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SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
PERTH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940.
Pope's Message to Priests • n War
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.Among the poignant anxieties that weigh upon Our mind owing to the raging of a war which We tried by every means though in vain, to avert, We are in a special way affected by the painful situation which has foreibly and suddenly removed you, be loved priests and clerics, far from your ti Id of work for souls or from the [uiet of your studies and set you down in a new world of camp and battles. N t accustomed to th life that vou new lead, you are suddenly put to erve in barracks, in hospitals, in firstaid station: and even in the firing-line itself- some of you as chaplains,
others (and these the majority) tu perform tasks far different from those to which your vocation has called you,
Eforts Are Precious. The Military Vicars or Chief Chaplains follow you in your present life with vigilance and care; and We are reassured of their immediate and paternal assistance because of a splendid organiastion untiring, energetic, alert and prudent. Their efforts are precious in every way and not least in the acrifices they involve; and inspired as they are with a very deep sense of duty, are crowned in every country with the greatest success. It is Our wish, while We bring their work to your notice and assure you of the confidence We place in it, to recommend it at the same time to your gratitude and to that spirit of willing docility on your part that is a necessary condition for it to be effective. Moreover, that you may not be without those spiritual helps that you have need of, both for yourselves and for your work for souls, it is Our inten tion to grant to all the Military Vicars or Chief Chaplains of those nations or districts where the state of war or mobilisation now exists or shall come to exist-without prejudice to the ordinary powers already 'granted-new and ·xtraordin. ry powers that will be an indication to you of the loving care with which We, in Our paternal solicitude. follow vou in vour difficulties and trials. But the task of active assistance confided by Us to the Military Vicars or Chief Chaplains does not dispense Us from approaching you directly to open to you Our mind and to exhort vou, in the extraordinary circumstances in which you are placed, to give attentive consideration to the duties imposed on you by your new conditions of life, that you may fulfil them without reserve in the spirit of vour vocation.
WHY DOES GOD ALLOW THIS WAR?
Counsels Same Spirit However you may have changed vour dress, the spirit that is in you should not be changed This should go with you in the midst of arms no hood. He who to-day permits that less than in the exercise of your priest-
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Following is the full text of th% I Apstolic Exhortation of Pope I Pius XII addressed to priests and clerics who have been i called upon to serve in the arm ■ ed forces of nations.
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you be far from your accustomed habits of study and work is the same heavenly Father Who called you to the altar, He called you, remember, not to make of you simply and solely ministers of liturgical worship the Catholic priesthood is not limited to this alone -but to have in you, as well, ministers of the Word, propagators of the Gospel, living representatives of His Christ, t bear a knowledge of Him to all excite in all the desire for Him, and in all kindle love of Him. Yours is the plan and aim of St. Paul, who boasted of not knowing anvone else. nor of carrying anything els Continued on Page 7.)
"ST. TERESA YOUR MODEL" THE POPE TELLS HIS SOLDIERS.
e would like to suggest that you take as vour model the lovable St Teresa of Lisieux who in the little sacrist of the Carmel, put all her love in keeping spotless and ever more shining th sacred vessels which were to contain the verv holv body of Christ,'' the H ly Father told the ficers of the Vatican Army when they presented him with their New Year wishes. ·You, guardians of the person and guardians of the honour of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, you, too, will preserve and make ever more brilliant your own purity of heart and that depth of soul which are the most beautiful of vour titles so that you may pass on an even more glorious inheritance to your descendants. ·The steel shining in your hands should svmbolise above all the ardour and strength of your faith," said His Holiness, and he quoted the saying of St. Thomas a Becket, "Non est Dei ecclesia custodienda more castrorum" "It is not customary to keep the Church of God as a military camp." Their mission is not only to keep good watch, but also to be exemplars of light and of decorum, the Pope added.
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