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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 1G, 1924.
L. A. OF BRUNSWICK
NAMES MRS. GILMORE
Other Officers Also Re-elect
ed For Coming Year by
Fine Glynn County Branch.
Special to The Bulletin.
Brunswick. Ga.—Mrs. John Gil
more. for the past year president
of the Brunswick! branch of the Ca
tholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, was re-elected at the an
nual meeting held in the parish hall
July 20. With Mrs. Gilmore were
elected the other officers who have
served during the past year, and
who have made the Brunswick
branch of the association one of the
strongest of its size in the state.
They are: vice-president, Kenneth
Ammons; secretary and treasurer,
Miss Thelma E. Gilmore; executive
committee, Mrs. J. B. Wright, Joseph
Legeour, Mrs. Herbert Johnson, Har
ry De Bignon and George Owens.
' The opening prayer was said by
Rev. Peter McOscar, S. M., pastor
of St. Francis Xavier church, and
publicity director. Richard Reid ad
dressed the meeting on the work
the state association had done dur
ing the year. Miss Thelma Gilmore,
secretary and treasurer, then made
a report for the Brunswick associa
tion a report which revealed the
local association to he very active.
Features of the local association’s
work were the distribution -to^ in
quiring non-Catholics of The Faith
of Our Fathers, The Catholic’s
Ready Answer, and other works, co
operating with the state office in
distributing literature setting forth
the Catholic position on points upon
which they are misunderstood, and
similar activities. The treasury of
the branch was helped by the sale
of pamphlets.
Father McOscar was asked by Mrs.
Gilmore, who presided, to address
the meeting, and he said a few
words commending the work of the
association is doing in defending
Catholic teaching and doctrine and
mitigating prejudice. Father Mc-
Osear was pastor at Sacred Heart
parish in Atlanta in 1920 when the
association conducted the campaign
for members which insured the
permanency of the work. To Father
McOscar s, assistance and interest
the success of the campaign in At
lanta was largely due.
Bishop Raid’s Luxuriant Mind and
Wealth of Character Eulogized
Bishop Boyle of Pittsburgh Pays Tribute to Distinguish
ed Son of His Diocese at Funeral of Abbot of Belmont
and Vicar-Apostolic of North Carolina.
Special to The Bulletin
Belmont Abbey, N. C.—A tribute to the “luxuriant mind and
wealth of character” of the late Rt. Rev. Leo Haid, O. S. B.,
D. D., Abbot of Belmont and Vicar-Apostolic of North Carolina,
which “gave joy to his friends and brightened and enriched the
world in which he lived” was a f eature of the eulogy delivered at
the funeral here July 29 of the venerable prelate, the dean of
the American hierarchy, by Rt. Rev. Hugh C. Boyle, 1). D„ Bishop
of Pittsburgh.
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“From the state and the diocese
in which Bishop Haid was born
and grew to manhood, I bring you
tidings of the great grief of those
who knew him there and the ex
pression of their deepest sympathy
with you because of his death,”
Bishop Boyle began. “His vivid
and attractive personality and his
altogether unusual gifts of mind
and character, have made him live
in the affection and esteem of those
from whom he has been parted dur
ing the long period of his ministry
among you. He was born almost
within the shadow .of the Benedic
tine Monastery, St. Vincent’s, in
which lie afterwards took vows and
from the playing-ground of his
school I remember when a hoy
one looked out across a pleasant
valley to the hill up which and
over which his somecomings climb
ed. In that fertile farm country,
and within those monastery’s walls,
there are those who say, that know
ing him in his youth and in man
hood, they remember growing days,
when his luxuriant mind and the
wealth of his character gave joy to
his friends and brightened and en
riched the world in which he lived.
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“In the full vigor of manhood he
came to this monastery as its first
abbot. He found in this .common
wealth the warm. and gracious
hospitality of southern men and
women; a fine and delicate sense
of honor and chivalrous fairness in
its citizens, and he responded to
these qualities by vying with j;ou
in their exercise, and by educating
and training your sons to be worthy
of their sires. In this spirit he
ministered when he became a bishop
to the priests and people of his
vicariate, and he expressed in this
state to those not of his flock, by
word and by deed the ancient and
historic faith of Christianity and
the simplicity, the humility, and the
holiness of the way of the sons of
Saint Benedict.
