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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
IN CATHOLIC CIRCLES
GEORGIA NOTES
The Sacrament of Confirmation will be adminis
tered in twelve Churches in the Diocese of Savannah
on the four successive Sundays starting April 24th,
Rev. T. A. Foley, Chancellor of the Diocese, recently
announced. Rt. Rev. Benjamin J. Keiley, D.D., will
officiate in Savannah, while Rt. Rev. John S. Gunn,
D.D., Bishop of Natchez, Miss., will administer the
sacrament elsewhere. The schedule, outside of Sa
vannah, follows:
April 24th, 1 1 A. M. St. Anthony’s Church, At
lanta, Rev. O. N. Jackson, pastor; 8 P. M., Sacred
Heart Church, Atlanta, Rev. J. A. Horton, S.M.,
pastor.
May 1 st, 1 1 A. M •—Immaculate Conception Church,
Augusta (colored), Rev. A. Laube, L.A.M., pastor;
8 P. M., Sacred Heart Church, Augusta, Rev. P. A.
Ryan, S.J., pastor.
May 8th, 1 I A. M.—St. Peter Claver’s Church,
Macon (colored), Rev. M. Pflager, L.A.M., pastor;
5 P. M., St. Joseph’s Church, Macon, Rev. William W.
Wilkinson, S.J., pastor.
May 1 5th, 1 1 P. M. St. Mary’s Church, Augusta,
Rev. James A. Kane, pastor; 8 P. M., St. Patrick’s
Church, Augusta, Rev. H. A. Schonhardt, pastor.
Confirmation in Savannah will be administered by
Bishop Keiley on the following Sundays:
April 24th, 5 P. M. Sacred Heart Church, Rev.
Father Bernard, O.S.B., pastor.
May 8th, 5 P. M. St. Benedict’s Church (colored),
Rev. Gustavus Obrecht, L.A.M., pastor.
May 1 5th, 1 1 A. M. St. Patrick’s Church, Rev.
Emmet Walsh, pastor; 8 P. M., Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist, Very Rev. Joseph D. Mitchell, V.G.,
pastor.
A bazaar for the benefit of the new Church of the
Blessed Sacrament, of which Rev. Dan J. McCarthy
is pastor, started at the Catholic Library Hall in Sa
vannah, April 11th, and ends April 22d. Reports
thus far indicate it will be the great success it de
serves to be.
Final Reports on the results of the campaign for
the relief of the suffering women and children in Ire
land are not available at this time, but there is every
reason to believe that the $7,500 quota assigned
Geo rgia will be oversubscribed, and that the total will
be nearer $10,000 than the original quota.
Mr. Roger Bresnahan, president of the Toledo,
Ohio, baseball team, which trained in Augusta this
spring, very generously staged an exhibition baseball
game St. Patrick’s Day for the benefit of the drive,
splitting his team into rival nines. The game netted
over $850.
In Atlanta an entertainment was staged Thursday,
April 7th, in the interests of the drive, and several
professionals volunteered their services for it. Babe
Ruth, the famous professional baseball player, who
happened to be in Atlanta with the New York Ameri
can League baseball team, took a few hours off from
his business of making home runs to sell tickets for
the entertainment.
In Savannah the Catholic Women’s Club gave a
card party March 31st at Benedictine Hall, the pro
ceeds of which went to the campaign fund.
The friends of Ireland in Macon, Columbus, and
other cities and communities through the State were
as active as those in the cities mentioned. The Bul
letin hopes to be able to print the results of the drive
in its May number.
St. Benedict’s Day was celebrated on Tuesday, April
5th, with a solemn high mass at Sacred Heart Church
in Savannah. The feast was postponed from March
21st, which came in Holy Week. Rev. Father Ber
nard, O.S.B., rector, delivered the sermon. The Bene
dictine Cadets and the children of the Sacred Heart
Parochial School, attended the mass in a body.
Among the prominent weddings at the Cathedral,
the one which perhaps is the most interesting to
Georgia Catholics was that of Miss Marie Louise
Lynch, granddaughter of Mr. John Lynch, of Savan
nah, and Peter Roe Nugent, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Nugent, of Savannah, which took place on
the morning of Tuesday, March 29th. Rt. Rev. Ben
jamin Keiley officiated at the marriage ceremony, and
Rev. Joseph D. Mitchell, V.G., was celebrant at the
nuptial mass.
The Knights of Columbus, of Brunswick, received
Communion in a body Sunday, April 3d, thus keep
ing up an annual custom. It was one of the most
edifying scenes that ever took place in the little
Church by the Sea. The chaplain of the council, Rev.
J. A. Petit, S.M., named the day for the annual com
munion, and nearly every member was present. The
Knights invited all the men of the parish to join them,
and many accepted the invitation, thus bringing to
gether the largest number of men ever seen at com
munion at the same time in the history of the Church
of St. Francis Xavier.
The men assembled in the Knights of Columbus
Hall and marched to the Church headed by Grand
Knight J. M. Jones and the other officers. Father
Petit complimented them on the splendid showing,
and encouraged them to repeat such ceremonies as
often as possible. One of the features of the occa
sion was the sight of several fathers approaching the
communion rail with their sons.
The children’s choir sang during the Mass. Little
Miss Lucile Golman brought many a tear to the eyes
of the men at the communion by her touching sing
ing of ‘‘O Lord, I Am Not Worthy.”
The annual communion of the Patrick Walsh Coun
cil, Knights of Columbus, at Augusta, takes place at
St. Patrick’s Church, Sunday, April 1 7th.
The Knights of Columbus State Convention will
take place in Brunswick on May I 0th.
Mr. James T. Vocelle, vice-president for the South
Georgia Missions, is the proud father of a 12-pound
boy, James T. Vocelle, II.
The sympathy of the Laymen s Association is ex
tended to the families of the late Mr. J. H. O’Byrne
and Mr. Timothy Mahoney, Augustans, who died
since the last issue of The Bulletin. Both were Au
gusta merchants. Mr. O’Byrne died suddenly Sunday
evening, March 20th, in Augusta, while Mr. Mahoney
passed away March 2 7th at Albu rquerque, New
Mexico, where he had gone in search of health.
Work on the new Catholic Church of the Blessed
Sacrament in Savannah was started Thursday, March
24th, and it is expected that the edifice will be ready
for services in June. The Church is being built on
the corner of Forty-fourth Street and Waters Avenue,