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JON* 2% 1949
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORCxIA
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Trappisf Abbey in Kentucky
Breaks Into Ceremonial Sound
After a Century of Silence
TRAPPISTS MARK ‘100 YEARS OF SILENCE’
His Eminence Dennis ’ Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, presided at the Solemn Pon
tifical Mass celebrated at the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, at Gcthsemani, Ky.,'
where the monks observed the 100th anniversary of the founding of their abbey. The monks are
shown leading the procession from the monastery, filing past the statue of Our Lady m the mon.
astery courtyard. Photo courtesy The Record, Louisville. (NC Photo?)
TRAPPIST, Ky. —(NC)~ After
100 years of silence, the Trapipst
Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani
burst into sound. It was the
Gethsemani centenary, celebrated
with elaborate ceremonies, song
and speeches, the pageantry of
banners, flags, coasts - of - arms,
ceremonial vestments, and the
sublime Liturgy of a Solemn Ponti
fical Mass offered under the open
sky.
There was reverence and a gen
eral hush during the solemn mo
ments of the field Mass, there were
at other times in the crowd a great
Rev. j. ]. Salway,
Phenix City Pastor,
Celebrates Jubilee
PHENIX CITY, Ala. — Father
James Joseph Salway, C. M., pastor
of St. Patrick’s Church, commem
orated the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his ordination on May 29, by of
fering a Solemn High Mass of
thanksgiving at the church of
which lie is pastor. Father Edward
Sellman, C. M„ of Greensboro, N.
C., delivered the sermon and Fa
ther John C. King, C.M., of Lanett,
Ala., arranged the Silver Jubilee
celebration program.
Catholics and non-Catholics join
ed in extending congratulations to
Father Salway at a reception held
at the parish rectory, with George
Gingell acting as master of cere
monies.
Mayor Homer D. Cobb com
mended Father Salway for the up
lifting influence he has been to the
citizens. He particularly mentioned
the establishment of Mother Mary
Mission for the Colored people as
an example of the good work done
by the jubilarian.
Theo McGee, of Columbus, an
other speaker declared: "If I were
in trouble I would go to Father
Salway for advice, and if I were on
my deathbed would feel more se
cure if he were holding my hand.
Although I am a Protestant, my re
spect and admiration for the Cath
olic Church has grown from know
ing Father Salway.”
Others extending felicitation to
Father Salway were the Rev. Colin
Campbell, rector of Trinity Episco
pal Church, Columbus, and Rabbi
Joseph Weiss, of Temple Israel, in
Columbus.
Sportcaster George Theeringer
presented Father Stalway with a
baseball with a congratulatory in
scription from the Columbus, South
Atlantic League, baseball team, and
read a warm message from T. G.
Reeves, president of the Cardinals.
He also read telegrams from Skeet-
er Newsome, manager of the Port
land, Oregon, baseball team, and
from Ed Kazak, of the St. Louis
National League team.
Father Salway is a former major
league baseball player, and was a
pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
when they won the American
League pennant in 1917. Babe Ruth
was one of his teammates.
Chaplain Aloysius Zeilinski, of
Fort Benning, termed Father Sal
way “the chaplain’s chaplain,” and
said that even though he had done
much for the soldiers, he had done
more for tiieir chaplains
Mrs. Harry Scott, president of
St. Patrick’s Altar Society, and Sea
borne Tarvin, president of the par
ish Holy Name Society, presented
Father Salway with a gold chalice.
A musical program was offered by
members of St. Patrick’s choir and
students of St. Joseph’s Seminary,
Holy Trinity, Ala.
Father Salway’s sister, Mrs. John
Croke, and Mr. Croke, of Belmont,
Mass., were in Phenix City for the
jubilee celebration.
GEORGE L. GETTIER
HEADS NORTH CAROLINA
STATE COUNCIL K. OF C.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—George L.
Gettier, of Charlotte, was re-elect
ed state deputy of North Carolina
State Council, Knights of Colum
bus, at the 1949 convention held
here. Re-elected with Mr. Gettier
were Vincent Redmon, Lumberton,
warden; Justo Rios, Winston-
Salem, treasurer, and H. F. Cain,
Asheville, advocate. New officers
elected were Harry Pelton, Greens
boro, secretary, and Father Fran
cis A. McCarthy, Wake Forest,
chaplain.
