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AMUIT,
THE JEFFERSONIAN
REV. JOHN a O'ROURKE. EDITOR
"THE HISTORIC CHURCH FOR AN HISTORIC TOWN"
stored in the post office at Jefferaon, Texas aa second clans iA
matter January 24, 1949, under the act of March 3, 1879. The
citptlon rate to THIS JEFFBR90NIAN, which Is publlatMA
monthly. Is two dollars per year. Address all communications to THE
JEFFERSONIAN, Box 705, JefferBon, Texas. Editor's phone. Jef-
ferson 632.
The official organ of the mission churches of the Immaculate Con-
ception of the Blessed Virgin at Jefferson and of Our Lady at Fatlma
at Dalngerfield, THE JEFFERSONIAN is published with the ap-
probation of the Most Rev. Joseph P. Lynch, D. D,
Bishop of Dallas. Humbly it intends to carry out the mandate oi
Our Divine Lord: "Going, therefore, make disciples of all natlonB.
baptizing them in the name of the Fattier, and of the Son and oi
the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all that 1 have commanded
you." Its only purpose is to servo the HISTORIC CHURCH of the
Christian ages to whom the DIVINE FOUNDER spoke these words
of sacred promise: "Behold''I am with YOU all days even UDto the
Consummation of the world."
Reverently dedicating all Its efforts to Mary, the Mother of Oui
Lord, THE JEFFERSONIAN asks her to use her motherly power to
lielp us achieve our objective, namely, bringing a knowledge of Christ
and the one, true Church He founded into the plney woods of Marlon,
Cass and Morris counties of the great Lone Star Stato of Texas.
Thought Control—
(Continued from first page)
and the unfaithful disciples, very
fallible but very proud human
beings, said to Jesus, the Son of
God, that what He had said was
a "hard saying" and that they
were just not going to listen to
It. They didn't, for as the Bible
nays, they took a walk.
Christ, Who doesn't force us
proud creatures to accept what's
good for us, let these people
walk out on Him. We know that
He even told the Apostles that
they could walk too If they ob-
jected as did the others to His
promise that He would give a
real flesh for the life of the
world. "Do you also wish to go
away?." Our Lord said to His
twelve closest friends.
fitt, Peter, weak, Impetuous,
■poke for the Apostles and said
that they had no place else to
go. for they believed Christ was
God.
•IE8US KEPT HI8 PROMISE
All the people of the world
wrho do not find it hard to ac-
cept Jesus as their personal God
t>y believing all that He taught,
of course, know 'by heart the
etory of how Jesus promised and
kept Ills promise to give this
tremendous gift. We who have
been Willing to listen to the
teaching voice of our Mother,
the Church, know so well all the
detallB of how Our Blessed Lord
carried out His promise to give
a bread which would be ill* real
flesh for the life of the world.
We know Hhat Jesus has made It
possible for us to eat His flesh
and drink His blood by giving a
bread which vfould be His real
flesh 'because we know that. Un-
like modern promise-breakers of
the type of the late Adolph Hit-
ler, Our Divine Lord kept every
promise He made. He kept His
promise recorded in St. John's
6th Chapter to give a bread which
would be His real flesh.
PERSONAL ACCEPTANCE VITAL
All children in the world who
are willing to listen to the voice
of the Catholic Church, a voice
ever raised to remind the world
that they must accept Jesus as
their Savior by accepting HI s
teaching, have no difficulty in be-
lieving that Our Lord is present
In the consecrated bread of the
Holy Mass. Because their Moth-
er tells them to accept Christ
completely as a personal Savior,
they automatically accept His
THE JEFFERSONIAN
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With many bishops officiating 819 deacons from many coun-
tries were ordained to the Holy Priesthood in Barcelona, Spain's
huge stadium during the recent International Eucharistic Congress.
The 819 new padres in the joy of their ordination day heard in
spirit the words of St. Paul: "Neglect not the grace that is in thee,
Presence in the Host because He
taught It so clearly. Because of
this great faith they can apply i whl('h was S'ven th«e by prophecy, WITH* IMPOSITION OF THE
to the Muss the words of St. WANDS OF THE PRIESTHOOD" (I Tim. 4, 14). Photo courtesy of
Paul: "The chalice of blessing] THE LOS ANGELES TIDINGS.
which we bless, is it not the|
Communion of the Blood of! lasting and I will raise him up tie ones to go frequently to the
Christ? And the Bread which we on the last day."
break, is it not the partaking of
the Body of the Lord?" (I Cor.,
chapter 10, verse 16).
