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SIX-A THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA APRIL 29, 1939 New Church at St. Petersburg Is Dedicated GESli YOUNG PEOPLE IN ANNUAL MEETING BY MISS ETHEL M. GREEN' MIAMI, Fla.—The Gesu Young Peo ple’s Sodality will hold the annual election of officers at the meeting April 28. The present officers are: William H. Kinnear, Jr.. Prefect Pres ident; Miss Rosemary Kane, vice pre fect: Joseph J. Hourihan, treasurer; and Miss Claire E. Pare, secretary. Other members of the new Sodality include: Miss Virginia Barretto, James Clarke. Miss Jeanne Chapleau, Robert Joergler. Blanche Tebo. Rob ert Gilbert, Miss Josephine Wtite, Robert Bilger, Miss Hazel Cleare, Donald E. Schang, Miss Martha Kelly, Thomas Hay, Miss Patricia Burke, Jack Fleming. Miss Mary Ethel Fletcher. Charles A. Gardner, Miss Isabelle Clark, Frank McKenna, Cath erine Hefinger, Russell J. Burke, Miss Hazel Searing; Clarice Schnatter- beck. Francis Smith, and Father Jos. T. Burleigh, S. J., the spiritual di rector. Following the election, the Sodality will conduct the formal reception of the graduates of the Gesu High School into the Parish group, with a closed dance at the Gesu Roof Garden. The Catholic Truth committee of the Sodality will lead the discussion on the statement, “’The Thirteenth, tire greatest of Centuries’’ at the sec tional meeting to be held at St. Mary’s in Little River, late in May. SISTER THOMASINE DIES IN CHARLESTON Native of City Fifty-Nine Years Member of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy CHARLESTON, S. C.—Sister M. Thomasine Gough, for fifty-nine years a member of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, and one of the most beloved members of the Order in South Carolina, died here April 24 in her seventy-ninth year. Sister Thom asine was born in Charleston August 22. 1860. the daughter of Mr. ~ and Mrs. Charles Gough, and received her early education here, entering the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in 1880. S : ster Thomasine spent her reli gious life of three score years teach ing in the Catholic schools of Char leston and caring for the orphans, and three" generations of Charleston ians have known her tender care. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. James J. May, V. G., rector of the Cathedral, offi ciated at the Requiem Mass at the funeral. Interment was in the Sis ters’ Section of St. Lawrence Ceme tery. Pallbearers were William E. Craven, Jr., George Spain, William McLaughlin. W. J. Leonard, William Molony and John Maguire. JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, the Ruth- erfordites, told a reporter in London that Cardinal Hinsley is planning a coup d’etat in 1942, when he will es tablish a clerical dictatorship, and that there will be a simultaneous uprising in the United States, Cardinal Mun delein placing himself in supreme power in the White House. Hitler, ac cording to the statement, is under the domination of Cardinal Faulhaber. When the reporter told the spokesman for the Rutherfordites that the cartoons in their literature were disgusting, they said that the cartoons were for American consumption, and American taste is a bit vulgar. ARLINGTON will have a military field Mass at the National Cemetery May 28 sponsored by the Washington General Assembly of the Knights of Columbus, with Coadjutor Bishop Peter L. Ireton of Richmond, presid ing and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William R. Arnold, Chief of Army Chaplains, as celebrant. St. Paul’s Church, St. Petersburg The beautiful new St. Paul’s Church in St. Petersburg is of red bricll construction and seats one thousand people. The interior of the church with its arched ceiling is dignified and colorful; the marble liturgical altars and the altar rail are exceptionally beautiful. The edifice is of twelfth century Romanesque architecture. Gerald A. Barry of Chicago is architect and A. P. Henn essey, St. Petersburg, contractor. RISHOP TO BLESS FISHING FLEET Ceremony Planned for Brunswick Sunday* May 14 BRUNSWICK, Ga.