Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1936-37 (1)

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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1937 Price 10 Cents Will Rule by Law of Charitv . The ceremony which signalized I Seated in the church as a con- From the parish house this large Sep~ratmg th e army of soldiers in the service of ~chb1shop Ca~twell, who was last . Buddy as the bishop of the San olic and non-Catholic, rich and Christ marched in ecclesiasticai m the proce5:51on, was the Cross bishop and the official installation of Bishop gregation of vivid contrasts. Cath-

VOL. XXV-No. 41

DAWN OF NE m • 1 ff DAY HERALDED

procession under the direction of bearer, the mitre bearer,_th~ book the Rev. Francis Ott. Leading the bearer and th,e Arch1ep1Scopal procession was the thurifer woo Chass bearer. left a trail of incense in his wake. The cross bearer was followed in gree Knights of Columbus, glint- 1 order by the acolytes, the Altar ing sabers drawn, white-plumed boys, and the religious. These lat- hats nodding and scarlet lining of A guard of honor of Fourth De- eluded many provincial heads of guard of honor to the bishop and o1·de1·s and represented the Ch.ris- archbishop. Two papel knights t1·an B1·others, Paulists, Claretian, of the new diocese at en ed t em. t d h ter, almost fifty in number, in- their cloaks flashing, acted as a

Diego, San _Bernardino, Riverside poor found their places side by

a side. A great number of priests

counties, was

Impenal

and

deeply moving one. Never has such on one side, nuns on the other.- IN SOUTHLAND pageantry and beauty of cer~mony Prelates across the front of the been unfolded before San D1egans, church-each offering up his own for Bishop Buddy came to a new- prayer of thanksgiving and sup-

ly formed and untenated diocese. plication. Succeeding generations may see

A r ch b i shop C ant we 11 Preaches Sermon ; Eight Bishops, Score of Mon-

Ceremony Broadcast

The entire ceremony and Sol- emn Mass was broadcast over

the

in

installed

other bishops

throne of St. Didacus, but the grandeur with which San Diegans

s i g n o r i, Many Priests Present

KFSD as well as to the waiting clothed their first bishop on that crowd outside the Cathedral who solemn occasion will never be were unable to gain admittance. duplicated. This was the day San Over the hush of the silence with- the day when the fruition of all heard the reverent tones of the its religious dreams approached. priest announcing to the radio au- in the Cathedral at times could be

Ceremony Starts

Redemptorist, Passionist, Vincen- tian, Dominican and Benedictine orders and San Diego's own friars of the Order of st. Francis, Au gustinian Recollect and Augustin-

In the vestibule of the Cathe- dral the officers of the ceremony paused for a moment while Msgr. Hegarty, as archpriest, presented the aspergil to Bishop Buddy, who signed himself and presented it to Archbishop Cantwell, who signed himself and sprinkled th o s e

The dawn of a new day-the Diego long had sought. This was

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promise of . a future--words ut- tered by His Excrllency, Arch-

each group

ian Hermit orders,

augmented in numbers from other

dience or describing the pageant

bishop John J. Cantwell, D. D., in This was the day when in the old-

cities.

his sermon Wednesday morning at est of Western shrines a new and of ritual unfolding before him.

the solemn installation of Bishop wonderful honor was given. Charles Francis Buddy in the Ca- St. Joseph's High Altar and side thedral Church of the Diocese of Altars were beautifully decorated San Diago, rang in the ears and for the ceremony, shell colored heartr and minds of the hundred:, gladiolas and Talisman roses who filled St. Joseph's, those who blending beautifully with the gal- lined the streets outside and other den hues of the Altar and soft col- hundreds as ~hey sat in their ored robes of the statues. Palms homes and listened intently over created a sharp contrast with the radio to the ceremonies that their dark and sim,ple beauty, aot so much to them.

Old Pastors Return

Eight bishops were present in the white and scarlet and purple robes of their office, a Benedictine Abbot in black, and a score of monsignori in rich purple, chap- lains of the army and navy, Chris- tian Brothers, order priests from the various orders in the brown. black and white of the habits and

followed, around them. Msgr. Hegarty then

clergy

secular

The

many of whom were from the presented Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and in bJSbop who blessed the mcense yea.rs past had bsen stationed in and 1:eturned ~t to Msgr. He~arty, San Diego as pastors. and assist- who m tu_rn incensed the b1s~op ants. They had for a time envi- and archblShop. At the conclusion sioned this very da.y and had re- of this ceremony the "Ecce Sacre- turned to take part in its reality, dos'' was started by the choir of Among the religious, too, wen over one hundred voices under the many familia.r faces returned t(l direction of the Rev. Matthias the scene of their earlier endea.v- Lani, director of the Cathedral I ors. choiristers in Los Angeles. Then came the Monsignori, the . I bishops, the officers of the Mass . On reaching th e.sanctuary both and between bis deacons of honor bi~hop a nd archbishop knelt o_n lk d B . h Buddy to the Pl'le deus before the Altar. Theu wa e is op f" · h d th I . f th . ht "Ecce Sa prayers mIB e ' ey arose and strams o e mig Y • d M ,. "Behold th• bowed to each other, the arch- I cer as agnus - b" • • G . t P . t,. H wore the flow- ishop takmg his throne on the tea nes · e · tl "d f th Alt · l Wl ·th er ep1s e si e o e ar and B1sh- ing purp e cappa magna, · . . 11 d . foot tram· car· op Buddy takmg a seat prepared mme co ar an six- • . . ried by a small train bearer. Thior him before th e Altar. his dea- symbols of bis rank repased on cons. Fa th er T. J. McNamara and Al t b nted to himFather J. A. Daley, 0 . S. A. , stand- the tar, 0 e prese jng at his right and left. during the ceremony. the thurible ~o the

while the light of many candles some 150 secular priests in black This was a new day, a day un- 1 bathed the whole in a glow of cassocks and white face surplices. like those days and years that I splendor that was reflected in_the timt? had laid away. The terri- 1 cloth of gold worn by the officers tory that at one time was the I of the Mass. homP. of the savage. had shaken The body of the church was alsc itself. Its people would lay aside made ready as for the coming of the glorious past in which they a bride. Fem encircled the pillan, held so much store. It would for- in graceful folds, while the papal get the adolescence of its present flags of gold and white and the and live for the future and the diocesan and archdiocesan coat of work that was to be accomplished arms were much in evidence. by the new leader that was pro- vided for them through God's grace and the favor of the Apos- tolic See.