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Perth, Thursday, Dec. 3, 1959
602 HAY STREET The Town Hall is opposit
Five Men Study Bishops' Ideas For Council
Vatican City: Five men working quietly in laying the important foundations of the second Vatican Council. a 10 -room office are
The five form the secretariat of the Pontifical Antepreparatory Commission of the Council. They are headed by Mgr. Pericle Felici, secretary of the commission, who works in constant and close collaboration with His Eminence Domenico Cardinal Tardini, Vatican Secretary of State. Basically, the function of this secretariat is to do the spade work in gathering, classifyjng and synthesising the recommendations of the world's bishops for matters to be considered during the council. This monumental task is being perfomed with incredibly simple means. Invitations are sent out by Cardinal Tardini to the bishops asking them to express their opinions on questions the council should consider. There are no questionnaires. The bishops write freely. The bishops' replies are photostated, the letters are filed, the photostats are cut and then classified according to subject matter. The scene of this operation is on the third floor of one of the new buildings built to house the Roman congregations which stand just before the entrance to St. Peter's Square. Inside the office one is struck by the great silence that predominates in contrast to the bustling activity. Rarely does one hear the sound of a typewriter. This is because the bulk of the work consists in a studying and classification of the contents of letters. The bishops' letters, written for the most part in Latin. number about 2,000 so far. Another 700 bishops are still to be heard from. In the spring of 1960 another group of letters will come from the theological universities which have been asked to express their opinions. About the same time the internal commissions of the 12 Roman congregations will also submit their suggestions.
Panorama Of Suggestions The entire work is expected to result in a panorama of opinions and suggestions. An analysis of them will provide material then for the preparatory commissions which will organise and develop specific categories
of questions. It is not yet known how long this office will operate, but it is almost certain to continue to function until the summer of 1960. When its work is done, the office will be replaced by the Preparatory Commission, a more complex organisation. Priests of many countries will participate in the work of its various departments. Mgr. Felici (48) is the brilliant and dynamic director of the secretariat of the Ante -preparatory Commission. When he was only 36 years old he became one of the judges of the Roman Rota, the Church's supreme court of appeal. He is a noted lawyer and theologian and a fine Latinist. He works so closely and constantly with Cardinal Tardini on the work of the secretariat that he has even taken his vacation with the Cardinal so that the collaboration would not be entirely intetrupted. With his increased responsibilities he has had to,relinquish his role as spiritual director of the Major Roman Seminary. Mgr. Felici's assistants are Mgr. Vincenzo Carbone, and Fathers Nello Antonini Emilio Governatori and Edmondo Ulinski. In January they will be joined by Mgr. Achille Lupi, who until recently was a staff member of the Apostolic Delegation in Washington, D.C. Mgr. Carbone (40) was a professor of dogma at the
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regional seminary of Viterbo. Father Antonini holds degrees in philosophy, theology, canon law and letters. Father Governatori is archivist of the secretariats. Father Ulinski is a notary on the Roman Rota. Mgr. Lupi's contribution to the work of the secretariat will stem from his knowledge of languages and his diplomatic experience in Latin America and the United States. The work now being done by these priests may not be told in the recounting of the history of the Second Vatican Council, but it is planting the seeds that will grow in the Church's future. 101.111.1
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Schools' Mass To End Novena On Tuesday, December 8, at 9 a.nl, a Solemn High Mass wil be sung by the schoolchildren of the Cathedral parish that will bring to a close the Novena of Masses. The Novena itself will be concluded the same night with the Torchlight Procession in honour of Our Blessed Mother. The feast, that of the Immaculate Conception, is the titular saint of St. Mary's ,1,40,14.04,114041.0.1,11,11.41S1.11.4.41.4.41404.41.
Metropolitan
Clergy To Confer, Dec. 11
The Quarterly Conference of the Clergy for the metropolitan area will take place at the Chapter Hall, Church Office. Victoria -square, on Friday, December 11, commencing at 10 a.m. 441.41,1141,04.
Cathedral. The faithful are exhorted to attend this final ceremony in honour of Our Blessed Mother. The Novena opened well with an estimated crowd of 1,600 people attending.
Recollection Day For Tertiaries
There will be a Day of Recollection for members of the Third Order of Carmel (Discalced) at St. Josephh's Orphanage, Subiaco, on Sunday, December 13, commencing at 10,30 a.m. Anybody interested in learning about the Third Order is welcome to attend. Will those attending please bring lunch. Further particulars may be obtained from Father Hilary, Carmelite Monastery, Morley Park.
