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PAGE 8—THE BULLETIN, November 25, 1961.
Sponsored By Ladies Auxiliary
St. Mary's Parish
Library Now Open
AUGUSTA — Great pro
gress has been made in estab
lishing a library for St. Ma
ry’s Parish, according to Mrs.
William Barrett, chairman of
St. Mary’s Ladies Auxiliary
Library, who reported at the
monthly meeting of the Auxil
iary November 15th in the
parish hall.
The library already has over
100 volumes and is open to
parishioners following the
9:30 Mass on Sundays, Mrs.
Barrett said.
Mrs. Graham Deriso, presi
dent, presided at the meeting
and announced that the birth
day girl from St. Joseph’s
Home in Savannah is Miss
Merrill Fender. The organiza
tion will provide clothing, gifts
and a party for her ninth
birthday on November 26.
Mrs. J. Lee Etheredge, Jr.,
chairman of Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine and Family
and Parent education, an
nounced that there are 12 act
ive study clubs in the parish.
More will be organized should
there be a demand for them.
Plans for a Christmas bake
sale were announced by Mrs.
Henry J. Crosby, Jr., ways and
means chairman. Proceeds
from the sale of homemade
cookies, cakes and candies will
be used to complete furnish
ing of the newly-renovated
parish hall. The sales will fol
low the principal Masses, be
ginning 10 days before Christ
mas.
Members were requested to
contribute religious articles to
be sent to Father George Ma
this who will distribute them
among inmates of the State
Prison at Reidsville.
Also discussed at the meet-
Cathedra!
Home & School
Heating
SAVANNAH — The sixth
grade students of the Cathe
dral Day School, under the di
rection of Sister M. Mercedes,
R.S.M., paid tributes to Na
tional Education Week and
Catholic Book Week at the No
vember meeting of the Home
and School Association. The
program centered - around the
life of Joel Chandler Harris
and other Georgia authors. Sis
ter Mercedes’ class also won
the attendance prize.
Mrs. Jack McAfee, Jr. Serv
ice Representative of Smith,
Kline and French Laboratories
was the guest speaker and the
topic of his talk was the “Pre
scription for Tomorrow” in
which he outlined the progress
made in medicine and the ad
vancement to be made in re
search in the future.
Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James Mc-
Namara called attention to the
special Mass to be offered on
the Feast of the Immaculate
Conception, December 8th, at
8 o’clock at the Cathedral of
St. John the Baptist. The choir
from the Trinitarian Seminary
in Alabama will sing the
Mass.
Mrs. Julian Halligan, pro
gram chairman, announced
that His Excellency, Bishop
Thomas J. McDonough, would
be the speaker at the Decem
ber meeting.
Meeting Of
St. Patrick’s
Parish Council
AUGUSTA — Highlighting
the November meeting of St.
Patrick’s Altar Society and
Council of Catholic Women
was the showing of the inter
esting and informative civil
defense film, “Seconds for
Survival”, by Mr. Kermit
Falk, a representative of
Southern Bell Telegraph ,and
Telephone Company.
The Council unanimioi/sly
voted a donation to the
American Red Cross to be
used to purchase Christmas
gifts for patients at the Vet
erans and Fort Gordon Hos
pitals.
Mrs. T. P. Stallings, Mrs.
Annie Humphry and Mrs. W.
L. Riggs volunteered to as
sist the Augusta Tuberculos
is Assn, with their December
Seal Sale.
Mrs. T. P. Stallings, chair
man of Foreign Relief, re
quested members to bring to
the December meeting an ar
ticle of new clothing for
children from infancy to six
years of age. These garments
will be sent to the Holy Fa
ther’s Warehouse for distribu
tion to needy children through
put the world.
ing was the Bishop’s Clothing
Drive which is now in pro
gress. Clean, wearable clothing
is being collected and packed
by members to be shipped to
needy people of the world at
Thanksgiving.
Mrs. David Hanson, program
chairman, introduced Father
Colm Moriarty who spoke on
“The Meaning and Purpose of
Advent.”
The meeting was adjourned
with a prayer by Msgr. Daniel
J. Bourke.
Mrs. Ann Zahler, Mrs. Re-
zelle San Fantello and Mrs.
Vivian Picciuolo were hostess
es at the social hour.
ALBANY— St. Teresa’s
Catholic Woman’s Council met
on November 6th in the Par
ish Hall and had as their
guests for the meeting, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert McCormack,
who showed slides and gave
a very interesting talk on
their recent trip to the Holy
Land.