Amongst those who completely
accept Jesus as a personal God
the question is not, "Did Christ
give His real flesh to us ," for
He did so clearly, but, "Why did
Jesus do such a wonderful
thing?"
Why did Jesus allow men of
HOW ABOUT DAILY MASS
Christ is present on our al-
tars, comes down in our midst in
the Holy Mass to be with us till
the end of time. Do we appreci-
ate this tremendous gift? Have
we the opportunity to receive
Him daily In Holy Communion
and neglect it? Can we go to
daily Mass or can we make an ef-
fort to go once a week to Mass
flesh and blood, men who denied other than on Sunday and never
Him when He was dying, to have do it?
the power to take bread and wine
into their hands and consecrate
It Into the Body and Blood of
Jesus? iWhy did Jesus arrange
for this power to live in other
men long after the Apostles had
slept the sleep of death? Why
did He give it even though so
many would at times show forth
How sad it Is that so many do
not love Our Lord In the Euchar-
ist as they should. How tad it is
that many of us will only receive
Him in Holy Communion wbeu
we can do so with the very mini-
mum of sacrifice to ourselves, 1.
e., provided that we can receive
without having to offer up the
In their lives the weaknesses of I suffering and self-denial of a
the Apostles?
JESUS LOVES U8
The answer Is that Jesus
loves us. He loves us so much
that He was willing, is Willing
and will be willing till the end
of time to recruit weak, utterly
fallible men in order that these
mere creatures might be the
means whereby salvation will
come to other men. How great
the goodness of God to invest in
the weak Apostles the power to
say Mass, the power to forgive
sins I The only explanation of
such goodness is that Jesus
loves us with an inexhaustible
love.
In order that Jesus might be
with His children until the end
of time in every age and in ev
ery country He has clothed sue
essors of the Apostles with the
office and the powers Which He
in the Holy Scriptures gave to
them. He has called these men
to the Apostolic Priesthood so
that at all times and in all
places the powers of the Apostles
might dally be renewed so that
all men who are blessed with a
knowledge of the Scriptures and
the truths of Christ will be able
to conform to the Divine man-
date,, "Unless 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 ever-
CHURCH STANDS FOR LIBERTY OF CON3CIENCE
FAMOUS FRENCH BISHOP FENELON AND POPE S
MAN TO CONVERT ENG. PREACHED LIBERTY
The "Catholic Church's historic
stand in favor of full freedom of
religion for those not desiring
to worship in the Catholic Faith,
expressed over and over again by
countless Popes, was also notably
accentuate^ by an outstanding
Archbishop of France and the
Pope's man to convert England.
The brilliant and well-known
Archbishop Fenelon of Cam-
bray, France, Wrote a letter to
the son of King James II, who
has 'been England's only Catho-
lic King (1685-1688) since Henry
VIII quit the Catholic Church in
1534 Expressing Catholic Church
policy In favor of religious lib-
erty, Archbishop Fenelon wrote
the man who under ordinary cir-
cumstances would have been
King of England as follows: "A-
bove a 11 never force your sub-
jects to change their religion. No
human power can reach the im-
penetrable recess of the free will
of the heart. Violence can never
persuade men; it serves only to
make hypocrites. Grant civil lib-
erty to all, not In approving ev-
erything as indifferent, but in
tolerating with patience whatever
Almighty God tolerates, and en-
deavoring to convert men by mild
persuasion."
S) wrote Archbishop Fenelon
e man who was kept off the
throne of England, his just prop-
erty, because of the fact that he
proteased the Catholic Ffelth.
When in 1714 bis half-sister,
Queen Anne, died, normally her
half-brother, son oif her father,
JameB II, would have succeeded.
But because he was a Catholic
this was not allowed, and the
throne was given to a distant re-
lation of James I, a German no
ble who spoke no Ebgllsh,
George I.
James II's son died as un-
crowned king of England. He
never had a chance to put into
practice the Catholic <V&ctrine on
religious liberty as expressed to
him in the letter of Archbishop
Fenelon.
Much earlier In the history of
England the man whom the Pope
had sent over in 597 to convert
the nation, the great St. Augus-
tine, had given similar advice
to another English King, the
long fast. Is that the love which
we want to give Our Lord? Ought
we not seek out such opportun-
ities as the late Sunday Mass to
mortify our bodies and to in-
convenience ourselves with the
long fast in order that we can
show Jesus the more how we love
Him and appreciate this great
Gift? Ought we not train our lit-
FAITH, REPENTANCE
TEXTS ARE ACCEPTED
BY CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Scripture texts of Mark,
16, 16; Acts, 3, 38; 8, 12-17; 16,
14-31 all of which speak of the
necessity of faith and repentance
preparatory to Baptism, are ac-
cepted by the Catholic Church.
