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i I PAGE 6—The Southern Cross, February 2, 1963 MISS MARTHA ANN JUR- GENSEN, a graduate of St. Jo seph’s Hospital School of Nurs ing (Sav’h), will receive her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from St. Louis Univer sity (St. Louis Mo.) She has ac cepted a position in that city... GEORGE P. McGINN, former Savannahian, has been assigned to the sales staff of Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.'s new multimillion dollar corrugated box plant in Atlanta. George is a graduate of Benedictine (Savannah) and Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala. . . . The SERTOMA CLUB of Savannah will present all 7th grade stu dents in parochial schools of that city with illuminated cop ies of the Declaration of Inde pendence. The presentation will coincide with classroom sched uling of appropriate social science topics . . . Plans to build a new convent for the> Sisters of Mercy next to St. Anne’s School on Forrest Road were revealed recently by Sr. Mary Monica, Superior of St. Joseph’s Convent and principal of St. Anne’s School, Columbus. The Sisters' present convent on the corner of Third Street and 12th Avenue has been the Or der’s home since 1868. Last month the Sisters of Mercy cel ebrated their 100th anniversary in Columbus. The first Sisters, five in number, arrived as re fugees during the Civil War, fleeing St. Augustine, Florida, to escape the Union naval forces’ bombardment of that city...THE CATHEDRAL CYO will sponsor an all-parish Val entine Dance on Saturday, Feb ruary 16. MEL MIXON will disc-jockey . . . Savannahian RALPH DiFORE, 505 E. 48th St., one of five from that city on the fall quarter dean’s list at Emory University’s College of Arts and Sciences. To qual ify one must maintain a B-plus or better average . . . The annual Clergy Night of the Sa vannah- Council #631 of the Knights of Columbus will be held Wednesday,-February i3, in the main ballroom of the K. of C. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. Mc Donald, chancellor of the dio cese and chaplain to the Knights has sent invitations to all the clergy in the greater Savannah area . . . The MARCH OF DIMES is on and PACELLI is on the march. Students of the Colum bus Catholic high school are maneuvering various means and methods to win this year’s Walkathon. From a list of eight candidates selected by the school’s student Walkathon Committee Pacelli High hopes to capture once again this year’s city-wide award for bringing in the most money for the March of Dimes. The next issue of THE SOUTHERN CROSS will carry a full story of this an nual event in Columbus with special emphasis on Pacelli's part in it. . . For notes of condolence on the death of his father, MR. MICHAEL MC DONOUGH, His Excellency Bishop Thomas J. McDonough’s address in Philadelphia is: Bishop Thomas J. McDonough D. D. 6121 Nassau St. Philadelphia, Pa. Send news items to: Fr. Lawrence A. Lucree, P.O. Box 180 Savannah, Ga. GARDEN CITY, Ga.—These young ladies are members of a girls club calling them selves "Phi Beta Chi". This year they decided to do "their bit" to help in the annual March of Dimes campaign in Chatham County. They are also students at the Robert W. Groves High School. "We’re hoping to collect at least $100.00 from mororists" said Miss Susan Worrell, publicity chairman of the club. We hope they did, too. Novena At Cathedral Feb. 3-11 SAVANNAH- The Very Rev. Kilian McGowan, C.P., rector of the Passionist Monastery of Our Lady of Florida, North Palm Beach, will conduct the 24th annual Solemn Lourdes Novena at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, February 3-11. Ordained in 1946, Father Mc Gowan has had a distinguished career both as preacher and di rector of souls. He was with the Passionist Mission Band until 1949. For the past five years he has conducted the Radio Series, entitled “Hour of the Cruci fied.” THE VOICE, weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Miami carries a column by Fa ther McGowan on "Christian Perfection for the Layman." In preparation for the an nual observance, Father Mc Gowan will preach at all the masses Sunday, February 3. The Novena will open Sunday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock and will continue each afternoon at that hour until the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on February 11, when the Novena will be brought to a formal close with Georgia Southern Newman Club STATESBORO—This quarter there are 44 Catholic students attending G. S. C. in Statesboro. A drive has been launched to try to get every Catholic student to participate in the Newman work. Weekly Mass is offered on campus in the Glenmary trailer chapel, which served on loan as religious activities center at G. S. C. An Inquiry Class meets on Wednesdays at 3:15 p.m. also in the trailer. The Mass is at 5:00p.m. The Weekly Newman Club meeting is at 6;30 p.m. This quarter a feature of the meetings is a weekly discussion of Christian Marriage. Father John Loftus, pastor of Saint Matthew’s in Statesboro, is chaplain of the Newman Club. Pastors and parents of the stu dents at G. S. C. are