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TEN 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. mOW CLEANERS ”A Distinctive Service for Particular People" PHONE 1987 619 TEBEAU ST. REPRESENTATIVE WAYCROSS. GA. 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. AYO BROTHERS, INC Building Materials • Farm Supplies 869 TEBEAU ST. WAYCROSS, GA. GEORGIA STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Henry C. Taylor, State Deputy, Atlanta, Ga. 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 2575 Henry St., Augusta, Ga. 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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