. 4--THE PROGRESS
Friday, Sep÷. 13, 1963
With Pride And Gratitude
he purchase of the New Washington
Hotel as a residence for senior citi-
zens ought to fill Catholics of this Arch-
diocese with a deep sense of pride and
gratitude.
Pride, because your response to the
Archdiocesan Development Fund Cam-
paign of last February and March has
made this investment possible. Gratitude,
because hundreds of men and women
whose declining years might have been
wasted away in anxiety, can now look
forward to long, full lives in an atmos-
phere filled with a measure of material
secur@ and an abundance of Christian
dignity.
Recent surveys indicate that resi-
dences for senior citizens operated along
the lines which Archbishop Connolly has
i outlined for the soon-to-be renovated
New Washington Hotel (see page 1)
adds an average of nine years to their
occupants' lives. This ought not to be
too startling when we stop to think
about it.
The human mind and body is de-
signed by God for use. For every news
flash about the high pressure business
executive found slumped over his desk
the victim of heart failure, there are a
hundred thousand stories of men and
women who literally shrivel up and die
because living no longer offers any chal-
lenge. But these stories are so common
they never see print.
A whole new world opens up to
the senior citizen who lives in an at-
mosphere especially designed for his
needs and interests. With the daily en-
• richment of his spiritual, social and cul-
tural life, he has a reason for living.
And old age truly becomes, in the
words of the poet, "The last for which
the first was made."
ertainly the most encouraging and in-
spiring aspect of the Archbishop's
announcement is the fact that it was a
voluntary.gift made up of the gifts and
sacrifices of his people. The purchase of
the New Washington Hotel is a monu-
ment to the respect we Catholics have
for the aging members of Christ's Mys-
tical Body. We do not pass off to the
state or federal governments the moral
responsibility we have to care for our
elders. We do not say, as do the Com-
munists and the materialists, that because
a man's capacity for producing wealth is
slipping he is no longer of value to so-
ciety, so let's ease him out of existence as
quickly and painlessly as possible.
We, as Christians, rather recog-
nize the wisdom, dignity and respect
that is the distilled fruit of age and
experience and we, likewise, recognize
that old age is the most precious and
important time in a man's entire life
it is his direct preparation for
eternity.
ut we must not, of course, get car-
ried away by what our prayers and
monetary sacrifices have accomplished.
The work has just begun. For those who
have been faithful to their Development
Fund pledges, this is an occasion of le-
gitimate pride and gratitude. For those
who may have become a bit careless in
their commitments, the announcement of
our recently acquired home for senior citi-
zens ought to serve as a new stimulus to
action.
Keep This Spirit Alive
nce again this year special congratu-
lations are in order for the literally
thousands of volunteers who are now
working on United Good Neighbor or
United Fund campaigns throughout the
Archdiocese. While the federal govern-
ment and our own State government are
spending billions of "dollars on welfare
programs it is encouraging to see so vig-
orous a voluntary effort being made on
the part of individual citizens to help
those in need. From Bellingham to Van-
couver in every community men and
women are volunteering their time and
talents to do what must be done if our
society is to meet its responsibility to its
less fortunate members.
We cannot help but note that these
united and voluntary efforts are much
more responsive to the needs of our citi-
zens and provide services far more eco-
nomically than our government could ever
do. The total cost of raising these funds
is less than five per cent of the amount
raised. Individual groups of citizens in
each community see to it that the funds
are spent wisely to meet the particular
needs of each area.
Only if this vigorous effort on the
part of volunteers to make our communi-
ties better places to live continues, can
we continue to be a strong nation.
On Several Subjects
Excerpts f r o m speeches
Pope Paul VI made on vital
subjects prior to his election to
the Papacy follow:
--On writing: "The tempta-
tion for knowledge of evil has
a strong attraction. There are
those who say that it is neces-
sary to have experience of evil
to write about good. This is
not true. Above all "things, keep
yourself pure and do not be
afraid to put great theses in
your writings." (Address to
third National Congress of Ital-
ian Writers. September, 1956).
--On pastoral ministry: The
Cardinal spoke out in Septem-
ber, 1958, in Milan against
"the many parish priests, par-
ticularly in cities, who resign
themselves to practicing their
ministry for those people who
attend church and thus find
their pastoral zeal satisfied." something.
He stressed the need for pas-
tors to learn "all those ele-
ments inspired by a great
love for souls which must be
exercised to attract the lambs
Outside the flock."
--On the Catholic press:
Catholics have "the honor of
defending it, the obligation of
propagating it and the need to
make it live in themselves and
in the world," the Cardinal
said December 4, 1960.
