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GEORGIA PINES
Serra Progress
THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1964 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5
BY REV. R. DONALD KIERNAN
Ten years ago the Serra Club of Metropoli
tan Atlanta was established by a group of dedi
cated men organized by Bill Egan.
A native of Chicago, Bill Egan was an exe
cutive with a local food firm. He had been fami
liar with the good work Serra had done in the
field of vocations up in the "windy city".
An organizational meeting, was held at the At
lanta Athletic Club and Richard Kane was chosen
as the tirst president with the late Monsignor
James Grady as chaplain.
After it was sufficiently or
ganized the club received the
approval of Serra Internation
al and the club was tagged
with the number 120,
Serra had begun out an the
west coast in the state of Wash
ington, some 35 years before.
The Atlanta Club was the 120th
charted. (Since that date, ten
years ago, over 130 more clubs
have been chartered.)
It would be next to impossible to remember
the names of those who were responsible for
its initual growth, because the success of Serra
in Atlanta is due to no individual but rather to
a group of hard working and dedicated men.
The first days of Serra were indeed delicate.
After the "first fervor" had worn off, there
was the problem of planning a program which
would captivate the imagination of all the men
yet not be so time consuming as to be discon-
raging as so cumblesom as to result in a dup
lication of efforts.
Under the leadership of men such as Richard
Kane, Bill Egan, Larry LeBonte, FelexdeGolian,
Bob McLellan Hughes Spalding Jr., Ray Monahan
Sam McQuade, and Dr. Reese Coleman the Serra
club sponsored Essay and Poster Contests for
the school students; men of Serra formed a
speakers bureau and the club endevored to
assist the Bishop financially in educating a
young man for the priesthood. The Serra Club
is not a fund raising organization, not is it
purely social or entertaining. Men are asked,
when they join Serra, to dedicate their talents,
abilities, time and efforts to only one thing
working to assist vocations."
Nor in its quest for activity did Serrans for
get how necessary the spiritual was to success
of their programs. Hour of Recollection are
held twice a year; Serrans gather the first
Saturday of the month for a corporate Com
munion; a day a month is assigned to each mem
ber for church attendance and once a year the
Club makes an annual retreat.
Serra is probably one of the few organizations
in the Church in which membership is by in
vitation. \ et, Serra is demanding too. Members
are obligated to attend 60 percent of the meeting
in each quarter. Meetings are held twice a month.
The local club was singularly honored when
out of thousands of prospects, Hugh Spalding Jr.
was named to the international Board of Trustess.
For an infant club this was a singular honor.
Serra, too, has had its share of sorrows. A
year after his appointment as Chaplain, Monsignor
Grady was called to his eternal reward. Ed Dugan
was claimed after he attended only two meetings
and last year Dave Murphy perished in an air
plane crash in France.
As the Serra Club of Metropolitan Atlanta closes
a decade of accomplishment, it enters another
decade with the same vigor and enthusiam which
was present that night, ten years ago, when Bill
Egan said, "Gentlemen the purpose of our gather
ing here today is..."
QUESTION BOX
Lay Canonizations?
BY MONSIGNOR J. O. CONWAY
Q. I am a recent convert, and frankly I’m
puzzled to find that practically all the saints
of the Church are either sisters, nuns, or priests.
Why are there so few married saints? Will the day
ever come when a lay person will be canoniz
ed?
A. A few lay persons have been canonized in
recent years, but most of them died before the
age of 14.
In former centuries a number of kings and
queens were canonized. Lay people mostly became
saints by martyrdom.
I recently saw a report of canonizations over
a five-year period, around 1950. (Since lam quot
ing from memory and may not be accurate, I
will not name my reference)
There were 30 saints canoni
sed during this period; 17 were
men and 13 were women. Of the
women 12 were mothers super
ior of religious orders, some
of them founders of their or
ders. The 13th was a contemp
lative nun from Ecuador.
