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Until quite recently same amazing interest was shown once more in the Coronation Communism , but who do so for the wrong reasons : the horri- subjugation of millions beneath the Red voice : the cross be etched in deepest black are well known to all : the continued Half the world looked on in reverent awe . France looked . I is fatally easy to divide the human race into ' bad men ' curtailing population growth she has come to see in huge numbers . however , there is another side , white and radiant with hope . was listed as a ' backward ' country and therefore worthy of the so-called Reformation . Italy looked and was filled with joy , brought the glory of the glad occasion into the homes of millions . of the earth . Radio , television and the international press gave and without the Catholic Church deluced the Vatican . The herland . England looked with sympathy underneath-of since have believed that Russia would soon be reckoned amongst the influence on the course of history outside its own borders . It May , 1958 . China was seeking a solution of her vast population Pope Pius XII . The Supreme Pontiff is a power in this afflicted between black and white is becoming ever more clearly defined . world such as he has not been for centuries . and countless SO much for the sombre side of the 1958 picture . Thank God , the past few months at the death of the late Holy Father the Chinese may do in the years that lie ahead . ' As recently as seem to be characteristic of our age that the line of demarcation all the ' bad men ' to the east . Everywhere there is a grey Obviously , therefore , a powerful Marxist China must be reckoned Christ's Vicar is ' different . ' an ever-growing menace . Times indeed have changed , and the change suggests some- Pius XII came diplomatic delegations from almost every corner of Rome would have slain their Pope . that all the ' good men ' live west of the Iron Curtain and The year that has just passed into history provides a striking accomplished in that brief period . And we may guess at what cut now than ever before . though the time is not long past when the violent anti-clericals little or no attention . This situation has now changed dramati- of Rome would have slain their Pope . materialism of many leaders in the West who rightly oppose this huge and heavily populated area had relatively small father dermat , c.p. The grouping of men for or against Christ is perhaps more clear- millions have come to ' feel ' if not to know that the voice of problem through birth prevention campaigns . Now comes the great world powers . But we now know what the Soviets have and ' good men , ' just as it is singularly stupid to suggest his was seen with startling clarity on two occasions within the example of this cleavage . " The world events of 1958 that must and rapid expansion the key to her future world posi ing of that glorious ' springtime ' for mankind spoken of by ough but a few years ago she drove the religious orders from XXIII now gloriously reigning . For the observies of I Pope John . European and British radio and television ure of black and white , of good and bad . Sti ent a coverage hitherto unheard-of . Tributes fr ature of black and white , of good and bad . Still , it would but a few years ago she drove the religious ord ent a coverage hitherto unheard-of . Tributes from within lem through birth prevention campaigns . Now Nihil Obstat : Imprimi Potest : censor Dep. Joannes Carolus , Fitzpatrick , M.A. D.D. , Archiep . Dublinen . --- Page 9 --- January 1959 No. 9 . sixpence . Vol. 49 . --- Page 10 --- would say if the person at his side turned on Flight r156 looked squarely into the sight evidently in order to ask her mother who The thunder of four mighty engines pre- by all she saw , especially by the passenger in smiling face of a six or seven-year-old youngster . this strange-looking creature was . vented the individual who had inspired the question from hearing the answer . " But the Curious like all women , she ducked out of Upon being advised that " He's a priest , ' roar did not stop him from wondering how the the black suit with his collar on backwards . suddenly and said : " By the way , what is a Y LANCING up from the newspaper he was prompted another question . reading , the occupant of seat Number 8 And this caused him to wonder what he the head reappeared for another look which Peering over the seat ahead , she was intrigued mother had answered it . priest ? 270 This time it was : " Mommie , what's a priest ? He belongs to everyone , A priest is a mystery He is set apart , yet not alsoof . even to himself . yet to no one . --- Page 11 --- parish is only a temporary assignment , he Oddly enough , the priest doesn't spend too improvement of the weak , the strengthening in the world and discovers within himself the IT is doubtful whether anyone on earth has day in the seminary , he lives a life utterly complete an act of faith as can be imagined . likewise to the hope he entertains for the I more faith than a priest . From his first eternal reward when his labours are done , but without seeing , trusts without hearing , follows throws himself into improving it as though it reward he hopes one day to receive . But that's steward . ' It's not his parish . It's the people's . vision and is led by no angel to the seminary of the wavering and the salvation of the sinful . himself instructing , " guiding , pleading and It's not his . to follow Christ . He hears no voice , has no through a man's priesthood . He believes trying to pay off the debt . Yet he shortens his life maintaining , improv- And all the while nothing breaks the silence . priesthood , experiences an indifference to life willingness the desire to join with Christ in They comprise it . They built it . It's theirs , many waking moments contemplating the parish for another . And although this new and obeys without any more assurances than box hours on end . He attributes Communion even before he left home . In addition , he hears confessions in a stuffs dependent on faith . And he lived that life skv. There is only a man's offering , silence ing and expanding it and inevitably it seems , Since man lives on earth but once and since think , a priest receives no engraved invitation soul on a silver tray and says to the Lord , the great adventure of saving his own soul and he places every faculty of his mind , body and until his arm is ready to fall off . He exhausts are provided the lady . no words from the tabernacle , no flash in the Even then there is no dove from heaven , PRIEST is also a man of hope . And this he has only one life to live , this represents as This same silence and faith continue all For contrary to what some pious people the souls of others . A letter from his bishop and he leaves one He simply feels an attraction toward the A applies not only to the hope he has of an It's Yours . ' and faith . Nothing guides , inspires or sustains him but was to be his home forever . Actually , he's no more than a guest , a And so , without any revelations whatsoever , warning . his faith . door . --- Page 12 --- Not , it must be added , for that emotional , they lie awake nights worrying about " indi- love all while belonging to none . They exercise word truly love Him , regardless of their love their neighbour . their fellow man , even forget them . " why they endanger their health To love those who love you in return . those it got through the distractions of the world That attraction was the quiet Voice of Our ence and forgetfulness , that is something else s One Who has plumbed that depth to its when little or no love is forthcoming in return , to assist folks who will never thank them , why their lives trying to save people who will soon indemonstrative exterior , their disinclination and it alone explains why priests dedicate noble name of love . leapest recesses and He is able to do so because their enemies . " And love them without expect- to rhapsodize about it . " or their refusal to and the carefree , responsibilities of youth is envelop it in a barrage of needless words . Without family or children or home , they ing or asking to be loved in return . a mystery not only to the world and know this side of eternity , one mystery . Why it was whispered in his ear luffy , gushv sort of emotion that parades as And they stand ready , if need be , to lay down out when other more worthy young men were again . That