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PAGE 8—THE BULLETIN, August 22, 1959
Private
Crusade
(Continued from Page 1)
sored by Bishop Edward A.
Fitzgerald of Winona and the
local Council of Catholic Men.
“Would this not be in keeping
with the true spirit of Chris
tianity — the Christianity of
the catacombs where the lay
people prayed for the conversion
of their pagan oppressors?” he
asked.
(in Boston, a public no vena
in archdiocesan churches to be
gin on Septemner 15, the day
Premier Khrushchev arrives, has
been announced by ills Emi
nence Richard Cardinal Sush-
mg, Archbishop of Boston).
Mr. Work called it a "pity”
that the Red ruler wil have the
honor of being received in this
country.
“now far have we gone down
the road away from Christian
principles tnat it becomes a
necessity in American foreign
policy to offer the hospitality
or free religious people to com
munism's chief aposiie — whose
gospel preaches that there is no
Cod, no bon of God, no soui,
no heaven and no next; who
laughes at freedom and all the
things that as both Christian
and American we have fought
and died for.”
Mr. Work said there is no
question but that U. b. leaders
feel the possibility for good out
weighs the possibilities for harm
in Mr. Khrushchev’s visit.
“Whether they are right or
wrong, the pity of it is that in
our constant failing struggle for
peace on Christian terms, we
have had to surrender to this
indignity in the name of . peace,”
he said.
“Yet, even in the face of this,
we must act with dignity and
uphold our nation’s honor,” he
added.
Historian
(Continued from Tage 1)
love and reverence that Eliza
beth Seton manifested for God
from her earliest childhood.
“To have lived within the ra
diance of Mother Seton’s own
gentle presence was a privilege
enjoyed not oniy by her Sisters
in religion, but also on many oc
casions by the bishops and
priests of her time, who recog
nized in her a sqjil of uncom
mon sanctity to which they felt
a strong attraction. That, per
haps, would account for the fact
that, in spite of the difficulties
of travel in that early age, they
came from far away to this val
ley as frequently as possible to
converse with the mother of
this house.”
Auxiliary Bishop John M.
McNamara of Washington, for
many years a leader in pro
moting the cause of Mother Set
on, closed the day’s ceremonies
with Benediction of the Bless
ed Sacrament.
Gov. J. Millard Taw r es of
Maryland proclaimed the day
“St. Joseph College Sesquicen-
tennial Day.” The Governor
said the women's college “has
played a strong historical role
in Maryland and throughout the
nation.”
A public petition for Mother
Seton’s canonization was made
to Pope John last December 18
at the first public consistory of
his reign. The Pope at that time
gave his formal consent to pro
ceed with her beatification
cause.
Savannah Services
For Waiter D. Lyons
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Funeral
services for Walter Dennis
Lyons were held August 10th
at the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist.
Survivors are two sisters, Miss
Helen Lyons and Mrs. Rosemary
L. Clarke; a brother, Claude A.
Lyons, all of Savannah; several
nieces and nephews.
PRAYER
FOR VOCATIONS
O God, hear our prayer
and let our cry come unlo
Thee.
Bless our Diocese of Sav
annah with many priestly
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 Priesiiy Son.
—-Indulgence of seven years
Mary, Queen of the Clergy,
pray for us.
St. John Vianney, pray for
us.
Imprimatur;
-j-Thomas J. McDonough
Prize Winning Essay
“Consecration Of The
Home To The Sacred Heart”
(By Suzanne Lawrence)
Suzanne Lawrence of Au
gusta placed first in the Dio
cesan Council of Caiholic Wo-
Men's 1959 Essay Contest.
(Group 11)
Consecrating the home to the
Sacred Heart is but one of the
many ways to show our devo-
MISS SUZANNE LAWRENCE
tion and love of the Sacred
Heart.
In doing such a thing as de
voting the home to the Sacred
Heart, we must know something
of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
To explain this, one must first
know of the heart of flesh
which is accepted as the em
blem, or symbol of life with
which we associate it. But
wiiether the object of the devo
tion to the Sacred Heart is the
heart of flesh or the love of
Jesus Christ signified by the
word heart; or the heart or flesh
but as a symbol of the life of
Jesus and especially of his love
for us, there is still a devotion.
Therefore the devotion is bas
ed entirely upon the symbolism
of the heart. It is this symbol
ism of the wounded heart of
Christ that shows His love for
us. Jesus Christ came into the
world to suffer with us as well
as for us. Every sort of suf
fering has a claim on His Di
vide compassion.
