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DECEMBER, 1952
THE JEFFERSON IAN
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Christ's Body
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Blood, you shall not have lite in
you. He who eats My flesh and
drinks My blood has life ever-
lasting and I will raise him up
on the last day. For my flesh is
food indeed, and my blood is
drink indeed. He who eats my
flesh and drinks my blood,
abides in me and I "in him.'
"Could Our Lord have spoken
in words more plain? Could He
possibly have expressed Himself
in words any clearer than these?
The Bible tells us that to the
objection that NO MAN could
give his flesh to eat Our Blessed
Lord replied that unless men ate
of His flesh and drank of His
blood, that they would not have
eternal life. The reward for
eating His flesh and His blood,
Our Lord said, would be that on
the last day He would raise to
eternal life tfiose who did. He
called His flesh 'food' and His
blood 'drink.'
WHAT COULD BE PLAINER
"What could be plainer, Cou-
sin Sophia?," said Father Paul.
"When Our Lord replied to the
objection that NO man could
give his fleBh to eat with the
statement that 'except you eat
the flesh of the Son of Man and
drink His 'blood, you shall NOT
have life in you,' He made His
intention so clear that there is
no reason for a single human
being to have any doubts about
It.
SOME WALKED OUT
"Do you know, Cousin Sophia,
what happened next? Some of the
people thought it was revolting
to their intelligence for them to
believe or even listen to this
claim that you had to eat real
flesh. These people were some
of Christ's own disciples, who
are referred to as the unbeliev-
ing disciples because they would
not believe in Christ. To their
minds Our Lord's plain intention
to give a bread which would be
His real flesh for people to eat
was a 'hard statement.' The
Idea that you HAD to eat of this
flesh and drink of this blood to
have spiritual life eternal was
just simply too much for them.
They wanted to interpret for
themselves and hence decide for
themselves just what they would
believe. They didn't want Christ
to impose any dogmas on them,
especially such a 'hard state-
ment' as His declaration that He
would give a bread which would
be His very flesh for men to eat.
That was too much for them. It
was the straw that broke the
camel's back, so to speak. So
they got up and walked out.
CHRIST DOESN'T FORCE US
"Jesus let them go. Naturally
He doesn't force us to accept the
♦rue religion or force us to c
cept this or any other truth
which He taught. But, of course,
if we deliberately reject it with
full knowledge that we are wrong
just for some temporary good,
then we can't expect any favor-
able sentence from our Judge at
death. These unfaithful disciples
left Jebus, and Me didn't tell
them to come back. He didn't
tell them that He had been mis-
understood, that they were wrong
m thinking that He really meani
the words, 'Except you eat the
flesh of the Son of Man and
drink His blood, you shall not
have life in you.' He didn't call
them back and tell them that He
didn't mean that His flesh would
be real food or His blood real
drink but that people were to
just pretend that they were. Je-
sus let those who thought It was
too much to believe that God
could turn bread into His (Body
walk out on Him.
APOSTLES COULD GO TOO
"Our Lord, Cousin Sophia,
made certain that no one would
have reasonable cause to misun-
derstand such a n important
teaching of His. Not only did
He let these men and women who
thought it was a hard saying for
Him to give His real flesh fake
a walk but He Invited His own
Apostles, His very closest
friends, to go too If they had the
same ideas as the unfaithful dis-
ciples. Jesus said to the Apos-
tles, 'Do you also wish to go
away?' In other words, 'I am not
going to make you believe what
the others say Is a hard saying.
If you think I can't fulfill My
promise to give a bread which will
be My real Body, My real flesh
and blood, if you think I can't
establish it as a necessary con-
dition for Heaven for men to
partake of this Sacred Commun-
ion, or if you think It wrong for
Me to exclude from Heaven all
'hose who deliberately refuse
eat My fl>tph and drink MJ
blood, then you may go away
with the rest.'
"The Apostles didn't walk out.
They stayed with Christ, and
St. Peter, singled out by Our
Lord for a special office, spoke
for the other Apostles when he
told Christ 'Lord, to whom shall
we go? Thou hast words of ever-
lasting life, and we hare come
to believe and to know that
thou art the Christ, the Son Of
God'."
(Continued on Page Four)
Tom Gorman
(Continued From Page One)
Gorman's advice to youngsters
struggling to get to the top is
this:
"Do not be a wise guy. Be a
good listener and above all have
faith in prayer and you cannot
fail."
