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Papal Broadcast Asks For Daily
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World Wide Prayer
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HIS HOLINESS POPE JOHN XXIII has appealed for world wide recitation of a Mass prayer for the coming Council and indicated that the assembly of nearly three thousand Bishops will dig deeply into social questions. The Pontiff's radio address came a month before the opening of the Council. It was relayed by Vatican Radio to outlets in most European countries and beamed by Radio Free Europe to communist controlled Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Roumania and Bulgaria in o delayed broadcast. The address was heard in America, Australia and Canada. Pope
John,
who
inter-
rupted a personal retreat to make the address, said that preparations for the Came(' indicate that Rome will be the centre of a new era in the world's history. He also said that the Council's attraction to those interested in reunion with the Church caused him "serene joy.'' Pope John then asked "everyone throughout the world" to recite and to get others to recite the prayer of the Mass for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost. He asked that this prayer be repeated daily until the opening of the Council: "Almighty and merciful God, through whose gra-e Your faithful are able to serve Yau with dignity and joy, grant, we beseech You, that we may run without hindrance towards the attainment of Your promises. We. from all parts of the earth and from heaven, thus implore You. Through the merits of Jesus Christ, Master and Saviour of all. Amen. He said it would not be possible to find "happier expressions more in accord with the individual and collective preparation for the success of the Ecumenical Council."
Social Teachings On social teachings, the Pontiff put great stress on what he called the need for the Church to point up the sense of responsibility Christians must show in their social life. It is this sense of duty and the good example it represents that draws non-Christians to the Church," he said. He added that "the grave
problems" of society today press upon the Church and he said the Council "will be able to present, in clear language, solutions which are demanded by the dignity of man and his vocation as a Christian." The Council, he indicated, will explain the fundamental equality of all peoples "in the exercise of rights and duties within the entire family of nations." It will also make a "strenuous defence" of the sacred character of matrimony, he said.
He spoke specifically of the underdeveloped countries. "Where they are conhe said, "the cerned," Church presents herself as she is. She wishes to be the Church of all, and especially the Church of the poor."
Violation Of Precepts Social evils will be deplored and Christian duty towards the disadvantaged will be emphasised, he said. "Every offence against and violation of the Fifth and Sixth Commandments of the Holy Decalogue; the neglect of tasks which flow from the Seventh Commandment; the miseries of social life which cry for vengeance in the sight of God; all this must be recalled and deplored. "The duty of every man, the impelling duty of the Christian, is to look upon what is superfluous in the light of the needs of others and to see to it that the administration and distribution of created goods are placed at the advantage of all," he said. The Pope spoke of the "spread of the social and community sense which is innate in true Christianity" and he said "all this is to be put energetically into action." asked: He rhetorically
What is to be said concerning the relations between the Church and civil society? He answered that today's world is a "new political world." But he added: "One of the fundamental rights which the Church can never renounce is that of religious liberty, which is not merely freedom of worship." Because the Church "vindicates and teaches" this liberty, he said, "she continues to suffer anguishing pain in many countries." "The Church cannot renounce this liberty, because it is inseparable from the service she is bound to fulfil," he said. "This service
does not stand as the corrective or the complement of
what other institutions ought to do, or have appropriated to thetmselves, but it is an essential and irreplaceable element of the design of Providence to place men upon the path of truth and liberty which are the building stones upon which human civilisation is raised."
Peace The Pope said the Church will once more raise the plea for world peace "which rises from the depth of the ages and from Bethlehem and from there on Calvary." He spoke of peace "which should have its roots and its guarantee in the heart of each man."
S Thousands
from
the
of
East
pilgrims and
the
West flock to the Hill of
Martyrs in Nagasaki to pay to 26 heroic Christians from Japan and the Western world who homage
were
executed
there
in
1597.
The 50 -foot wide bronze relief depiction of the 26
martyrs is set in a granite wall (upper photo), in
front of the museum.
Of
the 26 martyrs, canonised
in 1862, six were Francis-
four from Spain, one from India, and the Mexican St. Philip of Jesus; cans,
three
were Japanese
uits;
and
17
the
Jes-
remaining
were Japanese laymen. Above lower, the crowd
gathers before the three storey memorial which
contains
museum a
library
and exhibit hall. At right, pilgrims climb
Sets Spiritual
Pattern
to run from September
THE HOLY FATHER has set a pattern for the spiritual preparation he has asked of all Catholics for the coming Vatican Council,
Swiss Noble Guard, Guard, Palatine Guard and Vatican Gendarmerie will join in the triduum. A similar triduum will be held for personnel of the Vicariate of the diocese of Rome.
The
Pope
private September
made a retreat from 10
to
17,
seven days of prayer and meditation being broken only by his scheduled radio message to the world on September 11. The Pope has also ordered a triduum of spiritual preparation for all Vatican personnel, both clerics and laymen,
in front of the twin -spired chapel which adjoins the martyrs' mem orial. the steps
24 to 26. Families living
in Vatican City as well as members of the
Spiritual exercises of triduum will be preached in various offices of the Vatican. Starting on September 12, an additional prayer has been ordered in every Mass celebrated in Rome and in the Vatican to ask the help of the Holy Spirit for the week of the council.
Members of Australia's Hierarchy have started to move to Rome.
The largest group passed through Fremantle on Monday last on the Oriana. His Grace the Archbishop entertained the prelates to lunch before the ship left the port at 2 p.m. They included His Eminence Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop P. M. O'Donnell, Coadjutor Archbishop of Brisbane, Bishop H. Ryan of Townsville, Bishop B. Gallagher of Port Pirie, Bishop J. Freeman, Auxiliary to Cardinal Gilroy, --Bishop A. Fox, Auxiliary to Archbishop Mannix, Bishop T. Muldoon, Auxiliary to Cardinal Gilroy, and Bishop
Ausiralian Bishops
Move Out For Council Geraldton, who joined the ship at Fremantle. Earlier departures included Archbishop E. O'Brien, Bishop J. Doody of Armidale and Bishop J. Farrelly of Lismore by ship. Bishops who have left for the Council by air are Archbishop J. Simonds, Coadjutor Archbishop of MelF. X. Thomas of
bourne, Archbishop G. Young of Hobart, Bishop J. Norton of Bathurst, Bishop J. O'Collins of Ballarat, Bishop B. Stewart of Sandhurst, Bishop T. McCabe of Wollongong, and Bishop F. Rush of Rockhampton. Members of the Hierarchy to leave by air are Archbishop M. Beovich of Adelaide, Bishop P. Lyons of Sale, Bishop T. Cahill of Cairns and Bishop W. Brent nen of Toowoomba, who will all leave about the end of September. His Grace the Archbishop and his Auxiliary, Bishop M. McKeon, will fly to Rome Bishop L. on October 5. Goody of Sunbury leaves on
Friday, September 21.
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