tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65766274741428381772024-03-18T21:48:54.012-05:00This Week at Vatican IIStarting in 2012, we observe the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. Pope John XXIII announced an ecumenical (universal) Council for the Church in January 1959 -- for three years the world's Bishops prepared for the Council -- and Vatican II met in four sessions from 1962 to 1965.
Re-live the history of the Council at this blog, week-by-week.Rev. Msgr. John T. Mylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930142223318338639noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576627474142838177.post-12077238448876749242013-11-18T19:32:00.000-06:002016-01-19T11:03:45.657-06:00<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">50 Years Ago at the Council...</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">NOVEMBER 22, 1963</span></strong><br />
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<strong> Just slightly after noon (Rome time) on Friday, November 22, a press statement from the U.S. Bishops' office -- written by Msgr. James Tucek -- was released:</strong><br />
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<em> The 73rd general congregation of the Second Vatican Council, November 22, will be a day to record not only in the history of the Council but in the history of the Church.</em><br />
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<em> </em><strong>The historic event referred to was the near-unanimous approval given by the world's Bishops to the document <em>Sacrosanctum Concilium</em>, which would reform the Sacred Liturgy and authorize Mass in the vernacular.</strong><br />
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<strong> That news flash, however, was eclipsed by news from Dallas, Texas -- by an event which would occur that same Friday, during the early evening hours, Rome time.</strong><br />
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<strong> In the late afternoon many of the Bishops had made a visit to the Church of Santa Caecilia in Trastevere; November 22 is the feast day of the patroness of Church music. Cecilia's body is buried in the beautiful church built over the ruins of her house. At 5:00 PM, Cardinal Meyer of Chicago celebrated a Pontifical Mass there -- St. Cecilia's being his "titular" church.</strong><br />
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<strong>One group of American Bishops went to an 8:00 PM dinner at the Cavalieri Hilton -- planning to celebrate the day's good news with several of the <em>periti </em>(experts) who had helped compose the new liturgical document. As they were "toasting", Archbishop John Cody walked into the room, approached the table, and announced solemnly:</strong><br />
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<em><strong> </strong>"I have just heard on the radio that President Kennedy has been shot in Dallas."</em><br />
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<strong> They left the Hilton, silently going out into the night.</strong><br />
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<strong>One of the Protestant "observers" at the Council recalled that his group planned to meet one of the American Bishops that evening to discuss the upcoming document on ecumenism:</strong></div>
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<em>Just before we left we heard by television the terrible news that President Kennedy had been shot. We walked over to the taxi stand and took a cab in silence and prayer, for at that time there was still hope that the shot was not fatal. When we arrived at the Bishop's room, however, we learned the dreadful truth. After we shook hands, it was suggested that we say a prayer together, and the Bishop led us in the "De Profundis." We sat in a stunned position for some time, listening to the latest radio reports in English.</em></div>
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<em> </em><strong>Some of the American Bishops began to search for a church that was open, so that they could offer a <em>Requiem.</em></strong></div>
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<strong> From that Friday night on, crowds began to gather in front of the United States Embassy on the Via Veneto. Many Italian citizens left flowers at the entrance. Several of the Bishops from the U.S. gathered there, too.</strong></div>
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<strong> Seeing some of the Bishops in tears, an elderly English priest observed:</strong></div>
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<em> For sheer devotion to Our Lord, put into practice in every part of their continent, the American Bishops stand unique. Europe has nothing to show them in love for the sacraments, sacrifice for Catholic education, generosity toward the foreign missions. They say little about this ... Perhaps heroically, their young murdered President's life mirrored their own earnestness. </em><strong> </strong></div>
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<strong> In his voluminous "History of the Council", Guiseppe Alberigo was to write:</strong></div>
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<strong> </strong><em>The event of major international importance during the weeks of the second session (of the Council) was the assassination of J. F. Kennedy ... which was as intensely felt at Vatican II as elsewhere. </em></div>
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<strong> On Saturday, November 23, Cardinal Cushing of Boston was already in the U.S. Somewhat a "maverick" among his brother Bishops, Cushing found the sessions of the Council tedious (except for the discussion of his well-beloved "missions") and generally absented himself from the proceedings.</strong><br />
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<strong> He had officiated at the marriage of John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953 - and he baptized their two children, Caroline and John, Jr. In August 1963, just three months prior to the assassination, the Cardinal had celebrated a Mass for a third child, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, who died two days after his birth. </strong><strong>When JFK was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States on January 20, 1961, Cardinal Cushing offered the invocation. </strong><br />
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<strong> While two Catholic priests were being admitted into the White House Saturday morning, to kneel in prayer at either side of the mahogany coffin</strong> -- <strong>Pope Paul VI offered Mass in his private chapel for the repose of the President's soul. </strong><br />
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<strong> Then Paul allowed television cameras into the Apostolic Palace so that his words might be transmitted to the American people:</strong><br />
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<em> We are deeply shocked by the sad and tragic news of the
killing of the President of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, and the serious wounding of Governor Connally.</em></div>
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<em> We are profoundly saddened by this crime, by the mourning
which inflicts a great and civilized country, by the suffering which strikes
Mrs. Kennedy, their children, and their family.</em></div>
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<em> With all our heart, we deplore what has happened. We
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the cause of the American people, but rather reinforce its moral and civic
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<em> He was the first Catholic President of the United States.
We recall our pleasure in receiving his visit and having discerned in him great
wisdom and </em><em>high resolution for the good of humanity.</em></div>
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<em> Tomorrow, we shall offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
that God may grant him eternal rest, that He may console all of those who weep
for him in his death, and in order that Christian love shall reign among all
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<em> </em><strong>In a private telegram to Jacqueline Kennedy, the Pope wrote:</strong> <br />
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<em>We hasten to send you, beloved daughter ... upon you and your children, the consolation of divine grace, and our affectionate apostolic blessing.</em><br />
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<strong> The Pope also sent a private message to the late President's parents. Mrs. Rose Kennedy had already attended two early Saturday morning Masses at St. Francis Xavier, the family's parish church in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. One of the Masses was celebrated at an altar donated by the Kennedys in memory of their eldest son, Joseph, Jr., who was killed as a Navy flier in World War II.</strong><br />
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<strong> The Church of Santa Susanna, on the Via XX Settembre, was packed for the 5:00 PM Mass celebrated by Cardinal Spellman.</strong><br />
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<strong> Of the events on Sunday, November 24, one of the non-Catholic observers at the Council recorded:</strong><br />
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<em> This weekend all thoughts - and this seemed to include those of the whole Italian nation - were upon the death of President Kennedy.</em><br />
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<em> On Sunday morning, my wife and I went first to a Catholic church - Santa Susanna ... and then to the Methodist church. How different were the services! And yet how similar, for in each place the worship was directed to one God who revealed himself in Jesus Christ.</em><br />
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<em> ... In the Roman church, we participated silently in a silent Mass, being left to our own individual prayers and meditations. In the Protestant church, we sang, prayed, and listened together to a sermon. In completeness of fellowship, I am convinced that in the church of the future, both of these experiences must be offered and that no one will be able to count himself a complete Christian who cannot avail himself of the particular values of each.</em><br />
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<em> Where charity and mutual consideration are not in possession of the human heart, there can only be hatred, of which this untimely death is one of the fruits.</em><br />
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<strong>On Monday morning, November 25 - during the usual announcements at the beginning of the Council's day -- the death of President Kennedy was noted by Archbishop Felici. He informed the Council Fathers that a solemn Requiem was to be offered that evening at 5:00 PM in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran for the repose of the soul of the late President of the United States.</strong><br />
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<strong> All the Council Fathers were invited to be present.</strong><br />
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<strong> Then the Bishops began the Conciliar "business of the day" -- approving the decree on social communications, <em>Inter Mirifica.</em></strong><br />
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<strong><em> </em>And on the very day when the world's Bishops approved the use of new means of communication to spread the Gospel, across the world tens of millions of men and women tuned in to the funeral of President Kennedy.</strong><br />
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<strong> It was a Low Mass, at Mrs. Kennedy's request. The coffin was placed at the front and center of the Cathedral. As Cardinal Cushing, in his "familiar droning voice", offered the Mass, Luigi Vena sang from the choir loft Gounod's <em>Ave Maria</em>, just as he had done at the Kennedys' wedding ten years prior.</strong></div>
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<strong> </strong><em>The cardinal - a tall and imposing figure in the massive church - said the Mass entirely in the traditional Latin ("Dominus vobiscum. Et cum spiritu tuo.") He moved steadily and without hesitation, sometimes in a sing-song voice that sounded more like a steady drone of sound than enunciated words - through the Introit, the Kyrie Elesion (Lord, have mercy), the consecration, through all the others forms of the Mass familiar to Roman Catholics the world over, to the communion.</em></div>
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<em> Mrs. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy were the first to receive communion. Edward Kennedy followed. Hundreds of others in the church also received communion ... </em><em>When the celebration of Mass ended, auxiliary Bishop Hannan ascended to the pulpit and spoke for 11 minutes in English.</em></div>
