years Gilbert felt completely dissatisfied with in his quest for such a religion he passed , like many others , through a sort of " dark night him and at times he wondered whether every- and " The Man Who Was Thursday . The Chestertons were staunch members of for a religion that was based on truth ; and dream . fiction as " The Napoleon of Notting Hill ' its cold and cheerless artificiality . He longed to Literature , and by the time he was twenty of London University . " Failing to make the the Church of England ; but from his early educated at St. Paul's School , and later attended one his name was well-known and widely- a course at the Slade , which is the Art School grade as an artist , he soon turned his attention same time he was bringing out such works of reviewing for the " Bookman , " and he was acclaimed in journalistic circles . He was I was at Campden Hill in the city of London light of day on May 28th , 1874 . He was " The Illustrated London News . " At the The Daily News , " " The Spectator , " and also contributing articles and sketches to also contributing whom I knew so well has been honoured by the Vicar of Christ . Gilbert Keith Chesterton across the counter of her little shop . Much in the interim ; yet to that little old lady it she had looked at the youthful Chesterton seemed almost like the day before . And in the out of the Cathedral a little later . " Of all the and in her heart she was reviewing the years of the Holy Father's would surely have pleased water had flowed under the world's bridges that had come and gone since as a young woman same honour who accepted ' it gladly . but And her blue eyes grew suspiciously moist silence of her soul she was rejoicing and whisper- our shop as a little boy . ' ? ' she began , ing over and over again : " That little child both in this world and in the world to come , then came to an abrupt halt . later turned a blind eye to the responsibilities monarch who had indeed obtained the self- heard an old man whisper to his wife as I came was the reply which she gave her husband . The little old lady who walked by his side distinctions that he ever obtained this title gave an emphatic nod of her head . I always knew that he would achieve fame it entailed . honour while he was yet alive ! " I over- him most . ' Do you remember how he used to come into Faith . ' has been given the title of Defender of the WHAT a pity Gilbert didn't receive this --- Page 220 --- a summer's day . And I knew that the sight liked a good meal of roast beef and onions . He chubby face who had once upon a time crossed which he himself had been privileged to receive . he threshold of her shop and asked in a childish freely in his veins , and he could find happiness He showed from his own experience the of Salvation for all . As he himself once said the mind of that little old lady who emerged here will fall on all our civilisation a fatigue IT was on June 14th , 1936 , that , fortified by of Fidel Defensor on English coins would ever innocence of Father Brown " and " His treble for " a penny bar of chocolate " and who perpetually bored . minster Cathedral into the warm sunshine of afterwards serve to recall a little boy with breathed a courteous " thank you " as he jug of brown ale in the local public-house . " He soul left its earthly habitation and traversed secrets of labour interesting in themselves . from the cool refreshing shadows of West- Diversity " will convince even the most rollicking humour . Energy and zest surged need of God and His unfailing " grace . " He All his writings glow with that sense of life with the words of the Salve Regina falling in places that many another would find as dull he was " no art-for-art's-sake man . " His the unfavorable distance to the land where the Last Rites of the Catholic Church and liked music and skittles and clean , wholesome . alive sitting on an iron seat under an ugly I have been filled with life from within , " lamp-post at a third-rate watering-place . ' melancholic that life is well worth living . His Wisdom of Father Brown " will bring smiles gently on his ears , Gilbert Keith Chesterton's deserted junction . I have been completely thing : for everything will certainly be tired which is the one disease from which civilisations main aim was to bring to others the truth as " ditchwater . ' lavbreak and daily bread and the creative do not recover . ' of them , " he predicted . " tremendous Trifles " and " The Uses of prepared to leave . To the end of his life Chesterton enjoyed a he tells us . " in a cold waiting-room , in a pointed to the Catholic Church as the One Ark from the most hardened hearts . And he had no patience with those who are HESTERTON had no time at all for those Woe into them who are tired of every- time shall be no more . ' All this and must more may have been in and liberty . " All Things Considered , " And he insisted that " unless we make who go about with holier-than-thou faces . --- Page 221 --- teeper significance behind it all ? Auto- nrely a coincidence or could there be some was swiftly reviewing the outstanding events adulation that came his way , forgetting the night had passed over his head and he saw insisted that the boy should be called by tention and misery : but put we on the pursuit of happiness rose up " before his had spoken to his heart ; and there would a long year had so fervently prayed for the matically the intellectual-looking man picked however . dropped out of use early in the understood why long-sought happiness had at Carthage he gloried in the praises and ringing through his heart . up the book and began to read . And the mental vision and with new-found light he of his birth his father was pinning great In a sudden flash of revelation the spiritual average . As well as that , he was a fine days and nights' which he had spent in the be no'turning back now as lone as he lived . the high-sounding names