asked to encourage them to be active members of the Club. The Southeastern Regional Convention for the Newman Club of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida will be held February 9 and 10 in Tallahassee, Florida. Ten members from G. S. C. have signified their intention to attend. Awards Program Set The official program of the third annual Vianney Altar Boy Award was made public today. It will include a dual program; one for parents and one for the boys themselves. Bishop McDonough has expressed great pleasure with the progress made for the celebration. It will be held at Saint John's Seminary, Savannah, on the 23rd and 24th of March and promises to be one of the outstanding examples of Catholic life in the diocese during the year. An attendance of over five hundred parents and boys is expected. The program is as follows; SATURDAY, MARCH 23RD 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.--Registration, tour of grounds, informal recreation for the candidates--Coffee Time for the parents. 5:30 p.m.—Buffet Supper for both groups. CANDIDATES' PROGRAM 7:00 p.m.—Play: The Seminarians; Movie: Twenty-four Hours; Talk; Father Coleman. PARENTS' PROGRAM 7;00 p.m.—Master of Ceremonies: Father Cuddy; Talk; "The Seminary Program"; Father Coleman; Talk; "The Priesthood; Bishop McDonough; Slide Series on the Seminary. 8:30 p.m.—Parents and local candidates return to Sa vannah. Out-of-town candidates and the Seminarians, night prayers and Benediction. 9:15—Retire. SUNDAY, MARCH 24TH 8:00 a.m.—Outdoor Pontificcal Mass, Sermon - Bishop McDonough; Presentation of the Awards; Congratulations to the Candidates: Mr. Joseph Rau. 9;00 a.m.—Informal Breakfast 2:00 p.m.—Open House 3:00 p.m.-- Dedication of the New Wing a procession, reminiscent ofthe pilgrimage season at Lourdes. The general theme of Fa ther McGowan’s Novena series of sermons at the Cathedral will be the Blessed Virgin and St. Bernadette as models of special virtues and helps in various needs. His sermon topics in develop ment of this general theme are as follows: "How the Saints Got Started;’’ "Howto Get More Out of Every Day;’’ "How to Overcome Discouragement; How to Whip Your Chief Weak ness;" "How to Cause a SDir- itual Revolution;" "How to Car ry Your Cross;" How to be Kind;" "How to Check Your Humility;" “How to Pray to Our Lord and Our Lady." St. James Parents Hear Public School Official SAVANNAH—Members of St. James Home and School Asso ciation were urged last week to keep their children physical ly fit through proper exercise. M. A. Spellman, assistant athletic director for the public schools of Chatham county, ad dressing the group cited the results of a recent study con cerning physical fitness among the nation's school children, showing that "approximately 40% of the country’s youngs ters are unable to meet the standards set up by President Kennedy's Council on Youth Fit ness." "There are many causes for such an alarming figure," said Mr. Spellman, "but there is no excuse." He said much can be done in the home, itself, to improve the physical fitness of youth, and with the assistance of some of the children present, he de monstrated for parents what he termed "the three most im portant exercises for good, over-all muscle toning.” At the business meeting which followed, the Home and School Association approved purchase of additional equipment for the school’s Drum and Bugle Corps, which will make its Tybee Talk By Bishop SAVANNAH BEACH—Bishop Thomas J. McDonough will speak on the Ecumenical Coun cil at the Town Hall here, Feb ruary 4th at 8 p.m. Sponsored by St. Michael's Parish Council of Catholic Wo men, invitations have been extended to the Mayor and alder- men and to Protestant Minis ters of the Community. Following the talk, which is open to the general public, there will be a question and answer period. Rev. Robert Teoli is pastor of St. Michael’s. Mrs. Catherine Flowers is president of the Parish Council with Mrs. George W. Chandler in charge of arrangemehts. Refreshments will be served by the C. Y. O. Officers Elected For Men’s Club S T A T E SBOR O--Elections were held recently by the Men’s Club of Saint Matthew’s Church in Statesboro. Officers for this year; Pres. Joseph Robson; V.P. Gerald Strozzo; Secy. John Savage; Treas. Walter Barry. Program chairman for the next meeting, the first Thurs day of February, isClemRaith, Chairman of the building com mittee. The committee and the architects will discuss with the men of the parish the plans for a new Parish Center. "debut” in Savannah’s gala St. Patrick’s Day parade this year. Several new members were welcomed into the association by Monsignor John D. Toomey, St. James pastor, and Mrs. John Tison, HSA president. Will Sponsor Scout Troop WARNER ROBINS—The La dies Guild of Sacred Heart Church, Warner Robins will sponsor Girl Scout Troop #307 for the parish school, accord ing to Joan H. Lewis, Guild secretary. The women’s group will also spearhead a drive to raise funds for the use of patients at the Milledgeville State Hospital. The funds raised will be sent to the Rev. Joseph Ware, Catholic Chaplain of the hospital. Mrs. J. J. Demboski, Presi dent of