Mrs. Arron Duke, Chairman
of the Barbecue reported the
event wil be held on Decem
ber 2nd and serving with her
will be Mrs. Dewey Calley,
Co-Chairman; Mrs. Frank Sut
ton and Mrs. George Hughey,
Tickets; Mrs. D. J. Clayton
and Mrs. Ernst Fudge, Kitch
en; Mrs. Robert McCormack,
Cakes; Mrs. Wm. Bacon,
Clean-up; Mrs. A. T. Cqganie-
wicz, Salad and Mrs. Thomas
Coleman, Coffee.
Mrs. Ray Dwornick, Co-
chairman of Catholic Chari
ties asked for contributions for
the food baskets for Thanks
giving and Christmas and a
substantial amount was col
lected.
Mrs. Robert McCormack,
Civil Defense Chairman, re
ported that nineteen ladies had
signed up for the Red Cross
First Aid Course which would
be held in the Parish Hall on
Wednesday mornings.
The work on the cancer pads
had begun and to date 226
pads had been completed, of
which 136 have ■ been sent
to the Cancer Home in Atlan
ta, under the direction of Mrs.
Leslie Cahill, Co-chairman of
Catholic Charities.
Literature was distributed
by Mrs. D. J. Clayton, St. Ma
ry’s Home Chairman, concern
ing the home and members
were requested to read this
and see if they could assist in
any way.
Mrs. Frank Sutton, Mrs.
Dewey Colley, Mrs. Leslie Ca
hill and Mrs. Mary Fleming
v/ere thanked for the lovely
new curtains in the Parish
Flail.
It was reported by Mrs.
Kenneth Hutrxick, Vice-Presi
dent that the next Council
meeting would be the Christ
mas luncheon on December
4th.
A social hour was enjoyed
at the close of the meeting.
NEW YORK (NC) — The
president of the Family Serv
ice Association of America has
called for an intensive pro
gram to combat family break
downs, which is called the na
tion^ “No. 1 social problem.”
Frederick G. Storey, who ad
dressed the opening session of
the group’s four-day biennial
meeting here, said that one of
every four marriages this year
would probably end in divorce.
“One in three couples,” he
said, “or 13,000,000 married
couples, are not finding the
happiness in marriage which
they seek. It is tragic that in
such households, it is most
often the children who suffer.”
Story proposed that a con
ference on family life be spon
sored by the Kennedy Admini
stration. In this way, he said,
the seriousness of the problem
could be brought to the at
tention of the country.
More than 1,500 representa
tives of the 308 member agen
cies in this country and Cana
da attended the meeting.
SAINT ANN'S
ALTAR SOCIETY
ALAPAHA — Sain Ann’s
Altar Society held its monthly
meeting on the 3rd, with Mrs.
Virginia Boyett presiding. The
meeting was opened with the
recitation of a decade of the
Rosary for world peace.
Father Flater gave a talk on
“Catholic Living.”
First Trappist Abbey Is Mother of Four Foundations
The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane, established in 1848
near Bardstown, Ky., by 44 Trappist monks from France,
is the first Cistercian monastery founded on American soil.
The abbey is located only a few miles from where Abraham
Lincoln was bom, and one of Lincoln’s first teachers, Zach-
aria Riney, a Catholic schoolmaster, is buried outside the
monastery gate. Since World War II, the abbey has grown
phenomenally and made four foundations of its own—in
Georgia, Utah, South Carolina and New York. Upper left,
the abbey gate is pictured with the words “Pax Intrantibus”
(Peace to All Who Enter) inscribed above it. In photo at
upper light, Trappist Brothers are busy plowing part of the
2,300-acre farm. Below at left, a monk walks along a mon
astery corridor lined with religious and inspirational pictures.
Shown at lower right is a lay brother at work in the abbey’s
cobbler shop. The Cistercian Abbey also serves as a model
of modem farming methods to Kentucky farmers, boasting
a fine swine herd and a herd of about 50 milk cows.
(NC Photos)
U. S. Bishops Warn —
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the mass communications med
ia, the Bishops noted that,
while they have done much for
human welfare, they have also
“inflicted on the modern world
a pernicious cult of the ‘im
age’.”
“Submerged beneath waves
of publicity from ‘image-
makers’ and ‘hidden persuad
ers,’ modern man tends to be
come a victim of the image,”
they said. “Whether a thing is
true is less important than the
impression it creates. Man’s
moral focus is distorted . . .