Pitcher Thomas Aloysius Gor-
man was called up to the New
York Yankees from their Kansas
City farm recently. His interest-
ing story was reported in the
July 26, 1952, NEW YORK
CATHOLIC NEWS.
A Church, Cemetery, Properties, Improvements
$48,123.77 Spent Promoted Welfare
Of Jefferson and Daingerfield Churches
The Bankruptcy
Of Reason
—BISHOP GORMAN—
The bankruptcy of reason,
against which you have been
forearmed, leads to many evils.
Disregard for truth is, of course,
among the first and most evi-
dent. Most blatantly does it
find expression in the all too
prevalent and systematized skull-
duggery of the weasel word.
Who has not noticed this rep-
rehensible, irrational practice?
Its adepts take a well known
word, empty it of its traditional,
accepted, familiar and esteemed
meaning and endow it, too of-
ten for purposes of propaganda
and deception, with an entirely
new, cryptic meaning. The un-
initiated, the unwary, the naive
and the ignorant, hearing or
| reading a familiar term, accept
it at face value, only to be de-
ceived, for the adepts mean
something entirely different.
Were this practice mere care-
lessness, its dangers would be
many and great, but when, as
is the case, it is deliberate and
intended to deceive and mis-
lead, it becomes a positive men-
ace to truth. Only constant vig-
ilance and relentless exposure of
this "skullduggery of the wea-
sel word" by those equipped as
you are to discover and reveal
its falsehood can protect the
people from danger and prevent
the destruction of reason.—
Bishop Thomas K. Gorman of
Dallas, speaking to the grad-
uates of St. Edward's University,
Austin.
$48,123.77 is a lot of money.
This is the sum invested in bene-
fits for the two churches which
were the object of his solicitude
during the editor's pastoral ad-
ministration.
$32,998.10 went for the new
Church of Our Lady of Fatima at
Daingerfield, three properties,
Daingerfield church and ceme-
tery tracts and the Hughes Springs
site, and furnishings in the chapel
and improvements on the ceme-
tery.
In its four years of broadcast-
ing the faith THE JEFFERSON-
IAN spent $8,566.39—an invest-
ment from which there is little
material recompense. The bene-
fits, however, to the Church in
the area in placing about 5,000
persons in contact with the Cath-
olic faith are possibly the great-
est fruits from the expenditure
of any of the $48,123.77. Instruc-
tion received can never be lost.
The benefits which the $8,566.39
bfroug^t to the {Jefferson and
Daingerfield congregations are of
ABSTINENCEFROM
WHISKEY IS GOOD
Brooklyn, N. Y.—In its May
10, 1952, issue, THE TABLET,
organ of the Catholic Church of
Brooklyn, cited a case of what
abuse of drink can cause. A
young man spent all the money
he should have had for his fam-
ily, and, being broke as well as
drunk, committed a robbery,
threw a piece of concrete at the
man in whose home he entered
and killed the man.
Said THE TABLET: "The
score: several or more drinks
bringing intoxication plus the
need for wasted money equals
a woman widowed, four chil-
dren orphaned, and another wife
and two children losing a hus-
band and father who is sent to
prison for forty-five years."
Concluded THE TABLET:
"Perhaps colleges, high schools,
churches and other organizations
should more strongly and fre-
quently counsel youth against
the excessive use of alcoholic
drink. And assuredly it is not
out of place to hold up the ideal
of abstinence from strong drink
in honor of the Sacred Thirst of
Our Savior, in order to make
reparation for the crimes, the
scandals, the sin, the misery and
the broken bodies of men and
women caused by the abuse of
intoxicating liquor.
A VOICE UNHEARD
New York.—A bishop of the
Catholic Church who was beaten
and kicked on the streets and
who has died in China as a re-
sult of Red persecution, Bishop
Francis Ford, as late as 1950
placed the blame for this tragedy
on the policies of American and
other leaders. He spoke these
words:
"Ten years of aggression from
without could have been slowly
repaired, but the rash Allied be-
trayal of the recognized govern-
ment at Yalta, which resulted
in recruiting and arming a hith
erto insignificant horde of
Communists, suddenly presented
China with a formidable enemy
within the country. Thus were
Communists in China, formerly,
discredited as a band of moun-
tain outlaws, baptized into re-
spectability. The moral effect on
a friendly nation was disastrous."
priceless type. Even if all the
money in the world had been
spent, it would be as nothing
compared to the spiritual fruit
harvested.
