"...there shall be ONE
fold and ONE shepherd"
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Jim Brown read these words in the
Gospel of St. John and was deeply
disturbed.
Elsewhere in his Bible ... in the
Epistle to ,the Ephesians ... he
noted the exhortation of St. Paul
that there be "One Lord, one Faith,
one Baptism."
"Where," he asked Father
Crane, "is this unity of which the
Bible speaks? How is anyone to
know which is 'the one Fold..;
the one Faith . . . the one Baptism,'
when Christ's followers are divid
ed into many denominations, hold
ing conflicting beliefs?"
The priest agreed that good and
sincere people are indeed confused
by the claims and counter-claims
of a divided Christianity. Instead
of traveling on a single highway
clearly marked with he words:
"Come follow me," they find
themselves wandering in a net
work of roads and signs pointing
in all directions.
"But how," Jim persisted, "can
the average person know what to
do? When doctrinal claims con
tradict one another, how am I to
know which is right and which is
wrong?"
A study of Christian history,
- Father Crane replied, will provide
a better answer for the troubled
and confused than would a study
of conflicting creeds.
"History will tell you, Jim," the
priest went on, "that Christ pro
claimed His intention to establish
a Church, with Peter as its head
and the other Apostles as its bish
ops. History further tells us that
this is the Catholic Church, which
was established during the time of
the Apostles, with Peter as its first
leader the first Pope."
The Mass, Father Crane con
tinued, was the central act of pub
lic worship in the early Church,
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as it is today. There were seven
Sacraments for the early Chris
tians seven for Catholics the
world over today. Catholics of
1,900 years ago confessed to a
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Baptism removes original sin...
that matrimony is a Sacrament,
not just a civil ceremony ... that
bishops and priests receive their
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"Many people," Father Crane
concluded, "who are either unin
formed or misinformed about the
Catholic Faith, would want to be
Catholics if they knew the truth.
So all we ask is that you learn for
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sincerely believed.
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friends out of strangers.
Sometimes it takes only a little thing to make
One day 1 saw some good-looking rose bushes at a nursery near my
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home on the rush-hour commuter train to suburbia.
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Happy Talk. Charley was an extremely well-liked man, one of those rare
individuals who seemed to have no enemies. So it was an unhappy day
when he returned from the hospital minus his larynx (the voice box).
Cancer had taken its toll.
In the ensuing weeks friends trickled in and out of his house, saddened
by the fact that Charley could not communicate with them except by
scribbling on a pad. Eventually this tired him.
His closest friends, however, seemed to understand him. Charley never
knew that they had organized a class in lip-reading, hired a teacher, and
spent many hours of practice learning how to read Charley's "spoken
words." M.D., Reno, Nev.
I Saw His Point. When hurrying across an intersection one day, my eye
glass case flipped from my pocket and, before I could retrieve it, the
lights changed and an oncoming car crushed it and its contents. As I
picked it up and shook the broken glass from the case, an old gentleman
on the curb commented, "Lucky you weren't wearing them when it
happened." I had to laugh, even while thinking of the $30 loss. Merrill
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One in Fifty Million. My father was one of
those emotional Frenchmen who are much
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could write a telegram as though he were
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late face to face. Recently, while rummaging
through some old papers, I came across one
of his telegrams. A birthday greeting now
yellowed with age, it summed up all his un
spoken kindness to me:
"Thank goodness we can sav that, i n nil nf
your years combined you have not caused us '
near the worry you gave us in a short 12 hours exactly 30 years ago
today. Many happy returns." Mrs. J. D. Smollen, Dickinson, Tex.
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