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^^^^0^S^^!i^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^m^^^^W7^tTi^Tr, 8 Courier-Journal — Friday. July 12, 1968 The Church to Divine and Human Service One out of every five' per- sons move annually in the United States. Neighborhoods undergo a drastic change with- in 25years. Over-sized church- es, rectories and convents which satisfy the \edifice com- plex\ of one pastor can be- come a financial drag under the next. At the present time, the Pas- toral Office pays $369 a day for the upkeep of a few par- ishes in the Inner City. To one parish alone it gives $137 a day. Such Acts must give us pause: Must we not re-examine the type of Church we should build in the future? A few extremists may argue that there should be n o church- buildings. But this is unbibli- cal. \Shall Christ the Head have no body, through which the Church fills up what is wanting to His untold pains?\ (Col. 1/24). The Lord did not give us a spiritual rnind with which to pray, having no bones or body. We cannot have music without academies, education without universities, science without laboratories, nor can we be \homey\ without homes. Because some wives spend too much money on clothes is no reason for doing away with either wives or with clothes. Because some ecclesiastics build lavish churches, forget- ting their poor neighbors, it must not be concluded that there should be no churches. THE FUTURE OF CHURCH BUILDINGS INDEED MUST CHANGE ANTD FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: 1, The Chrurch is a servant Church, as Christ was a Servant washing the feet of His Dis- ciples. But whom does the Church serve? Not only Its own members, but the world: \God loved tlie world so much that He gave His only Son\ (John 3/16) A pastor has a parish—but he has a parish because he is responsible for part of the world or the human family. Vatican Council II gave not one but six descriptions of the Church, making it no longer exclusive but inclusive in the sense off being the visible sign of salvation. The parish has boundaries for jurisdictional reasons as does a d iocese, but there are no barriers to brotherhood and communion with all men. Instead, then, of a cbjirch building being dedicated sole- ly to liturgical worship, it should also be for the service of the entire community. Be- cause of its enlarged mission, the Church will be a center for those wlio care spiritually for God, but also it will he a cen- ter for educational, physical, psychological and medical care fo>r all who came to Christ. The «hurcrh building will, therefor-e, include moderate facilities not only for the-Di- vine Service, but also for human service. 2. A person may be present BISHOP SHEEN to another in different ways, su«h as presence by corres- penmdemre. presence By photo- graphs, presence by telephone and finally presence by living together. So too, over ^and above all the presences of the Chairch t o the needy and the sic*, there will be the Real Presence which will be like the soul in the body. An area of the church build- ing will be reserved for daily Mass, small weddings and fu- nerrals and for visits to the Blessed Sacrament. On Sun- days and great feast days the dividing wall which separates the- Altar from the rest of the building will be put aside and the- entire structure used if necessary. X. Those who come to the Caring Church, which Is in- separable from the Adoring Church, may seemingly have no faith, but the Church will be to them as a believing hus- band who sanctifies an unbe- lieving wife. (Cor. 7/14) The Church will be to them the Incognito Christ as He was to the blind man who did not at first know that Christ healed him. Open not only to \club members\ but also to the blind/ the hungry, and the sick, all may come to touch the hem of His garments. They may not believe in Him, but in some way healing will go out from Him. (Matt. 9/20) 4. The world quickly goes to extremes. For centuries the sacred kept out the profane; now the profane is keeping out the sacred. Once it was the secular world that was un- real! Jisw it is the Divine world that is unreal as the City of God of Augustine be- comes the Secular City of Cox. To remedy this mustual ex- clusiveness, the new church buildings will fulfl I the double commandment of ser- ving God and neighbor; they will unite liturgy and service of neighbor as they were united by our Lord, the night He instituted the Eucharist. The Divine is never the sec- ular, nor is the secular ever the Divine, but the two are one, in somewhat the way that the nature of God and the na- ture of man are one in Christ. The Divine and the Secular, like the Godhead and the manhood of Christ are \with- out