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GEORGIA BULLETIN
THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1964
DOORKEEPER 40 YEARS
Come To Brother
Shrine Each Year
miracle worker even in hie own
day, who today hae been credit
ed unofficially with thousand* of
unexplained cures?
He was bom Alfred Blssette,
one of 10 children to a poor
family In the tiny Quebec vil
lage of St. Gregolre In 1845,
His mother died when he was
six, and his father, a wheel
wright, died when Alfred was
12.
AS AN adolescent, Alfred de
cided he wanted to be a Relig
ious, and at the age of 21 he
entered the novitiate of the Holy
Cross Brothers. For 40 years
BREAKFAST METING
Shrine Holy Name
Hear Photographer
casion was one of Its own mem
bers, Mr, Van Buren Colley, a
well known Atlanta photograph
er, As this was teenage month,
the guest speaker chose as his
subject, “Marriage," As a word
of advice, Mr, Colley advised
the young people to take time
and know your in-lsws, before
making the final decision,
FATHER KELLY closed the
meeting with his expression of
thanks for the excellent turnout,
Knights March
The Knights of Columbus
were represented In the fourth
annual July 4 WSB-TV "Salute
to America" parade in Atlanta
when 30 Fourth Degree Sir
Knights marched, with a color
guard carrying the American
and Papal flags. This Is the first
time that the Knights have taken
pert in the parade and plans are
under way to double their rep
resentation In next year's event.
Remodeling
Frto
Estimates & Planning
Room Additions
Kitchens Modernized
Roofing-Siding
Painting
Concrete !i Block
References Gladly Given
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N. Atlanta Conitr. Co.
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TIME LATH INI SCHOOL
Under Hit Patronage of
Archblihop Paul J« Halllnan
Director of School
Monsignor Patrick J. O'Connor
Director of Vocations
Faculty
Reverend Mr, Glenn Davis
Mr, Charles LaDuca
Classes to be conducted at Saint Pius X High School
August 3 to August 21 inclusive
Class Hours Each Day
9:00 a,m, - 9:50 a,m,
10:00 a,m. - 10:50 a.m,
11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m,
Monday, August 3, 1964: 9:00 a.m,, Opening Mass
Registration of Students
Division of Groups: I and II Beginners
III Upperclassmen
Daily Schedule: Classes from 9:00 a.m, to 12:00 m.
On each Friday during the last hour of the day there will be
Confessions, Holy Mass, and a Sermon
Latin assignment books will be made available and are to be purchased by the
students. These books for the most part will be used by students during their
courses in the regular school year.
No charge for attendance at The Latin School,
Eligible for Attendance
Young boys who are entering high school and those who are now attending
Catholic and public high schools who may believe that they have a vocation
to the Sacred Priesthood and who wish to be Priests of the Archdiocese of
Atlanta are eligible for attendance. Further information may be obtained
from Monsignor Patrick J, O'Connor,
At the Shrine of the Immacu
late Conception the Holy Name
members attended the 9:15
Mass, Sunday, July I2 r An ex
cellent number were present
...considering the time of the
year, hot weather and vacations.
The majority who received
Communion with the Society
stayed for the meeting held im
mediately after Mass in the So
cial Hall,
AS IT WAS the first Sunday
of the Society’s year, the offi
cers, Mr, Eddie Gasperlni,
President; Mr, Roger Meehan,
Vice-President; Mr. Logan
Harrison, Treasurer; Mr,
Jerry Giordano, Secretary and
Mr, Joe Parlsi, Marshall who
had been officially installed the
previous month by Father Kelly
OFM were recognized.
The guest speaker for the oc-
he served as doorkeeper at a
boy’s school.
But Brother Andre had a
burning desire to promote de
votion to St. Joseph, the patron
saint of Canada. In 1904 he built
a small 18 by 15-foot chapel
with his own hands. Pilgrims
began to go there In droves, and
for all of them his only advice
was: "Go to Joseph."