of Aurelius . hopes on his son's future , and he , therefore , very first words to meet his eyes went colours " vanity of vanities . " The manv SLOWLY , very slowly , he closed the book . Lord Jesus Christ , and make not provision glinting on his face and the brighter sunshine so consistently eluded him . on November 13th. 354 , and he was the son for the flesh in its lusts . ' athlete . And during his university course to rest in Thee . ' in the direction of the mother who for many the sinful pleasures of life in their true conversion of her son . And , as he went , he of God's grace glowing within his breast . Augustine . The first part of that name . rimself up completely to the gratification in chamberings and impurities , not in con- Down on his knees he went , the sunshine He was born in Algeria . North Africa . Not in riotings and drunkenness , not and restless are our hearts until they come Though last made us for Thyself , O Lord , of a mixed marriage . " From the moment of his life . his feet and proceeded to hurry along counsels of his saintly mother and giving Augustine was brilliant beyond the WITH the words on his lips . he rose to another word . God in that simple message boy's life . There was no need for him to read --- Page 222 --- was drifting farther and farther from pleasures of life cast their evil spell about and went to Rome . no longer . Augustine realised that . God disgusted by their hypocrisy , he left Carthage delved deep into Platonic philosophy and had spoken to his heart and ' commanded there for a specific purpose . But still the cogent was the order that it would continue Lord , give me chastity but not yet , then became a member of the Manicheans - may have been his subconscious prayer . on his mind . It was as if they stones Divinity but two . Shortly afterwards were telling him that he had been ' brought 7ET , to all intents and purposes , Augustine The Eternal City made a deep impression a sect that attempted to make not just one But now his conversion could be deferred to respond throughout the ensuing years with never-failing clarity . him to put his hand to the plough . And so m and he kept on defering his conversion . the tenets of the Catholic Church . He THE CROSS --- Page 223 --- cast a quick glance at her boarder , to whom she Junwood , the homely landlady at Vincent few days , she had noticed Vincent to be strangely so shrewdly guessed . " Although he had watched out of town . Some of the fellows borrow cars and thing was worrying him she had little doubt . diningroom just as Vincent was finishing breakfast . a trip out to a dance in a ballroom about ten miles of late he had little interest in the events which two weeks had passed without news , and he could vallev of Coolnaloon looked in the magic of a clear was wondering what was on his mind : that some- Mrs. Dunwood , with , her woman's intuition , had Yes , indeed , Mrs. Dunwood , " Vincent replied the kindly landlady inquired in softer tones , and and sunny autumn day . He rose from the table Kathleen , no letter had arrived from her . Now . grand morning for this time of year ! " Mrs. not even begin to guess why Kathleen had not Delaney's lodgines in Minnow Street , entered the the country , wouldn't it ? I think the countryside Plenty , thanks , Mrs. Dunwood ! " said Vincent . I thought that perhaps you might care to join us ? " period since he had come to stay with her . Vincent , meanwhile , continued on his way to Robin looked at him sharply . and prepared to leave for work . were happening around him . AS he left the house . Mrs. Du"wood stood for a moment and gazed after him . During the last Now and again a few of us here at the job take cerned had he become over Kathleen's silence that break that day . usually very enjoyable . As we're going to-night , work , all his thoughts on that one worry at which I intended going to the club as usual . That's all . ' TSN'T it a lovely morning . Mr. Delaney ? A written . SMILING I Chapter Six . Vincent looked at his friend absently . So con- Did you have enough for breakfast , Vincent ? " a regular crowd goes . It's a real night out , and looks its best in autumn , don't you ? " Er. ... nowhere special , Robin , " he replied . had become very much attached during the brief silent and withdrawn , and , in her homely way , she for the post day after day since he had written to It would be a great morning for a long walk in uietly , and he had a sudden vision of how the O'Shea inquired of Vincent during the lunch- Doing anything . O"Shea inquired of special to-night ? " Robin oing anything special to-night ? " Robin # UNITOR CRAWARDS Vincent during the lunch- --- Page 224 --- its last number for the night and the engines of charming personality of Stella that he contrived presently arrived at the lonely spot where the big evening ended , and when the orchestra had played hotel was situated . Right from the very start Robin said , and he proceeded to introduce Vincent to accompany him to a theatre two evenings later to those of the large party that he had not pre- that they have several more dances before the departing cars were commencing to rev in the and melody . seemed , indeed , eager to join the crowd . " Truth viously met . to tell , it had been chiefly out of loyalty to Kathleen Vincent enjoyed himself . The ballroom of the the following evening in three cars . They ducing a slim dark-haired girl to Vincent . was pounding out hits of the moment with very a So recaptured did Vincent become over the travelled westward into the countryside and that he had declined on the first occasion . car-park outside the hotel , Vincent asked Stella and Stella Marlow accepted . I was a gay party that set off from Dulchester hotel was large and colourful , and a good orchestra To Robin's amazement , Vincent agreed , and down to supper . This is Stella Marlow , " said someone , intro- ( To be continued ) Glad you came ? " inquired Robin as they sat " Of course ! " grinned Vincent . I don't think you've met all the crowd ! " Robin said , and he proceeded to introduce Vincent Glad you came ? ( By courtesy . --- Page 225 --- lead . Danny decides to have a go but both climate DKLAHONAN . THE : The canal rights of Whites A.A. - Suitable for Adult . arrives in Africa in 1895 to make his fortune with Biblical analogy ( King Solomon and the two bride's sister returns home to announce she has nan ! The script is witty and sharp but the in search of a lost city and treasure . ' In case we nothers ) is inappropriate and is inclined to make NAKED EARTH : Publicised as starring " the MAN ON FIRE : Problem : What is to happen the delicately handled ) . they have an accident on the question-will Danny , a young Irishman , who tivorce and , obviously , re-marriage . ( A.A. ) Audiences . Good photography but disjointed story . ( A.A. ) HAPPY IS THE BRIDE : A quiet or an elaborate wedding ? Chaos reigns as relatives arrive , as the and John Wayne we are taken across the Sahara . new flat to escape from it all and stay the night wav back and almost don't get to the church in his friend Harry , stav" there now that Harry is are which leaves little impression but the theme nammy a virtueous heroine . ' For the Irish it will he screen for a long time . " " Naked Earth " turns out to be neither diverse nor provocative . The at teenagers but quite unsuitable and unhealthy sed and hot coffee poured over a girl in a reform REFORM SCHOOL GIRL : Snakes are put in her most perverse and provocative given to come to should think this company too dull . Sophia Loren to-year-old son of a divorced couple . " Daddy Audiences . is adult . ( A.A. ) . another cheap and sensational production aimed omantic interludes are irrelevant and merely the bridal pair . When the frantic couple go to their ole ) should play the role of a man who accepts for them . ( A.A. ) . evolves around the antics of a ship's steward who annoy . ( G.A. ) Legend of the Lost : With Rosanna Brazzi NOT WANTED ON VOYAGE : A comedy which irms up also , drives Brazzi insane , shoots him and left her husband , as a brother comes with a rock 'n' and Indians are stressed in this competent western appear a pity that Bing Crosby ( in a non-singine and " an embarrassment to his employers . ( G.A. ) has rights too , although she ran off with another tearly loves him and holds on grimly . But mammy school when she is suspected of ' appealing . ' The and natives are underneath . This is tedious roll girlfriend who almost causes a breach between s a perpetual source of discomfort to the passengers with clean-cut Joel McCrea in the lead . " The nanages to catch a Timbuctoo-bound caravan with Wayne just when the last peach in the tin has gone . girl counterattacks with a pair of scissors . Just time . ( G.A. ) . 1930s sat O. Objectionable . O.P. # Objectionable in part . de tings . is adult . ( A.A. ) ... --- Page 226 --- know the Missionary and for the they are ridiculed about it by At death's door they know they family influence , are unable to get they have a good grounding in the and well trained and give little or allow them to be baptised until faith , so that they will appreciate Catholics , but due to pagan and no trouble in school . At the age cook the media meal which is feet . It takes about that length ease of an old hand . When they consolations as a priest in Ramoutsa . of four or five they are able to their main food . I have stood in is the number of old men and FOR the first five years we were more or less trying to find our baptise them on their death bed . The African children are beautiful permission . One of my greatest teaching pagans every day , it is to prevent them entering the door . eyes of an Irish map or woman . amazement watching small boys . are beyond the power of relations . Our policy is to go slow and not of time for the African to get to women who have sent for me to who is used to all people being quite a sizable number . Missionary to know the African . not a very large number in the have expressed a wish to be Catholic . But to " us " who are meeting with , talking to , and of Heaven . it and not throw it away when others . Many thousands more reach the age of twelve , they herding flocks of goats with the --- Page 227 --- Ramoutsa and reward all those Catholics going for a visit to the inspiring it is to stand at the altar How grateful the priest is to the all the parts of the Holy Sacrifice . each "day the mystery of growth , during Mass and hear everyone especially by their prayers , to Blessed Sacrament . On Saturday who have made it possible for me . Sister who has taught these children felt they had made a great conquest , resretted one moment of it . May and following with close attention growth and with proper care being to bring the faith to the people of feat days and with great gusto to evenings I can count many who waiting for the little green blades drawing new life from old soil . We to sing the Mass in Latin on big sing the hymn to St. Patrick on singing their hymns in harmony have walked up to twenty miles . In the break between classes how to appear above the ground . They hear them recite their morning Bechuanaland . We feel that grand brought to fruition . work for the Bamalete and to and potatoes . How they watched rewarding it is to see Dagans and his feast day . to come to confession and remain . ups and downs . But I have not FOR six years I have been with before these children each day and overnight for Mass on Sunday . missionaries feel that same urge Ramoutsa . There have been many genuine pleasure in watching its with the Bamalete Tribe in What a pleasure it is to stand bring them nearer to God . God continue to bless our work in prayers before school . ' How camel tale . to hang a story , if not a suit case . luggage problem by recourse to a Camel's