National officers attending the
convention were James W. McCor
mick, Westerly, R. I., supreme di
rector, and Francis J. Heazel, K. S.
G., Asheville, supreme treasurer.
excitement and a vast curiosity.
Movie cameras whirred and click
ed, reporters jostled for position,
questions were whispered every
where and necks craned to see the
celebrities.
These included His Eminence
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Arch
bishop of Philadelphia, Msgr. Ful
ton J. Sheen of the Catholic Uni
versity of America, Governor Earle
C. Clements of Kentucky, Base
ball Commissioner A. B. Chandler
and the Trappist author, Thomas
Merton, newly ordained to the
priesthood.
Still, there was a general pre
valence of order in the milling
throng. No tempers were lost and
monks tried desperately to pre
serve, even amid the noise and
confusion, their customary calm
and their serene spirit of recol
lection. The visitors, both the.pious
and the plainly curious, seemed to
be profoundly impressed.
Cardinal Dougherty, who was
present at Gethsemani’s 50th and
75th anniversaries, presided at the
ceremony. Archbishop John A.
Floersch of Louisville was the
celebrant of the Solemn Pontifical
Mass, which was offered at a large
wooden altar erected in St. Mary’s
Field, a large open area in front
of the Abbey church.
Monsignor Sheen’s sermon, en
titled "The Thunder of Silence,”
was a brilliant analysis of the rea
sons why the Trappist monks do
not speak.
“They are silent,” he explained,
“in order to know the truth, in
order to be ravished by the love of
God, and in, order to do penance
for the sins of the world.”
Concerning the third reason for
the Trappisls’ silence, the speaker
noted that Christ made no defense
before His accusers because He,
bearing the sins of men, stood be
fore them as it were in guilt, so the
Trappist stands before God in sil
ent atonement for the sins of guil
ty men. “This seems to me,” said
Monsignor Sheen, “the great mys
tery of their silence: their charity
in taking on the woes of the
world.”
At intervals throughout the Mass
the voice of the Rev. M. Raymond,
O. C. S. O., who is remembered
as the author of “The Man Who
Got Even With God,” was heard
over the public address system,
commenting on the ceremony as
performed at the altar. After the
Mass the Right Rev. James Fox,
O. C. S. O., sixth Abbot of Our
Lady of Gethsemani, thanked those
who had come, including thirteen
Bishops and eleven Abbots.
Governor Clements delivered a
closing address in which he paid
tribute to the Trappist monks for
their great • religious achievements.
“The measure of a man's useful
ness,” said the Governor, “is found
in his service of God and service
of his fellowmen.”
Refreshments were served to
visitors on the lawn following the
Mass, and luncheon was served a
group of special guests inside the
monastery. Among those in attend
ance were the Governor, the Lieu
tenant Governor an<j the Mayor of
Louisville.
KINDERGARTEN CLASSES
GRADUATE IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Ga.— Graduation
exercises for the kindergarten class
of the Blessed Sacrament School,
held in the school auditorium, were
featured by the presentation of a
play, “The Old Woman in the
Shoe.”
Father Thomas A. Brennan, pas
tor of the Blessed Sacrament
Church, presented diplomas to the
following children: Mary Susan
Barragan, Rosemary Bolanky,
Elizabeth Louise Brown, Walter
Corish, Jr., John M. Downing, Jr.,
Rosemary Emerick, Carolyn Emer-
ick, Frank Charles Hudson, Joseph
Kenny, Clare Le Bas, Joseph Led-
lie, Catherine Melroy, Edith Pa
tricia Madden, Thomas McGold
rick. III, Kathleen MacKrell,
Cliff Nettles, Sandra Rogers.
Youngsters who received diplo
mas making them eligible to enter
the first grade at the Sacred Heart
School were Anne Leonard, Kay
Baggett, Irene Steiber, Ginny Little,
Rose Marie Moore, Mary Eliza
beth Conner, Carol Cetti, Marie
Clancy, Romaine Weaver, Esther
Wuante, Patricia Blakewood, Nan
Robertson, Patty Ellis, Tom James,
Clyde Martin, Gerald Daly, Bob
Register, Jimmie Hester, Gregory
Sweatt, Emmet Walsh, Lee Byrnes,
C. J. Stickle, Bubber Davis, Danny
McFeeley, Brad Jewett and Larry
VasleL — — -n*.