“Even the ancient faith, even the
Gospel of Christ, are determined by
the human personality that ex
presses them. More than in most
human beings the '"personality of
Bishop Haid lent affectiveness to
the message which he brought to
the administrative and executive
work which fell to his lot to do.
Something of the sincerity and
strength, something of the dign.ty
and repose of his native hills had
found their way into his life and
even the most commonplace of his
acts, and his ordinary speech took
color and character and were made
attractive and convincing by these
qualities Because of them he was
a marked man in any company; he
was the sort of man whose mere
presence affected human beings
when there was no other means of
contact with them. I beg to he
permitted to omit at this time the
historic details of Bishop Haid’s life
and to refer you, if you are not al
ready familiar with them, to the
very reliable and- accurate accounts
that are current at this moment.
“Instead of restating these details
I mean to speak of tne background
of supernatural things which such a
1 fe as Bishop Haid s must possess,
which the life of any of us must
possess if it is to be fruitful in a
spiritual way. I mean by a super
natural background first of all, of
course, supernatural life, a real
second birth, the second birth of
which Christ spoke when he said,
“unless a man be born again of wa
ter and the Word of God he cannot
enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
I mean the life that is added to our
natural life in sacrament of Baptism
and that is preserved and continued
in us as long as we remain free from
sin and which is restored to us in
the sacrament of penance. That sup
ernatural life is a condition of any
fruitful and virile activity. But
when I speak of a spiritual back
ground I mean a great deal more
than that. I mean the slowly and
wholly acquired capacity in human
beings to adjust their natural lives
to the new supernatural life that is
common to them. I mean the capac
ity to see and to judge natural and
human things from the point of view
of the supernatural and eternal. The
capacity to ’accept failure when we
have done our best, as if it were suc
cess, the capacity to render cheerful
obedience when we owe it, though
we can- see nb reason for the com
mand and a hundred reasons against
it. I mean the capacity to talie the
natural affections and ambitions and
desires and judgments and to purify
and supernaturalize them or to ac
cept in their stead the duty or the
work or the affection or the judg
ment that harmonizes with God’s
will and with the supernatural life
“And I mean even more than this.
I mean the acceptance at their real
value of all those things, that con
tinue to the strength and vigor of
the supernatural life in us. The sac
raments which Christ has left us;
prayer which with the Sacraments is
ihe bread and mqt of our super
natural life. The noly Sacrifice of
the mass, the perpetual renewal of
Christ’s death and the abiding pres
ence on our altars. In the realities
of these things we make acts of be
lief—we offer a speculative and aca
demic assent to them hut only now
and again do we completely replace
ihe natural motive out of which we
act with supernatural motives; only
now and again do we measure nat
ural things against supernatural
and assay the supernatural at its
real value.
I protest against the assumption
that such a course as this belittles
our natural lives, lessens our natural
activities, makes us slight and srimp
our duties as citizens, and members
of human society. It does no such
thing. It makes us more careful
more assiduous; it enriches and
completes and fulfills our natural
lives. A banker may live it and he
a better banker for it, or a farmer
and be a better farmer; both will he
better fathers in their families, bet
ter members in society and better
citizens in the republic. If we have
spoken today as referring to the
life of a prelate it is because of this
occasion and not because it belongs
only to such as he; it belongs to us
all. It is a common honored condi
tion of Christian living and if it ever
he generally accepted it will mean
that renewal of all things in Christ
which will bring about an ideal
Christian society.
It is one of those paradoxes of
which Christianity is full; that we
should take the emphasis from less
er things and place it on greater and
still find that the lesser things in
stead of being inpoverished are en
riched. it is like Christ’s saving
that he who will lose his life shall
find it, or that you shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you
free, or his advice that if a man
take thy coat let him take thy cloak
also, if he compel thee to go one
mile you go two, if he strike thee
on one cheek turn to him the
other. I sumit that the degree in
which we accept the supernatural
may be determined by the degree in
which we have overcome natural
tendencies that are in conflict with
truth, and by the degree by which
natural tendencies not in conflict
with the supernatural are, none the
less, disregarded for the sake of
the supernatural. Somewhere in the
Gospel Christ speaks of our put
ting our hands to the plow and not
looking back, some where he speaks
of riving everything, if we give
anything—of leaving father and
mother and wife and children and
houses and lands for His Name’s
sake. It is the call of Christ to
hear a yoke to take up a burden.
