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MARCH, 1951
THE JEFFERSONIAN
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WONT YOU HELP US COMPLETE SHRINE?
$228 GIVEN BY 18 FRIENDS OF OUR LADY;
ALMOST $3000 MUST YET BE RAISED IF WE
ARE GOING TO COMPLETE WHAT IS STARTED
Wisdom From
Pres. Roosevelt
CATHOLIC PRIEST IN CONGRESS
"The greatest of all curses Is
the curse of sterility. The first
essential in any civilization is
that the man and the woman
shall be the father and the moth-
er of healthy children, so that
the race shall increase and not
decrease'." — the late Theodore
Roosevelt. President of the Uni-
ted States.
No One Can
Kill Our Faith
—Archbishop Cushing—
"While even in our day agents
of Caesar lay hands upon Christ
in His Church, bruise, crucify,
and proclaim Him dead, in the
end in His Mystical Body, the
Church, just as on Calvary,
Christ still has His Father in
God. Mary by His cross, and al-
so the Beloved Disciple, the type
of the faithful priest, and the
brave women, the type of the
laity—all these and the certainty
of resurrection, of victory, and
of undying life." — Archbishop
Richard ,T. Cushing of Boston,
speaking to 6,000 International
Catholic Youth Pilgrims at a
torchlight way of the Cross In
Rome's Coliseum, scene of the
niartydom of so many for the
faith.
Compared to $503 reported as
contributed to Our Lady of Fa-
tlma Chapel In the Feb. JEFF-
ERSONIAN, during the month
just past the sum of $228 was
presented to Our Lady by 18
friends of the mission chapel
dedicated to her. Through the
kind generosity of our 18 friends
another nice slice has been tal;
en out of the $3500 goal which the
Jan. J EFFERSONIAN stated
wou'd bo absolutely necessary If
the sacristy and priest's room
unit of our chapel (shown in the
drawing on page 1 this issue) is
til be completed. With the con-
tribution of the $228 the fund
desperately needed within the
next 3 months to finish the
building has now been whittled
down to $2779.
With the contribution of $731
during the past 2 months by 45
friends of our mission the over-
One of two Catholic priests in the Hall of great Americans In
the Congress building of the United States, Jesuit Father Marquette
has as his companion above the late Will Rogers, Oklahoma hu-
rnoi ist. Put in Congress by Wisconsin, Father Marquette is the
dlscoveier of the Mississippi River. His presence in Congress with
California's greqt Father Serra, currently a candidate for sainthood,
is an indication of the love for America that Roman Catholie-
Bieho; s, priests, nuns and laity have shared with their brethren of
other laiths. JEFFBRSONIAN staff photo.
WRITTEN BEHIND PRISON *3AR8
HAVING LOST ALL THINGS, JAIL CONVERT
GAINS ALL THINGS DY BECOMING CATHOLIC
(Editor's note: St. Paul, that
great Apostle of the. Christian
Church which was first called
Catholic shortly after his death,
once summed up the Catholic
fuith as follows: "Having noth-
ing, yet possessing all things."
For John L. Crow, a prisoner be-
hind bars somewhere In this
stute of Texas and author of this
26th in a series of articles by
converts to the Catholic Church,
the words of the great convert
Paul have deep personal mean-
ing. In a prison cell through cir-
cumstances which he and his
friends feel made him an inno-
cent victim, Mr. Crow has had
much time to read the Bible and
has found therein tKe ancient
faith and later admission into the
ed instruction in the Catholic
faith and laer admission Into the
Catholic fold. As his story indi-
cates. he Is not ashamed of two
things: (1) the fact that he has
become a Catholic and (2) the
fact that cruel fate has placed
him behind bars. Because ne is
not ashamed of either ina he
lias no feasor to be — (being
a Catholic Is always a source of
joy and bpinv ''i prison u->e«i not
always mean one is a criniincl)
— John wcukl Ilk* to U t the
world knowv ftyp 1U H
found in T&' Catholic 'faith.
