Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Theme Six HEN we think of the great good neighbor nations lying to the south of these United States, we some- times have diyficulty understanding that they, too, are mis- sion territory. In mission work the job is much likened to a game of football, basketball or baseball . . . that is, in the matter of gaining something. In sports we are all inter- ested in seeing the team representing Manhattan gain as many points as possible to make a collegiate contest a jasper victory. Well, the mission priest is out to gain as many souls as he can for Christ. His game in South America at times takes him to the snowy heights of the Andes, to the jungles of the upper Amazon or the blazing heat of Bolivia and Peru. Naturally, the work accomplished by the Spanish Iesuits and Dominicans survives to this day, but in order to keep a plant in the best of health it must be watered regularly and the soil in which it grows must be kept well fertilized. So it is with the Church in South America. It received an excellent start under the auspices of its Spanish Catholic founders, but it needs more and more missionaries from the priestly ranks of the United States to keep it prospering and growing for the benefit of the souls in Latin America. The priest you see here celebrating Mass on an altar constructed by his native parishoners was an All-American football star some years back. He found that the touch- downs that really pay of are in the league of Our Lord.