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JANUARY 1950
THE JEFFERSON! AN
PAGE THREE
Christ's Man— '
Cont. from page 2.
\vishy-,wa.s5iy advocates of in-
difference in these words: "Be
ye either hot or cold, for I will
vomit the lukewarm out of My
mouth."
AN UNUSUAL LIFE
This Babe Whom w<> honor to-
night when He grew up astound-
ed the learned doctors in the
Temple by His knowledge. This
Bube when He grew to manhood
turned water into wine, fed 5,000
people on 5 barley loaves and 2
fishes, walked over the turbul-
ent waters of a raging sea, re-
stored the dead to life, cured the
sick. This Babe when He grew
to manhood sealed His life with
3 long hours of intense agony on
a cross because He loved all men.
TJiis is the Divine Redeemer
Who gave glory to His suffering
by working the greatest miracle
that history has ever recorded.
On the third day after His death
He rose Himself from the dead.
THIS BABE IS GOD
My dear people, the little In-
fiint Whom we honor tonight is
God. Because of that fact He
could issue a warning to the
world that those who believe not
will be condemned.
Yes, the Babe of Betheleheni
has come to teach us what we
must believe. 'And the organiza-
tion that He left in the world
was a teaching organization. "Go-
ing, therefore, teach ye all nations
whatsoever I have commanded
you," He said to His Apostles,
"baptizing them in the name of
the Fattier and of the Son and of
the Holy Ghost, and behold I
AM WITH YOU Al.L DAYS
EVEN UNTO THE CONSUMMA-
TION or THE WORLD."
A TEACHING CHURCH
That Church which this Babe
of Bethlehem established, my
dear friends, was to speak with
Ills own authority. Just as He
spoke as one having authority, so
also would its voice be authori-
tarian. Concerning it. a very
good friend of Our Lord, is an
evangelist, quotes Him as follows:
"He who hears you hears Me,"
and "If he will not hear the
Church, let him be anathema."
To, the Church this Babe
Whom we honor tonight 'be-
queathed the task of being the
custodian of all the truths which
He had come on earth to teach.
And from her Divine Founder
the Church received His divine
word of honor that nothing
would deter her from teaching
Infallibly His truths until the
end of time, for He had promised
that not even Hell's gates could
prevail aeainst her and before
lie died He promised to send
the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of
Truth, to guide her from teach-
ing error. To make her visible
to men in all ages and all lands
pur little Infant Savior gave to
His Church orderly government
through a hiearchy of leaders
under the headship of blessed
Peter and his successors in
office.
Pope's Stand on Divorce Given
"I am the bread of life. He who
comes to me sh^ll not hunger,
and He who believes in me shall
never thirst."
At these /words the Jews mur-
mured because Jesus had said,
"1 am the bread that has come
down from heaven." They ask-
ed each other, "3s this not Jesus,
the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know? How, then,
does he say, "I have come down
from heaven.'?"
PROMISES HIS FLESH
The Divine Savior Whom we
honor tonight did not retract
what He had said 'but repeated
it; "1 am the bread of life. Your
lathers- ate the manna in the
desert, and have died. I am the
living bread that has come down
from heaven. If anyone eats of
this bread, he shall live forever;
and the bread that II will give is
my flesh for the life of the
world."
Then the audience really be-
gan to argue among themselves,
Having, "How can tills man give
fits ills flesh to eat?"
WOULD NOT DECEIVE
My dear people. Our Lord had
enough common sense (o see that
His hearers had understood Him
quite literally, and He was sood
enough never to deceive any man.
\\ hat then did He say to this
crowd whose anger He had stir-
red to high pitch because'he had
said He would give His flesh to
eat?
He again failed to retract the
literal meaning which His hear-
ers had obviously attached to
Ills words. Not only that but
He m:ide Himself unmistakably
clear.
"UNLESS YOU EAT"—
These are His very words:
"Amen. amen. I say to you. Un-
less You Eat The Flesh Of The
Son of Man, and Drink His
Blood. You Shall Not Have Life
In You, He who eats my flesh
and drinks my blood Has Life
Everlasting and I will raise him
ui> on the last day. FOR MY
FLESH IS FOOD INDEED, AND
\IY BLOOD IS DlRIINK INDEED.
HE WHO EATS MY FLESH,
AND DRINKS MY BLOOD,
ABIDES IN .ME AND I IN HIM.
