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All business communications should strictly copyright . welcomes original MSS. , which should The contents of THE CROSS are The Editor . strictly copyright . The Editor --- Page 9 --- September . 1958 . Vol. 49 No. 5 . --- Page 10 --- than it should be . or could be , given two people marriage cloudless , religious differences unim- hood the " Why doesn't Daddy say grace at the Sign of the Cross . " Daddy just doesn't the Cross as we do . " ) " Only girls and mommies Faith , with the one you love best , and your STARTING with your wedding day when you in love , convinced that Bill was perfect , little wind that blows over you when they go and how wonderful it is to be one . because his difference no matter how deep in the recesses our attitudes and ideals were , I would have come when I would realize how widely separated thought them foolishly " narrow-minded . ' make the Sign of the Cross-boys and daddies When the dangers that sometimes threaten isn't Daddy a Catholic-doesn't , he like us or woman whose husband feels about marriage of your mind you hide it . Through the years , without seeming disloval or confusing to He just didn't know about being a Catholic mammy and daddy went to a different church other explanations that come up from babv- share everything else ? " Who knows the lonely If you're part of a mixed marriage , you know anyone tried to persuade me that a day would final and often repeated benediction on their all around " you sharing their faith as they the greatest motivating force in your life . your said to me when I married ? Securely wrapped just doesn't say it aloud or make the Sign of Jesus ? " ( " Daddy loves Jesus and loves us who it is better to marry within your Church , spouse can quit when things get difficult and more than arise as you try delicately to straddle inability to do it , unless he wishes to become a meals with us ? " " He does say , grace , he you are torn always between the wish to share all the answers and questions , plus many and divorce as she does , or the one whose a marriage come , who is more secure - the because he isn't a Catholic as we are . " ) " Why to the altar together to receive Our Lord , as a How can you put into words the feeling you Still , faced with the necessity for explaining start over with someone else ? of the same Faith , in love ? aside any suggestion to the contrary . Had Catholic . How can you be completely happy ? portant in our case , I would have struggled cannot share a Nuptial Mass . ' there is a the fence of loyalty to your Church and to your Explaining should be a natural part of the don't . " ( " No. darling , boys and girls make have when you go to Mass alone , other couples Any mixed marriage in an ailing state is in husband . childish minds , what can you say ? when he was little . " ) For that matter , what could anyone have union ? --- Page 11 --- destinies through our Faith . That our marriage has been smooth in have done differently , made the Faith more father , mother , and children to be united Bill especially at such times , hoping that God The sacrifices , the playing down of different he least suggestion he join us for Mass or embrace our faith with the same inv I feel in grotesque tug of war as so many people are . mixed marriages , is due mostly to my husband . only know that I'm lucky to have such a wonderful husband , who gives me carte blanche from looking so closely at the question , and I married a good Catholic , especially , if by some will lead him to embrace our Faith gladly some remembers that do-day is Communion Sunday still haven't solved it to my satisfaction . I day . Because I am , first and always a Catholic as far as the children's religion and training go . forever ! He mingles well with our Catholic real to him , brought him closer ? At other for the Brownies , etc . ' Yet if they timidly wish between your faith and your husband in a good firm , lasting unions with other Catholics practice of religion , yet skies away warily at He reminds our children to go to Commission . and going to church to Communion to Con- mother , I prav , too , that all of our children Lord . Since we cannot share this , I pray for regard to religious differences , unlike many Few things could be worse than being pulled will know the happiness of a loving , wholly in occasionally by so many Catholics coming friends and relatives but wriggles out of any frequently at the altar rail to welcome Our being a Catholic . Falling that , ' I wish I'd beliefs have all been Bill's . sometimes feel that he thinks himself hemmed to work out their own and their children's " if you've been a poor example . Could you magic alchemy , he could be Bill ! Catholicism . My husband has been so good about our I KNOW now how thrilling it would be for aloud that he would join our Church , ' he is Catholic marriage . ' SOMETINES you feel discouraged and wonder No one " pressures " him subtly or openly - invitations to Catholic functions . attempt to counteract the frightening pull he to refrain from eating before Communion , With all my heart , I hope that they will make patently annoyed and embarrassed . fession , and by all , our other evidences of re wouldn't dare-yet as the years go by . I may feel toward the Church . times , you wonder if his resistance could be an Still , I continue to wish that he would As you can see , I'm getting near-sighted invitations to Catholic functions . --- Page 12 --- THE Blue Pool , Glengarriff , co. cork . at Glengarriff and although people may highest point of the island . Look out over spring , when the profusion of flowering this sub-tropical garden , there is a riot of have done without ceasing during the play , St. Joan , and certainly the magnificent blossom in spring . It was on Garnish that are always shrubs and plants in flower in on Garnish Island , for , although there Bernard Shaw is said to have written his sides . Or , perhaps best of all , go in the change their ideas , the warm Gulf Stream bracken is flaming on the surrounding hill- Glengarriff and the Blue Pool lies as peaceful views must be a source of inspiration to the vast stretch of water towards Berehaven . Or , go before the winter sets in , when the as the men who manned the tower would rhododendrons makes a magic fairyland of Napoleonic Wars . Berehaven is a natural climate remains the same . as on any Summer's day . SPRING is really the best time to wonder writer and artist alike . Stand by the old Martello Tower at the harbour and has been known as such for several centuries . Carew , writing in 1602 , --- Page 13 --- 2 . Why is Banneux Notre Dame so named ? spoken by certain Jews ? ( See page 149 , r. With what saint is Gougane Barra asso- 3 . What is Father I amin's claim to fame ? ciated ? ( See page 139 , col. 1 ) . 4 . What is meant by the " half-tongue , " once 5 . Where is the picture of Our Lady of tree grow in profusion ? ( See page 139 , Czestachowa venerated ? " ( See page"153 , cross - QWIZ Church's greatest need to-day ? ( See Semites ? ( See page 149 , col. 2 ) . 7 . Where , in Ireland , does the Eucalyptus . ( See page 143 , col.i ) . What have you learned from this No. of page 157, col. 2 ) . 6 . What , according to the Pope , is the ( See page 143 , col. 2 ) . cot. 2 ) . THE CROSS ? cot. 2 ) . cot. 2 ) . 