Of the men three offourwere
bishops, and all the rest except
two were members of religious
orders. The two exceptions were (1) a secular
priest and (2) a young layman who died at the
age of 14.
It is probably more notable that the secular
priest got canonized than that the layman re
ceived this honor.
We may be sure that the Holy Spirit is much
more active in the souls of secular priests and
laymen than this record would indicate. In other
words the number of canonizations in the Church
is not necessarily representative of the breadth
of sanctity.
Much of the explanation can be found in the
process of canonization itself. It is long and in
tricate, requiring exhaustive investigations and
transcriptions. Someone or some organization
must be really interested in the canonization of
a certain person in order to institute a process
and lead it to conclusion. Usually it is a process
which greatly exceeds the lifetime of any indivi
dual; so that it is best sponsored by an organiz
ation. This largely explains the great number of
religious, both men and women, who were canoniz
ed. The religious order gets behind them and
pushes their canonization. Most older religious
orders even have a man appointed on a per
manent basis to supervise and promote the pro
cesses leading
their order.
to canonization of members of
A holy secular priest dies, his parishioners
mourn him as a saintly pastor, his fellow priests
recall his virtues. Then a new pastor is appoin
ted and everyone proceeds to forget.
The same is true of a lay person. At the fun
eral we are stirred by memories of his faith
fulness, generosity, piety, kindness, charity and
his edifying exemplification of other virtues. But
again memories are short, and except for his
own immediate family we tend to think of him
with less frequency as the days and the years
go by. Even the family is in no position to pro
mote consideration of his heroic virtues, or of
any miracles which may later result from his
intercession.
Q. On most days on our holy calendar the days
are marked "ferial" and we wonder what this
word means.
A. As used on your calendar, the word indi
cates that no feast of our Lord or of any of the
saints is celebrated on that day. The Mass is that
of the week day. Sometimes there is a special
Mass, as during Lent and on Ember Days. More
often we say the Mass of the preceding Sunday,
omitting the Creed and usually the Gloria.
Q. It seems lately I have been noticing Masses
offered for the dead at which the priest does not
wear the traditional black vestments, instead
vestments for the season are used. Has this rul
ing been lifted?
A. I don’t know exactly what ruling has been
lifted, but recent changes in the rubrics have
decreased the number of days on which ordinary
Requiem Masses may be offered. This is a great
advantage in the sense that it removes mono
tony, encourages devotion, fits us into the
spirit of the Church’s year of prayer, and famil
iarizes us with the beauty of many feasts and
ferial days which were formerly neglected.
In general it gives the atmosphere of a living
Church rather than of one whose total concern
tration is on the dead.
Q. I have friends who are living in a mixed
marriage. The husband, a non-Catholic, decided
to join, the Masons. Does this prevent the Cat
holic wife from receiving the sacraments? Does
she have to receive any dispensation?
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LITURGICAL WEEK
Christian Unity Prayer
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
FRIDAY, JAN. 24, ST. TIMOTHY, BISHOP^
MARI YR. The martyr is a witness. But we are
all witnesses, too. And in our w’ork for the re
union of Christians, how careful, how pure, our
witness must bel It is the "great claim" (First
Reading) to which we must witness—not our hu
man talents nor our human conceits. In this work,
above all, it is necessary for the serious Chris
tian to "take leave of all that he possesses"
(Gospel), I( is Christ who must be seen in this
witness.
SATURDAY, JAN. 25, CONVERSION OF ST.
PAUL, APOSTLE. Our week of special prayer for
the reuniting of the disciples of Jesus in God’s
good time ends today. We hear the story of the
conversion of the great missionary apostle (First
Reading) and we learn what vision of the Church
we must possess if we would be effective witnes
ses for unity, 1 am Jesus, whom Saul perse
cutes." Christ living in His members, identi
fied with His members, accomplishing His sav
ing mission through His members—this is the
Church whose organiz oneness calls to the con
sciences of men.
