Texas Gulf Coast Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1972 Page: 4 of 6
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TEXAS GULF COAST CATHOLIC
Friday, Nov. 21, 1972
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By Father Louis Joseph
Our Congratulations and
Texas size “WELCOME TO
THE CLUB” go out this week
to Father Vincent Patrizi and
the new members of the St.
Paul the Apostle unit at Flour
Bluff in Corpus Christi. They
bring us nine knights, one
squire and seven servers. Our
membership has now risen to
27 units and 591 members. The
next unit to join will take us
over GOO. How about that!
Hence- our sincere
congratulations to Father
Patrizi and the following
members of his unit: Knights:
Douglas Martin, Tony Ridder,
David Thomas, Ernie
Escobar, Ted Decker, Russel
Rackley, Jeff Thomas,
Richard Hernandez, ar.d Steve
Visosky; Squire: Steven
Ridder; Servers: Louis Allen,
Brian Visosky, Dennis
Stromstedt. Tony Allen,
James AmoU, David Guerr
and Eddie Guerra. A real
good group. We are told that
alter serving a funeral on a
Monday five of them helped
K of c
Father set up tables and
chairs in the parish hall so
that all was ready for a socil
event that evening. It just goes
to show that Mass servers do
more in and for the parish
than any other boy. Hence
they should be rewarded!
Our guys had a great time at
Anderson Park in Alice on the
12th. They even got to Roller
skate there. Hot dogs, potatoe
chips, cake and cookies and
Punch was the menu. They
also played football and
baseball and also used the
play ground equipment.
Its deer hunting season
already and my neck is
swelling, 1 can hardly wait to
get out there a get a deer!
Unfortunately I get Buck
fever,
Please send all information
concerning your Mass Servers
to:
Knights of the Sanctuary
Diocese of Corpus Christi
P.O. Box N
Agua Dulce, Texas 78330
Hospital Volunteers
Six Knights of the Corpus
Christi Council No. 6174,
received their certificates
after completion of their
Mental Health Training
Course. They will be helping
Father Simon in hospital
work.
The program is sponsored
by the Coastal Bend
Association for Mental Health.
The six Knights lead by
Council Community activities
Director, Brother Robert
Gonzales are volunteering 12
hours a week at the 6th and 7th
psychiatric floors at Corpus
Christi Memorial Hospital.
Youth Salute to Mary
The CYO office is spon-
soring the annual Youth
Salute to Mary on Friday,
December 8, at Corpus Christi
Cathedral at 8:00 p.m. All the
yoiaig people of the various
parishes in the area are en-
couraged to participate in this
celebration.
A living Rosary is scheduled
to begin at 7:45 p.m. followed
by the High Mass. Various
functions with regard to the
celebration will be under the
direction of the different
CYO’s and youth groups.
The CYO office also an-
nounced that the annual
Diocesan CYO Convention will
be held on Friday, December
29, in Kingsville. Further
informatiofl may be obtained
from the CYO office, 1426
Baldwin, Corpus Christi,
78404; telephone 888-5132
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Sacrament Chapel
A Kingdon of Love and Peace •
From His Eucharistic
Throne Jesus reigns as King of
Mercy and Love. Christ came,
not to lord it over others as
pagan rulers do, but to be of
service to His brothers; He
came, not to establish an
earthly kingdom, but to free
men from the slavery of sin
and to show by His example of
charity, meekness, justice,
and prayer the way we should
follow in order to reach His
heavenly kingdom — a
kingdom of everlasting love
and peace.
In 1925 Pope Pius XI in-
troduced the feast of Christ
the King and it was celebrated
throughout the world on the
last Sunday of October. Now,
the Mass calendar of the
Church having been con-
siderably revised, the
solemnity of Christ the King is
celebrated on the last Sunday
of the liturgical year, a change
which^ seems wholly fitting —
Christ being honored at the
close of the year as the
glorious King, in the same
way in which He will appear at
the end of time.
lb rough His contemporary
Body, the Qiurch, our Lord
continues His dynamic in-
volvement in today’s world.
