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Full Title	Men of Malvern, V. 15 No. 5 May 1953.
Author	Malvern Retreat House.
Date Added	17 March 2015
Publish Date	1953-05
Publisher	Philadelphia: [s.n.]
Source	Malvern Retreat House.
Topic	Spirituality > Catholic Church > Newsletters. Laity > Spiritual life > Newsletters. Spiritual retreats > United States > History > Newsletters.
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OCR i '1 .,...., vovv Blood Can Nued in urganl. Volume 15. Circulation Last Month 23,299 Qri‘ory’s Gold Doors Arrive EN MAY, 1953 Hafiert Sees Hope for USSR Conversion By JOSEPH T. WALSH Addressing more than 2,000 mem- bers of the Catholic Petroleum Guild -'1‘ the 0l"s'aiiiz:ltlon‘a annual Com- lllullion Breakfast held at the Broad- wood Hotel, SundsI)’> April Ell, John ll. Haffert, prominent Cnthltlic lays man and editor of “Soul ,Magu7.ine,” 83 well an author of five books on Russia, declared the day wns not ton distant when the Soviet would ac- cept the embrace of Holy Mother the Church and ur ed his liSl.I‘lI(‘l‘5 to . pray unceasingly for that downing. , I , The catholic . Petroleum Guild, comprised of the rehncry and otnce it-oi-kers of the Atlantic Refining Company. Cities Sen-it-n, Sun Oil, Tcxcs, -ridewatcr, and sorony vac- uum and the union rank cor Com- pany, were divided into two groups, “it second attendinl: Muss. at st. John's Church and llultlillg the breakfast in Town Hall. rho rirst section attended mass at the co- tlledral. Men of lilalvern were much in evi- dence at both atrairs. Mr. John J. Hnggel't)', trcaiant, Bloadwood Hotel, where othcr active lllalvernites included Paul Allcn, Ju- seph Black, Arnold Bulterlnarl, John Bernard rriol, James Thomas day's lagher. James Esposito was also 8 speaker at this atrair. The st. Joseph's croup of the cm, Marcus Hock Ronncry, held their breakfast at st. Michacl’s ilall, Chester, actor attending Mass at St. Michael’: church. - Newman Club Alumni ther Communion Breakfast that hold interest for many lieu of Malvern was that or the Newman Club Alumni of Greater Philadel- phia, which was hold April 2:; at Heller's Colonial Dining Room, 3729 spruce street, rolloiving Mass at st. Bede's Cl-lapel. (continued on page four) Tm: MADONNA TEMP! (Raphael, or intimately related as nothing else. This was and ix pnrtirlllurly the ease with respect la Jcriir ond Man]. -Holy Mary, Molhel",oi.‘God r., 1433-1520). in the 1Hll,llIllll77 It is therefore most natural that when thinking of Jenna, wa ll'.keu‘1'se think of His Ilvly Mather. The Church eapeoiully dunno tho month of May. - has always cultivated the love and ‘I)C‘7l9Tllli0H. of llltlru, the Jlothcr of Chill and our Illolher, Photo by It. Armstrong Roberts Founder-Presidentiof League Recipient of Many Honors ' BM S. A. RUDOLPH “Seek and ye shall linrl." has become a truism that is found not only in the “Book of Life" but in our cvvryllny Wnlks of life when the need Il‘i5PS ‘ and we search diligently. Such nn occasion was ours in the lounding of the Retreat League in 1913. And the scckcrs found the man who h ruption ever since: John 1. sullivan, A practicing attorney wit kg hnckground of hnance, John Sulli- van willingly assumed the onerous as been our President without inter- Esquire. , , task of guiding the infant League snfely through the shoals of organi- zation and incorporation, until now we find him steering aglorioua course tint for many yours has pu the Men of lilalvern at the very inary, but when the decision made to open a Retreat House to he . used solely for callductirlg week-end retreats undcr the supervision and , direction of laymen, the undertaking .