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mmam "r-i r- i-n a-i a ti 1 ns watiM PAGE TEN THE REGISTER Dook of Numbers, Chapters 14-15 THE OLD TESTAMENT STORY Sedilion and lis Punishment Art by Leo Canavan On one occasion a Sabbath-breaker was discovered in tha groap. In the law of the Covenant it was always specified that such a person guilty of breaking the Sabbath law was to be executed, but it did not specify the form of death. Now this was definitely determined. A man was discovered gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Those who caught him at it brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly.

They kept him in custody, for there was no clear decision as to what should be done with him. Then the Lord said to Moses "This man shall be put to death; let the whole community stone him outside tha camp." The entire community led him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded Moses. This same punishment was prescribed also for other Led by Dathon and Abiram another group expressed dissatisfaction with Moses. They resented his exercise of civil authority. When summoned by Moses to appear before him they refused to obey.

Thereupon Moses, accompanied by tha elders of Israel, sought out the murmurers in their tents, and commanded the rest of the congregation to depart from among them. When Dathon and Abiram and their families and followers bad come out of their tents to meet Moses, the latter said' to them that he would prove to the whole assembly that it was Cod who had appointed him to lead the Israelites. Moses asked Cod to open the earth and destroy the rebels and all that they owned. No sooner had he finished saying all this when the ground beneath them split open and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their families. Some of the Levites rebelled because they did not have the same rights as the priests.

Core and his followers claimed the same priestly privileges as the sons of Aaron. The sedition was an attack on the religious rights of the priests. Core and three Rubenites rose up against Moses and Aaron challenging their authority. Two hundred and fifty of the leading personalities made common cause with the rebels. Moses replied first to the Levitrs proposing to appeal to the tribunal of Coil.

Election to the priesthood depended exclusively on divine vocation. Core was requested to appear together with his company before the Lord, bringing their censers with them. Core accepted the proposal and on the appointed day he gathered his company around Moses and Aaron at the door of the tabernacle. Immediately Cod blasted them out of existence with fire. The custom of attaching fringes or tassels to a garment was very old and probably connected with superstition.

The Israelites may have known and adopted this practice. Instead of rooting it np Cod impressed it with a new religious significance making it serve as a reminder of His commandments. The Lord said to Moses: "Speak to the Israelites and tell them that they and their descendants must put tassels on the corners of their garments, fastening each corner tassel with a violet cord. When you use these tassels let the sight of them remind you to keep all the commandments of the Lord, without going wantonly astray after the desires of your hearts and eyes. Thus you will remember to keep all My commandments and be holy to your Cod." At the time of Christ these tassels were worn by all pious Jews, including Our Lord Himself.

The Pharisees wore very large ones in ostentation of their zeal. The people, repenting their disobedience and lack -of faith, changed their minds and prepared to enter the land of Chanaan. They presumed that even without Mosei to lead them they could successfully overwhelm their enemies. They told Moses of their plan immediately to proceed north to the Promised Land. Moses said: "Why are you again disobeying the Lord's orders? This cannot succeed.

Do not go up, because the Lord is not in your midst; if you go, you will be beaten down before your enemies and you will fall by the sword But the seemingly repentant Israelites, wishing to make up for their past lack of confidence, presumptuously rushed into a military expedition. In this they suffered a heavy defeat by the Amalecitcs at Horma. Horma was one of the Chanaanite royal cities in Southern Judea. Moses had sent scouts into the land of Chanaan ahead of the Israelites to explore the land and bring back a report. When the scouts returned they spread false rumors.

Immediately the Israelites forgot the wonders wrought by Cod for them in the land of Egypt, and how He had delivered them from the Egyptians, and now they doubted and abandoned God. All the pleadings of Moses and Aaron fell on deaf ears. Cod came to the rescue of His traders and with fire from heaven He destroyed the spies. For the people He decreed that none of those who were 20 years of age or older in the entire group would ever enter the Promised Land. He sentenced them to wander in the desert for 40 years.

Only the children under 20 years of age, the Lev-ites, together with Josue and Caleb would survive to enter the land of Chanaan. Provincial Installed A (or Catholics I ST i Little THE PUBLIC LIFE OF THE SAVIOR The Martyrdom of John the Baptist Known Facts By M. J. MURRAY Oopyrtttit. 1W).

NCWC Nwi Ike Bishop of Orleans. France, had the privilege of pardoning f0eri criminal in the city's jails on the davj he solemnly took possession of" his See. I VC IB (rW memorial to the Irish poet Ill EthlOllifl little man at the Christian Brothers' School in II Llllivpill jeren( Ethiopia, is shown receiving a present from Tha Eire Provincial of the as new Western Prov ince of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the Very Rev. Charles Burns. O.M.I., (above) was of Brother Gioachma, assistant to tha Superior General.

