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SISTER MARY CARITAS MCCABE St. Paul's Parish, Worcester Missionary in Philippines
SISTER MARY ZITA MCDERMOTT, St. Paul's Parish, Worcester ; SISTER MARY CECELIA ROHAN, Immaculate Conception Parish, Easthampton ; SISTER JOAN MIRIAM BEAUVAIS, Holy Name Parish, Worcester ; SISTER MARY STEPHEN O'DONNELL, Sacred Heart Parish, Holyoke : SISTER MARY ROSE BENIGNA HANAN, Blessed Sacrament Parish, Holyoke. All at Maryknoll preparing for mission fields afar.
SISTER MARY PARACLITA MCTIGUE St. John's Parish, Worcester Missionary in Philippines
SISTER MARY THOMAS BRESNAHAN Sacred Heart Parish, Holyoke Missionary in China
SISTER MARY BEATA MACKIE St. Teresa's Parish, Pittsfield Missionary in Hawaiian Islands
MARYKNOLL SISTERS, FOREIGN MISSION SISTERS OF ST. DOMINIC, FROM OUR DIOCESE
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REV. AMEDEE GOULET (HOLYOKE), WHITE AFRICAN MISSIONARY FATHER On a missionary tour in East Africa, finds a poor native dying in abject misery and administers the last Sacraments.
which so soon brought almost to naught the glori- ous work of St. Francis Xavier.
It is now over a century since, in 1822, Pauline Jaricot, a working girl in Lyons, France, began collecting offerings, every Friday, from a group of mill workers, and applying them to the needs of missions. Later on, her little group joined hands with a missionary organization formed at Paris. From these humble beginnings came the oldest and largest of all our present missionary societies, the Propagation of the Faith, which today is the main support of an army of nearly 120,000 priests, brothers, sisters and catechists, who are "teaching all nations" in the field afar, and at this moment have over a million and a half neophytes under instruction.
In the pioneer days of Catholicity, this organiza- tion was most generous to our forefathers, and the missionary labors of our early workers in the Lord's American vineyard. In its existence of a little more than a century, it contributed over $7,000,000 to the spread of the Faith on our con-
tinent. We, in turn, in our building age, when brick and mortar engaged so much of our attention, had little to contribute to others.
However, as our parishes multiplied and our financial burdens grew less, while our material prosperity increased, the time came when we were
Sister Joseph of the Holy Family (LEFT), missionary in Japan, with a sister companion. visiting the natives in their huts, to nurse and instruct them. Sister was formerly Miss Jean- nette Delisle, of St. Joseph's Parish, Worcester, and labors in Japan as a Missionary of the Im- maculate Conception.
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MISSIONARY DAUGHTERS OF OUR DIOCESE Now Serving in Foreign Lands.
Sister Mary de St. Theudere (Cecile Dumas), Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Ware, a Franciscan Mis- sionary in the Philippines.
Sister Mary Julian (Eva Lemieux), Im- maculate Conception Parish, Holyoke, a Marist Missionary in the South Sea Islands.
able and willing to aid others, in gratitude to God for the Faith preserved for us, and in gratitude to others who had sacrificed that our needs might be met. Especially during and since the great war, Europe's contributions diminished, and America's increased. Our dioceses introduced formal organ- izations, and American Catholics have presented an example of grateful generosity to the entire Church.
In his Lenten Pastoral of 1927, Bishop O'Leary, anxious that his flock should share in the spiritual benefits which accrue from financial and prayerful support of the missions, announced that on Sun- day, March 27, all the priests of the diocese would preach on the coming establishment of the Propa- gation of the Faith in our midst. Formal enrol- ment of members followed, the week of May 15. Rev. George J. Hurley, pastor of St. Paul's Parish, in Warren, and long a member of our diocesan band of missionaries, was made diocesan director. Father Hurley has given himself en- thusiastically to a work always dear to his heart. His personal enthusiasm has become contagious. and the result has been a movement which, despite
the obstacle of unemployment and industrial de- pression, has grown each year. In round numbers, our financial aid to the missions reached $94.000 the first year, $140,000 the second year, $157.000 the third year, and $121,000 the fourth year, so that our four years' total climbed over the $500,000 mark.
Such a success, of course, had to be as wide as the diocese, though favorable mention must be made of such parishes as St. Peter's and St. Paul's, in Worcester, and the Cathedral, in Springfield, all of which reached high totals and set a good ex- ample to other congregations. Proportionately, of course, many smaller parishes did equally well. Yet the work is certain to grow, as many parishes which, for various reasons, did not attain the re- sults of their neighbors, add their quotas to the grand total.
