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JULY 21, 1956.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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BOOK REVIEWS
EDITED BY EILEEN HALL
3087 Old Jonesboro Road, Hapeville, Georgia
Each issue of ihis Book Page
is confided to the patronage 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.
MARY AND THE SAINTS OF
CARMEL, by Rev. Valentine L.
Boyle, O. Carm., (Carmelite
Third Order (Press). $1.50.
(Reviewed by Minnie L. Elliott,
T. O. Carm.)
This lovely little book re
sembles a child’s First Commu
nion prayer book, soft white with
gold lettering. Although pocket-
size, it has 185 pages containing
brief biographical sketches of
55 saints, more than 25 feasts of
Mary and other feast days, all in
liturgical order as they appear
in the Carmelite daily missal.
The saints represented are only
those Carmelite saints who have
been given a special Mass by the
Church. With each sketch, the
Church’s official prayer in honor
of the saint is given, taken from
the Mass of the day, along with
a brief meditation and an in
spiring picture of the saint, re
produced from a painting, draw
ing or statue, often by famous
artists. The faces in these pic
tures, when studied for charac
ter, are inspiration in them
selves.
At the beginning of the book
is a delightfully helpful “Prayer
Before Meditation,” invoking
the help and inspiration of the
Holy Spirit; and a “Prayer Aft
er Meditation,” giving thanks
and seeing aid in keeping our
resolutions.
When meditation is difficult
and a subject is slow to come,
when you find you are using
all your time getting in the right
frame of mind, this little book is
your answer. It fills a need with
anyone who wishes to develop
the habit of daily mental pray
er. It is published to foster the
growth of the spirit of Carmel
in our 20th-century tertiaries
and other lay apostles. Used
consistently, it will do this. It
should prove a tremendous aid
to those who are striving for per
fection and an inspiration to
achieve more and more for the
glory of God and Our Lady.
THE VIRTUE OF LOVE, by
Paul De Jaegher, S.J., (Kenedy),
$3.00.
VOCATION TO LOVE, by Dor
othy Dohen, (Sheed and Ward),
$2.50.
“As the Father hath loved me,
I also have loved you . . . This
is my commandment, that you
love one another, as I have lov
ed you . .
John, the Beloved Disciple,
remembered and recorded his
Master’s words on the all-impor
tant subject of love; and all of
his long life he repeated the
theme, “Children, love one an
other!” Saints and preachers
and spiritual writers have re
peated it ever since.
In these two books two con
temporary writers give us their
thoughts on the love or charity
commanded by Our Lord. As
Miss Dohen immediately points
out, many people have only a
vague, confused notion of what
this supernatural love is, and
even “we Christians share this
lack of clarity about the nature
of love.”
Bothe books are excellent.
Reading them one after the oth
er is an experience, because the
personalities of the authors, so
different from one another, color
their presentation of the subject.
Marian Year 1954, just after his
death.
This story of the humble post
man’s son who became one of
the most beloved Popes in his
tory will capture the attention of
any young reader for hours on
end.
But the same “caritas Christi”
which has driven all true Chris
tians since John recorded the
words of the Master drives this
70-year-old Belgian Jesuit mis
sionary in India and this young
American laywoman who now
edits INTEGRITY magazine.
Father De Jaegher, already
well known for his beautiful
“One With Jesus” and “The Vir
tue of Trust,” calls' his gentle
but powerful urgings “medita
tions.” They are mellow with
the wisdom of age and experi
ence of the unitive love he tries
to teach us, as John in his old
age taught his “little children.”
Miss Dohen’s essays, collected
in book form in 1950, were pre
viously printed separately in the
magazine whose editor she has
since become. She still writes ar
ticles. Her “A Call to Fortitude”
in the March 1956 CROSS AND
CROWN reveals a greater matu
rity than these earlier writings
which make up her book. These
were indeed a hearkening to the
“vocation to love” and a splen
did attempt to explain it in the
language of active young Amer
icans.
Along with the differences in
the personalities of the authors,
the reader is struck with one
apparently paradoxical similari
ty—both of them are at the same
time contemplatives and active
missionaries. Actually, this is and
has always been true of all whose
lives are Christ-centered for, as
Miss Dohen explains, “the acti
vity of the spiritually mature
person is entirely different (from
that of beginners). He is already
living the contemplative life, and
his activity is the overflow of
contemplation . . . His love is a
fire continually growing, with
out causing the flame at the cen
ter to die down or lose its glow.