8 . Who said that spiritually we Catholics are lately deceased . Andrew McCarney Mother M. Brendan Elizabeth Murray Michael Hughes . Readers' prayers are asked for the following : Mary Connolly . John Redmond . Susan Kelly . Sister M. Berchman , Richard O'Rourke Esther Kenny James McGeough James Nolan . James Livingstone . Florence Brennan . Sister M. Paschal William Kinsella . Patrick McGoldrick Patrick Martin . Mother M. Laserian Annie Duffy . Mother M. Laserian James Nolan , --- Page 14 --- essence the same ) . Those outlying districts have to point out that High Mass and Low Mass are in the word pagani to signify those who lived , as it At the time of our wedding , my husband was a shall not have life in you . " Now Protestants have priests were few and the Bishop could not attend . Reception of the Eucharist is not essential in the the inhabitants of the villages . " Later ages used As time went on , the bagawi became numerically vision had to be made for outlying districts where sincere Protestants can be saved . - B.K.F. ( Co. Mayo ) . theological language , it is required " by a necessity publicly known that you are receiving the Blessing . aware of the precept . come to be accepted almost as the normal . flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood you Christendom - and so we still speak of " nagans " then can they be saved ? ' Yet we are told that good to the new developments . ' ( It is hardly necessary The Nuptial Blessing can be given only at a tistant populations were known as the basami- be too difficult to arrange for such a Mass with the dioceses were small and the faithful could easily be celebrated on the wedding day . It should not nuptial blessing . was celebrated by the Bishop and his priests when there anything we can do now in order to receive the Our Divine Lord said : " Unless you eat of the is why the Low Mass , suited to their needs , has now may simply attend the Mass without its being of precept , " not " by a necessity of means . " How did it come about that we have High Masses assemble at a common centre . When the faith rupted blessing ? -P.K.T. ( Croydon ) . Furthermore , the obligation falls only on those who spread throughout the Roman Empire , and pro- the more important section of the Church . " That Ours was a mixed marriage in the Catholic Church . and Low Masses ? Did the Low Mass come Nuptial Mass , but this Mass need not necessarily first ... . ? " Two Dublin Readers . ' eucharist same way as is the reception of ( say ) Baptism . In the Low Mass was adopted as the form best suited have attained the age of responsibility and are were , beyond the reach of the central light of low mass . left their trace in the Church's terminology . The Nuptial Blessing for you and your husband . You Protestant , but'since , he has become a Catholic . ' Is not the Blessed Encharist in their Church . How No ; the High Mass came first . Originally it --- Page 15 --- no atrocity to which he could not stop . jeopardise his position . Apprehensive and were flying in peril of their lives . an atmosphere of urgency , of terror and suspicious as all miscreants and upstart princes . this despotic monarch could go . ' There was refugees , moving in peril of their lives from the China in the East . " Arise , take the child and words the Evangelist introduces the reader to blossoms . Fountains' spring up and provide passes by , and the desert sands miraculously Joseph and Mary knew the extremes to which " Herod will seek the child to destroy Him . " turn into a grassv carpet adorned with exotic awakened by Joseph . He told her of the His mother and fly ... . " Never before has a restless world from Poland in the West to dangerous roads which Joseph and Mary THERE is no mention in the Gospel of the imaginary , to his throne was a source of terror Voluptuous avaritious violent and sadistic . cally described by Saint Matthew . In a few flight of the Holy Family into Egypt is some- bloody massacre of a Red monster . there been such grim procession of straying had to traverse at the beginning of the journey . In paintings and apocrylyl writings , the fly into Egypt : and be there until I shall tell her Infant was not wanted . Simeon's prophecy REV. FR. RAPHAEL , C.P. SOMETIME during the night . Marv was leafy branches in adoption as the Holy Family are still heard in the darkness that envelope into the unknown such is the scene dramati- unfortunate who might foolish attempt to water for the Fugitives . ' But all in vain have Arise and take the child and His mother and this barbarian son of a traitor and usurper of was being quickly fulfilled . " " Time own soul Escape to Egypt the Asmonaean dynasty , courted power and Angel's appearance and the urgent command : become on growing old . every threat , real or tion . " It presents a terrifying vision of prison- what fantastically described . " The Gospel there was no room for Him in the whole kingdom for him . ' He shuddered at the thought of any Such extravagant descriptions are but reversies strange fascination which excites the imagina- camp tyranny , of bitter exile , of slavery and Child Who slept beside her . They must escape of the Jews . How it grieved her to think that at once , for " Herod was already plotting to destroy the Infant Saviour . As ' Mary gently imminent . Warned of this , the Holy Family apprehension . The word " escape " has a pretender and when he learned from the Magi unsheathed and he lusted for the blood of any Mary's anguished face and then upon the Divine a sword shall pierce . ' as history repeats itself . " The Angel's words obscure the simplicity of the Gospel scenes . inhuman cruelty . The Flight of the Holy for the cold night journey , perhaps her thoughts Family into Egypt is being perpetually re-lived trembled on Joseph's lips as he looked into of Christ and His Blessed Mother tend to of a Jewish King's birth . the barbarian's heart mother-in-law . ' His rudev sword was still the great artists " immortalized these legends . three . For it will come to pass that Herod will a warning , sudden preparation and departure wealth , laughed madly at murder and took sank within him . As his suspicious increased , as the dragons of the desert paving homage to the danger for the Divine Child became thus it is not surprising to find art and legend mentions nothing of the perilous journey , and VENTMENTAL stories and fanciful pictures took her Baby into her arms to prepare Him seek the child to destroy Him . " The words their Creator . Tall waside trees bow their I'm before His birth . ' Now shortly after it . of his wife . his sons , his brothers and his sheer delight in causing people to be burnt went back to that other night when Joseph exuberantly supplementing the scriptural born of a lively imagination and are utterly at A voice in the night , a command to escape , knocked in vain at the doors of Bethlehem . alive . From his hands dropped the life's blood variance with the actual horrors of the flight . Then there was no room for her Child in the silence . The attention of the reader or onlooker --- Page 16 --- endured . The young man or girl who launches not easy , just as the escape to Egypt was not oppression of her people , who , thousands of larks in every corner threatening to destroy Manna of Holy Communion to strengthen His and grace , there must be flight , flight from the would " be led to the slaughter . ' Catholic to leave family and fatherland in the life of the Child to destroy it " will be of the Pharoes , the obelisks , the magnificent misheathed . He has his followers and their farewells must be made and painful anxieties flight is over we can confidently learn for the in an almost pagan environment , there will be Christ as it exists within us through Baptism of the Angel . " Take the Child and His Mother the bricks . She thought of Moses and the blood her and paganism was rampant . " The palaces and purity of soul , there can be only one way and in our dying moment breathe the prayer : Angel . Here in her exile in this land of the " Turn then most gracious advocate , thing eyes against the blue sky reminded her of the cruel vanquished . Then , as life draws to its close , There are circumstances that compel many a of escape . This is to be found in the command much suffering to endure . When the powers us a Mother . He has provided the Heavenly of prayer , menace and self-denial . This is we can lift our eyes to the Mother awaiting us mysterious world will realize this . Temptation idol , she shared their longings for the Promised of darkness seek to rob youth of its innocence land of exile , of sin and paganism , when the of mercy towards us , and after this our exile , than Moses and the true Paschal Lamb Who years before , goaded on by tyrannical Egyptian and fly . " To preserve and protect the life of overlords , sweated and