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■ } PAGE 8 GEORGIA BULLETIN, JANUARY II, 1963 RICHARD r. SLIDLL'S OF MINNEAPOLIS WITH THEIR FAMILY . . .And Sixteen Grandchildren THE SEIDELS Minnesotans Get Catholic Family Honor For 1963 WASHINGTON (NC) - The honor of being the National Ca tholic Family of the Year goes in 1963 to Mr. and Mrs. Ric hard 1, Seidel of Minneapolis, parents of 11 children, four of them in religious life. The selection of the Seidels, both in the ir sixties, was an nounced here by Bishop Chris topher J. Weldon of Springfield, Mass., episcopal adviser of family life to the Social Action Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference. RICHARD and Miriam Seidel, members of Visitation parish in Minneapolis, were selected for the award, initiated three years ago by the NCWC Fami ly Life Bureau, from nomina tions made by family life di rectors in Catholic dioceses. The Seidels, who will ob serve their 39th wedding anni versary on February 4, are to receive a specially designed plaque from Archbishop Leo Bin/ of St. Paul at a ceremony on Holy Family Sunday (Jan. COMMENTING on the honor accorded to the Minneapolis couple. Father John C. Knott, director of the NCWC Family Life Bureau, said: "The Seidels have a sense of vocation: of love, of service to others and to God. All three vocations are represented in their children—marriage, the single vocation in the world, and the religious life.” He added that their selection is "particularly welcome in the year when the National Family Spiritual Treasury is being initiated.” Under the pro gram, U.S. priests will offer more than 10,000 Masses in 1963 for the spiritual welfare of the American family. FATHER Henry V. Sattler, C.SS.R,, assistant director of the NCWC Family Life Bureau, observed that "every member of the Seidel family seemed aware that each human being has a unique vocation in life.” The Seidels have two priest- sons; Father John J. Seidel, a curate at St. Peter Canisius church, Chicago, and Father Thomas E. Seidel, C.S.C., a teacher at Notre Dame High School, Chicago. The two young est girls in the family are Sis ter Mary Gabriel and Sister Catherine of St. Paul's Bene dictine Priory in St. Paul, Five of the Seidel children —Joan, 26, and Barbara, 25,— are single and work as teach ers. RICHARD Seidel, a native of Chicago, is 63 and has retired as an executive in the oil indus try. He was educated in Chicago schools and at the University Official Dies WASHINGTON (NC)—Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass for Father William P. Anderson, 36, former vice president of the Catholic Broadcasters Asso ciation, was offered here. Fa ther Anderson died (Jan. 2) of a heart attack at the Newark, N. J. airport. He atrved as director of radio and televlalon for the Washington archdiocese from 1953 and from 1956 until 1961 waa general manager of the Ca tholic Standard, archdioceian newapeper. of Illinois and became a convert to Catholicism at the age of 22. in 1958 he was general chair man of a Rosary Crusade con ducted by Father Peyton, C.S. C., which drew more than 200, 000 people to the grounds of the state capitol in St. Paul. Seidel has served as direc tor of Opus Sancti Petri, a vo cational organization of some 80,000 members established by the late Archbishop William O. Brady of St. Paul. As chair man of the organization's vo cational committee, Seidel is responsible for the design and preparation of literature that reaches some 100,000 families each year. He is a Knight of St. Gregory, is active in the Community Chest and United Hospital Fund and in labor ne gotiations. MRS. MIRIAM (Sugrue) Sei del, 61, is equally active in re ligious and civic affairs. A na tive of Chicago, she attended St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Ind. She is a past presi dent of the Minneapolis League of Catholic Women and of the Cenacle Retreat League. She has given public addresses on many occasions, and was the first woman ever to address a convention of Serra Inter national, a men's organization which fosters vocations to the priesthood, Mrs. Seidel has served for 10 years on the executive board of the Minneapolis Children's Hospital and has assisted in programs conducted by the House of Good Shepherd, a cor rectional institution for girls. Both Mr. and Mrs. Seidel have served for years as captains of retreats organized in their pa rish. SUBSCRIBE TO THE GEORGIA BULLETIN $5.00 PER YEAR Mail to: P. O. Box 11667 Northside Station Atlanta 5, Georgia Name Addretft City State IN U.S. Young Lady From Paris Finds High School Easy TEANECK, N.J. (NC) — School is a comparative snap to 17-year-old Marie-Christine Devered. It’s a snap compared to what she was used to in her native France. She's taking the senior year at nearby Holy Angels Aca demy while staying with the family of Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Johnson here. MISS DEVRED goes to school with Particia Johnson, one of two daughters in the Johnson family, under the International High School Student Program sponsored by the Youth Depart ment, National Catholic Welfare Conference. Under the program, boys and girls from European and Latin American countries are brought to the United States to live with American Catholic families and attend school for a year. Marie- Christine has been with the Johnsons since August. LAST YEAR Marie-Christine attended Notre Dame Academy in Lille, France. She said atten dance is a little easier here. Back in France at Notre Dame "our day is from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., and 2 to 7 p.m. six days a week,” she detailed. ”We do have two half-days a week, though,” she added. She said that in France she