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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MARCH 30. 1957.
120 Receive Ho'y Communion
HOLY NAME MEN IT
SACRED HEART BREAKFAST
A T L A N T A — The monthly
Holy Name Mass, Communion
and breakfast was held at Sacred
Heart on March 10. There were
over 120 men present at Holy
Communion and approximately
90 at breakfast.
Mr. Lou Gordon, a prominent
civic scout leader, presented Mr.
Jack Northrop with the Scout
masters’ Key, _ an award held by
few local Scoutmasters. In a few
words Mr. Northrop gave his ap
preciation of the award and stat
ed that he couldn’t have done it
if it hadn’t been for the aid and
encouragement of his wife.
Father Fashion again stressed
the importance the men play in j
the all night Holy Hour before j
each first Friday of the month. |
His aim, and ours, is 100% Holy!
Name Men attendance.
The guest speaker was Mr. Hen
ry L. deGive, the Sacred Heart
legal representative in the ex
pressway land condemnation
problem. He presented a most
interesting talk on the problems,
implications, and the final settle
ment to the expressway right of
way going by Sacred Heart Par
ish.
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN
SOCIETY MEETS AT BELMONT
BELMONT, — Belmont Abbey
College was host to the Southern
Appalachian Society at the first
meeting of the season on Satur
day, March 16.
The Society is composed of
some 175 members from 18 states,
including both professional and
amateur mineralogists.
The morning was spent in ex
amining the college collection
which was recently augmented by
a valuable bulk of specimens, the
gift of Jesse Thomson of San An
tonio, Texas, the well-known
mineralogist, traveler, and con
sultant to the Mexican Govern
ment, and in trading specimens,
Among those present at this
meeting were Dr. Martin Wade-
witz, General Manager of Enka
Corporation, from Ashville, who
is the Director of the Society; his
daughter, Miss Martina Wadewitz,
secretary of the Society'; Messrs.
Otis Lugar, Dayton Rubber Co.,
Waynesviile, N. C.: Robert Hugh
ey, Southern Bell Telephone &
Telegraph Co., Charlotte; Doug
las Sterrett, formerly of the U. S.
Geology Survey; Robert R. Wil
liams, Attorney of Ashville;
Gerald Medd, Fort Shuford Mu-
esum, Ashville; W. F. Merritt of
Mt. Airy; and Dr. Joseph Mat
thews, Head of the Science De
partment at Belmont Abbey Col
lege.
In the afternoon the members
and visitors made a field trip to
Chubb Mountain. The Society or
ganizes a field trip every other
weekend throughout Spring and
Summer.
The meeting at Belmont Abbey
College was open to all who were
interested in the mineral wealth
of North Carolina and interest
ing specimens from many parts
of the United States.
MARRIAGES
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ATLANTA, Ga. — Miss Cathe
rine Reynolds, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. P. Reynolds and Wil
liam A. Starrs Jr. son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Starrs of Jacksonville
Beach, Fla., were married March
2nd at the Sacred Heart Church
Rev. Donald Kiernan officiating.
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FORT BENNING, Ga. — Lt.
Eileen Lida Billick, daughter of
Col. and Mrs. Eugene W. Billick
of Arlington, Va., and Thomas
Carroll Whyte, son of Thomas
Low Whyte and the late Mrs.
Whyte of Omaha were married
March 9th with a Nuptial Mass,
Chaplain (Capt.) Thomas D. Mc
Grath officiating.
K. Of 0. To
Dedicate Statue
To Fr. McOivney
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The
Knights of Columbus, opening the
celebration of their Diamond Jubi
lee y'ear, will dedicate a bronze
statue of their founder. Rev. Mich
ael J. McGivney, Sunday, March,
31. at his birthplace, Waterbury,
Conn.
The fraternal benefit society
of Catholic men, now largest in
the world and numbering more
than a million members in the
United States, Canada. Mexico,
Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philip
pines, was started by Father Mc
Givney', in 1882, when he was a
curate at St. Mary’s parish, New
Haven, Conn.
