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JULY 31.1943
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
Wing of Army Plane Is Altar
Upon Which Mass Is Offered at
Air Base in Greenville, July 4th
man Might as preached by Hitler
and his disciples.
“You are being carefully trained
in arms in order to defeat our na
tional enemies. You drive iron
monsters over hill and plain; you
fly in the air like birds; you swim
under the sea like fish. But that
is not enough. Other weapons are
needed to bring lasting peace.
Your struggle is against the Pow
ers of Darkness set in high places.
Prepare yourselves carefully, very
carefully, for conflict against these
powers.
“ ‘Take with you the complete
armour of God, so that you may be
able to resist in the evil day, and
being fully prepared, to stand your
ground. ^Stand, therefore, having
belted your waist with the Truth,
and donned the .breastplate of
Righteousness, and having shod
your feet in readiness to carry the
glad tidings of Peace; carrying in
all circumstances the shield of
Faith, with which you will be able
to quench all the fiery darts of
the wicked one. And take the
helmet of Salvation and the Sword
of the Spirit, which is the Word
of God. (Ephesians vi 13-17)
“Incite and rouse yourselves to
greater vigilance on the spiritual
import of your daily lives: To a
more determined, constant warfare
against tjje Spirit of Sin, which is
only the Spirit of Hate with a
fairer face. Pray without ceas
ing.
“The hosts of the enemies of
Christ your King are how multi
plying; they cast the truths and
values in belief in God to the
winds; they smash the Tablets of
God’s Commandments into bits
and substitute the law of might
for the law of right. Pray unin
terruptedly.
“Incite and rouse yourselves to
become openly the soldiers of
Christ, your King—as openly as
you are professed soldiers of the
land you love. Be men of God
and act like men of God; confess
Him by your actions as well as
by your words. Be constant in
prayer.
“Learn to hold familiar converse
with the Lord God of the uni
verse. Learn well the language
of prayer so that you may teach
that heavenly language to those
to whom it is as yet a foreign
tongue. For when you have learn
ed to cry to the Lord in your af
fliction, then you shall be deliv
ered from your distress, and ‘the
Dove of Peace will find on this
earth, now submerged in a deluge
of discord, somewhere to alight’.
“Look about you. This armed
camp and the many other armed
camps throughout the land; the
battle lines circling the world;
planes roaring and diving on land
and on sea; the deadly iron sharks
of the under seas; the endless
ships in covoy over the Atlantic
and over the Pacific; over all the
seas; the abomination of desola
tion settling down on the once
fair lands of Mother Europe; all
obviously prove that this present
day conflict is not a conflict with
mere flesh and blood, but with
despotism, the empires, the forces
that control and govern this dark
world—the spiritual hosts of evil
arrayed against us on all sides.
Human force and power, the in
genuity of men, humanitarianism
and good intentions— these things
cannot defeat the Spirit of Hate-—
the Power of Darkness—the Army
of Satan.
“The Spirit of the God of Love
alone can conquer and destroy
and rid the hearts of men of the
spirit of the Demon of hate.’’
NAVAL OFFICER’S LETTER
RELATES HIS CONVERSION
IN JAPANESE PRISON CAMP
HONOLULU. — In a letter to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Hen-
shaw of Honolulu, Ensign George
H. Henshayv. who was taken prison
er by the Japanese in the fall of
Wake Island, revealed that he has
embraced the Catholic faitn in a
Japanese prison camp.
Ensign Henshaw related that be
fore the fall of Wake Island, he
had the desire to become a Catho
lic and that after he had been plac
ed in a prison camp in the Philip
pine Islands, he completed in
structions under the direction of
an Australian priest and was bap
tized. He also stated that he had
written to the Most Rev. Peter
Tatuso Doi. Archbishop of Tokyo,
and requested some books on the
Catholic Church. He received a
self and other prisoner's. The let
ter wa sdated November 20, 1942,
but it reached his parents here
only recently.
Procession at Military Mass in Asheville
(Special to The Bulletin)
GREENVILLE, S. C. — Paying
tribute to the ideals . of Inde
pendence for which their forefath
ers fought and which they seek to
obtain, soldiers stationed at the
Greenville Army Air Base assisted
on July Fourth at a Mass celebrat
ed on the wing of a Cessna plane
by Captain Anthony Cirami. an
Augustinian Friar, who is the Cath
olic chaplain at the base.
The services were held in a nat
ural amphitheatre between the Of
ficers’ Club and the 334th Bomb
Group headquarters, and were
broadcast over Station WFBC.
The Right Rev. Joseph L.
O’Brien. S. T. B.. LL. D„ pastor
of St. Patrick’s Church, Charles
ton, S. C., one of the South’s dis
tinguished pulpit orators, deliver
ed the sermon at the Mass, in the
course of which he said:
MONSIGNOR O’BRIEN S
ELOQUENT SERMON
“One hundred and sixty-seven
years ago, when the American Col
onists finally became convinced
that their desire to be free from
distasteful'oppression that had no
justification in the British Consti
tution, they sought higher and
firmer ground. They were de
termined to m.e free. They were
convinced that they had the right
to be free. If British subjects had
no right to such freedom, then
they would cease to be British sub
jects. They would base their claim
to freedom upon their rights as
men and as creatures of God.
“When these American Colonists
ceased to talk about themselves
as British subjects and began to
emphasize their rights as God’s
creatures, one of the great mile-
: tones of world history was plant
ed. Out of the indignant discus
sions, speeches and correspond
ence between the Colonists, a
brand-new idea was crystallizing.
