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M • Courier-Journal — Friday, August 9, 1968 When Christ Made Big 'Mistake' 1 {Continued from Page 1) make'them see that the spirit of the world is not the same as His Spirit: \It is.the Spirit which gives life; the flesh -will not help you. The things which I have told you are spiritual and are life, but some of you will not believe Me*/\ f John 6/63, 64) Was ft His. announcement about Life that made them break, or had they broken before? Did their allegi- ance Just then begin to fail? Was a crack there already which now mere- ly widened? Did they have the placards of protest already and this gave them an opportunity to parade them? The fact Is that they had al- ready broken with Him even before He spoke: Jesus knew from the be- ginning which were the followers who did not trust Him\. (John 6/64) The Good Lord loses more in the affluence of full stomachs than In _fire and persecution. Now the ranks are thinned; wide gaping spaces ap- peared in what were closely serried rows .'of believers. \If this is what Christ teaches, I have no stomach for that kind of doctrine. I will leave\. Our Lord watched them leave and they never came back. They were never disciples, even from the start. 'They will maintain a 'facade' of religion, but their con- duct will deny its validity\ (2 Tim. 3/5). They had their own minds made up; they had their own gods, and that is why they left saying, \This is hard teaching indeed; who could accept that\ (John 6/60). 3. He split His embryonic Church wide open — by a hidden apostasy. Jesus had lost the chaff and the wheat of the disciples. Would He now retract and save scandal? Or would He create a greater schism even in the apostolic band? Jesus now turned to His \twelve\ — the first time they are so named In the Gospel, thus, signifying unity and compactness. The very way He asked the question showed that He trusted in them: \And are you too wanting to go away?\ (John 6/67) Had they made up their minds to re- main with Jesus as He stressed the primacy of Spiritual Life over Bio- logical Life? The twelve indeed were shocked by the defections caused by the \hard saying\. A corporate body always needs a spokesman, and that Divinely ap- pointed one was Peter. In their name he asks a question which he begins by acknowledging His Divinity: \Lord\ — then, \Who else is there to go to?\ Man is so constituted He must go to someone. Then Peter gave the reason for loyalty: \Your words have the ring of eternal life! And we believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God\. (John 6/67) But even among His Bishops there was one who stayed but was not a true follower. The break was not yet out in the open, but it was there Just the same. It had been prophesied a thousajML.years before that the rent tried V\s best to nave him: He-*|nyc Peter Bis eyes, but Judas His lips. But if His own do not accept Christ totally, where seek the cause? Satan! \Did I not choose you twelve — and one of you has the devil In his heart\ (John 6/71). Jesus had made His \greatest mis- take\. He lost public opinion, He lost \Christians\ and disciples, and He splintered Ills Apostolic band. But He knew He would lose, If He flew In the face of the world and the worldly. And He did! From now on the Heart of Jesus has a cross In It. But Is Life really that sacred that He could afford to lose the masses, to wreck an organized disclpleshlp, and to send 8'/ 2 % of His Board of Directors scurrying? He evidently was ready to lose all He wanted no unwilling followers That is why He askfd the few Ifft if they too wanted to leave Rut what the Lord lost on that flay — Iff got back a millionfold on the crovs He separated the sheep from the jjoaK He forced the choice hetween Him- self and Baal and He reduced quantity for the sake of quality. Peter's answer to the question of learning gives the acid test for de- cision in any hour of crisis. The test was the Holiness of Christ: \You arc the Holy One of God\. Now we can ask were the masses holy? •Were the disciples holy? Was Judas holy? Arc those who tell us to follow them holy men, that is men of prayer and sacrifice, never seeking their own ego or self-will? Holiness was Peter's test. It is still the best. Group Asks Boycott Of Grapes Lansing, Mich. — (NC) — The Michigan Catholic Conference has asked all Catholic institutions not to use California table grapes as a sign of support for striking California farm workers. & The state's bishops conference also expressed hope that all Michigan citizens would join in the grape boy- cott. The conference statement said: \The Catholic Church recognizes the right of workers to organize. It is unfortunate that farm workers are excluded from the provisions of the National Labor Relations Aet which gives workers the right to collective bargaining, minimum wages, unem- ployment insurance and other bene- fits. . \The Catholic bishops of California are supporting the cause of the United Farm Workers Organising Committee in their struggle with the grape growers in California. We can do no less. \We hope all people of good faith will refrain from purchasing Califor- nia table grapes and that all retail stores will remove these grapes from their shelves until the farm workers obtain union recognition, a Jiving wage and decent housing conditions \We are asking all Catholic insti- tutions to refrain from using Cali- fornia table grapes until this labor dispute is settled. Religion, Education Failed On Race, Professor Says New Orleans - (FIN'S) — The failures of education and religion are largely responsible for the racist atti- lude in the United States today, a Mississippi professor said here. Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander, a professor at Jackson (Miss.) State College, addressed the Council of Urban League Guilds during the Na- tional Urban League convention. - Institutionalized religion in the US , Dr. Alexander claimed, has lost its meaning, and \when the religion of a people is dead, they are with- out vision.\ \Anything done in the name of re- ligion is used as a 'drug' to sooth the consciences of those who have i lost their vision. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan have too long claimed to represent Christianity with such ridiculous theme as 'purity of race,' \ she added. She lashed out at the educational# system, saying that white America is basically ignorant of the culture of other peoples. She called for a sys-. tern that would foster understanding of the cultures of others in youth. The present educational system, she added, \poisons the mentalt de- velopment of both black and \white children,\ leaving them unprepared to live in a multi-racial society. Sacrificial Nature Stressed Portland, Ore. — (RNS) — Theo- logians and activists who stress the service ministry of the Roman Cath- olic priesthood instead of its sacri- ficial nature were sharply criticized at the 30th anniversary convention of Serra International here. Archbishop Robert J. Dwyer of Portland, in a sermon at a Mass open- ing the annual conference, told the members of the international Cath- olic vocation-fostering organization: \I need not tell you that there has arisen In the contemporary Church a mood which would minimize if not altogether eliminate the sacrificial nature of the priestly office. \It is a mood (if that be the prop- er description of a trend which would jettison dogma and scorn discipline) which would lay paramount stress upon the ministerial aspects of the priesthood and the priestly life, which would regard it as an instru- ment of service for the betterment of humankind.\ Archbishop Dwyer concluded: \The present crisis in vocations is not to be solved by presenting the priest- hood as something less than what it is, something other than what its es- sence calls for. 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Some years ago the grou a cattle and produce farm, owners gave it to the tow to build hospitals, asylums ; institutions for the poor. The site of the Euchari gress has been complet months of hurried labor, the main \templete\ (small built like a rotunda with a form for the benefit of spe the grounds, is a large cros; be seen from great distance ally at night when it is floo center of the congress site La Plaza de la Cruz (the the Cross). Thirty-seven \sacramenta fan out from the main alti centric arcs. These plazas ai ary sites for the celebratlor for the distribution of C< and for the hearing of cc Hundreds of priests and bi scheduled to concelebrate I the Pope during the congri The organizers expect an 600,000 communicants durin gress. With their 37 \sa plazas\ they believe that e can be conducted in an ord cient manner. Pilgrims trying to get a < of the ceremonies at the P Cruz will have to travel < good mile from the outer the site. 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