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THE BIGGEST DAY
Jottings
By BARBARA C. JENCKS
"I cannot escape it. . .nothing can tear us from this gibbet
on which we were born, which has grown side by side with
our bodies and stretched itself with the stretching of our
limbs. We are hardly conscious of it in our youth but as the
body develops and grows the flesh becomes heavy and drags
on the neails. What a time it takes for us to realize that we
are born crucified.”
Francois Mauriac
Suffering repels most of us. We flee it. But with Mauriac
we cry out: “The cross, I cannot escape it.” It casts its
shadow across every path. Yet it is our salvation. It is there
in youth with its stings of the flesh, its limitations, the first
bitter disillusionment. It is there in old age when ‘‘the days
are so long and the years so short.” It is at the right of us
and the left of us; it is in the body and in the soul.
There are certain members of society we especially
associate with suffering. . .the sick, the imprisoned, the
old, the lonely, the bereaved, the maimed. Yet each of us
suffers in our own way. At different periods in our lives,
the cross falls harder upon us than others. We suffer within
and without and especially in our fellowmen.
To live is truly to suffer. Yet our attitude toward
.this suffering is what makes us. Suffering can embitter or
ennoble. One spiritual writer says that our suffering gives
us solidarity with suffering mankind and it also is the most
pleasing gift we could offer Christ who suffered for us.
A reader who had been bedridden for ten years died recently.
Invalids, of course, suffer more than physical pains. They
suffer loneliness, despair, frustrations. She wrote to
me often of how she spent her days saying: “ You ask me
about my daily schedule; I give each day of my suffering
to a soul in need. Monday, I give to the souls for whom I
am duty bound to pray, my parents. Tuesday, I offer for
the most forsaken soul. Wednesday, I offer for the soul suf
fering the most. Thursday, for the soul suffering the longest.
Friday for the soul next to die. Saturday, for the soul most
pleasing to the Blessed Mother, and Sunday, the soul most
pleasing to the Blessed Trinity. I also offer a day for a mis
sionary whose name was given to me. I offer a day for a
missionary in Indonesia, another for one in Japan.
“I also lie here and say the stations of the Cross on a
specially indulgenced crucifix. Each afternoon, I say two
rosaries. I offer up all my loneliness and heartaches to Our
Lord in union with His in the Garden of Gethsemane
and the sufferings I bear in union with His on the
Cross for me. My loneliness, I offer especially in union
with His in the tabernacles all over the world where
He is alone. I chain my little crosses to His great Cross
on Calvary. You see, this is how I spend my day.” And the
days of suffering are now over for her.
One of the most moving articles I read was by a prisoner
on Alcatraz and of his conversion. He wrote: “As a convict,
I like to think of myself as a companion of Christ crucified.
He alone gives meaning to my suffering. When the
going gets rough, I hear Him say: ‘Behold, I have chosen
you to suffer with Me as a companion. For you the hill slants
more, the cross is of a heavier weight. Loneliness will be
with you always, but take heart. I walk in its shadow. And
when you seem to suffer most, remember that we are truly
companions.’ ”
Thomas Merton says that tribulation detaches us from
the things that are really valueless, because their attraction
caiiriot stand up under light and all satisfactions that are
meaningless appear as such when we are filled with tribu
lation. Therefore, we should be grateful for it.
Suffering more than anything else brings us to our knees
and makes us closer and more at one with Christ as the
patient and the convict both so eloquently attest. It is in our
sorrows, sickness, pain, heartache, loneliness and disappoint
ments that we see with clearest vision.
My moments of greatest sufferings have been my most
profitable moments. As I have cried out in pain, I have soon
learned to know that the pain was the disguise of love and
that only by pain would I learn the many lessons I need know
. . .‘‘the arms of our cross have been Thy arms.” Each of
us has millionaire’s inheritance in the coin of suffering.
Suffering is not held to the sick and imprisoned and the lonely,
each of us knows our particular brand of suffering and when
our life is over may we have suffered more than we have
sinned. When we have learned not to resent it or flee from it
then we have passed the hardest test. The “Fiat” of the
prisoner and the patient is of everlasting value, of far more
importance than the parole or cure. “The Cross, I cannot
escape it. . .“I will not even try for my cross is my salvation!
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
IN ANNUAL HOOP MEET
de Sales Scores 47-43
Upset In Beating Pacelli
(By Steve Puster,
Sports Correspondent)
MACON—The Mount de Sales
Cavaliers, parried the futile
fullcourt press of Pacelli High
with the grace and ease of fenc
ing masters, to upset the pro
game favorite 47-43 here last
Saturday night.
In the annual game between
the Mount de Sales Cavalierias
and the Pacelli Viqueens, the
visitors built up a steady scor
ing pace to outlast DeSales
30-24, for their first win in
nine games for Pacelli. It was
the first game of the season
for the De Sales girls who will
square off again with the Vi
queens Saturday night at Col
umbus, when the Cavaliers will
try to take up where they left
off this week against the Pacelli
boys.
