Cross Nov 1958

--- Page 1 --- people's undying hatred of the regime , and of the fact that only the profits . The government charges that civil servants are the possibility of revolt is probably more widespread than have been unable to gratify their expectations by conforming tunate Irish youths who join such Clubs . But within recent Irish Democrat , official organ of the Connolly Clubs . " What complex evasion of official controls . This has led to black- hands of club-members , were slipped copies of Emile Zola's on occasion . And the gentle tactic of the kid glove is being used supporters . Even those who have profited most from the regime as the Gospel Motorcycle Factory showed a profit of f7,000 . a The other report-from quite a different source-comes from the reading of non-Communist literature , and in Church attend - patriotism , the Red venom is slowly injected into those unfor- more , the Bulletin of the London District Communist Party Benches have disappeared from parks , plumbing fixtures from neat profit . they are actively engaged in sabotage one of the prime tenets father dermat , c.P. in a variety of ways - in the strengthening of old family ties , in Party itself , complains bitterly that citizens are stealing at an of Communism-common ownership of property . All these group of twenty-seven workers organised themselves and removed One of these reports , issued by the Hungarian Communist favourite trick . Red spokesman complain , is to declare a con- ditions undoubtedly exist elsewhere behind the Iron Curtain . siennent of goods ' damaged in transit , ' and then sell it at a marketing , theft , lying and feelings of guilt . Release is sought has been shattered in at least one satellite . Not only are the pronounced since the rebellion of 1956 . Democrat ; and ( 2 ) on no account to join the so-called Connolly our Irish Catholic exiles in Britain . It is well known that the rebellion than is ordinarily believed , and that , since such con- the fair name of God's Mother must stand condemned . Further- further need have we of witnesses ? " munist methods . not been able to measure up to the dreams of its own ardent that people living under such conditions are thus more open to scientists . A study presented there found that Communism has brute force is keeping Communism in power . some interesting speculation on the effectiveness of Com- not the only one . The Soviet monster can wear a kid glove Connolly Clubs are pro-Communist . Concorted to look like Red Force-and quite stressed that the Irish in Britain should be urged to read the PARENTS . if you have sons or daughters about to emigrate new building sites , and even trees from public lands . As soon ance . These features , the report found , have become more Hungarians completely frustrated by the system of Red control . blasphemous attack on Lourdes . Surely those who would be foul to Britain , do warn them ( I ) not to buy or read the Irish reports of unrest and sabotage are continuing indications of the lumbia University conference of social , medical and poll machines and spare parts in sufficient quantity to swallow up everywhere granting special concessions to their relatives . A clubs . larming rate from government factories and business c O crush a nation beneath its heel-that is one Red tactic , but to the Red norms , and , accordingly , ' have begun to e itherto believed . 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" Michael Mooney Ltd . contractors . --- Page 10 --- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1907 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 . 0 0 6 TKO Part of window in the Missionary Convention of the Holy Rosary , Killeshandra , ' Go. Cavan Dublin . 6 & 7 North Frederick Street --- Page 11 --- 1958 . --- Page 12 --- with the accepted norms of the day . She and to stand out against Ted's wishes . They said Ted had the misfortune of not having children . Stella to give him a divorce so that he could Ted grumbled for ten long years over the fact disappointment in this respect on Stella . A Catholic thinking comes in direct conflict of anyone else . His wife accepted his subtle that he wanted his own children and not those adamantly against such a course , declaring persecution with as much patience as she could had sons and daughters . He took out his the subject , he wanted a divorce and remarriage . municate himself from the Church through an Stella wanted to adopt a child but Ted stood that he was not a father when all his friends not initiate the machinery for a legal divorce . that Ted has his " right to paternal happiness . " her pastor and stood by her guns : no divorce . she was wrong to hold him to a marriage on which to sue for a dissolution of the marriage . IERE is one of those situations when woman . Critics declared that she had no right loved Ted , and did not want to see him excom- On his part Ted declared that he loved young in the attempt through no fault of her own . that his love for his wife had completely died for divorce as he had absolutely no grounds Ted took up with a girl in his office , ten which hadn't worked out . Friends declared and , no matter what the Church had to say on illicit union . She talked the matter over with marry Teannie . He could not bring the action The public can be very cruel to the man or inuster , and tried in every way to make up to years younger than Stella , and in time asked Stella refused to do so . She intended to keep Jeannie far more than he had ever loved Stella , Ted for the lack of children . But she failed to marriage . Mary Mason represents another . the vows which she had taken with Ted at the altar of Old St. Malachv's Church . She still VEVERTHLESS Stella was subjected to man , who no longer wants you ? It's humiliat- woman who holds to a marriage which the after marriage . Tom had always been a timid Stella's stubbornness was ruining his life , he other partner wants dissolved . It is considered Haven't you any pride ? " others asked a matter of " principle " to release the other she refused to break the laws of God and would Tom Mason turned out to be an alcoholic No martyr who faced the lions in ancient which would have broken a less stalwart a storm of criticism by friends and relatives . stella . " Why do you want to hold on to a claimed . Stella represents one regiment of martyrs Rome needed more courage than Stella because party ! . ing . ' Stella . --- Page 13 --- fortified by the Sacraments and guided by the grow up enough to understand the real situa- told us when we took instructions before our also the ' better or worse ' portion . I do not that they are what prayer , the grace of God marriage . I am remembering the ' until enjoy herself . " Jack has to babe the children Mummy is sick " a great deal of the time . as my husband . " Mary protests , " but I am death do us part " clause in the ceremony , and but she would not do so . She is still at the task are intermingled , where problems arise , are also trying to remember what Father Kearney jack hopes to have her cured before the children could give him that confidence and she tried , household represented additional responsibility when he comes home , and get them out to What will become of him if I desert him ? babies came , preventing her from going out to affair and only a true martyr to marriage , so little , marriages where blessings and trials the Family Rosary is said , and the Sacraments promise in the lad , so everyone said , if only he of those who enter into them . ' There are boy with a brilliant mind . ' There was great school in the morning . In his household would gain self-confidence . ' Mary thought she him as a pitiable creature who needs help . to no avail . Every child that came to their problems can be endured in a family " where see Tom as the neighbours see him . I try to see to marriage in the full sense of the word , feeling grace of God , can carry on through the ordeals leave her husband to his own weakness , of rehabilitation , hoping that some day her millions of happy marriages of which we hear tion . He has faith in prayer . He is a martyr responsible to God for the soul of the girl he Marriage to an alcoholic is a harrowing people make them , but it is even more true problem . Nita never wanted a family , but once led to the altar of God . areved and fought over , but finally tackled and are frequented . for Tom , and drove him deeper and deeper into FRIENDS advised Mary to give him up . cases one or other partner tends to fall and sacrifice make them . Even the gravest It is often said that marriages are what occasioned by this affliction . With Jack " Adams it is his wife who is the Fortunately not all marriages make martyrs patience will be rewarded . solved , or shelved . the bottle . pointed out . " You must consider them . ' INFORTUNATELY . however , in many I am trying to consider my children as well There are the children , " neighbours