The heart is aiso an emblem
of love which reminds us of
how we should love the Sacred
Heart with ail desire. Our Lord
more than once showed His love
for little children; When a
crowd of women came with
their little ones begging Him to
bless them and tne disciples
tried to push them aside, Jesus
interposed: “Suffer the little
children to come to Me.” And
then He called them one by one
and blessed each one and laid
upon each His Sacred Hands.
Yvnat graces must have flowed
into tne nearts of those famed
children!
in consecrating a home to the
Sacred Heart a priest is called
in and he blesses and conse
crates the home and its mem
bers in the name of the Sacred
Heart. The word consecrate, ac
cording to Webster, means to
devote or dedicate. When a
home is consecrated to the Sac
red Heart the members of the
family may feel sure that their
home is in the greatest of care
and is being watched over al
ways.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart
is a very wonderful thing and
there is not enough to be said
and known about Him. Accord
ing to Webster a home is a liv
ing place of a united family, and
to me there is no better way to
have a happy and united home
than to have it consecrated to
the Sacred Heart.
My mother as a child was not
a Catholic, but when she met
my father he told her of the
Catholic Church and the won
derful privilege of belonging to
the faith. He told her of the
different saints and of the Sac
red Heart. As you may have
guessed, she was married to my
father as a Catholic and one
would never know that she was
once a Protestant. She has a
special devotion to the Sacred
Hear for which I am very
proud, and I thank God for giv
ing me such wonderful parents.
I think that every Catholic
home should be consecrated to
the Sacred Heart in order to ob
tain the special indulgences and
also to have the greatest pro
tection of all.
AUGUSTA
DEANERY “
1EETI1G
AUGUSTA—Mrs. L. J. Ward,
president of the Augusta Dean
ary Council of Catholic Women,
announced the chairmen for the
coming year at the summer
board meeting which was held
Friday evening at St. Mary’s
Hail. They are as follows: Co
operating with Catholic Chari
ties, Mrs. G. W. Andrews; Co
operating with Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine, Mrs. H. B.
Roberts; Civil Defense, Mrs. H.
E. Colley; Family and Parent
Education; Mrs. William H. Bar
rett; Foreign Relief, Miss Fran
ces Casey; Home and School
Association, Mrs. Jack Johan-
nsen; Library and Literature,
Mrs. James Cullum; Organiza
tion and Development, Mrs. F.
X. Mulherin; Public Relations,
Mrs. Ernest Dinkins; Spiritual
Development, Mrs. J. Lee Ether-
edge, Jr., St. Mary’s Guild, Mrs.
D. F. Whaley; U. S. O., Mrs.
Victor Casella; Youth, Mrs. A.
T. Cole and Hospital, Mrs. M. C.
Stulb.
Mrs. Richard Z. Craig is re
cording secretary, Mrs. W. H.
Holmes, Jr., is corresponding
secretary and Mrs. D. J. O’Con
nor is parliamentarian. The fol
lowing presidents of the parish
councils are the deanery vice-
presidents: Mrs. Louise Battey,
St. Mary’s; Miss Pauline Peuf-
fier, Sacred Heart; Mrs. H. S.
Buckley, St. Patrick’s; Mrs.
Stephen Szemceak, St. Joseph’s,
all of Augusta, and Mrs. Zolton
Farkas, St. Matthew’s, in States
boro; and Mrs. Thomas Kellan,
Immaculate Conception, in Dub
lin.
The council accepted, with re
gret, the resignation of Mrs.
Wm. Anthony, as treasurer. Mrs.
Anthony and her family are
moving to Atlanta.
Mrs. Ward announced that the
first regular meeting of the Au
gusta Deanery C. C. W. will be
held on Rosary Sunday, October
4. Mrs. Ward will give the high
lights of her recent attendance
at the N. C. C. W. Leadership
Institute which was held in
Williamsburg, Va. Exact time
and place of the fall deanery
meeting, will be announced at
an early date.
The recording secretary read
the deanery constitution and the
Savannah Deanery
Outlines Activities
For Coming Year
SAVANNAH — A meeting
of the executive board of the
Savannah Deanery Council of
Catholic Women was held on
August 4th, at Johnny Ganem’s
Restaurant. An opening invoca
tion to Our Lady of Good Coun
sel was led by the Very Rev
erend John Toomey, Spiritual
Director of the Savannah Dean
ery.