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<em> The church doors were opened, the cathedral service concluded, and family, prelates and dignitaries made their way to the graveside service at Arlington National Cemetery.</em></div>
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<strong> At the same time, the evening Requiem for John F. Kennedy in Rome's cathedral -- Saint John Lateran -- was coming to an end.</strong></div>
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<strong> It had been less than six months since the death of Pope John XXIII.</strong><br />
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<strong> After President Kennedy's death, one American Bishop present at the Council recalled an event "branded in (his) memory":</strong><br />
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<strong> </strong><em>What I remember is this -- standing in the square in Florence, admiring Michelangelo's David, when a little Italian gentleman came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and he had tears in his eyes. His only remark was, "We have lost our two Johns."</em><br />
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<strong> The Jewish political philospher Hannah Arendt, a German who had fled to America in the 1930's, wrote in <em>The New York Review of Books:</em></strong><br />
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<em> There is a curious and infinitely sad resemblance between the death of the two greatest men we have lost during this year — the one very old, the other in the prime of life. </em><br />
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<em> Both the late Pope and the late President died much too soon in </em><em>view of the work they initiated and left unfinished. The whole world changed and darkened when their voices fell silent. </em><br />
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<em> And yet the world will never be as it was before they spoke and acted in it.</em><br />
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<strong><em> </em>On November 25, at the end of a long article detailing the day of the funeral Mass and burial, the journalist Tom Wicker reported:</strong><br />
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<em> At 3:34 PM, the coffin was lowered into the earth. The short life, the long day, was done forever. And none of the pomp and pageantry, none of the ceremony and music, none of the words and grief, none of the faces at the curb, none of the still figures in the limousines, had seemed to say more than the brief prayer on the back of the photograph of the dead president that had been distributed at the Cathedral:</em><br />
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<em> "O Lord our God - please take care of Your servant - John Fitzgerald Kennedy."</em></div>
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"Welcome to the Vatican, which we are pleased
to note, is becoming well-known to a large number of you. For the Pope,
audiences follow one after the other. But he cannot hide the very special joy
which he feels in spending some time with the journalists and the reporters for
radio and television.<br />
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stations, who have assigned to Rome to cover these council meetings so many
reporters in whom we are pleased to recognize both high quality and professional
competence.<br />
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We have already had occasion to tell you of the esteem we hold for
journalists, and how aware we are of the importance they occupy in the world of
today, with <strong><em>their tremendous power over public opinion.</em></strong> Theirs is a choice
place. And you know that the honor of your profession demands, on your part,
objective reporting and constant concern for the truth.<br />
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temptation to search out certain well-known “fiends”: nationalism, conflicting
tendencies, parties, as well as historical and geographical differences, such as
between East and West.</em></strong><br />
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<strong><em>If attention is limited to these externals or if it undertakes to emphasize
them, then the reality of things is altered, even falsified</em></strong>. For all the bishops
are endeavoring to avoid giving any substance to these divisions, in order on
the contrary to be guided by the objective divine truth which they profess and
by the fraternal charity which animates them.<br />
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Yes, the Church, as she appears before you cannot fail to make you reflect
and — herein is its apologetical force — lead you to Him from whom she draws her
very life: Christ, the invisible Head of the Church assembled in council."<br />
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<strong><em>Nearly fifty years later, on Thursday February 14, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI met for the last time with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican ...</em></strong><br />
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"For today, given the conditions of my age, I could not prepare a great, real address, as one might expect, but rather I thought of chatting about the Second Vatican Council, as I saw it..."<br />
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"We went to the Council not only with joy, but with enthusiasm. The expectation was incredible. We hoped that everything would be renewed, that a new Pentecost really would come, a new era of the Church, because the Church was not robust enough at that time: the Sunday practice was still good, even vocations to the priesthood and religious life were already somewhat fewer, but still sufficient. But nevertheless, there was the feeling that the Church was going on, but getting smaller, that somehow it seemed like a reality of the past and not the bearer of the future. And now, we hoped that this relationship would be renewed, changed, that the Church would once again source of strength for today and tomorrow. "<br />
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"Everyone arrived with great expectations; there had never been a Council of this size, <strong><em>but not everyone knew how to make it work.</em></strong> "<br />
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<strong><em>"It appeared to many as a struggle for power</em></strong>, and maybe someone did think about power, but basically it was not about power, but the complementarity of the factors and the completeness of the body of the Church with the bishops, the successors the apostles as bearers, and each of them is a pillar of the Church together with this great body”.<br />
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"... Yet, <strong><em>there was the Council of the Fathers - the true Council - but there was also the Council of the media. It was almost a Council in and of itself</em></strong>, and the world perceived the Council through them, through the media. So the immediate Council that got thorough to the people, was that of the media, not that of the Fathers. And while the Council of the Fathers evolved within the faith, it was a Council of the faith that sought the intellectus, that sought to understand and try to understand the signs of God at that moment, that tried to meet the challenge of God in this time to find the words for today and tomorrow. So while the whole council - as I said - moved within the faith, as fides quaerens intellectum, <strong><em>the Council of journalists did not, naturally, take place within the world of faith but within the categories of the media of today, that is outside of the faith, with different hermeneutics. It was a hermeneutic of politics. The media saw the Council as a political struggle</em>,</strong> a struggle for power between different currents within the Church. It was obvious that the media would take the side of whatever faction best suited their world. <strong><em>There were those who sought a decentralization of the Church, power for the bishops and then, through the Word for the "people of God", the power of the people, the laity.</em></strong> There was this triple issue: the power of the Pope, then transferred to the power of the bishops and then the power of all ... popular sovereignty..."<br />
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"And we know that <strong><em>this Council of the media was accessible to all. So, dominant, more efficient, this Council created many calamities, so many problems, so much misery</em>,</strong> in reality: seminaries closed, convents closed liturgy trivialized ... and the true Council has struggled to materialize, to be realized: <strong> <em>the virtual Council was stronger than the real Council</em></strong><em>.</em> But the real strength of the Council was present and slowly it has emerged and is becoming the real power which is also true reform, true renewal of the Church." <br />
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"It seems to me that 50 years after the Council, <strong><em>we see how this Virtual Council is breaking down, getting lost and the true Council is emerging with all its spiritual strength</em></strong>. And it is our task, in this Year of Faith, starting from this Year of Faith, to work so that the true Council with the power of the Holy Spirit is realized and Church is really renewed. We hope that the Lord will help us. I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious."Rev. Msgr. John T. Mylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930142223318338639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576627474142838177.post-7662098634311283902013-06-13T10:50:00.002-05:002015-08-19T17:54:03.757-05:00<strong><span style="font-size: large;">FROM 50 YEARS AGO:</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong> On November 27, 1962, the Pope suffered a massive gastric hemorrhage. By December 8, when he slowly processed into the Basilica to preside at the close of the First Session, the Council Fathers could see for themselves the physical effects of the Pope's sickness. The word "cancer" was not used publicly; the official line of the Vatican was that the Pope suffered "from a cold." It was apparent to the assembled 2,500 Bishops and to the people of Rome that Pope John was unlikely to live through the new year 1963.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong> -- During the early months of 1963, he wrote<em> Pacem in Terris,</em> his last encyclical<em>. </em></strong>("Peace on earth, which all men of every era have most eagerly yearned for, can be firmly established only if the order laid down by God be dutifully observed.")</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Loris Capovilla was a 37-year-old priest of of the Patriarchate of Venice when the new Cardinal Roncalli chose him to be his personal secretary. Capovilla accompanied him to the Conclave in 1958 and stayed by his side throughout the Johannine pontificate.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>In the last days of May, 1963, it fell to Monsignor Capovilla to tell Pope John -- after a series of hemorrhages and subsequent tranfusions -- that the doctors had done all that they could. It was too late for surgery. "The cancer has, at last, overcome your long resistance," Capovilla told him.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"> On Saturday, June 1, there were gathered into the dying Pope's bedchamber his several doctors; Monsignors Capovilla and Samore; Cardinal Cicognani, the secretary of state; other senior prelates of the Vatican Curia - Cardinals Tisserant, Ottaviani, Copello, Aloisi Masella, Cento and di Jorio; the Pope's valets, and the nuns of the Papal Household who had cooked and cleaned and cared for him.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"> June 2 -- the last full day of Pope John's life -- was Pentecost Sunday. A Mass was offered in the nearby study; John was fevered and in-and-out of consciousness. At one point, he was able only to sit up a bit and talk briefly with his family, but then he began to gasp for air. He fell into a coma. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"> A crucifix was placed in his hands - and in the early evening he mumbled a few words of the <em>Regina Coeli</em>, the Easter prayer he would otherwise have prayed with the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square. </span></strong><br />
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<strong> John XXIII -- "good Pope John", the "Pope of the Council", <em>Pastor et Nauta</em>, "the gentle Pope", "Father to all" "Shepherd of the modern world", raised to the altar as "Blessed" -- and certainly one of the most influential Pontiffs in centuries ...</strong></span></div>