The rosy deception is rated
good if it succeeds — in selling
more products, in winning
more votes, in convincing more
taxpayers.”
On the question of education,
the Bishops noted that relig
ious pluralism and a growth in
secularism have produced “the
school without religion.”
“It was idle to suppose that
this school could long inculcate
in American youth moral con
victions which would be firm
ly held,” they said. “The re
sult is that our society is now
faced with great numbers of
young people almost complete
ly devoid of religious belief
and moral guidance — young
people who are causing in
creasing concern at every level
of the community and in all
parts of our country.”
But beneath all these trends,
the Bishops declared, is the
influence of secularism. “Un
der its influence,” they said,
“men may not perhaps deny
God; on formal occasions, they
may even mention His name.
In practice, however, they sim
ply ignore His existence.”
They charged that under the
influence of secularism men
either disregard moral prin
ciples or “reduce them to hazy
generalities. In general, the
only sanctions they recognize
are those supplied by individu
al taste, public opinion and
the power of the state.”
In the fact of this moral de
cline, the Bishops said, the
most obvious duty of a relig
ious person is “to speak out, to
make open profession of relig
ious beliefs and moral convic
tions, to reaffirm morality as
the foundation of our nation’s
past greatness and of its future
aspirations.”
Religiously motivated
Americans, they said, must be
“prepared to demonstrate the
falseness of the claims of scien
tism, the hollowness and futili
ty of the cult of the image, the
corrosive effect of secularism
on both the individual and so
ciety.”
“Especially we must recog
nize and affirm the essential
place of religion and morality
in the formation of the human
personality, if we are to sur
vive as a moral people.”
The Bishops urged Ameri
cans to show by their actions
“that the soundness of society
depends on the principles of
family life: the unity and sanc
tity of marriage, parental duty
and authority, filial reverence
and obedience.”
They stressed that “God
fearing people . . . must also
give testimony to the reality
and importance of those moral
principles governing m a n’s
wider social relationship.”
They said that these princi
ples are contained in the papal
social encyclicals of the past
70 years and stressed that “we
•have the duty to know these
principles through study and
reading, through reflection
and prayer.”
“The moral influence of
these social principles must be
made to permeate all of socie
ty and its institutions,” they
continued. “The laborer must
bring them to his union meet
ings; the industrialist to the
business world; the teacher to
his class; the parent to his
home — each to the sphere of
life in which he moves.”
St. Teresa’s
P.T J. Hears
Fr. Cuddy
ALBANY—Rev. John Cud
dy, Diocesan Superintendent
of Schools, was the guest
speaker at the November
meeting of St. Teresa’s PTA.
Father Cuddy gave a resume
of his life at the St. John Vian-
ney Seminary where he is
now vice-rector, and also
spoke on the school system
and the problem of Federal
Aid to Education. Father
Pointed out that there are
now 22 elementary schools and
8 high schools in the Savan
nah Diocese and St. Teresas’
is the second largest.
Mr. Bob McCormick, Jr.,
President, expressed appreci
ation to all the warkers who
had contributed to the suc
cess of the recent Carnival.
The Executive Board sug
gested that the profit from
this project be given to Fath
er Marvin LeFrois for the
Building Fund and a motion
to this effect was made and
carried.
The attendance prize was
won by Sister M. Leonard
Therese’s grade 1A.
The PTA will hold its an
nual Chicken Barbecue Sup
per on January 20th.
Refreshments were served
at the close of the meeting by
the first grade mothers.
EDITOR PRIEST IS PRESSMAN TOO
Father Peter R. Tomay, O.F.M., a World War II refugee from Hungary, supervises the
press run of his Franciscan community’s yearbook and the 1962 calendar. He is manag
ing editor of the Catholic Hungai’ian Sunday newspaper, published in Youngstown, Ohio,
which has a circulation of more than 5,000 in North and South America, Europe and the
Far East. Father Tornay is a member of the Commissariat of St. Stephen Province,
comprised ot priests and brothers from central Hungary. (Is(p Photos)
Ten Postulants For
Third
BRUNSWICK—Ten postu
lants of the Third Order of
Mary were received as novices
at ceremonies in St. Francis
Xavier Church, November 1st.
The Postulants were pre
sented by Mrs. P. D. Joines,
Jr. (Sister M. Bernadette, Mis
tress of Novices), and were
received into the Order by
the Rev. Andrew A. Walls,
S. M., Spiritual Advisor.
Each Teritary received a
Saint’s name and was invest
ed with the blue cord, em
blematic of the Order, After
the ceremony, Father Paul
Burkhart S. M., pastor of St.