is love unmixed and unblemished . a charity that is as unselfish as it is universal . He too is a Man of Charity . and sacrifice ; fast and entreat . when attention and effort are met with indifferent- attracted to the priesthood . their friendship or refuse their ministrations . who will appreciate services rendered and will Obviously , those who love God deeply also He will , " still , why he should have been singled This is one of the glories of the priesthood mystery began at the instant he was first Lord inviting him to become a priest . How ove , but for that stable , quiet , all-pervading It is of no consequence that the world will who strive with all their night to keep His Those who are one with God's Will , those never recognize the depths of their love . There meness with God's Will that alone merits the The priest , therefore , is a man of never forget , is one thing . To love , however , faith , hope and charity . More than that , he worldlings but also to himself . And the To this end they will pray and labour ; study their lives for men whose names they will never viduals who will resist their efforts , repulse 272 . in the first place is another . I must be said at the outset that a priest is is a mystery . Granted that " The Spirit breath where --- Page 13 --- of Arezzo possessed by a legion of devils , and frogs in stagnant ponds , while clean vivacious more than the image of the Deitv. Those who with the care of souls will testify that every generation there is a rickety population . mean out of Nature , out of sweet air , health , strength when once destroyed . Farm workers crowd could be based on rural industry mainly , and concerns us very intimately in Dublin . for the roll spoken of by the prophet , which was sweet things of the spirit tend to die out . Gentleness and innocence , simplicity and candour tend to in the mouth but bitter in the belly . The first the soil . The city swallows and destroys the in a clear , serene flame , but shoulder acridly their brightness among the vast , unwarying with the image of the devil in mind and matter flight from the land means fewer people to till and stood before its walls to exercise it . Those and unnatural vices multiply in them . like St. Francis of Assisi saw in a vision the city they have for the completely urbanized types ? excellent thing for humanity if its civilization and beauty , into the cities , where in the third ness and depression and subsist on the margin into the city where they add to the already city has its morally foul spots . All natural in his characteristic and prompt manner went as infexhaustible . The problem of urbanization LIAM BROPHY writes were rural tales . What depth of meaning can go to it like it at first , but city life is like the his energetic soul : " I believe it would be an in stature , feverish and depraved in character , be extinguished by the cynicism of city life . factory work and are laid off in times of slack- fecundity which mankind had come to regard and women in our modern civilization drift but in the third generation the cord is cut which in foetid places . The souls of children lose not on urban industry . More and more men ton our Human Dust-Bowls . shadows . unaware of the changes the seasons generations are intoxicated by the new life . in big cities . ' There is a connection between Virtue and virility are seldom allowed to burn AE , " who was economist as well as poet , Goldsmith remind us , they are never replaced excessive number of food-consumers who are bold peasantry , and , as the oft-cited lines of bring to the fecund soil . soul and soil . Thus the Parables of Christ shrivels up , wondered from the source of life . ' not food-producers . Many of them flock to of life with the Dole-that reconstructive is worth quoting on a subject which fascinated connected them with Nature , ... and life Now city-life has begun to threaten that SOUL erosion proceeds at an alarming pace Soul erosion . 273 --- Page 14 --- reached we may , by artificial photosynthesis , populations from rapid increase . Every day farming ) , be able to produce virtually unlimited those recurrent plagues which formerly kept Hopeful scientists say that before the crisis is on earth , only four million are under cultiva- tion . Even allowing for snowy wastes , deserts than the soil , quite apart from the possibility to produce 4, more food than formerly . but there should be still enough people to cultivate or by large-scale cultivation of algae ( sea- per head of population are necessary for a there are 50,000 human beings born into the and boglands , with , of course the dust-bowls , quantities of human food from sources other world . According to nutritionists , 2& acres to 2,200,000,000 , since science has overcome some unspoiled earth to compensate for the of changing the nature of existing plants and results of bad agriculture and urbanization . last century the population of the world is estimated to have increased from r,000,000,000 doubling or trebling their nutritious properties . a generous area for sustenance and help reclaim there has been an increase of r2/ in world population over the same period . During the of the fifty-two million square miles of land decent standard of living . Britain and the head of population , while the figure for Europe as a whole is . 88 . Grounds for Hope . since WILLU was it the earth has dealt made MHE position is by no means hopeless . Out Low Countries have less than. 3 of an acre per to ward off the less imminent threat of famine Science , which is a neutral thing , can be made --- Page 15 --- a million people of Irish origin were living in will be to conserve the present supply of labour former life . But these do not altogether explain thirteen principal cities of the U.S. , over there is a reputation greater than that of Solon Dublin . create a rural civilization , and lead our people were of rural origin , only some 6% in all settled explanation been offered for the flight from the in spite of the ceaseless warnings of their priests , delphia , and nearly 50,000 in Boston . Why exposed them to danger and miseries , and in political leaders and newspapers that city life advanced : the innate clannishness of the land and the manifest success of those who or Cleisthenes awaiting the statesman who can settled there ? Some reasons have been was it that , although 80% of the Irish emigrants the paradox . Neither has a satisfactory on the land by stemming the drift towards on the land in the U.S.A. ? Why was this so Irish , their poverty and reactions against their spite of cheap transport to the interior , cheap land in present-day Ireland . And as AE said , back to the land . The deliverer's first task 200,000 in New York , some 100,000 in Phila- m : " More Little Nuns " ) . --- Page 16 --- tion is just a mere passing economic necessity impossible . Emigration is praised on one side , really the bad old days and there was Emigration invitation and encouragement to become lay- be regarded as the biggest national fact which union with our Hierarchy have made the most need of the Wisdom of the Holy Spirit in Since every Christian is an giving missions and retreats to Irish emigrants we must be fair and clear about this . To offer standard is only the minimum required of him offer a panacea for the problem , but rather to there is the school of thought that says Emigra- confusion that engulf it , making a fair analysis danning . " The best minds in the country in hardly been acquainted - all this is adding proportion . It is so great that it qualifies to firmation , but with which nevertheless he has by the obligations of his Baptism and his Con- and set standards for the exile , even though that bewilderment to a soul already in difficulties return ( even though the good old days were less than one half of our total population is emigrant ( from heaven ) ... that Emigration and domination of one's soul indicated how much . THE Cross realises the the Furrow of September , 1957 , says : " Not will control each aspect of Emigration . given by the English Hierarchy to priests helped by the very doleful guarantees held out in a hostile and perhaps pagan atmosphere . sented during 1958 by Mr. Barry O'Rourke furnishing us with a worthy intelligence that standing so that a more comprehensive and his question , all tending to re-emphasise our it is condemned on another , and in between leven of spirituality offered to emigrants : the then also ) . This confused public opinion is not apostles . This inspiring and ennobling directive phenomenon . " Mr. Frank Duff , writing in raised many an eyebrow . The lay-apostolate or Catholic Action ? Never heard of it ! Now gravity of what the late Holy Father called a There is the very attractive but very new that will suddenly cease as the good old days fruitful treatment may result . destined to leave home . ' This is a devastating The most glaring aspect of Immigration suggest a possible approach to its better under- THE excellent series on Emigration pre- to-day is not its enormity but the clouds of solemn and at times disturbing statements on We would like in this present feature not to should condition all our behaviour and are synonymous . 