This is the bread that has come
dcwn from heaven: not as your
fathers ate the manna, and died.
He who eats this hread shall live
forever."
This statement of Our Lord's
was .11'ST TOO MUCH for some
of Ills disciples whose faith in
Him was weak.
"This is a hard saying. Who
can listen to it?." they said and
walked awav.
APOSTLES PUT TO TEST
Did Our Lord. intelligent,
honest and good as He was, call
them back? No, He let them go.
And to His Apostles, His very
closest friends on earth, He turn-
Silver Jubilee Blessing
Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Perot are pictured a-uove receiving a
special blessing qf the Church- on the occasion of their twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary. The jubilee Mass of Thanksgiving was of-
fered here in Immaculate Conception Church. Tile altar boy shown
in the picture, Joe Perot, is one of the couple's 9 children, JEFFER-
SONIAN STAFF PHOTO BY BILLY WATSON.
; ed and said, "Do you wish also
! [q no away?"
NONE MORE PRECIOUS j Here Our Lord bluntly told
Of all the treasures which the j His Apostles to go if they
Babe of Bethlehem left to His wouldn't take him at His very
Church none is more precious
than that which is signified by
the very word Christmas, a word
which today is on the lips of
180.000.Mft) . Americans, Of all
the treasures given to His, Church
to teach there is none that we de-
sire more ardently to share with
our brethren not of the house-
hold of the tilth than this one.
We refer to ("rl-tt's Mass or the
Real Presence of Our Divine
Lord -at the celebration of Mass.
When the Divine Babe of Beth-
lehem had grown to manhood one
day He preached to 5.000 hungry
people.' and' fed them on only 5
barlay loaves and 2 fishes. The
■very next day He spoke these
•otaraor treYfti to tbe multitude;
word. In the name of the Apost-
les Peter unswered:
"Lord, to whom shall we go?
Thou hast the words of everlast-
ing life, and we have come to
believe and to know that thou
art. the Christ the Son of God."
THE- PROMISE FULLFILLED
On -the night before He died
Our Lord gathered together these
same loyal Apostles and In their
presence -took bread and blessed
It and said over It these words:
"This IS my Body." And He also
took a cup of wine, blessed It
and . said over it these words:
"This IS tbe chalice of My
Blood." Then He told HI# Apost-
les to "take ye and eat of thin,
forjhl# l« Wy Body," and "taV#
ye and drink ye all of this, for
this is the chalice of My Blood
pf the New Testament which
shall he shed for many unto the
remission of sins."
Then Our Savior, in a serious
mood because on the morrow He
knew that He was to die, told
His Apostles to do as He had
done. "Do ye this in commemora-
tion of Me."
My dear people, such was the
origin of Christ's Mass. Such is
the sublime teaching which will
be on the lips of millions today
when they say. "Merity Christ-
inas." but alas how little faith
there will be in all too many
hearts.
The Apostles had faith in this
little Babe Whom we honor to-
night. and they took bread and
a chalice of wine and did as Our
Lord had did.
ST. PAUL SAID 'MASS
St. Paul, writing to the Corin-
thians, declare' that He offered
■the repetition of the Last Supper.
"The cup of blessing that we
bless," said Paul. "Is it not the
SHARING OF THE BLOOD OF
CHRIST? And the bread that
we break, IS IT NOT THE PAR-
TAKING OF THE BODY OF
THE LORD?"
And on another occasion St.
Paul, rebuking those who re-
ceived Communion unworthily,1
declared that "WHOEVER EATS
THIS BREAD .OR DRINKS THE
CUP OF THE LORD UN-
WORTHILY, WILL BE GUILTY
OF THE BODY AND THE
BLOOD OF THE LORD."
A VIEW 1789 YEARS OLD
And an outstanding successor
of St. Paul In the visible ministry
of the visible Church. Justin the
martyr, in the year 100 or about
1789 years ago-wrote as follows:
"WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT
THAT THE FOOD over which
thanksgiving has been made by
the prayer of the word which
came from Him i« BOTH FLESH
AND BLOOD OF THAT SAME
INCARiNATE JESUS."
The great martyr and early
Christian leader, ray dear breth-
ren. wan only one of many who
fallowed the literal meaning ot
Our Lord.