Hence he did not object to the
publication of his name with hit
story. And to lih credit we here
reveal that he wae rh« :-Hw.hu
wha made tha' rtovenaa to the
groat BVm for the success of
our money raising for her mis-
sion shrine. We are svre ih'ut
Our Lady heard his prayer*. As
we usually publish the convert'*
address with his story so that
anyone, friend or foe, can write
him if they wish, we wltm .o
state here that John Crow car.
>e renehed by writing to hlid
c/o 505 Main St., Dallas, Texas,
.us siory iouows.
GRANDFATHER A CATHOLIC
I never had much of a chanci
to go to Sunday School or to
church when I was a boy. I had
to stay with my grandparents all
the time. My grandfather was
Catholic, but he never went to
church. W'hy he didn't I don't
know. But I do remember when
he died, he called for the priest
to come to him. Vaguely I rem-
member a lighted candle, the
priest kneeling by the bedside n
my dying grandfather, saylnv
; some prayers, etc.
! NOT TAUGHT MUCH FAITH
| When my granddad died, my
I grandmother moved to Iowa with
her daughter, my mother. 1 still
didn't get to go to church .1 was
never taught nothing about God,
except that there was a God, a
devil, a Heaven and a Hell. My
■eople always called Catholics
"cat-likers." I didn't know what
they meant by that but I knew
it was not a term of endearment.
When I went to Iowa, I got to
see some Sislers on the streets
and in hospitals and priests in
the hospitals. The Sisters and
priests reminded me always of
some of the pictures I had seen
f Blessed Mary and of Jesus
>n account of the clothing they
wore—the log robes. I used to
ask my mother a question now
and then about them. I don't
remember her answers now, but
I do know she was against the
Catholic Church. As I grew older
I used to think a lot about the
Catholic Church and at times 1
wanted to ta|k about It. Mother
used to laugh and ask me If 1
To our readers:
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ Is (he greatest feast
day In the liturgy of the Catholic Church. By risina from the
dead Our Lord proved beyond all doubt His Divinity. -Only
God could raise Himself from the tomb. This Jesus did that
First Easter Sunday.
By the time this issue of THE JEFFERSONIAN reaches
our renders the feast ,#f the Resurrection will be at hand. We
take this oppetlunftj^te wish you all a blessed and glorious
Raster. Whilst we reminisce this Easter Sunday of our privilege
last Easter of celebrating Holy Mass at the very torob where
the Resurrection took place, we Will la our Mass thla Easter
morn ask Our Risen Lord to Mess all who read these lines.
Father John O'Rourke
wis thinking' of joining the "cat-
llkers-"
MOTHER CALLED PRIEST
But about a year or so before
Mother died, a victim of cancer,
I noticed a change come over
her. A few months before she
died my mother asked me to cull
a priest and ask him to come
and talk to her. So I did. The
priest came that very evening to
talk with Mother. A few days
later she was baptized into the
Catholic Church. When Mother
was dying, some Catholic frieifds
of ours fixed a table with a
white cloth and everything. I
watched as the prieBt anointed
my mother with oil, not under-
standing at the time that it was
the Sacrament of the dying call
ed Extreme Unction. In the
Bible It says: ''Is any man sick
among you? If so, let him call In
the priests of the Church and
they will anoint the sick 'man
with oil, and if he be In sins,
they shall be forgiven hltn."
(St. James epistle.)
A BEAUTIFIUL DEATH
•
When Father came, thes*
people met him at the door with
a lighted candle. As be entered
the room, they all bent theli
knees. Later I was to under
stand the reason. They were
genuflecting to the Blessed Sac
rament which Father was carry
Ing. It was to be my dear Moth-
er's last Communion. What a
beautiful way to die! How good
Clod was to her, for she at one
'ime hated the Catholic Church.
At death what she once rldlcu!
id gave her a look of peace tha'
I have never seen before nor
since.