They refer to the need for an
acceptance of the faith and of a
disposition of sorrow for sins on
the part of any adult who seeks
admission Into the Church.
These Scriptures find their
fulfillment in the process. where-
by non-Catholic adults become
Catholics. These must make a
public profession of faith with
their han^ on the Holy Bible
whilst kneeling in the church and
they must express in their first
Confession sorrow for all the
sins of their life.
The texts above, frequently
quoted by opponents of Infant
Baptism, actually refer only to
equirements for Baptism when
received by adult converts. Ob-
viously the requirements would
not be the same for infants. The
texts in no way prohibit Baptism
rail by showing them the example
ourselves, by allowing no impeni
tent sin to keep us away from re-
ceiving Jesus? And ought not
w|e men, constituted the same
By nature as was Our Lord and
all the Apostles and their suc-
cessors, oughtn't we to receive
often, for how silly it Is to think
that it is unmanly for us to re
ceive Christ into our souls?
A TREMENDOUS TREASURE
•Every year of our lives the
Forty Hour devotion to Our Lord
in the Most Blessed Sacrament
reminds us so eloquently of what
a tremendous treasure we have
and which we desire to share
with so many not of this blessed
faith. This devotion reminds us
of the reason Why Jesus kept
His promise, made in the face of
the objection of some of His own
that It was a "hard saying", to
give a bread which would be
His real flesh for the life of the
world. That reason is because
Jesus loves us.
O
Protestants Give
Indulgences Too
The Catholic Church gives In
dulgences, 1. e., remission of
some of the temporal punish-
ment remaining after sins are
forgiven, as a blessing for good
works performed under "the us-
ual conditions," which mean#
Confession, Communion, prayers
for the Pope.
Protestants have the equival-
ent in their church. Their minis-
ters promise blessings from Hea-
ven to the people who will make
a contribution to a new church
wblch they plan to build'.
O
Bible Shows That
Some Punishment
Remains For Sins
That some punishment remains
even after each sin is forgiven,
the basic reason for Catholic In-
dulgences, Is indicated) in the
Holy Bible. For example, David,
a royal prophet was charged
with murder because he wanted
a man placed in the front ranks
of his army, so that he could,' be
killed. This man was the husband
Old Testament Version
1200 Years Was Held
OF 350 QUOTATIONS IN NEW TESTAMENT 300
ARE TAKEN FROM VERSION THAT WAS DENIED
Of the 350 quotations of the
Old Testament found in the New
Testament, 300. are taken direct-
ly from the Greek Septuagint or
Greek version of the Old Testa-
ment which was rejected by the
founders of the Protestant
churches. This version, which
was acknowledged as authentic
by all the Jews and which was
used by Christ and the Apostles,
was begun about 280 years be-
fore Christ and finished in the
next century. It was made by 70
translators at Alexandria, Egypt
for the benefit of the Jews there
who spoke Greeks, Septuagint
means 70 in Latin, hence the
use of the word.
In 382 when the Pope com-
missioned St. Jerome to translate
the Bible into Latin, that Yugo-
slav monk used this Greek Sep-
tuagint version for his transla-
tion.
In the period of the Protes-
tant Revolt in the spirit of the
protest movement against the
Catholic Church and her teach-
ings the early Protestants as a
distinct act of protestation de-
clared the Greek (Bible of Alex-
andria was no gooij and affirm-
ed that they could accept only
the original Hebrew version of
the Old Testament called the
Palestinian canon. The Alexan-
drian canon, i. e. the translation
by the 70 into Greek, was not
suitable to them. In rejecting it
they rejected the word of the
Catholic Church, the same word
which in regard to the New Tes-
tament they had accepted with-
out any reservations. These ear-
ly Protestants made no changes
in the New Testament for the
most part, accepting it in its ba-
sic form as set up by the Cath-
olic Church in 397. The word
which they were willing to
trust on the 27 books of the New
Law they were not willing to
take on the 46 books of the Old
Law.