laboured to provide dangerous occasions of sin , flight along the path Promised Land which God has prepared for search of happiness and livelihood . ' Bitter pagan Temples and the pyramids silhouetted her kinsfolk . Idolotrous worship surrounded weapons are sharp . For the conscientious easy for the Holy Family . But God has given of the Paschal Lamb , sprinkled on the door- of Our Lady has a peculiar attractiveness . Land . In her arms she held a Liberator greater children on this perilous journey . Here in this person who is determined to preserve his faith posts to protect the Hebrews from the averaging them that love Him . The enemy who now seeks forth into the realms of an unknown and FOR the immigrant or the refugee this sorrow after twenty centuries . Herod's sword is still show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb , the life of grace within their souls . To-day Jesus . ' --- Page 17 --- Mariette was stocky in build , rough in manner , at a poor time , in a poor place , It has been for long a poor but privileged near the Cross of Tancremont . account of what she had seen was rejected as Notre Dame . While villages all around were bombarded Madame Clynans gathered the people of the struggle to earn a living , she was born on Lady " Or maybe a witch ! " she felt the urge to say all lie close at hand . Day . the first great feast of man's redemption , At that time Julien Beco , out of work , was Twenty-five years ago ... . Such a position put it in the direct line of poverty and distress throughout the world . great feast of man's redemption , Good Friday , blunt in speech , " if truthful in statement . and burnt , and Louveigne , dangerously near , and the shine of the Cross . Scarcely more later he saw Mariette fervently at Mass and place . For centuries it has stood in the shadow Despite her reputation for truthfulness , the ON Sunday . January 15 . at seven o'clock catechism , she had not made her first Com- It was also a Holy Year , commemorating they were spiritually as well as materially poor . Though her mother added as an afterthought : Mariette felt certain that it was Our Lady the acute economic depression that spread munion and went infrequently to Mass ; but and said : I am the Virgin of the Poor . In the midst of it all Our Lady came to Banneux in 1921 ; which in that year was also the third To her mother attending to the baby in the one in the garden , a beautiful woman , very frontiers of Luxembourg , France and Germany than a mile away is the pilgrimage chapel of spared we will call it Banneux Notre Dame . ' to-a poor child . Backward at school . unable to learn her Those of us who were living then will recall where the Incarnate Word hangs crucified on suffered the death of forty of its inhabitants . the rosary and saw the lips of the figure in the became vaguely aware of an unexpected bright- And 1933 was a poor but privileged war . of Lourdes . Banneux so door , so privileged was merci- fully spared . Ever since , it has officially been Her mother replied sarcastically : " Our nonsense by her family : but a schoolfriend in whom she confided was ' sufficiently impressed the Day of the Cross . apparition , all trace of it had gone . NET in marshy unproductive uplands on the known as Banneyx of Our Lady , Banneux garden moving in accompaniment . After to take her and her news to Father Jamin , the the eldest . Catholic in little more than name kitchen , Mariette called out : " There's some- village into her manor house-called the The daughter of workers who found it a constant the venerable Cross of Tancremont . Southern fringe of the Ardennes . Banneux out as she waited for her brother to come home the nineteenth centenary of the redemption Lady , perhaps ! " " and from that moment beads she had found at the side of the road By G. D. Walton . tappeared , was a poor but privileged child . several decades she was beckoned out , and tried to obey : but her mother prevented her of the world by the death of Our Lord upon the Our Lady came and said : young priest in charge of the parish . " One missed the children ; but when two mornings at night . Banneux was tightly held in enemy invasion in 1914 . It was then that once a week at least she said her rosary , on well dressed ; all in white , with a blue rash ! " Chateau du Bois de Banneux-and said : living with his wife , Louise Wegimont , in a Notre Dame to give the village its full reminded men : I am the Mother of the Saviour , Lady and promise her that if our village is WARIETTE BECO too . to whom Our Lady the Old Good God-le Vieux Bon Dien- poor house on the outskirts of Banneux along told her curtly and , ' counselling silence ' His- that forest-clad corner of Belgium where " the children , of whom Mariette , rising twelve , was ross . " And through Mariette Our Lady winter's grip . Mariette , indoors and looking the window through which she had seen the ness of light . As she focussed her surprised woman , tenderly smiling , dressed as Our Lady by locking the door . When she returned to doesn't see Our Lady as easily as that . " he ' Let us confide ourselves completely to Our Mother of God . name is about twelve miles east of Liege . in the road to Tancremont . They then had seven attention on it , she gradually saw , in the poor . ' I am the Mother of the Saviour , darkness of the garden , a radiant young cross . "I AM THE through Mariette Our Lady reminded men : Virgin of --- Page 18 --- all the questions put to her . he recognised then , at the catchism class , answering correctly seven , Mariette slipped out of the house before the weather , at seven o'clock each night to own words . ' a great power for good ' which to Mariette : I am the Virgin of the Poor . She Mariette clung to the belief that Our Lady templating the death of Jesus on the Cross . nightly custom that has not been broken since . wide in rupture . He saw her rise and go from suffering . Four nights later , on Wednesday . would appear again - for she had not said and love , she went into the garden , whatever Monday , February 20 , she repeated her request goodbye . Strong in hope , as indeed in faith Mariette and the people with her were con- the direction of Tancremont . " Where are you which there were no further apparitions ; but into a ditch below . ' Juliet Beco saw his daughter kneel and plunge her hands into the anniversary of the first apparition at Lourdes , of all that had allegedly happened and all that On this significant date . significantly she said years . Father Jamin , newly astonished , saw nothing of the apparition but sensed , in his Her father , following and vaguely uneasv. the garden to the road and begin to walk in ground began to say the rosary-initiating a words : This spring is reserved for me . He saw Our Lady appeared again at Banneux just as , for prayer : My dear child , pray a great deal . she could be stopped , and kneeling on the icv to relieve the sick . And on the following night- added : This spring is reserved for all nations , to emphasize her purpose : I come to relieve in the fifth sorrowful mystery of the rosary , On Saturday , February in , seventy-fifth vater ; and he heard her " repeat Our Lady's accompanied by a small group of people . grace at work in an astonishing manner . Then THAT night-Thursday . January 19-0" " Lady revealed her identity when she said At a distance of about one hundred yards going ? " he asked , and Mariette replied : the road a spring of water spouted from a bank say the rosary , sometimes alone , sometimes grace at work again . Friday , January 20 she said , in the garden : January 18 a few minutes in advance of next morning brought him , contrite . to Con- and there he began the detailed documentation February 15 , she said : Pray a great deal . discovered her near the gate , her arms flung session and Communion , after a lapse of many rom the Becos' house on the opposite side of believe in me . I shall believe in you . Or I would like a little chapel . was to follow . THAT night - it was now Wednesday She is beckoning me . ' An interval of three weeks followed during --- Page 19 --- it to nourish their lonely days and nights in Following the blessing of the first stone on on August 15 , Feast of Our Lady's Assumption ; garden where she had appeared . Mariette chapel . Enlarged in 1954 , it can now accom- suffering was soon put to the test . Even before so eagerly ! - on a Friday , spend three days in serves as an esplanade for the blessing of the THE little chapel of Our Lady's liking was the domain of the Virgin of the Poor they first time at its altar . The little chapel is insisted that was the proper place and she and Holland and France and Luxembourg and begun almost at once , in the corner of the to make their prayerful way to the roadside way in which Banneux has become an inter- retreat , and depart-oh , so resignedly ! - on the Channel from England , they arrive oh , Caritas-Banneux , " and store up memories of charming in its simplicity , unique in its rustic modate two hundred sick with their nurses and the final apparition , sick pilgrims had begun another grove of first , a simple blue and white design . It has served as the model for numerous spring which Our Lady had reserved . In Germany , over the Alps from Italy and over health . Father Tamin still leads , when he can . water-the ill are the " privileged people . In brancardiers . A large cleared space nearby twenty-five years the flow-both of pilgrims around her , is sometimes Mariette . her mother helped with the excavations . sick and other major ceremonies ; and on the experience a new kindness presided over by Ascension Day . May 25 , the building rapidly Banneux shrines which have been erected , like of the sick . Our Lady's promise to relieve and as a birthday gift to her on September 8 , and of water-has never stopped . took shape . Both it and its bell were blessed Lourdes grottos , in many parts of the world . the nightly rosary ; and in the crowd of national centre for the healing and consoling Now , from May to October , the organized the sacrifice of Calvary was celebrated for the on the opposite side of the road to the little building stands where the sick are bathed in pilgrims following him , unknown to those pilgrimages of the sick move in and out every the following Tuesday . ' At Banneux as at Another striking likeness to Lourdes is the Lourdes-both so intimately connected with Although an old man now , and in failing same side of the road as the little chapel , in week . From all the dioceses of Belgium , from less kind atmosphere . PART of the kindness to the sick is a large hospital built in 1938 among the fir trees water drawn from the roadside spring . THE CROSS --- Page 20 --- 5th --- Page 21 --- free men in their freedom . the scientist's irresponsibility . a more authentic judgment . be sure , baptism conveys us to a new life , but by movie stars , athletes , scientists and other public It may be we are accepting under this label But baptism is an obligation as well as a gift , it is mask the politician's duplicity , the entertainer's we ought to be using , in place of " Catholic , " will examine their lives and accomplishments more way of death : the plant will not sprung without Oh that word " Catholic " I . It can so successfully What makes a man Catholic ? Baptism , surely . closely : this scrutiny of leaders helps to maintain present understanding of that term " Catholic . " the seed's dying . How recklessly we call politicians , turn out to be less flattering , more honest , indicating private immoralities and professional dishonesty , Perhaps it is time we looked suspiciously at our ires Catholic . We have a right and a duty to beginning not the end of Catholic living . To sh that is unacceptable . It may be the names --- Page 22 --- Nor did the prospect of approaching death dismay him . " With complete serenity he from this patient son of St. Paul of the Cross . ing zeal for the salvation of souls . Father from every part of the city . His crowded Marcellus was well known as an accomplished incurable ailment , but even in the midst organist at Holy Cross , was always ready amongst the Catholics of Belfast . Under he could calmly discuss arrangements for confessional , too , bore witness to his unflage- confidence in the Mercy of the Saviour that of pain there was no murmur of complaint already flourishing , attracted new members Tuesday , July 8th , Solemn Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of Father Marcellus received the Last Sacraments and made accomplished the greatest amount of good At , Holy Cross Church , Ardoyne , on was , perhaps , in this capacity that he his kindly direction , the Confraternity , Passion attached to Holy Cross Church . It ready to meet his God . So great was his Branch of the Confraternity of the Sacred musician , and , in the absence of the regular SOME months ago he fell victim to an his own obscuies . to take his place . was celebrated by Very Rev. Father Fergus , The late FR. Marcellus . in its first for --- Page 23 --- language or partly in the language of certain the pagans round about , and had permitted culpable or inculpable . thing imperfect about his membership of the Marriages . their children , who were speaking in the MOST important of all . Nehemias found becoming a Catholic in the full and adequate comment that ( although it is usual to apply One result was that a number of people in the public assembly . Yet one priest , marriages , hit some and pulled the hair out true God . When charity had to be exercised . worked so hard to restore the institutions , The history of such marriages . of Penance . He has been a heretic , and , of had gone so far as to give him a room in the the epithet " narrow " to one who pays Catholic , for there is only one faith and one surrounding pagans . " that there had been mixed marriages . their arrival from Egypt centuries before . For a reason which a bishop may judge it is evident from such stories as that of dazans . even if they are close neighbours Perhaps the chief problem arose from the to be grave a Catholic may marry some That is why , if a convert were admitted of others ! The punishment is oriental and found that the Law stated that certain cursed the men who had contracted these with the speech of some of the Jews and Baptism , he must approach the Sacrament because of his relationship with an Ammonite . to have been validly baptised before his and good pagans . spoke " the half tongue . " Exactly what than the problems of their ancestors on who is really baptised is to some extent a it is agreed that something had gone wrong people descended from the Moabites and the that they had formed various contacts with partly lapsed . He , and Esdras who had were " unlawful and pernicious " to quote takes us back to Law remain . Catholics may not marry course , such heresy may have been either At this point I am bound to make the Twelve years after the prophet Nehemias Aminonites were not permitted to single our catchism ( and not always remembered ) . the Catholic Church but there may be some- Background to tively mild , especially when , as a prophet , foreign court , that the returned exiles had religions . Closely allied was the circumstance were to survive as a nation worship the commonly imposed punishments , compara- sense , he may not be baptised " again " - returned , he found , after a time spent at a their commission . do a little preparatory thinking . Anyone such contacts to go beyond the bounds of perversion . stances . It was , by comparison with then he means here has been under dispute , but church . the Catholic Church . But here we should those " sins he has committed since his Semites . " The spiritual truths of the Old consequences of wandering into bogus fact that they had already suffered the baptism . ' It is quite incorrect to say that narrowness " was essential if the Jews he accused them of " heinous rebellion . ' apply . But it certainly did when it was a He took no half measures . He solemnly Naaman that such " narrowness " did not Temple . overmuch attention to the nation ) such suitable according to the era and the circum- THE Catholic