Roll 10a. Pop's / Bernie's / Tommy's. Image 18 of 37. (30 July, 1952; 31 July, 1952; 8 August, 1952) [PHO 1.10a.37]The Boleslaus Lukaszewski (Father Luke) Photographs contain more than 28,000 images of Saint Louis University people, activities, and events between 1951 and 1970. The photographs were taken by Boleslaus Lukaszewski (Father Luke), a Jesuit priest and member of the University's Philosophy Department faculty

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Roll 23. Fall Festival; New Dorm / Fr. Luke. Image 17 of 22. (7 November, 1952; 10 November 1952) [PHO 1.23.39]The Boleslaus Lukaszewski (Father Luke) Photographs contain more than 28,000 images of Saint Louis University people, activities, and events between 1951 and 1970. The photographs were taken by Boleslaus Lukaszewski (Father Luke), a Jesuit priest and member of the University's Philosophy Department faculty

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Roll 23. Fall Festival; New Dorm / Fr. Luke. Image 9 of 22. (7 November, 1952; 10 November 1952) [PHO 1.23.31]The Boleslaus Lukaszewski (Father Luke) Photographs contain more than 28,000 images of Saint Louis University people, activities, and events between 1951 and 1970. The photographs were taken by Boleslaus Lukaszewski (Father Luke), a Jesuit priest and member of the University's Philosophy Department faculty

