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JULY 23, 1955.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEVEN
Annual Reports
(Continued from Page Six)
United Nation Day was ob
served in one deanery with spe
cial services.
Mass, Rosary every hour and
Benediction of the Most Blessed
Sacrament.
Feast of Our Lady of Good
Counsel observed in one deanery
with special devotions, full day
of exposition of the Blessed Sac
rament, Rosary every hour and
.Benediction.
CATHOLIC HOME AND
SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONS.
22 Catholic Home and School
Associations reporting.
21 Have parent-teachers con
ferences, 20 at monthly meetings.
18 Have monthly programs.
8 Programs assist the parent
in parent education for current
needs programs are most suc
cessful when children participate
in panel discussion.
3 H&S Ass’n., combined pro
grams with city P.T.A. and other
civic groups.
18 Father’s night meetings
were held.
17 Schools have libraries and
£ H&S. Ass’n., help by staffing,
catalogueing, donating and buy
ing books.
12 Groups assist with the lunch
program.
17 Assist with physical ex
aminations for children.
13 Sponsored sports programs
and 16 furnished the athletic
equipment.
4 groups oversee the yard at
lunch period.
5 Staff the Principal’s office
so she can teach class uninter
rupted.
19 Groups participated in the
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F. F. Thomas, Sr.
Dies In Lebanon
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Fayes F.
Thomas Sr., proprietor of the F.
F. Thomas Confectionery at Og
lethorpe Avenue and Abercorn
St. died June 20th while on a
visit to his home country of Le
banon.
Mr. Thomas had lived in Sav
annah since he came to the Unit
ed States in 1920. He was a com
municant of the Cathedral of
St. John the Baptist.
Survivors are his wife, the
former Miss Minnie Younis;
three sons, Fayes F. Thomas Jr.,
David Thomas and Joseph Tho
mas; a daughter, Mary Anne
Thomas; two brothers in Miami,
Fla., Tom Thomas and Joe Tho
mas, and several other brothers
and sisters in Lebanon; and his
mother.
clothing drives.
12 Assist in the Food Package
program.
9 Groups gave outstanding
contributions to the school.
5985 Communion breakfasts
were served.
$12,350.00 Cash donations to
schools derived from May and
Hallowe’en Carnivals.
Girl, Brownie, Cub School
Patrols sponsored.
3 Freezers were given to
schools.
1. School had shrubbery plant
ed on the school grounds.
1 School gave the Sisters $50.-
00 each month, a dining room
suite, typewriter, a stand for the
school Ditto machine, 6 library
chairs and supplied new shades
for all class rooms.
1 School promised local Health
Committee to help with efforts
of that committee to clean up bad
housing conditions which are the
cause of local high T. B. rating.
(To Be Continued)
When we to evil ways respond
. . . it can be hard to find . . .
way to extricate the will . . .
for betterment of mind. . . but
there’s a way, a sure-fire way
. . . that cannot yet be beat . . .
and that’s confession of the guilt
. . . resolving no defeat.
Do something every day to
make other people happy, even
if it’s only to let them alone.
—Rotarian,
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ESSAY WINNERS
THE ARCHBISHOP GERALD P. O'HARA General Assembly,
American History Award went to Miss Dorothy Vidosic, Sacred
Heart High School; Cadet Captain Kenneth Adamson, Marist Col
lege; and Miss Nancy Hardesty, Christ the King High School.
This medal award represents the highest average in American
History in the high school grades. The Fourth Degree desires to
encourage high school students to study and become better ac
quainted with the principles of our great American History and
Tradition. Left to right: Miss Dorothy Vidosic, Cadet Captain Ken
neth Adamson, and Miss Nancy Hardesty.
SOLEMN OFFICIAL OPENING—
(Continued from Page Two)
of the ceremonies to the vast
throng assembled in the square.
From thousands of lips came a
vast murmur as the official prayer
of the Congress was recited in
unison. Next the crowd intoned
the Tantum Ergo as Cardinal Ma-
sella prepared to impart Benedic
tion of the Blessed Sacrament.
Television cameras recorded ev
ery detail of the solemn cere
monies. The occasion marked the
first time that spiritual events of
such importance had been tele
vised in Brazil. Meanwhile radio
stations carried a description of
the events to all parts of the coun
try. In other parts of Latin Am
erica, stations recorded the sol
emnities in Spanish.
The formal opening of the Con
gress saw 20,000 foreign pilgrims
as well as 400,000 from various
other parts of Brazil joining with
the hundreds of thousands of Rio’s
Catholics in the second of South
America’s great tributes to the
Eucharist since the first Interna
tional Eucharistic Congress was
held at Lille, France, in 1881.
About 35,000 of the sick and dis
abled in Rio’s homes and hospitals
associated themselves spiritually
with the Congress solemnities. In
most of the institutions, various
Eucharistic events took place,
such as the procession of the
Blessed Sacrament through the
corridors and rooms of the Hos
pital de Curecica, where more
than 1,500 patients are cared for
by Religious. There were also
Masses and General Communions
in the hospitals. Meanwhile, in all
the parishes priests brought Com
munion to sick persons unable to
attend the special Mass in the
Congress Square. Even in the jails
a series of missions was held in
advance of the Congress.
