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DECEMBER 18, 1964
THE RATTLER
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Each Christmas We Make Special Encounter With Christ
By Herbert I. Bosch, S.M.
The joy .of giving and re-
ceiving gifts, a two week of
freedom from the routine of
school, the cozy warmth of a
bountious meal with the fam-
ily and relatives, a shopping
spree par excellence, and even
the rather unrealistic attempt
to regress to some childhood
stage of innocence are all as-
pects of our Christmas sea-
son today.
However, each year during
the Christmas season we make
•a special personal encounter
with Christ which is different
from every other year. Cer-
tainly Christ is present in the
holy Eucharist which is ever
new and more meaningful for
us due to our subjective growth
to this presence. There is
much written upon this aspect
of our encounter with Christ
at Christmas. Today the Exis-
tentialists are making us ever
more conscious of our en-
counter with God. Kierke-
gaard, the grandfather of the
Existentialists, has said that
God is not found by leaving
the world behind in a flight
to the beyond, but by discern-
ing His presence in the tem-
poral process itself. Kierke-
gaard’s answers to the prob-
lem of man’s relations with
God were formulated in terms
of faith in the Incarnation.
In the person of Christ, God
Himself “enters into the zone
of the existential.’* The im-
mutable becomes a changing
being, the eternal puts on
temporal process, and the su-
prahistorical enters into his-
tory. Kierkegaard has called
Christ “the historical, the
existensial’’ individual.
Another philosopher, Nietz-
ke calls revealed religion an
enemy of life and a traitor
to mankind because he con-
sidered Christianity as the
bulwark of debilitating con-
servatism.
Martin Buber, a Jewish
Existentialist, reflects some-
what the • attitude of Kierke-
gaard. In the Eclipse of God
he says,
Individual religiousness
... attains a hitherto un-
heard of intensity and in-
wardness, especially since
the ever-present image of
Christ permits the individual
and far more concrete rela-
tion of following after and
imitation than does the
image less nature of the God
of Israel ..."
A person whose ideas are
currently very much a part of
modern thought, and therefore
who should have an influence
upon how Christ comes to us
today is Teilhard de Chardin.
He, too, has insisted that our
nature requires a God who is
intimately involved in the Cos-
mos.
In speaking of the Mystical
Body, Teilhard de Chardin
says in La Vie Cosmique,
“In truth the Mystical Body
of Christ must be conceived
in the manner of a physical
reality, without any attenua-
tion.’’ His language becomes
even stronger, bringing out
the intimacy and vitalness of
this oneness, when he says, “It
(the Mystical Body) forms a
new and natural world, an ani-
mated and moving Organism
in which we are all united
physically and biologically.”
At Christmas we come face
to face with this mystery of
our own incorporation into
Christ, made possible by His
Incarnation. Thus we should
approach Christ with a deep
sense of the presence of all
fellow Christians who make
up the “Cosmic Bodu.”
Certainly we, as fellow stu-
dents, should feel very close
to each other at this time no
matter where we may be. For
we, as a group, are taking an
active part in the Christogen-
esis of Teilhard. This is the
fourth stage of the evolution-
ary universe: cosmogenesis,
BRAD HERBERT displays his “Gene Kelly"
style in the Christmas musical “Green
Christmas” with Kathy O'Connor (L) and
Campus Personality
Terri Rodriguez (R) assisting. The scene is
from the Christmas presentation of the Shoe-
string Players.
Beat of Music Grips Brad,
He’s Expressive in Dance
Foremost on the St. Mary’s
chmpus in choreography is
freshman Brad Herbert, who
at eighteen is a professional
dancer. Brad’s latest accom-
plishment was that of choreo-
grapher in the Shoestring
Players’ recent Christmas
production, “Noel.”
To date, Brad lists his danc-
ing credits as: A Jet in “West
Side Story,” partner to Debbie
Reynolds in “The Unsinkable
Molly Brown,” partner to
Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair
Lady,’’ and a chorus part
in “What A Way to Go.”
Greatly encouraged by his
parents, Brad has been danc-
ing for fifteen years, and owes
his good luck so far to constant
practice, good teachers, and a
natural talent of rhythm and
timing.