- becameia prol>lem‘of real propor- tions. with not a sou in the treasury, . but with ii stalwart rnith that had the superb backing of thc late John J. cabrcy and l.he,latl- rrank A. Guinivnn, Richard T. lllCSOI'l(‘y, Esq, ' and my humble self, as well as of Joacph F. Donovan and William F. (Continued nn page lhm) John ‘VBt.irk'e 'Se‘r'ved i DuPonls 49 Years Johnny Burke, a co-captain of the Wilmington Group, has pono into re- tlrcrncnt after more thnn 49 years company has had in the 150 years or its existence. It was back in idol that John J. Burke voluntcercd his services to the American storrrre and Delivery co., which iurnished magazines throughout the country (or the stor- C . ( ontimied on page three) William A. Joynes League Pioneer William A. Joynea, presidcnt of Service syndicuto, inc, and a pioneer at lllalvt-rn, (lll‘ll April 24 after I long‘ illness; He was 62. Solemn Mass of Requiem was sung in SL Clement's Church by the Rev. Henry J. Ncilon, assisted by the Rev. John J. 0’ShvI, rector, and the Rev. John J. lllurphy, vice-rector and former Assistant retreat mas. ter It Malvern. Interment WIS in Holy cross cemetery. ‘ Prior to entering the business of " (Cnnlinucd on page four) ACf IVVOVI--66 R-coins Have Already Seen Subscribed MEMORIALS -‘NEW BUlLDlNG ' . ST. JO5EPH'5-IN-THE-Hll.l.S FURNISHING OFVSINGLE ROOM. .. . . . . . . .$250.00 ’ ' ‘ (INCLUDING BRASS MEMORIAL PLAYEJ Write to the Rector - Rev. William 1, Kane, Mulvam, Pa. . V 4 MAKE ctlscils PAYABLE to uvrdsulsl WEEK-END nmuf lEAGUE Rooms will be located on Various floors according- . 0 order of payment . llanor they Lil. Conlnmnnrate the Dead .1” ‘ Ioniambori Continua In K!!! tlln Rely silence on Ywvlonoav l I , No. 5 at liillaivern from ltayl Fashioned Entirely of Gifts. From Trinket to Heirloom By .l.iuns J.TlGllt-1 , . Malvt-rn'il nlalznificelll. ncvv cold doors riir tho now oratory are pow at St, Joseph's-in-tho-llills, thereby nlzllerinlizim: on illva cnvisioned long ago in the mini! uf Rev. .l$l7li(’S lV. Gibbons! D.D., LL.D., farmer rector of the retrealr nuse. History Hails. Taneywillcox ll IKRY When the lliblol y of St. Joseph’:- ili-thl--llillst is Wl’ll.l(‘lI, the name of J. Turn-y lYlllco.‘(, or-crctar and traiisior ngoiit of the Pennsylvania Railroad, will be Is prominent amonl: Mlxlvei-n‘s pioneers, as his family name is in tho history or Americ Co-Captain of the group headed by srli lludoliih, Mr. Willuox has been cuinliis: to Illalvcln year after year, since i “ A rllrliw nf Glen Mills, Delaware Willcox. Tho- lT2l, i-stulilislii-il the paper mills that ior nluny yours produced the paper used by the Govoi-ninent in the manu- rcirluir or paper inonry and bank notos. And tho raney-‘s included nllilvlg rher number Chief Justice Roger Xirtidhe Tanoy, the first Catho- lic apiiiiinll-d lo the Supreme Court, w nllmnl: other outstanding iCl’llL'Vcl!It'lll.S, rendered the famuus Dred Scott dz-cision. Admitted to Bar lllnlwlllrox studied law in the office of lormvr U. 5. Senator George Whartlm Pl-ppe , in Philadelphia, and was ailiiiltlcd to the bar in Oc- tober 1907. Lnlcr he became asses ciated with the late Thomas De Witt Cuyler, i-r-inaiiiiiig until me when he was appointed as ‘t t to the secretary cf the railroad. Two years later he was advanced to assistant secretary. in 1917 he was furlclughell for military dnlyfciitering the 0ii"icers' Training 5 shoul nt Fort oglcthorpe, Ga. Comuli inm-d I uplnin, he was assipnoil to tho ombai-katicn servico in tho ()iTlL'(‘ of the Chief of Stat? in Washington. A year