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NOVEMBER 18, 1933
THE BUT.LETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
ELEVEN
Thousands in Mobile Demonstration of Faith
QUESTION BOX
BY REV. B. X. O'REILLY
ARTIST PORTRAYS WORK OF ALASKAN MISSIONARY
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Q. How docs the ceremony of the
Mass come by its name?
A. The first certain use of the
word Missa or Mass is by St. Am
brose in the year 397. He uses the
word in a letter to his sister and im
plies that it was commonly used and
well known. From the fourth centu
ry the word as applied to the Eu
charistic Sacrifice becomes more and
more common. It was for a time used
always in the sense of a dismissal. St,
Augustine use it in this sense: “After
the sermon the dismissal of the Cate
chumens takes place.” As this dis
missal (Missa) occurred just before
the offering of the Sacrifice, the word
Missa gradually became associated
with the Sacrifice and the name came
into common use.
Q. What is meant by Limbo?
A. Limbo is a word of Teutonic
origin, meaning literally a hem ox-
border of a garment, or anything
joined on to another. In the theologi
cal usage the name is applied to two
places: The temporary place where
the state of the souls of the just who,
though purified from sin, were ex
cluded from the Beatific Vision until
Christ’s triumphant ascension into
Heaven, and also it is applied to the
permanent place or state of those dy
ing without any grievous actual sin,
who are excluded from the Beatific
Vision on account of original sin
alone. In literary usage the name is
sometimes applied in a wider and
more general sense to any place of
restraint or confinement. Milton in
Paradise Lost, Butler in Hudibras,
and Shakespeare in Henry VII, use
the word in this sense.
A. In case a child is seriously sick
could either of its parents baptise it
if no one else were there to do it?
A. In danger of death any one
having the use of reason may baptise
an infant. The parents should not
do so if there be any one else who
can and is willing. But if no one
else be present then the parent not
only may but should administer bap
tism.
Q. Should the confessional keep
one from becoming a Catholic if they
believe in all the other doctrines?
A. If one believes that the Catho
lic Church is the Church establish
ed by Christ he must believe that the
Church is infallible in matters of
faith and morals. Believing this he
will be willing to accept the teaching
of the Church in the matter of the
Sacrament of Penance as the Divine
ly appointed way to obtain pardon of
sin. When one acknowledges the di
vine character of the Church one
must logically submit to her teach
ings in all things pertaining to faith
and morals. To confess one’s sins to
a priest is hard to human nature.
Cf-tholic human nature as well as any
other. But, properly explained, the
obligation o f confession is easiily un
derstood. There is no mystery, it is
evident from the words of Christ and
satisfies every human instinct.
Q. Is it true that blessed candles
lose their blessing after a year?
A. Blessed candles do not lose
their blessing by lapse of time. A
candle is not blessed for a definite
period, to automatically lose it at
that time.
Q. What is meant by the Grego-
rian Masses said for thirty days?
A. The Gregorian Masses as they
are called are thirty Masses celebrat
ed on thirty successive days for the
repose of a certain soul. They are
called Gregorian Masses from Pope
Gregory the Great, who first made
use of this pious practice. This Pope
was superior of a monastery in which
a monk died who had trangressed
the vow of poverty. He showed signs
of true repentence before hi.» death,
and Saint Gregory ordered thirty
Masses to be said on thirty successive
days for his soul. At the end of the
thirty days, the departed appeared to
his brother, also an inmate of the
monastery, and announced to him
that his purgatorial punishment was
over, and that he was now in posses
sion of eternal happiness. Since that
time many Christians have used the
same means, hoping to gain the same
results for their departed friends and
relatives. The Church approves this
pious custom, but warns the faithful
not to consider it an infallible means
to effect the liberation of a soul as
this must be left in the hands of a
merciful God, who has promised to
hear our prayers and to accept our
sacrifices.
The Alaskan missionary carrying the kit furnished by the Catholic Medical Mission Board is depicted in
this recent painting by Frederick Knight of New York City. These kits have been distributed in great
numbers to the missionaries in many lands. The work of the Board has received commendations from
His Holiness Pope Pius XI and from His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, Prefect of the Con
gregation for the Propagation of the Faith. (Copyrighted by the Catholic Medical Mission Board, Inc..
New York City.)
Reception for New
Charleston Pastor
Sacred Heart Parish Greets
the Rev. Henry F. Wolfe
Faith’s Consolations Told
by Former Oxford Chaplain
THE SOCIAL TEACHINGS of the
Church are outlined in a 96-page
booklet by the Rev. R. A. McGowan,
assistant director of the Department of
Social Action of the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference. This is the
fourth booklet of the series, the oth
ers being those by the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
John A. Ryan, the Rev. Dr. Francis
Haas, and one containing the social
order encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII
and Pope Pius XI.
Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Sacred
Heart parish welcomed its new pas
tor, the Rev. Henry F. Wolfe, at a re
ception tendered him by the parish
organizations; hundreds of the laity
and the clergy of the city greeted Fa
ther Wolfe. Mrs. Leo Hennessy was in
charge of the entertainment receiving
with Father Wolfe were the Very
Rev. J. J. Hughes, founder of the
parish, who retired as pastor recent
ly, the clergy and the presidents of
the parish organizations. A check was
presented Father Wolfe for parish
work.
WILL OF MISS PARSONS
REMEMBERS CHARITIES
The will of the late Miss Mary
Magdalene Parsons, recently probat
ed, leaves $400 to the Sisters of Mer
cy, $100 and certain personal effects to
the St. Vincent de Paul Society, $50
to the Ladies’ Aid Society of St. Pat
rick’s Church. A sum for the erection
of an altar rail at St. Mary's Church,
$25 for the Catholic camp and $200 for
the Little Sisters of the Poor, Savan
nah.
Forty Hours Devotion was held at
the Cathedral starting on the Feast
of Christ the King. The clergy of the
city assisted at the opening Mass; the
Rev. Francis O. Ferri delivered the
sermon Monday night and the Rev.
John P. Clancy Tuesday.
KNIGTS OF COLUMBUS
HALLOWE’EN MASQUERADE
P. N. Lynch Council Knights of
Columbus, entertained with a Hallow
e’en Masquerade at Columbus Hall, at
the November 8 meeting Judge John
I. Cosgrove, grand knight, and other
officers were installed by District
Deputy M. A. McLaughlin, Jr. The
dramatic society of the Council pre
sented "The Confession” November
l n .
The Rev. Dr. Joseph L. O’Brien,
rector of Bishop England High
School, delivered the principal ad
dress at the October meeting of the
Bishop England P.-T. A.
At the October meeting of Sacred
Heart P.-T. A„ the Rev. James J.
May, V. G.(. and the Rev. Henry F.
Wolfe, pastor, were the principal
speakers.
The St. Joseph’s School P.-T. A.
sponsored a social the evening of No
vember 8 at the Francis Marion Ho
tel.
Father Wolfe, pastor of Sacred
Heart Church, delivered tlxe princi
pal address at the final rally in the
Community Chest Campaign rally
here; the workers raised a larger stun
than in 1932.
SISTERS’ ORPHANAGE
WINS CHAMPIONSHIP
The baseball team of tlxe City Or
phanage, directed by the Sisters of
Mercy, has been presented with the
cap worn by Tom Clarke, catcher for
the New York Giants, in the World
Series, in recognition of its winning
the championship of the local league,
the presentation being made by Al
fred HT von Kolnitz, chairman of the
perks and playgrounds commission of
Charleston, and Tom Clarke’s room
mate when both played for the Cin
cinnati Reds some years ago.
The Rev. Dr. John J. Manning, as
sistant rector of the Cathedral who
made his theological studies in Rome,
delivered an illustrated lecture on
Rome recently under the auspices of
P. N. Lynch Council Knights of Co
lumbus.
Convert Clergyman Writes
of Comfort Given Him by
Teachings of the Church
THE LEAFLET MISSAL, complete
weekly text of the Sunday Mass, pub
lished at St. Paul, has been changed
in form to conform to the size of the
average prayer book, and its pages
have been increased from 24 to 32.
JOSEPH DORNEY, for several years
the N. C. W. C. News Service cor
respondent in Chicago, and a mem
ber of the staff of the Chicago Tri
bune, is dead in that city. He was
a brother of the Rev. M. A. Dorney,
widely known Chicago pastor.
CATHOLIC STUDENT GETS
PRIZE FROM PRESIDENT
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BALTIMORE.— 1 The comfort and
consolation which a convert to Cath
olicism finds in the doctrines of the
Communion of Saints and the Com
memoration of the Souls in Purgatory
are strikingly set forth by William
Force Stead, a former Anglican cler
gyman, fellow at Oxford and Chap
lain at Worcester College. Oxford, in
an editorial written for The Baltimore
Catholic Review.