Regarding the “soul” that
artists possess, Brad says
that the beat of the music
grips him and he dances, ex-
pressing himself through the
steps and motions of the rou-
tine.
During the Christmas holi-
days, Brad plans to return to
California to look over a job
offer to dance with the San
Francisco Modern Ballet.
Brad lists his hobbies as
gyro-copter flying, skin div-
ing, skiing and surfing.
Martin Luther King
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pulpit, faces them and begins
speaking:
“There comes a time when
people get tired.”
“Yes, Lord.”
“We are here this evening
to say to those who mistreated
us for so long that we are
tired.”
“Help him, Jesus.”
“We are tired of being
segregated and humiliated.”
“Amen.”
“Tired...did you hear me
when I said tired?”
“Yes, Lord.”
“Tired of being kicked about
by the brutal feet of oppres-
sion. Now we have no alter-
native but to protest. For
DADE RAYFIELD
PHOTOGRAPHER
MY 5-3331
many years we have shown
amazing patience. We have
sometimes given our white
brothers the feeling that we
liked the way we are being
treated. But we come here
tonight to be saved from the
patience that makes us patient
with anything less than free-
dom and justice.”
His voice is haunting, com-
pelling. His audience is
ready—ready to march, yell,
go to jail, sit-in, lie-in, and
suffer. He is the Savior to
them. He’s been likened to
Billy Graham, Jesus Christ,
Gandhi, and Thoreau. (This
must prove embarrassing.)
There is a certain magic when
he speaks and the Negro some-
how is able to understand his
own tiredness through this
man. James Baldwin put it
well when he said, “His secret
TYPING done
in my HOME
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Editors Named
The RATTLER takes
pleasure in announcing the
promotion of George Ashley
to Managing Editor and
Steve Henry to News Edi-
tor.
Ashley, former copy
editor, and psychology
major, will replace Marilyn
Kuehler. Henry is a busi-
ness major.
F. A. (FRANK) MERY
ESTATE PLANN ING
“Man with the Plan”
PE 5-8935
833 Bandera Rd.
UNIVERSITY DRUGS
(DOWN THE MILE)
• SCHOOL SUPPLIES
• FOUNTAIN SERVICE
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Defends Students9
Right to Assemble
lies in his intimate knowledge
of the people he is addres-
sing, be they black or white,
and in the forthrightness with
which he speaks of those things
which hurt and baffle them.”
Perhaps then we can call him
a sort of symbolic leader, who
can inspire hope when hope
seems absurd, and who can
convince the poverty-stricken
and confused Negro that the
way out is to turn the other
cheek. And he believes this.
He is completely convinced
that non-violence is the only
and best door to “freedom
now.” This is certainly revo-
lutionary. Violence has always
been the key. factor in revolu-
tions, and yet he insists. “That
a militant, non-violent ap-
proach in which the individual
stands up against an unjust
system, using sit-ins, legal
action, boycotts, votes and
everything else—except vio-
lence and hate.”
The Norwegian Nobel Prize
committee agreed that this
philosophy was noteworthy and
commendable and awarded
him the $53,123 prize money,
which by the way, he donated
to the Civil Rights Movement.
Consequently, a discussion of
the correctness of this move
is irrelevant. The prize and
the prestige are his. However,
we can plead moderation in
heaping glory on this man.
He has performed a significant
service to the Negro and the
white man, but he will surely
be destroyed if we continue to
consider him divine.
By Tom Nagy
(Ed. Note: Mr. Nagy’s col-
umn will return to the Page 2
section in the next issue.)
The massive student pro-
tests at the University of Cali-
fornia at Berkeley have cap-
tured the headlines. As this
issue of the RATTLER goes
to press, the legal and acad-
emic fate of some 800 demon-
strators is still unclear.
The most pressing ques-
tion troubling parents, legis-
lators and the public as well
as university personnel is
what sparked the outburst and
more important yet: will the
unrest spread.
Jack Ruby’s flamboyant ex-
attorney, Melvin Belli has
suggested that “Maybe it’s a
revolt against the elders for
creating the bomb or maybe
it’s the university’s fault in
not allowing utmost freedom
of speech in discussing politi-
cal candidates.”
The Goliath of the Con-
servative camp, William F.