later he wont to France, sl-rvini: as secretary of the American Suction, Inter-Allied Transportation Council, under Brig- (Cnnlinucd on page four) The doors, dnhricctcd in Italy hy flsnlen, were received h April 3 The new Oratory, together witll the two dormitory wings, a library and n rliupel, will ropi-esont 3 cost s or $500,000. r. ' nrst conceived the lt.lL'il or the gold doors prior to his iririisfrr rrorii Miilvetn to the rector- ship or tho church at the Nativity, IXYM, vilii-ro he now is stationed. ‘ Sonic yt-urs ago. while a student at tho Aiiiorlroin College in Rome, c and sonic li-llow students spent one > tion trzucling afoot through the Swiss unll ltalian Alps. One day they orrviod at a humble yet pictur- osiiae iillugo, Oropa, in the Dalma- tiaii Alps. lt was dusk; the “Ave Maria llnur." Their hrst thought was to seek out the village church. A they wore enteringthe church tho-y scvr that the doors were made of gold. l'llI;'l':IV2d on the door was the logo... . "Here, in this little chapel, Guglii-llnl) Marconi round inspira- lion." ‘ Tllerv.-. in rrecucnt visitatiuiis, the groin Mzlrconi sought peace, through the lzli-ssoil zilothar-, there he found pcaro in the humble abode of tho Liviinr God; there he found inspira- tion . .. thcv lsiori and lhe grace to invent the miracle of wireless teleLt- l’ll])l'.' . . . the inspiration whi h rr ‘nlulianizcll the world’; communi- cations; the genius whose invention hiis dryolnpcil tho nmrvels of radio and toloiision. . Dr. Gibbons felt that in planning the orator-y's oors, it would provido a means for Men of ltlalrern to rind tlic peace that each seeks, us they, at st. Joseph's-in-the-Hills, puss throuirh the gold doors to enjoy this sort-nity or an utter "aloneness with God," in the sanctuary or an oratory (Continued on page two) Priest, Ex-Captive of Chinese, Speaks to Christus Rex Group By PAUL J. (‘LARK . Derlurinic thrit it was the considereil opinion nf most Americans who inst becn behinll the Bamboo curtain that nolhiluz short of . third world war woulll hr-ink the Communist hold on China, Rev. John J. Henry, C.M., .3 Vincentinn missionary who had been is prisoner ol the Chinese Reds for two years, asked the meiiiliers ot tho Ch r us Rex Group to pray unccasirigly that tho Far Eastern nation would be rcclaimed without excessive bloodshed L rather llrnry Wafihe principal speaker at tho second annual coni- munion Ilroxlkfast of the Christus Rex Group, hold in the auditorium or inc church of the Holy Redeemer, 9th and Vim: streets, The Com- munion liluss’was-celebrated in the chuirh, with Father l-lenry as cele- brunt. lllorc than 150' menllzers of the group intended the atniir and renewed iriendships madr iit st. Joseph‘ ’n .llills v xaiionalisi Army',s'rrrk‘ ln dcscriliing his experiences as a captirc of the Chinese keds, rather isls and to expect them to light with zronter vigor in the future might lead us into dilfirultivs. I The present “l>eoplo‘s‘ Govern- ment" has no visible taint ot “Tito- ism," according to tho missionnry, and we should not have for a Chin- esa disuffectinn with Moscow to case the tension. only through constant ould a way be a nod, many or them natives or china, has‘ already llnrrle fruit in th; form of ii hard core or catholicity that has withstood all types of persecution.- (continued on page four) WARNING It has been brought to the IF ’ the Men of Mnlvern tars selling Bibles and other literature have lvaan..Ann- vnssiug rnenibers of the Le gue This is being done witllouil the authority at thz League.

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