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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MAY 17, 1957
AT LAY APOSTOLIC CENTER
Book Review Given in Atlanta by
Rev. Francis X. Clougherty, 0. S. B.
Assistant Pastor of Athens Parish
Monsignor Luigi G. Ligutti, Executive Director of the National Cath
olic Rural Life Conference and Vatican Observer for the FAO pro
gram of the United Nations, is shown counseling Miss Josephine Dra-
bek and Miss Angela Miller of Grailville, Loveland, Ohio, to "plant
the seed” spiritually and literally in-mission countries. He spoke to
the students of Grailville, unique lay apostolic center which trains
young women for service in America and in mission fields.
(NC Photos)
QUEEN OF HEAVEN PLEADS FOR ROSARY
In the last one hundred years,
Our Blessed Mother has appeared
to men three times, and each time
she has brought Heavenly gifts—
a Heavenly message and a Heav
enly weapon against evil.
The gifts are the thousands of
miracles which have attended her
coming.
The message is simple and real
istic—Penance, Penance, Penance.
The weapon is a beautiful pray
er: Mary’s Rosary.
In 1846, on the Mountain of La
Salette, 'two little shepherd chil
dren saw Mary. Seated on a rock,
her elbows resting on her knees,
her face buried in her hands, she
was weeping bitterly. To the
frightened children she gave the
reason for her tears: The sins of
men and their neglect of prayer.
A few short years later another
little girl, Bernadette, of Lourdes,
saw Mary and talked to her not
once, but eighteen times. While
thousands watched in reverence
and awe, Our Lady asked Berna
dette to tell the people to do pen
ance and to kneel and say the Ro
sary with her for the sins of men.
In our own century, while men
were busy killing each other on
the battlefields of the First World
War, Mary came again, this time
to three Portuguese children of the
Village of Fatima. Six visits she
made, six times she brought her
warnings: We must repent of our
sins ... we must say our Rosary.
Who was she the children ^sked.
“Our Lady of the Rosary.”
In these three great appearances
of Mary, three facts stand out as
particularly striking. When Mary
came, she came always to children.
When she was asked how men could
avert God’s anger, her one answer
was penance. And when she told
us to pray, she said pray the Ro
sary.
That children saw Mary when
grown-ups could not, should cer
tainly not surprise us. Truly, she
Is the mother of us all, but the
pure hearts of little ones are most
worthy of looking on her. That
penance should be her message is
not astounding.
What does make us pause, how
ever, is Mary’s choice of the Rosary,
out of all the prayers of the ages
and all the wealth of the liturgy,
as the prayer for our times and
our problems.
Look at your beads. These six
Our Fathers and fifty-three Hail
Marys, said faithfully and devoutly,
have a power with God second only
to Holy Mass and the Sacraments.
Go back through history and read
the chronicles of its success^ Re
call how St. Dominic went forth
armed with the Rosary, to fight
heresy and bring people back to
A;od. Recall the promise Our Lady
made to Blessed Alan: “Whatever
you ask through the Rosary shall
be granted.” Witness the great
naval battle of Lepanto, where the
Christian forces with the Rosary as
their banner and Mary as their
protection, crushed the Mohamme
dans who were ready to overrun
Europe. If still you are not con
vinced, recall how the Rosary said
faithfully by generation after gen
eration of the Irish people, made
Mary’s name a word of love on
the Irish tongue and a fortress of
strength in their sufferings.
Yes, great is the power of Mary’s
Rosary. Great, too, are the re
wards attached to our recitation of
it. It is the most highly indulgenc-
ed of prayers. We receive an in-
duglnece just for carrying a bless
ed Rosary on our person. We
gain an indulgence of five hundred
days for each Our Father and Hail
Mary said on beads that have the
Crozier blessing, which any priest
can give.
We can gain a plenary indul
gence, under the usual conditions,
by reciting the Rosary on nine
consecutive days, or by reciting it
in the presence of the Blessed
Sacrament.
Most important for us who are
among those pledged to recite the
daily Family Rosary, the church
grants twice the amount of indul
gences to group recitation of the
Rosary as to recitation alone. And
on the last Sunday of the month,
the family that has been faithful
to the daily Family Rosary may
gain a plenary indulgence by go
ing to confession, receiving Holy
Communion, and paying a visit to
the church.
All these extra riches have been
added by the Popes of the Church,
who recognize above all others the
value and power of the Rosary.