Masses, Confessions Will Be
Available On Holidays Mass will be offered at beach resorts during the approaching holiday season as follows: ROTTNEST ISLAND
Masses begin on Christmas Day and will continue till the last Sunday in January. From then on it will depend on the availability of a priest. Mass times at Rottnest: 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. in the picture hall. MANDURAH MASSES: Christmas Eve: Midnight. Christmas Day: 7 and 9 a.m. Every Sunday: 7 and 8 a.m. CONFESSIONS: Every Saturday from 7.30-8.30 p.m. EVENING DEVOTIONS: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sundays at 7 p.m. ROCKINGHAM
Christmas Eve: Midnight. Christmas Day: 9 a.m. Sundays and Holidays: 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. SAFETY BAY
Christmas Day: 7.30 a.m. Sundays and Holidays: 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. CONFESSIONS: Christmas Eve: 5-6 p.m., 7 p.m. onwards. NAVAL BASE MASS: 8.30 a.m. each Sunday, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. CONFESSION: Before Mass.
MASS: 7.30 p.m.
CONFESSION: Before Mass.
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Chemists Receive Holy Communion Members of the Catholic Chemists Guild received Holy Communion as a group at St. Thomas More College chapel, Crawley, on tion with other human beSunday last. The V. Rev. J. Hawkins, S.J., rector of St. Louis' school and chaplain to the Guild, celebrated Mass. Founded on August 20, 1957, the Guild aims to seek holiness and truth in all things and to inspire members to apply Catholic moral priciples to the practice of pharmacy. The term "Catholic chemists" will mean for many people just a number of chemists who happen to be Catholics. For others, the combination of "chemist" and "Catholic" will appear incongruous, or even objectionable. "Chemist" or "Pharmacist" means one who deals in re medies for bodily ills and safeguards for bodily health; "Catholic" is a religious term and there does not seem to be any connection between religion and the services a pharmacist renders the community. If the title is, meant to suggest that religion can dictate to a pharmacist what his actions should be in certain circumstances in the conduct of his business, is not this just another instance of the unwarrantable intrusion of religion into a sphere in which it has no standing? It may help to clearness of ideas if we briefly consider the. question. In this, as in many other matters, we find a solution only by going back to the fundamental facts of life. Religion is the worship of God; this means acknowledgement of His position as Creator, reverence for Him, and the service due to Him by rational beings. If we leave God out of human life, we find ourselves with something much more empty and meaningless than Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. Religion cannot be considered as an "extra"; far from being like an added ornament on a fabric, it is, the very warp and woof of life.
ings that we are enabled to live a full human life. In this society we are necessarily both givers and receivers; we share in the benefits that community life confers, but at the same time we are bound to contribute to the common good.
It unfortunately happens that the attention of a great number of men is fixed on what they want to get, to the extent that they almost lose the sense of obligation to
give. An important saying of Our Lord has been forgotten: "It is a more blessed thing to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35. As members of society we have our rights, but we also have corresponding duties. In modern society the emphasis is almost entirely on
rights. Nations and sections of nations and individuals are clamorous about what they assert to be their rights, but hardly a word is ever said about their duties.
Attention To Duty
Yet when our lives will be subjected to the scrutiny of the eternal Judge, we shall not be held to blame if others have sometimes failed to give us our rights (rather will it tend to our advantage); but if we have failed in our duties we shall be called to account for that. Not a few of the troubles which afflict modern society would disappear if men were to pay more attention to their obligations to their fellow-men; and there would be less need to insist on rights if everyone were more concerned with doing his duty. It is not necessary to point out the important part that chemists play in the community, for the services which they render are very necessary / ones and contribute greatly to the welfare of all. But besides being human society in general, there is special society in which Catholic chemists belong, God's Will Is Law namely the Church of Christ. The most fundamental and It is a supernatural society, universal of all laws is that and its members live a superwe, as creatures, must live natural life, for they share our lives in accordance with in the life of Christ Himself, God's will; if we disregard as branches of the Vine that that we can only be hopeless is Christ, or members of His failures. body, which is the Church. That is the reason -why As this gives a higher form Catholics must be Cathoilcs, of life and a higher form of not on Sunday only, but activity, so it also increases every day of the week; they the obligations of Catholics cannot be servants of God towards all who are m-mwhile at prayer, and servants bers of Christ's body, either of the world at other times. actually or potentially. The moral law that is, Their obligations towards God's law applies at all their fellow -men take on a times and in every depart- new character: in their dealment of life. Every Christian ings with others they are no must share in the rule of life longer acting as mere men, of Christ: "I am in this but as Christian men, other world, not to do My own Christs. will, but the will of Him It is obvious, then, that a that sent Me." Catholic chemist must be A "Catholic" 'chemist, then, quite different from one that is one who accepts this view is an unbeliever, for he must of life and lives by it. But' take quite a different view it is not always an easy task 'of- his profession and of his for him to guard his prin- duties. ciples against the softening "For me life means influence of a world that is Christ," said St. Paul (Phil. largely pagan. 1:21), by which he meant in But duty to God involves the context, that his life was also duty to our fellow-men. devoted to the building up of God has established human the body of Christ. society, and it is in associa(Continued on Page 16.)
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