-on modern ar t: Artists
"seem to have abandoned the
idea of producing works which
are intelligible," and critics
"use language that requires a
special knowledge in order to
understand the meaning," the
Cardinal told a congress of
artists in March, 1963. "We,
the audience, make pathetic
efforts to understand at least
We believed that
the kingdom of art was beatl.
rude, whereas today it is pain
and confusion."
-on ecclesiastical authority:
"Here and there come people
with ludicrous temerity speak
of 'humble disobedience' to
to the hierarchy as a right and
as a brilliant discovery of the
spiritual life," the Cardinal
said in a sermon in May, 1963.
"The clear and responsible in-
structions of ecclesiastical au-
thority are vivisected to find
through sophistry and casuistry
the necessary arguments for
evading their grace meaning.
What is missing is a sincere
and loyal 'sense of the Church.'
What is wanting is an under.
standing of the inviolable and
generic principle of the living
Church which is its interior,
beloved and declared unity."
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God's Peace Corps
Freedom In Russia
By REV. JOHN E. SHEERIN, C.S.P.
e are accustomed to
a Khrushchev who
sometimes scowls, some-
times smiles. A few years ago,
Metropolitan Nikodim of the
Russian Or-
thodox Church
said some
stern words
about the Sec-
ond Vatican
Council but he
was smiling
and jovial
when he dis-
cussed -the
Council A u g-
ust 30. At the
Central Com- FR. SHEERIN
mittee meeting of the World
Council of Churches at Roches-
ter, New York, he gave a press
conference in which he dis-
cussed Roman Catholic-Russian
Orthodox relations since the
end of the first session last
year.
Metropolitan Nikodim is a
picturesque figure. The 34-
year-old prelate who has risen
fast in Orthodox circles is
short of stature, chubby, pale-
complexioned, blue-eyed a n d
brown-bearded. Except for his
flowing robes, he gives no im-
pression of high ecclesiastical
dignity and yet he does convey
a sense of great self-confidence
and extraordinary intellectual
adroitness.
Embarrassing Ouestion
On this particular occasion,
for instance, he was asked a
somewhat embarrassing ques-
tion, "Has the Russian 0rtho.
dox Church been passing
through a period of renewal?"
He replied with n twinkle in
his eye, "Renewal? Why, yes,
the old people die and young
people have been taking their
place."
In response to questions,
Nikodim assured the p r es s
that the Second Vatican Coun-
cil had improved Russian Or-
thodox-Roman Catholic rela-
tions. He paid tribute to "Pope
John of blessed memory."
With Nikodim was Archpriest
Borovoy who made sure that
the press heard this tribute:
He repeated the tribute very
distinctly so that the words
could not be missed.
Nikodim a I s o mentioned
that as "a service of broth-
erly love" Russian Orthodox
priests administer e e r t a i n
sacraments to Roman Cath-
olics in parts of Russia
where no Catholic priests
are available. This is done,
he said, on an "individual"
basis and not because of an
explicit agreement with the
Vatican.
One of the reporters asked
if recent changes in Soviet
Communism had been felt in
any way in Church-state re-
lations in Russia. The Met-
ropolitan responded that the
22nd Party Congress had been
a purely party affair. "Our
Church has no relation with
the Communist party. Our
Church acts within the frame-
work of the Soviet Constitu-
tion and in accordance with
that Constitution, the govern-
ment does not interfere in
Church affairs. For instance,
our sending of observers to
the Vatican Council was en-
tirely our own decision."
'Difficulties'
A reporter then asked why
members of the Russian Em-
bassy met the Russian Ortho-
dox observers when they ar-
rived in Rome. Nikodim an-
swered that it is not at all
unusual for members of the
Consular Section to meet in-
coming Russian visitors to
Rome. But Archpriest Boro-
roy, who was one of the ob-
servers at the Council, de-
clared that he was not met by
Russian officials on arrival
but by Monsignor Willebrands
and his assistant.
Moreover, he said that he
had gone to Rome for the fu-
neral of Pope John and again
for the coronation of Pope
Paul but on neither occasion
was he met by Russian gov-
ernment officials.
Borovoy admitted that the
Russian observers had some
"difficulties" with a certain
group at the Vatican Coun-
cil. (I believe he was refer-
ring to the bishops of the
Ukraine who were alleged
to have registered a protest
against the presence of the
Russians.) However, Arch-
priest Borovoy said that in
this tense moment the ob-
servers had not asked the
Russian officials for help but
the Secretariat for Promot-
ing Christian Unity.