TODAY a huge basilica, the
Oratory of Mount Royal, crowns
the place where Brother Andre
built his chapel. Towering 800
feet above the St. Lawrence
River, the basilica Is capped by
a dome that Is nearly as large
as that of St. Peter's in Rome.
The main church Is so large-
that last November 10,000 per
sons assembled there for a
memorial Mass for John F.
Kennedy.
In the votive chapel, where
thousands of candles burn end
lessly to St. Joseph, is the tomb
of Brother Andre. Opened last
year as part of the canonical
Investigation prior to beatifica
tion, the coffin was said to have
contained a mummified corpse,
but with hands preserved almost
as In life.
HANGING In the cotive chapel
are hundreds of clutches and
braces, left there by persons
who have claimed miraculous
cures. The Holy Cross Fathers
who tend the shrine do not at
tempt to evaluate these claims,
but there Is a medical research
center which has investigated
many of them. Any final attest
ing of "miracles" must come
from Rome,
Sixty years after the first
chapel was built, the huge shrine
to St. Joseph represents a $10,5
million expenditure, all of It
raised through private dona
tions. There Is a hotel for pil
grims, an 800-car parking lot,
spacious gardens, lawns and
outdoor stations of the cross
that wind their way up the
mountainside.
THE ORATORY Is more than
a mere place for pilgrimage.
About 30 priests engage In pas
toral and counselling work. It
has become In recent years the
world’s greatest center for
studies on St. Joseph.
Yet, for all the work that Is
dona there, the oratory of Mount
Royal will remain a symbol of
one man’s faith, reflected In the
faith of millions of persons who
have come after him.
Millions
Andre’s
BY DENIS O’BRIEN
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
MONTREAL—He was a hum
ble lay brother who could hard
ly read or write, yet when he
died 27 years ago, 80,000 per
sons filed by his coffin In a final
act of reverence.
Today Brother Andre is being
considered in Rome as a pos
sible candidate for sainthood.
The shrine to St. Joseph he
founded in this city 60 years
ago now has an estimated three
million visitors each year,
guaranteeing that whether or not
he ever becomes a saint. Broth
er Andre will not be forgotten.
WHO WAS this man, called a
A VISUAL AID—The visual aid for a catechetical lesson
in the north Georgia mountain country is a pet, six-foot
bullsnake, held by Father Frank Ruff, Glenmary Home
Missioner, to illustrate an account of the temptation of
Adam and Eve. The fangless snake (bullsnakes don't bite:
they constrict) was a gift to the mission pastor, Father
Leonard Spanjers, at St. Luke's, Dahlonega, Ga., who is
chaplain to the nearby U. S. Ranger Camp. Father Ruff, his
assistant, found the snake a handy catechetical tool, and
the children seemed interested.
AM BLYTH LEAD
Next Stars Show
‘Sound Of Music’
Hollywood’s Ann Blyth will
star In Rodgers and Hammer-
stein's "The Sound of Music,"
the third presentation of the
1964 season for Atlanta’s Thea
ter Under the Stars. The de
lightful show plays at Chastain
Memorial Amphitheater July 28
■—August 2.
THE STORY of the famous
Trapp Family Singers, "Sound
of Music" has a village setting
In the Austrian Alps. Hit songs
include: "Climb Every Moun
tain," "Do-Re-Mi," "Sixteen
OPTIMIST CONTEST
Going On Seventeen" and "My
Favorite Things."
Miss Blyth brings her entire
company intact from sell-out
engagements In tent and outdoor
theaters In the north and mid
west. Broadway's Roger Frank
lin plays the principal male
role. And another Broadway
performer, Karen Sargent, who
plays the leading child role,
was much acclaimed In New
York as "Little Mary Sun
shine."
