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DIOCESE
SAVANNAH EDITION
Serving
Georgia's 88
Southern Counties
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
Published By The
Catholic Laymen's
Ass'n of Georgia
Vol. 39, No. 20
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1959
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PRAYER
FOR VOCATIONS
O God, hear our prayer
and lei our cry come unio
Thee.
Bless our Diocese of Sav
annah wiih many priesily
vocations.
Give the young men You
call, the light to understand
Your gift and the love to
follow always in the foot
steps of Your Priestly Son.
—Indulgence of seven years
Mary, Queen of the Clergy,
pray for us.
St. John Vianney, pray for
Imprimatur:
-f Thomas J.
McDonough
U S Bishop’s Relief Fund
Appeal, Laetare Sunday
Catholic Bithops’ Relief Fund Appeal ^°P e Lauds Generosity
Of American Catholics
Seminarians
Mary’s Seminary,
Roland Park, Maryland, conduct correspondence
courses in Christian Doctrine, and are responsible for many conversions to the Catholic Faith.
In the above photo a Seminarian prepares to send textbook and other materials to an inquirer.
—(Photo “The Voice’’).
NEW FEATURE
FOR BULLETIN
We wish to call attention to
our new editorial feature "View
From the Rectory." This new
addition to our paper, written
by the Rev, Robert H. V/harton
of Washington, D. C. will be
found on page 4.
The Priest —
Instrument Of Redemption
By Rev. Felix Donnelly
At the Carmelite Monastery a soft bell divides the day into
many little gifts offered to God. It calls out quietly at three in
the afternoon, marking an hour of prayer. I wondered one after
noon as I heard it, in what manner these prayers were reaching
to the busy city beyond.
At that hour the voices of children were heard leaving the
Parish School, happy in the grace of God, confident in the knowl
edge of their Maker and Companion. At three in a city hospital
a young priest pours the saving waters of baptism over the head
of a dying man. At three, in a quiet Church a priest advises a
troubled soul, who has awaited the end of the children’s con
fessions, and he pronounces the words of forgiveness to bring
peace and the life of God to this small world of darkness. At
three, the priest recalls, Christ died. And here are the works of
Christ going on through His creatures, the priests. Within a few
hours the priest will be offering the evening mass to renew the
sacrifice of Calvary and bring God’s own food for the souls
under his care. Christ now teaches through them, washes away
sin and gives grace through them. Through them He gives the
PRIESTS HAVE DUTY TO MAKE
THE FAITHFUL PARTICIPATE
IN THE MASS, PONTIFF SAYS
SAVANNAH — Laetare Sunday, March 8th, will mark the
13th consecutive year of the American Catholic Bishop’s Relief
Fund Appeal to assist the needy overseas.
A special collection to be taken up at all the Masses on Laetare
'f
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — His Holi
ness Pope John XXIII said here
that priests have the duty to
make the faithful participate in
the Mass and other ceremonies
of the altar.
The Pontiff told a group of
Says Schools
Slight Country’s
Religious Past
ing Brotherhood Week at the
school’s Vanderbilt Flail Auditori
um.
Dr. Newsom, whose private in-
NEW YORK,(NC) — American
democracy is threatened because
schools slight this country’s re
ligious heritage, Dr. Carroll V.
Newsom, president of New York
University, declared here.
The educator spoke on “The
Role of Religion in a Private
bread of Heaven to nourish souls to withstand the temptations University” at a meeting celebrat-
of daily life. Today and yesterday and hundreds of centuries ago,
God palnned it this way.
As Adam sinned, God’s mercy reached out to promise a
Redeemer. Saying neither when nor exactly how, God’s plan
moved slowly to completion. Prophets were sent to warn people st itution enrolls 30,000 students
to avoid the occasions of sin, to observe God’s law, to pray. said educa t 0 rs must assure con-
Along with the prophets were sent priests to offer sacrifice, to s i dera ble responsibility for this
guide, to teach, and to gather them to prayer. situation he outlined but he
Aaron, the brother of Moses, and his descendants were to be scored “increasingly narrow in-
the priests of the old law. They would offer the sacrifice of the terpretations of the doctrine of
Old Testament. The lamb would be slain and offered upon the
altar of sacrifice. It would finally be seen as a figure of Christ,
who would offer himself as the sacrifice on Calvary: the lamb
of God to take away the sins of the world.
The Old Testament priesthood endured to keep alive the
knowledge of the true God, to offer prayers and sacrifices to
God; but to offer real satisfaction for sin, they were unable.
This must be left to Christ and the priesthood united to Him.
Christ as a priest was to teach, to guide in prayer, and to
offer real atonement for sin by offering Himself as the sacrifice heritage, that America attained
of atonement. By offering Himself upon the Cross he became j ts pre sent position of leadership
the victim of sacrifice. He became the new Adam, giving life
to the world He became the new head of the human race, through
whom all graces flow fiom God, through whom all prayers ascend
to God.
