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I « 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! ^sss^ Qrradialed wjfjmMVifami/t-D ** Jlnnettek Over 40 Years of Dependable Courteous Service 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- Benjamin P. Ritzert, Architect Member of the American Institute of Architects 808 E. DeRenne Ave. Phone AD. 4-6192 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 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.” I 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.” / LUGGAGE BY Skyway - Lady Baltimore - Samsonite American Tourister - Wheary - Crown Atlantic Products Grasshoppers and Val-pac Leather Goods, Ladies’ Handbags, Pipes, Lighi Smokers’ Articles, Costume Jewelry, Gifts Umbrellas JOE PRICE INC. THE LUGGAGE AND LEATHER GOODS SHOP 14 Broughton St., West Savannah, Georgia Returns To Post 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 For Wedding Invitations It’s The Acme Press 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- ganization. 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. 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