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MARCH 31, 1944
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE—A
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REQUIEM MASS AT
WARM SPRINGS FOR
EDWIN H. SMITH
WARMS SPRINGS, Ga. — The
Rev. Robert Brennan, pastor of
St. Peter’s Church, LaGrange, of
fered a Requiem Mass at the
chapel hei-e for the repose of the
soul of Edwin H. Smith, a former
patient at the Warm Springs
Foundation who died some weeks
ago of pneumonia at his home in
Zenda, Kansas.
Mr. Smith, one of the most pop
ular young men of his home city
won the pole-vaulting champion
ship for Kingman County, Kansas,
in 1939 and 1940. He had been the
captain of his high school’s basket
ball team and had shown prowess
in other fields of athletic effort.
In September, 1940, he was strick
en with a severe attack of polio,
and remained in an iron lung for
several months. Admitted to the
Warm Springs Foundation for
treatment, he was being taught to
walk again, and had recovered suf
ficiently to return to his home.
He was a brother of the Rev.
George L. Smith, a priest of the
Diocese of Reno, now serving as a
chaplain with the U. S. Navy.
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“NO ACCOUNT TOO LARGE
NONE TOO SMALL”
Enter Novitiate of Sisters of Mercy
Four members of last year’s graduating class of St. Vincent Acad
emy, Savannah”, received the habit of the Sister of Mercy at a recep
tion held on March 12 at Mother of Mercy Novitiate in Baltimore. The
Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, Bishop of Charleston, and an uncle of
Miss Eleanor Walsh, one of the young postulants, presided at the cere
mony. The newly received novices are, left to right: Miss Walsh, who
will be known as Sister Mary Jude; Miss Mary Clare Davis, who will
be known as Sister Mary Kieran; Miss Marguerite Bero Pinckney, Sis
ter Mary Helene, and Miss Nancy Marie Barragan, Sister Mary Fidelis.
—(Photo—Courtesy The Savannah Morning News.)
WITH OTHER EDITORS
IRELAND AND NEUTRALITY
One must go back a long way
for a St. Patrick’s Day more criti
cal in the history of the people of
Ireland than that just observed in
the shadow of the war and of
strained relations with the United
States.
There has been much temperate
but too much intemperate dis
cussion of Eire’s declining to com
ply with the request of our gov
ernment that it expel from its soil
the diplomatic representatives of
the nations with which we are at
war. There is the New York af
ternoon tabloid, for instance, which
profanely consigns all neutrality to
perdition.
The right of the people of Eire
to remain neutral is obvious to all
except unreasonable and utterly
prejudiced persons. The fact that
Prime Minister De Valera has the
united support of his people in his
attitude is also undisputed. We
who have been so commendably
insistent on the rights of countries
to guide their own destinies have
a special obligation to respect this
decision of the Irish Government.
The United States Government
asserts that the Axis agents are
using their privileges to spy on
and imperil our war effort. The
De Valera Government replies that
the evidence proves that “it is
doubhtful il any other country can
show such a record of care and
successful vigilance” in precau
tions against espionage.
It is difficult to believe that the
Government of Eire which has
made such sacrifices to preserve
its neutrality would permit the
Nazis and the Japs to jeopardize
it. To expel the Axis envoys would
be the first step toward war, to
ward inviting the destruction of
Irish cities and towns and the kill
ing of untold numbers of her peo
ple without any corresponding
gain to the Allied cause.
It is probable that there is as
great a proportion of the natives
of Eire serving in the Allied
Armies as there are natives of our
own soil. The De Valera Govern
ment is bound by the principles
of democracy to maintain the neu
trality which is the will of its peo
ple and Parliament. If that policy
is not to Ireland’s advantage—and
that, not our interests, must be
Eire’s criterion—we should be
able to convince the Irish Govern
ment and people of it. In the mean
time, invective will only confuse
the issue. (The Catholic News).
THE CATHOLIC FUNERAL
The Catholic Funeral Service is
a liturgical observance rooted deep
in Catholic tradition, redolent of
Christian hope, replete with all
the comfort and consolation that
go with faith in the resurrection.
