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A Versatile Priest Inspired by a Lady If some brown and brawny marine in the South Pacific stares puzzled at a booklet entitled "Shall 1 Be a Nun?" it is simply a mistake. But it is ex-
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cusable. This booklet could easily have slipped in with the thousands of inure practical pamphlets which "The Queen's Work" in St. Louis has shipped to boys in training or on the battlefronts. All of which merely means that a wide, new field has opened to Father Daniel A. Lord, S.J,, most prolific and most widely read of the pamphleteers. Lately His output is staggering. averaging one pamphlet a month, he has published more than one hundred and forty in these last fifteen years. Short enough to be read in less than An hour, their catchy titles and colourful jackets urge one to examine the first few lines. That is all the wedge Father Lord needs. Once begun, you do not put down his books for anything less than fire or flood or, lately, Dullness, in his pria steak dinner. vate catalogue, is the last and greatest So he teaches, he of the capital sins. tickles, he teases, he satirises, he orates,
he dramatises-whatever will startle his readers into thinking and acting on the glories of their Faith, the ugliness of sin, and the utter reasonable. ness of an upright moral life. Really
he talks theology through and through, Fut theology on the wavelength of the man who rides the streetcar. He has pamphlets on all the truths of the Church. The most enduringly popular are "Confession is a Joy," "The Pure of Heart''-a masterpiece, and "They're Married." Chaplains everywhere are supplei,isting their personal contact with encyclopedias. these handy moral Father Lord can show you a sheaf of letters like that of the Navy Chaplain who wrote: "The last batch of pamphlets was immediately exhausted at a Wednesday Monday Devotions. sailor slipped into my office requesting that I hear his confession at once. In our conversation I asked him how after years of neglect he had returned to God. Still clutching a copy of your pamphlet on confession he told me that one of his shipmates had given He was so imit to him to read. pressed that he determined to make his confession at once." One gets a pretty good analysis of the serviceman's mind and problems from the titles he asks for most. Chap -
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Special Appeal to the Young By William F. Kelly in "The Sign" Energy lustrate his conversation. A perfect marks his every motion. mirror for his thought is his mobile face. When he is lecturing, it is generally wreathed in a broad grin which can change in a flash to severity, scorn, resentment, or reproach, 13ut it is the smile which is most characteristic. It's so contagious that you will soon find yourself smiling back unconsciously. His leisurely, informal, interested manIt is merener may deceive you too. ly a camouflage over the rush and routine of a life that consists largely in catching trains and deadlines. You will notice another thing in speaking with Father Lord. Intensely spiritual himself, he will soon have you talking about Christ and His Blessed Mother with an ease and familiarity that you never imagined possible before. First and foremost a priest, Father FATHER DANIEL A. LORD, Si. Lord can hardly be styled merely a pamphleteer-any more than he can lams order "1 Can Take It Or Leave be called an editor, dramatist, comIt Alone," on drinking. "Of Dirty poser, retreat master, author, lecturer, "What To Stories," "They're Married," His veror any of ten otner titles. Do on a Date,- 'Why Be Decent?" and the very popular booklet pointed right satility confuses those of us who have thing at a one to doing grown used to the soldier, "A Salute to Men in the time. It is not that sermons, songs, Service." An amusing repercussion on a pam- and books pour from him. They are, phlet came recently. In "What To Do rather, the result of long, backbreaking on a Date" Father Lord suggests that hours at his desk. If the volume and the boy and his partner take an inter- variety of his output is amazing, it is est in the cultural side of life-concerts, simply a testimony to his immense energy and industry. So, the art museum, opera, lectures. His various abilities, however, do a willing but not too imaginative young have a common end: they are stepfellow wrote in: "Well, I took my girl to the City's Art Museum. Okay! Now ping stones heavenward for young people. Their elders come under his inwhat do I do?" fluence, but most of his projects are A young Jewish boy wrote Father Lord from camp: "Your little book, undeniably pointed for high school and 'Dare We Hate Jews?' was a revelation college students and for young parishto me. It was the first time in my ioners. They love him because he experience that any Catholic except never "talks down" to them and beyour Pope protested against the per- cause he is a fluent master of their jarWhen he gave the Marquette gon. -edition of my people." When you meet Father Lord, his University retreat, the Catholic stulaughing young eyes make you forget dents complained-the non-Catholics, that his well -parted hair is unquestion- all exempt from attending the retreat, ably silver. And that quick, smooth insisted on hearing him and monopolisstride is not typical of a heavy man ed all the front seats. His who is perhaps five -feet -eleven. To inspire Father Lord there is a His tallarge, strong fingers and heavy wrists Lady-The Blessed Mother. ents are dedicated to honouring her. are surprisingly supple and artistically graceful in the frequent gestures that il- Officially he is the National Organiser
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her Sodality In 1925 he found himself made editor of the Sodality magazine, then gasping along with three thousand subscribers. Fresh, vigorous, and lively, it to -day has a circulation of 103,000. He calls it "The Magazine with 100,000 Editors," because the ideas, problem stories, and contests all come from the readers, Because no title could describe this magazine more aptly, it is called "The Queen's Work." Nobody ever refers to the National Sodality Office in St. Louis. The large red brick residence, now converted to offices, is simply "The Queen's Work." No one can recount Knute Rockne's
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house behind America's fifteen thousand Sodality units in parishes, upper schools, and grade schools. Obviously here is no one-man joh. It calls for a clinic of specialists. Six priests devote all their time to this organisational work. Working under these directors is a family (one just can't use the word "office force") of about sixty secretaries, shippers, and other detail workers. In 1931 four hundred young people gathered in St. Louis for the first Summer School of Catholic Action. Vear by year this project of Father Lord and his staff has mushroomed_ Last summer sixtyifive hundred students and teachers registered in New Orleans, St. Louis, St. Paul, Boston, New York, and Chicago. This year Montreal also will sponsor this one week leadership course. These young people are trained in Liturgy, Study Club methods, Mental Prayer, Catholic Literature, Government, Teaching the Catechism, Cooperatives, and in other courses which will help them as individuals and as leaders. Rut the school is not all work. In the evenings parties are given to teach the students how to entertain themselves innocently and inexpensively. Father Lord's constant theme is that religion was never meant (Continued on Page 4.)
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