had in mind when he tried to solve the Sisters' any longer for the Missionary , but he adds tail , but they are very close acquaintances . you will see how the camels rate a picture . The camel may not be a means of transport romance and gives him something on which These may not be the actual camels Father F you have read Father Carthage's article --- Page 228 --- and of sympathy , Celeste . Is the pupil . Her essays are exceptionally Michael McDonald was delighted . He has wonderful gifts of insight Letters and essays are sparkling Nothing can compare with daylight of THE Cross are asked to pray sparkling with youth Power ? ' Hope you enjoy your an unknown cousin ? The readers Hope to hear good news of your exam . Ann Burke . We may have Glad you like Irish music , jigs , along the country roads . It is a reels and the homophobic . What writer . She is a Marvfield College . He is all for cheerful bright homes . great thrill to admire the wonders for the soul of Mrs. Dempsey . May with youth and enthusiasm . prize . Tell Vera McDonnell that and the sunshine into our lungs . God grant her soul peace and rest . sport . Are you happy now , ' Girlie old Ireland . It is the next step again ? . Celeste O'Keefe writes : " We do quite a lot of pedalling good to get the health-giving air What had Din Joe to say . John great times you are having with and Marie Ni Muircheartaigh ? of Nature while speeding along O'Driscoll is a most promising blue . blue sky - A hewitching corner immount argue . Dublin . " to Heaven . Clair N. HEilithe we neither want to live or work . Valerie Healey sent one of the to win Fr. Mac's 5 ! ... It has given the Kerry ' dancing days ' back Were you excited over meeting of our glorious Erin . Pius XII says without such benefits petitions . Our little friend Patricia pure air too . " " Yes . Celeste . it is Smith . ' There is no place like Ursula Walsh is up to her eyes in life be bright and full of blessings . and very good to breathe God's at play . very happy all the day a painting contest when we get a suitable picture for colouring . because . " Summer is a coming in . " All daffodils and blossoms and a good . Francis is pleased to hear and air . Our Holy Father , Pope school year so we are dancing and sings " This is the last term of the him courage to do more com- your grand news . Patricia . May she coming back to Kerry of the Kings to play the Cello , Geraldine Francis wants to know when is loveliest cards I have ever seen . --- Page 229 --- no need to place your name and March and one in April . They Wobbs that ever Francis during the holidays . Keep sunny days ahead is indeed a truly story of Our Lady of Lourdes a is advice for all of you . There is for three months . " Don't forget One came in February , one in Black Babies . ' It came at a very Francistown have come three carefree without any study to do apportune time . We used it to an essay for the competitions . This in the breeze , " says Mary Fingleton . once again children are happy and of Pines which you sent us for the are all for you . paper . Marie O'Dowd . Once is ' The meadows too have grown your brains from rusting by writing " The country is at its best in My opinion of the next most and the fields of corn are ripening summer charms and summer . The hedgerows are green cutting the sweet-scented grasses . " The heads of corn glint and sway body . The thought of the bright Bechuanaland Black Babies Bank . many thanks for the hundreds address on each sheet of essay letters which I want you to by the glaring sun from overhead . to believe that summer is the most delights . or as you say on return from there ? peruse . They are all connected Finucane . " It fascinates every- happy thought . Schools close and person mentioned cured at Lourdes . and the countryside echoes with SISTER Peter writes : ' Many . the sound of moving machines true one Mary Dorgan ? Was the pleasant season , " writes Mary FROM Khale . Ramoutsa and Both young and old are inclined . beautiful and entranceing charm is the Four Bees , the B.B.B.B. the three letters . sufficient . from Khale . this column and Guild-I mean with one of the main activities of --- Page 230 --- Dublin . efficiently and promptly During the summer season Ireland's national pilgrimage of Antrim . ' Hills of Donegal , etc . 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" he Saviour's wondrous career to the young folk sweden and other servants of God . Press , Kingswood , Surrey . pp. 288. 16 ) - mended in that he has given us a booklet which M. H. Gill & Son , Ltd. , 50 Upper O"Connell St. present book is indeed biographical . The main There are times , of course , when the adult imagina- rueries and leave the latter hanging in the air . attempted no such thing . ' His aim has been rather via an idiom with which they are quite familiar . acts emerge to such a degree that even those who Jesus Crucified . " And this is no small praise . At has here undertaken the task of adapting for young studv. Seldom has the formidable Mother Marie- he has accomplished what he set out to do - and Ourster Armstrong . The World's Work , Windmill tion is strained to breaking point , as , for instance . What , still another biography of St. Bernadette ! The author - the late Fulton Oursler's daughter- little visionary's role and of the momentous events the protestations of Hugh Ross Williamson , the as the following will be accepted without reserves - when Christ is pictured " whittling whistles and to help us towards a greater understanding of the need for lengthier treatment . " The references to STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF JESUS . By April the argument . Altogether , a sane , thoughtful Therese Vauzou received such gentle treatment . are unacquainted with the story of Lourdes and and edifying information . The author is to be com- THE CIRCIFICATION of our Lord Jesus Ltd. , 28 Ashley Place , S.W.I. pp. rot. 1016 Iother . In this he has been eminently successful : the writings of Maria d'Aereda . Anne Catherine doll beds " for the children . Greatest Story Ever Tolp . While maintaining We are in admiration of the author's great charity . THE CHALLENGE OF BERNADETTE. By Hugh Ross Williamson . 