With Mother's death and that
of my wife who went before her
I was left quite alone in the
world All 1 had left was my
daughter. Now I see that Gid
took away from me all things In
order to show me that I mus'
love Him more .than anyone else,
in order to show me that Hf
was wanting me to come to Hlir
He had to place me behind bars
God has strange ways of work
Ing but he usually gets what
he wants.
BAPTIZED CHILO CATHOLIC
When my wife died, bitterness
filled my soul. I v turned to ex-
cessive drinking but finally
gave it up. Because I was run-
ning away from God 1 had tried
to drown myself la drink. When
t stopped running, I goto it up.
1 had tfeo child to think of. In
accordMco with tha wis* of try
(Continued on age 11, col. 6
all, final objective of $5,000 —
an amount necessary to pay for
pews and other furnishings —
has been whittled down to $1269.
But during the next three
months of construction what
THE JEFFERSONIAN will con-
centrate on mainly Is the $2779
absolutely needed to put up the
building.
Permission has been obtained
from the Blsliop to borrow the
sum of $4000 needed to complete
the chapel. In other words ac-
tual cash needed to pay for the
structure In full is $6779. Bu,t of
this sum $1000 may be borrowed
and will 'be paid by the parish-
loners of our Lady of Fatlmu
Mission. Since the 35 Catholics
in the mission are concentrating
now on a fund to enable them to
meet their first year's payment
oil their note, they must ask for
help from outsiders interested in
seeing that Our Lord has a
beautiful home In our mission
area.
For the $2779 THE JEFFER-
SONIAN must by means of the
desperate headline above appeal
to the generosity and interest
of our Catholic readers. We do
not ask our Protestant friends
for an alms, 'but no unsolicited
help is turned away either.
"WON'T YOU HELP US COM-
PLETE SHRINE?" Is indeed a
begging headline. But we ( a r o
begging for the Blessed Mother
of God, and so we have not
minded asking people tor money
for a chapel to be dedicated to
her. For THE JEFFERSONIAN
it has been a privilege to beg
alms for Out- Lady, and' we are
sure that through her Interces-
sion in Heave' very few Catho-
lic readers will put this Issue
aside without resolution to send
an offering, large or small, to
help get our chapel completed.
With construction under way
almost $3,000 Is needed to erect
the unit containing sacristy, con-
fessional and priest's room. We
have 3 months to collect that.
Will you help put next month's
report past the $1000 mark? Ad-
dress your offering to Box 705,
Jefferson, Texas.
For all benefactors of the
chapel a no vena of Masses has
been offered In Mexico In honor
of Our Lady of Guadalupe. In-
tentions of all donors will be
remembered In the chapel when
completed.
For $228 raised during the
last month THE JEFFERSON-
IAN extends public thanks to
the following 18 friends:
407. Mrs. P. G. Calame, Dallas
—- $10
408. Dorothy A. Burnett, Dallas
$10
409. A. Ludolph. Lligvlew $10
410. Mrs. A. J. Gleason. Dallas $5
411. S. J. Ackels, Dallas .. $19
412. Mrs. O. M. Fuquay, Mt.
Pleasant (lady from whom land
was purchased) . ... 95
413. H. W. Herring, Henrietta,
TexaB >t
414. Sisters of St. Paul, Dallas
- $5
415. Lillian Joram, Longvlew $5
416. Anonymous $50
417. Poor Marshall widow _ $1
4.18. Mrs. J. D. Buchanan, Dallas
419. Aromwopi, fan. Antonio $10
410. Mty jntyrwet Jat«r*y1c, Buf-
falo. N. V: ..... $*>
491. Mrs. Carer. Dallas ...... $1
422. Joe McGrady; Colorado
8*rlnfca, Colo. ... $5
423. Wllliiam J. Carmody. Buff-
alo. n. r. fr
421. Anonymous $100
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O'Rourke, John G. The Jeffersonian (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 1, 1951, newspaper, March 1, 1951; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth293189/m1/9/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.