The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 13, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 24, 1960 Page: 15 of 24
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(SUMMER SERIES)
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tor whatever you do)
and indicates that adolescence is
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saving mission activities .
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HE Youth Department of the Dio-
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Discover how God helps those who help Him...
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NAME
AGE.
ADDRESS
CITY, ZONE, STATE
July 24, 1960
OUR SUNDAY VISITOR 11
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steps
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If you are over 16, write to Victory Noll today to learn
more about this apostolate that offers you so much for
time and eternity . . . teaching religion to Catholic children
who attend public schools . . . visiting homes and winning
souls for Christ.
if you're a BAKER • MECHANIC . OFFICE WORKER
MACHINIST . PLUMBER • CARPENTER
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Directress of Vocations, Victory Noll, Huntington, Indiana
Please send me information about the life and work of
Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters.
SOMEBODY HAS TO
say play it cool, simply because
nurse,
publicist
APPEALS FOR
RELIGIOUS
VOCATIONS
to the Sisterhoods eppear
each week in this national
edition of OUR SUNDAY
VISITOR. Wise are the in-
terested young ladies who
write to these advertisers
for more detailed informa-
tion. Wise, also, are the Or-
ders of nuns who seek can-
didates through these col-
umns.
are you
really happy
OR IS
SOMETHING
MISSING?
Father Conroy
talks to parents
We need 50 Brothers today at
Boys Town of the Desert and
parishes in So. California.
Write to:
Brothers of Charity of the Immacu-
late Heart of Mary. Villa Maria, Ban-
ning, California.
Play it cool
*
.Zone State
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VOCATIC
S.Sp.S.
CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY
One of the by-products of this inter-
nal and uncertain situation is for the teen-
ager to look for company more on his
level—those of his own age and outlook,
if he can be said to have an outlook at this
time. For you see, among other things he
is also beginning to form his opinions and
convictions as he (or she) comes into ado-
lescence.
Thus the teenager takes up with the
gang. In it he finds a certain anonymity.
For the first time, perhaps, people aren’t
picking on him for his awkwardness or his
“crazy” opinions. In the gang he also finds
an inner confidence which he lacks other-
wise. There’s safety in numbers, and he’s
content for the time being to go along
with the gang.
It’s right here that trouble arises in
the family circle. Because of this intense
compulsion of the teenager to “gang up”
he regards anything or anyone who op-
poses it as a threat to his very existence.
He will become very determined in this
matter of choosing his friends. Without
them he’s lost. He’s got to have them.
PARENTS MUST GROW UP?
Strange to say, some parents become
jealous at a time like this. They regard
their teenager’s search for friends as a re-
jection of their parental affection and in-
terest.
They pout. They scold. They engage
in silly acts competing for the attention of
their sons and daughters. In short, they
clearly demonstrate to a growing teen-
aged youth that they haven’t grown up
either. Then the situation really becomes
impossible.
Other parents are unbending and
think this is the time to become strict-
stricter than they have ever been. Because
they have never allowed their children
to do any thinking for themselves, never
have sat and talked with them of their
problems at school, never taken time with
exception to hand out commands calcu-
somebody has to play it cool when a boy
or girl arrives at adolescence. If you think
this is a difficult time for you as parents,
then you must understand that it is even
more difficult for the adolescent youth
themselves.
The growing boy or girl—that’s what
“adolescent” means—is passing a stage of
comparative internal security to one in
which there is little or no security. Strange
and new emotions are on the rise. Passions
are born. Consciousness of one’s self—or
call it just plain “self-consciousness”—
comes into the picture.
ALL FEET
Physical growth doesn’t help things
either. Boys and girls alike have a tenden-
cy to become all arms and legs—although
you can add “all feet” with the boys. With
the resultant awkwardness comes a ten-
dency to withdraw from the ordinary con-
fidences which these growing boys and
girls have tended to place in you as their
parents. They find a need to sit back and
look their lives over, mentally, spiritually
and physically. They have to ascertain for
the first time just who and what they
are.
HE parents who do not have to
worry about the companionship of their
teenaged sons and daughters are for-
tunate indeed. As a matter of fact I do
not know too many such parents. Practi-
cally every home has this problem to a
greater or lesser degree. And it’s almost
always complicated by the familiar, “Well
how long are you going to treat me like
a little baby. I’m old enough to choose my
own friends. You just don’t trust me, that’s
it!”
Does that sound familiar?
