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men’s Association
of Georgia.
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
VOL. xvra, No. 5
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MAY 22, 1937
ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR
Sketch of New Columbia Hospital
Columbia Catholics Plan
Erection of Infirmary
SODALITY PROSPERS
IN SHANDON PARISH
COLUMBIA, S. C.—The Sodality of
The Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the
chief organizations for the ladies of
Et. Francis de Sales parish; they meet
regularly each month and have their
Sunday for corporate approach to
Holy Communion. They are affiliated
with the National Council of Catholic
Women, as is the Altar Society. They
engage in a variety of parochial activ
ities, and in some instances are joined
by the St. Francis de Sales Altar So
ciety in the conduct of parochial en
terprises. Although the purpose of this
society is chiefly spiritual, it has lent
itself, in fashion similar to the Altar
Society, to various civic and public
enterprises wherein Catholic women
had a proper place, such as participa
tion in Work for the Blind, Red Cross
Work, Tuberculosis Elimination, Child
Welfare and such activities. The offi
cers at present are as follows: Presi
dent, Mrs. A. F. Behles; vice-presi
dent, Miss Hannah Roche; secretary
and treasureer, Miss Marie Cormack.
CONFRATERNITY OF
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
This society has its proper existence
in the parish. The parishoners are
gathered in groups of their own form
ing and with leaders of their own
choosing meet once each week for an
hour—the study club hour—to read to
gether the matter for the time and
then to afterwards discuss what they
have read. The leaders meet each
week with the rector to go over the
subject matter of the next week’s
study club lesson. The clubs are made
up of parishoners from Junior High
School Age on up through to the pa
triarchs of the parish. The study clubs
seem to have aroused much interest
with the promise therefore of much
subsequent good in the way of better
understood faith and therefore better
lived Catholicism.
LEAGUE OF THE SACRED
HEART
The League of the Sacred Heart has
its place in the list of parochial organ
izations in the manner customary in
Catholic parishes.
CATHOLIC LITERATURE °)
O O
At the church door on Sundays
there are regularly for sale our dio
cesan paper, The Bulletin, and also
Our Sunday Visitor. The sale of these
is encouraged by attention being
called, in the- Sunday parish an
nouncements, to articles of special
interest.
CHURCH IN SPAIN USED
AS CAFE; JAPAN CAFE
IS MADE INTO CHURCH
SAPPORO, Japan.—(N. C. W. C.-
Fldes). — A comparison between the
state of affairs in Valencia and in the
town of Tomakomai is made by a
newspaper of the last named place in
a recent article on the anti-religious
policy of the Valencia Government.
“The Spanish Leftist government,”
states the article, “has taken over a
Catholic church in Valencia, which
was built in the eighteenth century,
and has turned it into a cafe . . .
Here in Tomakomai we have seen the
exact opposite take place: what is now
the Catholic church was formerly an
amusement hall, and the building
which at present serves as the Catho
lic kindergarten was once a cafe.”
St. Peter 9 s School, Columbia
ST. PETER’S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL, Columbia, is one of the leading
educational institutions in the Diocese of Charleston. Conducted by Ursuline
Nuns cf the Congregation of Paris, its 200 pupils represent both parishes.
Liturgical Music Pride of
St. Francis Parish Choirs
St. Francis de Sales parish has
two choirs. The senior choir has as
members the men and women of the
parish. The choirmaster is Joseph
O’Shea, Sr., and the organist Mrs.
Joseph Niggel. The voices are those
of Messrs. Jos. O’Shea, Henry Buck-
ley, Bernard Cormack and William
Cormack and Mesdames B. B. Bel
linger, Philip Morgan, Walter Cor
mack with Miss Marie Cormack and
Miss Mary Adams.
The choir has made every effort to
sing only the approved music of the
Church and has endeavored to work
in the spirit of the revival of the
Church’s own liturgical music- As a
result the singing of the choir has
given a dignity and beauty to the
services that brings out the majestic
and sublime spiritual qualities in the
ritual services of the Church. An
appreciation of the integral part that
the choir has in sung services has
set as the choirs ideal the singing of
none but strictly Church music and
that in the ancient manner of the
Church. The choir has endeavored
to be a part of the sacred liturgy
rather than merely a superimposed
tonal ornament.
The Junior Choir members are the
children of the parish, and they are
trader the capable guidance of the
Sisters Margaret Mary and Josephine
of the Columbia Ursuline Com
munity. They have a share in the
singing at the services, and their
rendition of plain chant melodies is
a matter of very favorable com
ment. The senior choir members are
recruited from this junior group of
singers. The singers are Masters
Wilfred Wells, James Cullum, Henry
Buckley, Lucius Bultman, Joe Bel
linger, Dave Collins, Billy O’Shea,
Martin Keeler, Frank Behlis, Alfred
Behlis, Stephen Moses and Bernard
Moses and the girls also in the choir
are Winifred Wells, Barbara Bellin
ger, Rose Thain, Gloria Moses, Elea
nor Bultman, Loyolq Bultman, Rose
M. Hill. Assisting the sisters in the
children’s choir is Mrs. Joseph
Keeler.