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The Linacre QuarterlyVolume 52 | Number 3 Article 5August 1985The Spiritual Telepathy of the PhysicianNicholas T. ElkoFollow this and additional works at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnqRecommended CitationElko, Nicholas T. (1985) "The Spiritual Telepathy of the Physician," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 52 : No. 3 , Article 5.Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol52/iss3/5Thyself" will strengthen you in this regan~. ~or those in1 healing prayer service will be led by Fa~~er R1chard Frank of St. Francis Hospital, Honolulu, Hawan, on Saturday ~te lowing the last scientific session. On Sunday, an option Kalaupapa, Molokai, a leper settlement where Father D.. Mother Marianne labored, has been planned. Finally, many prayers and much hard work have b~en : to bring this meeting to fruition and I know ~he ~ord 1s ~r confident hope and our Blessed Mother's loVlng mtercess~o that Christ's teaching will be imparted when we see you 1r the Fall. . May I take this opportunity to thank you for allowmg 1 as president this past year. Aloha and God bless you. ested, a ~ haplain oon fol· tour to . d ) 1en an jertaken us. With we pray fawaii in ~ to serve Sincerely yours in CL tst, Herbert M. Nakata, ~ D. The Spiritual Telepathy ~f the Physician The Most Reverend Nicholas T. Elko, D.D. Archbishop Elko is episcopal advisor to the NFCPG and contributes an annual message to Linacre Quarterly. . A Physician's treatment of a patient is accelerated when his person-ahty has a spiritual force. This quickens his rapport with the ailing. The ~ery first eye-to-eye contact discerns him above just a dispenser of medicaments and a mechanic of surgery for only corporal adjustments. He .is viewed as a master healer, a figurative descendant of the Master SaVIor, a man of the heart and the mind. Such an evaluation of telepathy already warms up the healing rr.ocess. Yet he needs reciprocal good will from the second party. The althless are difficult to cure. In his own little Nazareth, Christ never performed a miracle because the people lacked faith in him. "D A predisp?sition of faith was absolutely necessary. He would ask, 0 You beheve I can do this?" The paralytic had to believe that he c~~~d Pick up his cot and walk after a heavenly intercession. Christ u lZed matter as a doctor might . He bent down, lifted mud and spre d 't d a 1 over the eyes of the blind man. He touched the ears of the ~~man. He ordered the leper to wash himself in the pool of Beth-th and then show himself to a priest. A spiritual ritual was added to eWmaterial method. Healing was to acknowledge Divine Providence. th be read .in the bible how an act of faith arouses an inner vitality in sh~ ~dy. Kmg David begs the Lord to "Sprinkle me with hyssop and I to e cleansed." He continues, whether in a figurative or real sense, lllysaby, "You will give joy to my bones and renew a right spirit within owels"(Ps. 50). tan~~ere is an ~~twinement of the mind with the body. How impor-evid ~r the spmt to be willing when the flesh is weak! There is an c~ reaction between the two. a!Uriet st, suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane, was so pressured by ro% ~d. agony that He perspired blood. burcte ay s Immoral and envisionmental pressures add to a physician's n. The sheer materialistic living doesn't allow for the entrance of ~ AUgust, 1985 -----------------------L•l•.n•a•cr•e•Q•ulll~llll ...... __________________ __ 203 202 • ... the spirit or a mental tranquility. The Marxists, with the dialectic materialism, turn off the channels for soul strength. Th .orture a believing individual with such drastic scourges that they mg on a psychiatric bedlam which results in physical and mental c ility and drains the brain of its true strength. Catholic patients and physicians alike should cherisl ne sacra· mental supplements of confession which like a balm, ~ thes hurt minds and the Eucharist which, the prayer of the Mass · >, is, "for the h~alth of the mind and the body." For both, it is a 1 rishment. Why not add the words of Thomas a Kempis concern the Medi· h H il M " H dds, "The atrix: "My flesh is controlled w en I say a ary. Hail Mary delivers a strength and a heart of glad comfort noulded." St. John Damascene declares that there are physical el ts brought on by the reception of the Eucharist. So too St. Simon ·taphrastes was quoted as follows in the Byzantine liturgical pra~ : "When I receive Christ's blood with faith, it passes through all t1 Jarts of my body. It goes into my joints, my heart." Are these thoughts too sublime for the practical pen > Only if he or she lacks faith. The priest, at the elevation at Mass, declares we are 1/ith Him, in Him and through Him." The Lourdes seminar of our American Catholic p revelation of faith after a lecture by Doctor Mangipa the Lourdes medical group. After having shown by x-J ated slides the recorded and undisputed 64 miracl1 eluded, "There is a procession with the Holy Eucharis We invite you to join our group as they follow toge · ·icians was a the head of and illumin· 1res, he con· lis afternoon. r reciting the rosary." I was so edified to see our American physicians n~ ng behind the bishops and priests. Guidelines for Legislation of Life-Sustaining Treatment The following is reprinted with permission from The Medical-Moral ~ewsletter, Vol. 22, No . 4, April, 1985. whose guest editor for that ISSue was Rev. Thomas J. O'Donnell, S.J. The newsletter is published by Ayd Medical Communications, 1130 E. Cold Spring Lane, Balti-more, MD 21239. Subscription rate : $20 per year. "GUIDELINES FOR LEGISLATION OF LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT." This is the title of a memorandum issued last Novem-ber by the Committee for. Pro-Life Activities of the United States Cath?lic Conference (USCC) which is the "civil authority" or imple-~e~tmg arm of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the U n~ted States (NCCB: the ecclesial organization of the Bishops of the ;uted States). This type of public document issued by a Committee t~ the USCC is published only after the approval of the NCCB Admin-Ive Board. diJ!: ~ocument, the complete text of which is given below, is p .. d mto two parts: a compact summary of the most basic moral p~Ciples. governing the use of therapeutic procedures designed to th~ ong. hf~; and, as important legislative procedures derived from ue ste Prmciples, a set of 10 guidelines for legislators and their constit-n s. cat~orne of the guidelines are carefully nuanced with unwritten impli-Ions and . . G . . omiSsions; we would like to comment on three. seernuz:elzne (a) ~!sely suggests that legislators avoid "phrases which di . 0 romanticize death, such as a 'right to die' or 'death with gruty • " Th · · euth · . · Is serves as a salutary alert to those advocates of active resis::asla who would subliminally soften up the American public's sernantn.ce to .the concept of merciful murder by carefully selected · 1c coatmg. Guid z· added) e .. zne (b) mentions the patient's right to request (emphasis neatly . ~easonable treatment" (what is reasonable?) This wording Patient'S! ~s~eps the complicated and multifaceted question of the 8 ng t to receive "reasonable" treatment from whom within . ' ' 204 _..,..,rJY AUgust, 1985 Linacre QUl:U I.N" 205 f I • 