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THE I8 - - - , , , J l COMMUNICATIONS DISTRAUGHT ABOUT ART T O 24 the Donald Editor Attwater :--In the tore issue down of The a few Commonweal ideas that for...
...THOMAS L. SULLIVAN, C.S.V...
...This parallel, I think, really does not exist...
...19 We are under no obligation to decide the extent of the sacrifice or virtue of the decision of our neighbors in regard to a state of life, or even of ourselves, because it is one of those mysterious things that rest between God and each soul, with another of His servants as an intermediary...
...it means that they are guided to the sure and well-tried way...
...Furthermore, I, for one, do not greatly desire to hear a Mass except in the proper place...
...The following facts seem to bear out my contention...
...T a O few the of Editor the thoughts :--May another suggested layman to him be by permitted the letters to writadd Church throughout the ages...
...When, therefore, a representation of the monstrance was shown it was easy to understand their theatrical ritual of hand-clapping, and to see in the procession of the Most Holy Sacrament a renewal of that triumphant entry into Jerusalem...
...Attwater refers to this in his article when he writes: "Her business is to save the souls of men, which is certainly not the business of art...
...Did Palestrina always have his perfect mastery of ecclesiastical idiom...
...Colonel Gawler of the British army, in 1845, formed a Jewish Colonization Association of London to encourage and finance Hebrew settlement in the Holy Land...
...PROFESSOR FISHER ON PROHIBITION T O reference the Editor to Professor :--In your Irving issue Fisher, of October of Yale, 16, upon there which is a Boston, Mass...
...As the fruit of this activity, the number of Jewish settlements in Palestine tripled since the war--some 12o settlements amounting to 25o,oo0 acres...
...Ralph Adams Cram in the issue scandalized only one person it would stand condemned, for of September 25 effected a restoration of our singular notions great art never offends...
...but things that are suitably contrived for a concert hall are not so contrived for a church, and, at the risk of being thought iconoclastic, the Mass in B Minor of Bach, and possibly the Missa Solemnis in D of Beethoven are scarcely suitable for ecclesiastical use...
...He traces both to the respective mandates and to the peace treaty...
...The next year he instructs the English ambassador at Constantinople "to encourage the Jews to return to and settle in Palestine...
...It has arisen from a policy of Hebrew protection and colonization in Palestine and a constant growing COMMONWEAL Summit, N. J. Mr...
...SWEDEN'S APOSTLE T O September the Editor 25 there :--In is the an issue editorial of The comment Commonweal on "Sweden's for Covington, Ky...
...it was Louis, too, who sent Ansgar to Sweden as his ambassador in 829 or 830...
...Young as vice-consul to Jerusalem with the mission to protect the Jews...
...9 . . The story of the conversion of the Northmen is one of the most colorful in the marvelous missionary history of the J. J. LAUX...
...We are apt to look upon it as cold and severe and pertaining to people who are hardly human to begin with and who gradually grow less human day by day...
...On October 13, Professor Fisher spoke on prohibition here in Boston, and if my ears heard him correctly, he offered the following mathematical absurdity: a. That drinking today is some 15 percent in extent of preprohibition drinking...
...As a result, at the opening of the war there were forty-four of these colonies comprising about 87,8o0 acres...
...Apostle," Saint Ansgar, in which the writer asserts that "the aid the Saint received came from no less a personage than Charlemagne himself...
...In 831 Louis established the archiepiscopal see of Hamburg and had Ansgar consecrated as its first archbishop...
...b. That from I92O , the advent of prohibition, the dry move showed a steady gain until 1925...
...He also gave Ansgar the abbey of Thurholt or Thorout in Flanders, the revenues of which were to be used in the prosecution of the evangelization of the Scandinavians...
...True, he received the last sacraments but his llfe was a good deal more pagan than Christian...
...Beethoven was only a nominal Catholic...
...Even as it is true that the state of celibacy is more pleasing to God in itself than the married state is in itself, so it is equally true that the contemplative state is, in its essence, above the active...