God’s desire is to save all mankind. Since each has a free
will, each must, in a sense, be treated individually. So God project
ed His work throughout time in the priesthood of Christ. Christ
called Philip and Andiew, Come follow me.” To the son of Levi,
to James and John, to Simon and the others, he said, “Come
follow me.”
Schooling them in the first seminary for three years, He
sent them forth: “As the Fathex has sent me, I also send you.”
“He who hears you, hears Me. They are one with Him, for they
are to carry on the works He came to do. They should go forth
to teach all nations, to “baptize them, in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Christ came to forgive sin, and forgave them. But Fie wishes
each individual to have this opportunity for forgiveness. He wished
that forgiveness here even after His ascension, so He made His
priests instruments of His forgiveness: “whose sins you shall for
give, they are forgiven.”
Nourishment and strength are needed to avoid future sin,
and God has provided this through the priesthood of Christ, who
shared this food with His workers. “The bread that I will give you
is My flesh, for the life of the world.” “Do this in commemoration
of Me.” “Pie who eats this bread shall live forever.” Christ not
only shares His works of baptizing, teaching, forgiving sins, with
His priests, He shares Himself with the priests, in offering again
and again the sacrifice of Calvary in the mass. The redemption
of Christ is not over and gone. It is re-lived by the priest every
time he baptizes a soul into Christ, every time he forgives a sinner,
every time he offers the sacrifice of Calvary in the Mass.
The priest is the instrument in God’s hands applying the
redemption of Christ to the souls of men. He is taken “From
among men, and ordained for men, in the things that pertain to
God.” Though he lives with men, he works with God. Though a
mere man, he must be- another Christ to bring Christ to all.
the separation of church and
state” for placing “an intolerable
handicap” on the honest efforts
of the most dedicated educators.
“I refuse to believe,” he said,
“that nothing can be done to per
mit our teachers to teach clearly
and honestly that religion is a
fundamental, part of our cultural
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GIVE $800,000
FOR CHILD
STUDY CENTER
LOS ANGELES, (NC) — The
Joseph. P. Kennedy Jr. Memori
al Foundation is donating $800,-
000 to the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles for construction of a
Child Study Center.
It will be built adjoining St.
John’s Hospital in Santa Moni
ca. The center will treat mental
ly retarded and emotionally dis
turbed children.
Mrs. Peter Lawford, sister of
the late Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy,
Jr., who was killed in World
War II, will present the con
struction funds to His Eminence
James Francis Cardinal McIn
tyre, Archbishop of Los Ange
les. The foundation, a memorial
to Lt. Kennedy, was established
by Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., for
mer U. S. ambassador to Eng
land.
The center at Santa Monica
will have facilities for treat
ing and studying 900 children
annually, 200 of whom will be
under continual treatment.
Latin American seminarians
that in recent times the Church
has seen many new ideas ad
vanced in the field of the litur
gy.
He said that the Church does
not disapprove of them in prin
ciple, but watches over them
prudently and approves many.
Young people, he declared,
feel the urge to do something
different, from older practices,
something which reflects their
own personality.
He warned, however, that
they must guard against exag
gerations and must avoid the
danger of abandoning the great
fundamental and classical lines
of the liturgy of the Church as
established in the missal, the
breviary and other liturgical
books.
The Pope, who celebrated
Mass in the Vatican for 200
seminarians of the Latin Ameri
can and Brazilian colleges, told
them that it is the duty of the
priest to assimilate and feel the
liturgy.
He said that many Catholics
today, especially in the big cit
ies, attend Mass in a superficial
way. They are physically pres
ent, he declared, but very few
know the sublime mystery
which is performed for them on
the altar.
Therefore, he said, it is the
duty of the priest to assure the
liturgical movement a triumph
ant conquest by making the peo
ple participate in the Mass and
other ceremonies of the altar.
For American Catholic Bishops’ relief fund appeal, his Holiness
Pope John XXIII made his first address to the United States on
Ash Wednesday directed to the school children and in which he
asked the children to make Lenten sacrifices for the world’s
needy children.
The Pope is shown in a special photograph taken in the Vatican
examining the 1959 Appeal poster. Its theme, “Your Charity . . .
Their Hope!” Other photographs show various activities of the
Bishops’ overseas relief agency. Assistance programs providing
clothing, surplus foods, medical supplies and other relief services
are carried on in fifty-one countries.
His Holiness stated, “The message we bring to you is a message
oi love-God s love for all mankind, and especially for you, and
your duty to love God in return and your neighbor for His sake.”
j-oii can help the person-to-person relief programs with a contri-
buiion to the nearest Catholic church or the Bishops’ Relief Fund.