What was the reaction of the
press to the Russian Orthodox
prelates' remarks? I would
say that they were quite con-
vinced t h a t Catholic-Russian
Orthodox relations have im-
proved considerably due to the
Council. As to the assertion
that the Russian Orthodox
Church is independent of the
party, it was obvious that the
press tried to listen to this
claim sympathetically but went
away from the conference
skeptical. They took the re-
marks on this subject with a
grain of salt.
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AC f ig-fi
on us n _-. a r
By REY. G. JOSEPH GUSTAFSON, S.S., Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy, St. Thomas Seminary, genmore
THE news from the Diem regime is as
| utterly confusing to us as it is to
the State Department. This is an awful
thing to have to say!
There are those who have private axes to
grind: secularists, pinkists, rightists, Catholi-
cists (not Catholics) and like that there. One
should, at least by now, learn that "The Wan-
derer" rand the National Council of Catholic
Men, the Social Action Committee of this or
that diocese, the "Osservatore Romano," "The
Progress" and "The Register," "The Priest"
and "America" are not part of the infallible
magisterium (as it's called). None of these en-
joys infallibility. Not even Marquette's School
of Journalism can go this far.
The primary partisans, so far as we can
presently discern, are either Viet Nam na-
tionalists, or Buddhists (of highly questionable
political character) or vague groups aligned
for their own personal purposes to one or
another group thus roughly divided.
In short, we haven't the faintest idea what
is going on. But we think that it is currently
of supreme importance to realize this and to
say so publicly.
It's rather strange, then, that the State De-
partment should deliver so peremptory a note
to the government of the Diem regime. It
seems to be unconcerned over the latest love
affair between Khrushehev who promises to
bury us, and Tito who drools over our gift of
our latest fighter planes and our munificent
foreign aid and even special assistance to a
stricken town call Skoplje.
Ex- president H o o v e r would have helped
Skoplje, great humanitarian that he is; He
would, otherwise, we think, confess to a con-
fusion equal to our own, to thousands and
thousands like us.
God's World: When
Your Years Are Many
By REV. LEO J. TRESE
"hall I live with my daughter (son) or shall I lve
in a residence for retirees?" This is the decision
which confronts many elderly persons, who, being
widowed, find it impracticable to maintain a home or
an apartment of their own.
It may be a long time, if ;::
ever, before you have to make
this decision. However, your i
eventual choice will be the i::
sounder if thought out now, ii
calmly and rationally, while
it still is a distant possibility.
Money Not Primary
To simplify discussion, let us
presume that money will not
be the primary consideration, i
In this age of social security, i"
it probably will not be the i
major problem. Let us assume
also that you are a widow•
What we say here will apply
as well to widowers, but wid-
ows outnumber widowers by
five to one. Let us assume,
finally, that your alternatives
are a room at Goldenyears
Manor or a room in your mar-
ried daughter's home.
If it is a son, rather than a
daughter, whose home is under
consideration, the elements of
decision will be the same. They
will apply with double force,
however, if it is a daughter-in-
law to whom you must adjust.
Having made these as-
sumptions, which will be the
wiser choice? It is safe to
say that you will be happy
in your daughter's home, and
she and her family will be
happy with your presence
there, if you can fulfill the
following conditions:
1. You are not ashamed or
resentful of being old. Some
of the unhappiest of elders are
those who fight age, as though
it were an enemy. They can-
not let themselves relax to
enjoy, as they should, t h e i r
mellow years. They avoid their
own contemporaries and seek
to share in all the activities of
a younger generation; as
though, somehow, youth might
rub off on themselves.
Act Your Age
2. Having accepted grace-
fully the fact of your age, you
act your age. You exchange
visits with friends of your own
generation. You belong to or-
ganizations and take part in
activities that are keyed to
retirees. You do not expect to
be included in every invitation
which your daughter receives,
nor to accompany her and
your son-in-law each time they
go out for an evening's enter-
tainment.
When they entertain their
own friends, you remember
"a good book I'm reading"
or " a letter I must write"
and retire early to your room
--unless the inslstenee that
you remain is too emphatic
to doubt its sincerity. You
,never resort to the "poor
little me; I know that I'm
only an old lady" taetic to
make you r daughter feel
guilty.
3. You have a heroic control
over your tongue. When your
daughter and her husband
have their inevitable spats, you
quietly efface yourself. You
never take sides, no matter
bow wrong you know the man
to be. You refuse to discuss
her husband's faults with your
daughter. The most you will
say is, "You married him, my
dear. You just have to learn
to live with him."