Mr. Stead studied at the University
of Virginia and then went to England
where, in 1916. he entered Ridley Hall,
Cambridge. He was ordained for the
Anglican diocese of Hereford in 1917,
served in the World War as chaplain
with the American Army, and after
wards served for two years at the An
glican Church in Florence. He was
appointed Chaplain of Worcester Col
lege in 1927, and became a Fellow in
1930. He was received into the Cath
olic Church two months ago at the
Priory of the Holy Ghost, Blackfriars,
Oxford. He was confirmed on Sep
tember 8 by Bishop Couturier of Al
exandria. Canada, aboard the steam
ship Ansonia. He is now a resident of
Elkridge, Md.
‘’Becoming a Catholic has brought
the greatest happiness into my life
that has ever befallen me,” Mr. Stead
rays in his editorial. “And yet, when
my friends ask what led me to resign
my comfortable position as Chaplain
and Fellow of an Oxford College in
order to join the Catholic Church, it
is not easy to reply; I feel bewildered
and confused simply because there
are so many reasons. Let two, which
happen to be appropriate to All
Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. suf
fice for the moment.”
Saying that every Christian, what
ever his denomination, expresses a
belief in- the Communion of Saints
when he recites the Apostles’ Creed,
Mr. Stead states that “wholesome,
beautiful and reasonable as the doc
trine is, there is no reality in it, noth
ing concrete and substantial to get
hold of, outside the Catholic Church.”
“I grew up as a Protestant Episco
palian,” Mr. Stead continues. "I was
never taught to observe the festivals
of the Saints, nor ever thought of
asking them to pray for me. The re
sult was that the Saints were no more
to me than faint, insubstantial fig
ures in the far away and long ago ”
“I wonder,” he writes, “whether
those who have always been Catho
lics realize how splendid it is to have
such friends as Saint Peter and Saint
Paul, Saint Francis, Saint Catherine,
the Little Flower and all the Watcher j
and the Heavenly Ones? I now have
no shyness or hesitation in asking the
Saints to pray for me, and, if my
prayers are feeble, yet I have at hand
these great masters of prayer as my
friends.
“There is another reason appropri-
at to the present time; it is the clxar-
ity, the real mother-love which the
Catholic Church extends to the poor
est and humblest of its departed
children. As we advance in years, we
find with increasing frequency how
our friends and inmost members of
the family circle drop away. We ac
company their, to the grave, the fun
eral rites are read, we pay them our
last respects, and if we are not Cath
olics, as I know from my own expe
rience, we leave our loved ones in
the grave with an aching sense that
there is nothing more tliat we can do.
Joseph A. Brcndler, of Messmer
High School, Complimented by
Ehief Executive After Vic
tory Over 18,000 Con
testants
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — Pres. Franklin
D. Roosevelt set aside the cares of
the recovery program for a few mo
ments and interrupted the daily se
ries of conferences with mighty men
of the world to pay honor to a 17-
year-old Catholic high school student
from Milwaukee. The boy is Joseph
S. Brendler, of Messmer High School,
winner of the national essay contest
conducted by the Gorgas Memorial
Institute.
Joseph was escorted to the White
House promptly at noon by Admiral
Cary T. Grayson, president of the
inslitute; Dr. Franklin H. Martin,
chairman of the board of directors,
and Mrs. Henry L. Doherty, wife ol
the donor of the prize. For his prize-
winning essay, which was chosen
from 18,000 submitted by students of
high schools all over the country.
Joseph received $500 and $200 travel
expenses. The assigned subject was
“TTie Problem of the Mosquito and
Other Insect Life in Relation to Sani
tation, Health and Industry.”
Messmer High School, where Jo
seph is a student, is conducted by
the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
ANNUAL OBSERVANCE
OF FEAST OF CHRIST
OUR KING INSPIRING
Bishop Toolen Officiates at
Benediction at Bienville
Square. Great Procession
Precedes Ceremonies
(Special to The Bulletin)
MOBILE. Ala.—A tWo-mile proces
sion in which thousands of members
of the Holy Name societies and other
societies and the school children of
the various parishes of the city par
ticipated. to Bienville Square, for a
sermon and Benediction, featured the
second annual public observance of
the Feast of Christ the King here.
The Most Rev. Thomas J. Toolen. D
D.. Bishop of Mobile, officiated at
Benediction and also spoke; the ser
mon was delivered by the Rev. F. C.
Doyle, pastor of St. Bridget’s Church,
Whistler.
The observance was in the nature
of a public acknowledgement of faith.
In his address Bishop Toolen also re
ferred to the present unrest, but as
serted that he had too much con
fidence in President Roosevelt and
his recovery program to despair, and
pledged the support of the people of
this territory to the President, the
nation and the N. R. A.
