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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DECEMBER 16, 1933
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Florida Sodalists Hold Third Annual Meeting
WEST PALM BEACH IS Mother Patricia, Greenville
HOST TO CONVENTION Convent's Founder, Is Dead
Atlanta Business Guide
Beloved Religious, Native of Abbeville. S. C.. Was Member of
Ursuline Order for Sixty-Four Years
Bishop Barry Celebrant of
Pontifical Mass Opening
Diocesan Gathering
(Special to The Bulletin)
WEST PALM BEACH. Fla .-Cli
maxing the most successful year in its
brief history and affording one of the
most inspiring specimens of Catholic
Action in the Southland, the St. Au
gustine Sodality Union convened here
for its Third Annual Meeting, under
the direction of Rev. James W. Court
ney, S. J., of Tampa, Diocesan Sodal
ity Director. The meet lasted three
full days, November 29 through De
cember 3. From every quarter of the
Diocese, from every section of the
State, delegations of boys and girls
poured into the Convention City to
pay homage to the Mother of God, to
make open profession of their love
for Christ the King, and to discuss
ways and means of translating their
Catholic principles into Catholic Ac
tion. Four hundred delegates in all,
representing 26 Sodalities from 12 cit
ies in the Diocese, attended the Con
vention and took an active part in the
deliberative sessions. The St. Ann's
Sodalities, West Palm Beach, under
the direction of their Pastor, Rev.
Andrew Doherty, S. J., and of the |
Sisters of St. Dominic, were hosts to,
the Convention.
At a Solemn Pontifical Mass, cele
brated by His Excellency, the Most
Reverend Patrick Barry, D. D., Bish
op of St. Augustine, Thursday, No
vember 30, the choicest blessings of
Heaven were invoked upon the as
sembly. St. Edward’s Church, Palm
Beach, erected a few years ago dur
ing the pastorate of Rev Felix Clark
son, S. J., at present stationed in Ma
con, Ga., was the scene of the Mass.
The assembled delegates were ad
dressed by the Rev. Daniel A. Lord.
S. J., Editor of the Queen’s Work, St.
Louis, and National Sodality Adviser,
Assisting His Excellency at the Sol
emn Pontifical Mass were Rev. A.
Doherty, S. J., Palm Beach, arch
priest. Rev. M. McNally, S. J., Miami,
and Rev J. W. Codrtney, S. J., Tam
pa, deacons of honor; Rev. Ignatius
McCarty, O. S. B., St. Leo, Deacon of
the Mass; Rev. F. X. Dougherty, S. J.,
Sub-Deacon of the Mass; Rev. S. H.
Ray, S. J., Palm Beach, Master of
Ceremonies.
The deliberative sessions of the
convention were held in the open pa
tio of the New Palm Beach Hotel,
convention headquarters, adjoining
the church property. Rev. Daniel A.
Lord, S. J., conducted these assem
blies, and was assisted in special par
ish sodality work by Miss Dorothy
Willmann, of St. Louis, national ex
ecutive secretary of the sodality. The
following program of discussions was
carried on by the delegates during
the three-day meet:
November 30: “Origin, Nature,
Aims of Sodality.” Discussion led by
the Academy of the Holy Names,
Tampa, and Tampa College High;
“Personal Holiness, The Sacraments
and especially The Mass.” Discussion
led by Mary Immaculate, Key West,
and St. Joseph’s Boys’ School.
December 1: “Catholic Action and
Catholic Education,’ discussion led by
St. Paul’s and Immaculate Conception
High Schools, Jacksonville; “The So-
dalist’s Attitude Toward Drink,” dis
cussed by St. Joseph’s Academy, St.
Augustine; “Bad Company,” discuss
ed by Holy Name Academy, San An
tonio; “Moving Pictures,” discussed
by Holy Rosary, Jacksonville; “Dan
gerous Reading,’ discussed by St.
Ann’s High, West Palm Beach; “Pub
lic Dances,” discussed by Gesu High,
Miami; “Dishonesty,’ discussed by St.
Leo Prep School, St. Leo.
December 2: “A Model Sodality,”
the committee meetings exemplified,
and the general sodality meeting.
Officers for the model sodality
were the officers of the St. Augustine
Sodality Union, Joseph Grotegut,
Tampa College High, president; John
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(Special to The Bulletin)
COLUMBIA, S. C. — Sixty-four
years from the day she entered the
Ursuline Convent in Columbia, the
Rev. Mother Patricia, one of the
most widely known and beloved re
ligious of the South, died here last
week after a sudden illness.
Mother Patricia was born in Abbe
ville; her family was the pioneer
Catholic family of that district, and
was responsible for the first Cath
olic Church in that section. Mother
Patricia was the founder of the Ur
suline Convent and school at Green
ville, and labored there from its
foundation until August, when she
retired and came to Columbia, where
she spent the first as well as the last
ATLANTA WOMAN'S
CLUB'S NEW OFFICERS
Miss Higgins President of
Catholic Group
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga—Miss Mary Hig
gins was elected president of the At
lanta Catholic Club of Business and
Professional Women at the annual
meeting. Other officers elected were:
vice-president, Miss Nora MacMahon;
treasurer, Miss Mary Ridglcy; record
ing secretary, Miss Mary Cronin; cor
responding secretary, Miss Katherine
Birmingham.
