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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DECEMBER 11, 1954,
BOOK REVIEWS
EDITED BY EILEEN HALL
Each issue of fhis Book Page
is confided lo ihe paironage of
Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces,
with the hope that every read
er and every contributor may
be specially favored by her
and her Divine Son.
NOT WITHOUT TEARS, by Hel
en Caldwell Day, (Sheed & Ward),
$3.50.
The redemption of souls is nev
er accomplished without tears.
The Gospels relate how Our Lord
wept over Jerusalem and at the sence
tomb of Lazarus. How many un
recorded times Fie must have wept
during His 33 years on earth! How
many unrecorded times Flis Moth
er must have wept during her 60-
odd years on earth! We know she
has shed tears in several appari
tions. No member of Christ’s Mys
tical Body, no child of Mary,
Mother of that Mystical Body,
fulfills his destiny on earth with
out tears. No great good is ever
i apostle, lives in Memphis, Ten
nessee. After her conversion to
the Catholic Church, which she
related in her first book, “Color
Ebony” (we didn’t read it, but
after reading this one. we cer
tainly intend to do so), she set
out prayerfully to discover the
work to which she was called by
God. It was a difficult work, but
a rewarding one, as she tells,
with a charming simplicity of
style, in “Not Without Tears.”
The essence of it, like the es-
of every God-appointed
work, is love. To love those who
hate you; to love those who dis
agree violently with yoy; to love
those who completely misunder
stand you; to love those who don’t
know the meaning of the love that
begins and ends in God: to love
little neglected children and poor
ignorant mothers; to love Christ
in every soul, no matter how tarn
ished His image there.
The difficulty is multiplied
accomplished, no great wrong is j when such a controverted problem
ever righted without many, many
tears.
Mrs. Day. a young Negro lay
as race relations is involved. Most
of us sidestep such a -problem,
perhaps from cowardice, perhaps
from recognition of our own
weakness. Some of us show our
selves terribly ignorant or even
perversely contrary (and may
God forgive and enlighten us
when we are!) to the true atti
tude of Christ’s Church toward
questions involving the equal
status of all races in the Mystical
Body of Christ and the conse
quences of that attitude, which
should be ours in its entirety.
Mrs. Day has faced the problem
squarely and accepted the conse
quences courageously. She is hu
man, and she admits her human
failures, at the same time that she
tells the brighter aspects of her
slow, laborious struggle against
terrific odds. Many readers of her
book will refuse to open their
minds and hearts to the great
truths that shine so clearly
through it, magnifying minor dif
ferences of opinion and clinging
stubbornly to preconceived ideas,
without examining their rightness
or wrongness before God. Others
will ask the Holy Ghost to infuse
His wisdom and courage and do
cility and love into them, as He
does, little by little, into Mrs. Dav
and other lay apostles like her, of
every race, that they may learn
to examine all things with the
mind of Christ and to love all
people in the heart of Christ.—
Eileen Hall.
of those important words. It is
vital to prepare for each particu
lar Mass, that we may awaken
our minds and souls to the mes
sage God has given us for our
hope of eternal life.
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COMPANION TO THE MISSAL,
by Sister M. Cecilia, O. S. B..
(Bruce), $3.75.
(Reviewed by Louella Caye)
THE APRIL TIME, by Celine
Meller, (Bruce), $2.95.
(Reviewed by Mary E. Hall)
Celine Meller, whose own high
school days aren’t too far in the
past, tells in novel about the sen
ior year of a high school girl. She
makes her heroine, Betsy, seem
realistic and the things that hap
pen could have been anybody’s
high school experiences.
You’ll share Betsy’s excitement
on the first day of school. You’ll
meet her friends and go along
with her on a big date on the
night of the prom.
She meets one man and thinks
he’s the guy for her, only to find
out later that he’s not worth her
time—something most, teen-agers
have experienced. You’ll meet the
ones who are worth while too
though.
Betsy and a sophisticated friend
go on a newspaper job, to inter
view a writer for the school pa
per. The friend refused to pay any
attention to the flirtatious ele
vator boy. But this was a big day
and a big job for Betsy and could
she help it if she thought the
elevator boy was cute?
Read “The April Time” and
share the happiness and sadness
that go with the last year of high
school for any young girl.
Santa had run out of toys and for
gotten two children. Looking
around in dismay he found the
crib and told his troubles to Little
Jesus Who, with His mothei-, St,
Joseph, the shepherds, and the
beasts, helped Santa out of his
dilemma. This is a charming story
to read to your children, before
their own Christmas crib.
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
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Joseph F. Kunze, Past State Deputy, Columbus, Ga.
George W. Hughey. State Secretary, Albany. Ga.
William O'Dowd, State Treasurer, Augusta, Ga.
R. H. Casson, State Advocate. Macon, Ga.
V. J. Ryan, State Warden, Savannah, Ga.
Ed P. Daly, District Deputy, First District
James J. O'Shea, District Deputy, Second District
Patrick R. Mulherin. District Deputy, Third District
ATLANTA COUNCIL
NO. 660
PATRICK WALSH COUNCIL
677
MICHAEL F. WIEDL
Grand Knight
HENBY C. TAYLOR
Financial Secretary
Council Meeting 1st and 3rd
Wednesdays at 8 P. M. at the
Council House, 1200 Peachiree
Street, N. E.