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Before their very eyes prophets and kings and Africa , in his boys and heart-aches , in his Sunday Press and for his Evening Press ' Phone month . " Accordingly Father Nash sets about the asks , would St. Ignatius deal with a Catholic whose English language . The present volume , intended unless it struts with worldly pomp and circumstance . what dedicated men are prepared to do , not for presents with amazing simplicity " the long sad modern tendency to isolate religion from the something of the self-sacrificing toil of the St. John have bestowed on the sick and mentally disturbed during the past four hundred years must surely in chapter two , in which the author deplores the a path'so rugged as that marked out by God for which moulded St. Ignatius Loyola . By Robert members of Christ's mystical Body . The loving Dublin : M. H. 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Ltd . eeling that many an adult will find inspiration in Testament . By Daniel-Rops . London : Burns To introduce Father Nash to our readers would JOHN OF GOD . BY Northern NICNATIONAL , U.S.I.D. be a rebuke to those who cannot see achievement hose of us who have been privileged to know pp. 175 . " 8/6d. . D.C.P. D.C.P. --- Page 246 --- so lightly ? " No , says the thinking parent . " And psychiatrists star to popular vocalist . Because of this constant change , many hero to hero , from athlete to prize fighter , from motion picture that we are here condemning that perfectly legitimate admiration like growing pains . " But should unworthy heroes be dismissed was so with St. Paul of the Cross , that mighty ' Hunter of Souls . ' If you have read many Lives of the great servants of God , part in a child's life , especially during his formative years when he must see them lived out in flesh and blood . For him , ideals is said that the Elvis Presley cult is on the wave . It this school work seriously if all their heroes are athletes and enter- be made to see that children's hero worship does not stop short God is a glorious thing , a thing worth toiling for , a thing worth on which to make formal comment . But is it quite so insigni- hardly think so , for it is one of the distinctive diseases of our affect ? " Thus , in the training of a child for full Catholic living , have a natural tendency to indulge in hero worship . Needless there is no shrine at all . This may seem an insignificant thing alone would be , of course , to exaggerate ridiculously . But who it is not sufficient to fill his mind with religious ' information . ' St. Thomas Aquinas , we wonder would they have been relegated B. King , remarked recently that " when very little attention is paid to the worthwhile heroes of our society , children naturally athletes , vocalists or movie stars . But surely some effort should a Catholic child should be given an opportunity to worship . parents' smile indulgently and dismiss their children's heroes must be embodied in a hero-in a Father Damien , in a Maria papers were in vague at the time of Amerigo Vesqucci or is important and what is not . It must not be thought , however , them , in early childhood , with real heroes , God's heroes . It days to be emblazoned in bold headlines across rare ? We countless others . To attribute their heroic sanctity to this fact dying for . " Truth is not dynamic until it becomes incarnate . " One doesn't have to be a parent to know that young folk OBVIOUSLY the heroes and the values parents put before tainers " many of whom jump overnight from a f6 a week are in thorough agreement . One of their number , Dr. Donald of the young . wage to a fr,500 a month salary . develop the idea that worthwhile achievement is not really Lastly important . In many respects , heroes will play a vital This is true for all of us , but it is particularly valid in the training father dermat , c.P. ant , especially where children are concerned : to say . they are not steadfast in their homage . They fit from their children as desirable and worthy of emulation are worthwhile after all ... . You cannot persuade children to take Goretti . Thus he will come to understand that the service of in will realise that , in most cases , their parents provided age to worship at the wrong shrines , or rather to worship when beginning to develop attitudes , values and a sense of what so , we render thanks to a benign Providence . If news- at this point . 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It is well worth while to visit the The Rock of Cashel , Tipperary Motoring through Ireland with its high-set Lancet windows is characteristic of the structure on the Rock is the 10th-century Round Tower which --- Page 256 --- 6 vol. 49 . No. 3 . sixpence . July 1958 . The future troubles . this Czechoslovak bride . --- Page 257 --- with the vast ownership of land by the Church house in a car with drawn shades . They must for four hours with Joseph Ploihar . Minister ment of Czechoslovakia . Mr talk with him had at my side . Nevertheless , I managed to see Sisters are regularly changed Someone from stay out of politics and devote themselves only of Public Health in the Communist Govern- convent and they are taken to the Archbishop's He did not want to deal with the Communists ment that he as Archbishop would recognize non-Communists , but they were usually a Communist minister and used the tram were practicing . He wanted the " priests to cent of the population was nominally Catholic ) under any circumstances . He refused to see to active parish work . " He wanted to do away Socialists . An interpreter was