In the operation of Immaculate
Conception Church, Jefferson, its
rectory and Our Lady of Fatima
Church, Daingerfield during the
15 month pastorate $6,059.28 was
spent. This included payment of
debts on rectory furnishings and
the chapel.
A sum of $500 raised by Rev.
John O'Rourke was presented to
the Jefferson congregation as a
gift and with it two floor fur-
naces were installed in Immacu-
late Conception Church.
The expenditures totaled $48,-
123.77. Of this amount $6,059.28
came from the parish. $37,915.66
was raised by Fr. O'Rourke, and
$4,148.83 is left as a debt on Our
Lady of Fatima Church and Ce-
metery. There is no debt at Jef-
ferson but a surplus of $1,285.46,
cash $727.46 of this being pew
fund.
JEFFERSONIAH WON PRAISE
Mexico's Love For
Our Lady Is Told
In Lions Magazine
Chicago — "Since the begin-
ning of her life in the world's
history Mexico as a nation haa
been sheltered by the blessed
Hill of Tepeyac. This is the hill
where legend says the Virgin
Mary appeared to Juan Diego, a
humble native, and there left as
a symbol of her love her image
miraculously stamped upon his
cloak."
Describing in this way the
close association of the Blessed
Virgin and the Mexican people,
writer Emelio de la Garza in an
article in the June LION has
told U. S. Lions Club members
how the appearance of the Vir-
gin of Guadalupe marked the
end of the epoch' of human sacri-
fices and the beginning of a
policy "/Inspired by the Chris-
tian doctrines of practicing love
of neighbor for the love of
God, and equality of all men
without distinction of race or
color."
Author de la Garza says:
"In the modern Mexican pe-
riod, to the Mexico of today,
that historic event may be said
to be the synthesis of Mexico's
national existence: from the
time when the IDlessed Virgin's
Image served as a banner for
Father Hidalgo's legions during
the Mexican War of Independ-
ence, until today when all
Mexicans including laborers,
farmers, business men and pro-
fessionals carry an altar in
their hearts for the ' Morenita
del Tepeyac'—the Blessed Vir-
gin in her advocation of Guada-
lupe. In truth or jest, many
countries may be said to be
"God's Country;" to this claim
merely Mexico does not aspire,
for Mexicans also pride them-
selves in their nation being
"The land of the Blessed Virgin
Mary."
An Obsolete Case
Montevideo, Uruguay—The old
dilemma where either the moth-
er or child must die no longer
exists for modern gynecologists,
Dr. Jose Escardo has declared
here.
India's Bishops
Back Rhythm Move
Washington — The Catholic
Bishops of India are not opposed
to the present experimental stud-
ies on rhythm-method family
planning being carried on in In-
dia, native Indian Archbishop
Fernandes' of Delhi has asserted
here. The studies, he Bald, do
not conflict with Catholic doc
trine. If they are successful,
the prelate believes artificial
birth control will get no hold on
India.
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Jeff Report
$5,643.05 Is
Sum Readers
Gave Project
THE JEFFERSONIAN, mis-
sionary paper published the last
four years, releases the following
report of interest to its readers.
Total bill for the paper during
its four year existence is $8,-
566.39. Of this sum $5,643.05 was
contributed by the readers of
the paper, $2,538.29 by Rev. John
G. O'Rourke from his personal
funds and $385.05 from the
Hughes Springs Mission Building
Fund. For the latter fund THE
JEFFERSONIAN raised a total in
cash of $27,401.84, the paper be-
ing responsible for the most part
in the success of Our Lady of
Fatima Church.
Special Note: The editor of
this paper never cared to have
the extent of his personal alms
to this paper published. How-
ever, circumstances require
him to forego his desire for
anonymity to make the re-
port complete.
The following year-by-year re-
port is released.
Sept. 1948 to Sept. 1949
Total funds expended . $1,132.05
Raised by readers 1,119.95
Given by Rev.
J. O'Rourke 12.10
Parish funds used. None
Cost of printing at
$63.97 per month 767.74
Office, census, etc. 214.95
Spent on the Jefferson
parish 96.36
Miscellaneous 53.00
Sept. 1949 to Sept. 1950
Total funds expended $1,568.83
Given by readers 1,007.14
Given by Rev.
