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The Diocese Of
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PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
Vol. 37, No. 19.
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1957.
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Savannah Welcomes Bishop T. i. McDonough
Sacred Heart’s
8200,660 Wing
Ready Soon
BELMONT—The new 200,000
wing of Sacred Heart Junior Col
lege will be formerly opened the
first part of March.
An open house will be held at
this time and further details will
be given in the next issue of The
Bulletin. Rev. Michael Mclnerny
of Belmont Abbey was architect
for this new expansion which is
the latest in design and furnish
ings.
Alumnae and friends are urged
to plan to attend the “open house”
for which the date will be an
nounced soon.
New Clinic
At St. Joseph’s
(Atlanta Journal)
ATLANTA—Clinic patients at
St. Joseph Infirmary are being
treated in new quarters.
The first floor of the north
wing, where the clinics are lo
cated, has just been opened.
Completion of this unit leaves
only two sections of the new
building still in need of interior
finishing, Sister Mary Bonaven-
ture, hospital administrator, said.
These are the first and ground
floors of the west wing and the
first floor of the south wing. The
ground floor of the south wing,
containing the Bertha Sartorius
Rich emergency clinic, was fin
ished several weeks ago. The re
mainder of the new hospital has
been in use some time.
The units still to be completed
will be finished within the nesdi
year and a half, bringing the total
cost of the hospital to about $5,-
500,000.
Located in the newly opened
unit are the offices of the hos
pital’s nursing service, nursing
education, medical education and
social service.
In addition, all of the hospital’s
out-patient clinics are held in the
newly completed qnit. They in
clude the tumor, medical, surgi
cal, obstetrical, urological, and
orthopedic clinics, and the clinics’
consulting service in other spe
cialties.
The section occupied by the
out-patient clinics is named in
honor of the late Alfred Fox and
his brother, Lawrence Fox, of At
lanta.
Also located in the new unit is
the Giddings Memorial Heart
Clinic, sponsored by the Georgia
Heart Assn. It formerly was lo
cated in the basement of the old
hospital. The new quarters in
clude a room set up for making
diagnostic studies of the heart,
four examining rooms and an of
fice.
A beautifully decorated confer
ence room in the unit is named
in honor of the late Bernard J.
Kane, for many years a member
of the hospital’s advisory board.
BISHOP’S HOUSE
222 East Harris Street
Savannah, Georgia
February 11, 1957
To the Devoted Clergy, Religious and Laity of the
Diocese of SAVANNAH:
As you know, Our Holy Father Pope Pius XII has given
an Auxiliary Bishop to the Diocese of Savannah in the person
of the Most Reverend Thomas J. McDonough, D. D., J. C. D.,
formerly Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine.
“Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.”
It will not be long before all of you will begin to realize
what a great favor His Holiness has conferred upon the
Diocese in naming Bishop McDonough as its Auxiliary. By his
boundless kindness and charity; by his priestliness; by his
interest in and love for souls; by his splendid administrative
ability and long experience in the South both as priest and
bishop, I know that he will soon win all hearts in the Diocese.
It is precisely because Bishop McDonough is so greatly
esteemed and loved in Florida that there is so much real
sorrow there on account of his leaving. But Florida’s loss is
Georgia’s gain.
In your name as well as in my own I bid Bishop Mc
Donough a hearty welcome , to the Diocese of Savannah. We
wish him God’s every blessing for the success of the new
mission that has been entrusted to his apostolic care. I know
very well that all of you will cooperate wholeheartedly with
him to make his tasks easier and to render fruitful the apos-
tolate that he has been called upon by the Holy Father to
exercise in our Diocese and that at all times he will have
the benefit of your prayers so that the constant light and
guidance of the Holy Spirit may be his in the fulfillment of his
many and grave responsibilities.
It is a matter of keen regret to me that I will be unable
to be present to introduce Bishop McDonough to you. Un
fortunately, my duties over here in London compel me to
forego the pleasure of being with you when Bishop McDonough
comes amongst you on February 20th. I unite with you in
begging God to shower down upon him an abundance of
heavenly graces now and always.
Heavy indeed is the burden that every Bishop is bound
to carry. Saint Augustine, who was one of the ablest and
holiest of Bishops, trembled at the very thought of his responsi
bilities and again and again in his sermons to his people he
pleaded with them to pray for him. Bishop McDonough comes
to you keenly aware of the charge that has been laid upon
him and he knows that he will need the constant assistance of
your prayers if his work for you is to be a success according
to the mind of God. It will always be true as every bishop
realizes in the sentiments expressed by St. Paul that no matter
how much effort and zeal the ministers of God put into their
work for souls, it is always “God that giveth the increase.”
(Cor. I, VI-7). Prayer will be the measure of that increase.
With affectionate best wishes and a blessing and asking a
remembrance in your prayers, I remain, dearly Beloved in
Christ,
Yours devotedly in Our Lord.
Archbishop-Bishop of Savannah.
The new unit has a separate en
trance, located just north of the
main entrance to the hospital on
Ivy St., N. E.
Indigent Georgian? from all
counties except Fulton and De-
Kalb are eligible for treatment
through the hospital’s clinics. An
exception to this is the obstetri
cal clinic which serves patients
within a 30-mile radius of the
hospital.