Church is spiritual Israel . a person is " baptised into the Presbyterians . " matter of avoiding the occasions of problems were in some respects much worse Valid Baptism makes a person a subject of Christian who is not an actual member of # Spiritually , " said a Pope . " we are as they say and to obtain the remission of Old Testament times . Winvitv. they had to meet a variety of Typical of his prophetic role . he spared no HEN the Jews returned from cap- one , however elevated . Mixed marriages problems of re-settlement . These mixed . H. W. J. EDWARDS sketches the --- Page 24 --- little of Baptism . Thousands of young men whereover films and TV pictures are made . harder to speak " the same language . " so commonly among other civilisations . " the will be seen that the Church's attitude to NOW . so far . all would be reasonably well that the Catholic husband or wife will win often ? And how often is it the other war then , reasonable that the Church should some film or play or read some story in in the Old Testament . notion , which has lately found its home mixed marriage " households ? All too of England persons raise a storm of protest to say , as that of his fellow Catholics , and knowledge we may test whenever we see be accidentally romantic . uncorenanted grace . But does it happen BUT to return to that strange " half- making as many permutations of the word joy , " their wives also and their children . ' He can in conscience do no other than refuse . have permitted mixed marriages , especially Catholics as among other people in the ultimate tragedy . He finds it harder and to-day , especially important to Catholics . over the non-Catholic partner in a mixed THERE is a special consideration for us . a language can often be found in modern when they refuse to baptise a child whose which a married man or woman , having Western world , though not nearly so that God made them all dance with a great large numbers of scribblers are intent upon mere convention which their parents regard of marriages as necessarily fairv tales or adultery as they can . ing firmness . for example . jars upon his own he and his fellows had built , it is written frequently the Catholic partner is slowly either as children or in later years . It was about ? . How often are both the Catholic it is also written : " The joy of Jerusalem about . It is sometimes said by the gullible spirit of false compromise . This conviction is based upon a romantic new population is springing up which knows conviction that , after all , religion does not exist except in one or two regions , e.g. in To-day this near impossibility does not parents have shown no indication whatever marriage which the Church has reluctantly and women to-day all over England and they are not what they are because they may church with distance . Its very uncompromis- point of fact , it is so old that it has its roots others have been baptised according to a understanding of the meaning of baptism . thought-if not into perversion itself - the sent , kindly to communicate with the of any Christian beliefs . " That parson half-Jewish tongue . " It was the other way but that there exists as much among partner and the children lost to the Faith ? were Christians , baptised quite validly , was heard after off . ' drawn into non-Catholic ways and modes of Order . " unaccompanied by any name tongue " language which we have already fallen in love " with someone , leaves his Wales have never been baptised , while many possible to find a Catholic partner . When Nehemias dedicated the new walls mentioned is it not a fact that just such Belfast promoters , we received a Postal or address . he " may easily come to regard his own allowed . It may happen by some rad reason to point out some time ago , a other hand , as the Archbishop of Cardiff I dare say it was all very " narrow " ; but We know , of course , that marriage is a England and Wales , most of the inhabitants mixed marriages " is no new thing . In matter so much as what is called " love . " romances . " They may be romances , but or her spouse . Indeed , it would seem that where a Catholic would find it almost im- Rev. Manager . married the ancient Jews did not speak some some lonely parts of north Wales . ' On the who emigrate . When Catholics were few in It will be noticed that the pagans who Now from all that has been said above it sacrament . But how far we act upon this and vaccination . Sometimes sensible Church knows that such parents have no sound Accordingly , we ask the BELFAST Some weeks ago , from one of our PROMOTER , to whom no receipt was BELFAST PROMOTERS , please note : the cross . almost as the counterpart to state registration 150 --- Page 25 --- you good "QUIZ " looks out at You- citizen ! --- Page 26 --- cow-bells and a little river far below , and the most by force . Only when we were back in land , a region of lost souls , but nobody had anguage , with which one struggles for years rong way round in a one-way street . ' at all should be taken , except a gang of very Every bridge was down and every town a Brunswick in West Germany where we had hands , the children scamped off across the meadow to discover the delights that were in one entered Poland from the German side . one-way-street inviting us to the loveliness of on came ? " we finally tore ourselves away driving . We expected to find - a city , like it was left by its executioners , with hardly one part of the mess . For Wroclaw is exactly as store for them-and we practically never saw half-naked children . This is still a no-man's- car into the smell of pine trees , the tinkle of hat , that's all . Though of course you were remember we had forgotten to ask where we Out to the car they all troops , breasts he increasing crowd like swimmers . Hands stopping might manage to clear away a small tough quarrymen or bulldozer drivers , who if of churches of course , dusty and chipped but our little village in the Carpathians . As soon to bed every night when darkness fell , and to hat had preceded it , and by the very difficult a city , it is not a place where any child , anybody arms of the hotel staff who were lined up . all filled to overflowing . A for there was a signpost at the end of our contrast between my expectations of Poland ad to be kissed , children hugged , and breaking and the actuality of our experiences there . ato the dangerous question , " Are you glad five of them , to welcome us . Grasping friendly ND now we come to the beauty of Poland , he one-way street , right way round , did we THIS little anecdote shows very clearly the after a day of difficult frontiers and hard without making appreciable progress . Worst of all had been the shock of the desolation as colourless mass of ruins and semi-ruins , with farm animals wandering the streets , and dirty , slept the previous night . But Wroclaw is not worst of all had been the horror of Wroclaw , as we arrived . the children stepped out of the our first Polish city , which we had reached atigue of the long journey and the preparations them again , except to put them , protesting , stone standing upon another . There are lots I had to cross the wandering Oder again before One was handicapped , at the start , by the remembered to tell me that , or to warn me that they worked for several months without should find myself in Poland proper . rrested . Perhaps if you don't mind . I rather think my wife thinks we've been vere . --- Page 27 --- determination of the Polish " people threw out of my head in church , in which I was supported wayside admired decorated with evergreens , much loved children of Poland , her treasure . at the drop of a glove-and how nearly the and the churchyard gates had arches of ever- They are free , ' really free , from the love of this again . They did it once when the authorities , of Czechowa to pray for Poland . There were the same statues , the Sacred Heart , to have been painted by St. Luke Himself , Gora , great church-fortress and shrine of Our we heard the interrupted call of the trum- ever-changing crowd , we knew we knelt at the by only the oldest