...Such a travesty would be certain to scandalize at us have entertained regarding Christian art...
...WXLLIA~ Y. WEBBr...
...His unbiased narrative stresses actual political and economic conditions instead of the customary account of the intolerance of the Arabs...
...While we are on the subject of advertising it might be a good plan to see if there is any analogy to be found in this field, for if there be any likeness between art and advertising it is certainly the part of wisdom here in America, where everyone knows something about the latter and practically nothing about the former, to essay a little parable, and to say that the kingdom of art is as a man who would advertise his wares and who looked about to see what was the best medium and what style would best represent his article...
...whereas, those saints who have had the busiest days have invariably spent their nights in prayer...
...But aside from any higher motive, is it not rather foolish to use anything in this important business that is irrelevant or positively in the nature of a deterrent ? Church music has been brought under the notice of the Holy See and very definite orders given for the reforming of all that is employed in the liturgy...
...It can easily upset even those who are most tightly bound to traditional methods but who, if need be, would be quite willing to sacrifice their own preferences and be taught all over again rather than seem to stand in the way of a logical development...
...Based on these facts and the points of view concerning these facts, we are apt to have a rather set attitude toward these two states of life, as well as toward the third, the lay state...
...THE DESERT AND THE SOWN Washington, D. C. T O and the the Editor Sown, :--Mr...
...in The Adam Commonweal Day's article, for October The 2, Desert presents a very interesting summary of the facts which underlie the present unrest in Palestine...
...November 6, I9a 9 are adjudged to be supreme in their appropriate sphere...
...Charles the Bald took the abbey away from Ansgar and gave it to one of his favorites...
...It all sounds very plausible...
...Suppose a man in writing a Mass to reflect that the words of the Benedictus call up the scene in the temple where the children cried out their hosanna...
...Day, for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people," was embodied in the treaty of Sbvres...
...IN SAECULA SAECULORUM Louisville, Ky...
...The fundamental business of the Church is to preach the Gospel...
...I t is hard to see how the great emperor could have given aid to Saint Ansgar unless it was by praying for him at the throne of God, which no doubt he did...
...by a timely letter, as did also Walter Charles Copeland...
...On the other hand, we are apt to think of the active life as consisting of a daily soulless grind of monotonous and automatic occupations, with success as an aim and not a great deal of spirituality...
...By 186o two colonies were founded...
...But perhaps something may be suggested to the layman by one or two examples of procedure that fall under the domain of conduct...
...We will merely seize every opportunity to supply ourselves with the best means obtainable to serve God and our neighbor, and make all the use possible, through the help of God's grace, of whatever means we can secure, meagre though they may seem to be...
...In the afternoon one could drop into a theatre and note how the audience was made up almost exclusively of children under the supervision of religious...
...British authorities united with the Zionist organization to further Jewish interests, colonization, immigration and education in Palestine...
...Attwater would have us believe that we are in a hypnotic trance, that the middle-ages have put us to sleep...
...It is practically impossible to explain to anyone the canons of art...
...things which may seem strange now, but which we shall understand later on, when all His mysteries are made dear to us...
...Yet he, as a composer, said that anyone wishing to write church music must steep himself in the Gregorian for that was the true church style...
...when, in fact, the more truly in love with mankind one is, the more truly contemplative he can be...
...Yet when this is renewed in the sanctuary the only sound that we care to hear is that given forth by a bell...
...C. W. MORTON, Ja...
...and it was Louis, as Saint Rimbert, the biographer of Saint Ansgar, tells us, who provided the missionaries with tents, sacred vessels and vestments, and other necessaries...
...The Earl of Shaftesbury and Lawrence Oliphant, when they turned their efforts to this work in 1878, received the support of Disraeli and Lord Salisbury...
...I should like to elaborate somewhat...
...This is a tenth of the cultivable land...