He spreads His kingdom by
combating hate and injustice
and inspiring men to exploit
the potentialities of the
material universe for the
benefit of mankind. Com-
mitted Christians can join
with Christ in spreading His
kingdom by living lives of
Christian witness.
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Feature Film Review
A SEPARATE PEACE
(Paramount)
During the 1%0's the three
campus cult novels were J. D.
Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye,
William Golding’s Lord of the
Flies, and John Knowles’ A
Separate Peace. Lord of the
Flies was filmed, though not
too successfully; but most
readers felt that the other two
novels were virtually un-
filmable because of the subtle
texture of the prose in which
they were both written. Now
director Larry Peerce has
proved that A Separate Peace
can be just as good a film as it
was a novel.
The film opens, as does the
book, with Gene making a
sentimental journey back to
Devon Academy, the New
England prep school from
which he graduated in the
early Forties. As he looks up
at the tree that played such an
important role in his life at the
school, we hear him muse
over the sound-track, “I
remembered the tree, the war
— but most of all I remem-
bered Finny.” With a burst of
Glenn Miller music we are
transported with him back to
his high school days at the
academy.
Gene (Parker Stevenson)
is shy and studious, while his
roommate Finny (John
Heyl) is gregarious and
athletic. Recalling the old
Latin adage Mens sana in
sorpore sano (“A sound mind
in a sound body”), one infers
that each boy is developing
only one side of his personality
aifd hence is, to that extent, an
incomplete human being who
needs his friend to com-
plement him. That »s why the
two lads, so different in
temperament, are attracted to
each other.
Typically. Finny accepts the
deep friendship which he
shares with Gene without
trying to analyze it, but the
introspective Gene worries
about the implications of their
closeness. "I’m good for you,”
Finny says, trying to reassure
Gene, “you’d back away from
things otherwise.” Finny’s
remark is concretized in the
scene in which he climbs a
high tree whose branches
overhang a river, and
challenges the boys with him
to follow him in jumping into
the river. Hesitatingly, Gene
is the first to follow Finny’s
lead, thereby sealing their
friendship for good — at least
as far as Finny is concerned.
Gene, however, continues to
be uneasy about the nature of
their relationship.
One day Finny proposes that
he and Gene climb the tree
and jump together into the
river below. As they stand on
the heavy branch which
serves as a natural diving
board. Gene inexplicably
jostles it and Finny falls to the
ground. Even more inex-
plicably, Gene dives into the
water and swims to shore
before trying to help the un-
conscious Finny.
The carefree Finny does
not suspect that Gene may
have had something to do with
his accident, and he brushes
aside Gene’s confused at-
tempts to suggest that he did.
Instead. Finny tells Gene, “1
can't play sports any more.
You’ll have to play for me.”
Ironically, Gene becomes yet
more emotionally dependent
on Finny after the incident as
he tries to be the athlete that
Finny had been. Gene even
■imitates some of Finny’s
mannerisms, such as wearing
SCREEN SUPERSTAR’
ISRAEL— This is how T^d Neeley will appear in the role of
"Jesus” in the film version of the rock opera “Jesus Christ
Superstar," which has recently been filmed on locations in
the Israeli desert. The 29-year-old actor Is part Cherokee and
comes from Ranger, Texas. He reportedly won the part in
competition with some 3,000 others.
(RNS)
Diocesan School Board to Meet
LAREDO — The Diocesan
School Board will meet on
December 3, at 2 p.m. in
Laredo at 1719 Houston Street,
The meeting, which will be in
the Board Room of the Laredo
Independent School District.
The session is open to
everyione.
'Hie Diocesan School Board
meets six times a year in
various parts of the Diocese. R
is composed of represen-
tatives from every town in the
Diocese which has a Catholic
School. The December
meeting will discuss
retirement policies for the
Sisters teaching in the
Diocese, and the legality of
requiring a physical
examination before entrance
into the Catholic school
system.
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the school tie as a belt — all in
an effort, presumably, to
make up to Finny for
whatever part he played in
Finny’s accident.