276 . --- Page 17 --- sentinel of the House of God , his thoughts will First Communion . In other words , the well- emigrant would learn his importance to the violent pain of transplanting into a foreign the Catholic should be taught to regard religion used on July 23rd , 1957 , when he received in as the breath of life , a way of living uprightly church . She is always the Loving Mother : assured him of her unfailing protection . " And be stressed in religious education we suggest trained Catholic , is always at home with the ings , remembering it only as an answer in a words our late Holy Father Pope Pius XII , A of religious education is needed . Gone outline of a spire rising against the sky like a the girl or boy who equated religion with a offers him Mary for a Mother and the Bread failure to give a pat answer to a Catechism . of Life , from the same source as in his very His Body to fulfil some particular work or of Life for his food . He will not then feel the lap of her who shielded him in days of sadness . church , that Christ needs him as a part of he is always the loving child . Here are the hammering at school or a beating at home for school book . As an indication of what might on the symbol of the Cross , or a chapel , or the question . It would appear quite obvious that soil , for he takes his nourishment , his Bread MORE realistic approach to the subject home or in foreign lands , a way of life which no use for religion in strange . hostile surround- He will leakously guard the memory of the day with hope as though unexpectedly he had met his affections . True , he will feel the bang of nostalgia . are the days of the Penny Catechism Catholic , Mystical Body of Christ . From this the when on the hard road of exile , his eye , full of his Holy Mother , the Church , bending over audience the members of the First Italian but at the same time his heart will at once overflow sadness and often moist with hidden tears , chances function for souls . From his earliest days all too many of our Catechism Catholics find a fuller treatment of the doctrine of the when , as friends and family said goodbye , the take wing to the little Church far away-confident the throb of the Church's maternal heart he will solation to sweeten the bitterness of parting , and him and caring him always . That image will know her face everywhere and will never leave the National Congress of Diocesan Representatives . whether at work or recreation , whether at for Emigration : ' But if the emigrant , before leaving . has felt Mother of all stood at the altar with divine con- important in his young heart the image of love . A " the souvenir we must give the emigrant , of so many tender and pious memories and S though he had met his mother : here is mother . ' 277 --- Page 18 --- beautifully expressed it " he will know her grow with the years so that as Pius XII so lonely emigrant . ' His entire approach to his Church whether in the loneliness of exile or words the emigrant is as truly close to Mother picture of what is possible under proper apostle of Christ ? . Is it an exaggeration to tired and cynical emigrant as he looks out on much to dissipate the clouds of loneliness and steeped in sorrow and tears as they offer the the happiness of home . There is always the distrust of strangers that weighs down many a guidance and effective training . In other this in the training of his youth : his brotherhood of her who shielded him in days of sadness . with all men . This concept alone would do Apostolic union with the family of mankind . his contacts follow . Herein is the entire lesson place in the world is conditioned by his under- Are not these words as a rainbow over a world face everywhere and will never leave the lap the supreme dignity of the individual as an to spread it abroad as apostles , must be regarded gives permanence , beauty and significance to at home needs urgent recasting . The failure ship great obligations of love and service to all so that for ALL , priests , religious and lady clear as the noonday sun . The Doctrine of daily life . Again , he finds his inspiration for of the lay-apostle . Alone it has much in it to between the emigrant and the contacts of his religion not a utility , but the only thing that vast world , and that arising from this relation- the workability of that religion must be as unite priests , religious and all the lady into one say it is regarded as the luxury of the more of strangers but the sweet face of Christ . But united ACTIVE body co-operating to make must be injected into the meaning of religion , standing that he is brother to the citizens of this Mother-and-child relation with its vast learned and pious ? Is it an exaggeration to condition of the Faith in the homeland . Vigour the Mystical Body of Christ must be used to guarantee a vast enlightening process in the so will be regard with the eyes of a true apostle his adopted homeland and sees not the sad face of our emigrants to preserve the faith . let alone state that the Mystical Body of Christ is a TI would appear obvious , then , that our as a daily Communist but as an active lay This bring us to the most inspiring impetus emigrant could readily take his place not merely thing unknown to many of our people ? as a composite picture with that of the weak I entire Religious Education at school and the souls he contacts all through his work and Apostle . ' As though he had met his Mother even here at home where is the stress laid on in the entire issue : the relation that exists life . " Then , across the sea the bewildered 278 --- Page 19 --- and their wives . The priest was glad to notice belonging to the retired group , and well-dressed city magnates too had begun to ' move out Passionists had been asked to take charge of Only a few weeks ago he had completed his large classroom of the National School . former rural area had become indistinguishable on the crowded peak-hour buses . Prosperous a small country parish which lay scattered astery in the little village of Greenvale . As course of studies and had come to join the business men , and office clerks and typists , the girls who travelled to and from their offices to-night , Fr. Joachim could see that each schemes had brought within the parish bound - through the countryside in the immediate assionist Community of St. Gemma's Mon- to say nothing of the groups of honest labourers neighbourhood of their new monastery . It to the country . As he looked about him he waited for the late-comers to find seats , he and apart from that , only a few dozen farms occupied by good Catholic families . to-night in the classroom of the local school . from the city suburbs . And what a cross- When St. Gemma's Retreat was founded . the section of classes and creeds the new housing and their wives were elderly couples obviously room growth of new housing schemes until the with their wives . There were the labourers to the meeting . ' Mixed amongst the farmers very young-little more than a year ordained . parishioners who sat in front of him . " He was early days . ' There was the village itself , not had been easy to look after the parish in those a hundred yards from the monastery gates , aries . There were the retired business men who cycled daily to their work in town , and began to reflect on how he came to be standing looking over a small table at the group of 1R. Joachim felt rather self-conscious and town of Fairburgh had spread out in a musn- " not a little embarrassed as he stood in the section of the parish had contributed its quota In recent years , however , the neighbouring forum of the Passion-conducted by Mr. Cyril , AP. --- Page 20 --- place where we might come to discuss some- sermon . Well that's not the idea at all . Of parish is in charge of Passionist priests who are the point , something which would help us all already , I had better add that you will all be to discuss the topics of the moment . So we Forum meetings . The Forum , as you may evening , maybe you got the impression that it the help I can . But the main work of the " our views . Maybe when you heard the Forum is going to be carried out by you . the have in the parish a centre and a meeting And now let me explain the idea of these thought it would be a good idea if we could subject , and then everybody will be invited course I'll be here each month to give you all thing very topical , something very much to views on some topic of vital interest to all of Sunday of every month . It's to be our Forum . handed over the National School on the last people of the parish . At each meeting , two Sacred Passion is topical in the best sense of place . Why the Sacred Passion ? First of all bound to spread among you devotion to Our was going to be something like an extra Sunday have to explain . Our Forum is going to be parishioners will give you their ideas on some the Seven Dolours Parish . Secondly , your to be better Catholics . And so we've been notices read out at Mass this morning , when Lord's Sufferings and Death . Finally , the ( In case anyone is beginning to feel nervous your parish is dedicated to the Sacred Passion : you heard about our Forum meeting this ancient times , the place where everybody met and have agreed to start things going ) . called the Forum of the Sacred Passion and that means that at every meeting the to take part in the discussion that will follow . It's to be a kind of parish pulpit round which free to speak or not as you please , and the two we can gather once a month to exchange our Passion of Our Saviour will have a special remember , was the centre of the town in principal speakers for next month and the of us , whatever his age or station in life . month following have already been approached us , on something that will concern every one to work out . There's only one point more I NOTICE I said we are going to exchange Well that will give you a general idea of what the parish Forum is and how it's going ( This is the first of a series of twelve Forum the word : it always applies , and it applies for over a hundred years it's been known as to everyone . articles by Father Cyril . C.P. -Ed. ) . --- Page 21 --- The first reason for this is that nothing Conversely , he said that its truth is so huge , is as satisfying to the human mind . There anything . No discussion that leaves out once remarked that he could start with theology can utter the final word about subject is half as fascinating , and no other so overwhelming , so all-pervading , so enor- I am not worthy to shine , but who , I feel and prove that the Christian faith is true . ever is really settled , no problem ever is anything at all-pots or pans or anything - with my admiration-my friend Chesterton completely solved , until the right theological theology can ever be said to be finished . is the only topic fully suitable for our con- who never heard of me , whose literary shoe is a very real truth in saying that theology Until theology has had its savvy question mind , shall we say , must stop ; but for where to start when you are asked to demon- confident , is , in heaven , obscurely pleased is that in the final analysis , no other sideration . To every other theme , the Mr friend Chesterton , whom I never saw . answer has been found . Ultimately , only is left dangling and unattached . mously obvious , that you hardly know VERRECTRON was right on both parents this theme it must soar . strate it . THE second reason for discussing theology --- Page 22 --- pliments , these hitherto strangers now grow- brothers and sisters in the same family . These theology . These people relaxing together , drawing their pav. and never feel themselves pace and rushing at breakneck speed toward might drop them : and they never know the play , a drama about religion , entitled no practice in theological thinking . They have looked at it through the eyes of go through life , writing their reviews and will show you , if you are patient . that the Discuss theology at a cocktail party ? Pray , never shudder at the thought that God into-well , into a quite indescribable and these folks exchanging witticisms and com- Cocktail Party ? And did not it fall far images and likenesses of God . These are refrain from speaking of God . He thinks foreiest notion what Eliot was talking held in the palm of the hand of God . They unhappy without God . More likely than short of the success it deserved , because ship or not in the friendship of God . Each are fellow journeyers on a strange spherical which he has carried in his head from child- and its mother . And each , sooner or later , conveyance that is spinning at an alarming or later through the frightening " darkness lost under a blazing desert sun needs water because he feels lost and " helpless and are earthbound . Their minds have had hell . Each of these is either in the friend- anything else for what it really is ' until you for us to jump out . He won't : that indeed it is ' difficult even hood , or because there is something he wants unthinkable light , or into a night black as not . he calls himself an atheist either because in God : the fact is that he speaks of God some unknown point in space . to go on doing which he knows God forbids . he refuses to believe in a caricature of God THEY did not know because their minds ing to like one another-these are the needs God more desperately than a child need for God is at least vaguely felt . are having a few beers with him , will long three-quarters of the critics had not the he speaks of God because he does not believe warm assurance that He has promised that Not even the avowed atheist , when you what else ? You will never see a cocktail party - or EACH of these cheerful visitors is under sentence of death . Each must go sooner about ? 282 282 --- Page 23 --- the things I notice about with . you one ear and out the other . WHAT we are looking for is a sort of miracle strength , what good will all your fine resolutions Mass , and , if you can manage to go , week-day Mass . That's the biggest answer , because the Mass strength left to fight the enemy . of grace . We want to mend our ways , conquer food and your strengthening . But how do we get it ? again . So often maybe that you've let it go in your resolutions still unbroken . The calendar on the wall is not much of a guide our weaknesses maybe it's a matter of giving up Thousands of soldiers lost their lives in World through that bed of nettles . We need something more left to fight your enemy - the devil . And without The biggest answer is of course . the MASS-Sunday If you don't feed your soul often enough with helpful . We need a soul-tonic . # Actually there is more than one answer . ing and evening . Pray really . " Really pray . our pet sins . Communion . It is God's gift . It is God- war I because they ran out of food , and had no God made man giving himself to you to be your " Now . don't tell me you haven't heard the May 1960 see you marching , chin up , with # So , you with the new look , happy New Year ; results to those who try it . Still another answer is prayer-prayer mom- answer to that . You've heard it over and over IT is easy to get and it beings the most wonderful We have only to ask for it . Its name is the grace of God . ANOTHER really big answer is this : Holy to you . REMEMBER : that can happen to your soul . is the biggest thing , because the Mass is Calvary . Iolv Communion , you won't have enough strength be ? 283 results to those who try it's name is the grace --- Page 24 --- Our 88% score from business experts - who possible . The very fact that it happened at all is significant , and that it was encourage Church's rating was computed on the basis of Church is always interested in keeping its points in ten categories : social function . able to judge only our externals is rightfully even before a total analysis of the report is the audit is in giving the lie to certain notions analysis , administrative evaluation , and effi- discussed the project with Vatican officials . ment programme , operating efficiency , trustee So many people have the notion that the hey were both astounded and doubtful were removed from our doorstep , and we are of 88, " those in authority in the Church will It is about time that some of the dead cats perations secret , that it fosters intrigue an a source of satisfaction . Further comfort by the Holy Father is even more impressive . 