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<strong>From Pope John's last will and testament:</strong><br />
<strong><br /><em><span style="font-size: small;">"Born poor, but of honorable and humble people, I am particularly happy to die poor, having given away, for the benefit of the poor and of the Holy Church that had nurtured me, all that came into my hands, during the years of my priesthood and episcopacy."</span></em></strong><br />
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for a Pope Who is “Both …”</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">...both Francis of Assisi and Francis Xavier:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> both reformer and missionary,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> both visionary and evangelizer...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">...both Peter and Paul:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> both in the heart of the Church</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> and in the court of those yet to hear and believe...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">...both <em>urbi et orbi:</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><em> </em>both to the See of Rome and to all the world,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> to both hemispheres - north and south...<em> </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><em>...</em> both <em>Lumen Gentium </em>and <em>Gaudium et Spes:</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> the Vicar of Christ, Who is both</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> "the light of all nations" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> Who shares i</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">n both "our joys and our hopes",</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> "our griefs and our anxieties"...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">... both in continuity and in reform:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> both "father and teacher", just as the Church is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> both <em>Mater et Magistra -</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><em> </em>from both Scripture and Tradition </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> - the one font of Truth -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> to live both great commands:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> love of God and love of neighbor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">... both priest and prophet,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> both servant and leader,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> at both altar and table, both Priest and Victim,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> both Source and Summit -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> offering sacrifice and sacrament</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> for both men and women, both young and old,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> with both saints and sinners</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> worshiping in both Spirit and Truth;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> calling for conversion of both heart and mind,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> to cleanse the cup both inside and out,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> both poor in spirit and rich in mercy,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> like the wise man of the Gospel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> who brings forth from the storeroom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> graces from the One </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> both ever ancient and ever new...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">... with keys for both the kingdom here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> and the kingdom to come,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> both still and still moving,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> in both word and deed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> in both speaking and listening ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><em>... for both health and long life...</em></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">... for both courage in Jesus </span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> (whose Company he keeps)</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> and consolation from the Mother</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> also "Miserando atque eligendo" --</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> both "lowly but chosen"...</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">... both in the burden of the Cross now carried</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> and in the hope of the Resurrection to be shared;</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">... blessings both now and forever. Amen.</span></em><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">SET BY LERCARO IN 1963</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> When Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro appproached and knelt before the new Pope Paul VI at the end of the Conclave of 1963, Pope Paul -- seated on the papal throne -- had special words for Cardinal Lercaro:</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">"So this is how life goes, Your Eminence. You should really be the one sitting here."</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> </em>Cardinal Lercaro and then-Cardinal Giovanni Montini had been front-runners on the earliest ballots in the 1963 conclave to replace Pope John XXIII. Reports suggest that, eventually, the Cardinal-electors considered Cardinal Lercaro too "radical" to elect; he was famous for having turned his Cardinal's palace in Bologna into an orphanage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Cardinal Lercaro, who had also received votes in the 1958 Conclave, was among the first members of the post-World War II hierarchy to preach a "Church of the
poor" -- an ecclesiology that was to be developed further in Latin America, in some questionable directions -- during the 1970's. In fact, during his
tenure as Archbishop</span><span style="font-size: large;">, he had tried to begin dialogue with members of the Italian Communist Party, which was the most popular political party in Bologna</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Now, fifty years later, a Conclave of Cardinals has selected a Latin American Cardinal, Jorge Mario Bergoglio -- who lives in a humble apartment, cooks his own meals and rides the public bus system in Buenos Aires -- as the new Supreme Pastor of the Catholic Church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just as in 1963, the Conclave fifty years later had candidates who might have been considered more cultured, more learned, more photogenic or media-savy than Francis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, just as it did in 1963, the 2013 Conclave could have turned to "safer" candidates. And while the prayerful expectation is that Pope Francis will be a Pope of <em>continuity,</em> he has perhaps a unique opportunity for <em>reform</em> - a reform no doubt strongly supported by many of his Cardinal electors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not since 1963, or even within the last century or more, has the call for reform been so universal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And there is at least one more historical confluence across five decades: that -- in effect -- Benedict has said to Francis: "You should now be the one sitting" in the Chair of Peter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">FROM THE CONCLAVE OF 1963 TO</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">THE CONCLAVE OF 2013:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"CONTINUITY AND REFORM"</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">THE ERA OF THE "FIVE POPES" </span></strong><br />
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<strong> For more than fifty years -- more accurately, since the Conclave of 1958 -- the five Cardinals who have been elected Pope have all been "men of the Council":</strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>1958: <span style="font-size: small;"><u>Angelo Cardinal Roncalli</u>, in the Conclave of October 25-28, (11 ballots) became Pope John XXIII -- who surprisingly convened Vatican II.</span><br />
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1963: <span style="font-size: small;"><u>Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini</u>, in the Conclave of June 19-21 (6 ballots) became Pope Paul VI -- who guided the Council through the final three of its four sessions.</span><br />
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1978: <span style="font-size: small;"><u>Albino Cardinal Luciani</u> in the Conclave of August 25-26 (4 ballots) became Pope John Paul I. He had attended the Council as Bishop of Vottorio Veneto. His papacy would last only one month.</span><br />
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1978: <span style="font-size: small;"><u>Karol Cardinal Wojtyla</u> in the Conclave of October 14-16 (8 ballots) became the first non-Italian Pope in over four centuries. The Archbishop of Krakow, who had attended all the Council's sessions, took the name John Paul II.</span><br />
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2005: <span style="font-size: small;"><u>Josef Cardinal Ratzinger</u> in the Conclave of April 18-19 (4 ballots) became Pope Benedict XVI. He had been a <em>peritus </em>at Vatican II - an expert theologian who accompanied Cardinal Frings of Cologne.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span> </strong></span><strong> Now comes the Conclave of 2013 -- and the era of fifty years of Popes who were present at one Council will come to an end .</strong><br />
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<strong> Most probably, the Cardinal who will be elected in the next week (beginning March 12) will have been born <em>after </em>1940. He will therefore have been ordained a priest <em>after </em>1965 -- <em>after </em>the close of the the Council.</strong><br />
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<strong>Fifty-nine (or just a little more than one-half) of the Cardinals in Conclave were b<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">orn in 1940 or later. They are:</span></span></strong></div>
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Bagnasco, Bertello, Betori, Calcagno, Comastri, Filoni, Piacenza, Ravasi, Scola, Sepe, Vallini, Versaldi<br />
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<strong>Germans (2)</strong><br />
Marx, Woelki<br />
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<strong>Spanish (1)</strong><br />
Canizares Llovera<br />
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Barbarin, Ricard, Tauran, Vingt-Trois<br />
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<strong>Polish (2)</strong><br />
Nycz, Rylko<br />
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<strong>Other Europeans (7)</strong><br />
Bozanic (Croatia), Duka (Prague), Eijk (Utrecht), Erdo (Budapest), Kock (Switzerland), Puljic (Bosnia), Schonborn (Vienna)<br />
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<strong>Brazil (2)</strong><br />
Braz de Aviz, Scherer<br />
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<strong>Mexico (2)</strong><br />
Rivera Carrera, Robles Ortega<br />
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<strong>Argentina (1)</strong><br />
Sandri<br />
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<strong>Other Latin Americans (4)</strong><br />
Cipriani Thorne (Peru), Rodriguez Maradiaga (Honduras), Salazar Gomez (Colombia), Urose Savino (Venezuela)<br />
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<strong>United States (6)</strong><br />
Burke, DiNardo, Dolan, Harvey, O'Malley, Wuerl<br />
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<strong>Canada (2)</strong><br />
Collins, Ouellet<br />
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<strong>Nigeria (1)</strong><br />
Onaiyekan<br />
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<strong>Other Africans (6)</strong><br />
Napier (S Africa), Njue (Kenya), Pengo (Tanzania), Sarah (Guinea), Turkson (Ghana), Zubeir Wako (Sudan)<br />
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<strong>India (3)</strong><br />
Alencherry, Gracias, Thottunkal<br />
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<strong>Other Asians (3)</strong><br />
Ranjith, Rai, Tagle<br />
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<strong>Oceania (1)</strong><br />