The boys' game opened fast,
with Pacelli scoring on free
throws before John Lackay, Ca
valier captain, broke the scor
ing ice. The lead see-sawed
back and forth with the edge at
the quarter in favor of Pacelli
9-8, and back to DeSales, 18-
16 at the midway mark.
The Vikings opened the sec
ond half with a rush and tied
the game at 20-all, finally held
a short-lived 39-38 lead after
trailing 35-33 at the three-
quarter mark.
Tom Reise tied it 39-39 and
then Jim Kemper started the
rally that led to a 45-39 lead
with less than three minutes to
play. Going into a ball control
pattern, the Cavaliers refused
to be panicked by the wild
charging Pacelli squad. Tom
Meltzer, Viking center, fouled
out early in the third quarter,
but the Cavaliers took the ball
rather than the free throws
as time began to run out.
Paul Finstad and Dan Os
borne teamed up for a pair of
field goals, but the magnificent
backboard play of the Cavaliers
sealed the doom of the visitors
when Lackay stole the ball and
froze it as the whistle blew.
The Cavaliers completely
dominated the backboard play
under both baskets and only a
cold first half at the free throw
line, when De Sales cashed in
on only two out of twelve shots,
kept the game from being a
rout before it was half way over.
In the girls game, the Cava
lierias showed first game jit
ters while the Viqueens were
warming up. After a slow first
quarter, the score was tied at
3-3, then opened a bit with the
visitors leading 18-17 midway.
Starting the second half, the
Viqueens began to click and
when Bonnie Burke sank a free
throw to cut the Pacelli lead to
24-20 the Cavalierias made
their final bid for victory.
Mary Ellen Treston had scor
ing honors with 18 for Pacelli,
and Kathy Clark 14 for De
Sales. Bobbie Lawrence, scrap
py Cavalieria guard, kept the
visitors off balance most of the
evening with her ball
hawking and exceptional floor
game, particularly in grabbing
rebounds time and again.
Jim Kemper with 21 points
paced the victors, while Bruce
Swisshelm was high point man
for the Vikings.
The Box Score
DE SALES
Player
Kemper
Duffy
Lackay
Reise
McKenna
Hatcher
TOTAL
FG
9
2
3
1
1
1
17
FT
3
2
2
1
0
5
13
PF
2
1
2
0
4
2
11
PACELLI
Osborne
Brannon
Wells
Meltzer
CallahAn
Swisshelm 7
Finstad 2
TOTAL 16
FG
3
0
1
1
2
FT
2
1
1
1
3
2
1
11
PF
3
2
3
5
3
2
3
23
T p
21
6
8
3
2
7
47
TP
8
1
3
3
7
16
5
43
FACE CHARLESTON CLUB SUNDAY
St. Pius Cagers Have
Won Last Eight In Row
SAVANNAH—With the de
parture last year of the St.
Pius “One-Two” punch, plus
the loss by graduation of two
of their starters, it appeared
that the Crusaders were in for
a long unsatisfactory Basket
ball season.
The loss of the first three
games, to what would be con
sidered inferior teams, gave
added emphasis to the be-
leif. A slight recovery in a vic
tory over Springfield was the
first ray of hope. This was ex
tinguished by a further loss to
Liberty County in Conference
Play.
However, with the Frank Cal-
len Boys ClubTournament came
the turning point- a surprise
win over Liberty County coupled
with a major upset over Tomp
kins gave Pius a third place
trophy. Since then it has been
roses, roses, all the way. Win
followed win--Tompkins fell
twice—Waycross, the nemesis
of all the teams in the Confer
ence, ! was beaten at home by
fifteen points, at the St. Pius
Gym by fourteen. Darien, Wood
bine, Richmond Hill, and in the
most thrilling game ever seen
at the Gym, Liberty County
went down to a one point de-
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feat when Danny Brown scor
ed with three seconds left on the
clock.
Since the Christmas break,
Pius has been undefeated: Six
games in a row have added to
the winning tally! With but two
Conference games to play they
are now, odds on favorites to
repeat last years First Place
finish.
Much credit must be given
to Coach Noel Wright; inherit
ing but three of last year’s
squad, he has molded them
into a well balanced, con
fident crew. He has no individ-
ABOVE PHOTO shows batting stance that helped Jerry
Templeton, co-captain of Georgia’s 1963 baseball team,
lead the Bulldogs in runs scored last year. A regular
at third base since last year, J£rry is a member
of Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Port Wentworth, Georgia,
and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers Templeton of 3
Appleby Road in that city.
HONORS ST. LOUIS PRELATE
PROTESTANT FEDERATION
DEVOTES ANNUAL MEETING
ual star, noGoodine-Benjamine
combination to guarantee forty
points per game yet each game
produces its hero: Brian Doug
las , Danny Brown, Ormonde
Lewis, Ulysses Benjamin and
James Bryant have hit twenty
points at least once this year.