confusion, without change, without division and without separation\ as the Council of Chalcedon decreed: the one is not to be absorbed by the other; they are two aspects of life in its totality. A man cannot be a Christian except in the world, and the world has no existence apart from Christ for—\He is the center 7 of all things\. It now remains for archi- tects, bishops and pastors to catch up with the Vatican Council and sec the Church as the \sign of salvation to all peoples\ — ALL. everyone in our neighborsood, everyone in the Mission lands, and to bring them near the Euchar- istic hearth where they may warm their souls. But even when this is not achieved^ the^ Church must bring tnem hear \fier serving hands, so that their hands may be filled with bread and fish in a renewed Capharnaum. The Church door that once marked the boundary line be- tween the world and the Church will now be like the door of the home of a newly married couple: The Church as a husband will carry the bride of the hungry world over the threshold until death do them part. Church building of the fu- ture, therefore, must start with the principle that Wor- ship and Mission are insepar- able because Our Lord's mis- sionary work and Bis sacrifi- cial death were one. A. \Sun- day Catholic\ separates wor- ship from mission; an atheist who helps fellowmen divorces mission from worship. To seek Christ without the world makes an introverted Church, and to seek the world without Christ is to make us all illegitimate children, for how can we be brothers un- less , we have a common Father? The vertical and the hori- zontal are inseparable, for it is by going outside herself that the Church finds herself, as it is by knowing the non- me that I enhance the know- ledge of myself. The Church has a mission to the non-Christ just as Israel had a mission to the Gentiles. Hence, all services of the Church such as education, healing, housing, changing of attitudes-are not means t o the Kingdom of God: they are wit- nesses that the reality of the Kingdom is already here. The pastor is not in charge only of the faithful in his parish; he is not responsible only for souls in the area, (as Canon Law put it); his must be a universaFcare for persons (body and soul). He is also a debtor to God for his part of the surface on the earth, and its relation to the whole earth. For the above reasons we humbly beg our priests and people to update their think- ing, and in all considerations about building to keep ever before their eyes our duty to the poor. THE FOLLOWING GUIDE- LINES ARE HERE SET DOWN: 1. The rectory must not ex- ceed in cost that of the aver- age house of the parish. 2. The type of church building to be erected will never depend upon the finan- cial ability of any parish to pay for it. The parish is not an island, but a cell in a body. Nature does not put more nutriment into the right arm than the left. In like manner, a spir-. itual thermostat will take into account the needs of other parishes. For example, it would be unholy to erect a million dol- lar church when uhe diocese has to payjfill a day for the poor of the Inner City. 3. The church buildings will be erected not just for Sun- day-Catholics or as a place of worship generally one day a week, but as a place for ser- vice, mission, and caring for everyone who looks to the Church t o prolong the role of Christ the Shepherd. The Vatican Council states: \Since Christ died for all men, and since the ultimate vocation of men is in fact one and Divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit, in a manner known only to God, offers to every man the possibility of being associated with this Pas- chal mystery.\ The Church will then be not only a place where people \Come\, which was the first word of Our Lord's Public Life, but also a place whence; they \Go\, which was the last [ word of His Public Life. It i will be not only a cult but > also a 'launching pad\ from { which people engaged in the 2 secular world are thrust forth as witnesses to Christ As Stephen Vincent Benet wrote: \The loves we had were far too small\. Now we enlarge them. Our Lord warned us: \It is not every- one who keeps saying to me. 'Lord, Lord' who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven\. (Matt. 7/21) In the past people \Came to Church\. Toe hour has struck when the Church will also go to the people. 