University of the Incarnate Word - Logos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Welcame Address of Welcome Given by Mari Katherine Vincius at the Reception Tendered to the Apostolic Delegate and Archbishop Lucey, March 26th. Your Excellencies, the Most Reverend Archbishop Cicognani, Papal Delegate to the United States of America, and the most Reverend Arch- bishop Lucey, Metropolitan of San Antonio: For the students of Incarnate Word College, its faculty and governing body, and for the religious community which provides its superior authori- ty, Sisters of the Congregation of Charity of the Incarnate Word, we offer to your Excellencies the greeting of heartfelt welcome, the acclaim of devoted thanksgiving, the tribute of spontaneous homage, and the prayer of fervent faith that we shall continue ever purposively to need and, by that need, to merit increasingly the abundant benefit of your august patronage. As workers in the enterprise of Christian education, the temporal apostolate of our eternal destiny, we have ever been and ever shall be prayerfully subject to the divinely ordained apostleship 0f the Vicar of Christ on earth, our Sovereign Pontiff, in the See of Rome. It is, then with the most ardent gratitude that we salute the presence of your Excellency, the Most Reverend Archbishop Cicognani, delegate of Our Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, to the Church and its people in the United States of America. We are deeply sensible, no less, of the enhancement of this supreme honor by the presence of the Most Reverend Metropolitan of San Antonio, Archbishop Lucey, who comes to us, the divinely appointed shepherd of this flock in the land of Texas, the keeper of its fold. In our joyous affirmation of fealty to His Excellency, Archbishop Lucey, we are not unmindful that we have been signally distinguished by the providence of his commission to this provincial pastorate. With multi- tudes of people throughout our nation, we know that he is j ustly renowned for his interpretation of the Papal Encyclicals, his earnest advocacy of them in clearest teaching, his illustrious exemplification and far-reaching application of their Christian justice and charity in itthe art and practic part of life. We have learned and gladly taken to our hearts the learning of his very personal closeness in spirit to, formerly, His Eminence, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, now Our Holy Father, Pope Pius XII. We are confident that a special gift of Divine Grace is brought to us with his most worthy assumption of the archepiscopal dignity. Your Excellencies, we welcome you proudly and in humility ask your blessing.

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14 aCILdMOf fucey His Excellency, the Most Reverend Robert E. Lucey, D. D., Archbishop of San Antonio, was ordained in the American College at Rome in 1916. Returning to California thereafter, he held various pastorates until his consecration as Bishop of Amarillo in 1934. Throughout these years he was notably active in welfare work and held a number of important offices in organizations of wide jurisdiction. He was a member of the Executive Board of the California State Department of Social Welfare, president of the Catholic Conference of Social Work, Vice-president 0f the Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems, and chairman of the Southern California Committee of the National Association for International Peace. As Ordinary 0f the See of Amarillo, Bishop Lucey became nationally celebrated for his splendid program of Catholic Action and its remarkable fulfillment in performance. He established the Catholic Welfare Bureau and diocesan councils of Catholic men, Catholic women and Catholic youth. Not less notable was his interest in education. This he effectually evidenced by establishing new schools and enlisting new teaching communities in the educational enterprise of his diocese. The installation of the new Archbishop of San Antonio took place on March 27 in San Fernando Cathedral, with the Apostolic Delegate, the Most Reverend Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, officiating. On the previous evening, a civic reception was held in the Municipal Auditorium. Members of the hierarchy and laity from all parts of the United States attended the installa- tion ceremonies. Faculty and students of Incarnate Word College joined in a reception tendered to their Excellencies, the Most Reverend Amleto Giovanni Cicognani and Archbishop Lucey, on Wednesday, March 26. After the reception in the- Convent Chapel they were conducted to the college audi- torium to be greeted by the assembled student body holding papal and national flags. Following a brief musical program the eminent guests were welcomedein an address by Mari Katherine Vincius, speaking for faculty and students of Incarnate Word College. In response to this tribute of welcome, Archbishop Lucey thanked the assembled audience and expressed his pleasure in his Visit to the college. He then introduced the Apostolic Delegate as their distinguished guest and the ambassador of Pope Pius XII. His Excellency declared his gratitude for the cordial welcome extended him and his appreciation of the program presented by the students. Exhorting them to live up to the teachings and traditions of their Catholic college, he concluded his brief message and bestowed upon the audience the apostolic blessing. Their Excellencies, with forty-five Visiting prelates from all parts of the country, were guests of the college at a luncheon in the Brackenridge Mansion.

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