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JULY 30, 1949
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
TWENTY-FIVE
First Assignments
For Newly Ordained
Priests of Diocese
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Father Don
ald Kiernan, of Taunton, Mass.,
who was ordained as a priest of
the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta
on May 4, at the Cathedral of the
Holy Cross, Boston, has been ap
pointed assistant rector of the Ca
thedral of St. John the Baptist
in Savannah, and Father Marvin
LeFrois of Rochester, N. Y., was
ordained last month -at the Sacred
MYRON TALOR AGAIN
RECEIVED IN PRIVATE
AUDIENCE BY HOLY FATHER
VATICAN CITY—(NC)—Myron
C. Taylor, President Truman’s per
sonal representative to the Holy
See, was again received in private
audience on July 2 by His Holi
ness Pope Pius XII.
Another American official re
cently received by the Pope was
Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louis
iana.
Heart Cathedral, Rochester, has
been appointed assistant pastor of
the Holy Family Church, Columbus.
POSITlbN WANTED AS RECTORY HOUSEKEEPER
A middle-aged widow desires a position as housekeeper in a
parish rectory. Best of references. Address
Box F, The Bulletin
Georgia State Council
Knights of Columbus
R«w. Robert T. Bryant, S.
J., Macon, State Chaplain
J. P. Price, Augusta. State Deputy
John .1. McCreary, Macon, Past State Deputy
Edward P. Daly, Savannah, District Deputy
Joseph F. Kunze. Columbus, District Deputy
Henry J. Taylor, Atlanta, District Deputy
Salvador Spano, Columbus, State Secretary
Manuel Boa, Brunswick, State Treasurer
John M. Brennan. Savannah State Advocate
Thomas J. Griffin, Atlanta,' State Warden
Atlanta Council
Ho. 660
Patrick Walsh Council
No. 677
WILLIAM G. COYLE
Grand Knight
W. E. CRIMM1NS
Financial Secretary
432 North Ave., N. E., Apt. 3
Council Meets 1st and 3rd
Wednesdays, at 8 P. M. at
the Council House, 1206
Peachtree St., N. E.
Club Houses Open Every
Day and Evening at the
Above Address
JOHN T. CHESSER
Grand Knight
OWEN J. SCHWEERS
Financial Secretary
Meets 2nd and 4th Monday.
Visiting Brothers Welcome
1308 Ellis St., Augusta, Ga.
Macon Council No. 925
ROBERT J. HINSON
Grand Knight
CHARLES C. McCARREN
Financial Secretary
Savannah Council
No. 631
JOSEPH A. ROSSITER
Grand Knight
Joseph m. mcdonough
Financial Secretary
3 West Liberty Street
Savannah Ga.
247 Boulevard, N. H.
Meets the First and Third
Tuesdays at 8:15 P. M.
501 New Street
Macon, Ga. 1
Bishop Gross Council
No. 1019
Henry Thomas Ross
Council No. 1939
SALVADOR SPANO
Grand Knight
MICHAEL BRUNI
Financial Secretary
Meets Second and Fourth
Mondays. 8 P. M. 802 Broad
way, Catholic Club Bldg.
Columbus. Ga.
E. B. PARKER
Grand Knight
JOHN C. STILES
Financial Secretary !
Meets Second and Fourth
Wednesdays at Knights of
Columbus Hall
Brunswick, Ga.
DOMINICAN FATHERS’ MOTOR CHAPEL—The Southeastern Dominican Mission Band, under the
direction of Father Patrick Walsh, O. P„ is using its Christ the King Motor Chapel for the first
time during the mission now being conducted at St. Ann’s Church, Kingstree, S. C., where Father
Patrick T. Quinlan, of the Home Missioners of America, is the pastor. The motor chapel arrived in
Kingstree on July 16, and will remain in that vicinity until the end of this month. While in Kings
tree the chapel was located on the grounds of St. Ann’s Church, and services were held at the
motor chapel each evening. The new motor chapel has innovations and improvements which some
of the trailer chapels used in the past did not have. This unit is all in one piece, in stream-lined
van style. The greater part of the body is devoted to the chapel, which is sixteen feet long and
seventeen feet wide. The chapel has an altar, stained-glass windows, Stations of the Cross and pews.
