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Jlortf) Carolina Catfjoltc Edition of Our Sunday Visitor Subscription $4.00 Copy 10c Volume LV1 April 14, 1968 No. 50 RAl.F.IGH, N.C. P.O. Box 9503 Easter Message From Bishop Waters My Dear Brethren: As we celebrate the greatest feast of the Church, the Feast of Our Load’s Resurrection which proved His Divinity and proved our resurrection and eternal happiness, we keep the grace that to us through Baptism or get it back by the Sacrament of Penance and die with it before we face God. The principal means of this supernatural help comes to us through the Priesthood of the Church and the Sacraments. The Church is on earth entirely for one purpose — the salvation of ' our souls. We can be sure of forgiveness and of God’s help principally through the Church and die Sacraments because it is the Lord, Himself, Who came on earth to make this possible. If there were no reason for this, God would not have become man, nor while on earth would He have begun teaching the grace, the truth, the Sacraments, and the sacrifice that have crane down to us since the time of the Apostles. These wonderful helps need to be desired, re sponded to, prayed for, and pre pared for, if we are to recieve them properly. In one sense, nothing else matters but that we save our souls and insure the fulfillment of our vocation on earth — God’s choice, and our response, what ever it might be. This is why our Priests and Seminarians of the Diocese are so important to -us and are remembered particular ly by us at the principal feast of the Church on Easter. It is the reason for it all — Christ’s Incarnation, Redemption, Resur rection, the founding of the Church and the Priesthood, which mean more to us through the Sacraments than anything else that we have except our own creation. We have wonderful Priests in tiie Diocese and we have gen erous young men, knowledge able, zealous and eager to be or dained Priests. It is through your help and generosity on Easter that we are able to pay at least a part of their tuition cost, their board, and the extra things that are necessary in today’s world to prepare them for this Priestly vocation. I am sure your Pastor will tell you of our many needs, but none of them are as great as the need for good Priests in every parish, zealous and anxious for the work of God and souls. Bishop McLaughlin has been a great help with His Assistant, Father John Wall, in the work for vocations in this Diocese. I am sure both of them will vouch for the fine young men who are looking forward to being Priests to serve you in the parishes of the Diocese of Raleigh. When the collection is taken up at all the Masses on Easter Sunday, do help us to give these Seminarians all they need. Do not forget to pray for them, es pecially on this great feast, that God will bless and inspire them and train them well for the work in the supernatural order, prin cipally, but also in the natural order, that they might be good men and good Priests for the salvation of souls here in the Diocese. Bishop McLaughlin and I wish you and yours all of the joys of the Easter Feast. With appreciation to you for your many kindnesses, I remain Sincerely yours in Christ, giVincent S. Waters Bishop of Raleigh Editor's Desk With the passing of winter it seems only a few weeks ago that we told you how on December 26 while en route to the editor's desk we passed through a shop ping center and were thrown off balance by a store window dis play highlighting spring fash ions with pink and yellow tulips as the decorations. And now the pink and yellow tulips around the nearby en trance of the new Catholic or phanage are for real. Easter has arrived. Each year the beautiful season of spring greets the equally joy ful celebration of the Resurrec tion of Christ, of His triumph over death. Berth the season and the observance of Easter Sunday represent the affirmation of life; each as well holds the promise of joyful life, of hope and of love. IN MANY of our colorful pub lic perks this weekend, in con trast to the pink and white dog wood and the brilliant hues of the azaleas end other seasonal blossoms there are the dark green uniforms if the National Guardsmen who await the eve ning call to duty by the city's curfew which is enforced at sun ifam All of this sharply contrasts with the orderly position of the circular stacks of the fixed bay onet-rifles, standing on the crisp green lawns of the park. This inconsistent contrast be tween the traditional time of birth, of renewal and the ma chines of death does blot out the color of die season which signi fies hope and new life. Only through the death ' of Christ could man hope for life; only through His death could man reach the promise of fulfillment. FO* MANY citizens of die city, their leader, slain by an assassin’s. bullet, represented to them progress toward a life of basic justice. More than anyone else in their 100 years of liber ation he had won for diem the civil rights they were entitled to as American citizens. For 33 years Christ as a man shared in the complex life of man. In the end He suffered a most horrible death- But three See EdBer's Desk, page 8A Cathedral Will Hold Easter Vigil Rites Raleigh — This year the East er Vigil Service, which includes the administration of the Sacra ment of Baptism and concludes with the Mass of the Resurrec tion, will begin at 7:30 p m. in the evening of Saturday, April 13. The Most Bev. Vincent S. Wa ters, DJ)., will officiate and be the