The dying plea of Pius IX was
that the Rosary be habitually re
cited of an evening in every house
hold. “These are my last words to
you”’ he said, “the memorial I
leave behind me.”
Leo XIII, in one of his many
encyclicals on the Family Rosary,
expressed his desire that “each
Christian family would suffer no
day to pass without the recitation
of the Rosary.” Pius XI asked all
parents to say the Rosary each
evening with their children.
Our own Holy Father, Pius XII,
during a reign which has seen only
war and hate and constant attack
on our Catholic faith, has impress
ed even the enemies of religion by
his ability and sanctity. Many are
his problems, as he strives to pro
tect and expand the Church of
Christ.
Sometimes we wonder how any
man can carry, day after day, the
weight of responsibility which is
his. Where does he look for
strength? To Our Blessed Lord,
of course, Whose vicar he is. But
to someone else, too.
Each day he gathers the papal
household together to recite with
them the Family Rosary. By his
own humble example, the repre
sentative of Christ on earth drives
home to families everywhere what
he thinks of the power of the Fami
ly Rosary.
Do you realize what we shall be
doing, when at the end of our
Crusade we pledge ourselves to the
daily Family Rosary? We shall
kneel in spirit each day with our
Holy Father. With him we shall
finger Our Lady’s beads, and ask
her to protect our homes and the
world.
We shall align ourselves with
Domini: 1! vn. ’ ’ - t
ATLANTA, Ga.—The Reverend
Dom Francis X. Clougherty, O. S.
B., Litt, D., assistant pastor of St.
Joseph’s Church, Athens, and
spiritual director of the Newman
Club at the University of Georgia
gave a review of the best-selling
autobiography, “Beyond East and
West,” by Dr. John Wu Ching-
Hsiung, former Chinese Ambassa
dor to the Vatican, on April 2, in
the auditorium of the Sacred
Heart School here.
Dom Clougherty, who first went
to China as Missionary Apostolic
m 1920, was one of the first five
American priests to engage in mis
sionary work in that country. He
was Chancellor of the Catholic
University of Peking, succeeding
Archabbot Aurelius Stehle, O. S. B.
As sometime Dean of the De
partment of Western Literature
and Languages, Dom Clougherty
had the unique distinction of be
ing the only non-Chinese to hold
such a deanship in the National
University of China. For eight
years he was; chairman of the In
ternational Relief Committee for
Central China.
After Pearl Harbor, Dom Clough
erty was interned by the Japanese
for a period of four years. During
that time he was chairman of the
Catholic missionary group of 400
priests and Sisters from Man
churia, Mongolia and North China
at the internment camp in Shan
tung Province. At the conclusion
of the war, he was sqnt as the
counsellor of the Chinese delega
tion to the Consistory in Rome in
1.946, during which his Eminence
Joseph Cardinal T’ien, China’s first
Cardinal, was made a member of
the Sacred College.
Shortly before his departure for
Rome, Dom Clougherty was dec
orated with the Order of the Aus
picious Star (the highest honor
awarded a non-Chinese by the
Chinese government), a personal
decoration from Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek. Additional
honors bestowed upon him by the
Chinese government were the Vic
tory Medal for outstanding accom
plishments in the field of educa
tion and refugee and war relief,
and also the title of “Chung-Jen”
(Loyal Person), and three highest
honors conferred by the Chinese
government on a foreigner.
While awaiting an opportunity
to return to China, Dom Clougherty
has been lecturing in this country
! on vital questions in the Far East
and is regarded as one of the best
authorities on the Chinese situa
tion.
During the Lenten season this
year, Dom Clougherty delivered a
series of sermons at St. Anthony’s
Church, Atlanta, under the general
title of “Your Soul, God’s Temple.”
Mrs. Ida Moss Lee
Dies in Tennessee
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Mrs. Ida Moss
Lee, formerly of Perkins, Ga., died
on April 26 in Oak Ridge, Tenn.,
after an extended illness. Funeral
services were held at St. Mary’s
Mission, Oak Ridge, with Father
Francis A. McRedmond officiating.
Father Harold J. Barr, pastor of
St. Mary’s-on-The-Hill Church, in
Augusta, officiated at the inter
ment services held in the cemetery
at Perkins.
Mrs. Lee is survived by three
brothers, George Perkins, of Way
nesboro, Frank Perkins, of Clarks-
ton, and Julian Perkins, of Atlanta;
three sisters, Miss Mildred Perkins,
of Woodcliff, Mrs. lone. Buxton,
Augusta, and Mrs. N. H. Seigler, of
Sylvania, and an aunt, Mrs. T. A.
