Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1938-1940

came older men, drawing toward the quiet winter evening. Men who had always ap- praised life by eternal standards, men with- out any illusions as to what is valuable or wasteful. Some of them moved to their lowly places with tottering steps and slow, old war- riors, scarred in the Company- former mis- sionaries, college professors, ex-provincials, renowned authors, brilliant orators, educators, confessors bent with the weight of years in the confessional, all crippled, worn, tired, and broken with service, yet all on their knees before the Blessed Sacrament still pleading, still invoking the Queen of Heaven and lay- ing at her feet the burden of their careers. What an inspiring conquest of life! Beautiful, yes, and humiliating to one who felt un- worthy to be in that holy place. This reflec- ..ion recalls the "Grand Review," the stirring epic of Father James J. Daly, S.J., of the Missouri Province: "... The tides of our pent feelings overflow, A surge of happy tears breaks in our eyes - The men whose names are honored house- hold words 15

To us you will always be a compelling proof that "to them that love God all things work together unto good." You have tried to make yourself the least but God has made you the greatest among us. THE GRAND REVIEW And now, my dear friends, may you pardon this personal allusion. Some years ago it was my privilege to kneel in the rear of the do- mestic chapel of a great Jesuit University. A University that for over a century has fought the battles of the Church and turned out generations of sterling graduates. The house bell rang and the Community assembled in the Chapel for night prayers - one of those unbroken chains of devotions that admits no interruption. The scene will never be for- gotten. There were young, ardent scholastics eager to battle for their Captain, "restless in the quest of Christ's realities." There were middle-aged Jesuits whose beautiful lives merited the title first given in opprobrium, ]esu ita - seasoned doers of the word who had lost none of their enthusiasm; and then 14