—The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, will officiate at the ceremony of the blessing of the boast of the fleet of te Portuguese fishermen here May 14, as the fleet is about to leave for the summer fish ing. The blessing ceremony will be in the afternoon, at three, following a low Mass and general Communion at seven, Bishop O'Hara officiating, and a High Mass, Coram Episcopo, at nine, the Rev. F. M. Perry, S. M., of ficiating and Bishop O'Hara presid ing. The Rev. Joseph M. Silvia of Fall River will deliver the sermon. The ceremony May 14 follows that of November 20 last, when Bishop O’Hara blessed the Statue of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fatima, which resulted in a virtual religious revival among the Portuguese fisher men. There are about 250 in the col ony, and two score or more .of them who had not been to the Sacraments in many years, some as long as forty, returned to the practice f their faith. Only a portion of the Portuguese of the colony live here, although all make it their headoquarters: about one hundred, particularly of the young, unmarried men, live on their boats. Bishop O’Hara’s interest in the wel fare of the Portuguese colony and Father Perry’s efforts have not only resulted in many of them who were not practical returning to the Sacra ments, but has given a number of them apostolic zeal. Manuel Boa is a leader of the colony and has been a leading factor in the revived inter est of its members in ther religion. REP. J. BURWOOD DALY of Penn sylvania, formerly a member of the faculty of LaSalle College, died in Philadelphia at the age of 67. Mr. Daly, a graduate of LaSalle and the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, was elected to Congress in 1934 and re-elected in 1936 and 1938, the first Democrat ever elected from his district in Philadel phia. Diocese of St. Augustine * Major Orders Conferred by Bishop Barry at St. Leo Ab bey—Other Florida News AT ST. LEO ABBEY, Bishop Barry who was celebrant of the Pontifical Mass ta St. Leo Abbey on the Feast of St. Benedict, officiated the day fol lowing when the sub-deaconate was conferred by Dr. Raphael Schof, O. S. B. TAMPA was host March 20 to a district meeting of the Sodalists of South Florida, Catholic literature be ing the chief theme of the meeting. REV. H. W. ROCKWOOD, S. J., conducted the annual retreat for the student body of St Joseph’s Academy High School Department St. Augus tine, the students maintaining si lence during the retreat. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. P. J. McGill, chancellor of the Diocese, was celebrant of the closing Mass, and addressed the stu dents. Father Rocwkwood then giv ing the Papal Blessing. A breakfast was served through the kindness of the Sisters of St. Joseph. REV. JOHN M. M’CREARY, su perior of the Jesuit Mission Band of the South, and the Rev. J. W. Court ney, S. J., conducted a most success ful two weeks’ mission at the Cathe dral at St. Augustine late in March, one week for women and one for men. The mission was splendidly at tended, not only at night but at the Masses as welL RICHARD REID, editor of The Bul letin, addressed the March meeting of the Current Events Class of the Cath olic Woman’s Club of Jacksonville, at the hQme of Mrs. W. Shannon Lin ing. Mrs. E. Stanwix-Hay and Mrs. Mary Scanlon were co-hostesses. Mr. Reid’s subject was the Catholic Press. ST. PAUL’S, Jacksonville, will hold its annual parish' picnic May 28 on the grounds of St. Mary's Home, Orange Park, it was announced at tire recent meeting of the Parents’ Auxili ary of the parish. The Dad’s Club is cooperating. At the Auxiliary meeting, on motion of Mrs. George P. Coyle, resolutions were adopted favoring changes in the laws of Du vall County pertaining to the pro tection of the mentally ill. Arthur N. Sollee addressed the meeting on County Government. Recollections of Father Tabb Editorial in the Atlanta Journal Augusta YouthProgramGets Under Way With Great Rally Father Grady Addresses Mass Meeting of Nearly 300 Young People—Joseph Heffernan Elected President AUGUSTA. Ga.—Over three hun dred young people attended the or ganization meeting of the Catholic Youth Organization Tuesday night and after hearing the Rev. James J. Grady, chancellor of the Diocese of youth activities of the Diocese, out line the plan of His Excellency, Bishop O’Hara, for including all the young people of the state in Catholic groups, organized the local contingent. Joseph Heffernan was elected pres ident. Miss Peggy Redd, vice presi dent, Miss Marian Lawrence Secre tary and T. J. Kearns, Jr., treasurer. The members fo the executive board are Carl Lawrence. Miss Peg Schweers. Miss Mary McAuliffe, Ray mond Loyal, Miss Clara Punaro, Miss Atm Cotter and Edward Bailey. The Very Rev. Leo M. Keenan, dean of the Augusta District, presided, and the guests of honor included the Rev. Harold