peasant grandmother , who heart of Poland . Here was Polish womanhood . that were led by bands to the twenty or so headed and wearing an old raincoat . world . They are travelling extremely light : decorated the churches and blue and white ready to take matters into their own hands greens , because it was Corpus Christi , and St. Peter , St. Joseph , and a lovely Madonna In a small , cool vacuum among all the hubbub , been anywhere , Dresden , Florence , London . bows and springs of evergreen were tied to the HERE knelt Polish manhood , and here were the and concessions , from the huge ones in Warsaw where I knelt before a picture of Our Lady her future . Indeed these people are free , and scarred by war , blackened by toil and sorrow . some of the horror that was feeding on them . FROM the church of St. Mary's in Warsaw glove dropped when we were there - they are loves . She knows where she stands . altar . All along the country roads were little instead of shooting at rioting students , shot a picture is enshrined in the heart of a vast mornings . Everyone else went to church bare- picture . Scarred and darkened by age , reputed people walking between the hayfields of some from Our Lady in life , this painting , too , free in the very particular way that we are not . Lady of Czechoma , we walked round the capital of Poland , I visited the Rosary Church , little boy instead , and the quiet , deadly calm of the Turks . He saved the city . At Jasna tie themselves up in black shawls on Sunday peter , who many years ago was shot through battlements , and knelt before the original The first one we saw , in Wroclaw , might have But what wonderful churches they were ! blinders , but one I cluing to , was the covering everywhere in Poland there were celebrations Poland lives to-day . She knows whom she Stations of the Cross . In Krakow , ancient Kneeling within the tiny chapel where the the throat while giving warning of the approach tiny village . Archives of blue and white ribbons out against the Swedish invaders . saved a city , for it proved a rallying point when Czestachova alone of all Poland was holding --- Page 28 --- two , Army officer and Catholic , made him a Monte Cassino , that he staked his claim to Lieutenant-Colonel in the crack Herman be engulfed in the senseless vortex of modern of October , 1943 , it was his painful duty to recognition , not deliberately , not with osten- destruction that it had for the bearer of it . On his first visit to the Abbey , on the 14th line of Monte Cassino would soon inevitably scarcely have had the same overtones of inform the aged Abbot Diamare that " the Goering Panzer Division and an Austrian lesser men depart . their praises are seldom Catholic by birth . The combination of the monks of the ancient Benedictine Abbey . sung . But it sometimes happens that lesser natural choice for liaison work with the was never famous , except , perhaps , in Italy . must surely be Julius Schlegel , one of the and throughout the world . When It was in Italy , on the timeless slopes of of people , the name means nothing , for he great , but do not get them . One of these war . For men of God this news could it was understandable that the Abbot should tation , not even consciously . Julius Schlegel was a German officer , a men deserve the praises accorded to the perhaps in Rome itself . With the autumn great lesser men , who died this year on August 8th in Vienna . To the vast majority if the art treasures , the books , the priceless tints spreading over the valley below and GENTLY and tactfully he suggested to the sounds of war as remote as winter shows . ancient manuscripts , were removed to safety , the Abbot that it might be a good idea W standing deeds are recounted at length HEN great men die , their most out- article which appeared in our August issue , DESMOND G. DINGLE As a brief sequel to his Monte Cassino writes this --- Page 29 --- when her people are free to practise their in the armies of France and Spain and even in what they have achieved ! ' How many would with England " and to stand forth among the wave . And many more managed to exchange up repeated struggles for political and religious were burdened would be in a position to achieve of the majority of the people of Ireland . religion just as openly as they please , when the does take place in Ireland , is for keeps . It is would be no more than a memory . England . The population of Ireland dwindled manage so well , in fact , that it was fit to put And now , when Ireland has won complete nations of the earth as a free and independent Irish race did manage to survive ... did with amazing rapidly , and it seemed quite that the game wasn't really worth the candle ! vanishing " race ... " that the population is fleeing from her shores in much the same way of " mental cruelty . " Furthermore , let me of the hardships with which the Irish people where her martyrs shed the rich cascades of that she happens to be too fat or too thin ( I long-since have given up the ghost and declared as rats flee from a sinking ship . " ! THE population is declining ? The 1951 their blood , we are told that the Irish are a far-off South America . The so-called Famine the would-be prophets that marriage , when it had so orderly longest for would indeed come freedom , at least for twenty-six of her counties . tricolour waves on the breeze over the spot freedom until , in the early part of the present certain that what Elizabeth I and Cromwell and ' divorces ' her for the ridiculous reason side . Untold numbers died on the crest of the " Sowing one's wild oats " may be considered of the British papers ) or where a man finds himself " divorced " on the quite vague plea fashionable in other lands : but , thank God . have seen such a case actually recorded in one to pass that in a short time the Irish race state . ' How few who have suffered one-tenth YET . for all the vicissitudes of fortune , the century , it was able " to sever the connection Isle . Irish boys and girls may indeed marry tensus actually showed a definite increase . the grim situation at home for the prospect of also point out to the would-be prophets that followed . Untold numbers died by the road- it is not considered fashionable in the Emerald that the odds against them were too great- declining ... that the marriage-rate is the lowest in the world ... that the people are I wonder . And , even if it were , let me remind a means of livelihood in the United States or The marriage-rate is the lowest in the world ? purity is still one of the beautiful characteristics not the same as in certain other countries where a man gets tired of his wife overnight --- Page 30 --- True Faith and how noble they have spurned the generous given would ever be so ungrateful Rosary being recited in many a homestead build the magnificent churches which are still all the material advantages which a change throughout the land . ' I watch young boys and outdone in generosity . I know how loyalty professed nuns and brothers turn their backs who appreciates the fact that God is never see no actual danger of my race being wiped And am I to imagine that the God who loves be content to take and not reward the hearts from the face of the earth or of my country richly blessed our ways in the past and Who on the hills they love and turn their faces chapels filled to overflowing . I hear the Irish with more than ordinary care . And let the people of Ireland have clung to the One that to be in any way necessary . " But I can I watch newly-ordained priests and newly . of the infinite goodness of God . I am a Catholic that offer ? Far be it from me to imagine any such thing . Far be it from me to belittle the For I am a Catholic who is too well aware will assuredly fill our shores with every grace becoming no more than a mere " geographical Ireland has stood beneath the Cross of Calvary me say here and now that I would be among jungle and the unfriendly wastes of far-away of creed might have brought in its train . When that the Omniscient and Omnipotent One will tribute that-coming , as it does , from