At the rear is a platform which can be lowered to serve as a pulpit for outdoor services. Equip
ment includes a motion picture screen and projector for showing religious films. The chapel will
he used by the Dominican Fathers in their missionary labors, particularly in the rural areas of
the Carolmas, Georgia and Florida—(Photo—Courtesy of The Charleston News and Courier.)
BOOK REVIEWS
EDITED BY EILEEN HALL
“BURNT OUT INCENSE,” by
"The peace and quiet are pure-
Father Raymond’s new book,
Burnt Out Incense,” was publish-
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wOlambia Bicycles
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BUILDING MATERIALS
WOODWARD LUMBER COMPANY
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Phone 2-4611
Itooert* mid Dugas Street*
. Augusta, Georgia
CLOTHING
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681 Broad 84., Aaguat*, Ga.
Clothing, Hat*. Furnishings, Correct
in *tyle and price — By "Farr" the
best.
COAL and ICC
AUGUSTA ICE AND COAL COMPANY
100% HO Ml-' INDUSTRY
Allburn CoM Crystal Clear Ice
Phone 2-7721 Augusta, Ga.
DRUG STORES
THE HILL PHARMACY. INC.
Reliable Druggist*
1482 Monte S»no Are. Augusta, Ga.
Phone :L3«21
FLORISTS
MeKEOWN'S
Flower* for All
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AvcniU, Ga.
FURRIERS
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hats for the entire family
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HOTELS and CAFES
THE TOWN TAVERN
Broad ,t 7th Augusta. Ga.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Steaks. Chops. Seafood a Specialty
LADIES READY TO WEAR
MARGARET I.OTZ
SPECIALTY SHOP
827 Gr-ene SL Augusta. Go.
POTATO CHIPS
Freak Daily Mad. ia Augusta
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Peanut Itutter Sandwiches and
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PRINTING and ENGRAVING
PRINTING
Quirk Service—Reasonable Prices
We Specialise in Mai' Orders
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Pbo.tr 2-7892 117 Eighth SL
Augusta, Ga. ,
ROOFING
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Everything in Roofing and Sheet
Metal Work. Warm Air Heating
#2,H-ti2.-t Reynolds St. Phone 2-2318
Augusta. Ga.
SMJSKY BUILDERS' SUPPLIES. INC.
QUALITY
Roofing—Steel Windows—Wire Fence
Paints — Varnishes — Hardware
!««« Broad St. Augusta. Ga.
In his delightful "Foreword,”
written just last March, Father
Raymond too points out, in effect,
that "the peace and’ quiet are
purely relative . . . but, it is all
for Jesus!” Apparently both he
and his Abbot realize that we ordi
nary people can’t be told too often
that WORK too can be PRAYER.
It’s a hard fact for us to grasp.
Father Raymnod anticipates that
difficulty: . . you may wonder
just where is all this prayer I have
stressed . . .,” and explains: . .
a Trappist driivng a team of mules
or a bulldozer, harnessing a horse
or a waterfall, digging a ditch or
potatoes, waxing floors or wiping a
dish, planting, plowing, harrowing
or harvesting, writing a book or
typing a letter—so long as he
points all these toward God—is
praying!”
“But, it is all lor Jesus!” Who
of us can’t see himself somewhere
there in Father Raymond’s ex
planation? “Digging a ditch or po
tatoes?'' “Waxing floors or wiping
a dish?" “Writing a book or typing
a letter” If “it is all for Jesus”; if
we are "pointing it toward God”
(and that’s a tremendously import
ant “if,” of course)—we too are
praying! But still we need a pile
driver to hammer that truth home.
It remains a hard thing to grasp.
We ftave the comfort of not be
ing alone, however. Even Father
Raymond's brilliant young fellow-
Trappist-author found it hal'd.
