Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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CATHOLIC STUDENTS ' MISSION CRUSADE [INDFUL of Christ ' s command to go, therefore, teach all nations, the Man- hattan Chapter of the Catholic Students ' Mission Crusade strives to imbue Manhattan men with a love of the missions that will be kept down through the years. The organization functions through the class promoters who collect the dues of the society from the men in their Religion classes. Further funds for the missions are collected from tea dances, the performances of the Manhattan Players, and other campus func- tions. The Missions received over live hun- dred dollars from the performances of The Queen ' s Husband, and this money, plus that collected at the college raised th e totals for the school year to well over two thousand dollars. Several excellent missionary priests talked to the student body at the Friday religious meetings held during the year. Like the war heroes returning from the battle field these heroic missioners return to America to inspire us with their modest tales of life among the heathen. The most important part of the work of the Manhattan Chapter of the Catholic Stu- dents ' Mission Crusade is the stimulation of Manhattan men to pray for the success of all Mission ' Work everywhere. ' Without prayer we could know all about the missions, we could give money until it hurt, we could listen to talks all our lives but the Missions would not prosper. It is with good reason that Brother Denis, the moderator, regards sincere and earnest prayer as the founda- tion for all the work of the Catholic Stu- dents ' Mission Crusade. 173

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CATECHIST SOCIETY UNDER the leadership of President George Leach, the Catechist Society has just completed its busiest year. As well as enter- ing the new field of combating juvenile de- linquency, the Society has maintained its tra- ditional mission at St. Cecilia ' s Parish in Harlem, Sunday and Tuesday classes at St. Roch ' s in the lower Bronx, Sunday school in the parish of St. John the Martyr in Manhat- tan, direction of recreation and clubs in the Casita Maria settlement of Harlem, and dis- cussion clubs in St. Thomas Aquinas Parish. An Intercollegiate Conference on Cate- chetics, which met on the campus on Palm Sundav, March 30, was sponsored by the Society and was responsible for the inclusion of a course on Catechetics in the College curriculum. 172

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EASTERN RITES COMMITTEE THE cieatiun ot a threat and cnJLiniit; in- terest in the numerous CatholiL Rites of the East was the main purpose for the reor- ganization of tlie Committee on Eastern Rites in No ember. With campus member- ship i reatly increased and cooperation with neighboring Catholic colleges an actuality, the Committee has been greatly influential in interesting large numbers of students in the Oriental Liturgies. The Rexerend Edward Slnka, Pastor of St. Nicholas t)f Myra Church in ' onkers, celebrated the Divine Liturgy for members of the Committee on December 1, 19-16, and following the impressi ' e ceremonies. Lather Sli ka was host at an informal breakfast at which a lively discussion provided still fur- ther insiiiht into the beauties of the Eastern Catholic Church. During the following week the members of the Manhattan Committee, as guests of the Colletje of New Rochelle, attended the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, celebrated by Re -. Andrew Rogosh in the New Ro- chelle Chapel. Continuing in the new year the efforts to spread a greater knowledge of the Eastern Rites, the Committee on January 12 joined a large group of alumni to attend the Dnine Liturgy celebrated in the Car- patho-Russian Catholic Church of St. Elias in Brot)klyn by the Re ' erend Demetrius ' ackanich. Again the M.inhattan Committee was prominent in the Ninth Annual Conference on Eastern Rites held at Fordham Lhiiversity on March 21 which closed with a Solemn Concelebration of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom according to the Rumanian Byzantine usage. The officers for the 1946-1947 term were President Eugene Calure, Vice-President Thomas Tobin, Secretary C. Bernard McCar- tan and Treasurer John O ' Leary. 174