have --- Page 14 --- i563 by St. Philip Neri and a branch of which Preaching was an art greatly cultivated in the invested with the exalted dignity of Mother of greatest privileges of the Catholic Church . The and surpass in splendidour the stars of heaven . Honour her they did in the ' High ' Church- giving countless lectures and discourses - and to be able to invoke her aid is one of the imagine the wrench of leaving his beloved many gifts which came from the hands of Mary first half of the nineteenth century , and and orator . Thus we find him engaged in God was worthy of all honour . ' Newman after Parting of Friends . " It was one of the most touching discusses of his whole life . One can including a series of sermons on Our Lady . In Newman spent his last years . Newman had all the qualities of a great preacher one of these , he says that to love Mary" freely Oxford and the associations of so many years . Priesthood , joined the Oratorians founded in they could not do otherwise , for she who was his conversion and Ordination to the Catholic Newman preached his famous sermon on " The excel in number the sands on the seashore Edgbaston , a suburb of Birmingham , that in 1846 . It was at the Oratorian House at order he had himself established in England In the autumn of 1843 , at Littlemore , He exhorts all to love , honour and cherish this --- Page 15 --- went to Rome in person , accompanied by immediately granted the request that Newman great love for Our Lady , saying it would be the ecclesiastical authorities , and in due course be created a Cardinal . One can imagine the his great regard for Pusey , felt compelled to considerable influence in the Eternal City , Newman's high spiritual qualities , stressed his of the Cardinalate on Newman came about . the Mother of God . The Holy Father was The request first came from the many Catholics , Blessed Virgin that Newman , notwithstanding the great service and loyalty Newman had years of his priesthood . After this petition had was granted a private audience with Pope and in so doing , gives us in unequalled language been sent to Rome . the Duke of Norfolk , being both ecclesiastics and lavmen , who realised press in which he so grossly misinterpreted the writer such sublime conceptions of devotion to letter was received with great enthusiasm . not his beautiful conception of the Mother of God . completely satisfied with his interview , and joy of the aged Oratorian as he heard the praise , because God has given her the rendered to the Church throughout the lone observe a limit , but Mary is beyond fullness of grace in making her His unexpected news that the Holy Father was but what are these titles compared one always associates with Newman's Mother . He goes on to say , " we call more than difficult to gather from any other her Mother of Mercy , of Salvation . his famous reply to Dr. Pusev whom Mother of God without mentioning a staunch Catholic , and who at that time held only by the authorities of Rome , but by the before , he ever realised the necessity ardent devotion to Our Blessed Lady . Church dignitaries , to discuss the matter with write a public letter refuting these " charges , She is , " he says , " solitary in her greatness , Not only after his conversion but also that safeguard wherewith we seal up him by his Anglican friends , for his Leo XIII . He put before the Holy Father It seems Dr. Pusey wrote a letter to the of devotion to Mary . One cannot the doctrine of our holy faith . ' with that sublime title , Mother of God , teaching of the Catholic Church regarding the Immaculate in her Convention . " This famous write on Newman's love for the devotion to the saints one must whole Catholic world . early days and the Oxford Movement . Newman had hard things said about IT is interesting to note how the conferring --- Page 16 --- as he was going to surpass Scott in the sphere after manuscript in a frantic endeavour to of fiction . Youth was his and hope , and dreamed of writing . Now that it had been so Cathedral , he began to send out manuscript The first two years were years of indescrib- called out to him . And Gerald was not slow enthusiastically received , his fame and success did not bring the happiness he had Gerald Griffin printed in bold , black type slipped into weeks and the weeks lengthened dilapidated tenement-house near St. Paul's and taken up a stand on that self-same poems and articles to provincial newspapers , them as part of his very life . The sounds even the hard-hearted critics said that it dreamed of was just as remote as ever . Shakespeare in the dramatic sphere , just courage . So , taking up residence in a semi- he had first come to the great metropolis . it was a long time , too . He was merely a To England he , therefore , came with came the ripple of conversation , with now in his heart that he was going to rival forth from his lodgines in case anyone might for himself in the world of letters . To of London rarely changed within living to write a novel , putting his whole heart into the work ; and , when it was finished , and then a hollow laugh . The traffic slow to recognise his undoubtedly talents . But to answer the call . rumbled on its way ; the hansom-drivers . scope for his literary ability in Ireland . first come to London . Come to think of it sort of book which Gerald had always a long time now that he had come to take across the cover-such was the essence of plans about what the future might have in as when on that evening several years ago ambition in life had been to make a name the " London Advertiser " gave him a he soon realised that there was not sufficient regular assignment . Other editors gradually followed suit . In his spare time he began Gerald should have been happy . But it achieve fame and fortune . But the days been hoping for . Wealth was his and security and the editors of these publications were not had wanted to write . As a boy in the a crowded thoroughfare : and to his ears . been surrounded by those sounds for such The young man's eyes held a wistful look lad of seventeen at the time , and his great London the hub of the world of letters - wait till night-time before he could venture . glowed under the velvet canopy of night was only now that he found out what many BUT then the tide turned . The editor of memory . They were the same to-night heart of Limerick city , he had contributed another had found out before him-that little money in his pocket , but stout hope Behind him was the bustle and activity of of supper . ' Time without number he had to It seemed a long time now since he had of Gerald Griffin's career . FOR as long as he could remember Gerald plied their trade with all their night and bridge , while he wore fantastic dreams and where a thousand lights glinted and fortune were more or less assured . now for sale . produce a best-seller with the name of into months ; and the success that he forced to go to his cold bed without a bite DENIS O'MOORE provides this sketch evening edition of a certain newspaper was main ; and the shouting of a nearby street his dream . Collegians ' it was entitled , and it was the able misery . Time without number he was E stood on the bridge and let his eyes arab justify advertised the fact that the notice his battered clothes and his broken vas " a veritable masterpiece . " " The wander at will along the river to in their depths as he stood there . He had The Ways . store . , The Parties footwear . From Ireland to the heart of England , and thence to of --- Page 17 --- all of a sudden he closed his eyes . talk ripple about his ears . Each hollow The sounds of the city grew louder still . that was tugging at Gerald's heart now as your youth . Take what the moment offers . ' it had called to him years before . But it was And he understood that London was calling laugh sounded hollower than before . And not merely fame and fortune which it was sky and listened to the medley of sounds . before " him all the illicit joys and sinful pleasures for which it was so noted . out to him again in much the same way as that something ? That was the question Gerald Griffin . he stood on the bridge under the London putting before him now . It was also putting man longed for something else . What was seductive tones . " You are young-enjoy , and comparative ease ; yet still the young ' HE lights glinted before his view . The Come and enjoy yourself , " came its The world was calling him . Gerald understood that . But he understood , too , " Youth was his and hope and courage " 207 --- Page 18 --- Current and Catholic --- Page 19 --- many things you and your neighbour have in cud of their nasty anger . This method of bringing impression can be made . More than that , the first many prejudices removed before any kind of in religious matters as in all others and this does that the faith offers answers to life's problems , the wished that this should be accomplished through much