PRIEST-SCULPTOR TO
CARVE STATUE FOR
SHRINE AT FATIMA
RALEIGH, N. C.—(NC)— Father
Thomas McGlynn, O. P., world-
famous sculptor, has been commis
sioned to make a statue of Our
Lady to be given by the Catholics
of America to the Fatima Bastilica
in Portugal.
The California-born Dominican
will leave for Italy in October to
begin work on the figure. He will
use Carrara marble, quarried in
Tuscany, and when the statue is
nearly completed he will take it
to Portugal to apply the finishing
touches. It will be placed over the
main entrance to the basilica in an
18-foot niche, 50 feet above the
ground.
In his letter authorizing Father
McGlynn to undertake the project,
Bishop Jose Correia da Silva, of
Leiria, in which Diocese Fatima is
situated, said it would “remain
throughout the ages in that place
of honor as a perpetual memorial
to the love and veneration of Am
erican Catholics for the Blessed
Mother.”
Father McGlynn is a member of
the St. Joseph Province of the
Dominicans and is stationed here.
He is the author of “Vision of
Fatima” and made a small statue of
Our Lady of Fatima under the per
sonal supervision of Sister Mary
of the Immaculate Heart, a Car
melite, who was Lucy dos Santos,
sole survivor of the three children
who witnessed the Fatima appari
tions.
K. OF C. INITIATION
HELD IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Savannah
Council, No. 631, Knights of Co
lumbus, conferred the first, second
and third degrees on a large class
of candidates at a degree cere
monial held on June 12.
The first and second degree ex
emplification was under the direc
tion of Vestus J. Ryan, grand
knight of Savannah Council, and
the third degree exemplification
under the direction of District
Deputy Edward P. Daly, of Savan
nah, and State Deputy J. P. Price,
of Augusta.
THE SACRED ROMAN ROTA
rendered decisions in 124 cases
concerning the nullity ol marriages
and one concerning permanent sep
aration during 1948, according to
the record published in the current
issue of Acta Apostohcae Sedia. Of
these judgments, 48 were decided
in favor of the pre-existing nullity
of marriage, 76 against the nullity
or in favor of a valid marriage.
More than one-third of all cases
were handled entirely gratuitously,
according to the record.
IN THE GREATEST Christian
celebration ever seen in Japan, 25,-
000 Catholics marched on May 29
in a procession more than a mile
long, accompanying His Eminence
Norman Cardinal Gilroy, Arch
bishop of Sydney, Australia, to the
Hill of the Martyrs for the cere
monies opening the fourth cen
tenary of the coming of St. Francis
Xavier to Japan. The four-mile
route taken by the procession pass
ed through Nagasaki where thous
ands of Catholics were led to
martyrdom between the years 1597
and 1650.
Rev. T. L. Macnair, SJ.
Ordained as a Priest
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Of interest
here is the announcement of the
ordination on June 14, at St.
Mary's, Kansas, of Father Thomas
L. Macnair, whose mother, Mrs.
James R. Quigley, of Tampa and
Clearwater Beach, Fla., is the for
mer Miss Helena Hussey Laird, of
Savannah.
Father Macnair celebrated his
first Solemn High Mass at the Sa
cred Heart Church, Tampa, with
Father Michael McNally, S. J., for
mer rector of the Jesuit High
School, Tampa, as assistant priest;
Father Robert E. Walet, S. J., dea
con; Father Edward J. Bergen, S.
J., subdeacon, and Father Richard
J. Hartnett, S. J., master of cere
monies. The sermon at the Mass
was delivered by Father William J.
Harty, S. J., pastor of the Sacred
Heart Church, Tampa.
An uncle of Father Macnair,
Captain Charles Gilbert Laird and
his family reside in Savannah. Oth
er uncles are Rear Admiral O. C.
Laird, U. S. N., Lieutenant Colonel
Robert A. Laird, of New Orleans,
Maj. J. Laird, of Orlando, Fla., all
formerly of Savannah. His aunts
are Mrs. Joseph A. Sweeny, of
Lake Pargett, Fla., and Mrs. John
J. Daley, Burlington, Vt.
Father Macnair’s father was the
late Augustine Walston Macnair,
prominent North Carolina attor
ney. The newly ordained priest
was born in Tarboro, N. C., where
he attended elementary school. He
later attended the Jesuit High
School in Tampa, and after enter
ing the Society of Jesus in 1936,
attended Spring Hill College. He
taught at Jesuit schools in Tampa
and New Orleans, and completed
his theological course at St. Mary’s
College.