celebrant at the -Solemn Pontifical Mass which will im mediately follow at Sacred Heart Cathedral In previous years' the Vigil Services began late in the eve ning, the Mass continuing at midnight. The homily of the Mass will be given by the Bishop. The Very Rev. Charles J. O’Con nor, rector of the Cathedral, will be the assistant priest The Deacons of Honor for the Mass are: The Bev. John Paro, &SJE., of Roxboro, and the Rev. John Sullivan, O.P., of this city. Deacons of the Mass are the Bev. Roderick B. O’Connor and the Bev. Charles Mulholland. The Bev. John Carr of Burlington is Chanter and the Rev. Ralph Hrnit Of the Cathedral staff is Master of Ceremonies. On Easter Sunday a Sung Mass is scheduled for 11 a.m. with the Rector officiating. The choral parts of the Litur gy will be taken from ‘The Peo ple’s Mass in Honor of Pope John” by H. Roff. The “Gloria” is from the Musa Choralis L. Renee and the Propers a com position by Sister M. Florentine. During the Offertory, “The Hail Mary” will be sung. It is com posed by Tomas Luis de Vic toria and “Praise the Lord” by da Viadana. The style of this music is 15th century Renais sance classical polyphony. Mi chael R. Mochesko is choir di rector and Mrs. John Stallings HI is organist. Meeting in Raleigh Catholic Daughters To Hold Convention Raleigh — The biennial State convention of Catholic Daughters of America will be held Friday, April 18, through Sunday, April 21, at the Sheraton-Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh. Court Bishop Hafey, Raleigh, will be host. Mrs. John H. Lilli quist is grand regent of the host court, which is observing its 40th anniversary this year. Mrs. John Shields of New Bern, State deputy, will be in charge of the convention. REGISTRATION WILL begin at 1 p.m. Friday and exhibits will be on display in the North Hills Room of the hotel. Mrs. Dan K. Moore, wife of the Governor, will receive at a tea at 4 p.m. at the Governor’s Man sion, to be followed at 7:30 p.m. by a business meeting. Six charter members and guests of Court Bishop Hafey will be honored at a 9 p.m. re ception at the hotel. A 10 p.m. committee meeting will con clude the first day’s activities. ON SATURDAY, registration will start at 8 a.m. Mrs. Wini fred Trabaux of Louisiana, na tional officer, will address a 9 a.m. business meeting. Her top ic will be “Sevenfold Program of Development” Bishop Vincent S. Waters will See CDA, page 8A Tribute Paid To Dr. King Raleigh — Bishop Vincent & Waters was among those taking part in a memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King held Sunday, April 7, at First Baptist Church in Raleigh. The program, sponsored by the Raleigh Ministerial Associa tion, honored the civil rights leader slain in Memphis. Others participating were Rab bi, Leo Stillpass of Temple Beth Or, president of the association; Bishop Thomas Fraser of the Episcopal Diocese of North Car olina; Dr. John Lewis, First Bap tist Church, Salisbury Street, and the Rev. Charles Ward of the Negro First Baptist Church. Is Non-Violent Movement Dead? Memphis, Tenn. — (NC) — “Well, I marched and got my first taste of rioting and a little tear gas,” said a Catholic priest who found himself in the midst of the year’s first big-city riot exactly three weeks after being assigned as a pastor in Memphis, Tenn. “What I’m really afraid of is that we have seen the death of the nop-violent movement for all time,” Father William B. Green spun, C.S.P., added grimly. The priest, pastor of St. Pat rick’s church here, paused in the work of providing food to strik ing sanitation workers long enough to describe the Memphis riot and assess its possible im pact on the future. The 45-year-old New Haven born Paulist has been pastor of the ghetto parish since March 8. St. Patrick’s church is adjacent to the Claybom African Method ist Episcopal Temple wjiere the march in support of the sanita tion workers began under the leadership of the late Dr. Mar tin Lather King. About 98% of the striking workers are Ne groes. They ceased work Feb- 12 after the city rejected their de mands for higher pay, city rec ognition of their union, and pay roll deducation of union dues. Father Greenspun said the march began peacefully at 11 a.m. from the steps of the A.M.E. temple, destination City Hall. He estimated a bout 8,000 persons marched, most of them local Ne groes. Father Greenspun said, he walked with a small group of white persons which included priests, nuns, Brothers, Protes tant clergy and laymen. The march traveled a short stretch of Beale Street — historic home of the blues — then turned on to Main Street heading directly for City Hall. “Then it smarted,’’ Father Greenspun said. “A group of maybe 15 to 20 militant teen agers got to the front and started breaking store wndows. Then the police suddenly appeared, began flailing away, shooting and throwing tear gas." The priest emphasized that the trouble was begun by persons who were hanging on the fringe of the inarch looking for trou ble, not by the sanitation work ers or their sympathizers. He praised the efforts of Negro min isters to calm the marchers and prevent panic. The Negro leader whose efforts got most of the marchers safely back within the confines of the Clayborn Tem ple, according to Father Green spun, was the Rev. Jim Lawson, a Methodist minister who has been the mainstay of clerical support for the workers since the strike began. Hie Negro youths who started See Non-VMent, page 8A
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