Newspaper Page Text
FEBRUARY 2, 1957.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
Jottings ...
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
WELCOME. SON
To this imperfect wonderful world
of ours,
'With all its principalities and
powers,
Its streets, its fields, its factories,
its flowers.
■Welcome! To faults and graces,
bad and good;
To hopes and strivings, darkly
understood,
For peace on earth and brother
hood—
Welcome, dear son, whose tiny
hands make warm
These few poor words and take
my heart by storm.
Joseph Auslander.
* * *
THIS COLUMN is really
Written for a little boy hardly a
week old. His name is Brien.
There have been little boys born
before in the history of the world,
but one would never suspect this
from the attitude of Brien’s fath
er. What great hopes rest with
that seven pound* twelve ounce
bundle in a hospital nursery!
Brien, you have no idea the plans
that surround you so hopefully,
and neither do you know as you
sleep so peacefully what a blessed
little fella you are!
You have been born in the
United States of America. If you
had been born in Hungary at this
time and this year, your life and
freedom would be in jeopardy
each moment as would the lives
of your mother and father. Please
God, your future holds no such
horror. In America you can be
come anything you desire. There
are no barriers to opportunity
here. Brien, you might even be
come president of the United
States which is the highest tem
poral office in the world.
Next Sunday you will become
a bona fide Roman Catholic al
though the solemnity of the oc
casion will surely elude you. As
a Catholic, you may someday be
come a priest, a bishop or even a
cardinal. As a priest, you would
hold powers that even a presi
dent cannot command. You are a
St. James
BISHOP HYLAND DEDICATES
SAVANNAH SCHOOL, CONVENT
SAVANNAH—Saint James Pa
rochial School and Convent, Sav
annah, were dedicated with im
pressive rites by The Most Rev.
Francis E. Hyland, D.D., J.C.D.,
Bishop of Atlanta, on Sunday,
Jan. 13. Bishop Hyland was as
sisted by Rev. Michael Regan,
who served as master of ceremo
nies, and Rev. Terence Kernan,
O.S.B. and Rev. Raymond Geyer,
C.S.B.
A color guard from Benedictine
Military School opened the ded
ication with the raising of the
flag. Children of the school sang
the National Anthem and recited
the oath of allegiance. The school
and convent were then blessed
and the ceremony came to a close
Tor mi nix
ADVERTISED W PACT
Bruce Terminix Co.
1101 Spring Dr., N. W.
ATLANTA, GA.
Branches: Albany — Columbus
Clsrid’fl Largest In Termite Contra*
with Benediction in the church.
Bishop Hyland expressed the gra
titude of all to the Sisters, Serv
ants of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary for their coming to Savannah
to staff St. James School. Con
gratulatory telegrams from Arch
bishop ' Gerald P. O’Hara and
Bishop Thoma McDonough were
read to the congregation by Fath
er John D. Toomey, pastor of St.
James.
The ladies of St. James Parish
Council, Hunter Air Force Base
Sodality, and Our Lady of Good
Hope Auxiliary served a buffet
supper to the twenty-three priests
and sixty-six nuns who attended
the dedication. Among the clergy
attending were the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Joseph E. Moylan, V. G., the Rt.
Rev. T. J. McNamara, V.F., the
Very Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. Mc
Donald of Savannah and the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. George Lewis
Smith of Aiken, S. C.
Other out of town clergy in
cluded Rev. James Cummings,
S.M., Brunswick; Rev. Joseph
Negele, Sylvania; Rev. Fr. Mc-
Andrew, S.M.A., Tenafly, N. J.;
and Rev. Thomas Payne, Savan
nah Beach.
BACKDROP-
(Continued from Page 4)
senses the necessity for adequate
communication of his ideas.
Each hour of the day, from the
humblest foreman to the chief
executive of the company, the
person bearing responsibility
must engage in telling others
what to do and how to do it. To
be able to do this, the business
man must be able to write and
speak the English language with
clarity and felicity, or stand aside
and let his chair be occupied by
someone who can.
COMMON COMPLAINT
The narrow, specialized train
ing of the scientist, Randall not
ed, does not prepare a man for
the communication of ideas. This,
he said, is obviously a function of
a general education. One learns
the effective use of the written
word by studying the great litera
ture of the past, and by infinite
practice under skilled instruction.
Randall’s view is shared by the
executives of many other business
firms. One of the common com
plaints of firms which rely heavi
ly upon the engineer and the
scientist is that few of them are
equipped to take part in manage
ment.
So the high school student who
would rather take a liberal arts
course than engineering, who
would like to major in English,
economics or history, need not
hesitate to do so for fear that he
would leave college unfitted for
a career. Business is constantly on
the lookout for the man with a
broad education.
YOU CAN WIN CONVERTS
Winning Two Husbands
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, Ph. D.
rTTrUircrcUf of Noire Dame?
ol' 1
fir
a
•
k
b
2
<
J
*-
«
CJ!
Insured savings
b 3 H % current rate
® $100,000,000 resources
Atlanta Federal Savings
Main Office, Marietta at Broad
West End, Gordon at Ashby
Tenth Street, 1124 Peachtree
Buckhead, Peachtree at Piedmont.