misunderstanding must be cleared up , so and concern for others , when there is a genuine best way to baffle them is to say nothing . refused to mission . Because we live so close to people outside attitude to take is a positive one of recognizing the with answers makes for interest in things Catholic . paragraphs from The Modern Apostle , by It is not the " frontal attack that is needed . So step to taking instructions is made much easier . His Passion . But His Passion - and , therefore , Redemption must be ' complete ' by our sufferings . argue with them , and to leave them to chew the brief though they are , tell of the Church's high estimate of the invalid's apostolate : down their pride disarms them , and shows them It is the life that the neighbour is interested in , prospect of children , when they see real helpfulness common even though you may be separated by not fit very well into the picture of the Church's to losing those gifts . " The truth of the matter is rather than doctrine . When the non-Catholic sees a quiet apostolate of action rather than of willingness to put up with misfortune and sickness . apostolic responsibilities . We are born-individualists We Catholics have no monopoly on God's gifts . " Jesus who descended to earth to redeem mankind Pope Pius , they are so useful as to be desperately Ave MARIA we have called these lines which , If there is fault on the part of the Catholics . it From the pages of a recent issue of the city call to propose us all to elicit a reply , but we measure in which we share both . If we thought this , we would be already on the way must be on the side of lack of awareness of our Father Louis I. Putz. C.S.C. They outline When the neighbours notice happiness at the to share the faith with these neighbours . or death , when interest is shown in the reality of makes for wonderment and curiosity on the part that we can keep our faith and our love only in the not words alone . the Church and the child's future vocation , this God to answer when they plead for their fellow men , Discreet questioning , openness and simplicity the faith it normally would be our responsibility Are invalids useless ? On the contrary , said needed by mankind . Their prayers almost " compel " plainly that we slight and despite them . of the neighbour . useless invalids . We have taken the following thoughtful words : offering their sorrows for others . Jesus is in you , " said the Pope to the invalids . religion . ffering their sorrows for others . --- Page 20 --- Brian was no collegian or anything like it . relp his father on the holding of land . Then . people did I see that it was only to be dance-hall . Soon enough I , too , was forced in trying to close one's eyes to such things . savvy with a city contractor , and every by whom Brian was employed was running but what could the boy do ? The contractor cannot fill the stomach . So , after a good that Brian wanted to go at all . He would 00 , with expensive blue eyes and brown ine specimen of young manhood he was , nd at the parish dance-hall he could draw noney he should have for the coming week . would improve with the passage of time : into the background for the time being . household left school , Brian got a job as a His parents didn't exactly relish the prospect ; over to his mother on a Friday night . He In our district anyone who was given to to take the emigrant-ship , and so many Brian Garret should have gradually faded ther times would fill the heart with strange , But facts were facts and there was no use uspiciously near the eyes at times , and at brothers in the Garrett family . It wasn't music from " a violin that would bring tears Brian made up his mind to buy a ticket for aman with wonderful deftness , sure enough , expected that the name and memory of favy locks . ' He was a great athlete in his Brian . Another took his place in the hurling- penny of his pay-packet he used to hand reached the sixth class , and he began to deal of thought and careful speculation , eff it to her to decide how much pocket- lay , and I can recall how , when I was only but political promises are easily given and out of work , and there were three more Brian was twenty-one at the time . A Politicians said that conditions at home AT the age of twenty-one Brian made up field . Another filled his chair in the parish in the hurling-field . He could wield a gladly have stayed at home , if only he could . youngster , I used to admire his prowess The years passed by and I forgot about inearthly joy . His schooldays came to an end as soon , as countries did I rose through and so many cousin of mine who has just moved from A his mind that he was going to emigrate . But the other day I chance to meet a is soon as the next male member of the England ... ... . book-lore was styled " a collection . " Now --- Page 21 --- his General Certificate of Education in the sive as ever and his physique was just as dropped from Heaven , so happy was he to rather inclement and snow was beginning an early shift , I decided . school ; John was at the local Tech . ; and room and plenty of bedclothes . ' went down on our knees before a picture I glanced at the luminous figures of my grey ; but his blue eyes were just as expres- recognised him . He had changed in lots of inevitable . His forehead was deeply furrowed because the evening had turned out to be at eight o'clock ; but he always managed to The children were busy with their home- eyes , and I might be an angel who had just name and told him where I hailed from a day without telling his beads . work . Rita and Anne were at a Convent back he's been telling us it's the only road dreamy far-away look flashed into his blue with the lines of care and his hair was going The next morning I heard steps on the of the Holy Family and offered up the Michael , the eldest child , was a pupil at a watch . Only six o'clock ! Brian must be on that I should stay for tea . ' Afterwards stairs at a very early hour . In the darkness BEFORE we retired for the night , we all to fall-they insisted that I should stay till he left home , he had never once missed a With true Irish hospitality they insisted Ina" O'Farrell was her maiden-name , and coming June . he wants to take . " Trouble ? " Una reiterated with a smile . Next minute I was being ushered into the He didn't recognise me until I introduced priest , " Brian confided later . " For years she came from Roscommon . shake my hand . vays , of course ; but that was surely myself : but the moment I mentioned my morning . ' I sight at the trouble I had living-room and there I met Brian's wife . Rosary . Brian assured me that , ever since But no ! Over the breakfast-table Una . Grammar school and would be sitting for explained to me that Brian's work began athletic and stalwart as " of vote . We're hoping Michael will become a As soon as Brian opened the door . I Sure it's no trouble . " We have a spare caused them . --- Page 22 --- Brian may indeed appear to be one of the I left that house with the feeling that God practice of his religion . children off to school . opportunity of witnessing yet another of brought up a family in the fear and love of heart the spiritual inheritance of his race Their blessing . And I found myself thanking strong enough to withstand the vitiating readers ; but to my way of thinking he will and His Blessed Mother had graced it with God . snatch a bite of breakfast before setting out and who in the midst of pagan surroundings our exiles who had so devoutly kept up . the always stand out as a great man who was Divine Providence for having given me the world's little men in the eyes of some of m ; influences of a materialistic world - as an for work . She herself usually managed to thirty , so that he could come back home and get to Mass and Holy Communion at six- get a later Mass when she had seen the emigrant who carried about with him in his Manchester : St. Sebastian's ( Nov. 30-Dec. 14 ) . or the Sacraments , do your level best to bring him ( or her ) along with you to the during the coming weeks by Irish Missioners : Nottingham : St. Patrick's ( Nov. 30-Dec. 14 ) . O' Here's the list of parishes in England Liverpool : Our Lady of Lourdes ( Nov. 21-28 ) . and Wales in which missions will be given Birkenhead : Our Lady's ( Nov. 9-23 ) . Bristol : St. Mary's on the Quay , Colston Ave . St. Aidan's ( Nov. 9-23 ) . Coalville : St. Saviour's ( Nov. 23-30 ) . London : St. Francis's , Notting Hill ( Nov. 18- ( Nov. 2-16 ) . Dec. 14 ) . Ellesmere Port : Our Lady's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . Dec. 7 ) . St. John Fisher's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . Runcorn : St. Edward's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . Crewe : St. Mary's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . St. Peter's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . Mission . Altrincham : St. Vincent de Paul's ( Nov. 9-23 ) . Chester : St. Werburgh's ( Nov. 9-23 ) . St. Anthony's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . do . Holy Apostles , Pimlico ( Nov. 30- St. Bernadette's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . do . do . Stalybridge : St. Peter's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . do . do . tockport : St. Joseph's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . themshawe : St. Anthony's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . Stockport : Stalybridge . Wythenshawe : Joseph's ( Nov. 2-16 ) . --- Page 23 --- always had a book or magazine under my way of changing my reading habits that has an incredibly difficult thing to do in most adviser , someone to go to with problems to light ahead and it gradually became larger the prospective convert will not only accept the faith and the resulting reversal of values , welcomes the responsibility because of his any mine is - and I stumbled occasionally be typical of those all over the country who know each other very well , and forevermore that he knew the war . I followed along genuine interest in a person he has brought case with the priest who gave me instruction . pace and waited patiently for me to catch IN the beginning . my priest took me by the Father would pick it up casually , look at it mistaken ideas and replace them with the firmly into the gold mine of Catholic doctrine . gratitude to him is multiplied and echoed teach and guide converts . " My eternal home in a world that I understood for the and brighter until all of a sudden , there was out will welcome the change with enthusiasm . received a sound knowledge of Catholicism . from the tireless efforts of a priest . At first , I admit it was pitch black in there novel . Being a promiscuous reader , I up . Lots of times I couldn't see where I hand , so to speak , and led me gently but because he's certainly been burdened with forever ruined my taste for the average blindly . Then one day , I saw a speech of Usually , by the time the basic instructions are completed , the convert and the priest the convert considers the priest one of his be solved . In turn , I'm sure the priest Catholic mind , a difference far greater than into the Church . At least , I hope that's the are taking hours out of a busy schedule to truths of Catholic doctrine in such a way that in the darkness , but he always slowed his my subsequent education , and he seems to was going , but because I had confidence daylight , clear and dazzling - and I was at arm whenever I appeared for instruction . thousands of times by new Catholics who closest friends his confidant , his spiritual priest's job to weed out all the preconceived , first time in my life . most born Catholics realize , and it's the average non-Catholic mind and the During those months , too , he had a subtle THERE is a vast difference between the cases . --- Page 24 --- the other day , the telephone rang . The long like , " and then he'd produce one from his You must have got it out of your high- finished this , I have a book I'm sure you'd by someone who couldn't spell " cat . " without comment , and say , " When you've long as he is within range . For instance , that I must laugh at myself long and often . never be able to take myself seriously so been as dull as a first-grade speller written form " of fiction or simple essays , then I haven't read a best-seller since those days know . " Even to my ears , my voice sounded what I could have done wrong that he would personal way could be said to have ended , in with a miracle . " he said and laughed . lander , Marmion and other Catholic classics . and the few times I've tried to , they have distance operator said , " Just a moment Well , hello yourself , " I answered with Oh did you now ? " How nice of him , to say that in my case Father still watches It was taken just last year , I'll have you gradually he worked up to Goodier . House- approve . . If there's one lesson he keeps what I do and say and how I act , and lets wonderful things but this time they came enlargements on Catholic doctrine in the becomes an established Catholic , the I waited with anticipation . easy to read and to understand elementary but usually it doesn't . At least I'm thankful had picture taken ? " were his next words . With that . I laughed too . I had to agree My ego collapsed like a punctured balloon . ' Well . I knew photographers could do own library . At first , he gave me books know about , 200 miles away . magazine , the one with a picture of you on originality , mentally checking fast to think When in heaven's name did you have me know rather " definitely if he doesn't I thought , to call and say he liked the piece . the back page , " he told me . but not at anyone else , ever . Certainly I'll a little peevish . priest's direct responsibility in a certain , pounding home to me above all others , it's please . " and then Father said " Hello . " school album . ' THERE's one more thing . After a convert I just read something of yours in a that he was right . 214 --- Page 25 --- attended religious instruction classes ) . was introduced four years ago . ( The Church , missionary work is impeded , the work of the incidentally , was not directly affected by excluded . A recent example of this was the the Catholics had forecast when the clause behaviour of students - which was just what Christian influences have been deliberately the prohibition , although in some states , all they have to do is to step in with their increasing signs of hostility towards the factor to some extent due to the current Madras for example , it was insisted by the anti-West tendencies in Asia as a whole ; result was a steady decline in the general Church on the part of the Government , a situation which arose as " the result of the cular it is vital that her missionaries should Marxists proceeds unabated , and it only something which , nonetheless , cannot be be provided in any educational institution wholly maintained out of State funds . The be allowed carry out their duties as in the their parents' permission before they inclusion of an article into the Constitution makes the latter's task all the easier when stating that no religious instruction was to ideas to fill the vacuum created where past without interference . But there are authorities that non-Catholic students receive treated with humanity . India is a necessity that needs no stressing . ' To the Catholic Church in parti- One big source of trouble is that while cratic ideals in the sub-continent of THE importance of preserving demo- Desmond Cryan . discussed by Some of them are here --- Page 26 --- Apostolic Intermuncio , Most Rev. J. Knox , Holy See for religious guidance and inspira- President said : " We have nearly all faiths nunists did quite well in eleven states , and Catholic and Anglo-Indian communities im- large community of people who look to the that in the last general elections , the Com- in the state of Kerala , paradoxically the of all communities in this country should be challenged the law as unconstitutional , with power in the other state assemblies . Although stitution which gave minorities the right to D.D. , last year . Welcoming the envoy , the position has not yet been resolved . munist assembly began interfering with the rights , and religious rights particularly , the result that it had to be referred to the represented in this country . and we are so far as to recommend crippling restrictions tions of their own choice . But the validity Catholics justly considered hostile . It went enacted giving the Communists the right to mediately took up the challenge . They unlikely at present , it should be remembered Catholics objected was upheld , and the most Christian of all , when the new Com- from which was received a report which BUT the picture is not all black . First , commission to probe missionary activities - fully safeguarded . ' the Church in India would be likely to meet if the Communists should succeed in gaining Supreme Court of India . of a number of other clauses to which the it is encouraging to note the assurance on the work of the missionaries . educational institutions to certain regulations It has always been our endeavour that establish and administer educational institu- conscious always of the fact that there is a words were put to the test . Trouble started It wasn't too long before the President's education . The Catholic schools became offended against the article of the Con- their immediate target . Legislation was President , who in turn referred it to the The Court held that the clause subjecting confiscate them , without compensation . The in Kerala are mild compared with those of President Prasad in his address to the HOWEVER , the difficulties encountered tion . THE CROSS . --- Page 27 --- as He dragged Himself pileously along under of working miracles by the power of the devil that swollen Face , defiled by spittle and the Son's life was in