Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1938-1940

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Nf~J PARISH GETS BOUNDARIES, NAME His Excellency, the Most Rev. Charles F. Buddy, announces that the name of the new parish on El Cerrito Heights is to be the par- ish of the Blessed Sacrament. and the boundaries, drawn by tl\e commission of priests appointed for the purpose, have also been approved by Bishop Buddy. I ar:oundaries for the ne.w parish Northern boundary - MJsr.1on Valley. I Southern boundary-University avenue. Eastern boundary-,Jcsse avcnuP. and Williams avenue at La Mesa city limits. Western boundary-Euclid ave- nue.

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Franci can isters Secured to Teach Religion to Chil- dren of Riverside County; Convent to Be Established at Corona. Heartened by the success of the recent financial campaign another important step was taken by His Excellency, the Most Rev. Bishop Charles F. Buddy, to upbuild the new Diocese and to provide for its urgent needs when , at a confer- ence attended Monday, May 23, at San Bernardino, by the Bishop and the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, a contract was con- cluded which provides for the in- stitution of the Order in the Dio- cese for Catechetical work among Catholic children in the public schools. Four members of these mis- sionary Sisters of St. Francis will make their headquarters in Co- rona, County of Riverside, next September and will give religious instiuction to the many Mexican, Italian and American children of St. Edward's parish, as well as the hundreds of Mexicans in the mis- sion at Casa Blanca, ten miles dis- tant. Tentative arrangements were made by His Excellency for the arrival of more Sisters later in or- der that the scene of their labors may· be extended to Perris, Elsin- ore and Alberhill. A home has been rented in Corona for tem- porary occupancy by the Sisters, but later pending an option now held, a suitable locaeion will be bought. I The new religious teachers hail from Glen Riddle, Pa., where their motherhouse is located. The pres- ent Sw.perior General of the Order is the Rev. Mother Mary Veronica whose subjects number 73 pro- fessed nuns and 60 novices. The work of these Franciscan Sisters wil be similar to that of the Catechists of Victoryknoll and the Sisters of the Holy .Family in San Diego. They will drive a car themselves and will be assisted by lay members of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in the vari- ous parishes and missions in their charge. Eventually their duties will carry them into the far reaches of Riv- erside county to bring the Faith of Christ to the thousands of chil- dren hitherto deprived of it and thus will they fittingly follow in the footsteps of the saintly Fran- ciscan, Junipero Serra, who bore the torch of truth to California's earliest inhabitants, the wild chil- dren of the west. On the afternoon of May 23, the conferees visited Corona and on their way called upon the Rev. David P. McAstocker, S.J., who, with the Rev. Michael Byrne, Pas- tor of St. Edward's Church, Co- rona, have long since expressed to His Excellency the desire to secure an Order of Sisters who would provide religious instiuction for the thousands of children de- prived of the benefits of a Cath- olic education in the vast places of Riverside county. The conference at San Bernar- dino was attended by Bishop Buddy, the Rev. Mother Mary Veronica, Superior General of the Missionary Sisters of St. Francis, the Superior General's Secretary, and the Mother Provincial of the West.

. li:.,:sionary (;a{echists, Al- ready Doing E cellent ,v ork in Diocese, Asked to Provide More Sh,ters to Teach Catechi ·m. The succe s which has crewned the Christ-like labors of the Mis- sionary Catechists in San Ben1ar- dino and Imperial Counties. where they provide catechetical instruc- tion for the religiously underprivi- ledged children of ten parishes and their missions, prompted His Excellency, Bishop Charles F. Buddy, to call Wednesday of this week at the motherhouse of the Order at Victoryknoll, Huntington, Ind., to place before the Sisters' Superior his request for additional members to meet a like need in other sections of the Diocese of San Diego. Founded in 1918 to solve one of the very acute problems which now happen to confront Bishop Buddy, the Missionary Catechists of Victoryknoll came to Southern Callfornia November 17, 1930, and established their first center at Calipatria, in Imperial Valley. Against practically insurmount- able difficulties and in the face of continuous hardships, the intrepid pioneers prayed and labored until today the field of their labors ex- tends from three centers- Braw- ley, Redlands and Coachella- with 5,000 children under their care. To Americans, Italians, Indians, Mexicans, Chinese and Negroes in the Diocese, the .81cad of Life k broken now by 25 of these zealous Missionary Catechists. Medical care, social welfare, the general moral and spiritual uplift of the thousands of families they visit annually are also to the cred- it of these Missionary Sisters of Victoryknoll. Their work in the medical dispensary during the past year at Redlands has brought gen- eral commendation from the civic and religious leaders of that city. Though the demand for them is great, it is the Bishop's hope that their number in this Diocese will be increa.~ed as a result of his visit to Victoryknoll, to the end that thousands of children throughout the Diocese without the benefit of a Catholic educa- tion will be provided with the proper religious instruction and care.

Receive Degrees at Holy Cro: Saturday ,

After his business has been transacted in the east this week Bishop Buddy will spend Fri- day and Saturday at st. Mary's College, Holy Cross, Ind., where he is scheduled to deliver the Baccalaureate address for this year's large class of graduates, and preside at the conferring of degrees. Among the young women to receive degrees at St. Mary's College is Miss Elizabeth Ann Dandurant of St. Joseph, Mo., a niece of the Bishop. ASKS CARMHITES ,. TO CONDUCT HOME After his successful conference at San Bernardino the Most Rev. Bishop Charles F. Buddy en- trained for Milwaukee, where he conferred Monday, May 30, with the Provincial of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus at their motherhouse, to whom also he submitted plans for a home for the aged and made ar- rangements for the arrival in the Diocese of members of the Order to conduct it. The Carmelite Sisters were founded in Germany in 1891 and came to the United States in 1912. The Order in the United States consists of 200 professed Sisters, located in the Archdioceses of Los Angeles, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis. San Antonio and in the Di- oceses of Fort Wayne, Corpus Christi and San Diego. The Or- der's present members in this Dio- cese are located in Riverside and teach catechism to the Mexican children in the parishes of River- side and some of its environs. Eight homes for the aged are maintained by the Carmelites in the United States. These Sisters also have charge of seven orphan- ages, four day nurse1ies and four home missions. The Little Flower Fund given to the Bishop by the people of the Diocese enables His Excellency to bring these members of the Little Flower's own community to San Diego to establish and maintain here a home for the aged.

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