When the sick of Rio placed
their spiritual offerings on the
great altar, they gave a share in
them also to “Invisible pilgrims”
in the United States, Canada,
Mexico and many European coun
tries who could not travel to Rio
but had joined in prayers for the
success of the Congress.
The official opening day con
cluded with Eucharistic vigils in
the city churches attended by men
parishioners and units of the Ar
my. The day was marked also by
a Pontifical Mass in the new
building of the Catholic Universi
ty, an address by His Eminence
Emmanuel Cardinal Goncalves
Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, and
special Masses and study sessions
for foreign pilgrims, as well as
holy hours in the afternoon.
Mass was celebrated at the
great altar in the Congress Square
for the first time on the follow
ing morning (Wednesday), when
His Eminence Fernando Cardinal
Quiroga y Palacios, Archbishop of
Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
offered the sacrifice in the pres
ence of the Cardinal Legate and
18 other Princes of the Church.
On the altar platform was gather
ed also a great array of Archbish
ops and Bishops, numerous diplo
matic representatives, and many
civic officials.
At the foot of the platform were
lines of other ecclesiastical and
civic dignitaries, as well as rep
resentatives of the press, radio,
television and the motion picture
industry. Filling the vast field
also was a colorful multitude of
priests, Religious and an estimat
ed total of 750,000 faithful.
A choir of 250 voices, accompa
nied by an electric organ, sang
the proper of the Mass. Swaying
in the breeze was a giant sail de
picting the papal arms and hoist
ed on a mast that stood some 133
feet to the rear of the altar. ‘
On Wednesday night an equal
ly large gathering was assembled
in the Congress Square for the
first solemn session of the Con
gress, presided over by His Emi
nence Teodosio Clemente Cardi
nal Gouveia, Archbishop of Lou-
renco Marques, and featuring a
talk by His Eminence Carlo Car-
melo Cardinal de Vasconcelos Mo-
Catholic Negro
Appointed To
N. Y. Court Post
NEW YORK, (NC) — A 48-
year-old jurist who has been ac
tive in Catholic circles here be
came the first Negro to be ap
pointed a justice of the New
York State Supreme Court.
He is Judge Harold A. Stev
ens, who worked his way
through Boston College, law
school as an elevator operator
and janitor. A governor of the
Guild of Catholic Lawyers, Jus
tice Stevens in 1952 received
an honorary doctorate in law
from Fordbam University for his
“vigorous role” in the Catholic
Interracial Council, for his legis
lative record and his deport
ment in Manhattan’s General
Sessions Court.
A year later His Holiness Pope -
Pius XII awarded him the Pro
Ecclesia et Pontifice medal,
which was presented by His
Eminence Francis Cardinal
York.
The son of a Methodist min
ister, Justice Stevens was born
in John Island, S.C., and be
came a Catholic in his later
years. His wife followed him in
to the Church while he was a
cavalry sergeant at West Point
during World War II.
H6 said he went to Boston Col- ’
lege law school in 1932 because
he “somehow liked their? cata
log.” Three years ago the 'Jesuit
law school conferred an honora
ry degree of doctor of laws oh
him. While at Boston College
he was elected vice-president of
his junior class.
His appointment by Gov. Av-
erell Harriman fills a vacancy
caused by death. He will serve
until December 31, 1955. He will
have to run next November for
the full 14-year term. He has
been a Judge of Manhattan’s
General Sessions (Criminal)
Court.
The New York Supreme Court
is not the state’s highest tribun
al. It ranks below the Appellate
Division and the Court of Ap
peals.
Dance Planned By
Augusta Knights
AUGUSTA, Ga.—There will be
a dance Saturday evening, July
30, from 8 until 12 p. m. at the
home on Henry Street.
All members are urged to turn
out and give their support to this
dance which is the first function
of the new Council year.
fa, Archbishop of Sao Paulo.
The session was preceded by a
series of briel greetings in foreign
languages and a program of re
ligious music by the Boys’ Choir
of Petropolis directed by Father
Leto Bienes, O. F. M. The key ad
dress was by the Brazilian writer,
Dr. Alceu Amoroso Lima, who
spoke on Christ’s Eucharistic
Kingdom. The session concluded
with Benediction given by Arch
bishop Armando Lombardi, Papal
Nuncio to Brazil.
At night, some 2,100 priests and
Religious met at the Perpetual
Adoration Shrine for a holy hour
in Latin conducted by His Emi
nence John Cardinal D’Alton,
Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland.
They heard a stirring talk, by
Archbishop Antonio de Almeida
Lustosa, Archbishop of Fortaleza,
Brazil, one of the nation’s out
standing preachers:
During the first days of the
Congress there were special meet
ings of 18 international Catholic
Organizations, among them the
International Federation of Cath
olic Men, Pax Romana, the Inter
national Office of the Cinema, the
International Migration Commis
sion, and the Dames of Charity of
St. Vincent de Paul.