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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 — (Continued from Page 1) 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- (Continued from Page 1) signed to aid the peoples of 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. 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