While the bulk of the support comes from individual members, two smaller groups are privileged to contribute more generously. Per- petual members, by one donation of forty dollars, payable within a year, participate in the society's spiritual benefits perpetually. Deceased members of
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SISTER MARY ITHA ( MARIA VINCELETTE) Sacred Heart Parish, Webster
SISTER MARY MADELEINE OF THE SACRED HEART ( MARIE GDULET) Precious Blood Parish. Holyoke
SISTER MARY JEAN (ELEONORE TOUGAS) Holy Name Parish, Worcester
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SISTER MARY EULALIA OF BARCELONA (EULALIE LARIVIERE) St. Joseph's Parish, Fitchburg
SISTER MARY OF THE HEART OF JESUS (ANNA GOULET) Precious Blood Parish, Holyoke
SISTER MARY JEAN BERNARD (JOSEPHINE BERNARD) Sacred Heart Porish, Webster
SISTER MARY AMEE ( LEA HORTIE) Precious Blood Parish, Holyoke
SISTER MARY ANTONIA OF JESUS (INDIANA BENOIT) Precious Blood Porish, Holyoke
SISTERS OF ST. ANN FROM OUR DIOCESE, MISSIONARIES TO ALASKA
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Most Toly ffather Dour Children the Eskimo bons and girls of - Tholy Cross with their teachers the Sisters of St. An and the Jesuit Fathers und Brothers most respectfully present aur Colmess their token of love and gratitude and humbly beg nour blessi
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A JUBILEE GREETING FROM ALASKA TO OUR HOLY FATHER, POPE PIUS XI A spiritual bouquet, painted in colors on a piece of native birch bark, by an Eskimo maid, pupil of the Sisters of St. Ann, at Holy Cross Mission, Alaska. It depicts the mission village of Holy Cross with a traditional sled drawn by dogs carrying two missionary Sisters and two children through the mission grounds toward Rome, with St. Peter's Cupola and Castle of St. Angelo. "L'Osservatore Romano," official organ of the Vatican, described it as "the most precious jubilee present received by the Holy Father."
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A CLASS OF FILIPINO CHILDREN WITH THEIR PASTOR (Center ) AND FRANCISCAN MISSIONARY TEACHERS Sister Mary de St. Theudere (Cecile Dumas, Ware) is seen at right (IN CIRCLE).
families may thus be enrolled, and share in the Masses and prayers of the missionaries until their purgatorial sufferings are ended. Special members make a payment of six dollars a year, in return for which they may enrol ten in society member- ship. This gives a surviving member of a family the opportunity of enrolling an entire band, com- posed of ten members of his own family, in the ranks of beneficiaries, who share in the heroic labors and fervent prayers and generous sacrifices of priest and nun, under the banner of the Cross in pagan lands.
The opinions of popes and bishops as to the object and need of this society is well summarized by the late Pope Benedict XV : "We wish Catholics to assist liberally these holy works organized for the support of the missions. We are confident that while immense sums are being expended for the dissemination of error, the Catholic world will not permit those who plant the truth to struggle with adversity."
Henceforth, Springfield's place in the Society of the Propagation of the Faith is sure to be among
the foremost. "Well begun is half done," and the initial work has been well done, whether judged by the labors of the spiritual directors or the re- sponse of the people.
The instant success of this great society is trace- able to many sources :
First, the blessing of Almighty God, whose com- mand it is obeying in the world's most trying zones : "Go, and teach all nations."
Second. its constant appeal to the throne of grace to bless the mission efforts of our priests and nuns. The daily obligation of each member is to add to his prayers an Our Father, Hail Mary, and the ejaculation. "St. Francis Xavier, pray for us," to aid the missions.
Third, the financial obligation is not burden- some, one dollar each year, to be paid monthly, if members so desire. Large receipts are dependent upon a large membership, rather than upon large individual donations.
Fourth, the rich spiritual benefits which have been bestowed upon members, both by the sovereign pontiffs and by the missionaries, who
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THE LATE MOTHER MARY LAWRENCE OF JESUS, FRANCISCAN MISSIONARY OF MARY, AND A SISTER COMPANION With a group of destitute Chinese, sheltered in their home for the aged.
share their Masses, labors, sacrifices, with their benefactors.
Fifth, the simplicity and efficiency of the or- ganization-a national director, in touch with pontifical headquarters at Rome; eighty-one dio- cesan directors, in touch with the national director alone, parish directors, who supervise the work of the promoters, and the promoters, who are in contact with every individual member.