“If the N. R. A. fails, it will not
be the president’s fault, but because
the people do not co-operate with
him. Bishop Toolen said. He de
clared tliat labor has suffered much
and borne its lot patiently, and that
now is the time for capital to do its
part.
Father Doyle recalled the meaning
of the Feast of Christ the King, whose
kingdom is not of this world, and
the aims and objects "of the Holy
Name Society, which strives to make
men better Catholics, and in so do
ing makes them better citizens- To
be a good Catholic means love for
one’s neighbor, respect for the rights
of others, the practices of charity to
ward others as we would wish them
to deal with us, Father Doyle said,
and he showed the practical manner
in which the Holy Name Society in
culcates the practice of thecs vir
tues.
Dennis Desmond of
Augusta Parish Dies
AUGUSTA, Ga.-Dennis J. Dir.-
mond. widely known Augustan, died
here November 8, after an illness of
two weeks. Mr. Desmond for many
years and at the time of his death
conducted a brokerage business here,
entering business while quite young.
He was 60 years of age at the time of
his death. The funeral was held from
St. Mary's-On-The-Hill, the Rt. Rev
Msgr. James A. Kane, pastor, offici
ating. Interment was in Magnolia
Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Honor
ary, John Collins and J. J. Mahoney;
active, Joseph Singleton, Clifford
O’Connor. Dr. Dan Printup. Walter
Yaun, J. L. Bartley and Frank Whit
ley.
But surely if the lifebeyond is con
tinuous with this life, our departed
friends, as a rule at least, are not
ready to enter at once into the full
splendor and awful holiness of God;
they are pilgrims upon whom our
prayers may fall as the dew of Heav
en, they are hungry and thirsty far
the divine ministrations of the sacred
liturgy. And these blessings they re
ceive from the Catholic Church.
. “All other communions seem to leave
their loved ones at the grave-side, but
the Catholic Church, like a devoted
mother, never forgets or neglects its
children, even when their days on
earth are ended. This is so familiar
to those who were bom within the
fold, that it may seem too obvious
to mention. But it is new to me and
delightful and inspiring; what is more,
it is so clearly right. There is some
thing very touching in the dead man’s
mute appeal. ‘Of your charty pray for
the soul’ of such a one, and how sub
limely the Church answers by Di
vine grace and inspiration, sending
forth its blessing out of time into
eternity?"
In the morning at the Cathedral
Bishop Toolen officiated at the
Pontifical Mass; the sermon was de
livered by the Rev. George Keyes.
In the line of march in addition to
Holy Name and other society mem
bers and the parochial school chil
dren were the students of Spring
Hill College. The church bells rang
as the procession wended its way
over the two-mile route. Hymns W’ere
sung by the combined choirs of
Bishop Toolen High School the Con
vent of Mercy and the Visitation Aca
demy. under the direction of Sister
Cecelia. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward
Hackett, V. G.. was assistant priest at
Benediction, at which Bishop Toolen
officiated, the Rev. J. R. O’Donoghue
deacon and the Rev James Albert,
sub-deacon.
The Firemen’s Band and the Boys*
Industrial School, Bishop Toolen High
School, Taverna’s and St. Peter
Clavcr bands and the drum corps of
St. Vincents parish and the Convent
of Mercy, assisted in the procession.
The Rev. L. J. Carroll was master
of ceremonies at Bienville Square,
and Col. John E. Toomey was grand
marshal and Louis Dicmert chief as
sistant marshal of the procession,
with marshal's aides from each par
ish as well as a general committee
assisting. The Holy Name Union, of
which James M. McCown is presi
dent and James H. Glcnnon secretary,
sponsored the observance.
The Mobile Register editorially com
mended the observance as “an
enobling reminder of the very pur
pose of Christian life itself, this tri
bute to the eternal kingdom, this
evocation of faith and hope, which
sends an iiradiating glow across a
troubled and anxious world.”
There were special services in the
various churches also, general Com
munion, and exposition of the Bless
ed Sacrament.
Benedictines Become
Deacons in Alabama
Bishop Toolen Officiates at
Ceremon.Y at St. Bernard’s
ST. BERNARD, Ala.-The Most
Rev. Thomas J. Toolen. D. D., Bishop
of Mobile, conferred the second of
the major orders, the deaconate,
here recently on the Rev. Lambert
Gattman, O. S. B.. of Tuscumbia,^
Ala. and the Rev. Hugh Taylor, O.
S. B., of Nashville, Tenn. *riiis was
the first ceremony at which the Rt,
Rev. Ambrose Reger, O. S. B., D. D.,
assisted after his blessing and in*
staliatkm as Abbot of St. Bernard.