one rigours and the austerities of the religious life . and favour throughout the days and years I go home on holidays , I see the churches and throughout the centuries . I know how firmly who really knows what he is talking about ! used in our great cities to-day " A wonderful have studied the question of the " vanishing " the first to give a warning-sign , if I considered goodness and generosity of God Who has so towards the wild simoon and the trackless places . AM an Irishman . With pride I saw it . that may lie ahead . girls exchange the joys and ease of home for the as to ignore these sacrifices ? Am I to consider unit . ' 156 --- Page 31 --- We've all heard similar blunders . at the store about that . ' account changed . ' What kind of kidding ? ' asked one of the Three husbands in less than five years ! ' They were saying that this O'Brien couldn't story to illustrate the fact that all too many you set the table . be a very good Catholic to volunteer as Number a woman customer who had just come in for you went to confession is as silly a notion , he Catholics know all too little about their religion . points out , as " having " to eat dinner because he explained . " And the newest husband's name is ' O'Brien-there was plenty of kidding the third time to have the name on her charge . Having " to receive Communion because ment store was telling a group of us about men . N acquaintance who works in a U.S. depart- --- Page 32 --- THE CROSS cate the importance of this effort ... but up for courses in almost anything from art to need to stand up and speak up for their Faith- attend an adult education programme even if Hundreds of thousands of grown-ups , from expected to do so . The teacher's work is done is seriously defective . It is a policy which , for something . They may grant that adult educa- want of completeness , runs the risk of losing and articulate Catholics must be fitted into apostolic work which begins and ends in school everything you need in the way of courses in did graduate , are going back to school to sign one in his right mind would attempt to centre giving the programme . You'll find apostolic work . ' They are the precious master- all-important obligation of becoming intelligent bearing " that the majority of them would not up the facilities for using them . ' Catholic schools produce good ' bricks . ' But has any bearing on their own lives . theology for lay people , philosophy , doctrine , hard-working parishioners - the very ones who zoology . You can find fun courses as well as church history , even public speaking . serious ones - and if it's a Catholic college or pieces upon whom much devoted , self-sacrificing and trotting off some place to take a course in it were given as close by as the parish school . recent graduates to grandparents who never our whole investment . Someone has said that parish to parish , but it should arise in all of mushroom into unbelievable proportions . the existing pattern of their lives . " This is they build no ' homes . ' nor should they be It is precisely for this reason that fulfilling the one night a week ( or even one night a year ! ) where parish societies come in . so urgently is trained and formed within society to train its members to stand up and speak tion is a fine thing , but they don't see how it up for their Faith . But let's face facts . The great bulk of good , on graduation day . The failure has been to would not dream of picking themselves up guide graduates of Catholic schools into intelligent , articulate unity the Church needs effort has been expended . But we have not set It is because of this supposed " lack of them out " of the deep conviction that the It should be the function of every parish Even Catholic Ireland , its every tongue blessed by the Blarney Stone , has been the parish organizations . THE last decade has seen adult education WWE need not blueprint here the form this W programme should take . It will vary need of such a programme ! --- Page 33 --- a haslam . Michael --- Page 34 --- smiled sympathetically at Vincent . " You are let drop unconsciously I have expected that Joe Trent together in a city restaurant . " I have since found out , " he concluded , " that Stella and Joe are old friends ... very old friends ... . " He going to find it hard to take what I am about to staring in stupefaction at his friend as the beginnings of a terrible suspicion were damping upon him . this , Vince ! " said Robin softly , " but ... , well , I do ! " Robin affirmed quietly . " You see . for getting rid of your painting ! say Vince , " he continued , " but it is better to find might try something funny in order to remove his afraid ... ' because he knew ... ' that ' The Valley Frankly , I believe that Joe made Stella deliberately I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you it concerns Stella Marlow ... " and it's the reason for some time past , from chance remarks that he You mean , you think that it was Joe who sent fidence and , in so doing , find him some opportunity the fellow here , who gained entry to the house get friendly with you , in order to gain your coni- under the pretext of looking for a lost ball ? him of how he had encountered Stella and Joe I've come here to-night . " Quietly , Robin told where I usually kept the picture ? " Vincent was would beat his picture in the poster contest ! " person who organised the theft of your painting out now ... " before any further harm is done ! was no other than Joe Trent ... because he was You mean ... " that Stella , all the time , was But , look here , Robin , . " how would Joe know making a fool of me ... that she was working for only real rival from the competition ! Yes ! " said Robin . " You see , I think the ' In your room ? " he echoed . 160 From : " More Little Nuns " ) --- Page 35 --- does an excellent job of transforming the light - " pilot , who must have killed hundreds of people in innuendoes and the film's acceptance , as being air-raids , is assigned the task of killing in cold individual people and director Anthony Asquith daughter-and cats ? He couldn't be guilty , you petting . " Concerning American adolescents of to be a kindly , gentle soul who loves his wife , his three cases of murder : ( A.A. ) . which , because it is not popular entertainment , is a morally unobjectionable , of what is called ' heavy territory . Meeting your future victim , you find him the film lies in its examination of the effect of waron SECRET CONFESSION : Opinions will vary as to and , finally , despairing wreck of humanity . blood a Frenchman who , as an Allied agent in morality of killing in war-time . A U.S. bomber for ' adults only " on account of certain moral and the cinema will be very interested in this film , hearted bravado of the pilot into the scared , unsure true reflection of life in America . one must give QUIET AMERICAN . THE : Students of Greene ORDERS TO KILL : What might have been an YOUNG AND DANGEROUS : This must be classed TARNISHED ANGELS . THE : It will probably Paris , is suspected of betraying his fellow Under- say . How can I risk killing an innocent man ? ' Or steel cage , the : ( A.A. ) . A.A. -Suitable for Adult Audiences . MUSIC IN YOUR HEART : An enjoyable film for Supposing you were the young man under army thinking again . You won't forget this film for courageous effort . ( A.A. ) . orders to kill a traitor ? You are all alone in enemy ground workers to the Gestapo . The strength of falling flat , we get a brilliant twist to start you off intriguing film by reason of the stress laid on the both sexes and their craze for pleasure at the Scotland yard draquet : ( G.A. ) which is the better film : ' Alfred Hitchcock's " I suffice to rate it " Adult Audiences . " ( A.A. ) so it goes on . And when the film appears to be you lucky people : ' G.A. ) . 