danger and that the end was in needs them not to express its deaths . Its had forgotten neither the pronhecies nor the heavy cross . Their eyes met . " Silence and even only for the tortured body of the about Him and a storm of hatred raged in the as she noticed the rising hostility to her Son's sight . A veritable network of intrigue closed dust of the road . Mary could see her . Son's tenderness , its compassion . In the look of Simeon's words of grave foreboding : " Behold streaming with blood she could see the malice cause . Scheming Pharisees had accused Him this child is set for the fall and for the resurrec- coldly rejected . In that laterated Body Jerusalem , frenzied rabbit screams filled her tion of many in Israel and for a sign which Chorus after chorus of historical blood-thirsty people would ultimately reject Him . Marv of man's perversity . Here in the midst of a and rumours had become more and more Him . As she hurried along the streets of Child of her womb . At last she reached Him and revealed their hvnocracy . Marv knew her only for the stifled moans of an agonizing Son had trembled with fear during the three years What need could there be for words ? Love hearts of His enemies . finally unmasked the duplicity of the Pharisees yells filled the air and hatred blazed in every pain of a Sacred Heart Whose love was so that moment which meant so much to both . ears . " Crucify Him ! Away with Him ! many knew , as indeed her son knew , that his noisy rabbit that hated Him with a more than death reached her . Mary hastened out to meet ardent desire to ' suffer ' for mankind and the veiled with awful solemnity the sacredness of shall be contradicted . " More than once she heir declarations and enthusiasm , His own face . But the broken-hearted mother had ears devastating and malicious . When Jesus Kingdom was not of this world . " Despite When the news of his condemnation to --- Page 28 --- and then slowly to John as He spoke His and Death . it was indeed fitting that the implanted in us by Baptism . Saviour had given humanity His last gift and cross on that dark Friday , a new Annunciation sovereignty over our sinful hearts . Now the values , His mother's compassion . She stood dying Christ turned lovely to His mother woman who had given Him birth and Marv magnify the Lord . And my spirit hath rejoiced Himself requesting her to be the Mother of all the pain and sorrows , beyond the raging her Son's hour had come , now that the world had a Saviour . Standing by the cross of Jesus . Even the Evangelist pays tribute to that Jesus united the Sorrows of Mary with the hold of Elizabeth's home was not the expression God's children . " We were born on Calvary . link her compassion inseparably with the the bitter end may cause no little surprise . stood by the cross of Jesus , his mother . " That thy son . " Again His look turned back to the she could look far beyond that dark hill , beyond a share in the Divine Life through His Passion establish His claim . That claim was to came to Mary , not this time on the lips of the from this Sacrifice . by the cross to share His Passion and with Him hour had come to reward Mary's faith and to the Saviour , but on the lips of the Saviour from His cross , He could value , as God alone Mother , to nourish , develop and ' bring to the woman who had bothered Him . By the rejoice . Her ' Magnificat ' sung on the thres- Angel Gabriel asking her to be the mother of Mary's compassion . At His greatest moment maturity the seeds of supernatural life Redeemer should give us a mother . His own His work of Redemption . Looking down Sacrifice of Redemption . The eyes of the could stand so valiantly beside that cross to We came forth in the anguished birth-pang's of a mother could ' endure so bravely , that she blessings that would come to the human race sacrifice . " Now there stood by the cross of in God my Saviour . " She rejoiced , now that asked John in its name to accept as Mother of a swiftly passing mood . On Calvary , her Sacrifice of the Cross . Having merited for us " Mary's assistance contributed to Him in sentiments are still the same . " My soul " both Jesus , his mother . ' torrents of abuse and decision and count the heroic fortitude that crowned a life of constant Even in her sorrow , Mary could and did disciple : : " Behold thy mother . " Thus the farewell words to Mary : " Woman , behold heard the farewell words to " the beloved NO one but Jesus alone knew how much sacrilege done to her Greater . But " there 218 --- Page 29 --- parents is a long life on the land which Almighty which they belong and in which their family But when a people begins to pluck itself from Now if you tell people that it is a good thing there is that quite " special temptation which opposite view , uttered by a Welsh M.P. who came to the English throne . The Scots started vided it is contained within reasonable bounds . thing is clearly wrong . Leo XIII in a little known passage in Rennn' Novarim very well has always presented itself to the peoples of an is attached to a promise about that particular offered obvious temptations to us all and then extends to a special pity to our own land . centuries the latter lands of England have empire to go to the cities of the ruling power . and much more mountainous . " Over many God has given us . This is why final plenty has its roots it is most probable that you will its roots or when such a people is plucked from country in which they were born . happens to be an acoustic . " There is no such coming in 1603 when a Scot ( James I ) came to impious world . to cling to the country in which they were born-the country , one must presume , to how you looked at your patria , your special Ireland but in my own country and more or That is why such devotion is called pietas . a true and most vital virtue largely lost in our I must till and hand over to my children and The Welsh started coming to England in groves The commandment to honour our parents you might very well behave as if that is really earth patch . The reward for final devotion to ment would be that men would cling to the less anywhere that the doctrine of roots , as it the English throne . If an Irishman had ever its roots by bad government or worse , some- wrote that one of the results of good govern- after 1485 when a Welshman ( Henry VII ) . Emigration needs little justification . pro- parison with England , much less fertile many Irish would have followed the Welsh and earth patch . The great Catholic bark of Wales , Saunders exchange his country for a foreign land if his come to the throne of England , we may be sure WALES , Scotland and Ireland are , in com- Lewis , has written : " Wales is a vineyard that is called , is either not known or assailed . be told you are wrong . ' It is not merely in the Scots . children's children . " But do we look at our country like that ? Let's take the extreme Perhaps you would not dare say that . But as Ireland . ' Irish land means nothing . WOULD you say : " There is no such thing Leo XIII goes on to say that no one would thing as Welsh land . Land is land . ' Land is land " ? would you say . --- Page 30 --- an answer that the true adventure for every grow up English-speaking and biased towards is , that is , an Irish Catholicism : we in Wales chiefly because , as more and more missionary will have to supply their own priests and nuns , sends out many priests and nuns to serve the a time , if it has not already come , when for their own national group . This is not because through mixture of national traditions . When pound or two make up for sordid surroundings the girls are left to spinsterhood . But if this and a happy life . an Englishman , nearly always the children him to live , if modestly . at least decently . Is he wanted Englishmen to start colonising Welsh priests and Welsh bishops as it was in politan tastes and regard as " narrow " and as far as possible , they should marry within that is a Catholicism of Welsh people led by the Middle Ages . It might be , then , that a for example , a Welsh-speaking woman marries patriot to-day is the re-discovery of his own land . Chesterton in a very wise passage said them as it has been built up in Ireland . There the larger wage packet ? How does the extra apologise for that , though there may well come primitive " the great traditions of Wales , One may easily provide various exceptions cosmopolitan , so the children adopt cosmo- of the real England . lands' know , the Faith has to be built up in the pursuit of happiness , simply the pursuit of What Irish people in my land tell me is that when , after all , his present wage does permit young marriageable men leave Ireland so that look forward to a revival of a Welsh Catholicism , have been given has to do with marriage England . ' So far as what is " English " is to the rule about roots . For example , Ireland and danger to faith ? to say that a man has retained this virtue