John O'Rourke 450.00
Given by H. S. M. B. F. 111.69
Parish funds used None
Cost of printing paper at
$109.61 per month 1,315.43
Office, census, miscel-
laneous .... 221.95
Spent on the Jefferson
parish 31.45
Sept. 1950 to Sept. 1951
Total funds expended .. $2,975.78
Given by readers 2,023.40
Given by Rev.
John O'Rourke 779.02
Given by H. S. M. B. F. 173.36
Parish funds used None:
Cost of printing paper at
$196.11 per month. 2,353.37
Office, photographic
equipment 622.41
Sept. 1951 to Sept. 1952
Total funds expended . $2,889.73
Total alms given by
readers 1,492.56
Given by Fr. O'R 1,297.17
Given by H. S. M. B. F. 100.00
Parish funds used None
Cost of printing paper at
$178.78 per month 2,145.38
Office, photo supplies,
appeals for chapel ,etc. 744.35
BISHOP SHEEN
WAS CENSORED
Fort Worth—The power Com-
munists and lovers of Russia
achieved in a recent era was re-
called here Nov. 1 by Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen.
About U. S. Communism Bishop
Sheen said: "I talked about it
when there was someone in the
radio booth ready to cut me off
if I said anything against Rus-
sia."
Communism is not something
Russian, the famous orator said,
but had its birth in German ra-
tionalism. U. S. opposition to
Communism, the Bishop said, it
for the wrong reasons. It does
not condemn Communism as in-
trinsically evil in itself, he de-
clared.
His Excellency, the Most Rev.
Thomas Kiely Gorman, shown
with the official document from
Pius, Bishop, Servant, etc., ap-
pointing him Coadjutor Bishop of
Dallas, expressed himself on sev-
eral occasions in admiration of
the little missionary paper in the
East Texas part of his diocese
which blazed a trail for the much-
needed diocesan paper. The Bish-
op, editor of THE LOS AN-
GELES TIDINGS when appoint-
ed Bishop of Reno, Nev., in 1931
and founder of THE RENO REG-
ISTER and THE TEXAS CATH-
OLIC, is chairman of the Catholic
Press in the United States and
in that capacity supervises a news
service distributing news to 437
Catholic newspapers and maga-
zines in our country as well as
journals in 43 lands across the
seas.
In a • letter, Bishop Lynch's
eventual successor declared he
"admired very much" THE JEF-
FERSONIAN'S effort to spread
the faith and took note of the
paper's contribution as being
"very helpful ... in building
up your mission." Bishop Gor-
mari described himself as "par-
ticularly interested" in the apol-
ogetical note of the paper, add-
ing: "I think you have quite an
idea there."
Declared His Excellency in his
letter:
"I have read and admired your
effort very much. I am sure this
venture has been very helpful
to you in building up your mis-
sion. I am particularly interested
in the way you introduce an
apologetical note by way of ex-
planation of the difficult terms
that appear in the stories you
write. I think you have quite an
idea there."
This comment from one of the
most experienced and capable
Catholic journalists in the United
States, the approbation and en-
couragement given by Bishop
Lynch, the blessing of the Holy
Father at Rome, the kind ex-
pressions from leading Protes-
tants in the area of the paper's
circulation, the generous backing
of Catholic readers, both in Jef-
ferson and elsewhere, plus the
wonderful knowledge that $27,-
401.48 was raised fot a chapel for
Our Blessed Lady of Fatima as
well as the realization that of
86,000 copies printed over 43,000 .
carried instruction to some four
or five thousand people not hav-
ing previous contact with the
Church Catholic (of a nature that
cannot be valued in dollars spent)
—all this makes for pleasant
memories and eases that natural,
human sorrow which even pro-;
motion to a broader field cannot
lessen in having to sever ties that
had grown so dear.
—Photo Courtesy of The
Dallas Morning News.
In a history of President
Woodrow Wilson, a biographer
tells a story concerning Mr. Wil-
son's father who was pastor of
a Presbyterian church in Augus-
ta, Ga.
One of his parishioners saw
the pastor driving through the
city behind his gray mt.re, fat
and sleek. Doctor Wilson was
wearing an old alpaca coat.
"Doctor," said the observing
member, "your horse looks better
groomed than yourself." "Yes,"
replied Doctor Wilson, "I take
care of my horse. My congrega-
tion takes care of me."
Archbishop Louis Mathlas of
Madras, India has said wisely
that "It is not family planning,
especially as advocated by birth-
controllers, that will save Ind|&
from Its economic anguish, but
agricultural and Industrial plan-
ing."