St. Pius Debater
Wins Scholarship
Thomas P, Nerney, a Jun
ior at St, Plus X High School
and member of the debate
team, was recently awarded
a $500 scholarship for win
ning first runner-up In the
national finals of the Inter
national Optimist Club
oratorical contest at Denver,
Colorado,
Thirty-eight finalists from
the United States and Canada
competed in the week - long
Denver event. Their topic was
Optimism: Formula for Free
dom,
PREVIOUS to his success at
Denver, Thomas had won In
competition at St, Plus X High
School; In the North Fulton
Optimist Club, Zone 9, At
lanta; and in District 21,
Georgia, held at Ida Cason
Callaway Gardens,
Thomas placed first in the
Southern Region, represent
ing the states of Georgia,
THOMAS NERNEY
Florida, Alabama, Miss
issippi, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee,
and South Carolina,
The young orator is the son
of Mr, and Mrs, Francis X.
Nerney, of 3157 Woodrow Way,
NE Atlanta. He is a member
of Our Lady of the Assump
tion parish.
REPAIRS POSTPONED
Plight Of Poor Put
Before Cathedral
LONDON (NC) — The authori
ties at Westminster cathedral
here are putting the plight of
underdeveloped nations before
the costly completion of the
cathedral,
’To press on with the work
of the decoration of the cathe
dral is a very understandable
ambition," said the cathedral
administrator, Msgr, George
Tcg$llnson, in the diocesan
Jotf***!, the Westminster
Cathedral Chronicle, "But I
have the feeling that at the pre
sent crisis in the development
of the human race it is time to
turn our minds to the plight
of men and women in the under
developed countries,
“I DON’T think that by doing
so we shall incur the rebuke
which Judas got. The alabaster
box of precious ointment has
been well and truly broken..,,
and we ought not to forget to
serve Christ in the starving
and the diseased,"
Westminster cathedral was
built just over 60 years ago
in early Byzantine style. It
has brick walla which over the
years are being slowly covered
with mosaic* and marble, This
work, still far from complete,
is expected to be postponed
for the present,
Altarian Party
St. Anthony’s Altar and Ro
sary Society In West End is
having a benefit dessert card
party, It will be held in the
Church Auditorium July 28, at
7:30 p.m. Many prizes will be
given away, Mrs, Kenneth
Barnes and Mrs, W, L, Lein-
miller are in charge of ar
rangements.
PART OF RACIAL VIEW
Blaming Poor For Poverty
Described As ‘Unworthy’
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. ^C)~
The idea that poverty is the
fault of the poor is "unwor
thy" of a Christian, the secre
tary of the National Conference
of Catholic Charities said here.
Much of the divided position
on the matter of racial equali
ty "ha* been fed by the convic
tion prevalent in some of our
people that the poor are poor
largely because they have con
tributed to their own condition,"
said Msgr, Raymond J, Gallag
her of Washington, D, C.
"LET ME plead with you,"
he urged delegates to the 30th
biennial national convention of
the Catholic Daughters of
America (July 20), "as Catholic
leaders from across this na
tion, to examine that frame of
mind and to reject It as being
unworthy of one whose relig
ious motif has been based on the
great commandments of the Law
—namely, to love our neighbor
as ourselves and to serve his
interests equally with our own."
Msgr, Gallagher called the
combined problem of poverty
and unemployment "the most
striking challenge which our
generation must face,"
GENERALLY, he said, the
factors that cause poverty have
never been under the control of
the poor themselves,
"They are individuals who
through no fault of their own,
at least not by their own de
sign, have become casualties In
a society that moved faster and
delved more deeply than most
of us could have prophesied a
few years ago," he said, ’They
are the aged and the very young
who are dependent because na
ture and time have made them
so,
THE CATHOLIC Charities
official said Americans today
are "on trial for the effective
ness of our political philosophy
of democracy, as well as upon
the effectiveness of our digni
ty as children of God."
Besides bigger budgets and
social welfare programs, he
said, "we need a renewal of our
attitudes" on the subject of pov
erty.