of I believe in racist nonsense , but because I people not contract mixed marriages but that . leaves home for fun-for adventure ? I hazard certain reasons the converts of a mission land What's a decent and a happy life ? Are we have seen how certain natural virtues cease England . be so , what happens time and again is that the One of the most understandable reasons I pietas if he leaves his land to get a higher wage But they do not discover the great traditions superational Catholic Church . We need not own afforded him the means of living a decent marriages . emigrants only too often contract mixed Was he right ? What about the man who boldly . I believe that not only should OUGHT here to speak my mind more --- Page 31 --- welsh chapel-on-wheels For thousands of Welsh Catholics , their only place of worship is the mobile chapel . --- Page 32 --- government is set back by the spectacle of so man cares to read certain of our Welsh evening some scandal is caused by the continual coming iefend the Irish state but cannot bring them- more than a travelling mission with Mass with the teachings of the Church . With such into the realm of sentimentality . He must so emigrate to England , they often get into papers over a period , say , of three months , he Faith . But Ireland is luckier than Wales . as Frank a warning as possible . ' If any Irish- patriotism is mere talk and that money talks offered once a month . ' It is less difficult in construe his love of country that he will stay will discover that a too high proportion of But I do know that when young Welshmen citizens make far greater progress . As it is , large Welsh towns contain thousands of lapsed intent upon making it a happy home for the in some wild part of Wales where there is no country . The Catholic patriot cannot escape many immigrant Irish . And here I must give do not at first sight have much to do with pretty criminals bear obviously Irish names . trouble , unless they manage to become no doubt , when a man or woman finds himself Any similar movement in Wales towards self- louder and more effectively than love of within it , rooted to it . ready to defend it and believe that the Irish as Irish are culpable . selves to suppose that Wales also is a nation . grandparents came to Wales in the 19th initial advantages we would expect to see the religion according to what are in fact , principles believe they stand in danger of losing their the old associations , all the numerous little over , the constitution of Eire squares very well Swansea . But even here the immigrant lacks What , we may wonder , is the cause ? I do not coming generation . associated with one of the numerous Welsh to my land of more and more Irish . Ironically the same . The Irish ? I have heard them also . No wonder some people conclude that Cardiff or Merthyr Tvdfil or Newport or enough , some to whom I have spoken will Catholics and tens of thousands of the des- that have very much to do with the Catholic cendants of lapsed Catholics whose great Most of Ireland has self-government . More- reveal no great secret when I write that our tell me , in Catholic Ireland . It is harder , chapels and clubs . iristry . hints and incentives to remain faithful . IT is not so hard to keep the Faith , so they The Irish may not be vanishing : but I century . He has to think about many matters that 222 . --- Page 33 --- is better that they should say their nightly Rosarv the expression , " other things being equal . " But You will recall that the Holy See attaches extra one is close to Our Lord in the Blessed Eucharist . individuals such as that group which is commonly Roman Pontiff . ' The same is true of any group of If it is possible for a bacon to be saved - I mean ing that supreme and divinely established central friend : Why do so many Catholics worship the their family in church . relics of saints . the supreme government of His Church . But He Church and the Church of Rome constitute a fault in authority . In point of fact , He foresaw and foretold at home with their children rather than apart from the essential unity of Church government under the Prayers in Church . Greek Orthodox Church convert such people ... ? " Wondering " ( Lisburn ) . They go for the best of all possible reasons - of the Pope ( as many have done and are doing ) , presence of the Blessed Sacrament . We have used to St. Peter and to his successors in the Roman See Is it better to say your prayers in a church than in Accordingly , it is our opinion that , for parents , it observe all things whatsoever I have commanded your own home . ' ? K. McL. ( Co. Tipperary ) . I must thank you for answering a previous question is not my own but was but to me by a Protestant Church would remain loyal in recoenising and obev- do our foreign missionaries go to foreign lands to therefore , teach we all nations , teaching them to Foreign missions . called the Greek Orthodox Church . Christ gave pray in church than in one's own home . ' In church ment ? " Dublin Reader . " Indulgences to certain prayers when said in the No. When an individual renounces the authority Does not the breach between the Greek Orthodox the Unity of the Catholic Church as regards govern- did not guarantee that all the members of the his action , though lamentable , does not destroy relics of the saints ? D.M. ( London ) . sometimes these " other things " are not " equal " ! that some of His flock would abandon the True Fold . of mine some months ago . Now here is another . It because Jesus Christ has told them to go : " Going a pagan who lives up to his honesty held beliefs - who you ... ... ' Other things being equal , it is certainly better ment ? " Dublin Reader . ' --- Page 34 --- # In fact , it is a joy , a privilege , to look at a aware of your gift . Humbly grateful ? You try to live up to the gifts you have received ? Your a gift , mark you something given , not something in the parish , the best athlete , the gayest and most Then it follows , of course , that you are humbly accompanied by modesty and humility ? are many of them in Ireland , for all that is said harm if you know . comment , perhaps , that it is a pity she is so con- someone saying , " I think she is lovely , " with a is there anything wrong in your knowing that you YOU have ever and a mirror , or perhaps . people & " Well , what's wrong with being good-looking ? " Beauty of face and form is a wonderful gift- She's the prettiest girl in the town , " they say , by words spoken . YES . There are girls like that , thank God . There beauty . You are a wonderful example of His power . Or it could be a pretty girl passing by and and , somehow you know they are saying it . What you have deserved , or earned , or made for yourself . You are a person on whom God has bestowed have told you by their admiring looks , if not of bearing that any film-star might envy . ceived about it . light-of-foot on the dance-floor who goes off to the are good-looking ? Nothing at all . # And , sometimes , it is the most handsome lad loveliness draws hearts towards God because it is about the faults of modern youth . handsome boy or a pretty girl . YOUNG nuns often have beauty of face and grace seminary . he know it ! with it . " sometimes . the next remark is - And doesn't people say and , ou may ask . The answer is " Nothing wrong The answer is " Nothing wrong you may ask . --- Page 35 --- adjustment , worked by the left foot , instead spinet was triangular with a bridge supporting given as 1726 , and it has a range of three and Gravicembalo col piano e forte , which is to say . Metropolitan Museum . New York . The between the quills and the strings . It was to like our pedals-biano . forte and huff-the so that only two of the three strings that go to misleading abbreviation ! came nearer the piano in having three stops , resitancy " of its notes . as distinct from the as " well-tempered , " and tried to popularise of quills instead of the one on the spinet . It in the case of many inventions . e.e. the now board is made to slide sideways when required . keep his famous collection of musical instru- d' Italia in " ryrr : a ringed hammer is made models by adding a device by which the kev- players ' , and besides Bach , who referred to it the close of the 16th century , with two rows workmanship . Its year of manufacture is of the knows in the original inventions . The it , Mozart and Beethoven were particularly in the Maidstone Museum and is of Italian done so it drops naturally into position again ments in tune and trim . An account of the to strike a string by depressing a key ; having clavichord . The former was said to have the harpsichord with soft and loud . " As Christofori's earlier instruments is in the the strings . Then came the harpsichord at Grand Duke of Tuscany , who engaged him to which is merely the Italian for " soft " - a accompany hymns to the Blessed Virgin . The full title of this musical instrument was the