Francis Xavier congratulated
the novices.
Received were Mrs. Carmen
Fernandes (Sr. M. Raphael);
Catholic
Woman’s Club
Meeting
SAVANNAH — The Catho
lic Woman’s Club of Savannah
held its November meeting at
the Club Rooms with the pres
ident, Mrs. John E. Buckley,
presiding.
The following new mem
bers were elected: Miss Angela
McDonough, Miss Helen Cool
ey, Mrs. Marguerite Handiboe,
Mrs. Allie L. Cowart, Mrs. Jos
eph F. Dillon, Mrs. William G.
Saunders, Mrs. Ann G. Giles,
Mrs. Walter Futch, Mrs. John
E. Struck, Mrs. A. J. Greven-
berg and Mrs. Mary Young.
Mrs. Agnes Tarver was nam
ed chairman of the Christmas
baskets for the needy families
and Mrs. Joseph E. Kelly will
be chairman for the Christmas
party for the guests of the Lit
tle Sisters of the Poor, on De
cember 14th. Mrs. Cecile R.
Fitzpatrick and Miss Marga
ret Collins will collect the
gifts for the patients at Mill-
edgeville and Grace wood,
sponsored by Savannah Fede
ration of Women’s Clubs and
the Chatham-Savannah Mental
Health Association. Mrs. Frank
L. Hester, Jr., chairman of the
Christmas party for members
announced it would be held at
the Knights of Columbus Hall
on December 12th and all
members were requested to
bring a gift to put under the
tree.
Mrs. Leo Galvin of Detroit,
Mich., was a guest at the meet
ing and spoke on the National
Council of Catholic Women’s
Convention to be held in De
troit in 1962 and encouraged
all to try and attend this con
vention.
Rev. Andrew Doris, O.S.B.,
Chaplain of the club, held the
discussion club on “Study
The Mass,” after which a so
cial hour was enjoyed.
Mary
Mrs. J. Armnad Lloyd (Sr. M.
Thomas Joseph); J. Armand
Lloyd (Brother M. Paul); Mrs.
Leo McAnulty (Sr. Mary
John); Mrs. C. J. Meyer (Sr.
M. Therese of the Little Flow
er); Miss Grace Moore (Sr. M.
Loretta); Mrs. Joana O’Brien
(Sr. M. Monica); Mrs. Frank
Ratcliff (Sr. M. Cecelia); Mrs.
Manuel Santos (Sr. M. Chris
tina); and Mrs. Louis A. Va-
lente (Sr. M. Joseph).
Members who have profes
sed for one year or more are:
Mrs. Alice Grogan (Sr. M.
Catherine); Mrs. Virginia
Howard (Sr. M. Monica); Mrs.
P. D. Joines, Jr. (Sr. M. Ber
nadette); Miss Margaret Mc-
Garvey (Sr. M. Elizabeth);
Mrs. Rosemary Patrick (Sr. M.
Patricia); Miss Elizabeth Peck
(Sr. Mary Angela); Frank Rat
cliff e (Brother M. Paul); Mrs.
Elizabeth Goodyear (Sr. M.
Agnes); Mrs. Tillie Johnson
(Sr. M. Theresa); and Mrs.
Katie LaRose (Sr. M. Therese
of the Litle Flower).
The Third Order of Mary
was approved by the Holy See
in 1850, and is open to all
Catholics in. good standing,
who do not belong to another
Third Order. Marist Tertiaries
share in the prayers and
Apostolic works of the Marist
Order throughout the world.
National Legion
Chaplain Will
Visit Georgia
SAVANNAH—Father Rob
ert Keating, of Cheshire,
Conn., National Chaplain of
the American Legion will vis
it Savgnnah, November 30, to
address a Membership and
Post Activities Conclave of
the First District of Georgia
at the Neptunalia Restaurant.
Father Keating’s visit is
sponsored by the three Savan
nah Legion Posts.
All American Legionnaires
in the State Council are invit
ed to attend the Conclave.
DANGER SEEN-
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other lands nivarious ways.
Miss Pezzulo continued:
“There are more and more
people who would like ‘to do
something’ for the so-called
underdeveloped lands. We
feel at first glance this may
seem very fine, but there is a
danger that if we do not work
closely with the people who
know what the real needs are
in the newly developing areas,
we shall merely cultivate a
new kind of paternalism oro-
pelled by pity. The resultant
reaction on the part of the
people in Asia, Africa and
Latin America is sure to be
resentment.
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