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NOVEMBER 23, 1957.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIFTEEN
MARRIAGES
O-
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HUGGINS-ALL
O-
SAVANNAH, — Miss Elizabeth
Radcliffe All, daughter of Mrs!
Henry Tayloe Compton of White
Stone, Va., and the late Mr. Sig-
bert Henry All, Sr., of Savannah
and Harry Leard Huggins, Jr. of
Columbia, S. O., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Leard Huggins, Sr.,
of Columbia, S. C. were married
November 3rd at the. Sacred
Heart Church, Rev. Aloysius
Wachter, O.S.B., officiating.
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OF CELL AND CLOISTER, by
Doley C. Moss, (Bruce, $4.00).
(Reviewed by Cecilia L. Hines)
At last, here is a book which
gives the layman a clear, con
cise and short history of the re
ligious orders in the Catholic
Church. Written by a laywoman
who had a world of information,
who cuts inconsequential detail
with a two-edged sword, and who
dares to highlight the romance
and color surrounding the lives
and adventures of founders of
orders, it will do much to dispel
the prejudice and misconception
(even among the faithful) about
religious communities, their ori
gin and the motives which have-
created that mode of life.
Mrs. Moss draws attention to
her subject by saying that ’‘re
ligious ascetism is not peculiar
to Christianity,” touches lightly
on some pre-Christian examples
of man’s desire to seek his Maker
through prayer and contempla
tion, and makes it plain that
Hebraic tradition is the source
of ascetical communities in the
Church.
From this beginning came the
orders. Following the example
of the Apostles, who first prac
ticed poverty, chastity, and obedi
ence as advocated bv Christ, the
array of consecrated men and
women increased in SDite of po
litical and geographical strife, in
ternal struggle 1 and confusion,
persecution, violence, heresy,
schism and disease. In each age
thev left the imprint of piety and
culture on the world, and con
tributed much to the Church and
to civilization. F.ven in our own
time, the continued growth of
the orders has refuted the ra
tionalistic belief that religious
ascetism was permanently out
moded.
Here in America this influence
has been noticeable. Although in
the eighteenth century, disaster
(caused by persecution and moral
laxity) followed the first efforts
of the missionaries, the Roman
tic Movement and the restoration
of the hierarchy in England
brought many converts into the
Church in the nineteenth century
and native orders then began to
be established. These native or
ders are suited to the new ave
nues of thought developing in
America and, while they use such
means as shows, TV, discussions,
and the press, remain ever mind
ful of “the eternal union of love
with Love; of sacrifice with joy;
of practical activity with the still-
n e s s of contemplation,” which
finds, its proof in an “ever deep,
always growing Catholic Faith.”
The last chapters of this book
contain information on religious
vows, the Divine Office, a con
venient and practical glossary,
index, and bibliography — handy
and adequate. f
THE CATHOLIC LIFE AN
NUAL 1958. edited by Eugene P.
Willing, (Bruce, $2.95.)
(Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester)
.This is the first volume of an
annual edition Bruce proposes
to bring out. The Annual, sched
uled to appear regularly in the
fall, has a twodold purpose; (1)
To direct attentiip to the feast
of Christmas. (2) To interrelate
the Christian heritage with va
rious developments in ©ur (the
United States’) history.
The Annual, featuring sundry
articles and some fiction, has the
format of a periodical and the
hard back (and high price) of a
book. The uneven quality of the
contents suggests the Annual ed
itors would have been well ad
vised to have given the volume a
paper back and kept the price
lower. This is especially true in
sofar as the backing actually
used in forbidding tasteless and
the least meritorious aspect of
this whole edition. A good de
sign on paper would surely have
been better than this poor one on
a hard back.
The contents themselves are
innocuous without being at all
stimulating. Outstandingly good
is a lead article describing manu
script illumination as the art was
developed (mostly by monks)
during the medieval centuries.
Unfortunately, after this splen
did introductory all the other
features are anti-climactic, both
in content and tone. Though de
clared to be dedicated to rising
and shining in the announced
territories, it is almost as though
the Annual itself had been as
sembled by somnambulists. The
reader, consciously or not, will
sense the absence of a genuine
ly talented guiding force to give
the book unity and impact. One
might wish to see what another
set of persons could do with the
same objectives behind the cur
rent volume; a challenging ob
jective met with poor success
stimulates a desire to see some
one succeed in hurdling the ob
stacles.
THE LIFE OF ROBERT
SOUTHWELL, Poet and Martyr.
by Christopher Delvin, (Farrar,
Strauss & Cudahy, $5.00).
(Reviewed by Rev. John
Schroder, S. J.)
The story of Robert Southwell
is the story of English Catholi
cism, crushed and dying, at the
end of the 16th century. Born and
bred in England, this young no
bleman stole out of the country
to become a Jesuit priest, and in
1586 stole back into it to exercise
his priesthood.
Although disguised, under-
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ground, and traveling only at
night, he had one chance in three
of survival. Martyred in 1595, at
the age of 35, he had. spent the
intervening years administering
the Sacraments, preaching, and
writing. His poems, full of fervor
and beauty, are included in ev
ery English anthology.
Delvin’s life of Blessed Robert
Southwell is worth reading and
re-reading.
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