sound . Some modern pianos still have this musically or commercially , by its original extinct " trams , " this was shortened to piano . one of the variations on these instruments one-third octaves ( F-A ) . The charm of the Cristofori of Padua , harpsichord-maker to the each note are struck . thus making a softer invention appeared in the Giornale dei letterati latter a sort of neutral gear produced by pieces . and when the key is loosed a damber presses the clavicimbalo that the name pianoforte found of it . received its name because it was played to A the piano was not brought to perfection . The piano , as we now know it , was contrived similar cases again who , with Teutonic of buff leather in the musical mechanism or invented by Bartolommeo Cristofalli or TO complicate the genesis of the piano . " the desiener . It was a German as in so many clavichord was said to lie in the " tremulous virginal and spinet evolved a little after the against the string to silence it . " One of ingenious inventor improved on his earlier was first given . A S in the case of so many other inventions --- Page 36 --- thoroughness , industry and skill , who realized Conservatoire . A very interesting fact which not pass his skill on to any band of disciples , nor did he found a school to continue his craft . the potentialities of the new instrument . of the " upright " into England . The first action from Shroter during that young then came back with a model that really satis- the Great acquired some of Silbermann's be later sold for such high stakes ? We are in Rome , for Samuel Crisp of Chessington , who was made by Father Wood , an English monk arrived in England and saw Father Wood's five years after Cristofori's model was in action a little over two centuries ago , who really per- harpsichord complained of the weakness of A company of German harpsichord-makers same time , independently of each other ) . A and a German named Shroter produced a makers should hit on ideas similar to Cristofori's records of his progress in the Giornale . Silbermann resolved to improve on the new lected the piano and made it a sound commercial . is not followed up , has been recorded by but that gruff and exacting connoisseur of the vary but little from the Cristofori models . ' Who was this musical monk with such a deep model introduced into that country , they say , musician's temporary absence , a theme which similar one in 1717 . Strict chronology leaves He died in 1731 , leaving to posteriority the that Silbermann stole the idea for his improved THERE seems to have been no " original and instruments , and those still extant at Potsdam told , however , that the Germans again the Giornale account of Cristofori , and piano . Fredericio of Gera. in Saxonv. seems action . " Silbermann sulked for a while and sold it for 100 guineas to ' Fulke Greville . ' Esa . ' Unlike the great violin makers' Cristofori did It was inevitable that other harpsichord there is a model of his dated r745 in the Brussels Frenchman named Marius produced a piano only begetter " of the square or semi-grand succeeded in perfecting the original model . fied the fastidious composer . ' Rumour ' had it Cristofori's fame secure . But it was the noted sense of poverty as to allow his instrument to organ-builder . Gottfried' Silhermann who died instrument . He made two for Bach in 1726 . of excellent tone and touch . ' The first public proposition . A poet-friend of his translated historians of music a proves the introduction model , and succeeded in making square pianos Omida worked into one of her novels . Frederick independently . ( Wallace and Darwin con- the upper register and the heaviness of the ceived the theory of Natural Selection at the to have the most claim to that honour , and --- Page 37 --- to end the friendship between you . However it blaming Kathleen for not replying to the manv letters you had sent her ... perhaps you have found coming from you was an indication of your wish expected . I had thought and hoped that my coming here to Dulchester to find you ! " " Mr. for their return together to Ireland two days later she became desperate , and managed to find out more morose and moody with each passing day . you ... in the silence . thinking that no letter At first his friend was stunned by the news that Vincent , is that my daughter came back to Cool- here . I can only guess at . I daresav that you were upon so much ever since the first lonely day when smile of Robin's that Vincent had come to rely naloon in a worse state than when she left it . " the address of this boarding-house ... Although I just as soon as he arrived at the Zenith plant . he was leaving England , and leaving it so soon . Tom Sherlock lowered his voice . " Will you come Bansha unknown to me and crossed to England . but then he smiled , that ready , good-humoured words , words which laid bare to " Vincent all the There was a long silence following Tom Sherlock's Mr. Sherlock . had tried my best to prevent that . She left Mount back with me , Vincent ? " money to the club funds ... . It's part of the poster facts behind everything that had happened since KATHLEEN'S father was plainly overjoyed by the two had met . KISH EYES contest prize money ! " I'll come back with you ! " he said quietly . This had results quite different from those I suddenly , taking an envelope out of his pocket and Vincent's decision , and arrangements were made re had emigrated . Presently , he looked up at The following day , Vincent told the news to Robin , handing it to his friend , " I want to donate some I didn't have to sell my dearest possession to Sherlock . " you never wrote to her ... " not once . Sherlock paused . " What happened when she got I'm glad ... , for your own sake . Vince ! " had quite the opposite effect . " Kathleen grew We're going to miss you at the laughter would lose all interest in you ... forget Irish Club ! " Speaking of the Irish Club , " said Vincent her interests here . I don't know ! All I do know . Sherlock , " You shouldn't ... " began Robin . Robin said . began Robin . I'm glad . Robin said . " We're going to miss you at the This had Michael Haslam . --- Page 38 --- able to keep going . doing a very foolish thing by leaving , and told me which won the poster contest , had " decided to take me into the publicity department . I would do all motor cycle in order that the Irish Club would be that the firm , in view of my painting and what he called the high standard of the picture of mine go with you ! ' you were chucking in ? " Robin inquired . Ireland ... ' back to your old job ! I wish I could Robin grinned ruefully , shrugged . Much to my surprise , he got a bit hot under the I'll keep an eye open for a job for you ! " Sir George told me that he considered that I was collar and called in Sir George Rochester , the Vincent left the Zenith Company that evening . was a terrific temptation , but I turned it down . yet ? " Robin inquired suddenly . Tried to talk me out of it ! " Vincent replied . No , I'm going up to see the manager now ! " Robin walked home with him for the last time . chairman . They had a confab for a while , then Yes ! " replied Vincent quietly . " The salary What did the manager say when you told him Nothing could alter my decision to return to as he remembered how Robin had sold his precious Have you told the firm here that you are leaving make the donation , Robin ! " Vincent said , smiling , it off . " But how I envy you . Robin , going to the advertising designs for the company ... ... " What ! " ejaculated Robin . " And you turned it down ? I find it healthier to walk " he said , laughing promised Vincent . Ireland . " " " " This . I assume , is the automatic dryer . " # From : " More Little Nuns " ) ( By courtesy : " Extension " Chicago . " The Government has been transferred to 228 . --- Page 39 --- TREAD SOFTLY STRANGER : The old story of and Ingrid Bergman do not save this marital face INDISCREET : Charming sketches by Cary Grant or otherwise unsuitable , for the impressionable . Disney presentation in the traditional Western Westward HO. THE WAGONS ! : A Walt which even adults will find occasionally gruesome exciting story in the Western tradition . ( A.A. ) SAFE CRACKER . THE : A skilled locksmithy RUN SILENT . RUN DEEP : An exciting war story tainment . ( G.A. ) . MARACAIBO : An oil fire in the highlight of this RETURN TO WARBOW : Fair Western enter- WOMAN OF MYSTERY . Routine and harmless ST. LOUIS BLUES : The story of jazz is told once Lone Ranger and the Lost City of GOLD : a man living beyond his means to keep up with a thrown in for good measure . ( A.A. ) . Fitzgerald , Pearl Bailey and Martha Kitt. ( A.A. ) skin's cantain for alleged negligence . ' Fair enter- colourful , romantic story , but the philosophy of STRANCE AWAKENING : A novellettish study VIKINGS . THE : If there is little to be taken seriously ' in this lively and colourful account of picture about