The statue will be unveiled by
John William Walsh, 12-year old
great grand nephew of Father Mc
Givney and a student at St. Peter’s
parochial school, Bridgeport, Conn.
Speakers at the exercises will
•'be Mayor Edward Bargin, of
Waterbury, Governor Abraham
A. Ribicoff, James V. Hughes, of
Vancouver, B. C., a director of the
K. of C., Archbishop Henry J. O’
Brien, of Hartford, and Supreme
Knight Luke E. Hart.
His Eminence Francis Cardinal
Spillman, Archbishop of New
York, will head a list of honored
guests which will include Bishop
Lawrence J. Shehan, of Bridge
port. Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan,
of Norwick, Auxiliary' Bishop John
F. Hackett, of_ Hartford, Chief
Justice-Designate of the Conn.
Supreme Court of Errors, Justice
Patrick B. O’Sullivan, and Justice
Raymond E. Baldwin, of the same
court.
| The work of Joseph A. Coletti,
! of Boston, sculptor of the statue,
is represented in many museums
and private art collections.
Judge John E. Swift, of Boston,
who was chairman of the K. of C.
Supreme Council committee that
arranged for the monument, will
preside at the exercises.
Funeral Services For
Mrs. Claude Drake
SAVANNAH. Ga. — Funeral
services for Mrs. Claude L. Drake
were held March 20th at the
Church of the Most Blessed Sac
rament, Rev. Thomas Brennan
officiating.
Services For
Mrs. Win. Carroll
ROME, Ga.—Funeral services
for Mrs. William A. Carroll were
held March 16th with a Requiem
Mass at St. Mary’s Church, Rev.
Patrick Connell officiating.
Survivors are her husband; a
son, John Carroll of Rome; a
daughter, Mrs. Shirley' Gilbert of
Dalton. Mass., a brother, Harry
Giguere, Pittsfield, Mass.; two
sisters, Mrs. Daniel Flynn of Wor
cester, Mass, and Mrs. Martin
Kischner of Pittsfield.
Best Wishes
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COMPANY
Frank Bfenert, Manager
1644 WATERVILLE COURT
MACON, GEORGIA
CCD Discusses "The Summa"
WAS IT FITTING THAT THE
MOTHER OF GOD SHOULD BE
PURIFIED AT THE TEMPLE?
(MRS. H. MANTLE)
The Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine of St. John’s Parish met
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Walton. 201 Colorado Avenue,
Hapeville, Georgia. Father George
T. Daly presided. The topic for
“open” discussion was: “WHETH
ER IT WAS FITTING THAT THE
MOTHER OF GOD SHOULD GO
TO THE TEMPLE TO BE PURI
FIED?”—taken from the “Sum
ma" by St. Thomas Aquinas.
The first objection raised was:
“It would seem that it was un
fitting for the Mother of God to
go to the Temple to be purified.
For purification presupposes un
cleanness. But there was no un
cleanness in the Blessed Virgin.
Therefore she should not have
gone to the Temple to be puri
fied.”
The sec o n d objection raised
was: “Further, it is written (Lev.
XII, 2-4): If a woman, having re
ceived seed, shall bear a man-
child, she shall be unclean seven
days; and consequently she is
forbidden to enter into the sanc
tuary until the days of her puri-
fiction be fulfilled. But the Bles
sed Virgin brought forth a male
child without receiving the seed
of man. Therefore she had no
need to come to the Temple to
be purified.”
And still a third objection rais
ed was: “Further, purification
from uncleanness is accomplish
ed .by' grace alone. But the Sac
raments of the Old Law did not
confer grace; rather, indeed, she
did have the very Author of grace
with her. Therefore, it was not
fitting that the Blessed Virgin
should come to the Temple to be
purified.”
In reply to objection one: —
Although the blessed Virgin had
no uncleanness, yet she wished
to fulfill the observance of purifi
cation, not because she needed
it, but on account of the precept
of the Law. Thus the Evangelist
says pointedly that the days of
her purification according to the
Law were accomplished; for she
needed no purification in herself.