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lived
22. Barrenness
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26. Girl's name (Russian)
27. New Testament; abbr. 82. Procures
28. Sign of indebtedness 83. Various
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Common suffix
His rank in the
Roman Army
71. Contemn
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81. Tower
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31. Printer’s measure
32. British nobleman
34. Ferber and Millay
35. To raise
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44. More formal
48. Goes forward
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group
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10. Consume
11. Reverberation
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communication
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time
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poetry
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but did not die
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address
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ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE ON PAGE 7
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (NC)
Plans for a dramatic 400th an
niversary building program at
the Mission of Nombre de Dios,
site of the first Christian mis
sion in the country, have been
announced here.
The plans call for construc
tion of a 200-foot illuminated
cross, visible from both land
and sea; a **votive church"
dedicated to the cause of peace;
and a combination library, ar
chives and exhibition hall.
FATHER MICHAEL V. Gan
non, director of the Mission
of Nombre de Dios, said com
pletion of the construction pro
gram would make the mission
"one of the great pilgrimage
centers on the North American
continent, and a national sanctu
ary of which we can all be
justly proud."
The mission stands on the
site where on Sept. 8, 1565,
Spanish Admiral Pedro Menen-
dez landed with a group of Span
ish explorers to found the first
permanent European settlement
in what is now the United States.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER the
landing, Mass was offered by
one of four diocesan priests
with the expedition. It was the
first community act of Christian
worship in the present U.S.
The Spaniards called the site
"Nombre de Dios"—name of
God—because they had claimed
ARNOLD VIEWING
‘Charade’ Slick Spoof
BY JAMES W. ARNOLD
When people are attractive, talented, and in
some ways even beloved, it is easy to be charmed
by almost anything they do. This was my react
ion to "Charade," which may deserve better des
cription than "almost anything," but is nonethe
less a slick and unimportant picture.
"Charade” is a spoof murder-mystery combin
ing the ten-little Indians plot (the field of sus
pects is narrowed, not by wit, but by murder)
and the bewildered heroine plot (threatened girl
finds a protector but doesn’t know if she can
trust him). The characters are flashy but shallow,
and the story has more holes
than a pair of Christmas sox in
April. It’s as if someone set out
to follow Hitchock, lost the
track, and just kept doggedly on
until the actors arrive, almost
by magic, on a set suitable for
a spectacular finale.
THE MORAL tone sets no re
cords for high altitude. As in
most Hitch and pseudo-Hitch,
death is frequent, bizarre, and even oddly amus
ing; love and marriage, at least in theory, have
all the permanence of a mediocre hand in draw
poker. In one scene, a thug persistently tries
to set the heroine on fire. Yet to be honest,
the film has most of its violence off-stage, and
the romantic; scenes would be acceptable to any
sewing circle in Boston.
But this, happily, is not al there is to
"Charade." There are those people (mentioned
above) who hypnotize the viewer into illogical
delight. These demigods include Audrey Hepburn
and Gary Grant in front of the camera, and Stan-
mm
Pi
are matchless. He defined the hero of sophist
icated movie comedy, just as Bogart defined the
movie tough guy. After Grant, the leading men
still had to be lovable, but no longer predic
table and dull.
UNDER THE pressure of all this amiable tal
ent. "Charade" manages to entertain. Miss Hep
burn, fetching in a dazzling array of Givenchy
garb, is 25 years younger than Grant, playing
Corvette to his Cadillac, a combination now and
then . awkward but with the most in class and
maneuverability. Patrons are warned only that
Cary operates now at about half his original
horsepower. That this is still more than enough
is evident from a party-game bit in which Grant
is obliged to get an orange from a dignified
dowager using only chin and shoulders.
The stars get competent help from such able
non-stars as Walter Matthau, who plays a tele
vision-comedy’ CIA man, and James Coburn, as a
sadistic Texan (or is that getting to be redun
dant?).