200 research workers in Rome , who used in the Vatican with all its forms and question an American Protestant concern swoop down the oblique approach . The willingness to have Not the least of the good accomplished by first time in history , so I was told , the Vatican refuse a single thing we requested . For the ments within the Church during the past fifty membership analysis , fiscal policies , develop- of bigots as well as in those of some Catholics Mr. Martindell reports that when he first Philadelphia : " If the results merit a grade However , " he says , " the Church did not be happy to know that their human infirmities having done so . Let's spell out a few of them . gories are based on the activities and develop- for the benefit of our researchers . We had Library was open during August and September THERE is one point , " says the Pilot . had have persisted over the years in the mind naires should put this ghost to rest once and ganizational structure , growth of facilities , have deducted only 12 per cent from a perfect ency of leadership . Ratings in these cate- represent the " world " and who of course are " Secrecy and Intrigue " years . that deserves consideration at this time mes from the words of Cardinal O'Hara of for all . ' grateful to Mr. Martindell and his staff to score . ' this " information " report shows that --- Page 25 --- stick by which we have been measured valid ? Catholic Church is everywhere , by country , as assets , when in reality they are benevolent although those who made the survey cannot of her own members , and does not participate the provision of bare necessities to the 5,000,000 all creeds cannot be ignored as a management the area of our knowledge or experience does or a school , or a church ? Can such be classed some 5,000,000 workers that annually educates grind ) that the Church seeks the benefits only of the world , it is certainly in the world . ' It is a divine institution , but it is administered by those who perhaps have their own axes to point of universal interest , or as a dominant liabilities ? Should anyone be unpleasantly prayer . No other ruler , temporal or spiritual , surprised to know that the operation of more community level it has often been said ( by even greater number of the sick and needy of ments are valid and helpful as far as they go . talked-of wealth needs to be explained . " the We think it is . For though the Church is not by race , by social class . An organization with organization but an organism , their measure - be expected to know that the Church is not an than 876,000 churches , parishes , hospitals and amazingly well . " No other organization within humans , and humans can be measured . Thus , Church , in variety and in detail almost defies social force . Certainly no other religious The social contribution of the Catholic category of social function , the highest rating labour has been spent by many people . audit adds . " Who wants to own a hospital , ends of the earth are well known , but on the its members and to the world community . The society attempts such broad services both to souls who run them . total an expense of more by the audit , which gives the Church , in the comprehension , " the Institute states . " The adhered to such an astounding schedule . ' than $5,000,000,000 a year ? some 20,000,000 children and cares for an That the opposite is true is strikingly shown Roman Catholic Church is truly catholic . ' from the Bishop down , the Church performs so much with so little . ' at an estimated cost of 8,000 , is the yard- ON the matter of finances , the audit reports : charitable and educational institutions , and " The character of the Church's much - In the sum total of its financial affairs . as she should in community affairs . ' possible-to # NOW that a prodigious amount of time and True Evaluation . " Isolationist " 285 THE Church's missionary activities to the --- Page 26 --- depend on the continued co-operation of readers papers are economically secure . For that they owned nor ecclesiastically controlled . " They are Catholic newspapers in Britain are not diocesan Catholic actionists , and several have written weekly " Illustrated " would cease to exist as a Quite a number of journals , large and small , went that he loved to see his people . He always loved thoughts about The Cross : last week when it was announced that the national risks , and who must , therefore see that their and each death of a secular journal should mean never angry about anything . about the demise of newspapers and periodicals . In an intimate picture of the Holy Father . Catholic papers as they do others . out of existence , swamped by the tide of rising costs . Then came a lull , and the lull was ended While on holiday as a cardinal he was entitled a reminder to the Catholic community that if We reprint this brief Catholic Times comment in the hope that it will sow in the cooks indoors . Then , the other main thing was signora Roncalli said he was always serene and You see . " Signora Roncalli told a reporter . Journalistic deaths . had put up its shutters . are doing at the table over there . " For some months there has been a lull in the news hearts of our readers kindly and sympathetic to have visitors . Catholic papers are to continue they must be time in the garden . He preferred to be with his separate entity . Earlier its rival , " Picture Post , " that , " Signora Roncalli pointed out . These journalistic deaths have been noted by But he does not like to hear you say anything he would eat just like two of my other uncles bad of anyone . ' He always corrects you if you do local police chief to dispense with the formalities . and remove them . in the hands of laymen who take the financial While he was there he did not spend much e plainest of red wine from simple tumblers . warning the community that rising costs affect supported by sales and advertising . They were eating bread and cheese and drinking to two carabinieri guards . He always asked the Catholic papers as they do others . --- Page 27 --- decade increased 38.1/ for the same period priestly Worse vet . although there has been a religious Robert Welch . His answer is well worth door of the church to go to Sunday Mass , what did across these disturbing paragraphs on the of stirring us emotionally , lifting us from our a second thought " by every one of us : revival generally , the priest is not going to be able provides our next clipping in lighter vein : We think his problem is not with what goes on stirred at Mass , but all that is too superficial and In the pages of Catholic Light we came though a man would readily accept as fact the age Sisterhood 16.7/ and those for the Brothers 32.2/0 . the Mass to do something it was not intended to sad survey . H. N. Ferguson , writing in Information , to care for all the potential converts who are I have never yet been able to get a woman to in church at Mass but with the vacant , uncom- What is the matter with the person who uncommitted minds . uses ceremony and externals and colour and music mitted mind he has brought to Mass . The crucial question is simply this : when he came in the front lethargy , moving us to the depths of our being . vocations increased only 2r.7/6 , those for the gets little out of Mass ? " asks Father Vocation figures , according to a recent study he really intend to do ? In the answer to this do . It is not a Passion Play . Although the Church free-fourths " of the seminarians and novinces she is going by . sincerely looking for the One Fold and One dearth of vocations in the U.S.A. : and motion , she does not do so with the intention interviewed , there had been parental opposition . population in the United States during the last resent an alarming picture . While Catholic How much a woman paid for a dress without will , not to the emotions . That is not to say that of why one person is bored by Mass while another transient . charming to each other are actually at daggers - That a woman is lying about her age even That a woman's hair is not its natural colour . is not bored but attentive and devoted . Sad to say , a survey revealed that in about There is a real danger that Catholics will expect What is being said in a conversation