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Finally, there's the Play of Daniel, the twelfth-century, semi-secular, demi-liturgical Christmas drama from Beauvais. Noah Greenberg has recorded his recent and acclaimed performance at the Cloisters. Russell Oberlin is a soloist (Decca...
Though the Magi brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Infant Jesus, the early church for centuries forbade or at least discouraged gift giving at Christmas; the Puritans, for example, banned both religious and secular Christmas celebrations as pagan in inspiration. Even today the seasonal exchange of gifts in many lands is made on Twelfth Night (when the Magi reached Bethlehem) or on New Year's Day. Still the early symbols-the pre-Christian gift giving, the evergreen as a mark of enduring life-became stubborn concomitants of the Christmas observance...
...more intense participation by the laity* in the proclamation of the Gospel, for "they alone can bring Christian judgment to bear upon all the issues of life in the spheres of industry and commerce, scientific research and social organization." Most detailed was a recommendation that churches in predominantly secular communities consider new ways to spread the word of God. "It may be that the local church should seek to penetrate into the unevangelized population by the setting up of 'cells' or local Christian community groups: a handful of typists or salesgirls in a big store, a dozen...
...Christianity: "divided, dependent, derived and dated." Cried he: "I cannot conscientiously sell such Christianity to my dearest friends. Modern man is sick and tired of hearing propaganda. He is anxious to meet people who will participate in his struggle. I feel the presence of Christians in the secular world is very important." Dr. Takenaka brought up a problem that was raised again and again among the younger churches-that of making Christianity indigenous to the East through syncretism, the deliberate borrowing from other religions. "We have the long-established art of flower arranging in Japan," he said, "and I once...
...hide their brains behind the skirts of Holy Mother Church. Faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to the moral law do not mean subjugation of the mind." Kiely's clear-headed argument is the only piece in Current that touches on the unique problems of Catholic students in a secular university. As such, it redeems much of the irrelevancy and triviality of the rest of the magazine...