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JULY 21, 1956. THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA NINETEEN. t LAWRENCE MEDCALF OLDSMOBILE CALLAWAY MOTORS, INC. Easf Ponce de Leon Ave. Ailanla, Ga. DE. 4436 ! 4, 24 HR. SERVICE COURTEOUS DRIVERS BUCKHEAD SAFETY CAB CO. (Formerly Suburban) Phone CHerokee 1152 HUNTER COPELAND, Owner-Manager GREETINGS FROM JIM CHERRY SUPERINTENDENT DeKALB COUNTY GREETINGS FROM BEN B. BURGESS CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT DeKALB COUNTY ESTABLISHED 1889 Complete Banking and Trust Facilities Tax Liberty National Banc & Tcuit Co. lATAffAI, GKOIOIA MEMBER FEDERAL. DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION NEWSOME’S SHOES 117 Ooirmont Avenue EV 1411 Decatur, Ga. Poll-^lrof SHOES brb|fSM£iib MOUNT CALVARY AND HOLY TRINITY SECTIONS IN WESTVIEW CEMETERY Are Reserved for CATHOLICS and Their Families REASONABLE PRICES CONVENIENT TERMS PERPETUAL CARE The Westview Cemetery, Idg. “JIJST NATURALLY BEAUTIFUL” 1680 Gordon St., S, W. Telephone AM. 6611 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.