the Savannah Diocesan Council of Catholic Women was the guest speaker at the Guild's January meeting and was in troduced by Mrs. Hoyt Birming ham who is in charge ofthe Jan uary program. Mrs. Dembowski, who attend ed the recent Convention of the National Council of Catholic wo men in Detroit, Michigan gave Guild members a resume of the activities and accomplish ments of the convention and ex plained, for the benefit of re cently enrolled members, the system of affiliation existing between the N.C.C.W. and the Diocesan, Deanery, and Parish Councils. She made a special plea to the members of the Sacred Heart Council to "turn out in large numbers for the Deanery meet ing to be held in Macon on March 3rd and the Diocesan meeting to be held at Columbus on May 11 and 12. Brunswick Altar & Rosary Names Officers ST. SIMONS ISLAND—The following officers were elected at this month's meeting of the Altar and Rosary of St. Wil liams Church: President, Mrs. James Car rol; Vice President, Mrs. El mer Gutherz; Recording Sec retary, Mrs. Mack Manning; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Robert Monaghan; Treasurer, Mrs. J. Holmes Clarke. Plans call for the Program Committee to present either a spiritual program or to pro vide a speaker for each meet ing. A report of the Christmas program was presented with the results most heartening. Attend Luthern Meeting ROME-Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Secre tariat for Promoting Christian Unity, leaves Rome at the end of January for Copenhagen where he will take part in a meeting organized by that city’s Association of Lutheran Stu dents. Holy Name, Knights Hear Turner AFB Chaplain ALBANY—The Rev. An drew Weber, S.M., Catholic Chaplain at Turner AFB was guest speaker at a Communion Breakfast at St. Teresa's School Auditorium Sunday, January 27. His topic was "World Wide Mis sions." The Breakfast, which fol lowed the 8:30 Mass, was spon sored by th e Holy Name So ciety and the Albany Council Knights of Columbus. Seated at the head table as guests at the Breakfast were Rev. Marvin J. LeFrois, Pas tor of St. Teresa’s Church, Rev. Eugene Krygier, Assistant Pas tor of St. Teresa’s Church, Fr. Alan Gibbons, Catholic Chaplain at the Marine Base, Fr. Arthur Reardon and Fr. Andrew Web ber, Catholic Chaplains at Tur ner A.F. Base, Major L. F. Pottebaum, president of the Ho ly Name Society who acted as toastmaster, Mr. Joe Davis, Grand Knight of Albany Coun cil Knights of Columbus, who made the response. Sir Robert and Mrs. R. E. McCormack, Sr., Mayor and Mrs. Asa D. Kelley, County Commissioner and Mrs. Gil Barrett, and Mr. R. E. Mc- Tigue, president of the Albany Chamber of Commerce. Preceding the speaking pro gram members of the Catholic Youth Club presented a comedy skit. "THEY ARE OUR BROTHERS IN CHRIST Cardinal Leger Asks Prayers For Protestant Council MONTREAL, (NC)—Paul Emile Cardinal Leger, Arch bishop of Montreal, has urged Catholics to pray for divine guidance for a World Council of Churches meeting to be held here in July. "We cannot remain indiffer ent to these efforts,” Cardinal Leger said of the Protestant and Orthodox World Council. The council’s Commission on Faith and Order will hold its fourth major meeting in Mon treal, July 12 to 26. Some 500 Protestant and Orthodox theo logians from many countries are expected to attend and to discuss religious unity and other topics. Father Irenee Beaubien,S.J president of the Montreal arch diocesan Ecumenical Commis sion, said Cardinal Leger has instructed that body to give any assistance possible to the World Council commission in connection with the July meet ing. Father Beaubien said organ izers of the World Council meeting have sought the collab oration of local Catholic lead ers who have been participat ing in ecumenical discussions with non-Catholics for the past four years. He also said it is possible that the Holy See will have official observers at the July meeting. Cardinal Leger’s appeal for Catholic prayers for the World Council meeting was made in a Chair of Unity Octave message. The Unity Octave is an annual period of eight days of prayer and study for religious unity. "We must pray the Father of Light to enlighten our Christian brothers and to guide their de liberations,” the Cardinal said "Let us not forget that if these brothers do not fully share in our faith, they nevertheless are our brothers in Christ and they also labor under the inspiration of the Spirit in the quest of unity." He said events in the past two years "are a sign that the spirit of Christ is working in our midst and is moving us more and more profoundly in the quest for unity.” Among the ecumenical devel opments here are monthly meetings between Catholic and non-Catholic theologians, held to discuss points of reli gious agreements and disagree ment; annual days of prayer in which Catholic and non-Catho lic leaders take part; the arch diocesan Ecumenical Commis sion established by Cardinal Leger; and special courses de signed to prepare Catholic lay men for active interreligious "dialogue.” Father Beaubien, president of the archdiocesan Ecumeni cal Commission, said the dis cussions among Catholic