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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.