On any given night each one will
contribute a minimum of ten.
A strong Bench has helped,
too, Sam Morgan, William
Sams, George Singleton, Char
les Elmore and Ronald Wil
liams have contributed their
share of points, more will be
heard of Ronald-George in sea
sons to come!
Next Sunday, February third,
Immaculate Conception High
School from Charleston will
visit Savannah to play Pius. It
is always interesting to see the
Catholic Schools battle it out
in any sport. This game prom
ises to be a tip-top struggle.
The home court and the large
crowd expected would seem to
favor the Crusaders, but who
can tell; why not come over
yourself and see?
ST. LOUIS, (NC)—The Me
tropolitan Church Federation of
Greater St. Louis, chief organi
zational group for this area’s
Protestant churches, devoted
its entire 1963, annual meeting
to the Catholic Church.
For the first time in history
a Catholic priest was guest of
honor at the annual event. He
was Msgr. Daniel Moore, editor
of the St. Louis Review, arch
diocesan newspaper.
The Church Federation pre
sented the priest with an‘‘Ecu
menical Cross”—a small
golden cross enclosed in a cir
cle—in appreciation for his ef
forts to promote better rela
tions among priests and minis
ters.
Msgr. Moore was appointed
by Joseph Cardinal Ritter to
serve as a liaison between
priests of the St. Louis 'arch
diocese and ministers in the
St. Louis area. In that capacity
he helped to arrange a dialogue
between priests and ministers
at the archdiocese’s Kenrick
Seminary in December.
FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM-
(Continued from Page 4)
understand his thoughts, or to
make oneself understood,
using 'always other words,
comparisons and concepts.
See how love respects with
benevolence the loved one and
therefore, also his opinions.”
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The Cardinal warns that we
should not allow “love to be
come imprudent, soft, to
transform itself into a harm
ful weakness, incapable of re
fusing anything, thus ruining
the most beloved child,” and
adds that this can happen ‘‘be
cause among other reasons,
one does not take into account
the truth of certain principles
inherent in reasoning, in com
mon sense,--because in this
case charity is not combined
with the effective love
of truth.”
For true religious freedom,
“both are necessary: the love
of truth and the love of the
individual, that is, charity to
ward one’s neighbor. Both
united harmoniously, each in
its own place and according
to its importance. UNITED
THUS, THEY CAN IN FACT
UNITE MEN AND CREATE
HARMONY IN A MOST EF
FICACIOUS MANNER.” (Em
phasis ours)
Observing that “The love
of truth without charity be
comes intolerant and is re
pulsive. Charity without truth
is blind and cannot endure,
he urges all to seek, through
prayer, the ‘‘light and the
strength for this struggle
to bring into harmony the
effective love of Truth, and
the hallmark of Christian
ity ‘‘Love of Neighbor.
We commend these remarks
of Cardinal Bea, made in an
address in Rome earlier this
month, to the thoughtful and
prayerful consideration of all
men who believe that the lack
of ‘‘Love for nieghbor” is
the most palpable of all con
tradictions to man’s avowal
of the ‘‘Love of God.”
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SANTODOMINGO, Dominican
Republic-Father Lautico Gar
cia, S. J. , who accused Presi
dent-elect Juan Bosch of
Marxist-Leninist leanings pri
or to his election, has return
ed to his post as a seminary pro
fessor here after a trip to Vene
zuela.
His return refutes reports he
had been sent to a new post by
superiors after a radio debate
with President-elect Bosch.
The Southern Cross, February 2, 1963—PAGE 5
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Adult advisors are a prime
necessity for a good C.Y.O.
Dependable, imaginative lay
leaders can spell the difference
between success and failure, -
an active club and a defunct unit.
The citations that recommend
an adult advisor for the “Pro
Deo et Juventute” award are
proof positive of what can be
accomplished under the gui
dance of outstanding advisors.
Their imagination can inspire
a variety of projects. Their de
pendability can relieve the
priest-moderator of much
anxiety. Their prudence as
sures the club of not going off
the deep end in radical depart
ures from the ideals and pur
poses of the C. Y. O.
In this regard, the spiri
tuality of the adult advisors
must be such as to provide shin
ing example to the teen-agers.
Their frequentation at the
Sacraments will lead the youth
to "the box and the rail.”
Of a certainty, besides the
handful of hand-picked adult ad
visors, it is preferable that as
many parents as possible be in
terested in helping C. Y. O.
activity. Occasionally and in
rotation, each member’s par
ents should be called upon to
contribute their time and ef
forts in one project or another.
We thank all lay leaders who
serve the Catholic Youth Or-
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Aquinas youth had a royal
time in Savannah this past week
end. Their teams all lost, but
two dances sponsored by the
B. C. Senior Class were rous
ing successes.
St. James, Savannah, will host
a dance Sunday night, February
3rd.
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