His activity is something added
to his contemptation, a sharing of
its abundance. . . ”
—Eileen Hall
ST. PIUS X. by Walter Diethelm,
O.S.B., (Farrar, Straus and Cu
dahy), $1.95.
(Reviewed by Peggy Lloyd
Age 14)
This is the warm, human story
of a wonderful and zealous man
who loved the poor more than
any other class of people. He
also loved children and was
known as “the Children’s Pope”
because he made it possible for
children to receive their First
Holy Communion at an earli.er
age than they had /been allowed
to do so before.
Guiseppe (Beppi) Sarto, as a
boy, dreamed of becoming a
priest but his family was poor
and could not pay for his edu
cation. He was unusually bril
liant and studious, however, and
won a scholarship to Padua, the
most famous seminary in Italy.
After ordination he served
first as a county curate in Tom-
bolo, then as pastor of a church
in Salanzo, a teacher in the
seminary at Triviso, and then as
the Bishop of Lombardy. People
loved and respected this humble
man and called him “Perpetuum
Mobile” or the perpetual motion
machine. He was given the title
of Cardinal in 1893 and three
days later was named Archbishop
of Venice. In August, 1903, a
meek and lovable man, who con
sidered himself unworthy, was
crowned Pope Pius X.
He guided the Church for 11
years and some think he died
of grief, over the tragic World
War I, which he foresaw and
did his best to prevent. He was
canonized two years ago, in the
BEYOND THE DREAMS A OF
AVARICE, by Russell Kirk,
(Regnery), $4.50.
(Reviewed by Flannery
O’Connor)
Monsignor Guardini has writ
ten that “when a man accepts
divine truth in the obedience of
faith, he is forced to rethink hu
man truth,” and it is such a re
thinking in the obedience to di
vine truth which must be the
mainspring of any enlightened
social thought, whether it tends
to be liberal or conservative.
Since the Enlightenment, liber
alism in its extreme forms has
not accepted divine truth and the
conservatism which has enjoyed
any popularity has shown na^
tendency to rethink human tfuth
or to reexamine human society.
Mr. Kirk has managed in a suc
cession of books which have
proved both scholarly and pop
ular to do both and to make the
voice of an intelligent and vig
orous conservative thought res
pected in this country.
“Beyond the Dreams of Ava
rice” is a collection of his essays
which have appeared during the
last ten years in England and
America. The title is a phrase
of Dr. Johnson’s and it is high
praise to say of Mr. Kirk’s books
that Dr. Johnson would almost
certainly admire them, both for
their thought and the vigor with
which it is expressed; and Mr.
Kirk confesses himself happily
to be “one of those scholars
whom John Dewey detested” —
high praise also, although in this
case Mr. Kirk is bestowing it on
himself.
The essays range from a con
sideration of Orestes Brownson’s
ideas of a just society to a handy
return of Dr. Kinsey to the field
of zoology; but in spite &f the
merits of the contents, a better
introduction to Mr. Kirk as a
writer would be any of his other
books — “The Conservative
Mind,” “A Program- for Conser
vatives,” or “Academic Freedom”
—since a collection of reviews
and magazine articles is neces
sarily repetitious and occasional.
TITUS BRANDSMA: Carmelite,
Champion of the Catholic Press,
by Rev. Aquinas Houle, O.
Carm., (Carmelite Third Order
Press), 10c.
It’s always of value to be in
troduced to the life and work
of an extraordinary personality.
Such is Father Brandsma, con
templative, but at the same time
journalist, scholar, educator and
model of virtue. The pamphlet
gives a sketch of the Dutch Car
melite’s life, from his days as a
sickly seminarian to his death at
Dechau in 1942.
While a pamphlet is, of its na
ture, limited in scope, it is
worth-while to know something
of Father Brandsma, a contem
porary whose cause is being pre
pared for beautification.
—Richard J. Schnurr.
BOOKS RECEIVED
MISSION TO CATHAY, by
Anselm M. Romb, O. F. M. Conv.,
(St. Anthony Guild Press), $2.50.
BE A SAINT IN SPITE OF
YOURSELF, by Marie C. Com-
mins, (Bruce), $2.75.
People who have the least to
say find the most to talk about.
Most failures come to people
who start before they are ready.
Things go better for the peo
ple who take them as they come.