a very pleasing family which can be of the designing female with amnesia and murder which is strongly recommended for all . ( G.A. ) yields to temptation and finds himself . first in THAT NIGHT : Extremely effective film about an SAGA OF HEMP BROWN , THE : A reasonably actor and his young secretary is stopped before things go too far . " A.A. ) " prison , then , undertaking a dangerous mission for again and guest appearances are made by Ella orchestra provides tuneful music to a light-hearted background of the band's romantic troubles . ( G.A. fierce Viking warriors , some sequence are too grim . PERRI : A first-class nature film by Walt Disney the hero causes it to be rated " Objectionable-in- love and adventure story in the African jungle , sober thoughts . ( A.A. ) . dazzling blonde-embezzlement , robbery and inevit- recommended for all . " ( G.A. ) . NOR THE MOOD BY NIGHT : Sensation-filled over-worked man's heart attack . Presents a few THIS HAPPY FEELING : The romance of a retired TRAPP FAMILY . THE : A charming continental A real children's Western full of excitement . ( G.A. ) Plenty of action and suspense . ( G.A. ) . ORCHESTRA WIVES : The late Glenn Miller's with the action concentrated mainly in a submarine . tainment . ( G.A. ) . WORLD WAS HIS JURY . THE : The trial of a and bloody . ( A.A. ) . style . ( G.A. ) . the war effort . " ( G.A. ) . from censure . Although adults will find it very amateur-detective yarn . ( G.A. ) able nemesis . ( A.A. ) . ( A.A. ) . enjoyable , the theme is objectionable . " O . ) Part . " ( O.P. ) . recommended for all . " ( G.A. ) --- Page 40 --- He smiled ; but he looked so sad that I was reminded of Christ carrying His cross . American accent : " Fine , " Very Fine , " Fine , " Fine . " thing else too . As I answered his questions he repeated softly with the slightest trace of an BENEMBER well when I returned from Africa in 1949 I had an audience with the Holy the urgency of a great care for the peace of soils in all his work for the Missions . I would do on seeing him for the first time ; but I felt an immense pity surge up within Father . As he walked into the room that morning I did not feel like cheering , as I thought through which for those precious moments , he gave me all of himself . I can remember some giving need to her voice , always more imbued with her spirit , united in bonds of fraternal PRESEVERE trustingly ' he wrote ' in the missionary task , be proud to serve the Church He spoke to me for about three or four minutes about Africa , as if I were the only mis annot remember what I said . I can only remember his sad smile , and the look in his eyes ionary there . Where did I work ? ' How did I like it ? ' Were my Christians yours alone , nor that of your generation or your people only . It is the perennial struggle of his same approval from heaven . ' Fine . " Fine . ' arity ... . The obscure and silent struggle that you wage in the service of the Church is not AY we all , through the work we do in these pages for the Missions he served so well , the entire Church , in which all her sons must resolve to participate more actively ! ' There is --- Page 41 --- This has been the springboard of all They have a fine Church and School . but Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Fathers , I Brother and I"4 Sisters . Father's Dopal and Germanus live here . St. Konrad's Catholic Mission , st Joseph's Catholic Mission , Mission in Mochudi one day . With the arrival of Fathers' Linus . Who's Where ... . So here for the record is some has a fine School and Church , as well as recent missionary effort . As well as a Mission personnel will be : "2 Chapel School serves as School . Church as yet no"Convent and therefore no Our Lady of the Desert Catholic The resident Missionaries are Fathers and Federal the total strength of a Chapel School called St. Bernard's . of the Sisters serve a Hospital nearby . Urban Killian and Paul Francis : Sisters and Presidency . He hopes for a big Clare , Germanus , Damien and Carmel . the Missions looks after St. Konrad's . He St. Teresa's Catholic Mission , and Magdalen . Father Eunan lives all alone here . His growing importance . There is a fine erritory lies Francistown . a place of case . They'll always be glad to hear sharing his labours are Sisters St. Liam , At the extreme North-East of the brother Isidore and Sisters St. Peter : " technical and sisters . Bechuanaland , South Africa . outh and coins northward . We church and School newly built , and three Very Rev. Father Carthage , C.P. , who rom home , particularly at Christ nastime . give the full postal address in each Father's Placid . Norbert and Leonard : and Missionaries in Bechuanaland . Mission . s the Mission Superior in charge of all technicaland , South Africa . P.O. , Lobatsi , P.O. , Ramoutsa . Bechuanaland , South Africa . account of them beginning from the Columba Ambrose , Ignatius , Elizabeth Church there is a flourishing secondary Berenice , Dolores and Rosina . morwa . the whereabouts of our Missions . Bechuanaland , South Africa . school and a farm . Working here are Mission , p.O. , Francistown . Khale . Bechuanaland , South Africa . " Gaberones . VERY often we receive enquiries . to . Mochudi . nd , South Africa . khale , SO . Gaberones , from our readers concerning --- Page 42 --- reason for saying it perfectly , and Now , my little friends , when and to serve Him with simplicity my life . When I am at the altar simportant except to love God ife that nothing else in the world you receive , " says Vincent Byrne . thing that has ever entered into second for making it your whole smoke around the chalice and Host leaves they come tumbling down and praying that our incense may easy seems to me to be all the more Bringing notes of gaiety . children of Africa . pray that more priests and nuns go up to God and His blessing may much the poor' pagans in Africa The fact that the Mass is so perfectly for the first time in my letters on my desk . Like Autumn Louis will help you to realize how I feel that I am the last person their unhappy plight . Let us especially those interesting letters atmosphere of grace in which the What could be more iovful than a new-comer . We welcome him light " the fire of God's everlasting warmly . He is a writer of promise . Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament After my first Mass I understood fire of His everlasting love may thoughts of Fr. Louis Merton do in Bechuanaland , that they too and joy . nor the peace and comfort of the Passionist Army battling for Christ . I am aware of the most special There is a shower of essays and They know not the sweetness of are missing . They are in darkness . priest moves and breathes at that swinging the censor full of sweet love " in the souls of the beaten moment and all day afterwards . I love the prayers that go with notes of gaiety from far and near . Holy Mass . No words can describe burn in our hearts ! ' you not feel a thrill of gratitude to come down to us-and that the you ponder on these beautiful the incensation at a solemn Mass ... . Holy Mass ? These words of Fr. that God intended me to be ... . may swell the ranks of the God in your hearts for the gift of I've MISS is like most youngestful " I like reading . THE Cross , life . --- Page 43 --- visiting her glorious shrine in the heralds the approach of winter . 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The second Vaxjo there were twelve people present at Mass . heard confessions , while the third was a sort an every-day occurrence . But such a mission the efforts of the missioners . One Sunday , for example , in " our chapel at the mission was appointed whose duty it was task being assigned to each . ' The first group A priest in clerical dress in Sweden is still a missioners of the same Religious Order is not comprising six nationalities . ' There were four Indeed most of the work of our Fathers in The baptism of a baby is not news - not . at children are excused from attending instruction biggest problem is the instruction of the It is interesting to note , however , that Catholic of the big cities will spend his entire life without schools , offices and factories . A secretary of St. Nicoel's are a veritable League of Nations . The event is noteworthy because the native which took place recently at the Passionist were divided into three groups , a particular day events of the campaign and to co-ordinate A city-wide mission conducted by seventy man , one German and four Swedes . column addressed various classes of people in by seventy Passionist Fathers . The missioners of " flying squad . ' The members of this mobile sweden . likely that a Swede who does not live in one before together with their two older children . At times the people attending the services at Italy . area . it is impossible to bring them together . least in these countries . But the baptism Poles , one Hungarian , one Italian , one French-