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ofc Bernards Alumni HecrBishpp Sheen Courier-Journal I— Friday, Oct. 18, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen ad- dressed about 50O alumni priests and bishops at the jubilee luncheon marking the 75th anniversary of St Bern- ard's Seminary on Oct. 10 at the dining hall of the Masonic Temple. The full text of the Bishop's address follows: A legend recounts that after his conversion, Zacheus would daily leave his house with a pail of water. His wife, curi- ous about the daily routine, followed him and found that he poured it out at the foot of a tree. She said: \Why do you care so much about this tree?\ \Because he answer- ed, \This is where I first met Jesus.\ «.. —-€>n-this\75th—anniversary- of St. Bernard's, we return with grateful hearts to the semi- nary where we first encount- ered spiritual discipline, Christ, our High Priest. Two reflections upsurge in this celebration: thanks and hope: THANKSGIVING \We priests are the \spoiled children** of God. We are under a special Providence, for \Nolite tamgere Christos meos.\ (1 Chm. 16/22; Ps. 105/15). (Touch not my an- ointed ones.) Though we say in the Creed, \He sits at the right hand of God,\ neverthe- \ en-was-stonedr Our Lord \stood\, (Acts 7/55) as if militantly aggressive a- gainst those who stoned us. In the Garden, when He found His priests sleeping and indifferent to His agony, He said to the soldiers: \Take Me, but let them go.\ (John 18/18) He thought more of our safetythan His _periL. .. He exposed Himself and ex- cused us, even -though our faith was weak and our spirits were low. Like the ram offer- -J9JJ0 OH 'OBBSI JO pB8)SOT p3 ed Himself for vs. priest, stood with filthy gar- ments at the altar, Satan stood alongside of him to accuse him of his sins. But the Lord came tp the defense of Joshua, rebuked Satan, and said, \Is not this a brand plucked out of the burning?\ (Zech 3/2) Whatever is objected against God's priests, God foresaw; He knew it when He chose us. He did not choose us because we were good, but because He is. He knew the worst in us when He called. He is so fond of His anointed one that He finds excuse while others .ac- cuse. The reason for this great love of us is that the Heaven- ly Father does not see us dir- ectly, — He sees us through Christ. When we look at the sun through a prism, it is made more beautiful by re- flecting the seven rays. And from the day we entered the seminary until now, the Fa- ther sees ns through \rose- colored glasses\ — better than we are, holier than we are, because He is The Spoiler and we the spoiled. - HOPE We look to the past in thanksgiving, but we look to the future in hope. I wonder if we have ade- quately reflected on how much the world and th epresent crisis of the Church forces us to dwell on hope. Is not the world today full of hope?. The Secular hope expresses it- self in planning. Business makes projections for the future; governments plan for peace and for war; computers shorten our calcu- lations about the impending; the very violence which would destroy society is the con- tempt of the present, but with a radical impotency to fill a hole after one has dug it. The security of anything de- pends upon it being engraven on the future by intention. \When Joshua, the high Not only in the scientific, industrial and educational areas, but in realm of thought, hope is the theme. Gabriel Marcel thought himself into the Church by considering HOMO VIATOR, or man on pilgrimage. Shall we forget the optimism of Teilhard de Chardin? The world forces us to think of hope. But how does hope differ from planning? In two ways: Planning looks to the future through man's projections:; Hope looks to the future through man's projections; In planning, man does everything, God does nothing. -In~hope^-man-is-r-e4iaBt-©n-4he Divine, —\I can do all things in Him Who strengthens.\ (Phil. 4/13) So Abraham is told to leave the land of Ur to go into a country to which God will lead Him. And on the strength of. the Divine Promises, he retained hope that he would have a seed as multitudinous as the stars of heaven. A second difference is: Plan- ning is directed to action, e.g., flight to the moon, food from the sea, planned genetics. Hope is geared less to action than to passion; it is insepar- able from trial, testing, crisis, Jp. a word, suffering. and endurance brings proof that we have stood the test, and that prayer is the ground of hope.\ (Rom 5/2-5) _ Is not this a time o»* test- ing? Not the \wet-test\ or the shedding of blood in martyr- dom, but the \dry-test\ of not succumbing to worldUmess.- Some disciples find the say- ings \hard\ and walk no> more with Christ. There are others who, like Demas \go back to the world.\ But this is good! God is testing us! We used to live in a Chris- tian atmosphere where the world at least shared our morals if it did not share our dogmas; today, the air is pol- luted, for the atmosphere of the world shares neither our dogmas nor our morals. We are being asked to stand up and be counted! More and more the Church appears before us as a \sign to be contradicted.\ It forces us in moments of testing either to run to the press to be publicized, or to run to the Cross to b-e cruci- fied. Our trials are not unlilse what happened to Father Tcfaang in China and Father Teiltaard de Chardin in France. Father Tchang was told he would be spared death, if he would deny the Pope. He answered: \Today ask mt> tn ipny the Pope ever before in my life ... The tation in our species is taking Church is the Christie pole of the earth and its axis is in Rome.\ These are wonderful days in which to be alive! The Church is being tested; so is the Seminary. God is sweep- ing house. We have labor pains, but joy is ahead. He will reduce our armies, as He did the Army of Gideon, for we were too many, and we trusted more in ourselves than in Him. A mu- place. Like the Jews, we eat bitter herbs at our Passover, but the deliverance is near, as we live in thanksgiving and on hope. . Stendal's hero, Julian Sorel, says at the end of his novel, \The Red and the Black\:—\Oh if I could find a priest, a real priest!\ Look around: There they are! True and loyal graduates of St. Bernard! 3 Seminars On Housing Three \neighborhood sem- inars\- orr~ race-^relattons and housing integration are slated on successive Tuesdays at 8 p.m. in Sacred Heart Cathedral hall, beginning Oct. 22. Sponsoring the meetings is the Northwest Housing Task Force, an ecumenical group dedicated to \open housing for all, while maintaining existing standards of the neighborhood.\ 13 f Un jfc Shirley Seidberc Planning a WEDDING or PARTY? FOR HORS D'OEURVRES BEAUTIFULLY AND FRESHLY MADE CALL THE SEIDBERGS 467-2989 - 544-6657 Last week the group placed adwf-ttseriients-lra reoeeeklies\ containing the names and ad- dresses of 250 persons who en- dorsed the following statement: \The Northwest Housing Task Force seeks . a balanced inte- grated community and to this end will welcome to the north- west section of Rochester men and women regardless of race, creed or color.\ you Planning regards self as outside the pale of testing; hope, on the contrary, admits that the self, like gold, is tried by fire. This is where Scripture always places hope. As Paul says: \We stand in happy certainty of the glori- ous things God has for us in the future.\ This does not mean we have only a hope of future joys — we can be full of joy here and now even in our trials and troubles. \Let us exult in our present suffer- ings, because we know that suffering trains us to endure, If I do, tomorrow you will ask me to deny Christ. The two go together. I shall go to death for the sake of Christ and His Church.\ Father Teilhard, on ttate other hand, was criticized by his su- periors, ignored by his breth- ren, and exiled for his ideas which at timejsjortured bis soul. Though he suffered little from the \perils of the sea,\ he did feel that worse agony o>f \false brethren\ in the Church. But what was bis nnsrwer? \I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Gospel than Sixth Annual Card Party SPONSORED BY THE SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH Auxiliary ASSOCIATION DATE: OCTOBER 23, 1968 TIME: 8:00 P.M. 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