Wisely, neither the book nor
the film tries to explain fully
Gene’s behavior in depth, for
Gene himself, as a troubled
adolescent groping for self-
identity, does not completely
understand his own reasons
for acting as he does. "It was
some ignorance inside me that
made me do what I did that
day at the river,’’ he says to
Finny in a last desperate
effort to explain what has
happened, “something blind
inside me." But Gene never
gets another chance to sort
things out with Finny, for the
. latter dies in the course of
what was supposedly a minor
operation, and with him dies
Gene’s adolescence. “I
couldn't cry at the funeral,”
the elder Gene recalls,
“because I couldn’t escape the
feeling that it was my funeral
too; and you don't cry at our
own funeral.” With
graduation manhood is thrust
on Gene and his classmates as
they must prepare to go off to
war,
World War II is an abiding
presence ion the film. Finny
and Gene had made “a
separate peace” (a term
borrowed from Hemingway’s
Nick Adams stories) because
the war seemed remote and
unreal to them. Nonetheless
reminders that the war is
something very real which
they are going to have to face
all too soon intrude even into
the insulated atmosphere of
the boarding school. In one
scene the lads shovel snow
from the railroad tracks near
the campus to enable a troop
train to get through. TTie boys
cheer the recruits as the train
moves on, but then lapse into
silence as they gaze at their
future selves in uniform.
This is just one of the fine
scenes that is executed with
immaculate precision in the
film by director Peerce.
Earlier in the picture Peerce
brings the same ring of
authenticity to a staid faculty
tea given for the boys that he
brought to his handling of the
Jewish wedding in GOOD-
BYE, COLUMBUS. The
headmaster pontificates, the
ladies in picture hats pour tea,
and the boys try to look
solemn. It is this kind of
realistic detail that marks
Peerce as a genuine craft-
sman.
Furthermore, he deserves
great credit for the fine
performances that he has
elicited from his cast, many of
whom are students from
Phillips Exeter Academy
(Knowles’ alma mater) who
have never acted before.
Peerce often employs sear-
ching close-ups, particularly
of Stevenson and Hyl, as if to
remind the viewer that our
knowledge of others,
especially of young people,
who do not understand
themselves, stops at the
surface, and that one can only
guess the psychological
depths that lie beneath that
surface.
Peerce’s film of Philip
Roth’s GOODBYE,
COLUMBUS was reasonably
faithful to its source, though it
was marred by an occasional
bid for box office. In A
SEPARATE PEACE,
however, the director has
made no such concessions to
commercial considerations.
He has, rather, made a film
that the most ardent af-
ficiando of Knowles’ novel
must admit captures the spirit
of the original admirably. (A-
II)
CHILDREN, HARKEN UNTO ME*
VATICAN CITY — Pope Paul VI holds a child on his lap as he Is carried on his portable
throne to his weekly general audience at the Vatican.
(RNS)
— Film Fare on Teknision —
SUNDAY, NOV. 26
8:00 p.m. (ABC) — ONCE
UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
< 1969) — Any movie with as
plainly mythic a title as that
can’t be all bad. And this one,
starging Henry Fonda,
Claudia Cardinale, and Jason
Robards really isn’t. The plot,
of the Sergio Leone “pasta”
Western is mighty thin, but
the foolish action involving
outlaw Fonda’s pursuit of
another outlaw is full of
hokum and played for campy
laughs. Fair adult en-
tertainment. (A-Ill)
M JNDAY, NOV. 27
8;00 p.m. (NBC) — THE
PRIVATE NAVY OF SGT.
O’FARRELL (1968) — Patchy
Bob Hope-Phyllis Diller
comedy set on a Pacific island
during World War II. As
O’Farrell, Hope manages to
forget his old romance with
Maria (Gina Lollobrigida)
while raising morale on an
Army-Navy base. He locates a
lost cargo of beer and makes
friends with a stray Nisei
soldier (Mako), but his (dan to
provide feminine atmosphere
goes awry when incoming
nurses turn out to be all male
but for Miss Diller. Japanese
subtitltes on an enemy sub-
marine sequence and a parody
of the Lancaster-Kerr beach
embrace in From Here to
Eternity (Gina turns up in
time to play Deborah)
highlight an otherwise so-so
production that is obviously
part beer commercial, (A-II)
TUESDAY, NOV. 28
7:30 p.m. (NBC) — HOME
FOR THE HOLIDAYS —
•Original 90-minute TV feature
about a man who is convinced
that his wife is poisoning him
by slow degrees. And whom
does he have for help? Only
his four estranged daughters.