You never, but never inter-
fere with the disciplining of
the children. You will be
tempted often. Many times you
will disagree with your daugh-
ter's and son-in-law's child-
rearing methods, but you will
bite off your tongue before you
will let them or the children
know it. The youngsters never
will hear you say "Your
mother is too strict with you,"
or "Your daddy lets you have
your own way too much."
4. You are not a domineer-
ing person. You are able to
see your daughter as an
adult, capable of making her
own decisions and no longer
dependent upon you. You do
not try to tell her hw to
dress, how to cook or how to
run her home. Unless your
opinion is asked, there is
FATHER TRESE
never a peep out of you. You
pay your daughter and her
husband the supreme com-
pliment of letting them make
their own mistakes.
If you can fulfill these four
requirements, by all means go
and live with your daughter.
You, she, her husband and
children, all will be happy
friends together.
(Father Trese welcomes let-
ters from his readers. The in-
creasing volume of letters
prohibits personal answers but
problems and ideas contained
in such correspondence can be
the basis of future columns.
Address all letters to Father
Leo J. Trese, care of The
Progress.)
God In His
Works
n the "Idea of A Uni-
versity", C a r d i n a 1
Newman pat.iently and
reverently presents an
absorbing and beautiful
notion of God. "He created all
things out of nothing, and pre-
serves them every moment,
and could destroy them as
easily as He made them . . .
"He is ever present in His
works, one by one and con-{
fronts everything He has made
by Iris particular and most
loving Providence, and mani-
fests Himself to each accord-
ing to its needs.
"God is a Being who, though
the highest, yet in the work of
creation, conversation, govern-
ment, retribution, makes Him.
self, as it were, the minister
and servant of all...
"The laws of the universe,
the principles of truth, the
relation of one thing to another
their qualities and virtues, the
order and harmony of the
whole, all that exists, is from
Him . . .
"From Him has been every
movement which has convul-
sed and refashioned the sur-
face of the earth. The
ever - teeming, inexhaustible
swarms of animalculae, the
myriads of living motes in-
visible to the naked eye . . .
are His. His are the tribes
and families of birds and
beasts, their graceful forms,
their wild gestures, and their
passionate cries . . .
"To Him must be ascribed
the rich endowments of the
intellect, the irradieation of
genius, the imagination of the
poet, the sagacity of the
politician . . . The old saws
of nations, the majestic pre-
cepts of philosophy, the lumin-
ous maxims of laws, the
oracles of individual wisdom,
the traditional rules of truth,
justice, a n d religion, even
though imbedded in corrup -'"
tion, or alloyed with the pride
of the world, betoken His or-
iginal agency and His long-
suffering presence." Walter J.
Sullivan, C.S.P.
Calendar
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15.
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER
PENTECOST, MASS: Incline,
Domine--Bow down thy ear
(Green). Gl., 2nd Pr. of 7 Sor-
rows of the B.V.M., Cr., Pref.
of Trin. Mass for Parish.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,
SS. CORNELIUS, POPE AND
CYPRIAN, B I S H O P, MAR-
TYRS, MASS: Intret--Let the
sighing (Red). GI., 2nd Pr. of
Holy Martyrs.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,
COMMEMORATION OF THE
IMPRESSION OF THE STIG-
MATA OF ST. FRANCIS,
MASS as on Sun. (Green). No.
Gl., 2nd Pr. of St. Francis, no
Cr., Com. Pref. Or MASS:
Mihi aurora--But God forbid
(White). Gl.
WEDNESDAY, S E P T E M-
BER 18, EMBER WEDNES-
DAY OF AUTUMN, M A S S :
Exultate Deo--Rejoice (Violet).
Extra Pr. after Kyrie, no GI.,
2nd Pr. of St. Joseph Cuper-
tino. Fast and Partial Absti-
nence.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
19, SS. JANUARIUS AND
COMPANIONS, MARTYRS,
MASS: Salus autem--The sal-
vation (Red). G1.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,
EMBER FRIDAY OF AU-
TUMN, MASS: Laetetur car--
Let the heart (Violet). No GI.,
2nd Pr. of SS. Eustace and
Camp. Fast and Abstinence.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
2I, ST. MATTHEW, APOSTLE 4
AND EVANGELIST--EMBER
SATURDAY OF AUTUMN,
MASS: Os justi--The mouth of
the Just (Red). Gl., 2nd Pr. of
Ember Sat., Cr., Pref. of Apos-
tles. Mass for Parish. Fast and
Partial Abstinence.