Thus, a close-knit organization establishes rela- tions between its humblest member and the mission field, the object of the solicitude of all. Every one of the millions who contribute their mite to the twentieth century crusade, the crusade for souls, feels the conscientious thrill of a personal part in Christ's own work-sending the light of the Gospel to those who sit in darkness. Chosen souls hear and answer the Master's call: "Come, follow Me," while Catholicity's loyal rank and file follow with the gifts of the Magi-the gold of financial contri- bution, the frankincense of daily prayer, and the myrrh of admiration for the mission laborers' lov- ing sacrifice in the sacred cause of souls.
"THOUGH the formal organization of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith is of recent date, our diocese had previously given generous aid to the missions, and vocations to the "field afar" were not wanting in our midst. We can give scarcely more than passing glimpses and a brief catalogue of Springfield's sons and daugh- ters who are now laboring in pagan lands, or have already made the supreme sacrifice, or are pre- paring for service on foreign shores. Maryknoll, the Sisters of St. Ann, the Franciscan Mission- aries of Mary, the White African Fathers, the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception, the Society of Mary, the Order of the Holy Cross, and doubtless others, have welcomed them to their membership. Especially prominent in this honor roll of our missionaries are the Sisters of St. Ann and the Maryknoll priests and sisters. The work of both has exercised a strong attraction upon the generous hearts of our young people. Eight young women from our diocese, wearing the habit of St. Ann, are doing missionary work among the Eskimo Indians in the difficult Alaskan field, while
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REV. JAMES E. MCDERMOTT, M.M. Worcester Missionary in South China
REV. ALBERT J. MURPHY, M.M. Springfield Missionary in Manchuria
REV. ROBERT J. CAIRNS. M.M. Worcester Missionary in South China
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REV. FREDERICK E. FITZGERALD, M.M. Holyoke Missionary in Honolulu
REV. JOSEPH P. RYAN, M.M. Worcester Missionary in South China
REV. JOSEPH W. CONNORS, M.M. Pittsfield Missionary in Korea
MARYKNOLL MISSIONARY FATHERS FROM OUR DIOCESE
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SONS OF OUR DIOCESE SERVING AS MISSIONARY BROTHERS IN INDIA AND KOREA Brother Vital, C. S. C. (Gideon Giboleau. Three Rivers), Holy Cross Missionary Brother now serving in Burma, India.
Brother William Neary, M.M., Pittsfield, Maryknoll Missionary Brother now serving in Korea.
Maryknoll, for the Orient, has claimed the gener- ous allegiance of six priests, thirteen sisters, and two brothers. We have been fortunate in obtaining some interesting pictures of many of our mission-
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aries and reproduce them here as our tribute of admiration for those who form the advance guard of the Faith on Catholicity's frontiers and Spring- field's devoted representatives in fields afar-far from home and country, but close to the grateful Heart of Jesus. Lack of space and material obliges us to follow the principle "by one judge all," and pay here a brief tribute to our first missionary sister, Mother Mary Lawrence of Jesus, F.M.M.
T HEN came the end, and, in the forenoon
of Good Friday, April 6, 1917, Mother Mary Lawrence rendered back into the hands of its Creator one of the purest and noblest souls that the womanhood of America has ever given to the mission field of the Catholic Church." With these words an Irish missionary in Africa closes his tribute to Springfield's first nun among the mis- sionaries, who gave her life for the Faith in China. Though born in Canada in 1880, she was a product of our diocese, for, in her early youth, her family moved to Worcester, where she was graduated from the parish schools of Notre Dame, and then went to work in a factory.
The late Mother Mary Lawe- rence of Jesus, with two grate- ful beneficiaries of her charity.
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REV. ROBERT J. CAIRNS, M.M. (Center ), OF WORCESTER AND MARYKNOLL With a group of his Chinese parishioners, at his mission in South China.
Marie Comtois by birth, she became Sister Mary Lawrence of Jesus in religion, and died as Mother Mary Lawrence of Jesus, superior of a Chinese missionary cluster of buildings, which included a home for the aged, an orphanage, and a boarding school for girls.
She joined the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, at Quebec, in 1904, and made her first vows two years later. She served for a time as an as- sistant to the superior in New York, where she made her final vows in 1909. After three years' service among the poor of our metropolis, she went to Rome as mistress of novices. Within two years, she received her appointment to China, took part in that sad farewell in which the sisters at home kiss the feet of those who are to bear the tidings of the Gospel to foreign lands, and set out for the "field afar," where, three years later, the priest who administered the last sacraments wrote of her: "To write of a saint, the writer, to do justice to his subject, should be a saint."