THE WORST one can say about the Mancini
music is that it is familiar — dreamy velvet for
romance, a tingling counterpoint of atonal chords
and soft piano for fright, hectic percussion and
brass for the chase. But it’s serviceable, swing
ing and pretty, and likely to sell half a million
albums.
Director Donen provides his customary joie de
vivre, aided by the color and Paris locale. One
scene, in which Miss Hepburn arrives at her
apartment to find it stripped as a tomb, is a
notable example of combining direction, camera
and editing to produce an emotional effect.
Writer Peter Stone contributes bright, if often
irrelevant » di alog. Boy-girl type: noticing Cary’s
famous cleft chin, Audrey inquires, "How do you
^ X shave inthere?’’ Private-eye type: threatened by a
^ brute with a gun in his pocket, Cary quips, "You
'll ruin your raincoat." Funeral-parlor type* as
ley Donen and Henry Mancini behind it. Not a
"heavy" cinematic quartet, by any means, but a
group that over the years has provided much of
the elegance that lingers in the best of Holly
wood entertainment films.
Producer-director Donen, long associated with
musicals, had a creative hand in the Bergman-
Grant "Indiscreet," the lyrical "Funny Face"
(with Miss Hepburn), and the fabled"Singin’ in the
Rain" and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,"
two of the dozen-or-so best musicals ever fil
med. Maestro Mancini, with two Oscars in a row
(‘ Moon River, "Days of Wine and Roses’’)), is
so good that the fresh sound of his music has
made some otherwise undistinguished movies
("Hatari") more joyful to ear than to eye.
THE EFFECT Miss Hepburn has on critics
iscomparable only to that of syrup on French
toast. Lean and tomboyish, yet a lady in the finest
sense, lovely, intelligent and versatile, she is
in comedy as sparkling and unpredictable as a
Parisian fountain. An Oscar-winner in light com
edy in her very first film ("Roman Holiday")
she yet helped make "The Nun’s Story" the first
valid religious drama made by an American com
pany.
The contributions of actor Grant, who has been
wisecracking and double-taking his way across the
screen since the heyday of Clara (who?) Bow,
•parlor type: as
a suspect views body and sneezes, girl com
ments: "He must have known him pretty well.
He’s allergic to him."
AMONG THE cliches are a bad guy with a hook
for a hand and a showdown in an empty theater.
Whenever Audrey walks into a dark room, one ex
pects, and usually finds, some new horror. But
Donen mixes in the unexpected: Grant takes a
shower in a drip-dry suit, Audrey spills an ice
cream cone in his lapel pocket, and a corpse
in the morgue is identified by a merchandise
tag on its big toe.
"Charade" also makes a half-hearted try at
Probing jlie nature of truth and deceit. Its chief
answer: you can only trust the one you love. And
that is about as comforting and profound as a
Valentine from the finance company.
CURRENT RECOMMENDED FILMS.:
For evervone: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World;
Lord of the Flies,, The Great Escape, Lilies of
the Field.
the land in God's name.
THE BUILDING plans were
made public here by Father
Gannon and Father James Hes-
lin, president of the St. Augus
tine Foundation, which has
charge of preparations for the
mission's 400th anniversary
celebration.
Architect for the project was
Eugene F. Kennedy, Jr., ofMa-
ginnis, Walsh and Kennedy,
Boston. He was architect for
the National Shrine of the Im
maculate Conception in Wash
ington, D.C.
THE PLAN CALL for the 200-
foot illuminated cross to be of
stainless steel. Father Heslin
said it would be visible from
all major approaches to the city
of SL Augustine as well as from
passing ships. It is intended as
a reminder of the religious he
ritage of the nation,., he said.
Father Heslin said the "vo
tive church" would be built "as
a prayer of the priests and the
people of the Diocese of St.