constantly munism . I had an uninterrupted conversation tramatic moments . I asked him point-blank expected revolution and that is what happened . the Secret Police fetches them from their be asked for that permission . important Catholics who did not want com- In short , this brave Archbishop had a healthy plans into execution . He told me at that rather than ask official permission for petrol , and distribute the land among the workers . since it would be the Communists who must first promise on oath never to mention the Communists in power . " I also talked with house or the Archbishop himself . view on conditions in his country . A few nuns . ' Archbishop , confirmed this . time that he would be silenced after the He refused most definitely to sign a state- friendly . " he answered . I heard later from a high official that these in a house in the country somewhere in Czecho- who has taken the place of the imprisoned not been tortured or locked up in prison ? ' A Czechoslovakia . ' I talked freely with the RUT he was never given time to bring his SHORT time ago I was again able to visit thereafter he was arrested and taken away . the Government and the new laws . Shortly Where is Archbishop Berman of Prague ? that , apart from his lack of freedom , he has Bishop Stehlik , the vicar capitular of Prague , I can assure you of this . ' I asked him if he was still in contact with ' I receive a letter every other month from Plojhar answered : " The Archbishop lives the Archbishop , and the letters are very the Archbishop . Can you assure me as a man of honour No . The Archbishop stays entirely out of slovakia . ' Do you get directives or such ? " Who takes care of the Archbishop ? be asked for that permission . Archbishop , confirmed this . --- Page 258 --- community . Only parish priests could continue the only one of the former Catholic organizations parish church , and the Jesuits had been driven still in existence-now financially helped by that many communities of priests had been work , both in the state hospitals and in the to work in factories , and no longer live in a years . This is perhaps connected with the hospitals and sanatoria of Catholic Charities , out . The Premonstratensians , who had always understood and moved away . ' Later , I heard to function . The Ignatian Church was not a The general atmosphere has improved a great deal for the Church during the last five suspended , because the ' socialist law forbids the Communists and under their control . done parochial work , had to take over the Church . They call it " living peacefully no longer in the church . at once her eyes were full of tears : she in their convents . They do much excellent communist ambition to co-exist with the foreigner and asked if the Jesuit Fathers were church and its work . income without labour . The monks were put turned her head without saying a word . I I have seen with my own eyes that the national costume . together . ' Some convent Sisters were left unmolested ts of our children . " THE woman looked at me desperately . All for interrupting her . I told her that I was a for interrupting her . --- Page 259 --- There are always fresh flowers under the village church . They were carrying prayer English , German or French . They spoke met them . They lived under the pressure of beautiful baroque statues on the Charles Bridge , people when my interpreter was not present . to think that the real Church , the community knew the history of this country , you would their names or the towns or villages where I books . I asked them if they could speak through lack of guidance and good example . and boys , and even soldiers , who are , of course . is not so much punishing us as trying to bring ing in the entrance of a cheerfully decorated case ; but more important still is the greater paradoxical statement they told me : If you still more exposed to communist propaganda . that the churches in Czechoslovakia are full and a number of times I saw people praying us back to the haven of His Heart through understand this paradox better Catholicism Him . When one's faith is so watered down that was no longer blooming in this country , more mature , they said . Outward signs are It is better for safety's sake not to mention said . This is perhaps the hand of God Who misery . We have improved and have become many of the teachers are Communists . They I SAW two women in a Slovak village stand- God for His trials which are no doubt tragic , a very tragic but also a very blessed time for St. Louis Register . and that sometimes no times more Holy regime . Under these trials , we have all learned That is true , but we aren't happy . " When I looked surprised on hearing such a make Communists of our children . It must much better than in the first years of the Communions are given than used to be the People have met Christ once more in their through misunderstanding of their need , also Catholic churches are jammed during Masses . of the country , decked with flowers . German . I told them that I was a Dutchman . God with the opportunity to sacrifice for love of Sunday we have a big procession . ' trials , persecutions and sorrow . We are hit one's neighbour in whom we have again the hard way the great command of love of THIS is perhaps a time of punishment , they become indifferent through social misery , ment in procession through the village . very hard , in our shepherds and in ourselves me , as I was leaving : " It is a comfort for us anything any more from the officials : and although it is 65 per cent Catholic . People had but have been really a blessing . and on the wall was printed in big letters : interior spirituality . " We must be grateful to there unmolested . " Priests and nuns walked Not only women and girls , I saw many men of Lenin and Zapotocky ( their head of state ) . a Catholic , and definitely not a Communist But our ever are opened . Thank God , it is not happy at all . " freely in the streets ; there are shops with " Is this a parish church ? " prayers , it is time for a serious spiritual check-up . in their opinion that they were living through ' In the open ? ' crucifix on the wall . Instead , the portrait it on Sunday . ' When I visited a school in predominantly I have talked with numerous priests and lay of the faithful , grows most when it is learned to love God . Yes . Then we go with the Blessed Sagra- The school is our second home . ' Then you are registered . You can't get bleeding ... : It is especially bad to see Catholic names . could not have the procession to-day , but have One of the women said outright : " We are The best luck we can have is to be presented by I was greatly moved when a Czech said to Catholic Slovakia , there was no longer a not last much longer . said : " Come , show me your church . ' Is " Are you happy here ? I mean as Catholics . " communism , but they were usually unanimous the project for it is a very poor example and gives and statues are still standing along the roads . There are not enough priests . The pastor ' It is Corpus Christi . ' activity - of this kind is both foolish and offensive school ? " But you are free . You can go to church . ' or a " never fail " novena . To participate in an There was a map with the Russian alphabet , Let us who know freedom remember this . chain letters and the copying of " never fail ; Yes . One hour a week . But the parents aid , comfort , and ammunition to those who criticize religious articles and books ; and crucifixes And then ? " there a special feast to-day ? " he expects great material blessings to result from your children can have catechism in what they wrongly call Catholic superstitious the Church . Yes , at seven o'clock . But this coming from the next village comes . That is why we have to make out a written request . ' Is there an evening Mass ? " practices . There is no such thing as a " good luck " prayer ippended to the list of those who are furthering check-up . to the faith . the cross . learned to love God , " We have again 70 . includes . --- Page 260 --- Andrew , a stoning for James , the flaving-knife this principle to the mystery of the Incarnation of early Christian martyrs as it minples its charity towards His human creatures . No fulfilled His mission had He so killed , for He God's infinite generosity and all-embracing suffering which so characterised the life of of His life He repeatedly expressed His willing - Jesus should also touch those who came into loved me and delivered Himself for me . " Master marks the lives of Christ's chosen will . " To redeem mankind by suffering was for Bartholomew , perilous journeys and a was God . But there is no greater proof of necessary for the accomplishment of man's ings . " He was offered because it was His own in this great Messianic passage the prophet sufferings and death of Our Saviour . He abject of men , " and " a man of screws , " but the Crucified Christ . It is characteristic of the It is not surprising that this predilection for that " man " is stunned into the realisation of spare pain to His friends . Suffering for their Apostles . ' There is a cross for Peter and the thought as sentiments of gratitude over- kindred stream with the Precious Blood of could describe the Redeemer as " the most wonder that St. Paul was overwhelmed with Colliseum becomes drenched with the blood VENTURIES before the Incarnation , the Our Saviour's own free choice . In the course friend . " Strictly speaking , suffering was not Saints , too , that all of them , without exception , redemption . Without it , Christ could have Christian understanding of Our Lord's suffer- spare Himself pain , neither does He seem to for the one loved . It is in the application of are subjected to trials and sufferings . They sword for Paul . The arena of the Roman used a phrase which gives the key-note to the A prophet Isaias foretold the humiliating . flowed from the depths of his soul . " He love more convincing than willingness to suffer hath than that a man lay down his life for his close contact with Him . Just as " He does not ness to suffer . " Greater love than this no man --- Page 261 --- She loved Jesus as no mother ever loved a son . attend and see if there be any sorrow like unto known so long , it seems as if we had found these we can shed with these on Calvary : they do foreshadowing of her Son's mighty submission : eremias : " O all we that pass by the way , Little wonder that the saints could not find that we are then best understood . Father tion . But it is above all her comforting title not rest us so . But when once we see they Fiat , she freely accepted , in advance , all the ing . She had frequently meditated on the Her child was God and hence her capacity for ing that she might the more worthwhile receive of they great woo and the blue mantle we have with all its suffering is indeed very striking . adequate words to describe the intensity of her surrendering herself to a life of constant suffer- Mother , we can keep for joy at the greatness Many of her glorious prerogatives and incom- Messias . Thus , when she humbly uttered her took her alone with Him on the road of pain psalms and prophecies which foretold in vivid . suffering is beyond human comprehension . ife was cruel to Mary , but with a magnificent of thy throne , but they are not such tears as suffer . " Behold the handmaid of the Lord . to accomplish the Divine plan of Redemption sweet sad face of maternal sorrow . the quietness hurch applies to her the ' Lamentation of of the Afflicted " and " Queen of Martyrs . ' shared the yearnings of her Son's soul which alone can know the intensity of her colours ? destined to hear the titles of " Virgin most fortitude born of her planitude of grace , she Mother of Men . " How fitting was it that the sublime office to be one day conferred