All 1959-60 committee chair
men present were introduced by
Mrs. Arnold J. Seyden, presi
dent. Each chairman presented
a tentative outline of activities
and projects planned for the
coming year. A stimulating dis
cussion and helpful suggestions
made by all members followed
the individual reports.
The first regular meeting of
the Savannah Deanery Council
of Catholic Women will be held
in the fall at Savannah Beach
with St. Michael’s Parish as
host. An announcement of the
time and date will be made in
the near future.
Guests from the Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women
present were Mrs. S. F. Ledlie,
Mrs. Julian Halligan, Mrs. Ar
thur Fleming. Executive Board
members in attendance were
Very Reverend John D. Toom
ey, Mrs. Arnold J. Seyden, Mrs.
Cecile Fitzpatrick, Mrs. James
H. Powers, Mrs. John Ganem,
Miss Johanna Daly, Mrs. Kath
erine Huggins, Mrs. George
Chandler, Mrs. Owen Porter,
Mrs. A. J. Schano, Mrs, Edmund
Anderson, Mrs. William C.
Broderick, Mrs. Anthony B.
Purdy and Mrs. M. J. Prouty.
president urged the board mem
bers to familiarize themselves
with the document, and stressed
the imporance of a chairman’s
attendance at board meetings.
The deanery chairmen were
asked to contact each parish
chairman on her particular com
mittee. The chairmen were
given an outline of their duties.
The board voted unanimously
to continue to purchase the
cellutone filler to be distributed
to the parish councils for use
in the dressings made for Our
Lady of Perpetual Help Free
Cancer Home, in Atlanta.
The modern day miser is any
one who can live within his in
come.
The man who tries to strike
it rich usually strikes out.
EULOGY
Most Rev. Michael J. Keyes, S. M.
Given by Bishop Hannan
at tlie funeral ot fhe Most
Reverend Michael J. Keyes,
S.M., D.D., Sf. Gabriel's
Church.
“As tor me, I am already be
ing poured out in sacrifice, and
tne time of my deliverance is
at hand. I have fought the good
fight, I have finished the course,
I nave kept the faith. For the
rest, there is laid up for me a
crown of justice.”
These words written by St.
Paul to Timotny whiie St. Paul
lay in prison in Rome with the
keen ot premonition of his death
apply aiso to Bishop Keyes. For
line St. Paul, he had a constant
and mconquerable faith that
translated everything in his life
into terms of grace and belief
in God.
His faith had so transfused his
life as to seem to be a part of
his nature. As St. Thomas
Aquinas said, the things learn
ed in early childhood have the
force of nature, and the early
training of Bishop Keyes in
County Kerry in the faith of
Christ gave him a deeply-rooted
and pervasive faith. He walked
through life with God with an
unpretentious and spontaneous
familiarity. To taik with him,
however casual and pedestrian
the subject, was to be remind
ed of the presence of God.
As with people of deep faith,
who always measure the world
ly with the eternal, he had a
charming sense of humor. Al
though humor may not be a vir
tue, it was not only refined by
his faith, but was also used in
its service. Very often his hu
morous remarks, redolent of the
land of his birth, were a witty
reminder of the vanity of hu
man pretentions. He always en
joyed the deflation of over-pre
tention and was always ready to
lend a practiced hand for such
a task.
The faith of Bishop Keyes
was never more evident than in
his treatment of persons. He had
a firm grasp of the truth that
God is no respector of persons
and to him all were souls of in
finite worth created by God.
The talented and the untalent-
ed, the important and the un
important in the eyes of the
world, received equal attention.
As one would say in the land of
his birth, “he could not tell the
difference between people.”
The depth and beauty of the
faith of Bishop Keyes impress
ed all those whom he contacted
and influenced during his many
years and his many different
labors in the vineyard of Christ
-—as a teacher before he became
a Marist, during his years of in
struction in college, as a profes
sor of the sacred sciences in
the Marist seminary, for the ten
years of his labors as a secre
tary in the Apostolic Delega
tion, and during his many years
as chief pastor of the Diocese of
Savannah, and then in his years
of retirement which were also
fruitful for the kingdom of
Christ.