The Ethiopian mission was begun by Brother Adriano (extreme right), the former Provincial of the Roman Province of the brothers. He is past 80 years of age. In spite of his years he has erected since World War II a school for several hundred boys and a junior novitiate for native vocations. A number of native boys have been inspired to follow in the footsteps of their teachers. Brother Adriano's problems include obtaining enough food to feed his pupils, clothing to cover them respectably, and English-speaking brothers who can satisfy their desire to learn English.

ficially installed at ceremonies in at. erdinand Church, San Fernando, by the Very Rev. fTSTFELIX'STOWN) fe, iiSj fe' COMMEMORATES THS SAINT represented WHO BROUGHT CHRISTIANITY Sitting on 4 TV EASTERN ENGLAND ON ZW( Vf ITSfHNE SIGNOOHRD. JfJA Syuv Cobbler of Rouen appears oh A ia yrVr' Stall ih the fremch cathedral Joseph Birch, O.M.I., Assistant General, who traveled from Rome to preside at the ceremony. It was the custom in the Orient for princes to celebrate their birthdays with great festivity.

Hence on Herod's birthday a great banquet was held with much drinking and entertainment including dancing girls. During the dinner a young girl, the daughter of Herodias, came into the banquet chamber dressed as a dancing girl. She seems to have been very proficient in this art because, at the end of her turn, Herod, filled with drink, made her a wild promise. "Whatever thou dost ask, I will give thee, even though it be the half of my kingdom" (Mark vi, 23). Previously Herod Antipas had thrown John tha Baptist into prison.

He did this because John had reproved him for taking to wife his sister-in-law, the wife of Philip, brother of Herod Antipas. When John was in prison, Our Lord began His public life earnestly. Herod admired John the Baptist and at the same time he feared him. Herodias, the girl in question, wished to do away with the Baptist but she could not succeed. During his imprisonment John seems to have been allowed freedom because his disciples were permitted to visit with him.

The Very Rev. Nicholas Tan ascovic, O.M.I. and the Very Rev. Raymond Hunt, O.M.I., Provincials of the Southern and Tito Arrests Catholics To Keep Terror Hidden Eastern Provinces, respectively, were present as were some 30 Oblate priests now attached to the Western Province. tourists.

The Communists pelted The Western Province now has establishments in San Fer nando, where there are three parishes: Brawley, Calipatria, and Wilmington, Seattle, and Yakima and Moxee the Yuogslav priest with rotten eggs, ducked him in the Adriatic Sea, and beat him with fists. Viscount Montgomery's visit also prompted the Tito authorities to order all English-speaking Catholics to stay in their Graz, Austria. To prevent their contacting British Viscount Bernard Montgomery, Tito's minions have placed in "protective custody" prominent lay Catholics and priests. One taken into such "protection" is Father Pavel Pozza, who was beaten and nearly drowned by Red hoodlums in the sight of Father William D. Larkin oi Du-luth, and other American City, Wash.

homes. The British deputy com Sacred Heart Fathers mander-in-chief of the North Atlantic Pact forces was scheduled to visit Dubrovnik Cathedral, Retain Their General where Father. Pozza is rector. Rome. The Very Rev.

Pat Two priests were reported rick McCabe, M.S.C., 55, Mel seized by police when they at bourne, Australia, was re-elected tempted to contact rather Lar Sen. McCarthy Fiancee Convert to Catholicism Washington. U. S. Senator Joseph R.

McCarthy, 43, Republican of Wisconsin, and Jean Kerr, 29, a con kin on his recent visit. Superior Gen eral of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart More than 20 priests were said to have been attacked by Red' mobs in Dalmatia in recent weeks. At the minor seminary at of Jesus at a general chapter bibenik, a Red mob destroyed the library, hurled crucifixes into the street, and tried to set fire meeting. vert, will be married in St. Matthew's a-thedral Sept 29.

Miss Kerr, who was reared in the Presby- 1 The United to the building. States Province of society, with headquar Other reports say that Tito is worried over the bad impression the government-sponsored ters in Geneva terlan cnurcn, is a native of SS i Washing- attacks might make throughout 111., has 72 the world. As a result, a dispute priests in eight Fr. McCb. is said to have developed be houses through SLA ton.

She is an alumna of George Wash-ington Univer- tween Tito and Vicko Krstulo- out the country. They are located UN Youth Monsignor Joseph E. Scliicder, NCWC UH lUUill VCivljaiB Youth Departm(nt dilectri has been informed by UNESCO headquarters in Paris that he has been selected as the youth leader from the U.S. to supervise a month-long international youth meeting in Toyko, Japan, in October. Monsignor Schieder was selected by the U.