1930s . pared with the earlier production . ( A.A. ) . pressing a button to release bombs on cities ? And ordinary thriller has become a powerful and are you just scared ? Isn't this much harder than similarity of theme , must automatically be com- expense of morals and manners . If this film is a for its form of civilization . ( A.A. ) up the Creek : ( G.A. ) . NO TIME TO DIE : The cinemascope colour tainment going throughout . And the tank battles - photography also helps to keep this bright enter- Confess " or this German one which , by reason of d. Objectionable . was also been written to they're really something . ( G.A. ) adult audiences . ( A.A. ) . a while . ( A.A. ) . gs " O.P. # Objectionable in part . vte steel cage , the : ( A.A. ) . --- Page 36 --- about Morwa . and a path to the door . Here is just a scene of wild bushland . The paths little Chapel School as he saw it on that first lonely day when he arrived to find no one to greet him . Since then I am sure the ground about Morwa chapel is grow in souls that were once pagan . neatly laid out with some flower beds The picture shows Father Eunan's flowers remind us of the virtues which eventually leads to men's hearts and the rowing mission reporter writing of adjacent villages . In the beginning answer if he were in my place . Of you think that you will be able to If God wants me to remain and the generosity of Chief Molefi . At visitors would sometimes say to work for souls is centred in Morwa . By all Mission standards it is a succeed , He'll make the necessary something that concerned others used to feel a bit uncertain then that time I was as it were just a more than myself , but now I am course I know the right answer is : give up in a few months ? " I Cross ( see August , 1957 ) . I told and wonder what an Angel would lonely station . I live here all by continue ? ' You'll not be likely to me very pointedly as they surveyed The Priest in Charge ' and all my myself except for my African the patience of Father Placid and the solitary surroundings : ' Do neighbours in Morwa and the School for the readers of THE arrangements . If He doesn't , there all that the venture owed to Lady of Mount Carmel Chapel story of the building of Our "UST a year ago I wrote the What We're the story was written to --- Page 37 --- population of some ro,000 and should provide a very fruitful the help of your prayers and pennies . to the sky in front and above and My breadth of vision is confined the bush " at my elbow . The path lot and it squeaks in spots . Never- is one that has been trampled out harvest . " Here please God with MV only means of transport is a oncoming breeze - and be cool even THUS on my bike I joggle from s-bend , and Joseph disappears . with a tune , for it is rattling a we will someday set up a mission . ride with heart into the fresh Strong Hand from above we can viciousbush thorns-sometimes two is my life saver . It brings me my With it and a strong push by the that I enjoy the fun and the a strong grip to keep balance . " Boy begun of late to accompany me village to village . One time I such s-bends , each sharper and In spite of the toil I can still say along my narrow winding path We negotiate a whole series of round the next one which is an adventure " attached to such a scouts would find ideal training . comfort-but until then my bike my meat ; my tea , coffee , cocoa : my villages is a wonderful mystery to three inches long . " I manage sand would teach them consummate in Morwa . more sudden than the one before . conditions here and the stretches of tour . I am hemmed in as I pedal to escape from being clawed by the my silent journeys it has even round on possible roads and in journey . It takes great skill to get patience . worthy of the name . theless it is a faithful companion . humble bike . But each trip round Mass' kit on the carrier it requires bread and butter ; my eggs and car , then I can take the long way by groves of cattle . goats and buck . had a motor bike but had to give in the saddle , trying all the while my cabbagees , potatoes and all I those lovely letters from home . On and putting rocks . With the heavy need . It brings me my post too : round these bends without falling samaritan will provide me with a Joseph the catchist knows the it up . It was no match for the as best I can . He suddenly sweeps , off and you can add to the hazards , wav bv instinct almost and I follow round to left . I do likewise if still ends ! Someday maybe , some good low hanging branches , deep burrows sandy tracks of bends without --- Page 38 --- near Fermo , Italy . He was reputed feast-day by blessing and giving parents had begged God for a son My dear Gabriels , felt for his suffering condition and it to you willingly . " said Our Lady , of " Our Lady's goodness , the instantly cured , consoled and loaf of bread from a poor woman , angel appeared to them and urged as he was told , he found himself young days he spent long hours in would grant their request . They walked hundreds of miles to it , so the story goes . " She will give Nicholas of Bari and said God suffering as they journeyed . While in pain Our Blessed Lady appeared so that he might serve Him . An the childless couple to go on a eyes rested tenderly upon him . From infancy Nicholas was of happy . Ever since , in memory Augustinian Order celebrates his pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. prayer . God was the guiding for bread in water and eat it . He did light amongst saints . He was and be consecrated to God . of bread are distributed , in the angelic disposition . In his very born in 1245 in St. Angelo , a town told them a child would be born to out the tiny leaves of holy St. wore an iron chain . they rested at the ' shrine , St. gregation , in honour of St. Nicholas to be a child of prayer . ' His when this great saint was ill and she instructed him to get a small Do you know that on the roth of She showed him how much she of Tolentino ? It is told that once her . " " He was to moisten the them . He was to be called Nicholas September each year little leaves because you were often kind to to him in a radiant vision . Her This wonderful Saint is a shining Nicholas appeared to them and Would you like to hear a story ? Augustinian churches to the con- Nicholas . --- Page 39 --- said Mass on the top of Kilmanjaro some lovely pictures with prayers the nicest book . ' There are lovely the Passionist priest . He sent her and Mammy reads the long stories . My sister , Nancy , still writes to Nun'told us about the priest who Cross , " writes Ciss Byrne . " It is been very wet , " cries Nancy Byrne . pictures in it . I read the corner looked very happy . He was knelt down and began to prev. for you - " We still get the tain . " " The last few weeks have nounces , " He went up with the expedition that climbed the moun- and put a plaster on them . " " The Africa , " Edward McGrath an- nearly 3r miles above the rest of where the names and letters are the Black Babies . He is watching Still she will not forget the Mite When she was coming out she Mission Editor's call for help for Catholic faith ever since with voice brought me in and bathed my sores It has been just like winter . ' watching her and he thought of thing in her religion , so he became leader . " And he has served the and pen . He has found the pearl himself that there must be some- on them . 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Now he writes of women-fifteen of them , s a volume to be treasured by the young whose filled with the spirit of Christ , to do battle with are not of our own times : they belong to ages life-story , one is reminded of the feverish zeal of human experience . " Because of this , it will be Christ . In a word , Monsignor Cardijn has made nothing new , but many do not realise just how close association with the Cistercian Order . Let he subject . That a comparison should be made to eleven others no less remarkable for their single- amongst us . We are introduced to the great St. succeeded in getting even with God through their as the author of The Man Who Gov. Even With the enemies of Christ . But perhaps this is a glib it be admitted right away that these saintly women & Reynolds , Ltd. , Kildare St. pp. 231. 18 ) - found that the forces which make war on human but ! 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