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STUDENTS AND HELP AND HATE Washington: In a darkened parish hall at Holy Comforter Catholic church here, a weary student from New York's Jewish Theological Seminary loosens his tie, rubs at an insect bite on his hand, and sits down to write in a notebook. The time is one o'clock in the morning. Soon he will join some others in the room who are sleeping on cots, but first he takes time to write a long account clearly and carefully. He finishes with these words: "Standing on the vigil is certainly a great source of satisfaction for each individual participant. One tires only when he is replaced. While standing vigil there are people who constantly stop and you don't have the opportunity to get tired." The young man puts down his pen. Then another thought strikes him and he picks it up again. -Beware of insects at night," he writes. "It might be worth while to use an insect repellant." Insect bites are just one of the problems faced by the seminarians — Catholic, Protestant and Jewish — who kept a civil rights vigil for 24 hours a day since April 19, across the street from the Lincoln Memorial.
Long Watch Determined to maintain their watch until a Federal civil rights bill is signed into law, the Theological Studenits Vigil for Civil Rights is expected to log more than two thousand hours, day and night, rain and shine, by the time the bill is passed by the U.S. Senate and signed by President Johnson. About two and a half thousand seminarians from all parts of the nation will have taken part. Their impressions and their trials are recorded in the notebook used by the Jewish seminarian. Most of them tell of friendly visitors, but there are ugly episodes of people shouting from passing cars, screaming obscenities, and harangues from nazi demonstrators who maintain a post nearby. These observations by two ministerial students from Union Theological Seminary in New York capture a cross-section of the public response:
History "Angry groups of high school students from SOLLLn Carolina . . . Two families Who brought their children to be photographed With us because 'this will be in the history books' • . . During a driving rain that came up suddenly, a man and his wife by stopped, took a driving raincoat 9ut of the car, it to one ofsilently gave the vigilkeepers who did not have one, and drove away." The most common reaction is kindness. Taxicab drivers stop unasked in the early hours of the in.orning with coffee. Tourists, government employees — even senators— come by with a word of e ncouragement.
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The reaction of the tors is reflected in the visifeelings of the seminarians.
One of them wrote: "I felt good and whole standing there." Some visitors at the site of the vigil are not so kind. A Protestant seminarian told of one old Southerner who spent an hour with them mouthing invective against Negroes.
Sisters of Mercy recently professed their Fir S t Vo W S at the Convent of Mercy, Victoria Square, were ( left to right) Sister Mary Edmund (Mosses) from Liverpool, Sister Mary Raymond (O'Reilly) from Dublin, Sister Mary Campion (O'Gorman) also f rom Dublin, Sister Mary Francis Xavier (Lynch) from Co Cork and Sister Mary Martina (Killeen) from Co. Louth. Monsignor E. Sullivan officiated at the ceremony and Father Joachim O'Brien 0.F.M., preached the sermon.
TO BE ORDAINED IN GENOA
According to the passage in the notebook: "He said he was elderly, but that he kept in shape by getting 30 minutes of practice every day. At this point he wiggled his trigger finger ominously. The Catholic Brother with me smiled beatifically while I gazed at the memorial and looked noble, hoping the man would get tired and go away . . ."
NEW DELHI, INDIA: HOME MINISTER GULZARILAL NANDA HAS PROMISED THE HELP OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN INVESTIGATING DESECRATIONS IN KERALA STATE.
Co-ordinator A nother seminarian noted cryptically: -The police are friendly and nice to have around." Brother Jude Molnar, T.O.R., a fourth-year theology student from Cleveland, attending St. Thomas More House of Studies here, is the Catholic coordinator of the interdenominational student group. He estimates that at least 5,000 persons a day pass the vigil site on foot, and sometimes as many as 15,000 a day. He said in an interview that the vigil has had a "tremendous" impact on the public and on the seminarians themselves. Standing in three - hour shifts behind a large sign, the three seminarians remain silent during their tour of duty. After hours they talk constantly about their experiences and studies, Brother Jude said. Whatever the results of the vigil, the public response is best summed up in the account, written in their notebook, of a lone Negro who approached the vigil hesitantly one night. The Negro said: "It's kind of awkward for me to say 'thanks,' but thank you."
DESECRATION IN KERALA
REVEREND JUSTIN BIANCHINI will be ordained for the Archdiocese of Perth on Monday. June 29, in St. Laurence's Cathedral, Genoa, Italy. The ceremony of ordination will be performed by His Eminence Giuseppe Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Genoa. The ordinand, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Bianchini, of Welshpool Road, Queen's Park, received his early education at St. Joseph's School, Queen's Park, and C.B.C., Perth. He entered St. Charles' Seminary. Guildford, in 1954 and left for Genoa to complete his theological studies in December, 1960. Mr. and Mrs. Bianchini sailed for the Continent in
March and their daughter Miss Anne Bianchini flew from Perth on Wednesday, June 24. to be present for the ordination. They will return with the newly ordained in the middle of August. Father Bianchini will celebrate his first Mass in Australia at St. Joseph's Church. Queen's Park. The eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bianchini's f amily is Sister Mary Justin of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
They have involved one Protestant and nine Catholic churches to date. The assurance came when four members of Parliament from Kerala, including two Catholics. met with Nanda here and presented a memorandum on the desecration, stressing they will destroy communal harmony and pave the way for further tension and mutual suspicion. The legislators said the attacks reflected a systematic programme to harm Christian religious feeling and fan the flames of religious strife. IRON BARS Meanwhile, Archbishop Kavukatt Mathew of Changanacherry, Kerala, has issued instructions for the protection of churches. In a letter circulated through the diocese, he ordered that iron bars be installed in all church window openings, and that iron safes fixed to altars he used for tabernacles. He also advised that sacred vessels not required for day-to-day use be kept in the rectory and that Parishioners exercise vigilance in guarding their churches. In Ernakulam, Arch
bishop Joseph Parekattil issued a pastoral letter urging Catholics to take their own measures to protect the churches. WAVE The wave of desecrations began several weeks ago in Kerala State. Theft seems to be only incidental, since tabernacles have been found discarded some distance from the churches desecrated and Hosts strewn on the ground, while crucifixes have been broken and left scattered on church floors. The Bishops of Kerala have lodged protests with the government and announced a meeting in the near future to take measures dealing with the vandalism.
Peter's Pence
The annual collection for Peter's Pence will be taken up in all parishes on Sunday, July 5.
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