Empire Elate Building, Now York 1, N. Y.
St. Mary’s
Home Guild
Meets Sunday
SAVANNAH — A meeting of
the St. Mary’s Home Guild will
be held on Sunday, March 8
at 3:30 p. m. in the auditorium
of the Home and will be follow
ed by open house and a social
hour.
Mrs. Arthur Fleming, presi
dent, urges all Catholic men
and women to be present and
give their support to the Home
by becoming members of the
Guild.
A new slate of officers for
the coming year will be present
ed by a nominating committee
composed of Mrs. John Brennan,
chairman, Mrs. Grant Golden-
star, and Mrs. Edward Mulligan.
St. Mary’s Glee Club will pre
sent a musical program under
the direction of Rev. Felix Don
nelly. The afternoon’s activities
will end with Benediction cele
brated by His Excellency, Bish
op Thomas J. McDonough.
State Body
Receives Motion
Picture Bill
COLUMBUS, Ohio (NC) — A
bill to classify motion pictures
as either for adult or family
consumption has been introduc
ed into the Ohio House by Rep.
Paul J. Lynch of Columbus.
Mr. Lynch’s bill would be ad
ministered under the state de
partment. of Education by an
eight-man board which would
examine and classify all films
prior to exhibition, except cur
rent events films, portraying
pictorial news of the day and
films commonly known as news
reels and scientific or educa
tional films.
Under this classification bill
those exhibiting films classified
as “adult” to persons under 18
years of age, or anyone pro
curing a ticket for a minor for
an “adult” film would be subject
to fines ranging from $25 to
$300 for the first offense and
from $300 to $500 for each sub
sequent offense.
Checks on false movie adver
tising would be provided under
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Sunday will be part of a nation
wide drive to obtain funds for
the worldwide relief programs
carried on by Catholic Relief
Services of the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference, it was
announced by Bishop Thomas J.
McDonough, Auxiliary Bishop
of Savannah. Noting that in the
past fifteen years relief supplies
valued at well over 723 million
dollars have been sent to needy
overseas by the U. S. Catholic
Bishops’ world-wide agency,
Bishop McDonough expressed
“confidence that the people of
the diocese will respond to this
year’s appeal with sacrificial
generosity.”
In a letter sent to the heads
of all U. S. Dioceses, Archbishop
Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati,
chairman of the NCWC admin
istrative board said that Ameri
can Catholics’ generous support
of the program for the last year
alone enabled CRS-NCWC to
supply “surplus food, clothing,
medicines and various services
having a value of over $140,000,-
000.”
Pope Commends Generosity
Of American Catholics
In a letter addressed to the
Archbishops and Bishops of the
United States, taking note of
this annual appeal, His Holiness,
Pope John XXIII said, “The
Catholics of the United States
of America have deservedly
gained a reputation for their
lively faith, for their fervor in
the practice of their religion,
and for the unselfish enthusiasm
with which they devote them
selves to various praiseworthy
forms of apostolic activity . . .
They are giving an inspiring ex
ample to others, and they pro
vide additional grounds for con
fidence in the future of the
Church.” The pontiff commend
ed the “wholehearted dedica
tion to those good works with
out which faith is dead” on the
part of American Catholics and
called it “proof of the vigorous
faith of the Catholic people of
America.”
Declaring that he is “painful
ly aware of the pressing need
for charity which still exists in
very many parts of the world,”
His Holiness called for the con
tinued “generous solidarity and
support of Our Beloved chil
dren in the United States.”
Bishop’s Relief Fund authori
ties in a fact sheet recently
published, said that the relief
agency shipped more than one
billion pounds of surplus milk,
cheese, wheat, flour, corn, com
meal and rice, valued at over
$86 million, to 38 different coun-
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Archbishop
Has Papal
Audience
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC)
—Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara,
Bishop of Savannah, Ga., and
ARCHBISHOP O'HARA
Apostolic Delegate to Great
Britain, was received in a pri
vate audience by His Holiness
Pope John XXIII.
Archbishop O’Hara came here
on Church business, but his
meeting with the Pope was a
courtesy call, rather than offi
cial business. During his stay in
Rome he was guest at a lunch
eon at the North American Col
lege at which Bishop Martin J.
O’Connor, rector of the college,
was host.
ST. MARY'S HOME for Girls, Savannah. Meeting held here
on March 8 will see new officers presented for St. Mary’s Home
Guild.
Chancery Open House
His Excellency, Bishop Thomas J. McDonough,
Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah, extends to the public
a most cordial invitation to inspect the new Chancery
Building on Sunday, March 15, between the hours of
3 and 5 p. m.
NEW CHANCERY BUILDING in Savannah, housing key Diocesan offices. It will be open
for public inspection Sunday, March 15, from 3 to 5 p. m.