THE MASS WAS VENERATED
The Mass which they celebrat-
ed was so venerated down
through the Christian ages that
bur forefathers when they obser-
ved this feast of the Savior's
'birthday spontaneously wished
each other a "Merry Christ's
Mass." ( i t | sj
My dear people, tonight be-
cause of the office which we have
received from a successor of the
Apostles, we arp privileged to
offer up that sublime rite Institut-
ed by Jesus, talked about by
Paul, and passed down in the vis-
ible Church of the Christian
Ages. Just as Our Lord did of
old and after Him the great
Apostle and the great St. Paul
mid the great, martyr St. Justin,
so also tonight we. though un-
worthy, will take bread and wine
and offer the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass
ACROSS 5.000 MILES
V
Tonight across 5.00') miles of
land and sea another priest of
God is offering this same un-
changing Mass in historic Christ-
ianity's most magnificent temple,
the Basilica which stands on the
sacred ground wlfere according
to the blood-given testimony of
the Roman martyrs of the first
3 centuries, the great Apostle
Peter lies burled.
Tonight thajt pi'lest as (the
supreme pastor of t,h" Historic
Church, the 261st successor to
St. Peter, is celebrating Mass in
the magificent church which no
doubt is packed to its capacity
of 100,000 people.
•
Before he began the celebrat-
ion of Holy Mass the venerable
and universally beloved Pope
Pius XII knocked 3 times with a
silver hammer against a door in
St. Peter's, and the third time
the bricks gave away, and the
dobr opened. With that cere-
mony our supreme shepherd
opened the lloly Year of Jubilee
of 1950.
POPE ASK8 RETURN
Only 2 days ago. speaking to
the world over the Vatican radio.
POINT MADE BY POPE
MISSED BY AVERAGE
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
Rome-The recent statement of
Pope Pius Xll to Catholic jurists
here, widely misinterpreted in the
United States, is nothing new to
Catholic judges, who have always
known that they could not In con-
science give permission to civil-
ly divorced people to violate the
'law of God by explicit}- directing
them to marry again. They can,
however, for a good reason grant
a divorce as simple civil separa-
tion of man and wife. This dis-
tinction is in no way altered by
tbe recent pronouncement ot
Pope Plus,
The Pontiff, in his office as
supreme teacher In a teaching
Church, in speaking to a conven-
tion of jurists had taken occasion
to restate certain principles or
norms to guide the Catholic Jur-
ist. Informed observers believed
it was especially directed to
Catholic judges serving In coun-
tries which have rejected laws
of Christian morality', namely
Red countries.
The major portion of' the ad-
dress went unreported by the
world's press. In the U. S. the
question of a Catholic Judge grant-
ing a divorce provoked some
hasty and unmeditated comments.
As was to be expected, a
spokesman tor Protestants and
Other Americans United for the
Separation of Church and State
saw In the Papal address a con-
flict for Catholics between Rome
and the U. S. and called for the
immediate resignation of all
Catholic judges.
In other parts of the country
less vitrolic but yet confused
comment appeared.
A CONFUSED EDITORIAL
In Dallas. Texas THE^DALLAS
MORNING NEWS, while noting
editorially that the Catholic
Church had always "set Us face
sternly against the human In-
stitution of divorce," concluded
that "the Pope certainly did not
case the pathway of judges who
are also communicants of his
church" and that unless the Cath-
lic judge Interprets the
Papal words loosely he "might
have difficulty in remaining both
on his bench and In Ills Church."
THE NEWS agreed with the
I'ope that the Church can not
recognize a civil law that is con-
trary to the law of God, recalling
that Protestant, Catholic and Jew
hail died for that belief in his-
tory.
"But," observes the paper,
"churches are not one In agree-
ment on what Is the law of God."
Strengthened in agnosticism by
the failure of some churches to
understand what is the natural
and divine law In morality, the
writer of the editorial then pro-
ceeds to contuse his readers on
the subject of the Papal remarks,
in particular, and on the subject .
of divorce, in general.
"THE DICTUM OF THE POPE"
"The dictum of the Pope," the
writer notes, "has no force of
law outside the Papal state." It
only binds In the "conscience" of
the individual Judge, who If his
conscience is too acrupulous
about what the Pope says, might
have to give up hlg bench Job.
"Obviously," continues the
writer In a superficial vein, "no
Judne can or will defy the statutes
of his government because he
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O'Rourke, John G. The Jeffersonian (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 5, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1950, newspaper, January 1, 1950; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth293176/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.