Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1936-37 (1)

Clergy Of New Dio ese Er,tertain At L uncheo

Monsignor Hegarty ls Toastmaster THREE HUNDRED PAY HOMAGE TO BISHOP BUDDY Archbishop Cantwell and Four Bishops Speak At Luncheon GIFT PRESENTED i t •

Bishop Buddy Responded An · expr~1on of gratitude was given by Bishop Buddy in his re- sponse. He voiced his thanks for the welcome accorded him at the train Tuesday m01ning, for the generosity of everyone to him, for the• success of the installation ceremonies and for the entertain- ment extended himself and his guests at the luncheon. He thanked James McGanigle of Long Beach, who sang several numbers, accompanied by Arthur Beinbar. Msgr. Hegarty, toastmaster, in- troduced Bishop Buddy to the priestly gathering in words that might be used as informal intro- duction to the people of his dio- cese. Msgr. I!egarty's 1ntroduc- , ' In my recent reading I came tion follows:

thoughts to people who dwell in heaven. "They were all men without the decided to relinquish his patri- mony and the peace and comfort of his father's house, he was not using common sense-he was ex- traordinary. When he stripped himself of his father's clothes and went out in tatters to preach pov- erty, it was not common sense. When Father Serra and his com- panions left the comfort of Old Spain and came to struggle and starve with the Indians of Cali- fornia, they were not usmg com- mon sense. When Christ decided to be born and live with the low- liest of the poor, with. the outcasts of society, he was not using com- mon sense as the world defines it. "It was never common sense to leave the rich and cast one's lot with the poor. Those who did so were extraordinary-and by these extraordinary, only, the world has been helped. "When Bishop Buddy was con- secrated in Saint Joseph, Missouri, I was conferripg with him about some of the arrangements for this day. While many details were dis- cussed, the only thing he insisted upon was that the poorest of the people should have space in the church on the day of his Installa- tion here. He said, 'We must have those poor with us.' The unusual quality of the thought impressed me, and on my return home, peo- ple asked me, 'What kind of a. man is our new Bishop?' I told them this one point of insistence and said that from it they could construct his whole character.' I "I do not think that my deduc- , tion embodied the oft-condemned Virgilian logic 'Ex uno disce om- nes.' Rather do I think that the point of his insistence, represen-

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EIGH"FEE ORDERS OF SISTERS-. ARE REPRESENTED AT INSTALLATION: LUNCHEON HELD AT U. S. GRANT

Never in the history of San Di- ego have nuns of such varied or- ders been congregated here as were present Wednesday morning in St,. Joseph's Cathedral for the :installation of Bishop Charles Francis Buddy, for included in the nearly one hundrecl women reli- gious present were representatives of eighteen different oroers. While the clergy were being en- tertained at the El Cortez follow- ing the installation Mass, the nuns were served a full course dinner in the Italian room of the U. S. Grant. A half-hour's re- ception preceeding the dinner was held in specially prepared rooms arranged by the management of the hotel. Arrangements for the dinner were made at Our Lady of Peace Academy by the Rev. Moth- er st. Catherine, superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondo- let, which order was the first to come to San Diego over fifty years ago. Mother Catherine was as- sisted by J. R. Bloom of the Gi-ant hotel management. Bishop Buddy's sister, the Rev. Mother Magdalene, superior of Sacred Heart Academy, Ogden, Utah, was accompanied by an- other member of the Holy Cross order of Sisters. Other out-of- town qrders represented included the Sisters of Providence, the Im- maculate Heart Sisters, the Social Service Sisters of the Holy Ghost, the Catechists, the Carmelite Sis- ters (not cloistered), the Sisters of Incarnate Word, the Domini- can Sisters from Chicago, the Franciscan Sisters, the Daughter:,; of Charity, and the Holy Family Sisters. Orders from within the city, many of whom were augmented by out of town visitors of their ordws, included the Holy Family Sisters, the Sisters of Mercy, the Blessed Sacrament Sisters, the Sisters of th)) Precious Blood, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. the Sisters of Nazareth and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondo- let. Many of the visitors were guests at Mercy hospital during th air vis- it here.

Following the glorious ceremony of ii.nstallatilon and the Solemn

High Mass Wednesday morning, Bishop Charles Francis Buddy upon a saying of the great poet- was honored by the priests of the philosopher of Weimar. Speaking I of literary men and artists in gen- Diocese of San Diego with a . ,. luncheon at El Cortez hot l t era!, he said, The world is serv- which some 300 m mb fe tha ed only by the extraordinary." e ers o e "It may b h ·1· t· 1 / e um1 1a mg to us clergy and spec1a guests were that the average (who are the present. , majority> c_ontribute nothing to Served in the elaborate Spanish progress. Toe conformists who Don room at El Cortez, the lunch- tamely walk the cowpath trodden eon was made resplendent by the by the masses through the age1, colorful robes of tI{e prelates and leave no mark behind. They may by the beatJtiful· centerpieces. achieve fame and fortune within Souvenir mrnues bearing a pie- the traditional rut, but they leave ture of the newly installed bishop nothing to posterity. marked each place. "Common sense is futile when The Rt. Rev. Msgr. John M. defined as an individual interpre- ~egarty, . who presented the tation of self-interest, and that bishop w_ith a. substantial check is the common acceptance of it. as the_ gift of the clergy of his When that kind of common sense new diocei:-e, acted as master of accumulates and directs amassed ceremonies. Speakers included millions, it is worse than useless. the Mo~t Rev. Philip G. Scher, To the poor and to the hope of D. D., b1Shop of Monterey-Fresno. progress, riches seem to turn self- who extended a welcome to Bishop I Buddy as hi& nearest neighboring ishness into cruelty and then ty- ranny. Of more avail to hu- J. Gereke, bishop of Tuscon, Ari- manity's hope of progress is zona, who spoke on "The Holy discontented Millet and a BottJ- Father"; the Most Rev. Charles celli whose works make people bishopric; the Most Rev. Daniel

Bubert Le Blond, bishop of St. tation of the poorest, gave the Joseph, Mo., and Bi£hop Buddy'i. poor and the oppressed. An Insh keynote to a great and extraordi- I former superior, who spoke on harpiS t a nd a PaleS t rina whose nary character-the theme the toast, "Our New Bishop"; and soul-stini1:g st rains r~ise ~en j great symphony. For those who His Excellency, the Most Rev. momentan~ above th e 1 r selfish have the spiritual vision, the spir- John J. Cantwell, Archbishop of selves; an Angelo and a Titian, or I itual foresight to stand. by and ~os Angeles, whom Msgr. Hegarty a Murillo, who would turn men's defend the poor, have always been mtroduced as the 'foster father of world's common sense. They des- the few and the extraordinary the new diocese,' responded to the pised the successful men and the j who alone have contributed to hu- toast, "Our New Province". respectability of their day - as manity's progress." think a kindlier thought of ~he

they in tu1n were dispised. Their sacrifice and their idealism con- tributed to the service, the im- provement, the peace and happi- ness of mankind. They were ex- traordinary. "When Saint Francis of Assisi