...These youngsters knew quite well they were not in church and that ecclesiastlca...
...ten recently around the phrase "In saecula saeculorum...
...May I suggest that a graphical representation of this hypothesis would show that, taking pre-prohibition consumption as a basis of IOO, Professor Fisher's graph would have to drop to minus 7o, in order to "lose half of its gain," and wind up at plus 157 Just what degree of drinking is represented by minus 70...
...It must use earthly things, there being nothing else available...
...This evidence, which can be substantiated with source material, seems to cast light on the present situation of the British in the Holy Land...
...THE I8 - - - , , , J l COMMUNICATIONS DISTRAUGHT ABOUT ART T O 24 the Donald Editor Attwater :--In the tore issue down of The a few Commonweal ideas that for most July of of Tannhafiser art...
...It was Louis who induced Harald to receive baptism with his wife, his son Godfred, and 400 of his followers...
...With a little thought we can see that the most important foundation that exists in his world cannot jeopardize its repute as being divine by using profane things in a profane way...
...It was the Emperor Louis the Pious who aided Saint Ansgar...
...Balfour's declaration, quoted by Mr...
...The Gregorian style has been adjudged the best, and that norm must be held to, for any deviation from it is bound to produce inferior work...
...By no means, or at any rate he did not employ it~much to his consequent regret...
...he informed us least the more judicious members of a congregation, and if it that there is no such thing...
...Yet it is this not altogether unworthy member of the immortal nine that seems to knock for admittance at this juncture and to ask permission to make a few apposite remarks...
...They for might that enjoy matter, a Kyrie but their founded opinion upon would a theme be worth from nothing...
...This particular age is easily seduced by novelty...
...2. Fifty years before the enthusiasm of the world was aroused by the Zionist movement, British interests had taken steps toward Jewish colonization in Palestine...
...But that would not justify him in using that unique, impulsive shout as a kind of model on which to shape his composition for the divine liturgy...
...Now, this does not mean that modern composers have their hands tied...
...rules were not the order...
...he asks...
...However, he builds his story of the British trouble in Palestine as being a parallel case with the Syro-French clash in Damascus of I925...
...Shortly after the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, motion pictures were presented throughout the country showing this remarkable spectacle in panorama...
...c. That from 1925 to date, one-half of this gain was lost...
...He would have us wake up and produce something contemporary, something very much alive...
...3. The influx of needy Jews in these colonies was considerably increas.ed during the anti-Semitic movements in northern Europe toward the close of the century9 The effect of this immigration on the natives can be easily imagined9 4. Then came the Zionist movement in which English money was influential...
...1. Almost a century ago the British Foreign Office under Palmerston took active interest in the Jews of Palestine9 In 1839, he sent Mr...
...In this country especially the genius oi advertising has become a medium for preying upon the credulity of the rich...
...ANASTASIA M. LAWLER...
...Now, just as the traditions of the Faith are entrusted to the hierarchy of the Church, so musical traditions, and indeed, all traditions of art are entrusted to those Who by common consent COMMONWEAL THE November 6, I929 of Arabic grievances...
...When I believe that in advertising circles the term "institutional it comes to speaking about art we generally understand architecture, painting or sculpture to be the subject...
...Why are the children of the living Church content to produce only a dead art...
...5. A special study of Palestine since the war will show how the English mandate almost actualized Zionism...
...rarely do we think of music...
...It makes no difference what the public may think about a piece advertising" is used to refer to that branch of the art that has to do with the advertising of the business as a whole, that is, of the house itself...
...Those who understand something of the contemplative life know that it stands for a state of sublime prayer, of heroic penance, of all-embracing mortification, of absolute or almost absolute seclusion...
...Charlemagne died, as all the world knows, in 814, and Ansgar left the monastery of Corvey on the Weser for the northern wilderness in 826 in the suite of Harald of Denmark...
...England has a problem to settle in Palestine which is deepseated and unique...
Vol. 11 • November 1929 • No. 1
