NEWMAN SOCIETY

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26854, 6 October 1952, Page 3

NEWMAN SOCIETY

200 MEMBERS ATTEND ANNUAL MASS

About 200 graduates and undergraduates of Canterbury University College attended the annual Mass, sponsored by the Newman Society, at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, yesterday morning. The celebrant was Bishop Joyce, and the occasional sermon was preached by the Very Rev. N. S. Rossiter, provincial of the Vincentian Fathers.

The preacher commended the society' for its united and public act of worship in attending the Mass in gratitude to God for the continued opportunities given them. Their education in religion through primary and. secondary schools and completed in their university societies and organisations preserved them from the uncertainty so general in human minds, he said. With extensive human science there could be lamentable religious ignorance, he said. The physicist, probing the secrets of matter, might not know its creator. The philosopher, the professed lover of wisdom, might ignore the spirit of wisdom of God and of truth. The lawyer, the guardian of justice, might not recognise the law of God in the Ten Commandments. The physician, in his care of the body, might denv all spirits, God, angels, and the souls of men. The instructed Catholic, however, was firmly supported by the “pillar of truth” and with the ‘‘truth that makes him free” instead of “the lie that makes him slave.” and the light of God’s revelation against the darkness that covered the face of the earth.