Cemetery Road
Left to Rev.
Father Meyer
Arrangements had been com-
pleted with the City of Dainger-
field and a survey had been
made at the request of the pastor
of Our Lady of Fatima Church
when he was changed to Dallas
for a road leading down into and
through the new Our Lady of
Fatima Cemetery.
The project has now been
turned over to Rev. Father L. L.
Meyer, the new pastor, who will
see that the road is put in with-
out delay.
METHODIST FOUNDER
CELEBRATED 5 TIMES
A WEEK AS CE PADRE
Cambridge, Mass. — Rev. John
Wesley, who founded the Metho-
dist Church In 1739, aB an or-
dained padre of the Protestant
Church of England and later In
his new religion, celebrated "not
less than 5 times a week" the re-
ligious rite which the Establish-
ed Church modeled on the
Catholic Mass, and which many
of Its members believe to be
the same. This information Is
contained In a review of Wes-
ley's life In OOIWLBY, Episcopal
magazine, published here by a
group of monks of the Anglican
Church. Tho review does not
state that Wesley regarded him-
self as possessing power to
consecrate the real Body and
Blood of Christ, a belief rejected
by present day members of his
church.
At the end of the American
.Revolution, the review states,
American Methodists "appealed
ARGUMENT OF TOO
MANY KIDS CRAZY
Washington. — Statistics pub-
lished here by the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture show how
crazy is the argument that the
world is getting too many people.
According to Dr. Salter, de-
partment soil expert, "at present
only 7 to 10 per cent of the total
world land area is cultivated";
52 per cent of the land of the
world can be plowed. Of this,
one-fifth is now used after all
these years during which GOD
HAS CREATED many people.
Four-fifths of this tillable soil
remains for those whom God
will create in the future.
to John Wesley to send them
priests in the Apostolic Succes-
sion who could give them the
Blessed Sacrament." Wesley ap-
pointed a Dr. Coke to be Super-
intendent of the U. S. Methodist
Church. Coke went to England
In search of consecration from
a bishop of the Episcopal
Church. The request was refus-
ed. Returning to the U. S. un-
consecrated. he found U. 8.
Methodists unwilling to wait
longer for the Eucharist. Ac-
cordingly In 1784 the Societies
formed themselves Into a church
and Coke was declared to be a
bishop by virtue of Wesley's
formal commission.
Comment: Biggest obstacle to
current reunion talk ot the
Methodist and Episcopal Chur-
cnes Is the Episcopal request
that all Methodist ministers be
ordained by Episcopal bishops.
Since Dr. Coke was never conse-
crated, they feel that the Metho-
dist Church has lost Apostolic
Succession. The biggest obstacle
to the reunion of both to the
Mother Catholic Church is that
neither likes to admit that both
have as a matter of fact, lost
Apostolic Succession.
MANY CATHOLICS ARE
AGAINST ABERRATION
New York—"Many American
Catholics object to restrictions
on Protestants In Catholic
Spain," James M. O'Neill, noted
Catholic author, says In his new
book, "CATHOLICISM . AND
AMERICAN F1RI0BDOM." Prac-
tices similar to those of the
Spanish are not found In other
Catholic countries, like Belgium
and Ireland, he points out.
COMMENT: Some Catholics
believe that some Spanish Catho-
lic leaders are guilty of an
aberration or departure from
Catholic Church policy which
does not favor persecution of
Protestants. They wish that
Spain would let those 20,00©
Protestants put out those Signs
they want in front of their chur-
ches at^d let them preach In
poblle If they like. If riot* brafl
out after a preacher runs down
the IBlessed Virgin Mary, these
Catholics feel It Is better to
have the Inevitable riots, self-
provoked, than to have Spain
denying freedom to protester!-of
the Catholic religion.
At any rate why not take
Catholic Ireland, which elected a
Protestant its first president and
pays for Protestant schools, as
a model Instead of Spain? There
yon will see a case of Catholic
policy without aberration.
A Mexican Schism
The Mexican Catholic Church,
started In 1IS7 by the Govern-
ment of Mexico, sought and ob-
tained an Episcopal bishop from
ths U. 8. in 1879, Henry Chaw
cy Riley. He resigned 6 yean
later. The group, numbering
about I MO people eat of M.000.-
000 Is still today under the mi
tie of the Episcopal Church.
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