Pell (Sydney)<br />
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<strong> The name of the next Pope -- if he is 70 years old or younger -- is in the list above. </strong><br />
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<strong> Considered in terms of the continents (</strong>Europeans 28 ... Latin Americans 9 ... North Americans 8 ...Africans 7 ... Asians and Oceania 7) <strong>it may appear that he will probably be European. </strong><br />
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<strong> Considered from another angle, however, the Europeans do not dominate (</strong>Europeans 28 ... the rest of the world 31).<br />
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<strong>Wherever he is from, whoever he is -- from the above list or from those even a bit older -- he will know the Council "second-hand". He will not have been there -- not present in the <em>aula </em>of St. Peter's Basilica during the years from 1962 to 1965.</strong><br />
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<strong> The new Pope will have learned about the Council as <em>history --</em> from studying Roncalli, Montini, Luciani, Wojtyla and Ratzinger.</strong><br />
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<strong> His election will, in a way, be the end of a certain linear <em>continuity ... </em>but it may afford the new Pope an opportunity for dynamic <em>reform.</em></strong><br />
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<br />Rev. Msgr. John T. Mylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930142223318338639noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576627474142838177.post-861346838219099012013-03-07T13:48:00.001-06:002015-08-19T18:02:27.939-05:00<br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">50 YEARS AGO --</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">THE CONCLAVE OF 1963</span></strong><br />
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<em> </em><strong>It took six ballots to elect the close collaborator of both Pius XII (Pius had "banished" him from Rome to Milan) and John XXIII (John made him the "first Cardinal" of his papacy and relied on him during the first session of the Council). </strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.angelusonline.org/images/articles/2005_December/Lercaro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.angelusonline.org/images/articles/2005_December/Lercaro.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a> <strong>Although Montini was ahead in the voting from the very first ballot, he barely reached the 54 votes needed. Cardinal Lercaro had many votes in the early balloting; his "progressive" supporters switched to Montini during the 2nd and 3rd ballots.</strong> <br />
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<em>Giovanni Cardinal Montini, </em><br />
<em>Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, </em><br />
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<strong> Burkle-Young in <em>Passing the Keys </em>describes the moment:</strong><br />
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<strong><em>"There was no atmosphere of elation and, surprisingly, not much sense of relief, either. Montini had reached </em></strong><strong><em>the throne, but just barely. More than a fourth of the </em></strong><strong><em>College remained completely opposed to his reign, and </em></strong><strong><em>that quarter included a majority of those men on whom </em></strong><strong><em>the new Pope would have to rely daily in governing the </em></strong><strong><em>Church."</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em> </em>There would be <em>continuity</em> -- the Council would </strong><strong>continue. But the accompanying <em>reform</em> would prove very difficult to achieve</strong><strong>.</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>... allowing me to to search out this passage from the book "Passing the Keys", written by my late friend, Francis A. Burkle-Young:</strong></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>In 1963, the essential question was whether (Vatican II) would be allowed to progress - to what ultimate result no one knew - or whether the new pope would limit the scope and effectiveness of the Council by shutting it down at the earliest opportunity, and then lead the Church back to something that approximated Catholicism as it had been at the death of Pius XII. Each side saw itself as fighters for the good of the Church.</strong></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>Undoubtedly, the unfinished business of the reign of John XXIII was whether or not to <em>continue the reform </em>which had been underway at the first session of the Second Vatican Council in the fall of 1962.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>After that first session and during preparations for the second session in 1963, Pope John died from</strong> <strong>stomach cancer. Following his death, there were three - perhaps four - obvious candidates for the Papacy:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>-- Cardinal Montini, who had been close to both John and Pius XII, a curialist and recent Archbishop of Milan. He had embraced the work of the Council.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>-- Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna, well-known for having converted his episcopal palace into an orphanage, and who had been a candidate in 1958. He was certainly among the most progressive of the Council Fathers and the papal electors.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>-- Cardinal Siri of Genoa, who was only 57 years old but had been a Cardinal for ten years, considered by some to be far too reactionary. A strong candidate in four conclaves from 1958 to 1978, his main supporters were most likely curial Cardinals.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>-- Cardinal Antoniutti, a well-liked Vatican diplomat who had served in places as varied as Albania, Canada and Spain. He was seen as a moderate conservative and as an alternative to Cardinal Siri. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong><em>Continuity and reform,</em> which would be so labeled five decades later by Pope Benedict XVI, were the dominant issues - or perhaps considered together the single most important issue - at the conclave of 1963.</strong></span><br />
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years ago, in 1963, that other Cardinals gathered in the Vatican -- but not in the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>The Papal conclave in the Sistine Chapel after the death of the 81-year old Pope John
XXIII took place in 1963.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The conclave
after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI at age 85 will take place exactly
half-a-century later, in 2013. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “<em><u>continuity</u></em>”
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was of prime importance 50 years ago: Would the Council continue?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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of that time 50 years ago was whether the new Pope would call a halt to the Second Vatican
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later, a key term in the Pontificate of Benedict XVI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the day the Pope announced his
resignation, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Angelo Sodano, replied to
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In continuity with your 265 predecessors in the chair of Peter</strong>."</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<strong>WORK BETWEEN THE FIRST </strong><br />
<strong>AND SECOND SESSIONS </strong><br />
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<strong>In early 1963, during months after the first session of the
Council, a special commission reviewed the<em> schemata</em> (documents) which had been discussed by the world's Bishops from October to December 1962, </strong><br />
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Pope John XXIII - through the Council Secrtariat - set down six norms for the interim work:</strong><br />
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<strong>-- "It is necessary during the long interval to provide for a reexamination and a perfecting of the projects, taking into due account the work almready done." Special subcommissions on each topic would be of assistance.</strong><br />
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<strong>-- "The salient point of this Council is not the discussion of one article or other of the fundamental doctrine of the Church ... The substance of our ancient doctrine is one thing, the way in which it is presented is another." The stress would be on the pastoral nature of the Council.</strong><br />
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<strong>-- The interim work would deal with general principles, "leaving aside particular problems".</strong><br />
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<strong>-- A new central committee had been created to "direct and coordinate the work of the Council... whichshould be carried out in agreement with the presidents of the Council commissioms." <em>Periti </em>(experts) would help the commissions.</strong><br />
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<strong>-- As soon as working papers were prepared, they should be sent to the world's Bishops -- who, in turn, are to "examine them and return them within a time limit to be set by the General Secretariat."</strong><br />
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<strong>-- "The Council commissions, after receiving the observations of the Bishops, will see to the amendments... taking into account the suggestions and cloely assessing the reasons for and against, so that they may , at the end of an adequate re-elaboration, be submitted to the Council Fathers" during Session II.</strong>Rev. Msgr. John T. Mylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930142223318338639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576627474142838177.post-56197616108925168902012-12-24T13:47:00.001-06:002015-08-19T18:05:39.903-05:00<span style="font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>THIS WEEK AT VATICAN II</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>DECEMBER 1962 - 50 Years Later</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pope John XXIII Named</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em>Time </em>'s "Man of the Year"</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;"></span></strong><br />
<strong>The opening words of the U.S. newsweekly's announcement:</strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Year of Our Lord 1962 was a year of American resolve, Russian orbiting,
European union and Chinese war. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a tense yet hope-filled time, these were the events that dominated
conversation and invited history's scrutiny. But history has a long eye, and it
is quite possible that in her vision 1962's most fateful rendezvous took place
in the world's most famous church—having lived for years in men's hearts and
minds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That event was the beginning of a revolution in Christianity, the ancient
faith whose 900 million adherents make it the world's largest
religion...</span>Rev. Msgr. John T. Mylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930142223318338639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576627474142838177.post-89204553418233087102012-12-06T18:18:00.000-06:002013-06-05T13:46:36.659-05:00<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><u>What was accomplished?</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">At the end of the first session on December 8, Pope John XXIII said that
“t<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he first session was like a slow,
solemn introduction to the great work of the Council … It was necessary for
brothers, gathered from afar, to make each other’s closer acquaintance; it was
necessary for them to look at each other squarely in order to understand each other’s
hearts; and to describe their own experiences … under the most varied climates
and circumstances, so that there could be a thoughtful interchange of views on
pastoral matters.” <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The U.S. Bishops’ own <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Council Daybook </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>recalled this “human side of Council” – “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Around 11 o’clock each morning, scenes
develop in the side aisles of the basilica which - except for the purple robes
and colored marbles - could be seen in the corridors and cloakrooms of the U.S.