Thus by one sweeping anti-
Catholic gesture the reformers
showed themselves willing to ac-
cept the thesis that the Bible as
translated by the great St. Jer-
ome, beginning in the year 382,
and as preserve^ by Christian-
ity for over 1100 years was no
Bible at all. St. Jerome's Latin
Vulgate had come from that
Greek iSeptuaglnt which the Pro-
testants claimed was falset So it
was that those who developed
the theology of the Bible being
the sole rule of salvation by one
sweeping decision fixed it bo
LUTHERAN SWEDEN RELAXES RESTRICTIONS
ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM; VASA BROKE R. TIES
effect is the same« The only dif-
ference is that in the case of
adults the Sacrament also wash-
es away all their actual sins. It
Is because of this that the Bible
mentions the special requirement
for adult converts that they be
sorry for their sins. Naturally
that is essential if Baptism is to
have Its effect'
O
Lost A Treasure
The famous Sister Elizabeth
Kenny of Australia, a product of
great Ethelbert, whom he had a home In which a strong Protest-
of a woman who bore a child to
for™children. ~F o"r "both Tnfants , *** < • repented of these
and adults the effect of Baptism Bln8: * the
is the same - the washing away lre8t life ^wa ling them,
of original sin. Whether the re- IYet God told hlm that even
cipient be 1 or 80 years old. the | thou*h h '■ 8> 8 '°r given.
received into the Church. Con
vert Ethelbert, In the fervor of
his zeal, had wanted to use
strong means to get all of his
people into the Church. St. Au-
gustine admonished him that he
should scrupulously abstain from
forcing conversions, for the Cath-
olic religion believes only in the
voluntary acceptance of the Cath-
olic Faith.
(Editor's note: Margaret and
Stan Fenelon of Fort Worth,
Texas, ardent backers of this the faith,
paper and generous benefactors
to Our Lady's shrine, are related
to the great Archbishop Fene-
lon:)
ant mother overruled the Catholic
father, is today neither Catholic
nor Protestant^
The great treasure of the
Catholic Faith, her Inheritance,
was lost as a result of the evil
of those mixed marriages which
do not start cut right, namely,
with a clear and understood
comprehension of the seriousness
of a signed promise. Where such
unders'tanding exists in the be-
ginning. children are not lost to
The funeral of King George
VI cost $162,400, the English Gov-
ernment announced.
that the child) to which he was
greatly devoted, would die. Da-
vid's sins were forgiven but
punishment due to those sins re-
mained to be satisfied in this
world; or the next
STATE GRANTS
INDULGENCES
All our states have a practice
which furnishes a good parallel
to the Church's practice of Issu-
ing Indulgences. A man is sen-
tenced to prison for 20 years;
but because he seems to be very
sorry for his crime, and exemp-
lifies good conduct in the prison,
a partial Indulgence is granted
w"hereby five or ten or 15 years
are remitted^ so that Instead of
spending 20 years in prison he
is released after five years, or
even earlierl
So it is with the Church. The
gaining of Indulgences can re-
duce or remit the amount of time
which will have to be spent in
satisfaction in the next world
for all the punishment that has
accumulated for all sins already
forgiven,
Stockholm — A new law has
gone Into effect In Sw|eden,
broadening religious liberty in
that country. The king, ministers
of ecclesiastical affairs and edu-
cation. etc., still have to be Lu-
therans. But the former law re-
quiring King and all to official-
ly remain in the State Lutheran
Church now is changed, granting
liberty' to Swedes, except the a-
bove named, to drop out and
choose the church of their choice.
Other changes: the edict forbid-
ding Catholics to set up monas-
teries and convents is abolished
and the compulsory state tax to
the support of the Lutheran
Church has been modified so that
non-State Church members will
now get a 40% exemption on
this tax.
TIME, documenting the liber-
al move (1-7:52), notes Sweden's
once Catholic past In these
words: "Ever since a young nob-
leman named Gustav Vasa
.fought his way to the throne in
the 16th century and broke with
Rome, Sweden has been over-
whelmingly Lutheran. For most
of that time it has had a Luther-
an state church with the kind of
brassbound temporal authority
that Protestants are often point-
ings fingers at the Roman Cath-
olics for."
PROTESTANT SCHOLAR FOUN D 3,000 ERRO|RS
FATHER LUTHER JUSTIFIED HIS ADDITION OF
WORDS TO BIBLE TO JUSTIFY HIS DOCTRINE
Father Martin Luther, German
priest who quit the Catholic
Chuch In 1517 to take part in the
Protestant movement against
that Church, mad) his own tran-
slation of the Bible, completing
his New Testament in 1522 and
his version of the Old Testament
in 1534, the year Henry VIII In
England passed the law making
himself the head of a national
Church. Henrv was the gentle-
man who a few years earlier had
won the title of "Defender of the
Faith" from the Pope for a book
he had written in answer to Lu-
ther's attack on the Eucharist.