A revolution was brewing, and a
new American government was in
the making. Important and seri
ous events were at hand. A war
was under way and a ragged, half-
fed. poorly-equipped army was in
the field against the Imperial Red
coats and hired mercenaries of
Britain. But more important and
more serious than these things,
was the fact that the basis for this
revolution and the purpose of this
new government .was bound-up
with the God-given natural rights
of mankind. This was the first
time in the history of the world
that a civil government was to be
overthrown for the positive and
officially declared reason that it
had violated the God-given rights
of the individual person. It was
to be expected, therefore, that
such an unprecedented step would
be preceded by such cautious de
liberation and argument. The
American Colonies were not mere
ly separating from England, they
were once and for all withdrawing
from the old field of orthodox po
litical science. It was proposed
that a new government should be
constructed by direction of the
governed as a special agency for
the protection'of individual rights.
Nothing like this in government
had ever been attempted before.
The destination of the new
American government was then,
is now, and will be as long
as that government stands
the full and complete protection
of the God-given rights of man.
“And now one hundred and six
ty-seven years later we are again
engaged in war—this time war to
defend our God-given rights. This
our country started on its historic
career with an act of faith in God,
the Father Almighty, and unless
this country of ours through the
mouths of her patriotic children
keeps the Act of Faith in God
Almighty and Eternal as a nation
she will prove traitor to her his
toric mission and soon or late go
the way of decadent flesh.
“Germany's greatest sin is not
that Germany has pillaged and
plundered the fair lands of Eu
rope. Germany's greatest sin is
not murder, although she is the
arch-murderer of the ages. Ger
many's greatest sin is blasphemy-
blasphemy crying to heaven for
vengeance. ‘God is not to be
mocked.’ (Gal. v. 7)
“Germany aims not only at the
destruction of the kingdoms of the
earth and the enslavement of na
tions. Germany aims at the de
struction of the City of God.
the Church of Jesus Christ.
Germany and her Axis part
ners aim to uproot the King
dom of God on earth and substi
tute for it the new order of Ger
Pictured above, headed by a color guard is a part of the procession approaching St. Lawrence
Church, Asheville, North Carolina, before which a Military Field Mass was celebrated on June 27 by the
Very Rev. Monsignor Louis J. Bour. pastor of the church, and which was attended by a congregation com
posed largely of men and women of the armed forces. Arrangements for the Field Mass were made by
the Religious Committee of the Laurentine Canteen, operated in Asheville under the auspices of the USO-
NCCS. This committee, headed by John G. Deshle r, K. S. G., included Mrs. A. J. Becht, Mrs. J. H.
Wehry, and a special advisory committee composed of the Rev. Charles O’Connor, assistant pastor of St.
Lawrence; William Kuilka, Bernard G. Ferrey. Frank Vincent and John Erskine.
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PRIEST AND PROTESTANT
MINISTER JOIN CANADA
RESERVES AS PRIVATES
MONCTON, N. B. — When the
19th Tank Regiment of the Canadi
an reserve army was organized in
this section recently, among the
first recruits as troopers were a
Catholic and a Protestant clergy
men. Father C. J. Richard, curate
at nearby Rogersville, joined at
about the same time as the Rev.
J. H. Freestone, pastor of the
Wesley United Church, Moncton.
Neither applied for a chaplaincy,
but for a place in the ranks.
Father Richard brought with
him 95 recruits from the parish
where he is assistant. Cases of
clergymen of any denomination
joining as privates are few. With
Father Richard’s Rogersville group
was Dr. O. F. Comeau, village phy
sician. who served with the Cana
dian army in the first world war.
The new tank regiment is believed
to be the only unit to have a Catho
lic priest and Protestant pastor
drilling side by side in the ranks.
FATHER O’CONNOR
The Rev. Charles J. O’Connor, a
native of Philadelphia, was or
dained for the Diocese of Raleigh
at Mount St. Mary’s College. Em-
mitsburg. (Maryland, in 1942. He
is now serving as assistant pastor
of St. Lawrence Church, Asheville,
North Carolina.
SAVANNAH CATHEDRAL
AIR RAID ZONE POST
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Savan-
nah-Chatham County Defense
Council, through Thomas H. Gig-
nilliat. chief air raid warden, has
announced a new zone post in the
city, which has been located in
the basement of the Cathedral of
St. John the Baptist.
The post is on the south side of
(he Cathedral, about midway of the
building on the Harris Street side.
Mr. Gignilliat also announced the
appointment of John M. Brennan
as inspector of air raid shelters. '
mrs. john j. McCreary
HEAD MACON AMERICAN
LEGION AUXILIARY
MACON. Ga. —Joseph N. Neel,
Jr., Unit No. 3, American Legion
Auxiliary, of this city, has chosen
Mrs. John J. McCreary as its presi
dent. Mrs. McCreary, a member
of St. Joseph’s parish, is president
of the local N. C. C. W. Council,
and has served the Legion Auxili
ary as historian and treasurer.
MONSIGNOR BOUR
The Very Rev. Monsignor Louis
J. Bour, Pastor of St. Lawrence
Church, Asheville, North Carolina,
who was elevated to the ecclesi
astical dignity of a Papal Cham
berlain, with the rank and title
of Very Reverend .Monsignor, by
His Holiness Pope Pius XII last
year. A native of Pennsylvania,
Father Bour was ordained at Bel
mont Abbey in 1916, and has been
pastor of St. Lawrence Church in
Asheville for twenty-six years.
The
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