It has the majesty of correct cere
monial, the soulful words of Holy
Scripture, the solemn melodies of
lamentation steeped in the spirit
cf Christian hope.
The body that has been and is
even in death a Temple of the
Holy Ghost is brought with due
honor before the altar: there it
rests at the very entrance to the
sanctuary while the priest offers
up the Requiem Mass for the soul
departed. The ever-present mercy
of God is called upon to keep that
soul from the hands of the enemy,
from eternal oblivion; to command
bis Holy Angels to receive that soul
into their care, to lead it into
Paradise; to preserve it from the
punishment of hell and bring it as
one that has hoped and believed
in God to joys eternal. All the
mourners join in the spirit of the
Preface thanking God through
Jesus Christ for the hope of a
blessed resurrection bringing to
the dying the consolation of future
immortality, in the thought that
life is not taken away, but changed
for eternal life; that the dissolu
tion of our earthly abode means
the acquisition of an eternal dwel
ling place. Therefore, even in our
sorrow, we join with all of God’s
Angels in singing a hymn to His
glory.
Body and soul have their share
in the committal service, even as
they have been together in life,
and shall be reunited for eternity
in the general resurrection. Over
the open grave the priest intones
the consoling words of Christ: “I
am the resurrection and the life:
he that believeth in me even
though he be dead shall live.” Into
the consecrated earth to await that
day the body is reverently laid.
Our sympathy to those who have
not the faith and the hope that
are symbolized in the Catholic Fun
eral Service. Let us pray for those
who have no hope, who have not
been blessed with faith in Christ
and in His Church. May the living
find in the closing message of
Irvin Cobb the shock that will turn
them now to the things of God, to
the hope in a blessed immortality.
(The Catholic Courier).
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH can
survive without Monte Cassino.
The Catholic Church can survive if
Rome is left without a stone upon
a stone. But can our civilization
survive if we indulge in practically
unprofitable destruction of its
wellsprings, and moreover, do so
not only with carefree abandon,
but also with perverse pleasure?
That is the question (Catholic
Transcript, Hartford).
AIR MEDAL AWARDED
CAPT. FRANK MURPHY,
ATLANTA PARISHIONER
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. •— An Air Medal
with three Oak Leaf Clusters
awarded to Capt. Frank D. Mur
phy, now held a prisoner of war
in Germany, has been presented
to his parents, Mr, and Mrs.
Michael V. Murphy, by Capt.
Charles F. Light of the U. S. Army
Air Base in Atlanta.
The Air Medal was for five con
secutive missions over enemy held
Europe, and the clusters were in
lieu of medals for each addition
five missions successfully complet
ed.
Captain Murphy, a native of At
lanta, is a member of the Sacred
Heart parish. He was educated at
the Sacred Heart Parochial School
and Marist College, and was in
his junior year at Emory Univer
sity when he entered the Army Air
Forces in 1942.
He arrived overseas in June,
1943, and participated in bombing
missions over Norway, France and
Germany, serving as squadron
navigator. He was shot down over
Munster, Germany, October 10, on
his twenty-first mission.
His parents have received a com
munication from him in whicli he
said: "We had a little bad luck and
had to hail out of our ship. Was
slightly wounded, but am coming
along all right.”
MRS. BERTHA BUCKLEY,
SAVANNAH PARISH MEMBER,
CELEBRATES 85TII BIRTHDAY
SAVANNAH, Ga.— Mrs. Bertha
Buckley, mother of Miss Mary
Buckley and Mrs. John E. Hodge,
and sister Of Mrs. Thomas F.
Walsh, Sr., celebrated her 85th
birthday on February 15. Born in
New York City, Mrs. Buckley spent
the early part of her life in Beau
fort, S. C., and moved to Savannah
forty years ago. She is a member
of the Cathedral parish and a
charter member of the Catholic
Women’s Club.