HE SAID it if a contradic
tion for a "profit-motivated
system" such as this country's
to tolerate the human waste In
volved In poverty and unemploy
ment, "In truth, we must re
view our entire set of values so
that the respect of the highest
values will be reflected In the
regard which Industry and so
ciety generally has for the in
dividual who was created to be
master of the system and not
Its victim," he declared,
Msgr, Gallagher calls for
more information on the prob
lem of poverty, action programs
to aid the poor at the parish
level, volunteer medical ser
vices, especially for the child
ren of the poor, and Improved
educational opportunities, in
cluding tutoring, "so that Illit
eracy will not be an obstacle to
these children In their struggle
for Independence and self-suf
ficiency,"
"WHETHER they be the poor,
the racial minority, the dere
lict, the inept, the seemingly
incompetent—they are never
theless bodies and souls creat
ed in the image and likeness
of God who cry out to you for a
helping hand," he declared,
‘They are Individuals who
had no way of prophesying the
arrival of this day, when a man
who is willing to work and has
both hands ready to serve you
is denied the opportunity be
cause a machine has taken his
place,"
STRESSING the vicious circle
aspect of poverty, he said it is
a special problem for the child
ren of the poor who have little
hope of breaking out of the pat
tern,
"It is particularly true that
this discouraging and hopeless
future faces the boys in our
Negro families more starkly
than anyone, else," he said,
'THEY SEE their fathers as
unemployed and without pros
pect because they have no trade
or skill, These school dropouts
are In precisely the same lim
ited condition as their fathers
but, worse luck, they must try
to make their way In an auto
mated society that is discharg
ing each week over 30,000 hand
workers,
"All of the wonderful assets
which automation and improved
working conditions can bring to
our society will be more than
balanced by the liability of this
social cancer," he said,
' NO MATTER whether we
NEW
ARRIVALS
Mr, Ik Mrs. George Burke
Rosemary Ann Hanna
2684 Forrest Way, N, E.
Christ The King
Boy 7/13
Mr, & Mrs. Joseph Nossek
Jean DeMarco
719 North Atlanta, apt D-4
St, Joseph’s (Marietta)
Girls 7/16
Mr, & Mrs, Robert Hayden
Marjorie Doran
515 Claire Dr„ N, E,
St, Thomas More
Girl 7/’7
Mr, & Mrs, Phil Harris
Cecelia Wrigley
3301 Roswell Rd„ N, E, Apt,
A. - 6
Christ The King
Boy 7/16
Mr, 8i Mr. Edwin Hay
San see Littmann
2937 Caldwell Rd, N. E„ Apt6
St Jude's
Girl 7/12
Mr, 8t Mrs, Edward Nachazel
Shirley Babel
620 Northway Lane, N.E,
Our Lady Of The Assumption
Girl 7/12
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are considering our Industrial,
economic, intellectual or so
cial life, the problem of pov
erty will inevitably influence
them all. The degree to which
we successfully solve tills tre
mendous challenge will in
fluence our future as a Chris
tian democracy and indeed our
future as a Church which wishes
to further the welfare of both
citizen and society,"
At another convention ses
sion, Msgr. John L. May of
Chicago, general secretary of
the Catholic Church Extension
Society, commended the Catho
lic Daughters of America for
their support of the Extension
program of home missionary
work.
'THROUGH their help in
great part," Msgr. May said,
"there are mission chapels to
day in Wyoming, Arizona, Okla
homa, Colorado, Texas, and a
mission school in North Caro
lina."
Stressing the "great home
mission needs here in our own
country," he said the Exten
sion Society has helped build
more than 7,000 small chur
ches in mission areas of Ameri
ca besides giving financial sup
port to many priests in such
areas and helping in the educa
tion of seminarians.
He also reported that the Ex
tension Lay Volunteers pro
gram which recruits laymen
for work in the home missions
will serve more than 100 mis
sions "from Utah to Puerto
Rico" this year and next.
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