The retiring president, Miss Kath
leen Bragassa, presided at the meet
ing and as a token of esteem of all
the members she was presented with
a beautiful basket of flowers, Miss
Mary Higgins making the presenta
tion speech and expressing for the
club their love and esteem and sin
cere appreciation of the able man
ner in which she had guided the club
during the two years of her term and
the splendid work she had accom
plished. Miss Bragassa responded in a
gracious speech. ...
The new president, Miss Higgins, is
a young lady of unusual ability, ex
ceptional charm of manner and
splendid executive ability and with
her leadership the Club is looking
forward to a year of interest and ac
complishment.
Miss Bess Nell Rafferty, who inau
gurated the Study Club last winter,
will again be in charge this year. At
the first meeting it was decided to
study Catholic authors, and Hilaire
Belloc will be the first author to be
discussed. This study club has prov
en to be one of the most enjoyable
movements sponsored by the club
and many members are taking ad
vantage of the opportunity given to
familiarize themselves with things
Catholic.
Brion, Gesu High. Miami, vice-pres
ident; Lillian Toffaletli, Academy of
the Holy Names, secretary; Claire
Helsema, Immaculate Conception,
treasurer. The various committees
were headed by the presidents of the
sodalities to which these Model Com
mittees had boon entrusted, namely:
Betty Stimmel, Gesu, Miami, Eucha
ristic chairman; Elizabeth Johnson,
St. Paul’s, Jacksonville, Our Lady’s,
chairman; William Doherty, St.
Ann’s, West Palm Beach, Catholic
literature; Marguerita Lacedonia,
Mary Immaculate. Key West, apostol
ic chairman; William Phelan, St. Jos
eph’s, Key West, mission chairman.
On Friday morning, December 1,
the delegates assembled at 7:30 at St.
Edward’s Church and assisted at the
Mass which was said by Father Lord,
and received Holy Communion in a
body. Saturday, December 2, desig
nated on the convention program as
"Mary’s Day," a Missa Rccitata by
the delegates featured the religious
ceremonies which opened the activi
ties of the day.
At nine o’clock Sunday morning,
Father Courtney said Mass and ad
dressed the assembled delegates,
thereby closing the Convention till
1934.
On the evening of November 30, the
St. Ann’s Parish Sodality presented a
three-act play, “The Ghost Parade,"
in St. Ann’s Hall, West Palm Beach,
for the delegates. The second evening
of the convention was takeifmp with
the annual apologetical contest. The
winner of the contest was presented
with a silver shiled, the Bishop Barry
Award. Twelve contestants, winners
in local contests held in their own
schools, competed for the award this
year. A banquet and dance at the
New Palm Beach Hotel on the last
evening, Saturday, December 2, at
which two hundred of the delegates
were present, featured the closing of
the convention after the deliberative
sessions had ended.
days of her life as a religious.
The Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh,
Bishop of Charleston, was celebrant
of the Requiem Mass Monday, De
cember 11. and delivered the sermon,
in which he traced Mother Patricia’s
long and fruitful life as a religious.
Present at the Mass also were the
Very Rev. N. A. Murphy, pastor of
St. Peter’s, and dean of the Colum
bia District; the Very Rev. M. C.
Murphy, pastor of St. Francis do
Sales Church; the Very Rev. Jas. D.
Quinn, pastor of St. Anne's, Sumter,
Rev. A W. Calner, Columbia, the
Rev. C. A. Kennedy, pastor of St.
Joseph’s Church. Charleston, and the
Rev. H. L. Speisman, pastor at An
derson.
St. Vincent's Marks
Saint's Canonization
Ceremony at Savannah Coin
cides With That in Rome
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.-Under a beau
tiful southern sky there took place
at the grotto of our Lady of Lourdes
in the convent grounds of St. Vin
cent’s Academy on December 8. feast
of the Immaculate Conception, a
beautiful ceremony commemorating
the canonization of St. Bernadette on
the very day itself on which her
solemn canonization took place in
Rome.
St. Bernadette was always connect
ed with our Lady of the Immaculate
Conception. It was she to whom our
Lady appeared on the rocks of Massi-
bieille in southern France seventy-
five years ago. That she thus appear
ed to St. Bernadette is a historical
fact, well authenticated by many sub
sequent and very stringent tests.
Thus was the feast of the Mother,
and the first feast of one of her fav
orite children, raised to the altar by
the Holy Father himself, after strict
investigation.
That is why the Catholics of Savan
nah arranged this inspiring religious
service. In the convent enclosure
during the Rosary. Litany of the
Blessed Virgin, and solemn Benedic
tion of the Most Blessed Sacrament,
the Mother met her chosen child. It
seemed to be an echo of the most
solemn ceremony which took place in
Rome on this day. December 8. at
the hands of our Holy Father him
self.
Wc pray then, that these simple de
votional services of ours—simple
merely because they took place in our
humble surroundings, but very sol
emn 5t the same time—will bring
many blessings through the Mother
of God and her daughter, St. Berna
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