J. Barr, the Rev. John E. O’Donohoe, S. J.. and the Rev. Daniel Cronin, S. J. Edwin J. Dorr was chairman of the committee on ar rangements. Father Grady, in outlining Bishop O’Hara’s plan of organizing the Cath olic youth of the Diocese, pointed out the necessity for organization espe cially in this day and time, and said that he was certain that Augusta would do ta least its part in this pro gram as it has done in others. Rich ard Reid described the organization effected in other cities. The tenta tive plans here call for senior and junior organizations, the senior or ganization to be affiliated with the Georgia Junior Federation of Cath olic Clubs. A social followed the meeting, and refreshments were served. , _ In the latest number of the Colophon Aubrey Starke has a delightsome es say on Father Tabb, one of the rare spirits of Southern and American lit erature. “Tabbiana” he calls it, and explains that the reminiscences and letters which it presents were given him by the distinguished and vener able Atlanta author, Mrs. Myrta Lock ett Avary. John Bannister Tabb, poet and priest, was born March 22, 1845, at the ancestral home in Amelia County, Virginia. During the War Between the States he did gallant service from the Confederacy. Though excluded from the army because of defective eyesight he performed perilous missions abroad and in the summer of 1864 was cap tured aboard the Siren, on which he was carrying dispatches. At Point Lookout, Maryland, prison, to which he was sentenced, he met Sidney La nier, with whom he maintained a long and beautiful friendship. Tabb him self was an ardent devotee of music and verse. He was ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church in Decem ber, 1884. Between then and his death in November, 1909, he spent most of his active years teaching English at St. Charles College in Maryland. William Thorp says of him, in the Dictionary of American Biography, “He mingled little with the world beyond the college and the ’ City of Baltimore. To the last he called him self an ‘unreconstructed rebel.’ His pupils loved him devotedly and were molded by his rich and paradoxical nature. Father Tabb commenced poetry when he was in the Confed erate service. His first volume, issued privately in 1882, was experimental. His first widely known volume. Poems (1894), preceded by An Octave to Mary (1893), reached a seventeenth edition. By the time of the publication of Lyrics (1897) the periodicals bought his poems eagerly. His reputation was further augmented, particularly in England, by Later Lyrics (1902), The Rosary in Rhyme (1904), and A Selec tion from the Verses of John B. Tabb, compiled by Alice Meynell in 1907. . . . His most intense lyric utterance suggests the epigramatic crypticism of Emily Dickinson. His nature poetry is often fanciful, but his religious lyrics for their intensity invite com parison with those of the seventeenth century metaphysical poets.” Here is one of his little lyrics; entitled "Evo lution: ” Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again. In Tabbiana Aubrey Starke reveals with deft and discerning touches the whimsical, humorsome side of Father Tabb. On the appearance of Mrs. Myrta Lockett Avary's A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, in 1903, the veteran Confederate and poet-priest sent her a note of cordial apprecia tion, "blessing her for painting so ac curate, so just and so compelling a pic ture of the southern side of the war.” But when she afterwards solicited his aid concerning a literary project which she then had in mind, he answered in this wise: Things have come to a pretty pass, When, in a state of doubt. The Ox appealeth to the Ass To help to pull him out. The Devil keep you in the mire Ere you accomplish your desire. Fast upon the heels of this retort, however, came a postal card on which was written: "Dear Mrs. Avary: This morning's malediction fell only, of course, on that part of the program that concerns the poor Ass, who would certainly kick the bottom out of any vehicle that dragged him before the public. . The final bit of Tabbiana presented in the Colophon article is a treasure indeed. Written some time in the autumn of 19\H to airs. Avary, ST. PAUL’S PARISH EDIFICE BLESSING SOLEMN CEREMONY Bishop Barry . Officiates. Father J. F. Enright Pastor of St, Paul’s Church (Special to The Bulletin) S8. PETERSBURG, Fla.