Elizabeth Stanton (AP 69) - Naval Cruise Book

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.glfil'l6!Cl,g War and life in the Navy does not mean the cessation of the opportunity for each man to practice his religion. For the Navy, in its effort to provide for the comfort of its men, both materially and spiritually and to conform their lives, as far as possible, to the life they were accustomed to live, brings religion to them through the medium of its Chaplain Corps. A world atwar is a difficult spot in which to afford each man in service an opportunity to worship God according to the tenets of his belief, but the ceaseless efforts of Naval chaplains to minister to their men has brought that goal into view. Each ship, of necessity, cannot have its own chaplain, but no chaplain confines his work merely to the ship to which he is assigned. When conditions permit, it is the universal custom for each chaplain to visit one or more other ships and thus to bring to the men aboard them the spiritual comfort and solace of their religion. ln addition, chaplains, stationed at shore bases, always go aboard ships which drop anchor in the harbor or arrange for 4'Church Partiesi' to come ashore to worship. By this broadening of the scope of his parish, each chaplain doubles and redoubles his congregation and affords every man, with singularly few exceptions, the chance to practice his religion, if he so desires. While on the Lizzie our own chaplain, Lieutenant Commander Francis J. Keenan, a priest of the Vincentian Fathers, has primarily served the Catholic men by bringing them the comforts of daily Mass and the opportunity for frequent reception of the Sacraments, the members of other faiths have not been neglected. One of the advantages of assignment to a transport is that the Army and Marine Corps units who make our ship their temporary home, usually have assigned to one of them a Protestant or Jewish chaplain. On many weekends the NChurch Pennantv flies in the breeze on three occasions, for Jewish Sabbath services, for the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and for Protestant services. Church Calli' means the temporary halting of all but the most essential operations and all things possible are done, despite enormous difficulties, to make religious exercises conform to those held in the sacred precincts of churches. Aboard the Lizzie the addition of a portable organ and the chance to accompany services with the sweet music of hymns has made us feel just a little closer to home, thanks to the enterprise of J im Glayat and Tommy Bridges. . Nothing is more definite then that religion occupies a prime place in the Navyls scheme of keeping its men at their peak in mind, in soul and .in body and the attitude of the Navy toward religion is most aptly summed up in the fact that when the '4Church Pennant flies from the masthead it flies above the National flag, the single occasion on which this is true. 102 A 'G 1 Q C l I I l