10 wifttttes 4*0* wjwlttfi in u^Gftta
fortunate little boy, because your
mother and father both know ex
actly how precious is the heritage
they have given you as a Catholic
American. Rather than being pres
ident or priest, lawyer or doctor,
soldier or sailor, they want you
to become a saint. They have
given you a passport to two
worlds — the imperfect world
which now cradles you and the
eternity which will someday hold
you forever.
BETWEEN these two worlds.
Brien, the one you have just en
tered and the. one you will on an
other day enter with the help of
God, there’s a tremendous job
awaiting you. America certainly
needs the Briens of this world
so does God. America needs
noble statesmen, principled scien
tists, virtuous teachers and good
parents more than ever before
The Church heeds exemplary
Catholics. You will, in all proba
bility go to Notre Dame, Holy
Cross or Providence College.
Brien,, and even more is going to
be expected of you as an educat
ed Catholic American.
Perhaps we should let you be
a baby awhile before we hold
such grave problems before your
crib. Yours will be a happy child
hood as you are magically trans
formed from a grubby Little
League pitcher on a Saturday
afternoon into an angelic, spotless,
starched altar boy on a Sundaj
morning. We shall not be forget
ting the plans we have for yon
in the meantime, Brien. Remem
ber .we would rather have you
a good boy than a child wonder
and when you go to college, wo.
would prefer you to be a Cath
plic gentleman rather than a
college letterman or a magna cum
laude graduate. (Although maybe
your father will sort of wish you
to be a low handicap golfer too.)
All the odds are in your favor.
Brien my boy, as you begin life
in this imperfect world of ours
with those two blue eyes focused
on higher things. We will bo
watching and praying as you
grow in wisdom and stature and
grace.
In the United States where
there are four non-Catholics to
each Catholic, it is inevitable that
mixed courtship will develop.
The important thing is to have
it culminate in a Catholic wed
ding with a
Nuptial Mass at
which both par
ties: receive Ho
ly Communion.
How can this be
done?
Mrs. Barbara
E. Allen of Our
Lady, Star of
the Sea parish in Staten Island,
New York, is in. a position to
answer this important question.
Why? Because she did this twice,
and also led the 'parents of her
first husband into the fold.
Mrs. Allen,” I said, “thousands
of Catholic girls would like to
know your technique, for many
face each year the problem you
solved so successfully. Would you
tell us how you did it?”
I was going with Joseph Fluhr
at the time,” she began, “and
when our friendship started to
ripen into love, I knew it was
time to have an understanding on
the matter of religion. Neither
-Joseph nor his parents belonged
to any church. I told him how
much my religion meant to me,
how much happiness one derived
from its practice, and that I
would marry only a devout Cath
olic.
“I invited him to go with me to
Mass, explained it to him and
gave him a prayerbook so he
could follow the prayers of the
priest at the altar. He was great
ly impressed with the reverence
and piety of the congregation.
‘There was no talking or gossip
ing,’ he remarked afterwards.
‘They meant business.’
“I brought Joe to the May de
votions and to any other services
which the church was having.
He became increasingly interest
ed and began to say his prayers
in dead earnest. I supplemented
this by bringing him also to the
parish social affairs. He saw) how
friendly Catholics are, and it
wasn’t long before he felt as much
at home with Catholics either in
church or out of it, as with others.
“I decided then that the time
had come to take him to our pas
tor, Father Yondorf, for instruc
tion. Joe was received into the
Church in July and we were mar
ried in September.”
But then came tragedy.
“One week after our wedding,”
Mrs. Allen continued, “Joe con
tracted pneumonia and died. I
was grief-stricken as were his
parents. But they saw how much
his new faith had come to mean
to Joe, and how it strengthened,
him to face death with resigna
tion to God’s holy will. I explain
ed to them that the faith would
mean as much to them if they
investigated it. So they took in
structions and three months later
were received into the fold—to
my immense joy.
“Several years later I began
keeping company yith Fred Al
len. He didn’t belong to any par
ticular church. I told him how
much our holy faith had to of
fer, brought him to Mass, novenas
and to the social meetings of the
parish.
“I explained that the ideal
which the Church holds out be
fore her young people is a thor
oughly Catholic marriage, so that
husband and wife can set an ex
ample in the practice of their
common faith to each other and to
their children. Fred saw how
reasonable this was and agreed
to take instructions.
“He was sent by his company
to Petersborough, Canada, where
he took instructions from Father
M. J. O’Brien, who baptized him.
I went up there and we were mar
ried at a Nuptial Mass with Fath
er officiating. Incidentally Fred
was the last convert Father re
ceived before he was consecrated
Bishop of Petersborough.
“God blessed us with five love
ly children, and Fred remained
a devout Catholic to the day of
his death. I lost my oldest son
in the war and I know that he
and his father are together in
heaven. 1 live with my youngest
daughter, receive Holy Commu
nion daily, and thank God for
all His many blessings.”
“God love you, Mrs. Alien.
You’ve shown how every Cathol
ic involved in a mixed courtship
can solve his problem happily by
having it culminate in a thorough
ly Catholic marriage. Your ex
ample speaks more eloquently
than any sermon and I hope all
concerned will follow your in
spiring example.”
There's Nothing Like
LEATHER
GROOVER
SHOE SHOP
Romeo DiPrima
32S BROAD ST.
ROME, GA.
Miss Nan Armstrong
announces
the opening of
THE RAMS! SHOP
432 Eighth Street
Religious Articles
Dial 2-0853