—St. Paul’s parish, of which the Very Rev. J. F. Enright is pastor, dedicated its splen did new church here the last Sunday in March, the Most Rev. Patrick Bar ry, D.D., Bishop of St. Augustine, of ficiating at the ceremony. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Thomas Comer of Coral Gables, and the cere mony was attended by priests and people not only from all parts of Flor ida but from many distant states. Bishop Barry was celebrant of the Pontifical Mass, with the Rev. J. J. O’Riordan as archpriest, the Rev. T. J. Geary and the Rev. M. J. Fogarty, assistants at St. Paul’s, deacon and sub-deacon respectively, the Rev. J. J. Mullins and the Rev. T. A. Col- reavy. deacons of honor, and Father Enright master of ceremonies. The Mass was sung by the boys’ choir from St. Paul’s School, under the di rection of Sister M. St. Ann, O. S. F. Prelates and clergy assisting at the dedication included the Rt. Rev. Fran cis Sadlier, O.S.B., D.D.. Abbott of St. Leo, the Rt. Rev. William Barry, Miami Beach; the Rt. Rev. Msgr. D. A. Lyons, St. Petersburg; the Rt. Rev. Msgr. M. Kruszas, Chicago; Father Aloysisu, O.S.B.; the Rev. John Hosey, C.SS.R.,, arid thfe Rev. M. A. Tobin, C.SS.R., Ybor City; the Rev. T. F. Cooney, S.J.. and the Rev. Peter Ri naldi, S.C.. Tampa, the Rev. John G. Bishop. Orlando, the Rev. Dr. Patrick • E. Nolan, Lakeland; the Rev. P. D. O’Brien, Bradentown; the Rev. Charles Elslander. Sarasota: the Rev. Mark McLaughlin. St. Mary’s; the Rev. Thomas A. Walsh, Chelsea. Mass.; the Rev. Thomas L. Finn, Atlanta; the Rev. R. J. Maloney, Crosby, Minn.; the Rev. A. Potvin, Springfield, Mass.; the Rev. J. Corcoran. Michigan; the Rev. J. S. Griffey and the Rev. E. G. Moore, Camden, N. J. St. Paul’s parish is now ten years old; Father Enright was appointed its first pastor in 1929, two years after his ordination; he previously was assist ant at Miami Beach. It is the third building to be erected on the church property in the past nine years, the others being the school, the auditor ium of which has served the parish as a chapel, and the rectory; church, school and rectory constitute one of the finest group of church buildings in Florida. The Shrine to the Blessed Virgin between the church and rectory is a beautiful sources of inspiration to the parishoners and the passersby. It is illuminated at night. St. Petersburg, which twenty years ago was a mission of Tampa, now has three parishes and churches, a splen did school, St. Paul's, and a fine hos pital, St. Anthony’s. Few parishes any where have made ^greater strides in a similar period of time than St. Paul’s, under Father Enright. Father Enright is widely known as an author as well as for his distinguished parish work. He is assisted in the parish by Father T. J. Geary, who was ordained eight years ago at St. John’s College, Waterford, and who served at Coral Gables before coming to St. Paul’s in 1934, and the Rev. M. J. Fogarty, also an alumnus of St. John’s College, who was ordained in 1933 and came to St. Paul’s from St. James’ Church, Orlando, in 1937. John W. Corley of Atlanta Parish Dies (Special to The Bulletin) ATLANTA, Ga.—John W. Crowley, a member of St. Anthony’s Parish, died here late in March. Surviving Mr. Crowley are his two daughters, Mrs. J. J. Mathieu and Mrs. J. L. Cochran. Atlanta, and his son, George C. Crowley, Kite, Gt. The funeral was held from St. Anthony’s Church, the Rev. Nicholas J. Quinlan officiating at the Requiem Mass. In terment was in Greenwood Ceme tery. MRS. ADA WELLINGIIURST, sis ter of Mrs. D. J. Moriarty of Atlanta, died late in March at Maplewood, If, J. Surviving Mrs. Weliinghurst in ad dition to Mrs. Moriarty' are two daughters, her son, and her brother, Edward A. Gately, Caldwell, N. J. it runs thus: "From the printer’s de vil up to the top of the ladder, I like, at a distance, the whole struggling clan. As personal acquaintances, lit erary people are the last 1 desire; and there’s not one, living or dead. I'd encounter were it possible to escape. Heaven has protected me from them so far, and will, I hope, hereafter. You are wise not to question me about my own productions. Like sneezes, they are only to be done and forgot ten, and once deliverd of them. I re call them no more. The published ones I cannot bear even in my library —a collection of half a dozen books that I go to when I can't get outside.” Mr. Starke has previously made the South, and the English-rehding world, his debtor by his admirable biography of Sidney Lanier. For the glimpses he now affords us of rare Father Tabb, we are again heartily gratefuL ,
