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Holy Father's Health Improves Special Audience For Catholic Actionists "My Life Richer in Books Than in Activity"
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HE Holy Father is enjoying new-found health. And eagerly he is using it to console and encourage the hundreds of pilgrims who go to see him at Castel Gandolfo.
when he returned to Milan from Rome just three years after his ordination, the Archbishop sent Members of his household have been gently trying to make for him and .made him chaplain His Holiness husband his strength, but this is against his sense to the convent. of duty and his desire to spend himself in extra work. Life Among Books. Recently His Holiness went out of his way to grant two pub"That will be your first parish," lic audiences instead of one. the Archbishop had said to him, "and," added the Pop,e, "it was At the first of these he made a long and interesting speech to for 30 years." my parish rehad he although He told them that Catholic Actionists. Referring to the proposals :eived a report of their work late the previous evening, he had made by those present with regone through it most carefully, and remarked with a smile: gard to an ever greater and in so ' When one gets to 80 years, one can do with less sleep, and deeper study of religion. the work." for and Cisposition time often is night there t oe Holy Father said that study would be to them a great source HE first of the of consolation and would give brought were They work. week's audiences was a speever greater efficacy to thcir cial one for some to us. only very late last evening. works in Catholic Action. them 200 priests, nuns belonging to yet we have gone through Speaking again of himself, the about 50 different congregations all most carefully. for," said His Holy Father said: in Italy, laymen and laywomen Holiness, smilingly. "when one "You know that my life has and girl students from universi- gets to 80 years one can do with been made up of much more night the in so and sleep, less ties engaged in Catholic Action. study than action—mucn richer They had been taking part in a there is often time and disposi- in books than in activIty," yet, week of study in connection with tion for work." he added, he was most grzteful to the Catholic Action summer God that he had been aide to fact Then remarking on the schools. that the lactic:: who had been tak- serve the Church by so many The Holy Father received ing part in the week of study had years dedicated to books, and it them in the Consistorial Hall. been housed at the Cenacle, His was a .consolation that had been He His Holiness began by asking Holiness recalled his days as a his for almost all his life. why it was that they were hav- priest, when he was chaplain to said this, he remarked, to encourage those present in the way ing this special audience, so un- the Cenacle convent in Milan. of study on which they were alusual at present, and answered He said he could never forget ready entered. He impressed on by saying that it was because they belonged to Catholic Action his connection with those excel- all the need for the study of the He recalled that Faith, and to make Faith the food and especially to Catholic Action lent religious sexes. both of o f their lives. youth among the apple the as him Blessing in English. to dear those From the Consistorial Hall the of his eye. Holy Father went into the Hall He told them he had had their of the Swiss Guards, where a programme before him, that he gathering of 800 people gave him had followed all their discussions, an ovation. that their statistics were most His- Holiness spoke to the variconsoling, and that their definite ous groups—a few words for each and practical plans for the further --,--beginning as usual with the e xtension of their sphere of aposnewly -married couples. tolate in the field of Catholic Acpleagreatest To a group of American pilthe him gave tion. grims led by the Knights of Co!sure. umbus. the Holy Father said they To the Sisters he said he was w ere specially welcome as commost pleased to see them there. ing from so far. He said be -Ind that the co-operation of nuns knew all the Knights do for the in Catholic Action was exactly Faith and the Church in America, what the Pope desired. and he gave them all his special returning He charged them. on blessing. his in thank to to their convents Then, so that they might unname their superiors and Rev. derstand more fully the intention Y others who had sent them to of the Pontiff, the Holy Father t ake part in that week of study .1 RECENT PORTRAIT OF HIS said slowly in English: "To you Reminiscences. HOLINESS. all, and to each one of von in : continued In spite of alarmist reports in the The Holy Father particular. we impart the most of our signs show in to he here continues Press, have " Yon see we affectionate paternal blessing." improved health and vigour, your . ands all the results of
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