The basic rule I would suggest to par-
ents when this problem arises is—in the
language of the teenagers themselves—
play it cool. This is no time for panic,
hysteria or stupid pride. Parents must re-
alize that “ganging up” is only a prelude
to growing up. It’s one of the inevitable
Be a Missionary Sister
YOUR talents are needed in vital soul-
as a teacher,
social-worker,
>t and in a
late Concep-
tion in Wash-
ington. '
The group leaves Fort Wayne, Indi-
ana, on August 13th to be in Washington
for the Feast of the Assumption on Au-
’ gust 15th. After that it’s New York and
other places of interest in the East.
Father Eugene Zimmerman, Youth
Director for the Diocese of Fort Wayne,
will accompany the trip. He tells me that
once again he is throwing this Diocesan
pilgrimage open to any Catholic young
adult (out of high school and unmarried)
, who wants to go along.
Only a few reservations are left, so
if you want to make a fine summer trip
with excellent Catholic company contact
the Travel Department of Our Sunday
Visitor immediately. Price of the full
week’s trip $180.
You can find real happiness in dedicating your talents to the Sacred
Heart by becoming a Sacred Heart Brotherl You'll serve in our
American or foreign missions. Want more information? Then write:
Father Superior, Sacred Heart Novitiate, Ste. Marie 1, III.
*Do you have a delayed vocation for the Priesthood?
Write: Father Superior, Dehon Seminary, Great Barrington 1, Mass.
AIATA) is the time to get
rvW timely information about
religious vocations . .
My
_ Who can be a Missionary Sister ?
tion with a
purpose” pil-
grimage to the
newly erected
National
Shrine of the
I m m a c u -
Brothers of Holy Cross
Young men interested in
the religious life can en-
gage in many activities:
teaching, foreign mis-
sions, working with un-
der-privileged boys, cook-
ing, office work, trades,
printing, etc. as a Broth-
er of Holy Cross. For
information and literature write to:
BROTHER EYMARD C.S.C.
212 Dujarie Hall Notre Dame, Indiana
lated to bring immediate peace and quiet
in the house, they imagine they can handle
this situation in the same way.
THERE’S WAR
So it’s “You stop running with .that
crowd—” just like that. And when Johnny
or Mary don’t stop just like that, there’s
war around the premises.
Little do such parents realize the
forces which are at work within the heart
and soul of their growing youngsters—
forces over which they (the teenaged
youth) have .little control and which they
did not call into being.
This is a situation fraught with dan-
ger for all concerned. It can lead to bitter-
ness, suspicion and—on the part of the
teenager—lack of respect for parents at a
time when they need them most.
In my talks to young people I fre-
quently chide them about always “want-
ing to be understood.” I suggest to them
that they themselves try to do a little
“understanding.” This won’t hurt them
and, it is hoped, will take a little selfish-
ness out of their lives.
But for the most part, since they don’t
understand themselves, they will need a
great deal of help from their parents.
ANYONE ANYTIME
Then there are parents who go to the
opposite extremes as represented by the
two previous attitudes. They trust their
children with anyone at any time. They
resent any implication that their children
haven’t enough sense to choose the right
friends and do the right thing when they
are out with these friends. They look with
sympathy and a certain amount of conde-
scension on other parents who are sin-
cerely concerned about this matter of ado-
lescent friendships.
The results of this kind of parental
-attitude are only too well known to teach-
ers, juvenile officials, social workers and
all others who must deal with children
who are left too much with their own judg-
ment in such matters.
What is basically required of all par-
ents when the so-called “herd instinct”
begins to set in is the calm acceptance of
the fact that it is inevitable. This should
result in an effort to direct this tendency
along the proper lines.
IN THE MIDDLE
But I do say that a certain amount
of realism is indispensable. There is far
too much tendency not to recognize the
situation or if not that, to brush it aside
altogether.
Somewhere in the middle lies the so-
lution. The more the parents can avoid the
extremes the better they will handle the
matter. As a matter of fact this principle
should be used in dealing with all prob-
lems which/arise among those who are
given to extremes—namely our adoles-
cents.
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here in the United
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women and girls of
high school age de-
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extend God’s Kingdom through the use of
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and education and enclose a snapshot of
vourself Address: Vocation Office
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Francis, Dale. The Lone Star Catholic (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 13, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 24, 1960, newspaper, July 24, 1960; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1528576/m1/15/?q=a+message+about+food+from+the+president: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting St. Edward’s University.