Thomas Merton (now Father Louis)
complained whimsicaliy and almost
fretfully in his “Seven Storey
Mountain,” you’ll remember, of
"kneeling behind that pillar with
my mind making a noise like a
bank. Is that contemplation?” His
superiors, older and wiser in the
ways of prayer, simply smiled, he
relates, and told him calmly to go
on writing.
Father Raymond doesn’t com
plain. 11c too is older and wiser.
“But Obedience said: Write. And
I have written,” he states simply.
Of course, Father Louis has writ
ten too, at the command of
Obedience, in spit6 of his com
plaint. And look what happened!
His autobiography is a spreading
conflagration, enkindled by the
fire that Christ came to cast on the
earth. Father Louis had become
somewhat older and wiser himself
by the time he reached his last
magnificent page and quoted God
as saying, “I will lead* you by the
way that you cannot possibly un
derstand. because I want to it to
be the quickest way.”
Some will still like Father Ray
mond (author also of the well
known ’ The Man Who God Even
With God,” “Three Religious
Rebels" and “The Family That
Overtook Christ") better than his
turbulent young contemporary,
even though (or maybe because)
his books mirror Gethsemani’s
“peace and quiet.” instead of set
ting the world aflame. Somehow,
even the bulldozers and the blast
ing of rock fail to ruffle this older
Trappist author’s serenity. Or to
disturb his magnatisn. and charm!
“Burnt Out Incense” is one of
those books “you can’t put down.”
Sweden May Permit
Establishment of
Catholic Convents
FRANKFURT..—(NC)— A bill
which would permit the establish
ment of convents and monastic in
stitutions in Sweden is to be sub
mitted soon to the Stockholm parli
ament, according to reports of
German religious news services.
Swedish Catholics still arc con
siderably restricted in their free
dom. None can teach in the pri
mary schools. To get a passport, a
Catholic must first apply to a Lu
theran pastor for a certificate of
good conduct, and Catholics are not
permitted to marry, even if the
other party is a Catholic, unless
banns are first published in the
Lutheran Church. No Swede can
legally become a Catholic except
after his intention of conversion
has twice been made public in a
Lutheran church.
If the Sewdisli parliament should
now pass legislation allowing the
establishment of monastic orders
it may prove a considerable step
toward restoring full freedom of
worship.
Fascinating as a novel. But buoyant
as few, if any. r ivels are—buoyant
with the love tlr.it lifts the souis of
these men \V’ i »are burning as
incense before God—with the con
tagious love that has been Geth
semani’s spirit for the 100 years
recounted in this smooth-flowing
“Saga of Citeaux — American
Epoch.”
“GethsemerM . . . Whet UR?” he
begins.
We who know Gethsemani’s 5-
year-old daughter-house, Our Lady
of the Holy Ghost, at Conyers, Ga.,
which is prayerfully doing so much
to win “Georgia for Jesus Through
Mary,” don’t need to be told what
Gethsemani is. But you’ll thrill
just the same to such colorful and
meaningful answers as:
“This century-old Trappist mon
astery is two thick-veined, ipil-
knotted hands holding up a Paten
on which rests the Host of Humani
ty ... It is Heaven begun before
life has ended; a robbery of time
from Timeless Eternity; it is thiev
ery such as the Good Thief never
knew.”
Father Raymond’s skillful por
trayal of the personalities of Geth
semani’s various Abbots also de
mands note. You'll never forget
Dom Eutropius Proust leading his
little group of Trappists through
Paris, across the Atlantic and up
the Mississippi into the Kentucky
winderness; Dom Benedict Berger
molding his monks almost ruth
lessly yet with an irresistable
charm; Dom Edward Chaix-Bour-
bon, weaker as a leader yet admir
able withal; Dom Edmund
Obrecht’s ’ brown Alsatian eyes”
and strong, driving character; and
finally, the beloved Dom Frederic
Dunne, first American-born Trap
pist Abbot, under whose guidance
Gethsemani came forth from her
long struggles and began to blos
som gloriously. And of course, in
the final chapters, we meet the
men we already know and love—
Dom James Fox. Dom Robert Me-
Gann, and the other Trappists who
are Gethsemani's magnificent gill
to Georgia. —Jfc. H.