FORMER SENATOR A
PRIEST. Father Arthur
Cox. 72, recently ordained by
Archbishop J. C. McQuaid of
Dublin, is a former senator
of the Irish parliament and
a practicing attorney for
many years. He was a direc
tor of many of the larger
business concerns in Ireland.
He retired in 1961, on the
death of his wife, Bridget, to
prepare for the priesthood
at Milltown Park, Dublin.
Augustine to seek divine assist
ance in these dangerous times."
The combination library, ar
chives and exhibition hall, like
the church, will be built of co
quina rock—a shellrock indi
genous to the St. Augustine area
—and white limestone.
Seminary Fund
Remember the SEMINARY FUND of the
Archdiocese of Atlanta in your Will. Be
quests should be made to the “Most Rev
erend Paul J. Hallinan, Archbishop of the
Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta and his suc
cessors in office”. Participate in the daily
prayers of our seminarians and in the
Masses offered annually for the benefactors
of our SEMINARY FUND.
For Connoisseurs: Winter
Sporting Life, The Leopard.
Light, 8 1/2, This
Better than most; Charade, The Hunting.
God Love You
BY MOST REVEREND FULTON J. SHEEN
Scripture prefaces the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
by saying that the sun rose brightly the morning of its sulphurous
death. Disaster can be near though everyday conditions make it
seem distant. In our day, it seems a beautiful co-existence is
dawning with Soviet Russia, but as we look to Moscow, its Red
tentacles are gradually devouring the earth. Cuba has been seized
under our noses; Venezuela is already in its grip; Bolivia and the
Dominican Republic are nearly licked by its flames, the Com
munists say.
The truth is that persecu
tion has broken <out anew in
the Soviet Union. Children are
forbidden to enter churches;
seminarians have been intimi
dated by Soviet agents — one
seminary had no students this
year; mothers who give their
children religious education are
threatened with being sent to
a mental institution. And a visi
tor from behind the Iron Curtain told us at the Council that
Khrushchev had personally ordered the revival of persecution
in his land. Look to just one of our mission lands—Somalia.
Next year, the radio station which the Soviets are erecting there
will be heard all over Africa. Chinese and Russian "technicians"
are pouring into the land. A recent broadcast from the capital
of that land gave a poem about Soviet planes:
I do not need anything from anyone
MIG covers vast distances
For MIG can fly 600,OCX) miles a minute.
Being in mission work, which keeps one in contact with the
world, increases concern, but it also increases zeal and sense
of duty to the world. To all of us who have the Faith, what does
the world crisis mean? It means that Christ is undergoing His
agony. If we had lived in Jerusalem at the time of Christ, would
we have gone to Calvary or solaced His Mother? And yet Our Lord
is reliving His Crucifixion daily. Are we feeling His pain, His
persecution as our own? Did the atheist Nietzsche have the
answer: "You must look more redeemed to me if I am to believe
in a Redeemer." Are we hidden in our churches or dioceses as
in a ghetto? Are we saved if we are secure? Are we like the priest
and levite who passed by the wounded man on the road to Jerusalem
and Jericho, because we have other duties, one of them being not
to care for the wounded and the sick and the unevangelized of the
world?
Life is a trial for the above souls; it is also a trial for us. It
is a trial for them because they are without Christ; it is a trial
for us to see whether we love them in Christ. This time, instead
of asking you to make a sacrifice for the Holy Father and the poor,
may we ask you to read this column, to write and tell us why you
do not want to make the sacrifice?
GOD LOVE YOU to S.M. for $1 "I am a paper boy, and this is
part of my earnings." ... to A.B. for $2 "My husband is a non-
Catholic and is not well. May God make him well again, and bring
him happiness.” ... to Mrs. F.R. for $9 "To help feed the poor
children of the world, and in thanksgiving to God for His favors
and to beg His Blessings for myself and all my family."
Find out - how an annuity with The Society for the Propagation
of the Faith helps both you and the poor of the world. Send your
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New York 10001.
Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to Most
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pagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue, New York lx, N. Y, or
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