Far away from this hour and
iar from, this place, far away in
time and in space, I see a boy whom
Christ has hidden rise and go out
from his father’s home. The road
runs up a hill and down across a
narrow valley and leads to the mon
astery’s gates. He follows it duti
fully He looks back a moment
from the gateway and then walks
through. It was all as simple as
that. Far from that remembered
valley, from those dear hills of
home, I see him a bishop and an
abbot lying in death today—an old
man who has put aside the burden
of years, who has renewed his
youth like an eagle. Death has rob
bed him of nothing, for he had
nothing to he taken; even the poor
consolation of mouldering to dust
in his native county of Westmorc
land will be denied him. If he were
buried at home one could see from
his grave’s side across that sunny
valley the house in which he was
born. That would he something
For houses and lands call to us and
urge us and beckon us, as we grow
older. The house in which we were
horn, the land where we grew and
where many a sweet childish mem
ory lies buried. And yet how per
fect it is that he should not he
there, that he should he with you
instead, for this is the country into
which he was born in Christ and
you are the people to whom Christ
bid him come. And he came to
you ‘to build Jerusalem in tllis
green and pleasant land.’ Here is
fulfillment and rest and peace and
the end of travel—and from here
let us hope and let us pray he has
gone to receive the reward for those
who have left father and mother
and wife and children and houses
and lands for Christ’s dear sake.”
Health Education Division
New Educational Enterprise
of N. C. W. C.
Washington, D. C.—A move to
bring its Health Education Division
more directly in contact with Ca
tholic educational groups through
out the country, thus adding great
ly to the scope and effectiveness of
this phase of its work,, has just
been made by the Department of
Education, National Catholic Wel
fare Conference.
As an initial step in this effort,
Miss Mary E. Spencer, health edu
cation specialist of the Department,
will this year go to the annual In
stitute for the Teaching Sisters of
the Archdiocese of Boston, where
she will jjiye a series of lectures
on “Materials and Methods of Mo
dern Health Education.” The In
stitute will be held in Boston Col
lege High School August 18 to 25.
Miss Spencer goes to Boston on
the invitation of Father Augustine
F. Hickey, Diocesan Supervisor of
Schools, who is a pioneer in the
holding of ^Catholic teachers’ insti
tutes.
BISHOP HAID RESTS IN
HIS ABBEY CEMETERY
Venerable Prelate Buried As
He Wished “Where Sun
shine Can Reach Me.”
(Continued from Page One)
said, are so well known as not to
require enumeration, to the spirit
ual and supernatural background
which dominated the late prelate’s
actions and life.
Following the services in the Ab
bey church, the officiating clergy
and the entire congregation march
ed in procession behind the casket
to the Abbey Cemetery. On the way
the “Miserere” was chanted by the
Abbey choir. At the cemetery, as
the late abbot-bishop’s body was
being finally consigned to earth, the
choir chanted the canticle “Bene-
dictus.”
Besides the prelates already men
tioned, those attending the funeral
services included, the Rt. Rev. Pat
rick Barry, Bishop of Florida ;• Arch-
\bbot Bernard Menges, O. S. B , of
St. Vincent’s Archahbey, Beatty, Pa.;
Abbot Ernest Helmstetter. O. S. B.,
of St. Mary s Abbey, Newark, N. J.;
Abbot Bernard Menges, D. S. B.. of
St. ^Bernard, Alabama; Abbot Val
entine, O. S. B.. of Chicago; Mon
signor Chris, Dennen, Rector of St.
Mary s Uro-Catbedral at Wilming
ton, N. C.; Monsignor C. F. Thom
as,' rector of St. Patrick’s church,
Washington, D. C.; Monsignor J. T.
McElroy, V. G. and rector of St.
Patrick’s church, Charleston, S. C.
Very Rev. Father Bernard, O. S.
B, St. Anselm’s priory, New York
City; Rev. T. J. Eger, Braddock
Pa.; Rev. Ambrose Gallagher, O. S.
B., Charlotte; Rev. James D. Quinn.
Sumter S. C.7 Rev. Louis J. Bour,
Asheville; itev. James *F. Gallagher,
Fayetteville; Rev. John P. Manley,
Goldsboro; Rev. A. R. Freeman,
Goldsboro; Rev. F. J. McCourt,
Wilmington; Rev. R. McDevitte,
Wilmington; Rev. William F.