When Bishop Ignatius Glennie,
S. J., Vicariate Apostolic of Trin-
comalee, Ceylon, administered the
Sacrament of Holy Jrders to Fa
ther MacNair, he was completing
a work begun years ago by another
missionary Bishop of the Vicariate
.Apostolic of North Carolina.
The conversion of Father Mac
nair’s family dates remotely from
a sermon preached in 1868 at the
court house in Tarboro, North
Carolina. The preacher was the
Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina,
Bishop James Gibbons, later the
beloved and esteem Cardinal Arch
bishop of Baltimore.
Among the townspeople who
gathered to hear Bishop Gibbons
speak on the docti'ines of the Cath
olic Church was a planter and
business man, Wiley Walston, ma
ternal great-grandfather of Father
Macnair. Mr. Walston, though pro
fessing no religion himself, was
so impressed by the saintly man
ner of the Bishop and so moved by
his description of the dedicated
lives of Catholic nuns that he re
solved to send his daughters to a
convent school. He told his wife of
his resolution and received her
promise to send their daughters to
Catholic schools in the event that
he should not be living when the
children became of age to go away
to school.
Though Mr. Walston died before
his daughters went off to school,
Socialists in Savannah
Elect New Officers
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Sodality
members at the Blessed Sacra
ment, Sacred Heart and Cathedral
schools elected new officers at the
close of the school year. The new
ly elected Sodality officers are:
• Blessed Sacrament: Bettie Brem
er, prefect; Joanne Ulivo, vice-pre
fect; Isabelle Powers, secretary;
Helen Broderick, treasurer; Sister
M. Amalia, R. S. M., moderator.
Sacred Heart: Nancy Morrissey,
prefect; Mary Ryan, vice-prefect;
Mary Ann Little, secretary; Nancy
Moore, corresponding secretary,
and Laura Ann Grady, treasurer.
Cathedral: Margaret Smith,
prefect; Mary Daily, vice-prefect;
Rita Harper, secretary, and Mary
Louise Weber, treasurer.
his wife, a devout Baptist, dutifully
followed his wishes. Shortly after
the completion of her schooling,
the younger daughter of the Wals
ton family, Carrie, was received
into the Catholic Church, being
baptized in 1885, by Father John
Gaffney, S. J., at the famous Old
Bohemia Church, not far from
Baltimore, Maryland. Her subsequ-
en marriage to Whitmel Honre
Macnair was perhaps the first mar
riage to be performed in Tarboro
by a Catholic priest.
During the years when there was
no church in Tarboro, missionary
priests were regularly guests of
the Macnairs and offered Mass in
their home for the few Catholics
of the vicinity. Their first child,
Augustine Walston Macnair, father
of the newly ordained Jesuit, was
the first child baptized by Father
Thomas Frederick Price, later co
founder of the Maryknoll Mis
sioned, but at that time a priest
of the Vicariate of North Carolina,
and a "Tarheel Apostle.”
Twenty years after his marriage,
Mr. Macnair entered the Church.
Though warned by some of his
friends that his conversion would
alienate friendships and ruin his
business, ho found out that he
suffered not at all by entering the
Church, but rather than many peo
ple approached him for explana
tions of Catholic doctrine and
practice.
At the time of Mr. Macnair's
death some years ago, the pastor
of St. Catherine’s Church, in Tar
boro, referred to him as a lay-
apostle who warm friendliness and
sterling Catholic life were liivng
defenses of the Faith that could
not be gainsaid. To his example, he
added aft unceasing activity for
the spread of knowledge about the
Church by widely distributing
pamphlets of the Catholic Truth
Society and issues of Our Sunday
Visitor to person whose informa
tion, or misinformation, about the
Catholic Church had come entire
ly from anti-Catholic publications.
Though Mrs. Macnair died more
than a decade ago, her husband
lived to see his two grandsons
enter the Society of Jesus and be
gin their study for the priesthood.
A brother of Father Macnair, Mr.
Whitmel H. Macnair, S. J., is a
Jesuit missionary at present com
pleting his theological course at
DeNobili College, Poona, India, be
fore returning to work as a mis
sionary priest on the missions ia
Ceylon which are a charge of Oho
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