near her . question we think will be found the explanation explain satisfactorily how she seems to instinctively That a woman she has just met is not to be Shepherd . the emotions are never stirred or should never be even though she hardly knows the couple . uncanny . The appeal of the Mass is to the mind and the What every woman in a crowded room is wearing , trusted . know : seeing the price tag . That the two women who are being utterly ithout seeming to pay any attention at all . point . --- Page 28 --- of disruption in ' mixed ' marriages is more than on divorce . It is woefully significant , however , religion , as against only 8% of children both of 60% of the Catholic partners to " mixed " marriages We answer your question on the assumption that Catholic partner but of the children of the union . brief : we do not know . tragedy simply cannot overtake their marriage . marriages . Why ? Because from long and bitter should be attired in the manner appropriate to her marriage outside the Church . We need hardly secret sins of her past life . Accordingly , she may into right ! ) . How vastly different from the sacraments " in certain circumstances after a that its Canterbury Convocation decided to permit twice as great as in the case of unions involving period of six months . ' It would seem that the seek a legal divorce and re-marry ? She believes latter says there is no danger of this marriage ever indeed . " From the same survey it emerges that circumstances as they are objectively evident and What language did our first parents use in the Is it allowable for a girl who has fallen into serious sins against the Sixth Commandment prior to her there a possibility that after some years he might uncompromising Catholic opposition to divorce . marriage in the Catholic Church , not an invalid have a ' white wedding ' if she so desires . could never crash . " Anxious to Help " ( Dublin ) . often result in the loss to the Faith not only of the A recent American survey showed that 66% of the or by her heart ? In point of fact , the likelihood defect from the True Fold . ' Your friend believes Has she been drawn to this conclusion by her head Garden of Eden ? " Teenager " ( Co. Monaghan ) . Two Views " ( Lancs. ) . that her fiance is ' different " and that , therefore , two Catholics . Anglicanism , to be sure , frowns children of ' mixed ' marriages abandon their whose parents are Catholic . Stunning statistics never wholeheartedly approves of " mixed " the marriage your friend contemplates is a ' mixed ' stress that the Church sometimes tolerates but divorced " persons who ' re-marry ' to receive the inland , has become engaged to an Anglican . The experience she realised that such marriages all too marriage to wear white for the wedding ceremony ? breaking up , as his religion forbids divorce . ' Is implicitly the word of her fiance that this marriage lapse of six months is sufficient to change wrong she should give no indication in her attire of any sins to " others . For the wedding ceremony she This girl has no obligation to reveal her hidden Our answer must be as unsatisfactory as it's I mean of little , all Irish Catholic girl living in --- Page 29 --- -called tolerance is one of the most flagrant One of the most striking fruits of twentieth- wonderful maxim to those who merely take Walk along the main streets of any of the great allow them to be shown in booksellers' shops , pretensions to twenty-century tolerance , we pretensions to twentieth-century tolerance , we and let live " can be construed to mean " Let allow our children to come in contact with these this " live and let live " catchory seems a very Books that seek to envelop in an aura of rom the printing-presses of the world , how there is really nothing we can do about it . sin prevail and evil flourish : what is that to vices from the house-tops and encourage the literature that is foul and vulgar in the extreme . too many circles it is considered the essence us ? " then the " live and let live " business of fashion to turn a deaf ear to the hundred press and the radio and television . With our every good-living man and woman feel that the vaunted tolerance of this our age has certainly glamour the animal instincts of those who call after hour , and day after day . With our be ignored . And it is considered the height crimes of the age in which we live . For in far impressionable reader to surpass them in their But it might just as truly be said that this of good taste to turn a blind eye to evils that heroes and heroines proclaim their respective so many places nowadays reaches our ears , and re words at their face value . But , when " live and one problems that cry out to humanity century tolerance is the dissemination of for amelioration and redress . broken more bounds than it was ever entitled Volerance , we allow such books to emerge and be advertised through the medium of th our shoulders and toss our heads and say that way of life . cardinal virtues of the twentieth century . I has been said that tolerance is one of the themselves men . " Books that endeavour to to break . in any decent civilisation should certainly not ' Live and let live " is the catchy that in bjectionable productions and calmly thru degrade and besmirch . Books wherein would-be VITH our pretensions to twentieth-century cities of the world , and what do you see ? takes on monstrous proportions and makes for amelioration and redress . to break . --- Page 30 --- says such things is in reality no better than a by merely voicing one's opinion as to the atom " might be aptly regarded as more in had not an evil book passed through their obscenity of a publication one is really boosting accordance with the requirements of the age . moment who were guided there by the printed sions . They may lead an immortal soul from might have never seen the inside of those walls , that there is really nothing that can be done trace their crimes back to the unlucky time are hoodlums on the streets of our cities this word . There are thugs in reformatories who about it . ' There are those who will say that havoc on the most priceless of human posses - when their eyes lighted on a sex-packed novel . There are those who will seek to assure me may end-God only knows where ! ' There havoc on the body , but the pen and the printed the paths of goodness and grace to the abyss The sword or the atom may indeed weak from which there is no return . its circulation . " But the man or woman who up within the mind a train of thought that word are capable of wreaking irreparable hands . There are convicts in prisons who can uplifts . A bad book , on the other hand , stirs GOOD book is the precious life-blood A of a master-spirit . " It et encobles and that they had hitherto trod . of the printed word ? through my hands ; and I can tell you , without You and I would do much to avoid another major war . We would regard it as a crying other reason than that a filthy book put evil suggestions into the mind and opened up to more fraught with dreadful possibilities than printed word is more dangerous than the seen boys and girls " go to the bad . " for no shame if the atom-bomb were unleashed upon avenue that seemed more alluring and more attractive than the straight and narrow way stop to consider a force more powerful and " The pen is mightier than the sword " rings the slightest hint of exaggeration , that I have all the atom-bombs and missiles that the ingenuity of man can ever produce - the force a defenceless people . But do we ever really just as true to-day as it ever did , though " the their youthful imaginations the gates to an --- Page 31 --- tions that they will grow up to be good citizens at all events , do something to nullify its seeks to odorn sin with the false trappings of the miles of degrading publications by sub- be held in veneration as it is to-day ? Suppose the necessity of steering clear of anything that that an unreliable chemist were to put drugs I splendid enterprises have their origin I his men that they were facing insurmountable his shoulders in the spring of r775 and told destroy the work of the obscene press we can , all is said and done , one is forced to admit that ound for a possible excuse is merely striving the mind of one man . If we cannot completely and entices the passerby to come in and buy is show that we despise all that is sordid and their hearts' content , would we stand idly by leftest . And the man or woman who looks