Fortescue, of Paoli, Pa.
ARTHUR A. FAUVER
DIES IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga. — Funeral ser
vices for Arthur A. Fauver, who
died May 8 following an extended
illness, were held at the Sacred
Heart Church, with Father John
Emmerth, S. M., officiating.
Mr. Fauver is survived by his
wife; two daughters, Mrs. Walter
E. Maurer, Albany, and Mrs. H.
Nance, Atlanta; a son, Thomas W.
Harris, Atlanta; a sister, Mrs. W. D.
Halstead, Dayton, Ohio, and several
nieces and nephews.
A native of Dayton, Ohio, Mr.
Fauver was a veteran of World War
I. He had been in the restaurant
business in Atlanta for 35 years
and owned and operated a restau
rant on Exchange Place.
James P. Doyle, Jr.,
Savannah, Promoted
By Roofing Company
SAVANNAH, Ga. — James P.
Doyle, Jr., director of purchases
for the Southern States Iron Roof
ing Company, has been promoted
to general manager of operations,
it has been announced.
To his new position Mr. Doyle
brings seventeen years experience
with the company. He began as an
inventory clerk in 1935 and has
since served as buyer, purchasing
agent and director of purchases.
A native of Savannah, Mr. Doyle
is a graduate of Benedictine Mil
itary, School here and of Belmont
Abbey College, Belmont, N. C.
Cardinal Sends $25,000
To Shrine Building Fund
WASHINGTON — (NC) — His
Eminence Edward Cardinal
Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit,
has. forwarded $25,000 to the Na
tional Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception at the Catholic Uni
versity of America here. This is
the second offering of the Cath
olics in the Archdiocese of De
troit to the building fund of the
National Shrine.
“We are deeply indebted to His
Eminence Cardinal Mooney,” said
Monsignor P. J. O’Connor, national
director of the Shrine, “for his
enthusiastic cooperation and in
terest in the work of the Shrine,
for permitting the devotees of
Boys' High School
Students Present
Minstrel in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Students of
Boys’ Catholic High School pre
sented a minstrel show on the stage
of the Music Hall of the Bell Aud
itorium on the evenings of May
1 and 2 to large and appreciative
audiences.
Joseph Pinnell acted as inter
locutor and Don Battle, Billy Bal-
dow, Tony Christian and Happy
Hill were the end-men. Vocal so
loists were Emory Cartlett. Paul
O’Connor, Dan O’Connor, Hugh
O’Connor, Michael Sheehan, John
ny Ghann and Blake Hawkins.
Numbers rendered by the solo
ists and chorus included selections
from “The Student Prince,” “Pina
fore,” “Naughty Marietta,” “Call
Me Madam,” “Hit the Deck,” and
“The Desert Song.”
Featured in a patriotic tableau,
“Miss Liberty,” was Miss Patricia
Weigle, and in a religious tableau,
“Fatima,” were Miss Frances Buck-
ley, Joyce Tucker, Barbara Rey
nolds and James Sheehan.
The production was directed by
Brother Linus, with Mrs. Vola Ja
cobs as musical director.
Novena Conducted at
Cathedral in Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The ninth
annual Solemn Novena in honor of
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
was conducted at the Cathedral of
St. John the Baptist here, May 5-13,
by Father James J. Glenn, of the
Vincentian Novena Band from St.
Vincent’s Seminary, Germantown,
Pa.
MAY PROCESSION AT
SAVANNAH CATHEDRAL
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The annual
May procession was held at the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
on May 4, with a color detail of
Benedictine Military School cadets,
children from the Cathedral
School, students of St. Vincent
Academy and altar boys participat
ing.
The sermon at the devotions
held in the Cathedral following the
procession was delivered by Father
James J. Glynn, C. M., who is con
ducting a Novena at the Cathedral,
A BILL to outlaw the shipment
of literature through the mails or
across state lines which libels a
racial or religious group has been
introduced in Congress.
Mary in the great Archdiocese of
Detroit to express in a material
way their love and edvotion to the
Mother of God.
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saints of the ages, with the priests
and popes of the Church, with the
countless Family Rosary families of
the past—take our places In a
never-ending crusade which cannot
be withstood, for its strength is the
•' 'ruth ol Mary's Rosary.
Best Wishes
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