on sorrows . In commemorative her colours the Faber expressed it well when he wrote : the Redeemer , she knew that she was after losing thee and that thou , went another Mary from that glorious portent in the heavens , detail the redemptive sufferings of the promised to us . By invoking her as such we feel somehow ' Behold I come to do the will . O God . " The of " Mother of Sorrows " that brings her closest love measures suffering . then who but God parable titles cause her children to bow low pains and humiliations which the Redemption merciful , " " Refuge of Sinners . " " Comforter be it done to me according to thy word . " remendous similarity in the readiness of both her , the unique assignment of becoming God should permit her colours ! She was would involve . Like Jesus she willed to Her Fist at the Annunciation was like a and sorrow to the Cross on Calvary . before her throne in devout and illegal venera- my sorrow . ' WHEN Marv gave her consent to mother Our Blessed Lady embraced a life of suffer- --- Page 262 --- is what muttered it was a footing in London . man of God , and God was on his side , Gradually Station at Reading . heart of England , in the city of London itself . the numbers of his Religious brethren increased . Unfortunately , Father Dominic did not live long to enjoy this achievement , for a year later , Poplar House in Westend , Hampstead . It was Dominic Barberi , the Apostle of England's of these in its turn was later found unsuitable through the good offices of Dr. Wiseman and It was Dominic's aim , however , to establish was a master in things spiritual . He was a Eventually , his desire was gratified when , for various reasons ; one alone was retained Dr. Ullathorne he obtained a place called not entirely to Dominic's liking , but - and this Foundation was added to foundation . Each Anne's Retreat , Sutton , Lancashire . in 1849 , his end came tragically in the Railway a foundation close to the great throbbing ven . Dominic Barberi , C.P. Second Spring , must rejoice in Heaven at the and remains in full vigour to this day-St. oned , but , no doubt , the great heart of became a master of the English tongue , but he DOPLAR House had afterwards to be aband- --- Page 263 --- confessed and heard Holy Mass in that spot . fortified the place , but left the old tap-room Dog , " and as an Inn gave hospitality to many with its stone floor in its primitive simplicity . centre in London . It was called " The Black of London's most prominent heights , as God's St. Joseph's ret Various other changes were effected and thus from the Spread Eagle or some other coach reward to Dominic for the stones that were halting English , to bring England back to the windows and shutters with iron and half- 27th last . of St. Joseph , Highgate Hill , London , the grand and imposing edifice , which crowns one Centenary of which was celebrated on May on May 27th , 1858 , was once a coach stage , and the Inn called " The Black Dog " was trans- and for two years the Catholics of Highgate house of which the Fathers took possession , sight of the magnificent Retreat and Church horses were changed there after the first spurt The Fathers turned the tap-room into a chapel flung at him when he tried , in his broken and of a previous old gentleman . He lined the One poetically gifted might regard that Faith of her Fathers . The story of the origin of St. Joseph's , weary travellers before it became the property Highgate , is not without interest . The actual formed into St. Joseph's Retreat . View from 74 . --- Page 264 --- to common usage in our time . Catholics have employed will vary with the value of the article in Blessed is he that readers and heareth the words The term itself is not new . but it has been restored the Apocalypse , chapter r. verse 3 , which reads : Christ through Baptism . " As Pope Pius XII are written in it ... " Possibly this may be the Communion of Saints , in Christ's references to the discovering the owner as if you find a hundred pointed out in his letter on the Musical Body . a lot about it and hear references to it in sermons . what is written , not to carry the book around dictates that " keepeth those things which are reference you are seeking . But common sense There is nothing that we know of in the Holy the fair " flower of the repeated teaching of the undergone in this . Obviously , the amount of effort carry it about their person . ' There is a passage in expected to use the same amount of diligence in When I was a boy many years ago I never heard You have a moral obligation to make a reasonable How is it that something new can be brought into the not ' new . ' It is contained in the Doctrine of the Body of Jesus Christ : " and he states that it is passages ( Ephes . IV. 1-16 : i. Cor. XII. 12- If a priest says that a certain person will go straight pounds . mystical body . effort to discover the rightful owner . You would , with one . Sacred Scriptures and the Holy Fathers . " We shall find nothing more noble , more sublime Is there something in the Bible which says that True Vine ( John XV. r-ir ) and in many Pauline not infallible . Church like this ?L.R.T. ( Co. Galway ) Reader ( ( Glasgow ) . written in it " means to observe in one's conduct Bible blessing . 1907 East property r more divine than the expression ' the Mystical make an effort to discover the owner ? A.F. ( Dublin ) . of this prophesy , and keepeth those things which to Heaven when he dies , is it necessary to have Masses Bible which announces a blessing on those who of course , have a claim on the owner for any expenses The doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ is question . If you find a shilling , you will not be always been taught the general idea of union in anything about the Mystical Body . " But now I read myone who carries it on his person will be successful ? " If I find a lost object have I a real obligation to