Mother Lawrence's three years at Chang
Chung, in China, were years of unremitting labor among the poor, the abandoned, in that pagan at- mosphere where infancy and age are cast out to die-they are burdens which no one feels any obligation to bear. They came to her, with their starvation, their filth, their ulcers, their running sores, and were received until the last penny and the last crust of the institution were exhausted. All were received with a smile, a prayer to St. Joseph to inspire her American friends to aid, and
Rev. Frederick E. Fitzgerald, M.M., of Holyoke and Maryknoll, missionary in Honolulu, Hawaii, with a first com- munion class of children of many races and mixtures of races.
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Rev. Joseph W. Connors, M.M., of Pittsfield and Mary- knoll, Missionary in Korea, is shown with his Korean language teacher, getting acquainted with a language more difficult than Chinese.
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Rev. Albert J. Murphy, M.M. (WITH FAN), of Springfield and Maryknoll, at the Maryknoll Mission Headquar- ters in Fuchun, Manchuria. Father Murphy is now at Antung, on the Manchu-Korean border.
her trust in God was never disappointed. Many a time the American mail saved the house from the very starvation from which the house was striving to shelter others. In her prayer book, she gratefully - wrote the names of her benefactors and whispered them to her Eucharistic God at daily Mass.
Dreaded smallpox ended her career of charity. As she lay dying, breathing resignation to God's will, she seemed to hear angel voices in celestial music. When these died away, she asked the sisters kneeling by her bed to sing the sacred mission hymns. They complied with her request, in spite of their grief-stricken hearts, and amid the gentle strains of these chants she loved, she gave back to God the noble soul which spent and was spent in His glorious service, among the poorest of His poor, the neediest of His needy.
Her example turned the eyes of Springfield's generous youth to the demands of pagan lands on Christian charity and, where we had a lone rep- resentative here and there, in China, fifteen years ago, we today take pride in scores who have heard the voices of Africa and Asia, the call of Japan and China, and are treading in the footsteps of the
Saviour, sometimes to new Calvaries, sometimes to Easter triumphs, always to the spread of that Faith which includes all things whatsoever He has commanded.
T OGETHER with the Society for the Propa- gation of the Faith, its junior branch, the Holy Childhood, was established in our midst, and Mission Sunday in October became the day to enroll our children in this great crusade of Catholic innocents to save pagan innocents. Disregard of human life, and especially child life, has always been characteristic of paganism. In ancient pagan days, children who were undesirable for any reason were ruthlessly put to death, or abandoned on the hillside or roadside to die. This was the fate from which Christianity saved little ones, this was the barbarity condemned by Our Saviour's loving words : "Suffer the little ones to come unto Me," and the warning that their protecting angels appear before the face of His Father in heaven. With the coming of Christianity, all human life became sacred, and especially the innocent child life of which Our Saviour said: "Unless ye become as
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UPPER-Pupils of a Catholic normal school, at Malabon, Philippine Islands, with their Maryknoll teachers, and practice classes. Sister Mary Caritas McCabe, O.P., of Worcester and Maryknoll, is seen at. extreme right, center row.
LOWER-Classes of a Catholic mission school, at Wailuku, Hawaiian Islands, conducted by the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic, from Maryknoll. Sister Mary Beata Mackie, O.P., of Pittsfield and Maryknoll, is seen at extreme right. This group is typical of the variety of nationalities found in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Scenes at the Maryknoll Mission, Korea, where Sister Mary Frances Teresa Hesse, O.P., of Pittsfield and Maryknoll, is working. LEFT-Children and sisters at recreation. RIGHT-Home for aged women.
these little ones, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
There is no better way to bring home to chil- dren the value of their Catholic faith than to remind them that paganism still exists, that chil- dren are still drowned or abandoned at the whim of parents, and that the temporal and eternal sal- vation of these little ones is the best of all acts of gratitude, the most appropriate of all works for Catholic children. This is the thought behind the Holy Childhood Association: it blesses pagan children and blesses Catholic children. It "blesses him that gives and him that takes." It brings the light of the Faith to pagan little ones; it brings appreciation of what that light means to our Catholic children.
This thought first occurred to two lovers of childhood and lovers of the Faith : Pauline Jaricot, who organized the Propagation of the Faith, and Bishop Janson, a Parisian exiled by the political upheavals of his time. They met in 1842, and the result of their conference was the birth of the Holy Childhood Association, composed of Catholic children who donate a penny a month to the salvation of pagan children and utter one Hail Mary daily with the ejaculation: "Holy Virgin, Mary, pray for us, and for the poor pagan chil- dren."