Four Savannah Girls
Enter Religious Life
as Sisters of Mercy |
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Four Savan.
nah girls were received as mem*
bers of the Sisters of Mercy of the
Union at Mount St. Agnes Con-
vent, Baltimore, on March 12, Misi
Mary Eleanor Walsh, daughter ol
Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Walsh,
Miss Nancy Marie Barragan,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Barragan, Miss Marguerite Pinck
ney, daughter of Eustace Pinck
ney, and Miss Mary Clare Davis,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Davis.
A number of their relatives and
friends from Savannah attended
the ceremony at which the four
postulants, former students at St.
Vincent Academy here, received
their veils as Sisters of Mercy.
Among those who attended the
ceremony were the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
T. James McNamara, the Rev.
Daniel J. Bourke, the Rev. James
Conlin, Mr. and Mrs. Barragan,
Miss Patricia Barragan, Mr. and
Mrs. Walsh, Misses Betty, Patricia
and Mary Gloria Walsh, Mrs. Gor
don Whelan, David Whelan, John
M. Powers, Mr. Pinckney, Vincent
Pinckney, Mr. and Mrs. Davis,
Mrs. T. J. McGinn, Mrs. Langdon
Cooper, Miss Rita Trapani, Miss
Mary Handiboe, of Savannah, and
L. A. Scott, Atlanta.
LIEUT.’ B. M. DAVEY
RECEIVES DECORATION
Member of St, Anthony’s
Parish, Atlanta, Awarded
Air Medal
ATLANTA, Ga. — Lieutenant
B. M. Davey, who lias been stat
ioned at an air base in England
since October, has been awarded
an Air Medal for distinctive ser
vice while engaged as pilot of a
Flying Fortress and flight leader in
comabt missions over Germany,
France and Holland.
Formerly a student at St. An
thony’s School, he later attended
Marist College and Tech High
School. He served for many years
as an altar boy at St. Anthony’s
Church, and is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. James F. Davey.
He enlisted in Atlanta’s own
128th Observation Squadron in
March, 1941, having been a civil
ian pilot before entering the ser
vice. He entered Air Cadet School
at Maxwell Field, where he receiv
ed honorable mention and was
squadron commander. He graduat
ed as an army pilot, and was com
missioned, at Albany, in April,
1943, leading his class and re
ceiving special honors.
He took part, on January 11,
1944, in the raid when five air
plane plants in the heart of Ger
many were targets. Since then he
lias participated in raids over
Bremen, Brunswick and Frank
fort.
LIEUTENANT WRIGLEY
COMES HOME ON LEAVE
ATLANTA, Ga. —Lt. William H.
Wrigley, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Everett Wrigley, is home on leave
after completing fifty mission in
the European theatre of war. He
holds the distinction of being the
only man in his flying group to
carry his crew through fifty mis
sions without a single man being
injured. His crew is credited with
bringing down four enemy planes.
After graduating from Marist
College, he attended Georgia Tech
for two years before joining the
Air Force. He was commissioned
in December, 1942, and lias a bro
ther, Lt. Everett W. Wrigley, Jr,,
with the Army Air Forces in the
Pacific theatre of war.
ATLANTA SCHOOL
BOOK CLUB MEETS
ATLANTA, Ga.—The February
meeting of the ROBS, the book
club of the seventh and eighth
grades of St. Anthony’s School,
was honored by the presence of
Mother Carmelita, Provincial of
the Sisters of St. Joseph of Caro-
delet in the Diocese of Savannah-
Atianta.
Juanita Fowler gave a resume
of the club’s actiivties since ita
organization last September- In
addition to the pleasure furnish
ed by the entertainment commit
tee, a special demonstration of
choral speaking was given, and a
contest was begun' to see which
group would give the greater
number of book reports within
a certain period. The contest
was proposed as a result of the
fine collection of books donated
to the club by the Parent-Teachej
Association of the school.
Officers of the club are Bar
bara Patureau, president; Lewib
Jones, yice-president; Jo Anne
Shannon, treasurer, and Edward
Sansbury, secretary. j