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DECEMBER 11. 1954.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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YOU CAN WIN CONVERTS
A Mother's Example
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN
(University of Notre Dame).
“While reading your column in their instruction
the Covington Messenger,” said
Mrs. Charles Middendorf of Ft.
Mitchell, Kentucky, “I thought of
my mother, Mrs. Ann Averdick of
Covington, and how she helped
to lead two
large families
into the fold.
One of those
families has five
children and 23
g r a ndchiklren,
while the other
family has six
children. All are
now devout
C^rtholics.”
“That’s a total of thirty-eight
persons,” I noted, “who owe their
membership in Christ’s Church to
your good mother. In the next,
generation their number will
doubtless pass the hundred mark.
How did your mother manage to
interest those families?”
“The first,” replied Mrs. Mid
dendorf, “was the Robert Marqua
family. They were neighbors of
Mother. Mr. Marqua was an in
valid and Mother would drop in
to give Mrs. Marqua a little hand
with her nfany duties and to speak
a cheerful word to her and her
sick husband.
“Mother explained to them how
the sickness could be transmuted
into merit by bearing it with pa
tience and in a spirit of resigna
tion, and by offering it to al
mighty God in atonement for one’s
past sins. This led to further ques
tions and soon Mother was setting
forth the consoling doctrine of the
communion of saints, temporal
punishment and the efficacy of
prayer and sacrifice. Mr. Marqua
began to see his long-drawn-out
illness in a new light.. It gave him
consolation and courage to bem-
it hravelv and without complaint.
Thev looked forward easerlv to
Mother’s visits as they brightened
up their whole day.
“One day Father Bernard Nur-
re,' a relative of ours, was visiting
us and Mother told him about the
Marqua family and how interest
ed they were becoming in our
faith. She suggested that he visit
them. Father Nurre called on
them and they were much touch
ed by his words of comfort and
encouragement. They said they
would like to learn more about
the religion of which Mother had
already told them so much. ■
“Father Nurre was then at St.
Patrick’s Church in Covington,
and he arranged to instruct Mr.
and Mrs. Marqua at the rectory.
Though Mother had nine children
at the time, she managed to take
care of the Marqua children while
their parents were taking instruc
tions. And when the Marqua fam
ily was baptized on March 15,
1919, she was godmother for all
of them. It was the happiest day
in their lives. Mrs. Marqua is still
living and she and her five chil
dren and twentv-three grandchil
dren' are all faithful and devout
Catholics.”
“That was real missionary
work,” I remarked, “How did your
mother win the other family?”
“It’s much the same story. Mr.
and Mrs. John Chasteen and their
children were also neighbors of
Mother. Each Christmas Mother
would bring over a load of pres
ents for the five children, and she
found other ways of helping them.
Thev were touched bv her little
deeds of kindness and love.
“Soon the Chasteen family
wanted to know more about the
religion that prompted a person
to be such a good neighbor and
friend. Mother told them a lot
about it and then arranged for
by Father Je
rome Heuerman at Mother of God
parish in Covington. He received
all the family into the Church on
July 1, 1950.
“Mother knew you wanted to
get these details and she had
phoned Father Nurre for the date
of the baptism of the Marqua
family and was talking with him
when she suddenly passed away.
On a paper in her hand was your
name and address. She was a
grand and saintly mother and the
ten of us children feel we have a
friend in Heaven, praying for us.”
“I’m deeply touched,” I said, “to
think that your mother’s last act
was an effort to help me with this
column. You have reason to be
proud of such a zealous and holy
mother. It is such as she who can
expect to hear from the Master’s
lips the comforting words, ‘Well
done, good and faithful servant
. . . enter thou into the joy of
thy Lord’.”
Readers who know of any lay
person who has helped to win two
of more converts are kindly re
quested to sehd the name and ad
dress of such a person to Father
John A. O’Brien, Notre Dame,
Indiana.
Christopher Lynch
At Sacred Heart
~S>ur3um Chorda
rurSum K^orctu
(Continued from Page Four)
Hiss or Vishinsky? Benedict Ar
nold or Vishinsky?
"There has indeed been a re
vulsion of late against the prin
ciple of ‘guilt by association.’ But
what’s wrong with the idea of
guilt by association? How about
that other maxim, 'a man is
Ttnown by the company he keeps’?
If a man associates with gamblers,
will not his boss suspect him and
watch him? Would he get employ
ment in a bank or even on a base
ball team? If a teen-age boy runs
with a gang that carries switch
knives, black jacks, homemade re
volvers, is it unfair and unkind to
think that bov no better than the
comnanv he keeps?
“Finally, why do you sit in a
deliberative assembly with a man
—a dozen men, perhaps two doz
en—who as you know very well
will torture you and then shoot
vou if they get what they are aim
ing at?”
Perhaps it was a mistake not to
have put those questions to a
member of the U. N. But this little
piece may prompt some good
Americans to a realistic conclu
sion about our rubbing elbows
with murderers in an organiza
tion which purports to enhance
the civilization of mankind.
“We can’t have statesmen with
out having politicians.”—Editorial
in The Sign.
BELMONT, N. C.—The latest
artist to be featured in the Sacred
Heart Junior College and Acad
emy Artist series was Christopher
Lynch, lyric tenor of concert, ra
dio and television. He was heard
in the auditorium at Sacred Heart
on Friday, Dec. 10, at 8 p. m.
The young Irishman, a protege
of John McCormack, was born in
Rathkeale, Limerick, Ireland, 30
years ago, and came to this coun
try in 1946 as the tenor star for
the “Voice of Firestone,” national
radio network program.
If you want to get rid of some
of your ego, listen at the keyhole
just after you leave the room.—
Ray D. Everson.
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