S. State Department. Four directors have been selected, one each from the U.S. India, Japan, and the Philippines. While in the Far East Monsignor Schieder will visit youth organizations in China, Hawaii, the Philippines, and the Islands of Guam.

Wake, and In Hp will Ln vif vich. Communist boss of Dalma tia. He is the man said to share Washington, and of North sity, When she arrived bark at the table the king was still in a jovial mood and waited expectantly the answer. She said to him, "I want thee right away to give me on a dish the head of John the Baptist" (Mark vi, 35). At this request the face of Herod Antipas fell and he was grieved because he admired and respected the Baptist.

By reason, however, of the solemn oath which he had sworn and because of human respect he was unwilling to displease her. Summoning one of his minions he commanded that an executioner be sent to behead John. The young girl did not know for what she should ask and therefore left the room to hold a consultation with her mother, Herodias. Her mother knew well that the great obstacle to her unlawful marriage with Herod was John the Baptist. When her daughter said to her, "What am I to ask for?" Herodias did not hesitate.

Said she, "The head of John the Baptist" (Mark vi, 24). The damsel must have been surprised at this horrifying request of her mother's but she followed out the prompting and returned at once to the banquet chamber of Herod Antipas. in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the Dioceses of Rock-ford, Providence, R. Toledo and Youngstown, La the main responsibility for re western University in Evanston, cent attacks on the clergy Crosse, and Sioux City, la, priests and Bishops alike. Tito is reported to have ordered a halt to the present cam 111.

She was employed for a time as research aide in Senator McCarthy's office, but left that job in 1952 to do free lance research work. Senator McCarthy is a Catholic. In the picture above, Monsignor Schieder is congratulated on his new post as he leaves the UNESCO headquarters in Paris by K. Matumoto, secretary at the Japanese Embassy in Paris. India Missionary paign of violence.

NCWC Radio and Wire (a mii-MMjk, Imsb An American vrd AdODt NeV GOrb TJhe Sisters of st Mary of Namur have adopted a newly stvled e-arh ftanarnl Inenafte Daliaf Gen. James A. Van Fleet (cen of Galveston, for two years Wviiwiui stciiwi ter) vigitg the Marykno Cath0. lie Center at Tung Tau Village in Hong Kong, where he was impressed by tha voluntary work of Catholic doctors and nurses who has been sending magazines and that worn since the order's establishment more than a centurv ago. The old garb is worn by the sister in the center and the new habit is modeled by the nuns at the right and the left The Sisters of St.

Mary of Namur are union tti' newspapers every weeK to the treat the refugees. The former commander of the U.S. Eighth Army Rev. Henry Francois, a Mill rtui in Korea returned to Asia as a member of the American-Korean missionary in Nellore, South India (above). Father Henry, a Foundation.

the religious communities to comply with the request of tha Pope to modernize and simplify the dress of nuns. Mother Theresa, head of the Western Province of the Sis ters of St. Mary, brought to the U. S. the design for the nW hBbit from the general chanter of the order heM in nJT V.

With him are a group of Maryknoll Missionen. Left to right The executioner went straightway to the dungeon in which John the Baptist was chained and there, with his executioner's axe, he cut off the head of the Precursor whom Cod had sent to announce the coming of the promised Messias. Oof Lord died on the pulpit of the cross and as Ha died He preached His final sermon in the even last words; John the Baptist preached no sermon as he died but gave mute testimony through the shedding of his blood that Jesus was the Son of Cod. He was a martyr who gave np his life for the truth that marriage is indissoluble. According to Herod's command, the head of John the Baptist was placed upon a dish and carried into the banquet chamber in the sight of all.

Thus Herod, with his own hand, presented the head of the Baptist to the daughter of 1 Herodias and she in turn brought it out and gave it to her mother. St. Matthew tells ns that tha disciples of John came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb. Then they went and told Jesus all that had taken place. It grieved the heart of Christ when He heard from them of the death of His own forerunner.

native of Holland, uses them in his mission work. For 10 years are rather raut J. uuchesne, m.m., of (Johoes, im. Kelief he has served as a professor gium. The Western headquarters are in Ft.

Worth. Tex and thl Services representative in Hong Kong; Father William Mulcahy, M.M., of Framingham, Maryknoll Superior in Hong Kong; Father Howard D. Trube, M.M., director of the Catholic Center at Tung Tau Village; and Father Mark A. Tennien, M.M.. editor of Eastern Province in Kenmore, N.Y.

Members of the order throughout the unrl.l in the major seminary in Nellore and for the past three years has been secretary to Bishop Joseph Boutar. tha China Missionary BulUtin. ideas that were combined in tha final design..