Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1938-1940

W HEN, several months ago, our beloved Jubilarian invited me to speak on this blessed day which the Lord hath made, the subject supplied points for many meditations and the effort to find an appropriate text to clarify and marshal my truant thoughts. Whatever difficulties and doubts attended the preparation were dispelled last Friday by reading the Mass Cogitationes Cordis Ejus and reciting the Office of the Feast of the Sacred Heart - for behold a wealth of holy symbols to crystallize the silver years of our Jesuit friend and consultor. COR AD COR LOQUITUR Truly "the thoughts of His heart to all generations to deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine" (Ps. 32: 11 et 19). "That being rooted and founded in charity, you may be able to comprehend with all the Saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth: to know also the charity of Christ, which surpassetl1 all knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God...." St. Paul continues: "To me - 2

the least of all the saints - is given this grace to preach among the gentiles, the unsearch- able riches of Christ, and to enlighten all men, that tl1ey may see what is the dispensa- tion of the mystery which hath been hidden from eternity in God" (Eph. 3:8, 9, 17, 19). The "Improperium expectavit cor meum" forms the solid spiritual groundwork, the characteristic devotion of Loyola's sons. In fact it goes before and beyond the years spent in the Society for you can see Father Mc- Astocker's saintly mother's uplifted hands, white with pain and projects of the soul, fervently offering her infant child to the Sacred Heart, and his noble, devoted father, instant in the affairs of God, fostering and protecting the same oblation. Indeed it takes a real Catholic home to produce a Jesuit. Only a brave soldier with plenty of sand can make the grade. MILITANTIS ECCLESIAE For a clarion call to arms assembled the first company of Jesus. Even Paul Ill's Bull of Approbation, Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae, J