Senate…Clusters of Bishops engage in animated conversation, form, dissolve,
reform with new members…in cloakroom and coffee lounge</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>During the first
session, the 2,500 Bishops got to know one another, realizing the vastness and
the vitality of Christ’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Church
throughout the world.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>What wasn’t accomplished?</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">None of the conciliar documents was ready for promulgation at the end
of the first session. The Bishops decided that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">schemata </i>which had been prepared before the Council – for the most
part by curial officials – did not reflect the pastoral style of the Council. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One conciliar historian noted that:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The German theologian Father Josef Ratzinger
called the absence of any approved Council text before the end of the first
session “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the great, astonishing, </i></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">genuinely
positive result of the first session</b></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that no text had
gained approval was evidence, he said, of “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
strong reaction against the spirit of the preparatory work</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This he called “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the truly epoch-making character of the Council’s first session."</i></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What were the
plans for the second session?<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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Bishops back to Rome in early 1963. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was need for more discussion on the
Sacred Liturgy, the Sources of Revelation, the Role of Bishops, and the very
nature of the Church itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If re-writing
(in some cases),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>amendments (to several
decrees), and preparations for topics not yet addressed could go forward at a
rapid pace, the Ecumenical Council might end at Christmas 1963, which would be precisely
four hundred years after the Council of Trent.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> That schedule was to be changed, because
of the sheer magnitude of the work to be done – and because of Pope John’s
failing health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the first session,
the Bishops returned to their dioceses “changed men”;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when they returned to Rome,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they would find dramatic changes, including a
new Pope – who would commit himself to the ongoing work of the Second Vatican
Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Coming Next: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>June 1963 – The Death of Pope John, the
Election of Pope Paul)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">- Monsignor John T.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> – Fifty Years Later</span></span></i></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">OBSERVERS AND GUESTS AT THE COUNCIL<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
century, during the months leading up to the First Vatican Council, Blessed
Pope Pius IX wrote to all the Patriarchs of the Orthodox Church; they were
informed that, if they “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ended their
separation</i>” from the Roman Catholic Church, they would be welcomed at
Vatican I – as full, validly ordained and consecrated Bishops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the same days in 1868, Pius IX issued
a call to Protestant leaders and their people “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to return to the Catholic Church,”</i> ending their visible separation
from Catholic unity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both the Orthodox
and the Protestants were offended by the wording of the appeals. Neither group
participated in the First Vatican Council.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nearly a century
later, before Vatican II convened, Blessed Pope John XXIII –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with talents he had honed from years in
diplomacy --- invited Orthodox and Protestant “observers” to the Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He joyfully welcomed them to the First
Session -- the first time a Pope had ever met collectively with a group with non-Catholic
representatives, including:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Patriarchate of Moscow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> S</span>yrian Patriarchate of Antioch<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ethiopian Church<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Armenian Catholicate of Cilicia <span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Russian Church in exile<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>(Among the Protestants</em>:)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anglican Union</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lutheran Federation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Presbyterian Alliance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">German Evangelical Church</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Disciples of Christ<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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John had appointed the German Jesuit, Augustine Cardinal Bea, to be president
of a new “Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cardinal Bea, although seventy-nine years
old, was a professor and Biblical scholar – and the “Biblical Movement” of the
20<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup> century had often been a “meeting point” for Catholics and Protestants.
Cardinal Bea welcomed the observers </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">with the words: “Instead of a long listing of your titles, which I
certainly do respect, please allow me to address you with these simple but so
profound words:</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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Christ.’”</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Lutheran professor from Heidelburg University, said that Pope John “by the
initiative of his heart has created a new atmosphere of openness in regard to
the non-Roman churches.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After six weeks, the distinguished
professor Oscar Cullmann of the Universities of Basel and Paris explained to
the press that the invited Observers had received all the Council texts, attended
all General Congregations, could make their views known at weekly meetings of
the Secretariat, and had personal contact with the Bishops and their periti<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> -- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“daily reveal(ing) to us how truly we are
drawn closer together.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></div>
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recalls: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Professor Cullman also pointed
out that mistaken conclusions were being drawn from the presence of the
Observers … among both Catholics and Protestants who appeared to think that the
purpose of the Council was to bring about union between the Catholic and other
Christian churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was not the
immediate purpose of the Council, he said, and he feared that many such people
would be disillusioned when, after the end of the Council, they found that the
Churches remained distinct.”</i></span></span></b></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Prophetic About
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especially in the present era, have made with God's help, the Church welcomes
and promotes with special interest those …which have uncovered new avenues of
communicating most readily news, views and teachings of every sort.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>During the first session of
Vatican II – in late November, 1962 -- the Council Fathers began discussion of
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">schema </i>on the modern means of
social communications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over three days,
more than 50 Council Fathers made interventions about the text prepared by the
“Commission on the Apostolate of the Laity, the Press and Information Media.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, proposals on the entertainment
media had been drawn up by Archbishop Martin J. O’Connor, the rector of the
North American College in Rome, who had served since the late 1940’s as
president of the Pontifical Commission for Radio, Television and Motion
Pictures.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No previous Council had discussed
such a topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each Bishop received a
copy of the proposed document, which consisted of four parts:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The Church’s doctrine on the subject<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The media as a help to the apostolate<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Disciplinary norms of the Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Each of the major media: the press / cinema / radio and television<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In their discussion, the Bishops spoke very
favorably of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">schema </i>and the
importance of the Church’s use, cooperation with – and, in some cases –
regulation of the modern means of social communications.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Council Fathers agreed that these media could be of help in transmitting the
Gospel message to all parts of the world;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ecumenical and inter-religious messages of peace, justice and human
dignity could also be universally spread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nevertheless, the Church had a responsibility to see that “such a vast
force will not be abandoned to evil.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Am</span>ong the suggestions was the institution of an office in the
Vatican – or an expansion of Archbishop O’Connor’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>commission – which would “have the task of
creating an official organization on an international, national, and diocesan
basis for the communications media and for the purpose of forming and informing
the public opinion.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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had expertise in these fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet
clergy and religious should also be given at least some training in the media, for
as the Swiss Bishop Francois Charriere pointed out, Christianity is indeed a
“revealed” religion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time of the
Council’s second session, the decree on social communications would be ready.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></strong></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In 1962, there was no Internet…no
“emails” or “texting”…no “cable news”…no “blogs” or “instant messaging”… but
the Council Fathers saw that new ways of communicating could be – for the
Church and for the world -- a gift from God for the good of mankind. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Eminent historians of the
Second Vatican Council agree that<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “the
week of November 14 – 21, 1962, which was devoted to discussion of the schema
on the sources of Divine Revelation, represented a turning point that was
decisive for the future of the Council and therefore for the future of the
Church itself.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The discussion was about God’s
revealing Himself to us:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are Scripture
and Tradition two separate, independent sources of Divine Revelation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or are these “two sources” an inseparable
whole transmitted to God’s people generation after generation?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The U.S. Bishops’ “Council Daybook”
explained that four hundred years earlier, the Fathers at the Council of Trent
had spoken of a “unique fount” of Revelation;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>in the period after Trent, the term “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">two
sources of Revelation” </i>came into use among Catholic theologians during the time
when they were defending tradition against the attacks of Protestants who put
all their faith in “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sola scriptura</i>” –
the Bible alone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Keeping in mind the ecumenical implications of the
doctrine, some of the Bishops at Vatican II wanted an answer to the question:
Are Scripture and Tradition to be considered two distinct sources – or a single
source considered in two manifestations?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At the same time, other Bishops (and some
theologians) stated that the study and development of the doctrine on
Revelation had not sufficiently matured and the time was not right for a
doctrinal decision on the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yet theologians and Council <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">periti </i>(experts) such as Frs. Yves Congar, Karl Raher and Edward