O Brien, Durham; Rev. George A.
Woods, Nazareth; Rev. Michael A.
Irwin, Newton Grove; Rev. Joseph
A. Gallagher, Rocky Mount; Rev.
William J. Dillon, Southern Pines;
Rev. James A. Manley,’Tryon; Rev.
Alphonse Buss, O. S. B.,~ Belmont
Abbey; Rev. Bernard Haas. O. S.
B, Richmond, Va.; Rev. Ignatius
Remke O. S. B., Winston-Salem;
Rev. Albert Goetz, O. S. B., Ashe
ville; Rev. Augustine Ecker, O. S.
B. , Camden, N. J.; Rev. Eugene
Egan, O. S. B., Savannah, Ga.; Rev.
Jerome Finn, O. S. B.. Savannah,
Ga.; Rev. Vincent Taylor, O. S. B.,
Greensboro; Rev. William Regnat,
O. S. B., Salisbury; Rev. Dominic
Vollmar, O. S. B., Boston, Mass.;
Rev. Michael Mclnerney, O. S. B.,
McKeesport, Pa.; Rev. Cornelius
Diel, O. S. B., Richmond, Va.; Rev.
Mark Cassidy, O. S. B., Richmond
Va.; Rev. Boniface Baner, O. S. B..
Richmond, Va.; Rev. Richard Graz,
O. S. B , Savannah, Ga.; Rev. Laur
ence McHale, O. S. B., Charlotte;
Rev. Gerard Rettger, Q. S. B.,
Charleston.-S. C; Rev. Maurice Mc
Donnell, O. S. B., Savannah, Ga.;
Rev. Wilfrid Foley, O. S. B., Bris
tow, Va.; Rev. Gregory Eicheniaub.
O. S. B., Savannah, Ga.; Rev. Leo
Frierson, O. S. B., Hendersonville;
Rev. Charles Kaster, O. S. B„ Balti
more. Md.; Rev. Omer Hillman Mott,
O. S. B., New York City; Rev. Bene
dict Ens, O. S. B., Washington, D.
C. ; Rev. Joseph Tobin, O. S. B.
Pottsville, Pa.; Rev. Norbert Mc
Gowan, O. S. B„ Woodbridge, N. J.;
Rev. M. J. Reddin, Camden, S. C.;
Rev. A. K: Gwynn, Greenville, S. C.;
Rev. T. McGrath, Greenville, S. C.;
Rev. Francis Underwood, O'. S. B„
Quantico, Va.; Rev. Henry F. Wolfe,
Charleston, S. C.; Rev. Herman
Groves O. S. B., Oteen; Rev. Ed
ward M. Tearney, Lynchburg, Va.;
Rev. Father Murphy, Columbia, S.
C.; Rev. Henry F. Clark, Athens,
Ga.; Rev. Thomas P. Griffin,
Raleigh; Rev. Thomas E. O’Connell,
Manassas, Va.
MISSION HOUSE INJURED -
BY ALABAMA STORM
Damage of More Than $7,-
000 at Holy Trinity Mis
sionary Cenacle July 22.
Holy Trinity, Alai—A terrific
windstorm Tuesday, July 22, lifted
the roof from the novitiate wing •
of the new Mother Missionary
Cenacle, sent part of it crashing
through the roof of the utility
building, carried the rest of it over
the building to the ground near the
chapel and caused damage estimated
at about $7,000. The tornado was ac
companied by a cloudburst which
deluged the roofless dormitory.
This setback is but an incident in
the history of Holy Trinity, how
ever. The new building for the sis
ters is almost completed and build
ing operations will soon start on
the new dormitory and chapel. It is
expected that fifty or more novices
will enter ‘St. Joseph’s Missioanry
Cenacle here before the starting of
the next scholarship year.
The mo%’ing spirit of Holy Trinity
is Father Thos. A. Judge, C. M„
M. S. B. T., superior, who recently
observed his silver jubilee as a
priest. On the occasion of his jubi
lee several weeks ago, at which the
sermon was delivered by Bishop
Allen of Mobile, Pope Piux XI sent
his blessing to Father Judge and
to his missionaries, “wishing them
all manner of prosperity.”
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