God Love You
Most iter. Fulton J. Sheen
The only time in the Gospel Our Lord is recorded to have
sung a song was the night He went out to His Death. He
spoke most on the subject of Joy, the same night as the
darkness of Gethsemane awl the shadows of the Cross were
already falling across His nth. Referring to His Sacrifice
on the Cross and the necessity of being united to Him, He
added. “These things have I spoken,” John 15: 11.
He wants ns to have His Joy. But what was His Joy? Loving,
self-sacrificing service for others. His Joy will be in us, He said,
on the same condition, namely, a deep sense of otherness. As selfish
ness is the root of all unhappiness, so sacrifice for others is the source
of all joy. Not just a spasmodic sacrifice but a sacrificial spirit.
Each day make an act of self-denial. Mortify your eyes
or your ears; deny yourself a half hour of radio or television,
for example, just to train yourself not to rive way to every
impulse. As you do so, say: “Dear Jesus I do this to purchase
the light of faith for pagans in Africa, and the learning of the
word of God in Burma or India. Give up a soft drink, or the
purchase of a paper, or walk a few blocks instead of taking
a bus. Put the money saved in a special pocket — (we have
a mission pocket in our clothes). As you do so say: “This
hurts my lower nature, but I do it in union with you O Christ
because you gave up your life on the Cross for my salva
tion and the souls of the world.”
GOD LOVE YOU to Mrs. M. “Enclosed please find twenty dollars
for your Missions in thanksgiving to Our Lady for a very special
favor.” ... to A. M. K. for $1,000. “Money earned for extra work
after going on pension. In thanksgiving for many favors and pe
tition for .the welfare of relatives who are .very ill.” ... to I. E. G.
“Here is $2.00 I saved out of my allowance by not buying candy and
bubble gum so that a little orphan girl my age (9 years) may have
something to eat.” . . . to M. D. H. for $3.00. “The attached card of
dimes represents the sacrificing of ‘sweets’ for ‘energy’ for those who
haven’t bread for sustenance.” . . . to J. L. H. for $25.00. “I have just
opened a checking account. I am sending you check No. 1 for two
favors I received.”.... to the P. children for $2.00. “We staged a show
for the Missions this summer." ... to V. G. for $7.00. “I pledged
the first days earnings 1© the Missions that I was able to earn after a
foot injury.” ... to M. R. I. for $10.00. "In thanksgiving to Our
Lord that I have the necessities of life. Wish I could do more for
those who have not.” . . . to T. E. B. for $200.00. “The enclosed is
money I saved for poor while I was in the army.” . . . to C. G. “This
$10.00 was earned by baby-sitting this summer. Please accept it for
the people in China and in other foreign lands who are not so fortu
nate as we.”
Wouldn’t you like to send a “Joy Package” to Our Holy
Father for the missions throughout the world? Write for one
of our WORLD MISSION MITE BOXES and begin today
to package acts of self denial and Sacrifices. The money
you save in this mite box as a result of your daily sacrifices
and generosity will help to purchase the light of faith for pa
gan souls so that they too can share with you in the knowl
— edge and love of God — The Most Perfect Joy.
Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and send it to
the Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of the
Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Ave., New
York 1, New York or to the Very Reverend George E. Lynch.
Box 1949, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Level Knowledge Of Religion,
Other Studies: College Men
CLEVELAND — Members of a college social fraternity for Cath
olic men were told here they must keep their knowledge of Catholic
doctrine on the same level as their knowledge of the studies they
This is necessary, said Auxil
iary Bishop John J. Krol of Cleve
land, “because of the great many
professors who try to interpret all
reality in terms of their own par
ticular area of learning.”
Bishop Krol warned that “we
live in an age which is prone to at.
tach infallability to all scientific
procedure, an age in which we are
willing to worship at shrines of
everything to which science is at
tached.”
He pointed out that theology and
philosophy “lend meaning to all
other sciences." God expects each
person to increase his knowledge
of Him, the Bishop said, so that it
can be translated into action for
the individual’s benefit and that
of others.