Schillebeeckx <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>maintained it was clear that
Scripture and Tradition cannot be </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">separated from one
another; rather – as God’s Revelation of Himself to the world -- they
complement one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Congar
emphatically stated:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There is not a single dogma which the Church
holds by Scripture alone, not a single dogma which it holds by Tradition
alone.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How could this Divine gift to the Church be stated
clearly for the modern world?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After a week of many interventions and inconclusive
votes, the Council neared the point of a doctrinal “impasse”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would the document <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">de fontibus revelationibus </i>be discussed further? Or be amended
considerably?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or be rejected completely?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On November 21, Pope John XXIII intervened.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Archbishop Pericle Felici announced that the Pope had
followed the debates closely – and recognized the truth in both propositions:
that Scripture and Tradition appear as two sources of Faith, but that they
stand side-by-side as the Church’s Tradition explains Sacred Scripture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More prolonged discussions, tenacious and
unproductive, would not clarify the matter. Therefore, according to Pope John’s
wishes, a separate commission of eight Cardinals would be established to put
the teaching in a clearer, more acceptable form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to the Cardinals, experts from
the Theological Commission and the Secretariat for Christian Unity would
assist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Their task was to explicitly restate the relationship
of Scripture to Tradition – but to do so more concisely; to bring out the
teachings of Trent and Vatican I; and not so much to “defend against error” as
to speak positively and confidently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>From this “turning point”, it would take several more
sessions and over two more years to produce the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine
Revelation, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dei Verbum.”</i></span></b><span style="color: #663300;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #663300;">(Next Week: Observers at the Council)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #663300;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #663300;">-- Monsignor John T. Myler</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
Rev. Msgr. John T. Mylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930142223318338639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576627474142838177.post-71834468045664607732012-11-06T01:32:00.002-06:002012-11-06T01:36:08.236-06:00<strong><em><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">November 11, 1962 –
</span></span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fifty Years Later</span></span></span></span></i></b></span><br />
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><strong> </strong> </span>The
purpose of the Sacred Liturgy is to give glory to God (sometimes referred to as
a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vertical</i> orientation).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The purpose of the Liturgical Renewal would
be pastoral: so that people could better understand the Word of God and share more
fully in His sacrificial banquet (a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">horizontal</i>
element).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This dynamic tension was
present <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">even prior to </i>the Second
Vatican Council. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
February 1962 – just eight months before the Council’s opening – Pope John had
issued an Apostolic Constitution <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Veterum
Sapientia</i> maintaining that Latin should be used in the training of
seminarians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No professors or
instructors, “moved by an inordinate desire for novelty, (should) write against
the use of Latin either in the teaching of the sacred disciplines or in the
sacred rites of the liturgy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
thought this signaled the end of any discussion about the using the vernacular
at Mass.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Yet, a few months later in April
1962, the Vatican Congregation for Rites issued a decree that, all over the
world, the prayers and blessings of the baptismal rite could be pronounced in
the vernacular (except for the baptismal words themselves -- “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ego te baptizo…”). </i>This more widespread
use of the vernacular seemed particularly pastoral; parts of the rite could be used
to instruct the people gathered for Baptism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During October and into November, the
Council Fathers openly discussed the language of the Liturgy and the
Sacraments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over eighty Bishops made
“interventions” about the use of Latin and the vernacular languages. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">The Melchite Patriarch of Antioch – the
venerable eighty-four year old Maximos IV Saigh – spoke in French (not the
usual Latin) to the Council Fathers:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Christ Himself had spoken the language of
his contemporaries and He offered the first Eucharistic Sacrifice in a language
which could be understood by all who heard Him, namely, Aramaic.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>He explained that, in the East, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">every language is liturgical, since the
Psalmist says, ‘Let all peoples praise the Lord.’ Therefore man must praise
God, announce the Gospel, and offer sacrifice in every language.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></b></div>
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from both East and West -- was very positive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speaking in his own name and those of several
other Council Fathers (including several Americans), Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani
– the head of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office – appealed to the
Latin language’s antiquity, universality, theological precision and sign of unity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Latin – he said -- should continue to be the
language of the Liturgy, and the vernacular should be used only for
instructions and certain prayers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Are we seeking to stir up wonder or perhaps
scandal among the people by introducing changes in so venerable a rite, that
has been approved for so many centuries…? The rite of Holy Mass should not be
treated as if it were a piece of cloth to be refashioned according to the whim
of each generation.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Sadly, because of partial blindness, the
elderly Cardinal Ottaviani did not see the signal to finish his talk after 10
minutes nor did he hear the instruction to stop. His microphone was turned off
in mid-sentence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the Bishops
applauded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Giovanni Cardinal Montini of Milan
spoke as a mediator between opposing points of view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He maintained that changes should not be
introduced <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“on a whim”</i> because the
Liturgy is of both divine and human origin; yet the rites were not completely
unalterable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Latin should be retained,” </i>he proposed<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, “in those parts of the rite that are sacramental and, in the true
sense of the word, priestly.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without discarding the beauty and the sense of
the sacred and while retaining their symbolic power, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the rites should be reduced to a simpler, more easily understood form –
eliminating what is repetitious and over-complicated”.</i></span></b><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">The fervent discussion of the Sacred
Liturgy – the “vertical” and “horizontal” dimensions truly forming a cross -- would
continue into the Council’s
Second Session, by which time Montini would be Pope Paul VI.</span></span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the long history of the Church’s twenty ecumenical, world-wide Councils, had
five Popes – present and future -- been gathered together in one Council <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aula.</i></span></span></div>
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present in St. Peter’s Basilica during Vatican II’s first session (October to
December, 1962) : the Pope who called the Council; the Cardinal who would be
elected Pope and bring the Council to its completion; two diocesan Bishops who
would also become Popes; and a young priest-theologian who, fifty years later,
presides as Pope over a “Year of Faith” to commemorate the
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pope John XXIII</b> (Angelo Guiseppe
Roncalli) was nearly 77 years old when elected Pope in 1958.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thought to be a mere “care-taker”, he stunned
the Church when – within the first 100 days of his papacy -- he called for a
Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born to poor parents in a small
village, one of 13 children, he was ordained in 1904, serving as his Bishop’s
secretary and as a chaplain in the Italian army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A scholar of Church history, he became head
of the Propagation of the Faith in Italy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and, beginning in 1925, spent nearly three decades as a diplomat of the
Holy See to Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, and finally France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1953, Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal
Patriarch of Venice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He succeeded Pius
as Pope, his papacy lasting <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>only four –
eventful -- years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acclaimed for his
“goodness”, he was beatified -- as Blessed John XXIII -- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the year 2000.<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Archbishop of Milan, was born in 1897, ordained in 1920, and – always in frail
health - spent almost his entire priesthood in the Roman Curia, working closely
with Pope Pius XII.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While in Milan, he
was created the “first” Cardinal of John XXIII, and succeeded him in 1963 –
taking the name <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pope Paul VI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Montini had been an important figure at
the Council’s first session (John XXIII kept him close, with residence in the
Papal apartments) and Papa Montini guided the Council’s last three sessions.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes described as “Hamlet-like”, he
was perhaps too quickly and unfairly berated for his 1968 encyclical letter <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Humanae Vitae (On Human Life).</i> Paul died
in 1978 –after 15 years as Pope.</span></span></div>
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50-year-old Bishop of Vittorio-Venetto. Consecrated a Bishop by Pope John
himself, he had been a professor, pastor and catechist; he urged the Council to
preserve “the fundamental elements of the Faith.” At 57, he became the Patriarch
of Venice and, as Cardinal, he was elected to succeed Pope Paul on August 26,
1978, taking the names of his two predecessors as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pope John Paul I</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Known as “the smiling Pope,” he held that
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“the Church that comes out of
the Council is still the same as it was yesterday, but renewed. No one can ever
say ‘We have a new Church, different from what it was’”. He died on September
28, 1978 – Pope for only 33 days. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Auxiliary Bishop Karol Wojtyla
</b>of Krakow participated in the first three sessions, returning for the fourth
as a young Archbishop. A<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> very
<span style="color: #333333;">active Council Father, he took part </span>in
the debates and in the writing of the decrees<span style="color: #333333;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lumen Gentium </i>(“The Dogmatic
Constitution on the Church”) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gaudium
et Spes</i> (“The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World”). He
returned to his native Poland – formerly under Nazism and then under Communism -
and</span> set about implementing the Conciliar decrees. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was created a Cardinal by Paul VI; after
the sudden death of John Paul I, Wojtyla was elected the first non-Italian Pope
in 455 years. As <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pope John Paul II
</b>he proclaimed, “</span>Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ.”