opine that we must " live and let live " ? respect all that is noble and good . We can ernicious influence . We can show that we to shelve the responsibility . chemist whom I have just mentioned . lamour . We can teach them that it is only surely a greater menace to society than the calmly let his customers pick and choose to citizen now think of him ? by turning a blind eye to those odious publica- more than a shrewd businessman and tolerantly Suppose , for the mere sake of argument , Literature enter his shop . We can counteract nothing he could do about it , would his name can be desired . We can warn our children of Suppose that great-sound American who and good Catholics . War of Independence had merely shrugged obscene . We can refuse to patronise the book- e man who was the leader in the America NOTHING great or good was ever brought to fruition without an effort ; and , when man who places obscene works on his counter and allow our children to visit that shop ? ced the Negroes had also said there was Would we regard such a person as being " no odds , what would the average United States cribing to those which are everything tha seller who is content to let " foul and corroding d poisonous compounds , on his counter and ' What sort of a book would you advise me Personally I do not think we would . Yet the --- Page 32 --- Sisters of Charity , Fo Sisters of St. Louis , E Sisters of Mercy , Gold Presentation Sisters , Sisters of the Good S ) Sisters of the Cross a Sisters of the S. Hear Little Sisters of the F do . do . uv. do . be --- Page 33 --- over , had kept in touch with a school-friend , Jenny O'Connor . Even when Ienv became the wife of kept up an unbroken correspondence . They had was speaking to Gladvs Craven amongst other Protestant and went to live near London , they had presented her golden-headed treasure , Marion , aged old son and only child , Aidan , and Anna proudly same sort of life you've led these years past . Oh suppose you know the address of my mother's town of Knocklov , and Anna married an English came to London on a holiday with their five-years - woman but I wouldn't like to look back on the vas going to sell the business , pay the debts and Mrs. Carroll , your mother's dear friend ? " am going . I shall advertise this place for sale . things , which included the information that she " Yes , my mother's dear friend , " Marion echoed met once as married women , when the Carrolls pondence was resumed . tried to tell her- Now it was of Mrs. Carroll that Marion Davis dear friend , so you can forward any replies . to Ireland for a holiday to that Mrs. What's-her- clear out . in Dublin , and , for years after schooldays were ANNA DAVIS , born Anna Clarke in the County If you'd listen to me . " much money - " How dare you interfere , " Marion flared . matter of dressing glamorously out of the stock Marion Davis cut her short . I said you would rule it and you will . Look Patrick Carroll , a prosperous grocer in the little and enjoying life hectically on the profits . four . They had never met again but the corres- " You looked after yourself well . I'm not a religious I am not going to listen to you . I am going could pull the business together , Miss Davis , if at you now up to your ears in debt in a few months . you would take my advice . ' You're spending too I wish . " right you have to dictate to me . I shall spend as You always did , " the older woman said dryly . mockingly . " It will possibly bore me stiff but I name . ' " of Louth in Ireland , had been convent-educated your advice I'll ask for it and I fail to see what know more than your mother ever knew . I right you have to dictate to me . Gladys Craven had been shocked . " When I want your advice I'll ask for it and 293 Gladys Craven had been shocked . " But we --- Page 34 --- time girl . through and through , she had enjoyed Nance's mother had died . leaving the girl , at saw no reason to change that , just because she had soon saw that it was impossible unless the income going sorrowful all his days and she hannv in ace a woman that was fond of your poor mother . " the way of a middle-aged man who has been end- tried hard and , perhaps , worn herself out in the reached for pen and paper , to invite Anna's child not popular . She had thought it over carefully John Carroll , proprietor of a successful business . craftiness nor greed mars him , in later years . John himself Daisy would have no wish for him to be daughter who has lost a dear mother . Could she more serious . at first , but he soon rallied , telling life so far . Now , she reasoned , there was nothing looking and has used life wisely , so that neither fifteen , to take care of five younger children and was a quieter type . pleasant too , nice-looking in harder , to try new ways , but a good-natural She wrote a letter , the forlorn letter of a lonely Mrs. Carroll's eyes filled with tears as she read it . all she heard a bit of a gay lad ? ... He would reality that drew people to her without knowing GLANYS Craven burst into tears , to her own Marion laughed . She had her plans . A good- Carroll was fond of her and pitted her because Poor child , poor child " she murmured and for it but to secure a husband to support her . In why . " Nance worked in Carroll's shop . " Mrs. heaven . He had loved her gaily and truly and he process . Now , the task had fallen on Nance who to come , and welcome . the sort of circles she had moved in marriage was was supplemented . SHE had striven to induce her father to work their ways , an intelligent , lively man . ' Carroll took a poor view of Nance Grey's father , indeed , of her father , a happy-go-lucky character astonishment . have been less an optimist . Nance's mother had any undue exertion and took the vagaries of weather suit , she decided . joke about little girls trying to teach their fathers gone from him . He would have been able to are . " she told Marion bitterly . " I wonder you can house . His wife's death had seemed to make him explain all that , had anyone criticised his gaiety , for who farmed a bit of land without causing himself to herself , and he was a pleasant man about the come and rest and forget ? she asked . 294 son , heir to a business , owner of a car and , from She was a darling little girl . " Mrs. Carroll told " I never knew anyone could be as hard as you clothes for a young and healthy family or he might he was a man interested in life and in people and lefinitely pretty but there was in her face a spiritual not to concern himself with purchasing food and that were farming before they were heard tell of father . It was just the sort of him she explained was all she got . " She had no feeling against her and the ups-and-downs of marketing with a cheerful Carroll's letters , good-looking , prosperous , only Aidan Carroll , the white-headed boy of Mrs. and then the inspiration had come . Why not Nance Grev later . Nance . ' slim . blue-eyed with soft brown hair that curled naturally , was not there's the two sorts of luck . " He took good care Ah sure , things must be some way " or " An sure , --- Page 35 --- with whom a U.S. ' lieutenant is in love . had a ermeates this rugged story of a rancher's efforts what is left will probably harm no adolescents . Twilight for the GONS . Ernest Gann's and life , but recovers everything in the end . Other- floor of a boarding-house insane ? Most of the SALLY'S IRISH ROGUE : The first feature film story in the Libyan desert . ( G.A. ) novel has lost , fortunately , a lot of its more sensa- REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN : Frankenstein , tional aspects in its transference to the screen and Definitely an adult piece . ( A.A. ) . comedy with Kenneth More in the lead . ( G.A.S GUNMAN'SWALK : Too much hate and vengeance to be made at Ardmore Studios . Reasonably good , of an Army Sergeant who poses as his General . negro father . Many will love this piece : others who has just been killed . Enjoyable , but death through the atmosphere is one of callous and ICE COLD IN ALEX : This journey across endless but one's interest is held to the end . ( A.A. ) will be bored . Straightforward war romance , set by the discovery that a beautiful French girl SEA WALL , THE : About the rice-fields on the SEA OF SAND : Unpretentious , but effective war NEXT TO NO TIME : Farfetched but pleasant light and banal , but always hilarious . ( G.A. ) . Machine-GUN KELLY : A woman canester silot who has lost his nerve , nearly