Projected in the new church to be
ultimately built is the properly lo
cated sanctuary choir set, as is tra
ditional, between the nave and the
sanctuary, It will haye the proper
choir stalls, and in them it is ex
pected that the proper male choir of
men and boys will appear and sing
the liturgical music at church ser
vices. Supplementing the liturgical
choir will be the mixed choir singing
from a side gallery located near the
sanctuary, so that the one pipe
organ will serve both choirs. The
proposed new church will have the
desired side aisle so that on great
festival days the choir and clergy
will enter and leave in procession,
preceded in customary fashion by
crucifer and torch bearers.
UNIVERSITY STUDENT
HAVE NEWMAN CLUB
Francis J. Dutton of Colum
bia Is Club President
Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, of Cleveland, Ohio,
Will Conduct Modern, Well-Equipped Catholic Hos
pital Which Will Be Erected in Near Future in Car
olina Capital City
JUNIOR SODALISTS
AT SAINT PETER'S
LIVE ORGANIZATION
Francis J. Dutton of Columbia is
president of the Newman Club of the
University of South Carolina, which
consists of approximately fifty Cath
olic students. Larry Cusick of New
York is vice-president, Sidney Dun
can, Boston, treasurer; and Miss Cath
erine Narey, Columbia, secretary.
At the beginning of the school year
in September a reception was given
for the new Catholic students. Many
students attended and new members
were added to the roll. Meetings of
the club are held every other week in
the Rectory under the direction of Fa
ther M. C. Murphy.
The annual Communion breakfast
was served to the members in the rec
tory just before the Christmas holi
days. In February, the beginning of
the new semester it was decided to
hold a study club of the regular meet
ings. Early in the spring another
Communion breakfast was held. The
club sponsored a bridge party, which
was held in the Knights of Columbus
Hall,, and prizes were awarded. Plans
are now being completed for a ban
quet to be held at the Jefferson Hotel
in May.
The Junior Sodality of St. Peter’s
Church, Columbia, is divided into
five groups, with ten girls in each
group with a leader who notifies them
of meetings, Communion Sunday and
other special notices. An afternoon
meeting is held once a month on So
dality Communion Sunday. This is a
business meeting, followed by a pro
gram consisting of music, the reading
of poems, papers on current interests,
and games.
During October a Rosary Drive was
promoted, a Living Rosary being
formed by 15 decades written on in
dividual slips of paper. These are
passed out at the Sodality meeting;
15 members agreed to say the decade
drawn by them. The group of 15 be
comes a Living Rosary. A discussion
was also held on Indulgences granted
only to Sodalists. Father Martin Mur
phy gave an interesting talk on Ire
land.
During the month of November, a
weiner roast was given, with the
members of St. Peter’s Youth Society
3S guests. Miss Lunette Bouknight
was chairman, assisted by the Misses
Catherine Partin, Julia Khoury. Miss
Helen Partin was amusement chair
man.
A three-day Tridmum was held in
December, and the Solemn Reception
of new members by Father Barrett
on December 8. Miss Betty Reynolds
is membership chairman, and the
Misses Mary Harbot, Catherine Par-
tin and Mary Margaret Browne were
sponsors for the 14 new members who
were the Misses Betty, Amalia and
Louise Vernon, Peggy Joncas, Stella
Huttas, Christene Jenkins, Lenna De
Mates, Allie Culbreth, Alice Reeder,
Billie and Mary Parker, Julia Rey
nolds, Pauline Moody and Claire
Driggers. During December the Ju
nior Sodality, assisted by the St.
Francis Girls’ Club, sponsored the
Bingo Stand at the Bazaar given for
the benefit of The Ursuline Nuns.
At the January meeting a report
was given by Miss Margaret Park of
a visit made to the State Tuberculosis
Camp. Catholic girl patients were
remembered at Christmas time with
gifts and flowers. The Sick Committee
is composed of the Misses Catherine
Jones, Betty Reynolds and Margaret
Park. Miss Betty Vernon was in
charge of the January program and
Father Barrett was a welcome guest.
During the month a bingo party was
given, the proceeds being donated as
The Sodality's share in celebrating
Catholic Day in Columbia’s Education
Week for the Blind.
In May the Junior Sodality assisted
Father Murphy with the May pro
cession, and on Mother's Day gave
Communion Breakfast in honor of
their mothers. An interesting program
was presented as follows: The Bless
ing, Miss Catherine Cannon; Greeting
to Our Mothers, Miss Betty Reynolds;
Response. Mrs. J. W. Bond; Toast to
Our Mothers, Miss Julia Khoury;
Toast to Our Director, Miss Thelma
Kinney, the guest speaker, Miss Mar
garet Nigel, Junior Chairman, Coun
cil of Catholic Women; Thanksgiving,
Miss Mary .Agnes Bond. Miss Helen
Partin .was general chairman of the
breakfast, assisted by Misses Cather
ine Thigpen, Isabelle Bridgman, Cath
erine Partin, Mary Harbot. Miss Mary
Margaret Browne presided.