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During his 26-year pontificate, he
became a pilgrim throughout the world. He promulgated a “Catechism of the
Catholic Church”, which included the teaching of the Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Paul “the Great” died in 2005
and </span></span><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">was beatified in 2011.</span></span></span><br />
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Josef Ratzinger</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> – 35
year old German priest and professor of dogmatic theology -- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was the main peritus (expert)</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
to Cardinal Frings of Cologne and, like Cardinal Wojtyla, was a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>major influence on the writing of several of
the Council documents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A decade after
the Council, he was called away from academia to become the Cardinal Archbishop
of Munich, and then called to Rome in 1981 to head the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith, working closely with John Paul II for over 20 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At age 78, he was elected Pope, taking the
name <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Benedict XVI</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His vision of the Council is the Church’s
“</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">renewal
and continuity” (rather than its “discontinuity and rupture”) -- the Church
which “grows in time and develops, remaining however always the same, the one
People of God on their way.”</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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ecclesial continuity, one might say they were “all” present at Vatican II:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pius XII… Pius XI … Benedict XV … Pius X …
Leo XIII … Pius IX … back to Trent … to Ephesus … to Peter and Paul meeting in
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Rev. Msgr. John T. Mylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930142223318338639noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576627474142838177.post-25865600566072075102012-10-25T15:10:00.000-05:002015-08-19T18:07:37.800-05:00<span style="font-size: large;">October 1962</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Early Discussion on the Sacred Liturgy</span></strong><br />
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Near the end of October, 1962, the very first general topic taken up by the Council Fathers was the Sacred Liturgy, discussing an early draft of the document which would eventually become known as <em>Sacrosanctum Concilium</em>.<br />
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On each Council day, always beginning at 9 AM, as many as two dozen Bishops would speak (for a maximum of 10 minutes each). During the early discussions on the Liturgy, various Bishops could be heard giving brief addresses -- called interventions, some of which were submitted as written, rather than oral texts -- requesting that:</div>
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• local languages should be used instead of Latin in the teaching parts of the Mass<br />
• the Scriptural texts proclaimed at Mass should be more varied<br />
• the laity of the Latin Rite should be able to receive Holy Communion under the appearance of both bread and wine<br />
• there should be a wider provision for priests to concelebrate Masses</div>
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In historical perspective, these proposed liturgical changes were not impulsive and revolutionary – but had been preceded throughout the 20th century by both papal initiatives and liturgical scholarship. A “Liturgical Movement” which began during the 19th-century among Benedictine monks in France, slowly spread to other monasteries and countries. Some of the reforms proposed by this movement received papal support, especially from Popes St. Pius X and Pius XII. Always in fidelity to the Church, liturgical scholars attempted to share the profound meaning of various rites – especially the Mass – with the laity, leading to the publication of missals, scholarly and popular journals, a rediscovery of authentic Church music, even national “liturgical congresses.”<br />
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As late as1948, Pius XII had convened a Commission for the Reform of the Liturgy; a newly-revised Holy Week liturgy was im¬ple¬mented in 1955 – a fruit of the “liturgical movement” – of which most Catholics were unaware.<br />
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So, while there was indeed serious debate in the Council aula regarding proposed liturgical changes, these were not new, unheard of suggestions. Speaking to reporters in the Council press center, Fr. Hermann Schmidt, SJ (of the Gregorian University) and Fr. Frederick McManus (of the Catholic University of America) summarized the discussion with two deeper questions: “First, whether the texts and rites should be changed to express more clearly the divine things they signify, paving the way to full, actual, and community participation; and second, how the liturgy could be an effective influence on society, not divorced from modern civilization and the existing social situation.”<br />
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They hoped that the liturgy of the monasteries would find its way into the cathedrals and parish churches. renewal of the Divine Office and of the Psalter were also Conciliar topics, along with a discussion of liturgical needs in mission lands.<br />
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The Council discussions on the Sacred Liturgy would continue for more than a year. As one observer on Catholics in American culture later noted, “Perhaps more dramatically than any other decree issuing from the Council, the decree (on the liturgy) would touch the folks in the pews in immediate and understandable ways.”<br />
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As the Council Fathers entered a brief recess from November 1st to 4th – to observe the traditional days of All Saints and All Souls, and in observance of the 4th anniversary of John XXIII’s papacy – a “renewed” liturgy was surely in their thoughts. Fidelity, the place of Sacred Scripture, heart-felt reverence, a “ressourcement” (the study of Patristics, the teaching of the early Fathers of the Church), and the recent “Liturgical Movement” would all be factors in a reformed liturgy. <br />
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There would be renewal – yet it was surely intended to be renewal within tradition.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Press
coverage of the first Council in nearly a century was a challenge for the hundreds
of journalists who had been assigned to Rome -- and for the Church itself.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The first few days of the Council
sessions (mid- October of 1962) were hectic and frustrating experiences for the
press and media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The correspondents who
came to Rome were at a loss on how to report the happenings of each day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The journalists were informed that texts of
what was said by the various speakers were unavailable,” </i>reported Bishop
Albert R. Zuroweste of Belleville, IL, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’
Communications Committee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally,
some writers mistakenly expected an “ecumenical” Council to include the equal</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> participation of non-Catholics.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many Council Fathers from European nations
sent weekly newsletters to the their diocesan papers, but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“the U.S. Bishops’ ‘Press Panel’, sponsored by the hierarchy of the
United States, was the answer to the appeal of newsmen for a competent and
reliable source of information.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Press Panel was set
up by the National Catholic Welfare Council (NCWC, later called the NCCB, and
today the USCCB – United States Conference of Catholic Bishops).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The committee for the Press Panel was chaired
by Bishop Zuroweste who, as a priest, had been editor of his diocesan newspaper.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The press met almost daily with the
panel’s priest-experts in theology, scripture, ecumenism, canon law, liturgy
and church history – among them young Father William Keeler of Harrisburg, PA
(later Bishop there, eventually Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newsweek </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Time </i>reporters
stated: “Nothing can substitute for interviews for more accurate reporting…What
the press needs is access to Bishops and theologians who can speak frankly
about the great event (of the Council).”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One American
Redemptorist, Fr. Francis X. Murphy - writing under the pseudonym “Xavier
Rhynne” – sent periodic reports to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
New Yorker </i>magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His unofficial,
behind-the-scenes commentaries were called “frank, and sometimes irreverent”,
perhaps too simplistic in labeling “progressives” and “conservatives” -- but were
very popular.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pope John XXIII, at an audience for 807 international
journalists, urged the press to stress the religious aspects of the
Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gathered in the Sistine Chapel with
the huge throng of reporters (some of whom had not been inside a Church for a
long time), the Pope asked for their “loyal cooperation in presenting this
great event in its true colors … (not) more concerned with speed than accuracy”,
nor “more interested in the ‘sensational’ than in the objective truth.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You will be able to see
and to report the true motives which inspire the Church’s action in the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During these October
days, the attention of millions of people was focused on a Cuban missile crisis
between the US and the USSR; historical research has shown that,
diplomatically, John XXIII played no small part in averting nuclear war. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The missile crisis was likely in the Pope’s
thoughts, as he urged the members of the press to work for “the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">interior</i> disarmament which is the
necessary condition for the establishment of true peace on this earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(Next
week: The Sacred Liturgy – First Topic)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i>Rev. Msgr. John T. Mylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930142223318338639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576627474142838177.post-15940871981856817832012-10-12T19:33:00.000-05:002012-10-14T21:02:21.362-05:00<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">THIS WEEK </span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">AT VATICAN II</span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">October 13 - 20, 1962</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fifty Years
Later </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>SURPRISING
UNIVERSALITY AT FIRST MEETINGS</u></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" /></span></u></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saturday, October 13 -- the first
“working day” (General Congregation) for all the Council Fathers – began at
9:00 am in the Council <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aula </i>in St.