In his translation of St. Paul's
Epistle to the Romans Luther
added the words "only" in Rom.
3, 20 and Rom. 4, 15, and "alone"
in Rom. 3, 28. When this interpo-
lation was pointed out to him by
his former confreres in the
Catholic Church, Fr. Luther
wrote: "If your new Papist
makes much ado about the word
'alone', just say straight out to
him: 'Dr. Luther will have it so,
and says, Papist and donkey are
one andt the same thing; thus I
will and am determined to have
It; my will Is the reason'
changes In what was the first
Protestant edition of the Catho-
lic (Bible. He ridiculed Ecclesl-
astes, rejected the 'Epistle to the
Hebrews an<| the Apocalypse or
Revelations of St John as not
Apostolic, omitted the two books
of Machabees because they men-
tioned prayers for the dead, and
called the Epistle of St. James
' an epistle Of straw," because It
clearly contradicted his teaching
on the futility of good) works. He
declared that the Apostle James
was "mad with his crazy doc-
trine of good works."
Emser, a Catholic critic ,of
Dr. Luther, wrote: "Ho has in
many places confused, stultified
and perverted the old trustworthy
text of the Christian Church to
its great disadvantage, and also
poisoned it with heretical gloss-
es and prefaces. He almost ev-
erywhere forces the Scriptures
on the question of faith and
works, even when neither faith
nor works are thought of" (Jan-
ssen, History of the German peo-
pled
Emser pointed out 1,400 Inac-
curacies in T uther's Bible. Bun-
that for 1100 years the people
who were supposed to be follow-
ing the Bible as the sole rule of
faith couldn't even have d)pne so
had they wanted to, for the one
and only Christian Bible in use
in all those years was in the
opinion of the Protestants not a
Bible at all, at least its Old Tes-
tament.
The Greek Septuagint version,
thus rejected by the Protestants,
had been bo acceptable to both
Christ and the Apostles that 300
of the 350 quotations which the
New Testament makes from the
Old came from the Greek Sep-
tuagint, the version the Protest-
ants felt is untrustworthy.
Just why the founders of the
Protestant churches would want
to accept the 27 books of the
New Testament on the word of
the Catholic Church and then
turn around and refuse to take
the same body's word on the
content of the Old Is hard to un-
derstand. Just why these men
would want to plant seeds of
future agnosticism by declaring
that the only IBible which Chris-
tianity had had for over 1100
years was false in part is hard
to see. Just why they would re-
ject the Greek Septuagint basis
for this Bible when 300 of the
350 Old Testament quotes in the
New are taken from it is diffi-
cult to explain.
The only explanation Is that
the protest feeling of the hour
led! them to want to discredit the
Catholic Church. Hence they pul-
led the props from under that
Old Testament Christian Bible
which had been kept and loved
for over a thousand years by
the Church of the Ages.
Having classified the Bible
as used by the Church for 1200
years as at least partly a fraud!,
the founders of the Protestant
religions proceeded to delete
from the Catholic Bible which
they had inherited the books of
Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesl-
asticus, Baruch, I and II Macha-
bees and! sections of Esther and
Daniel, These were the books
which were In the Greek Septu-
agint version which was approv-
ed of by the Jews and from
which the New Testament quot-
ed 300 out of 350 times and
which were not in the Hebrew
canon, which alone the Protest-
ants chose to accept.
"if SPOUSES
San Antonio — The Question
Box column in THE SOUTH EJljN
MESSENGER, Catholic paper here,
presents interesting data on the
burial of non-Catholics in con-
secrated Catholic cemeteries. In
most dioceses, says the column,
the bishop grants the favor of
burial In consecrated ground to
non-Catholics who were parties
to a mixed marriage, provided
they kept the promises made
when they were given the dis-
pensation for their marriage.
Any service conducted at the
grave on conserated ground
must be held by a Catholic priest
Under such circumstances he
does not read any official Catho-
lic prayers nor use the official
ritual but reads a few passages
from the Bible.
In places Where there Is a
Catholic cemetery Catholics are
forbidden to plan burial In non-
consecrated ground.
T„ . ,sen- a Protestant scholar, men-
Father Luther made many I tions 3,000,
3-
THIS IS CATHOLICISM
—A Negro mother has been
named Catholic Mother of the
Year In North Carolina. She was
chosen by an all-white commit-
tee.
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Of the 33,126 natives of Guam,
only 663 are not Catholics. The
faith arrived there in 1668.
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