Formation of a Study Club Group
has just been perfected; after the
glowing tribute paid the Sodality by
Father Barrett at the recent Mission
at St. Peter’s, in which he stated what
a privilege it was to have membership
in this society, everyone is filled with
the Sodality spirit and we are looking
forward to a wide and varied pro
gram. An exchange of ideas from Ju
nior Sodalities of the Diocese of Sa
vannah and Charleston is welcomed.
The officers of the Junior Sodality
of St Peter’s Chinch, are as follows:
Miss Mary Margaret Browne, presi
dent; Miss Mary Harbot, vice presi
dent; Miss Mary Agnes Bond, secre
tary; Miss Helen Partin, treasurer.
Group leaders are the Misses Cathe
rine Partin, Lunette Bouknight
Francis Culbreth, Alice Reeder, and
Pauline Moody. Miss Isabelle Bridg
man is pianist, and Miss Margaret
Park, organist
COLUMBIA, S. C.—A Catholic hos
pital, to be conducted by the Sisters
of Charity of St Augustine of Cleve
land, Ohio, and to be known a3
Providence Hospital, is to be erected
in Columbia in the immediate future,
the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D,
D., Bishop of Charleston having com
pleted arrangements for this latest
addition to the religious institutions
of the Diocese.
This will be the third hospital es
tablished in the Diocese since the
consecration of Bishop Walsh, the
others being St. Francis Hospital,
Greenville, conducted by the Sisters
of the Poor of St. Francis, and St.
Philip’s Mercy Hospital, Rock Hill,
conducted by the Sisters of the Third
Order of St. Francis, Peoria, 111.
There is still another hospital in the
Diocese, St. Francis Xavier Infirmary,
Charleston, one of the pioneer hospi
tals of the state, and conducted by
the Sisters of Mercy.
The new Providence Hospital will
be erected on the Haskell Estate, ac
quired for that purpose by Bishop
Walsh last year. In his plans for the
hospital, Bishop Walsh has been as
sisted most ably by the Very Rev.
Martin C. Murphy, V. F, dean of the
Columbia district, whose dreams are
also realized in the translation of
hopes into tangible plans. The site is
one of the most desirable in the city
for the purpose, and the plan of a
new hospital has been received with
great pleasure by the non-Catholics
of the city as well as by the Catho
lics, and particularly by the medical
fraternity who rejoice in this expan
sion of the medical facilities of the
Capitol City.
The capacity of the hospital will
give 110 beds, with provision made
for future expansion. Special and
private rooms, and two and four bed
rooms will be included. The hospital
will be scientifically up-to-date and
modem in every way. The interior
finish and equipment will be of the
finest and most permanent character;
sanitation and every comfort for the
benefit of the patient have been giv
en first consideration; every device
necessary for the working staff will
be provided.
The administration quarters and all
other departments of the hospital
have been carefully studied and ar
ranged for the convenience and com
fort of the doctors, nurses and other
members of the staff. For the present
there will be no school of nursing, the
patients being cared for by the Sis
ters and other graduate nurses. Sep
arate sections wlil be provided for the
medical, surgical and maternity de
partments, each with its special prd*
visions. Special consideration has
been given the question of acoustics
in order to overcome the reverbera
tion which has proven most annoying
in many hospitals of modem fire
proof construction.
The kitchen stands free from the
main hospital building with light and
air on three sides; the odors are
drawn off through ducts and forced
over the roof of the hospital. The
boiler house and laundry are in sep
arate buildings some distance in the
rear of the hospital. Central service
for food delivery is planned; all
trays will be made up in the main
kitchen and delivered in electrically
heated trucks to a special elevator;
lifted to the floors, the trays will be
rolled along the corridors and the
trays placed immediately in each pa-
tient”s room. This system provides
rapid service and warm food, and
removes noises from dishwashing
from the floors.
The emergency department, treat
ment rooms for out patients, X-ray,
central supplies and central steriliz
ers will be on the first floor. The
operating rooms will occupy the fifth
floor and are arranged for future ex
tension.
Sun porches and waiting spaces
have been conveniently arranged on
each floor. Spacious lawns, shrubbery
and the wonderful trees of the old es
tate afford a quiet and restful atmos
phere for convalescents.
S. Carolina Knights
To Hold State Convention in
Charleston May 30
CHARLESTON, S. C.—The annual
convention of South Carolina State
Council, Knights of Columbus, will
be held here May 30, Judge John I.
Cosgrove presiding. The delegates
will be guests at a shore dinner at
the Elks Home at Folly Beach in
the afternoon, .