also had more homework and took more subjects. Last year, for instance, her schedule in cluded physics, chemistry, La tin, French, English, Spanish, history, geography and religion, she said. THERE is also a marked social difference, Marle- Christlne said. She explained; ”We only date on vacations in France. The girls here have many more dates and many more friends. Everything is much more relaxed and more informal here.” the boys and the boys look at the girls, and you don’t get any work done.” CHRIS attended two football games during the fall and said the game was "all right, but you can never see the ball.” She made another com- parislon. She said: "In France, only the men go to games and it much more serious. Here everyone laughs and cheers, (t Is more informal.” Mrs. Johnson is enthused about the program—Chris. She said: "Chris has become one of the family—not just a guest. She takes part in family dis cussions and puts in her sug gestions. She helps me when I ask her—and when I don’t ask her, too—just like my own daughters.” CYONEWSWIRE With the New Year's resolu tion of providing varied and in teresting activities for Atlanta teen-agers in mind, many C. Y. O. planning' boards have been drumming up new ideas. Christ the King C. Y. O. has gotten off to a very fast start this year. Last Sunday night they conducted an even ing of bridge lessons. This was the second bridge session in a just-starting series of lessons. ON JANUARY 13, Christ the King will present a "pot luck” movie. The following Sunday they will stage a hot-dog sup per which will be followed by a square dance. For their last January activity, they will hold auditions for their St. Patrick’s Day Variety Show. With the co operation of the Cathedral par ish teens, the Christ the King officers feel that this will shape up Into a real "barrel of fun”. Following close behind the Christ the King C.Y.O. is the Immaculate Conception teen club. On January 13, this group will present one of the most novel and interesting activities ever to hit the Atlanta Catholic Youth Organization. It will con sist of a mock trial with the fol lowing characters: Tommy Harrison will take the part of the defendant. He supposedly was indicted on a charge of con cealing contraband goods. The prosecuting attorney will be James Troy, while John Conway will take the part of attorney for the defense. Father Linus will be the judge. St. Peter and Paul C. Y. O. will have a skating party, also on January 13. Our Lady of the Assumption Youth Club will hold a dance on the same evening. The music will be provided by the Yob-Yalps. A LITTLE boy is one of the 173 converts recently received into the Church at a mass Baptismal ceremony in Chicago. LEADERS CHOSEN St. Joseph Student Council She qul c« y added: like u." Librarians Chris, as the school gang calls her, is glad she’s attend ing an all-girls school here as she did in France. She said: "It’s better that way. If you have coed schools, the girls look at LOS ANGELES, (NC)—Some 800 delegates from the U.S. and Canada are expected to at tend the convention of the Catho lic Library Association here from April 16 to 19. HOLY FAMILY SUNDAY Archbishop To Visit With Atlanta Parishes ■ Heading Student Council pro jects at St. Joseph this year are the formation of a school constitution, production of a student directory, and plans for the introduction of school clubs and organizations. Activities also include the construction of a suggestion box, undertaking of a spirit pet itions contest, and the in stitution of a regular council report day. LUCILLE Dolan, Jerry Ces- nick, and Lorraine Bergin com pose the constitution com mittee. The constitution con sists of the established and written laws and customs of the school. It further contains the regulation and privileges of these institutions. Ratification by student majority will officiate the Saint Joseph Con stitution. Systematic arrangement of facuity, student, and organi zation names compiles the student directory. This publi cation, which serves as a necessary item to ail connected with the school, is under the direction of Michael Phillips, Bruce Hill, and Irving Plfer. PRESENTATION of aU clubs and organizations, their functions, and membership re quirements took place a few weeks ago via the public address system. The aim was to acquaint all the students with extra curricular activities. Susan Smith, James Walsh, and Donna Repik led this endeavor. Dennis Fitzgerald is respon sible for the suggestion box pre sently situated in front of Sister Mary Magdala’s office. WQX1 spirit petitions managed by Margaret Maher, resulted in some 52,000 names. In Australia CANBERRA, Australia (NC) —Catholic schools taught al most 20 per cent of this coun try’s school pupils last year. Commonwealth Statistician K. M. Archer reported that 429, 522 out of a total school popu lation of 2,187,609 went to Au stralia’s 1,750 Catholic schools. INDIA: TALE OF A SHRINE SOUTHERN FRANCE and southern India lie far apart. It was at Lourdes that the Blessed Virgin appeared to 11-year-old Bernadette Soubirous bidding her scratch from the dry ground a mirac ulous spring ... In the little village of ELINJIPRA, a few Catholics con- structed a shrine to OUR LADY OF g-T LOURDES thirty-two years ago. A shed served as a Sunday school. Mass was said on a portable altar . . . Then the Carmelite Sisters enlarged the shed and began a school. Like water springing from parched earth the small shrine proved a fountain of grace ... By 1947 it had become a parish of 110 families. Then it was the Bishop laid the foundation stone for a church. But he needs help to build it. for these parishioners, like Bernadette, are very poor . . . India's average annual income amounts to a modest one week’s wage in this country—$70. Will you give something toward this work in Our Lady's honor? . . . 