The Bishop said that it was re
grettable that knowledge of God
cannot be acquired in the state
school system. But he expressed
the hope that “American ingenu
ity will find some way, without
prejudice to anyone, to make re
ligion a part of\ our educational
system.”
Religion Is Alive
If Families Keep,
Religious Customs
LONDON, Ont. — Two lay
speakers at the North American
Liturgical Week stressed the im
portance of family religious cus
toms as an overflow from the Mass
and other liturgical rites of the
Church.
Robert Rambusch of New York
said the liturgical movement can
“do much to stimulate interest in
the redevelopment of a Christo
centric family life” through the
development of a “family liturgy.”
Marceil Saddy of Sarnia, Cana
da, urged Catholic families to start
with the religious customs they
know from childhood and then de
velop some of their own practices.
He pointed out that most nation
al groups in the United States and
Canada brought over and retained
family religious customs. The new
generation, in trying to be too
quickly “Americanized” or “Anglo
Canadianized,” have thrown over
many of the non-Canadian, non
American customs. In so doing they
have thrown away Christian fam
ily customs.
Mr. Rambusch, who is associated
with Rambusch Church Decora
tors, Inc. in New York, said the
development of parioqhial edu
cation has had one undesirable by
product. He described that by
product as the “tendency to rele
gate the home to a secondary posi
tion as the well-spring in the
child’s religious education and
spiritual formation.”
“The indispensable role of the
Catholic parent,” he continued,
“can never be replaced by the
school, because the actual graces
of the sacrament of Marriage as
well as its explicitly stated pri
mary end deal with the parental
education of children.”
“As Catholic families,” said Mr.
Rambusch, “we have a great herit
age from the Old Testament fam
ilies in the field of ritual, instruc
tion and spiritual formation in the
home. The Jewish family ritual
was prescribed; The Catholic fam
ily ritual within the limits of or
thodoxy is adaptable from the
seasons and feasts of the liturgical
year, national customs and individ
ual family needs.”
Boycotted Obscenity,
Newsboys Praised
MELBUORNE, Ausralia — Cath
olic newsboys who recently re
fused here to distribute obscene
publications, “showed themselves
to be manly, decent and courage
ous,” Archbishop Daniel Mannix
of Melbourne declared.
Referring to the boycott which
reportedly put a deep crimp in the
sales of pandering paperbacks, the
Archbishop said:
“They took.it upon themselves
to assist the Customs Department
in saving Australia, and especial
ly the young people, from a very
objectionable flood of papers.”
Stressing that the boys did not
think of themselves or their own
financial interests, the 92-year
old prelate said: “Seeing the evil
that was being done by the dis
tribution of dangerous literature,
they took it upon themselves in a
heroic and Christian spirit to do
their part.”
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Vatican Daily
Gets Sarcastic
Over Beauties
VATICAN CITY — In a rare
display of sarcasm, L’Osservatore
Romano, Vatican daily newspa
per, has attacked “the intellectual
misery’’ of the Miss Italy beauty
contest at Rimini.
Promoters of the contest, accord
ing to the paper, .have attempted
to lift the events from pure vul
garity to a combination of intellec
tuality with beauty. The outcome
was just the opposite, L’Osserva
*?re said.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
Who was Enrico Fermi? Who was
the author of Italy’s famous novel
of the 19th century? Questions sim
ple enough for an Italian school
girl, said L’Osservatore Romano,
but the beauties at Rimini ex
changed the founders of Rome for
Greek twins, the atomic scientist
for a soccer player, and they had
forgotten Manzini’s name.
Had the girls passed the exami
nation of their knowledge of things
cultural, continued L”Osservatore,
“these feminine fairs would have
distinguished themselves from the
equine, bovine and canine shows
by demonstrating that which God
gave only to man, namely intelli
gence and the desire to know and
cultivate the things of culture for
the refinement of the spirit.”
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