Buckley Jr. professes won-
derment at the turmoil: “It
is not easy to discover what
it is that actually galvanized
all those students and non-
students, and faculty at the
University of California in
Berkeley to their anarchic
assault on the order of the
university.”
Some of the students who
participated in the fracas can-
didly admitted that they were
uncertain of their motives.
Reporters were given vague
to the basic question: “Why
did you risk your career by
demonstrating and getting ar-
rested?”
Closer to home (exactly 85
miles from the StMU campus)
at the University of Texas in
Austin, there is evidence that
the spirit of disorder (greatly
diluted) has seeped into the
Southwest.
The Dec. 11 issue of the
DAILY TEXAN reported:
“Evidently infected with Ber-
kleyitis, bearded protesters
staged an inform sit-in in the
Chuck Wagon Thursday night,
which ended with a lone pro-
tester sipping coffee until
11:07____”
“A crowd of about 30 sym-
pathizers pressed their noses
against the Chuck Wagon door
like children eyeing candy in a
shop window...”
Members of the lack-luster
crew expressed dissatisfac-
tion at such varied topics as
beer, beards, the proposed
tuition hike, premarital sex
and so on.
If anything is to be learned
from the student protests
which ebb and flow, it is this:
The channels of communica-
tion between all members of
the communities of scholars
MUST, AT ALL TIME, RE-
MAIN OPEN. All involved per-
sons, administrators, faculty,
employees, and students must
be able to talk, haggle, disa-
gree, quarrel, agree, compro-
mise, understand.
When the diplomats no long-
er talk, the war begins. The
political axiom also applies to
educational facilities.
LAERTES SIPS A CUP ON STMU-Gene Saraceni, member of
the National Catholic players troupe relaxes backstage with
Bro. William Nance and Margaret Wead after the performance
of "Hamlet" presented at Incarnate Word College, Dec. 12.
Racists
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Tolerance
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tra-Church intellectual world.
Since many modern schools
of thought in philosophy (as
well as in the Arts and
Sciences) have developed
without the Church’s assist-
ance, the dutiful Catholic is
often left—forlornly clutching
his Aristotle, his “Summa
Theologica” and his good in-
tentions—outside the pale of
modern, civilized scholarly
thought.
Is not the challenge of the
new ideas enough to coax the
tmid souls into the stream
of present-day philosophy? Is
our future entirely reliable
upon the conventional founda-
tions of the past? It is shame-
ful that in this time of “opened
windows” the door should be
closed to mental growth simp-
ly because the proponents of
a doctrine are not to the
generally approved taste.
Any disregard or indiffer-
ence to truth, because it is
founded in an unfamiliar place,
is a discredit to the “faith”
that the cocoon-wrapped stu-
dents are trying to protect.
place of a three-man com-
mission. Thi^ was done so
that a jury of peers of white
Mississippians for injustices
done to negroes in Mississippi.
Once again we are headed
for a rerun of “the federal
government versus the sover-
eign state of Mississippi.”
Appeal after appeal will be
heard and a case will inevi-
tably reach the Supreme
Court. The Supreme Court
ritual will rule that a per-
son’s civil rights have been
violated and then everyone will
sigh and say, “we have over-
come.” This will upset the
good people of Mississippi
no end. However they will con-
tinue doing exactly what they
did before, despite the court’s
ruling.
We have reached an impas-
se. How long is the federal
government going to sit by
and let these racists get away
with their illegal and immoral
abridgement of a person’s
civil rights. Are demonstra-
tions needed again to remind
the President that there will
be no more waiting, no more
listening to the excuse of “you
don’t understand the South,”
no more passive resistance
while white murderers go
free. Action is needed NOW!!
Rediscover Freshness of Christmas
'Bob’ to rBah
the birth of the universe; bio-
genesis, the birth of life; an-
thropogenesis, the birth of in-
dividual human beings; and
Christogenesis, the birth of
ultrasynthesized mankind, the
Mystical Body of Christ, the
birth of the Whole Christ. How
beautifully all of this is con-
tained germinally in the Birth
that we celebrate this Chris-
mas!