Club House open every evening
at ihe above address
JAMES O. BENNETT
Grand Knight
DICK HESLEN
Financial Secretary
Meets 2nd and 4th Monday
Visiting Brothers Welcome
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MACON COUNCIL NO. 925_
JOSEPH P. CASSIDY
Grand Knight
ROBERT J. HINSON
Financial Secretary
2986 Houston Ave.
Meets the First and Third
Tuesdays at 8:15 P. M.
541 New Street,
Macon, Ga.
SAVANNAH COUNCIL
NO. 631
PETER SCHUSTER
Grand Knight
Joseph m. McDonough
Financial Secretary
3 Liberty Street West
Savannah, Ga.
HENRY THOMAS ROSS
COUNCIL NO. 1939
R. J. CLANCEY,
Grand Knight
JOHN H. STILES,
Financial Secretary
Meets Fourth Tuesday at
Xavier Hall
Brunswick, Ga.
BISHOP GROSS COUNCIL
NO. 1019
PHILIP J. BATASTINI
Grand Knight
JOE F. KUNZE
Financial Secretary
Meets 1st and 3rd Mondays
8 P. M., 802 Broadway
K. C. Hall
Columbus. Ga.
BOOKS RECEIVED
RELIGIOUS VACATION
SCHOOL MANUAL, $1: RELI
GION STORIES FOR HOME
AND SCHOOL, 75c; both by Con
fraternity of Christian Doctrine,
(St. Anthony Guild Press).
WITH THE DIVINE RETREAT
MASTER, by Joseph Schrijvers,
C. Ss. R., translated and adapted
from the French by Edwin V.
O’Hara, Bishop of Kansas City,
(St. Anthony Guild Press), $1.50.
THIS WE BELIEVE—-BY THIS
WE LIVE, (Revised Edition of the
Baltimore Catechism No. 3), $1;
CATECISMO DE LA DOCTRINO
CHRISTIANA, ($2 Catechism in
Spanish), 20c; (St. Anthony Guild
Press).
BOOKLETS FROM ST. AN
THONY GUILD PRESS: A
MOTHER AND MYSTIC AT
HOME, by Maire Cotter, 10c; TKJE
POWER OF LOVE, by Walter
Hammon, O. F. M., 10c.
THE STORY OF THE RO
SARY, by J. G. Shaw, (Bruce),
$3.25.
S.R.M. CECILA O.S.B.
ALBANY COUNCIL NO. 3607
JOHN R. ROSS, Grand Knight
CLARENCE R. SHOEMAKER, Financial Secretary
Council Meets Second and Fourth Monday at 8:30 P. M.
400 N, Jefferson Street
To help us enjoy, understand
and love the Mass more, is the
purpose of this “Companion to
the Missal.” It is intended for
reading before Mass on Sundays
and principal feast days. It helps
put into daily living the lessons
taught in the prayers of the Mass,
offering fresh ideas for new ap
preciation of the Mass and pro
viding the interior preparation
necessary for the missal-user to
participate more intelligently.
Part One contains the Christmas
Cycle, Advent and the feasts of
the Christmas Season. Part Two
covers the Easter Cycle, Passion-
tide and Eastertide. Part Three
deals with the time after Pente
cost, the Feasts of the Assump
tion, Christ the King and All
Saints. Each provides reflections
and explanations of that Sunday’s
or feast day’s Introit, Collect,
Epistle, Gradual, Tract. Gospel,
Offertory, Secret, Communion and
Post-communion, or in other
words, an insight into the indi
vidual texts of the Proper of the
Mass of the day.
All of us surely are aware of
the need to know more about the
Mass and much has been written
to enlighten us, but this is a new
and quite personal approach de
signed to give us, Mass by Mass
and season by season, the infor
mation as we desire it and at the
time we can best absorb it. To
appreciate fully and benefit from
each Mass, it is necessary first to
be familiar with the texts and
then to understand the meanings
MY FATHER'S HOUSE, verses by
M. H. Ruane, cloth $1.00, paper
75c: A DREAM OF CHRISTMAS
EVE, by Anastasia Joan Kirby,
cloth 75c, paper 50c; both illus
trated by Janet Robson (St. An
thony Guild Press).
(Reviewed by Mary E. Hall).
“My Father’s House” is an at
tractive little alphabet book. It
starts with “A is for Angel,” and
goes on through the alphabet, to
help little folks learn about the
Church while they learn their
ABC’s. Each letter has a page of
its own. At the top of the page is
a picture, in the middle a big let
ter, and below it a verse. An in
teresting way to teach your child
the alphabet and some religious
conceptions at the same time.
“A Dream of Christmas Eve” is
1 a sweet little story told in “Night
Before Christmas” verse. Poor
“Life is a fire that wants to
burn forever, and in his poverty
man finds only bits of wood with,
which to feed it.”—Killian Mc
Donnell, O. S. B., in The Sign.
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