In reply to objection two: —
Moses seems to have chosen his
words in order to exclude un
cleanness from the Mother of
God, who was with child without
receiving seed. It is therefore
clear that she was not bound to
fulfill that precept, but fulfilled
the observance of purification of
her own accord, as stated above.
In reply to objection three: —
The sacraments of the Law did
not cleanse from the uncleanness
of sin, which is accomplished by
grace, but they foreshadowed this
purification: for they cleansed by
a kind, of carnal purification, from
the uncleanness of a certain ir
regularity. But the Blessed Virgin
contracted neither uncleanness,
and consequently did not need to
be purified.
However, the final answer
comes from St. Thomas
Aquinas, who sums it all up thus-
ly: — I answer that, As the ful
ness of grace flowed from Christ
on to His Mother, so it was be
coming that the mother should
be like her son in Humility: for
God giveth grace to the humble,
as is written James IV, 6. And
therefore, just as Christ, though
not subject to the Law, wished,
nevertheless, to submit to circum
cision and the other burdens of
the Law', in order to give an ex
ample of humility and obedience;
and in order to show' His approval
of the Law; and again, in order
to take away from the Jew's an
excuse for calumniating Him: for
the same reasons He wished His
Mother also to fulfill the pre
scriptions of the Law, to which,
nevertheless, she was not sub
ject.
Savannah Services
For T. E. Johnson
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Funeral
ervices for Thomas Edward John
son were held March 18th at the
Blessed Sacrament Church.
A communicant of the Church
of the Nativity at Thunderbolt,
he was a member of the Fourth
Degree Knights of Columbus, the
St. Patrick’s Day Parade Assn,
and the Irish-American Friendly
Society.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Margaret Hutton Johnson; a
daughter, Miss Mary Agnes John
son of Savannah; four sisters,
Mrs. W. J. Roche of Elmont, Long
Island. N. Y., Mrs. Carl Gerken,
Mrs. W. G. Lariscy and Mrs.
Catherine J. Flood of Savannah;
seven brothers, John F. Johnson,
J. Herbert Johnson, Leo A. John
son, Henry J. Johnson, James J.
Johnson, William F. Johnson and.
Fred P. Johnson, all of Savannah,
Atlanta Services
For R. B. Hackman
ATLANTA, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Mr. Richard B. Hackman
were held March 21st at the Im
maculate Conception Church, Rev.
Harold J. Rainey officiating.
Survivors are his wife; daugh
ters, Miss Frances Hackman, Mrs.
Arthur Autsolief; sisters, Miss
Mary Hackman, Miss Mildred
Hackman, Mrs. Charles J. Heyf-
ron, Mrs. John C. Donald; brother
Mr. Robert C. Hackman; four
grandchildren; several nieces and
nephews.
Augusta Services
For Miss Sullivan
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Miss Annie Sullivan were
held March 11th at St. Patrick’s
Church, Rev. Arthur Weltzer of
ficiating.
Survivors are a sister Miss Mary
G. Sullivan of Augusta, four
nieces, Miss Mary Sullivan of
Augusta, Mrs. Francis R. Powell
of Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. John J. Lenz
of Charlotte, N. C., Mrs. A. J.
Kirby of Dearing, Conn., and a
nephew, John J. Sullivan of At
lanta.
Albert F. Hirt
Dies At Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Funeral
services for Albert F. Hirt wera
held March 14th at the Cathedral
of St., John the Baptist.
Survivors are his wife, Eliza
beth K. Hirt; two foster sons,
James W. Kelley and Eugene J.
Kelley; a foster daughter, Miss
Mary F. Kelley; a brother, Jacob
C. Hirt, Savannah Beach; and sev
eral nieces and nephews.
James T. Nash, Sr.
Dies At Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Mr. James T. Nash Sr.
were held March 12th at the Sacr
ed Heart Church, Rev. James
Courtney, S.J. officiating. •
Survivors are two sons, James
T. Nash Jr. and Oscar N. Nash,
both of Augusta: a daughter, Mrs,
Ruth Reynolds of Augusta fiv$
grandchildren and seven great
grandchildren.