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Show 'L I:-r-- 'I'i" ,- IF there is ('Jne L:lss ::n for missionaries' , , ~-t--_,~ ,i / i i to the Nava,10s th:" t Y'C hope we have learned ...... 1---.,,: --~ by nO'.v it is PATI EHJ :8;, - ~~ , E A S T E H A If ST. CHit I S TOP H E' h'" :h-_ ' (St ,,)l'Y by rather Liebler) 1946 , -_.- ..~ .. ,,'to '. :J. .(k ..~ ~. * ~,- . (' ~ ·i:r \ A year a g o: on Holy Go.turdny, we had ,.' ' I I" f I' ~u:r flr s t b apU. sm' c:'L' [', ~~ l1 'i '~ :: " A long per-r ! ; / ) I 10d of pl'· el:')a.:rat ,i.~n , (;'~l il r;:' . . n ' , ~ He in a sol- J {' ,./ id week of car e.fuJ, ~l :l,; st; :r',(~ ': " ~ l:n 11,ad preced'- . 'l '\ '., ,_~ , ./ ed that day I and Y 81.; -Jf ,::t' ,,; C.G3en catechu- _.~ mens only' tw., were ready when Holy ;3a tU.rJt),Y arri ved ~ And I, in my foo l t ,sh haste, had thought that they would be ready for 'Holy Communlon on ~aster Day. I We have learned the hard ' way _. although we J! r'ea~ it in books and ho.d ,been told by those wh ~.l knew, _ .. that you cannot :p.urrya Navajo. It itmtt that he's lazy:, He wants t~ know what it 1s all about, and will take ~o fuzzy or uncertain answers. He wants time , to digest what he hear s: and observe those who have told him. H.,w futile would be tho me t hod of runn~\ n0 to a center, gathering a group; preaching the Gosp e l ,f and runnin~ off to some other placel One must live with them, one must live the Go,spel Life a.s nearly as is possible f~r us sinful fblk, live tho things we are teaching. I It ~as some six weeks after Easter, last year, befor ~ all our catochuoans were finally brought to bo.ptism. By that time we )l.ad giv()n \li) hope of their rece:J.ving Holy Communion in the near future .. By Adv ent I had determined that I would concentrate all sfforts upon bringing them to Holy Cornn1union by the follbwing Eastcl Not by continual harpihg$ or exerting any pl' cssure: but by systematic instruction .and oxhort8. 'i;i on" Sermon after s armon told of the Living Bread that came down f ~ ' om Hoaven. Sermon aft ar Lermon teld of ' the nat~ ure of Sin and the ot CT· lln. ~ cure for s1n in the olood of Christ, appli od to the soul in the SaCY'ruliollt of penance, Nothing was loft to ima.ginati oi Detailed inst~uction wa s given, again and again. From Septuagesimn ~n, never 0. Sunday passed without referene~ to the coming " Great Sunday " which is what they call East er , The connection between the Li~ihg Brend and the Risen G~ist was again 'hnd again dra.wn. Instruction on the Commandmonts of Goo. and of the church, and just.\Vhat , con~titutotl Dl9rtal und venial sin was repeated and repeated. Holy Woek cnme. PaJ.n1 Sunday eeremonies were held vri t lJ cust.mnry solemni ty; but vIi th smaller ntt ~ ndance than in previous ye f:L r ~ Every night at ~.'o n 3hy n.c 30mo Nnvnjos eame, but not in great numbcrs._ :"1: gorgeous ri t o ':! v';" r. ~~ 't, - ,3:1 turd'f\.y Stl.W bur Chapel les s them crowded, ALL that afterr.o:))1 I a:;' t ,~,s :- .:sO.t in the cho.pc;l or rcmo.1n¢d ncar by) a.wni t i n~ peniterits, ~ ~~ ~nB mid ;r~y ing. Would tho Eucharistic Lord have t. wait. another yc~r : He whoco f ervent dosire had beon to oat the Passovbr wi t l h.is disciple s J Wo h ad. supper, ' and after it I .. vent into the Chapel. Soon Brother Michnel CWYl C in: It The doluge ha.s como ~ Shall I herd t.b.C;' - , in one a.t ' 0. time? II ( We h avo f:L S yet no proper confossionul, and thQ |