loses his wife emphasis is on the reactions of the other lodgers , MAN UPSTAIRS . THE : ' Is the tenant on the top INITATION GENERAL : The improbable story the presentation bizarre and sometimes seductive wise exciting and energetic air-war film . ( G.A. ) was an ugly duckling : A supposedly 295 steal the film . ( G.A. ) . ugly duckling is transformed ( via hair-dressers and HUNTERS . THE : Stock story about an airforce lighthearted entertainment . The Abbey players makes use of a crack marksman to rob banks . All vicious disregard for life . ( A.A. ) island . The Censor obviously had a busy time . alas , will never die . Yet another crude episode in ROCK-A-BYE BABY : Terry Lewis ramps and driving the Japs from a stronghold in a Pacific which is incredible at times . ( A.A. ) . MERRY ANDREW : Another pleasing Danny clowns as the foster-father of triplets left in his treated too flippantly . ( G.A. ) (G.A. ) . desert , minefields and quick-sinking bog takes Indo-Chinese coast . The mood is grimly realistic of the life and morals of a platoon engaged in Kaye music-cum-comedy film . Light entertain- thronehout . " Really a director's film-a sort of can involved in dubious romantic episodes which Wages of Fear " in the desert . ( G.A. ) throughout : the characters an unsavoury lot and beauticians ) " into a charming young lady , but is care by a former sweetheart . Sometimes facetious cannot be overlooked . over two hours to tell but grips the attention to raise two sons . " ( A.A. ) . this interninable series . ( A.A. ) KINGS GO FORTH : The romantic problem is sabsorbing theme than most . ( G.A. ) . naked and the DEAD . THE : An exposition ment for all . " (G.A. ) . IRON SHERIFF . THE : A Western will ( A.A. ) . --- Page 36 --- great hazards of providing lions , twice a year , rejoices in the name he can carry sufficient water for only Irishmen in the Kalahari . Kalahari during the rainy season . and hold it for a few days until the travelling outwards so much , as seems to me , in comparison with , man makes his trip through the the book that he has never seen many depressions in the sandy thirsty sun drinks it up . earth . called ' pans ' which fill up wave the travellers Godspeed into interests and many surprises . with water when the rains come lorry driver who does this journey THAT is why Dave the cattle- and more is worth the seeking of Labour recruitment , officer called and all along the way there are that is knee high and lots of bush . Most of the way you'll see grass the desert belonged to a native Ireland but owns some property it that our missionaries are not the The cattle speculator and intrepid . Jimmy Casey . of Dave Flattery . We are told in a desert all right . ' The desert I comes to watering three hundred . Lobatsi and Ghanai there are only of this must be that if so much He doesn't mind the week's THE book had for me many learned from Jimmy is called the the discomfort of the heat and the and on that score the Kalahari is Bundu . ' . In the bundu between will be done for so little : all that certainty of one's dinner . This But the Missionary's thought IT was Timmy who said ' If you For instance I have learned from personal needs : but when it three wells , but all over the place desert fevers and the awful un- there . The last white hand to even one soul . accuracy with the gun . think the Kalahari is like the A desert is a place without water Sahara you're in for a shock . last necessity depended upon By the mission . --- Page 37 --- # " UNCTI AND The vast Kalahari Rhodesia . South Africa . --- Page 38 --- A story of the Christ . you a descendant of Henry Sumner the children were playing on the Christ Child . " writes Lily Byrne . banks of the river . " One day the He tells about this poor old man This little boy who had saved the May the Holy Child give His grace English and second for Irish . Are and one of them is written by man's soul turned out to be the was made for God alone and nothing His love by taking up His abode wandering the earth . the times he went to Connacht . was this little boy and he called of a poor boy . Peggy Hanrahan Sacrament worthwhile . " The soul stories of the Christ child on in to see the old man . The old to all who do not know the wonders . Padraic Pearse tells about one of within us . " Give continual thanks Francis' desk . Some tell of how just in time before the man died . receiving Him often in Communion . how grateful to Him you are by living Bread , " said Our Lord , voy went for the priest who was There are many well written beautiful story that Lily has told ? ' There are many stories of the to Jesus for this magnificent gift , with devotion and love . who was living on his own and was Himself to all who receive the great It was during the summer and all life of the world . " God shows us if any man eat of this Breud he which came down from Heaven : but God Himself can satisfy its man was very sick and he knew Padraie Pearse . In this story Christ Child . " Is not that a ments for a long time . The little longings and desires . " " I am the that I shall give is my flesh for the man had not received the Sacra- knew that he was even sick . There my young friends , and show , too , the life of the soul . He gives not able to go outside his own door . child . He visited houses with the kindly that he was dying , but no one open doors . He came in the guise of the Blessed Sacrament , that is Maine who wrote the History of shall live forever ; and the Bread You , too , have a Laws in Ireland , he Brehon Laws in Ireland , writing gift . Rosemarie ? " the Brehon ' Rosemarie ? You , too , have a --- Page 39 --- Let's Begin Again all from the World Organisation of Black Babies ( Wobbs to us ) . notes will sound " Let's begin again ' . Mission Editor , who is also the Bank Manager ( see photo please Let's Begin Again ' photograph , please ) built up a huge total of 10,000 Pings . The will you help him like Eddie and Pat ( see photograph once again the mission editor . A NEW YEAR full of grace and goodness is the wish to you again , through window ) is looking forward to a similar success in please . ' That's ' Pat with a jarful of stuff . ) ? ' Already on this ( including a few coppers and bowbees ) . It's a good start . So is aloud with New Year bells feeling out the message of the days if you stop the chiming for a minute and listen to the separate that lie ahead - letsbeginagainletsbeginletsbegin - which the clients of our B.B. B. Bank helped by Pam and Patto ( see And from 1959 1958 was wonderful with noble work . Month by month and ping by ping 1959 was wonderful with wob work . Month by month and ping by ping January Nineteen Hundred and Fiftynine he has 493 Pings earth to-day who once had full and spider quickly spun his web across plenty and are now without any- thing because of wars and unfore- n a sweet little tale tells how He the Holy Family's way into Egypt ressed in poor clothes . The family thousands of people wandering the seen misfortunes . There is an old when we ourselves would be going two soldiers came they said they There is a nice story told that on they thought someone had seen was the Christ Child they had in Peggy's Mammy speaks words . sked Him to have a meal . When essays . Aingeal de Paor of Scoil He had finished they realized it the mouth of the cave . When the could not be in there . ' Look at from door to door beasing for food . ' them so they hid in a cave . A What Mammy always says is that Bride , Earlsfort Terrace , says isited a certain house and was his very day . " writes Peggy . space to give quotations from their midst . " From that day to clothes to beggars and the poor . we would never know the day of wisdom and charity . There are bright , Mammu has given food and The Holy family Whether my house be dark or Francis wishes there were more Irish rune of Hospitality which the spider's web across the against me . ' Never shall it be closed against Last Christ close His house anyone , " O King of stars ! . says : - --- Page 40 --- T.C. vii . --- Page 41 --- advertisements . Manufactured only by belfast . Ormeau Bakery Ltd . Offices and Duty-Paid Stores : Telephone : BELFAST 29088 . special emphasis on good steaks and good fish . STREET , Open from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. 9 Donegall Sq. South . Belfast ( At the Rear of the City Hall ) . sole agents in Northern Ireland for MacKinlay's Scotch whisky . 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