Peter’s Basilica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It lasted only fifty
minutes!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span> Ten
“commissions” had been established to prepare the Council’s final texts:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Doctrine,
Faith and Morals<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Bishops
and Dioceses </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the
Oriental Churches </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the
Sacraments <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the
Clergy and Laity <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>On Religious Men and Women</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the
Missions<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the
Sacred Liturgy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Seminaries
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the Lay
Apostolate, the Press </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Entertainment</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At the conclusion of the Saturday
morning Mass, each Bishop had at his place three booklets: a booklet with a
complete listing of all the Council Fathers; a booklet listing those Bishops
who had served on each Commission during the preparatory phase (the so-called
“Curial list”); and a booklet with blank spaces for voting, in which each
Bishop was asked to list, by hand, sixteen candidates of their choice for each
of the ten Commissions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The German Bishops, led by Joseph
Cardinal Frings of Cologne, had discussed alternative candidates – not from the
“Curial list” but nominated from each national episcopal conference. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Achille Cardinal Lienart, president of the
French Bishops, agreed – and as the voting procedures that Saturday morning were
being explained to all the Bishops, Cardinal Lienart rose to ask that the
Council Fathers be given more time to study the qualifications of candidates
for the 160 important offices on the ten Commissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His motion was seconded by Cardinal Frings. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Prolonged applause followed both
interventions. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Council was adjourned until
9:00 am on the following Tuesday, so that on Sunday and Monday, October 14 and
15, the Bishops could meet in their national or regional conferences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By
Tuesday morning, a leaflet was distributed to all the Bishops which contained
the names proposed by the various national episcopal conferences as candidates
for the Commissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The well-organized list
of the French, German, Austrian and Swiss Bishops was supported by the Bishops
of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, as well as those of Poland and
Yugoslavia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Bishops from Italy agreed on a
list which gave wide representation to the different nationalities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The United States’ Bishops, after meeting at
the North American College, had drawn up their own list of candidates, having consulted
with various national hierarchies. The Asian and African Bishops also composed
their own lists.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
the Council hall on Tuesday morning, each Bishop voted independently; after
three days of counting the hand-written ballots, the members of the Commissions
were announced at the 3<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup> General Congregation on Saturday, October
20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unexpectedly, in the “tumultuous”
first days of the Council, the Bishops had elected Commission members international
in scope and varied in pastoral experiences -- a step that theologian Fr. Yves
Congar called “the first substantive Conciliar action.” African Archbishop (later
Cardinal) Bernardin Gantin of Benin said the events of the first days “opened
the way to the spirit of collegiality” among the Council Fathers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reportedly, Pope John agreed: “You have done
right in expressing your thoughts aloud; that is why I have called the Bishops
to a Council.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Their
next task would be discussion of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">schema</i>
on the Sacred Liturgy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">( Next Week: The Press at Vatican II )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>-- Monsignor John T. Myler</span></div>
Rev. Msgr. John T. Mylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930142223318338639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576627474142838177.post-82136499415516421422012-10-08T09:37:00.002-05:002012-10-08T09:39:47.394-05:00<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a majestic sight!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rain had poured down in Rome early in the
morning, but then bright sun broke through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a procession of 2,500 Bishops from 79
countries made its way across the Piazza di S. Pietro, accompanied by the sung Litany
of the Saints, then turning to enter the great Basilica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end came Pope John XXIII on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sedia gestatoria</i>, carried so the crowds
could see him, joyfully blessing them as the Second Vatican Council opened.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thursday, October 11, the feast of the
Divine Maternity of the Virgin Mary, was the date chosen by the Pope -- to show
continuity back to the Council of Ephesus (431 AD) when Christian belief was
upheld in Mary as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Theotokos, </i>Mother
of God, “Mater Dei” – which upheld Faith in the divinity of her Son, Jesus
Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A young American priest assisting at the
Council – Fr. Justin Rigali (later a Bishop, Archbishop and Cardinal) -- would
write in perspective that all of what Vatican II endeavored to do was “to speak
about Jesus” to the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once inside the Basilica, Pope John
preached that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“the greatest concern of
the Ecumenical Council is this: that the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine
should be guarded and taught more effectively,” </i>for the Church must never
depart <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“from the sacred patrimony of
truth received from the Fathers.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Yet, at the same time,
the Church <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“must ever look to the
present, to the new conditions and forms of life introduced into the modern
world, which have opened new avenues to the Catholic apostolate...”<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The substance of the ancient
doctrine, the Deposit of Faith, is one thing; the way in which it is presented
is another.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each in tall miter and white cope, the
Bishops listening inside the Council <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aula
</i>were truly “catholic” – meaning “universal”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>38% were European; 31% were from the Americas;
20% came from Asia and Oceania, and 10% from Africa. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, almost 200 Bishops from the Eastern
bloc Communist-controlled countries were not able to attend.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Bishops had left their episcopal
sees, without clearly knowing when they would return home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One, the 83 year old missionary Bishop Ashton
Chichester, had served since</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> 1929 in Rhodesia</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> (which would
later become the country known as Zimbabwe</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first Archbishop of Salisbury, he had almost
reached the main door of St. Peter’s on his way into the Council when he
collapsed on the steps leading to the Basilica and died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That night, a brother Bishop remarked on
Vatican Radio, how much Bishop Chichester “loved the Holy See.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He longed for a Council, and hoped that he
would live to attend one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop
Chichester felt in his heart both the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">perennial
stability </i>and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">imperishable youth </i>of
the Church”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> ...</span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> ...</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>like that other octogenarian, John XXIII, who
sat in the Chair of St. Peter.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i><br />
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WEEK: THE FIRST WORKING SESSIONS</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Monsignor John T. Myler</span>Rev. Msgr. John T. Mylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05930142223318338639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576627474142838177.post-59596394034855518942012-10-08T09:28:00.001-05:002012-11-11T10:32:10.506-06:00<br />
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PHYSICAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE COUNCIL</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></u></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For several years, the commission
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fabbrica di S. Pietro</i>” – the group responsible
for the building and administering of St. Peter’s Basilica – had been planning
the physical location of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aula </i>or “Council
Hall.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Room was needed for the historic
gathering and deliberations of the world’s nearly 2,500 Bishops.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Inside the Basilica, the huge
central nave of St. Peter’s measures 96 meters x 22 meters (351 ft. long and 72
ft. wide) and was to be arranged for both “practicality and comfort”, not only
for the Council’s daily sessions but also for sacred ceremonies, including
daily Mass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time, the art
and architecture of the Basilica had to be retained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pope John insisted that the entrance to Peter’s
tomb remain open and also that a dignified area be found where the Book of the
Gospels would be enthroned daily – both visible signs of the Biblical and
historical roots of the Church.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Through the summer and fall of
1962, from May 15 to October 10 (the day prior to the Solemn Opening of the
Council), the workers of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fabbrica </i>erected
lengthy tiers on both sides of the main nave – long rows of seating and tables on
risers to accommodate more than 1,200 Bishops on each side. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The workers installed an additional 42 floodlights for better
visibility; 37 microphones in various locations to facilitate the Bishops’ discussions;
4 tape recorders for the Council’s archives (and for the young priest-assistants
who would daily transcribe the exact words of the Council deliberations);
closed circuit television (so the Pope could follow the proceedings from the
papal apartment); a temporary studio for Vatican Radio; telephone lines for communication
among the rotating Council “Presidents”; and even data processing equipment –
to be used for tabulating the Bishops’ various ballots.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sanitary and first aid needs had
to be met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, places were
erected in the Basilica for days when the Council was “in session”, where the
Bishops could gather and converse informally at two stations in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aula</i> for coffee and pastries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before long, the Bishops gave the “coffee-bars”
clever names based on two Gospel figures: the Bar-Jonah (from the Hebrew name
for St. Peter) and the Bar-Abbas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As the “opening day” approached,
all plans were for a Council lasting three months – a single session with
meetings from October to December 1962.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the end, the Council would last four sessions, spread over – not
three months – but more than three years.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</span>--<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Monsignor John T. Myler<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MANY TOPICS FOR
THE COUNCIL<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Prior to 1962, the
Bishops of some countries -- especially Germany and France -- gathered to make joint
suggestions for topics at the Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Individually,
the Bishops in the United States sent hundreds of suggestions to the Vatican,
including:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Doctrinal Concerns: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Christ as the world’s Divine Redeemer; the relationship of Sacred
Scripture and Sacred Tradition (in light of Pius XII’s Divino Afflante Spiritu);
the role of the Blessed Virgin<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Church: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Mystical Body of Christ (as Pius XII taught); prospects for reunion
with the Orthodox and with Protestants; infants who die without Baptism;
Church-State relations; religious freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Role of Bishops: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">as Magisterium (teachers of Faith); Bishops’ relationship with men/women religious;
relationship to Roman Curia;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the role of
national episcopal conferences; use of social communications.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Priests, Deacons, Religious: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>promoting vocations; restoration
of permanent diaconate, extended to married men; a year of pastoral ministry for
seminarians; a rediscovery of religious’ charisms.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Laity: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">offer encouragement to the Lay Apostolate; the nature of the Christian
family; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">providing laypeople with
opportunities to study along with the clergy dogma, philosophy, history and morality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Liturgical Reform: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">study of the twentieth-century Liturgical Movement; increased use of local
languages, while retaining some Latin in liturgy and Church’s daily life; a
reform of the Breviary.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Moral Questions: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the need for obedience to legitimate
authority; clearer teaching on the ends of marriage; the relationship between
morality and psychiatry; the problem of birth control.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Modern War and Peace: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">the ethics of nuclear weapons; conscientious objection; theory of “just
war”;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>international relations; the
threat of communism as an obstacle to world peace.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Social Justice</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">: expand teaching of Rerum Novarum and Quadragesima Anno; improve race relations;
the poor and elderly; growing materialism; atheism; new <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>challenges from scientific/technological
progress. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While several Bishops
had replied they had “nothing to propose”, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>others were as specific as “defense of the
family farm”; as theoretical as “what do to if the enemies of the Church used
an atomic bomb to kill all the Cardinal-electors of the Pope”; and as
speculative as salvation for “creatures on other planets.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Council’s
Preparatory Commission – under the leadership of Msgr. Pericle Felici -- worked
diligently, categorizing the tens of thousands of recommendations from around
the world, as one American Bishop suggested, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rejecting both the stubbornness of the antiquarians and the rashness of
the innovators.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Vatican II was to
be a reform Council certainly, yet a Council in continuity with the enduring teaching
of Jesus Christ and His Church.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(NEXT
WEEK: PHYSICAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE COUNCIL</i>) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Monsignor John T. Myler<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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