SAVANNAH
LAYMEN MEET
SAVANNAH — Mr. William
B. Lain Jr., newly elected presi
dent of the Savannah Branch of
the Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion presided at the January 31st
discussion meeting.
The Savannah Branch meets
on the Thursday before the first
Friday of every month.
MASS AT CATHEDRAL WEDNESDAY P. M.,
RECEPTION SCHEDULED FRIDAY NIGHT
SAVANNAH—Plans have been
completed for the welcome and
Presentation Ceremonies of the
Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonough,
newly appointed Auxiliary-bishop
of the diocese of Savannah.
At the Union Station on his ar
rival February 19. Bishop Mc
Donough will be greeted by the
clergy and laity and then escort
ed by Motorcade to the Cathedral.
On the following day, February
20, the Day of Presentation, at
11:00 o’clock in the morning, he
will be greeted by the schools of
INVITE ALL
TO ATTEND
CEREMONIES
All Parishes and Organiza
tions, both diocesan and par
ochial, are not only expected
to send representatives to the
Presentation Observances, but
all Catholics of the Diocese are
urged to attend.
If hotel reservations are de
sired they may be obtained by
contacting Mrs. A. J. Schano,
Chairman of the HOSPITALI
TY COMMITTEE FOR THE
LAITY, 313 East 53rd Street,
Savannah.
Savannah Irish
Plan Jamboree
For March 15th
The St. Patrick’s Day parade
committee has announced that
plans are being made for an Irish
Jamboree at Grayson Stadium
March 15 to kick off the annual
celebration by Savannah’s Irish.
Committeemen are expecting
some 10,000 persons to attend the
jamboree, which will be held in
cooperation with the Savannah
Redlegs baseball team to boost
both St. Pat and the national
pastime.
Tickets will be distributed free
to the public through local mer
chants, the committee said. In
cluded in the jamboree will be an
all-star talent show and possible
performances by the prizewining
Winyah High School Band from
Georgetown, S. C., and other visi
tors.
A concession will be operated
and shamrocks, shillelaghs, bou-
toniers, etc., will be sold during
the festivity.
Two season passes to Redleg
baseball games at the stadium
have been donated by the club,
which also will put up a $100
prize for the best performer in the
show being planned.
The annual parade will be held
this year on March 16 because Sp.
Patrick’s Day is a Sunday. This
will provide Savannahians with a
two-day Irish atmosphere.
John J. Fogarty, Carl Ashcraft
and Tom O’Hayer are working
with Redleg General Manager
Reed (Whitley) Shank on details
of the jamboree which, according
to one committee member,
“should be of tremendous inter
est” to the city.
the Diocese. On the Cathedral
Plaza will be assembled the chil
dren of the parochial schools of
the City, the members of the
Cadet Corps of The Benedictine
School and the young ladies of
St. Vincent’s Academy. The Bish
op, attended by the clergy, will
be seated at the center entrance
to the Cathedral.
In advance of 11:00 o’clock,
there will be a brief concert by
the Band of The Benedictine
School and at 11:00, as the Bishop
arrives the Glee Club of St. Vin
cent’s Acdemy, some 150 voices,
will sing the “Ecee Sacerdos Mag
nus.” Then there will be the
Presentation of a Plaque on which
will be inscribed the Spiritual
Bouquet of the Sifhools of the
Diocese.
At 12:15 o’clock, February 20,
at the Cathedral Day School’s
Cafeteria, the Sisters’ Dinner will
be held. The Dinner for the Cler
gy will be held at the Ball Room,
DeSoto Hotel, at 12:30 o’clock.
Presiding at the Luncheon will
be the Rt. Rev. Msgr. T. James
McNamara V. F. The program at
the luncheon will consist of an ad
dress of welcome, an address by
the Most Rev. Francis P. Keough,
D.D., Archbishop of Baltimore;
and an address by the Most Rev.
Thomas J. McDonough, Auxiliary
Bishop of Savannah.
At 5 p.m. on February 20, a
Solemn Pontifical Mass will be
celebrated in the presence of the
Most Rev. Francis P. Keough,
D.D., Archbishop of Baltimore, at
the Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist.
Officers of the Mass in addition
to the Most Rev. Thomas J. Mc
Donough celebrant are: Assistant
Priest, Monsignor McNamara,
Rector of the Cathedral, Savan
nah; Deacons of Honor, The Very
Rev Thomas A. Brennan, Consul-
tor and the Very Rev. Bede C.
Lightner, O.S.B., Prior of the local
Benedictine Community; Deacon
of the Mass. The Reverend Wil
liam F. McDonough, (brother of
the Bishop); Master of Ceremo
nies. The Reverend William Du-
Bois of the Diocese of St. Augus
tine; Assistant Masters: The Rev
erend Fathers Ralph Seikel, Pat
rick J. O’Carroll, (Diocese of St.
Augustine). Herbert J. Wellmeier.
As the Procession moves into the
Church, the Archbishops, Bishops,
Abbots, and Officers of the Mass
will continue into the Sanctuary
where Bishop McDonough will go
to the falstool and then the Very
Reverend Monsignor Andrew J.
(Continued on Page 2)
MEAT MAY BE
EATEN FEB. 22
Next Friday, February 22nd,
is a National holiday in com
memoration of the birth of
Our first president, George
Washington. A dispensation
has been granted by the Dio
cese of Atlanta and the Diocese
of Savannah from abstinence
in conformity with a grant of
the Holy See.