In all this diversity of labor,
the virtue of faith was applied
in a manifold way according to
the demands of the labor at
hand. Its most striking applica
tion was as the Ordinary of the
diocese of Savannah. In that
sacred office, his faith, which
evoked the virtues necessary for
the fulfillment of his duties,
was particularly revealed in his
charity, his patience and his
humility. His actions revealed
how completely he had given
his response in words and work
to the questions proposed in the
ceremony of consecration as a
bishop, “Wilt thou thyself ob
serve and likewise teach others
to observe humility and pa
tience?” and “Wilt thou, for the
Lord’s sake, be affable and mer
ciful to the poor and to pilgrims
and to all those in need?”
Undoubtedly, Bishop Keyes
was richly endowed by nature
with the qualities necessary for
the perfection of these virtues.
But he acquired and perfected
those virtues by his constant
and unfailing application. He
followed the “in season and out
of season” perserverance urged
by St. Paul to make these vir
tues an abiding quality of his
everyday life. Pernaps the per
fection of these virtues tended
to hide the long and constant ef
fort required to produce them
but their presence is proof of
that effort.
Those who live by the faith,
who are moved by tnat faith to
practice tire virtues of charity
and Humility, always gain a
perceptive insight into cnarac-
ter, a sovereign view of all
tilings sub specie aetermtatis.
Bisnop Kyees Had acquired that
viewpoint which led him to dis
regard ail pretentiousness and
pomposity. Tne light of Christ
shone cieariy and truly through
his soul. Although he recogniz
ed human foibles as such his
gentleness never permitted a
brusque or rough reprimand.
His humor would always tahe
adequate care of such a situa
tion.
In that spirit of serene faith
which characterized the life of
Bishop Keyes we commend his
soul to God, His creator, His Re
deemer, His support and His
hope. May Christ, the High
Priest, for whose service he re
ceived the fullness of the priest
hood, grant him the reward for
which he strove all his life —
His Divine Presence in heaven.
May the words of promise in the
Preface of the Requiem Mass
which he so often pronounced,
be speedily fulfilled for him,
“For unto thy faithful, O Lord,
life is changed, not taken away,
and this earthly abode being
dissolved a worthy habitation
is prepared in heaven.”
Services For
Mrs. Aimar
THUNDERBOLT, Ga. — Fu
neral services for Mrs. Barbara
A. Aimar were held August 12th
at the Church of the Nativity,
Rev. Felix Donnelly officiating.
Survivors are three daughters,
Miss Ruth R. Aimar, Thunder
bolt; Mrs. Helen Dubue, Shelby,
Ohioo and Mrs. Barbara Ellis,
Columbia, S. C.; four sons, Tho
mas M. Aimar, Sr., and Francis
E. Aimar, both of Savannah;
William W. Aimar, Beaufort,
S. C.; and Robert M. Aimar,
Thunderbolt; two brothers,
Charles Aeger and Lawrence
Aeger, both of Savannah; 13
grandchildren, 28 great-grand
children and a number of nieces
and nephews.
First jamcrican 0aint
T^VERY year thousands of persons visit the sanctuary of St. Rose of Lima, a Peruvian
-•—* nun who was canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671, thus making her the first saint
of the Americas.
Christened Isabel de Santa Maria, she was born on the site of the present sanctuary on
April 30, 1586, but her beauty inspired the change in her name to Rose. As a girl she was
engaged to a young man in her village, but decided against marriage, choosing instead to
devote her life to the poor and homeless. St. Rose died in 1617 at the age of 31.
Work on the sanctuary, which is in charge of the Dominican monks, was begun in 1669,
the main church having been built in 1874. It is said that the birds followed Rose when
she walked in the garden and that they stopped their song while she prayed. She is the
patroness of the city of Lima and also of the Americas.
Peruvian Nun Canonized
Nearly 3 Centuries Ago
THIS CROWN OF SPIKES was worn by
St. Rose to keep her awake at night
so she would have more time to pray.
THIS AGED CANVAS, done of St. Rose
during her lifetime by an unknown
artist, hangs on a wall in the room
where she was born in Lima, Peru.
IT IS SAID THAT BLOOD GUSHED from the knees of this
figure of Christ on the Cross while St. Rose prayed before
it. The feast day for St. Rose of Peru is August 30.
LED BY A YOUNG MONK, visitors offer prayers before the main altar of St. Rose of Lima
Catholic Church in Lima, Peru. This is the main altar in the church’s sanctuary. The re
mains of file nun, who was canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671, are kept in the church.
TWO PRIESTS STAND in the doorway of the St. Rose of
Lima Church in Lima, Peru. The church was built on
the site of the saint’s birthplace.
