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PAGE 6 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 F.H.A. T#rm* N. Atlanta Conitr. Co. 231*1514 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 -a 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. ni.Terence 0 Brien KNOWS LIFE INSURANCE Suit# 715 270 Pchtr Bldg. N.W. Atl,,Ca. 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