and non-Catholic theologians got underway in October, 1958, at the suggestion of a Baptist minister, the Rev. Nelson Thompson of Roxton Pond, Que bec. At that time a group of French-speaking ministers met with two Jesuit priests at St. Marie College in Montreal to explore the possibility of en gaging in dialogue. "It seemed apparent that reg ular meetings organized in a climate of charity and prayer could only produce happy re sults,” Father Beaubien said. Since then the French-speak ing Catholic and non-Catholic theologians have met monthly and have discussed such topics as Revelation, faith, grace, sin, the redemption, the Blessed Virgin, the Church, the pri macy of Peter, Baptism, the Eucharist, the Mass and the priesthood. "We have learned better to appreciate the real doctrinal positions of each other,” Fa ther Beaubien commented. "Prejudices have fallen away. We have discovered that we posses numerous spiritual treasures in common.” Each year, before suspending the dialogue sessions for the summer, the priests and min isters spend two days together in a monastery or retreat house. There they review their dis cussions during the past year "and above all we pray a great deal,” Father Beaubien said. "We are all convinced that the unity of Christians is a great grace to be obtained from God both through human efforts and through prayer,” he said. WHEN LAW IGNORES GOD "STATISM” IS RESULT (N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON—The Presi dent of Georgetown University told a gathering of government officials and diplomats at a Red Mass here that the tyranny of statism results when societies ignore God. True law guides human na ture "to the perfection and self-realization which is its God-given prerogative," said Father Edward B. Bunn, S. J., at a Mass offered in St. Mat thew's cathedral (Jan. 27) by Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington. At the Mass were some 30 Federal court judges, headed by U. S. Chief Justice Earl Warren; more than 20 senators; a dele gation of some 200 representa tives, headed by Speaker of the House John W. McCormack; and diplomats from more than 40 nations, including representa tives of the Organization of American States. PROTESTANTS HONOR PRIEST- Msgr. Daniel Moore (left) of St. Louis, receives the "Ecumenical Cross” award from the (Protestant) Metropolitan Church Federa tion of Greater St. Louis for his work during the past year as liaison between priests and ministers in that area. to set up other gods of their own devising.” The Jesuit priest asserted that in societies of men "where the knowledge and service of the true God is not the directing and motivating force, might and power, conquest and tyranny, are the perverted aims, and the loss of human dignity, human freedom and human happiness are the inevitable results." "The final stage is reached,” he said, "when the state sets itself up as its own god, as the end purpose of its citizens’ very lives and of all their ef forts. . .This is the essential perversion which makes of so ciety, with its attendant mechanisms of government, law, judgment and all the rest, not the means, the instrument, the servant of humanity, but subjects the dignity, the liber ty, the abilities and aspirations of the individual and society to the demands of the absolute state.” Father Bunn said that “rarely, if ever,” will there "be found a case of violation of legitimate human law which does not also entail some vio lation of the individual’s obli gations to divine law.” "This -is no more than to say briefly that, in our country, civil law is derived from and conforms to Christian mores and a Christian ethos," he add ed. In conclusion, he urged mem bers of the legal profession not to “overlook the very real fact that in every case there is not one client but two—the indivi dual, who is being directly serv ed, and the cause of humanity, created and providentially di rected by God.” In his sermon at the Red Mass, offered to invoke God's blessing on members of the legal profession, Father Bunn said: "Law emanates from and terminates in the heart, the soul, the nature of man himself—and these, in turn, owe their being, their powers and their impulse toward self-per fection from the purposive creation of God.” "In the final analysis,” he continued, "it is only in terms of man’s—or society’s—ideas of God,. . .and of the relation ships existing between man, individually and socially with his Creator, that it is possible to construct any adequate, sat isfying shceme of human happi ness, and of the means to ach ieve it. "In a very real sense, there are no atheists, for wherever men do not know, or reject, or ignore the God of creation and of Revelation, they are impelled Mission At Saint Clare’s Father Robert Lynch, a noted Franciscan missionary, closed his week long mission at St. Clare’s, Albany, with the members renewing their baptismal promises in a darkened church holding lighted candles. This is the first time that St. Clare’s has had a week long mission. Father Robert Lynch, O. F. M., also conducted a childrens’ mission in the afternoon at the conclusion of which the group picture was taken.