Hmmm. Walter Brennan is
dear old dying dad, Julie
Harris is the lethal cuisiniere,
and Sally Field, Jessica
Walter, Eleanor Parker, and
Jill Haworth are his not-quite-
devoted daughters, although
they’re all darling in this
routine TV chiller.
8:30 p.m. (CBS) — PRETTY
POISON (1968) — An “in-
teresting failure” of a
psychological - terror flick
that probably will be less
interesting on the small home
tube than it was in the original
screen presentation. The
story, one of mad-youth run
murderous.y amok, is of
routine interest, but the subtle
and chilling characterizations
by Anthony Perkins as a
crazed killer and Tuesday
Weld as the perverse teen-age
nymph who “inspires him,
are quite remarkable. (A-1I1)
WeAiesday. Nov. 29
7:30 p.m. (ABC) — THE
HEIST — Original TV feature
does what the title sez, as
bankroll-carrying arrfiored
truck guard Christopher
George gets himself im-
plicated in a complex payroll
robbery scheme and then —
surprise! — has a tough time
explaining his innocence.
Hoard Duff is good in a role he
can do in his sleep, that of a
tough investigating cop.
7:30 p.m. (NBC)—THE MAN
WHO CAME TO DINNER - A
fine taped-drama greeting
from the Hallmark Hall of
Fame. This is an engaging if
not quite superb adaptation of
the Kaufman-Hart stage
comedy, starrting Orson
Welies, Lee Remick, Joan
Collins. TTie plot, such as it is,
has Welles as a pompous
culture maven-author taking a
tumble on the steps of your
average middle-class
American home and then
insisting that the family take
him in until he recovers.
Those were the days before
instant lawsuits, and what fun
they were!
THURSDAY. NOV. 30
8:00 p.m. (CBS) — BAN-
DELERO! (1968) — Uneven
Western Starring Jimmy
Stewart and Dean Martin as
brothers going through life on
the shady side after a dirt poor
start, finally redeeming
themselves in a battle against
Mexican cutthroats. First part
is the best, in which Stewart
poses as the hangman who ^
was to executive brother Dee
and his gang, helps them
escape, robs a bank and joins
their dash for the border.
Racquel Welch is Maria,
another loser who winds up
with the sturdy sheriff
(George Kennedy), and An-
drew Prine is very good as his
deputy. Interesting charac- ....
ters. some sly anti-hanging,
humor and refreshing at-’
tention to the proper treat-
ment of women are among the
high points, but questionable
language and an excess of
violence toward the finale
place the film off limits for a ^
wider audience. (A-1I1)
FRIDAY. DEC. I
8:0i p.m (CBS) — THE
CHAIRMAN (1969) —
Gregory Peck stars in a Jarge-
scaled dramatic “en-
tertainment” drawing its
gasps from the star’s,,
involvement in the Cold War
via a mysterious association ,
with the Red Chinese. With ;. ,,
Stale Department approval, , ,
Peck accepts a Chinese offer .
to visit China on a scientific-
cultural mission, but is first
trained and even “bugged” (a
pill-size radio and recording . ,
device is implanted lfi his kull,
no less) to gather scientific
data from his “unsuspecting”
hosts (heh, heh). Pretty good
entertainment for interested
adults. (A-I1I) -
SATURDAY, DEC. 2
8:00 p.m. (NBC) — THE
JUDGE AND JAKE WYLER
— Two-hour TV detective
melodrama requires absolute
suspension of your disbelief as
Bette Davis, a retired judge
(!), opens a detective agency
and gets embroiled in her first
murder case. Utterly
preposterous timewaster.
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