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PRAYER FOR DISTRIBUTION Against OF EUCHARIST Warns Communism IS CHANGED During the week His Grace the Archbishop received notification from the Vatican to say that:
VATICAN CITY: ROPE PAUL VI warned more than 30,000 farm and factory workers from the Naples region against "disastrous ideologies" such as those based on class struggles and atheistic communism.
The Pope said that Individuals receiving Communion from now working people today are on are to take part personally in the prayers undergoing a great evoluduring distribution of the Eucharist, accordtion and their lives and ing to a new decree of the Sacred Congregabeen have prospects tion of Rites. changed greatly in recent The decree, dated April 25, abolishes the prayer the years. This evolution can work priest traditionally has said while distributing sacramento their good or to their tal hosts: "Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat detriment, he said, and animam tuam in vitam aeternam. Amen" ("May the urged them to concentrate Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your soul to on the development of malife everlasting. Amen"). In its place the Congregation ture social progress. Speaking about a major of Rites, with the aproval of Pope Paul, has decreed that priests will now say only the words "Corpus problem being faced in Italy today—a nation in Christi" ("Body of Christ") and that each person re- which one out of every ceiving Communion wil respond "Amen." four votes in the last naA second decree of the Congregation of Rites, bearing tional elections was cast the same date, provides for the insertion in the Divine for the commurtsts—the Praises, recited mainly at the end of the ceremony of Pope urged his listeners to Benediction, the invocation "Blessed be the Holy Spirit, think things out well. "Here we touch on one the Paraclete." 'Used by Christ in several instances in of the nerve centres of the from New Testament, the word "Paraclete" comes the social development of our a Greek word meaning one who is called, an advocate. people, of our beloved The prayer is to be inserted in the Divine Praises hard-working Italian peoafter the invocation "Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy ple." The Pope then asked a series of questions: Sacrament of the Altar." "What ideologies imA Vatican press bulletin said the Congregation's press them and decree altering the formula for the distribution of them? Who arereawaken the men Communion was authorised by Pope Paul in response who appear before them as to many requests. The press bulletin noted that this guides and teachers? newly authorised formula was in use in the Church in Which are the newspapers. the 14th century, and is still in use today in the Ambro- the speeches and the orgasian Rite, a Latin rite differing slightly from the Roman nisations which seek to of and used mainly in the Pope's former Archdiocese of gain a hold in the soulsLet the working people? Milan. us be frank. The bulletin said inclusion of the Holy Spirit in the "Many of these ideoloDivine Praises was also a result of many requests, and gies, those of social selfishit was noted that the Divine Praises had been composed ness and of the superiority originally as a prayer of reparation against blasphemies. of economics over moral
and religious law, for example, those of destructive class struggle and atheistic Marxism, those of pleasure and vice as a free programme of life, and the like, are erroneous ideologies. They are harmful ideologies. "They can be disastrous, particularly for the working person who seeks sufficient measure of economic means, of dignity and of personal liberty, of social and international peace. Open your eyes and see the events of the present time which show scientific weakness, social inconsistency and the political danger of doctrines which have been turned into powerful entities and which are rising to claim leadership of the world of labour." The Pope spoke of ideological crises which cause honest, courageous and thoughtful men to modify positions which lead them to give in easily to fashionable cultural trends. "To you. then, dear workers. we want to recommend intelligence and liberty in the face of the temptations of false ideologies. Remember, it is necessary to think well." The Holy Father then urged his listeners to remain close to the Church.
PRIOR GENERAL VISITS SERUMS
• FATHER ALPHONSUS M. MONTA. Prior-General of the Order of the Servants of Mary, passed through Perth last week on his way to the U.S.A.. where he is to preside at the Provincial Chapters of the two American provinces of the Order. Father Monta, who comes from the Piedmont Province of the Order, was elected Prior-General in 1953 and re-elected in 1959. He left Italy on April 21 and before this, his first visit to the Australian houses of the Order, he visited the Servite Sisters in India. .After attending the Provincial Chapters in the U.S.A., Father Monta will preside at other Chapters in Canada, England, Italy and Australia. While in Perth. Father called on His Grace the Archbishop and His Lordship, Bishop McKeon.
FINAL PROFESSION AT SUBIACO France Welcomes
Greek Prelates
PARIS: WO top associates of Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople who were expelled by the Turkish government were welcomed here with a show of sympathy and solidarity by leading Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churchmen of France.
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• Monsignor E. Kennedy, Vicar General of the Archdiocese, officiated at the ceremony of Final Profession of four Sisters of St. John of God in the convent
chapel at Subiaco on Tuesday, April 28. He was assisted by the hospital chaplain, Father L. Leunig, and Father F. Dillon. The occasional sermon was preached by Father G.
Dennehy, C.SSR. Fathers F. Ruddy, B. Maxwell and J. Cunningham were present in the sanctuary. The four Sisters are (left to right): Sister M. Alberta
Hughes, County Mayo, Ireland; Sister M. Philippa Joyce, County Mayo; Sister M. Thomasina Quinn of County Galway; and Sister Eugenia Brennan of County Mayo.
Metropolitan Iakovos of Philadelphia and Metropolitan Emilianos of Selefkia—both members of the ruling 12-man Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate—were stripped of their Turkish citizenship and ordered to leave Turkey by April 21. Shortly after their arrival here, they were formally welcomed by Maurice Cardinal Feltin in a reception in the hall of honour of the Paris archdiocese. The metropolitans were accompanied to the Cardinal's reception by Bishop Meletios, Exarch for France of the Ecumenical Patriarch, and by Pastor Charles Westphal, the president of the Protestant Federation of France. The two prelates also went to the American (Protestant) cathedral here, where high Protestant and Catholic officials went to give public witness of their sympathy.
Unity Octave The annual Church Unity Octave will be held from Ascension Thursday to Pentecost Sunday. Leaflets on the theme of Christian Unity will be available from most Catholic churches this Sunday. During the oc t a v e, special prayers will be offered in All Saints' Memorial Centre at the midday Mass. The prayer on the leaflet is the work of a French priest. Father Couturier, and has become a classic of Church ecumenism. Father E. J. Stormon will preach on Christian Unity in St. Mary's Cathedral this Sunday at the 11 o'clock Mass.