Thus, it is upon such move-
ments and thoughts current
within the world today that
Christ comes to that world
and each one of us this Christ-
mas. It is in the reality of the
here and now that we en-
counter Christ as He is. Let
us, this Christmas, look into
these movements and thoughts,
as well as the persons around
us, and cry John the Baptist,
the first herald of Christ in
the world, “Yes, Lord, I be-
lieve that thou art the Christ,
the Son of God, who hast
come into the world!”
One wonders if President
Johnson, that “Great Soci-
ety” pathfinder, will sit this
one out if he will take a posi-
tive stand by letting the lead-
ers of these states—Govs.
Johnson of Mississippi and
Wallace of Alabama (the lat-
ter, America’s last true pat-
riot)—know of his firm in- -
tention of pushing for com-
plete compliance with the Civil
Rights Bill. It would be
satisfying if our President
would take the example set by
the late John Kennedy in striv-
ing for equality and freedom
for all Americans. Assign-
ing vice president elect Hum-
phrey to handle such matters
is not enough. He, President
Johnson, must take action. The
only thing that Senator Hum-
phrey’s assignment will do is
possibly wreck the Senator’s
chances for the presidency.
But then maybe that was the
President’s intention in the
first place.
IR Class to Stage
Model UN Jan. 8
The International Relations
class will stage a model UN
on Jan. 8 in Reinbolt Audi-
torium.
Four man delegations
representing 20 countries will
debate the admission of Red
China to the UN and ^peace-
keeping debt arrears of the
USSR.
Mike Flinn is serving as
chairman of the UN project,
and Robert Hock is parlia-
mentarian.
SYMMETRY
FROM $125
Austin,
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Port Arthur,
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San Antonio,
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Jewelers.
By Father George Montague,
St.MU Chaplain
Bah! Humbug!
The words of Scrooge,
(which someone in Marian Hall
etched in black on his door
for open house last Sunday)
have somehow become the
classic English expression for
the non-conformist at Christ-
mas time, for the one who
refuses to “get with it,” to
make merry.
However much they sound
like a curious combination of
the bleating of a lost sheep
Christmas Play
Highly Praised
The Shoestring Players
Christmas production was ad-
mirably executed. Costumes
and scenery were minimal but
effective. The lighting was
used ingeniously to create
mood and a sense of time.
The choreography in the
two short farces was far more
professional than is usual for
a college program.
Thornton Wilder’s “The
Long Christmas Dinner,”
demonstrated the depth and
perception of the players as
well as their facilify for co-
ordinated motion.
Pat Miller’s beautiful res-
onant voice contributed much
to the success of the play.
Director Ron White is to be
congratulated.
and the drone of a bumble-
bee, the old man’s expletives
represent a judgment on
Christmas merriment that
raises the whole question of
the why of the tinsel and the
tinkle, the homecoming and
the holly, the cards and the
carols.
Scrooge’s motives for con-
demning Christmas merri-
ment may have been wrong;
but I wonder if the modern
world’s motives for condemn-
ing him are any more right-
eous. For the modern world,
Christmas is a pragmatic nec-
essity. What would happen to
the economy of the country
without Christmas? And, after
all, everybody needs to cele-
brate once in a while. Christ-
mas is as good an occasion
as any. So Christmas is a
fine .-thing to have; in our
modern society it is a nec-
essity.
Precisely for that reason,
that Christmas has become
a necessity, an automatic
thing, a fixed date on the
calendar, around which we
gear our timetables, it has
lost much of the freshness,
the explosive unexpectedness
of the divine intrusion into
the human, the totally un-
dreamed-of gift, and the scan-
dalous fact that God could be
found in an ox’s trough. There
is something perennially in-
comprehensible about that;
something that is not com-
manded by the sociological
necessities of man, nor by the
syllogism of human life and
economic prosperity.
By the same token, the joy
of Christmas is not dependent
upon externals, even though it
expresses itself in them. When
any society clings to externals
or customs without appreciat-
ing the insight or the inspira-
tion of which they were orig-
inally intended to be the ex-
pression, that society is in a
state of decay. And that type
of decay might excite a jus-
tified, “Bah, humbug!” The
solution is not normally to
discard the externals but to
rediscover the freshness of
the insight which gave them
birth. So it is with Christmas.
There are some lost things
that we can find only by getting
on our knees.
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