82.00J will build the church and $1,000 will help put roofs over the Sisters and the parish priest. Tht Holy Father's Missm Aid for tht Oriental Chunk 200 . . . Just last year, ATLANTA—Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan will celebrate Tht Holy Name Mass Sunday at the Shrlna of tha Immaculate Con ception. In tha afternoon tha Arch bishop will bless tha pro-school and grammar achool children of Immaculate Heart of Miry parish. THE ARCHBISHOP will be principle speaker at a Holy Nama Breakfast Matting im mediately after the Maas at Immaculate Conception Shrine. On this Sunday, the Feast of the Holy Family, the 4th Annual Family Communion Breakfast at the Shrine will be co-spon sored by the Holy Name Society and the Ladles' Guild. The members of the two societies will assemble at 9:00 A.M. to pray the rosary be fore attending the 9:15 Mass. On this occasion the members of tha Holy Nama and Guild will have thalr families join them in tha usual reserved area and receive Communion as family units. The ceremony at Immaculate Heart of Mary parish will begin at 3:00 P,M. After the blesilngs, a reception will be held in the school cafetorium where re freshments will be served. Chess Club Plans are going under way to lay the foundations of a Chess Club at St. Joseph High School. Under the moderation of Sr. Mary Helen, C.S.J., tha new offlceri elected were Sopho mores Robert Seymour aa pre sident and John Biggs as secre tary. Members include: John Biggs, Jerome Chambers, Mic hael Dorsl, John Du Teau, Paul Dolan, George Hall, Mark Hargis, James Bruno, James Lange, Alfred Ledon and Robert Seymour. A VOCATION Religion And The Invalid CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 flit from one employment to another, but if the sick man has found work that suits him he must stay In it, however much he may desire to go elsewhere. The healthy man is free to choose his friends. The sick must see in those around him the companions that God has chosen for him. OBEDIENCE is the law of the sick; obedience to his physician, obedience to the nurses if he Is in the hospital, and obedience to all the circum stances of his life which may not be changed. Obe diences do not come to him through the clear voice of a superior, but none the less they are the commands of Almighty God and they are the means by which the will of the invalid is crucified until it is united with the will of God. Loneliness is the inevitable condition of the sick. At times it is unnoticed by him, but at times it is an overwhelming pain. The healthy man is free to take part In any pro fessional activities that interest him, he is free to join in the good and desirable recreations of his friends. The healthy man can take his full part in the life of the parish. He can join in apostolic activities and know all the warmth and joy of work for God shared with his friends. The invalid is cut off from these joys. He is isolated and his work is done alone. If he be bedridden he will receive the Sacraments from time to time but he can no longer unite with others in the worship of God, he can no longer glory in the beauty and warmth of a feast-day mass or share in the grief of the Passiontide Liturgy. Loneliness may be harder to bear than phy sical pain, but like the vow of chastity it can re lease the invalid from the love of creatures and lead him on to the love of God alone. Loneliness borne alone is unendurable, but loneliness shared with Jesus can be joyous even when part of that loneliness consists in the loss of all spiritual consolation. COLD WEATHER MAKING YOU SHIVER? Think of tho desolate PALESTINE REFUGEE families, especially the chil dren. on these frosty bitter nights. For $2 you can buy them o blanket; for $10 you can send o FOOD PACKAGE that will help them for a whole month. SAINT FOR CHURCH UNITY NIGHTFALL IN GENOA , . . Tha bells of many chapels ring for evening prayers. Through the Cnpuchln monastery gate a weary figure trudges, a few loaves of bread under his «rn> . , . He has given most of the food to the needy he met along the way. For nearly forty years, FRANCIS MARY OF CAMPOROH. SO, the community beggar, garnered food for his fellow reli. glous, helping all who crossed his path ... In the plague of 1886, he offered his life that Genoa be delivered. POPE JOHN XXIII, ending the first session of the ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, can onised him as one exemplifying a MODEL OF CHURCH UNITY . . . He saw in every man a brother, no matter what his faith. In the CHURCH UNITY OCTAVE (Ian. 18 to Jan. 25) please remember the needy missionaries under our care In the NEAR and MIDDLE FAR EAST, They work for unity with barely enough to live on. A GOOD WAY TO HELP is by becoming a member of our association. Single membership: SI a year; perpetual member ship: $20. Family membership: $5. Perpetual membership: $100 . . . MASS STIPENDS help tremendously. If making a will, please remember us: Official title: THE CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION. OUR MONICA GUILD furnishes chapels for our missionaries. Eighteen years of prayer brought Monica’s son, Augustine, into the church to become the great Doctor of Grace. You can help bring grace to many with a dollar-a-month gift. 81,000 complete ly furnishes a chapel. DEAR MONSIGNOR RYAN: Enclosed find for Name City Zone State (J^Reartast Glissionsj^l FRANCIS CARDINAL SPIUMAN, President Mtgr. Joseph T» Rye*. Ne»*l Sec'y Send ell communications to: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION 480 L«xington Av«. at 46th St. New York 17, N. Y.