4. The right of the poor to nave a decent home, enjoys piority over our right to erect a tax-exempt structure which exceeds the bare minimum. With one eye on the poor, we will never draw down on our head, God's complaint about His House: \I take no delight in your solemn assem- blies . . . but let justice roll down like waters, and right- eousness like an ever flowing stream\. (Amos 5/21-24) Sometimes one hears 1 par- ish is \Going down\ because the \Negroes are moving in\. Now let us say whenever we build: \Something Is going up because Christ is moving to\. r 1 \IT i ••> i> 0 i v ,t •) n i t i ,1 I •r i I j 1 t t > 4. FULTON J. SHEENs Bishop of Rochester \> Church in Tanzania Makes Centennial Plans By FATHER JOSEPH • KELLY, C.S.Sp. Moshl, Tanzania — (NC) — Two hundred thirty six Amter- ican missionaries in Tanzania will join with the 2.25 million Catholics of this country this month to celebrate the» cen- tenary of the Churcli's apos- tolate to mainland East Arica. One hundred years ago a small Arab sailing vessel anchored in the Indian Ocean just off the coast of Tanzania. Two missionaries. Father An- tolne Homer and Brother Marcellln of the Holy Ghost Fathers, disembarked and made their way up the sandy beach to a spot under the pilrn trees where they were to establish the first Catholic mission on the shores of East Africa, teaching them trades. The missionaries decided to es- -taolish a \freedom village\ on the mainland of East Africa. Although the mission had the appearance' of a small town, with 50 buildings to care for- the needs of the re- leased slaves, it remained a \freedom village\ and was never rracant to be much more than a beachhead on the mainland. For one thing, the local inhabitants of that part of the coast, the Zaromo tribe, did not take advantage of the educational facilities of the mission, which they consid- ered were \for the education of slaves,\ and which, there- fore, th«ey scorned. In 1878, the White Fathers arrived in Bagamoyo and pro- ceeded €0 the areas surround- Hhey had. come from the isli mt __ .. _.. ^ _ ther* Horner and three other missionaries had landed five years previously. ca„ such as Maryknoilers, Sal- vatorlans. Christian Brothers >n«l Holy Ghost Fathers. Starting with a little school on the coast, the Church's educational system developed thr-ough the country until todlay there are more than 2,0*0 schools run by the Chiirch, in Tanzania alone. Whacn this country became in- dependent a few years ago, it was mentioned in parliament thait two thirds of those edu- cated in the nation had re- cei-wed their education in ei- ther Catholic or other mission schsools. The President, Dr. Julius Nyerere, had been a tca«cher in one of these Cath- olic: schools. Development, though, in- volved more than schools. Over the past 100 years, mis- sionaries - have taught the people new trades and intro- duced new crops, such as coffee and grapes. tinue to do so today, especial- ly through the efforts of Tan- ania's 800 foreign missionary Sisters, 1,400 Sisters born in Tanzania and a few lay volun- teers. At present the Church in Tanzania has 71 hospitals, 242 dispensaries, 106 mater- nity wards, 11 leper asylums, 9 home for the aged and 15 orphanages. For the remainder of the country's 12 4 mill Ion inhabi- tants, some 2 million are Mos- lem, around one million are Protestant and 2.25 million are Catholic. The latter have Increased on an average of about 100,000 a years over the past decade. Some lay activity which is just now being discovered in the U.S. after the Second Vatr ican Council has been normal procedure here since the last century, such as the whole congregation singing at the Mass, laymen holding prayer services in the absence of a priest, baptizing dying people and, in the Moshl diocese. laymen acting as lay assist- ants to the priests by over- seeing the practice of the faith on the village level. Today in this country there are over 400 Tanzanian priests serving their own people. The number, though, represents only one third of a clergy that is insufficient for even the present needs of the country. Yet, hope for the future is bright At present, 3,000 young men are preparing themselves for the priesthood. Jesuit on Jersey School Board Jersey City — (NC) — Father Victor R. Yani- telli, S.J., president of St. Peter's College, has be- come a member of the Jersey City Board of Edu- cation. The board is appointive rather than elec- tive. Father Yaixitelli's name had been proposed to> Mayor T. J. Whelan by the Brotherhood in Ac- tion Committee, a group which church leaders helped to form to promote interracial under- standing. The Jesuit priest serves on the advisory board of the Jersey City Medical Center. Two years ago he was mediator in a dispute between the Board of Education and the two teachers' organizations in the city. A. century ago, Zanzibar was a center of the slave 'iradte that was still rampant in this part of Africa. The missionaries had begun im- mediately to attack this trade by the only means open to animals and them at the time — buying Many died, slaves