During the fourscore years of its existence, the children of the Catholic world have rallied en- thusiastically to its support. The thought of wagons, in pagan countries, gathering up aban- doned children from the gutters, as though they were garbage, the thought of little ones thrown
into a river after birth. aroused their deep sym- pathy. The results accomplished are a tribute at once to the loving generosity of our little ones and the great necessity of the movement begun in 1842. It is estimated that the Association has baptized 23,000,000 pagan children. When these rescued waifs have lived, they have been cared for in Catholic orphanages to become a Catholic nucleus in the conversion of a pagan land. The pennies of the little ones maintain 1600 orphanages, 13,000 schools, and five thousand industrial institutions and dispensaries. Yearly, half a million babies are baptized, and, at any given time, over half a million others are being housed and trained in the homes and schools of the Association. This grand total is at once an eloquent commentary on the power of the penny, and the generosity of our children, to whom the penny stands for sweets and goodies.
Generally, the diocesan director of the Holy Childhood is the same priest as the director of the Propagation. Father Hurley is in charge of both in our diocese, and the organizations parallel each other. Loyal directors and promoters cover the parish and report results to the diocesan head, who, in turn, transmits the sums collected to the national head and the mission fields. Here, again, the individual contribution is negligible, but the marvelous work accomplished shows the power of numbers and the necessity of enrolling every Catholic child in the association which means so much both to himself and to the poor pagan chil- dren, still victims of the barbarous doctrines which the Saviour died to abolish.
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RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS
THE PRIDE OF THE SPRINGFIELD DIOCESE A hillside of Catholic religious and charitable institutions
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Religious Foundations
During the present century, four new religious communities took up their abode in our diocese - the Vincentians in 1903, the Passionist Fathers, the Franciscans and the Dominican Sisters in the present episcopal reign. The first three are essen- tially missionary orders, preaching missions and retreats, as their principal calling, while the Passionists also con- duct the Bishop O'Leary Retreat House for laymen at their West Springfield home. The Dominican Sisters are a cloistered order who conduct a perpetual vigil of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament - our only cloistered community.
The Congregation of St. Vincent de Paul
HE Springfield home of the Fathers of St. Vincent de Paul is at Long Hill, in our episcopal city. It was established in 1903 and was in- corporated the following year un- der the laws of Massachusetts as a foundation for "the promotion of the cause of religion, charity and education, by furnishing a home for the Priests of the Con- gregation of St. Vincent de Paul. especially for those who are en- gaged in giving missions in New England to reclaim the fallen and the sinner, to relieve them from the evils under which they labor, and to bring them to an orderly and virtuous life." The original incorporators were all priests of the congregation whose names are familiar throughout our diocese because of their labors in the mission field : Fathers Conroy, Downing, Piper, Rosa, Maune, McGill and Moore. The first named was the local superior at the time of the incorpora- tion, and the present head is Rev. Charles Mc- Kenzie, who, with seven others, constitute the local group which carries on vigorously the works of the charter.
As its name indicates, this order owes its origin to the great organizer and patron of Catholic charities, St. Vincent de Paul, whose work for the salvation of the poor and outcasts of society was given permanent form in the congregation popularly called Vincentians, but technically the Congregation of the Missions. Hence the C. M. after the names of the members. For over a quar- ter of a century, this home at Long Hill has been a center from which priests have covered our diocese and gone far beyond its confines, to conduct their impressive and spiritually efficacious
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Beautiful white Carrara marble statue of St. Vincent de Paul, which stands in St. Vincent's Hospital, Worcester.
missions and retreats. The names of Fathers Tracy, Conroy, Brady. Walsh, McManus. Ro- sensteel, and others, are almost as well known among us as those of our own diocesan mission band.
Their object, of course, is to emulate the zeal, charity and love of souls which make the name of St. Vincent de Paul synonymous with these virtues. He cared for the waifs abandoned by their parents and saved to useful Christian lives thousands who otherwise would have perished in the streets or grown up to be a menace to society. He took the place of the galley slave, that the poor outcast might return to home and family. The inmates of the seventeen prisons of France became a special object of his solicitude. His great spiritual projects could not be carried on singlehanded, and so he organ- ized the Sisters of Charity and the Congregation of the Missions, whose zeal, inflamed by his own, has not been dampened by the lapse of centuries.
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