from the Zanzibar mar- ket and giving them their freedom. ITIiey have cared for the slcfe and unfortunate, and con- Inland safaris for both in- stitutes -were extremely diffi- cult in the last century. Mod- ern means of transportation had no* yet reached East Africa and the missionaries „__ --«--*— had to travel hundreds of f Hiraillllll FOR PERFECT miles OEJ foot through diffi-' cult terrain infested with wild new diseases. Once freed, though, ttie slaves had no place to go. The missionaries, therefore, set about educating tnem and During the century of mis- sionary activity in East Africa other groups of missionaries Joined the apostolatc. Today in Tanzania alone there are 33 lucht Institutes. They in- clude a number from Amerl- DIAPER SERVICE SioJiL BABY WASH 328-0770 THE A Gracious Placfc to Retire . . oum A Great Way to Live ... 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With the awareness, cer tamly, of Thir human weak ness, yet with all the strengtl impressed on Our Spirit b: such a command, We shal make a profession of faith pronounce a creed which without being strictly speak ing a dogmatic definition, re peats in substance, with sorru developments called for b: the spiritual condition of ou time, the creed of Nicea, th< creed of the immortal Tradi tion of the Holy Church o God. Perplexity in the Church In making this profession We are aware of the disquie which agitates certain moden quarters with regard to th. faith. We see even Catholic allowing themselves to b seized by a kind of passion f o chaivge and novelity. The Church has always th duty to carry on the effoi to study more deeply and t present in a manner eve better adapted to successlv generations the unfathomabl mysteries of God, rich for a in fruits of salvation. But s the same time the greates care must be taken, while fa filling the indispensable dut of research, to do no injur to tfae teachings of Christia doctrine. But above all, We plac Our unshakeable confidenc in the Holy Spirit, the soi of the Church, and i n the* logical faith upon which resl the life of the Mystical Bod: We know that souls await th word of the Vicar of Chris and We respond to the expe tation with the instructor which We regularly give. So today the Pastor of tfc Universal Church raises b. voice to give, on behalf of a the People of God, a fin witness to the divine Tru1 entrusted to the Church to I announced to all nations. i; Profession of Faith f We believe in one only Go Eatber, Son and Holy Spiri Creator of things visible sut as this world in which o\ transient life passes, of thinj invisible such as the pui spirits which are also call* angels, and Creator in ea< man of his spiritual and ii mortal soul. We believe that this on God Is absolutely one in H infinitely holy essence as ab in all His perfections, ir, H omnipotence, His i n f i n i t knowledge, His providenc His will and His love. He He Who Is, as Hercvealed Moses; and He is Love, as tl Apostle John teaches us: that these two names, Beb and Love, express ineffab the same divine Reality Him Who has wished to mal Himself known to us. Cod alone can give us rig and full knowledge of tl Reality by revealing Hims« as Father, Son and Ho Spirit, in Whose Eternal Li we are by grace called snare, here below in the c scuxity of faith and aft death in eternal light. The Role of Christ We believe in Our Lo Jesus Christ, Who is the S< of God. He is the Etern Word, born of the Father t fore lime began, and one substance with the Fath< and through Him all thin were made. He was incarna of the Virgin Mary by t power of the Holy Spirit, a- was made man: equal thei fore to the Father accordt to His divinity, and inferi to the Father according His humanity, and Hims« one, not by some impossit confusion of His natures, b by the unity of His person He dwelt among us, full grace and truth. He proclai ed and established the Kii dom of God and made us km in Himself the Father. 1 gave us His new commai merit to love one another He loved us. He taught us t way of the Beatitudes of t Gospel: poverty in spii meekness, suffering bor with patience, thirst afl justice, mercy, purity heart, will for peace, p< sedition suffered for justic sake \we believe In the H< Giver of life, Who is ador and glorified together wi tfie Father and the Son. ] stfoke to us by the Prophe He was sent by Christ af1 His Resurrection and His J cension to the Father; He lunalnates, vivifies;—protei \ and guides the Church; ] purifies the Church's me bers if they do not shun I glace. His action, which pei Mates to the inmost of t sojil, enables man to respo to 2the call of Jesus: Be p fefet as your Heavenly Fath ty perfect (Mt. 5, 48). >v!Ve believe that Mary Is 4 Mother, who remained ei *t