DePaul University Via Sapientiae De Andrein Vincentian Journals and Publications 1951 Volume 21: 1950-51 Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/andrein Part of the History of Religions of Western Origin Commons Recommended Citation Volume 21: 1950-51. https://via.library.depaul.edu/andrein/35 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Vincentian Journals and Publications at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in De Andrein by an authorized administrator of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact [email protected]. IN LOVING MEMORY THIS ISSUE IS DEDICATED TO MARTIN McHUGH, C.M. ~nbueIn VOLUME 21 PERRYVILLE, MISSOURI, OCTOBER, 1950 NO. 1 + Dominus pars here- Tu es qui restitues ditatis meae et calicis hereditatem me am mei. mihi. ±f ± MARTIN P. M[cHUGH, C.M. If Marty were alive, he would be studying the very beauti- dusk, one of the party rushed into camp with word that ful doctrines on Mary's part in our salvation. He would Marty's canoe had overturned and he had been lost in the learn that every grace comes through Mary, Co-Redemp- current. The students in the canoes following were still trix, Mediatrix of all Graces. Yet, we feel sure that Marty searching frantically after two hours. The shock, our utter now knows these things as we'll never know them after disbelief, the almost uninterrupted search during the next years of study. fifty hours-moments etched forever on memory. The family was notified. His brother, Fr. Michael McHugh, rushed He lived as if he always understood them. His own to camp-in time for the discovery of the body and the Mother gave him to Mary twenty-five years ago, and his last drive to Fredericktown. Next morning Fr. Michael said whole life-as a Cape boy, Novice and Scholastic-was one the first Requiem High Mass in the camp chapel. That day dedicated to Mary. Marty loved Her Rosary. His Thanks- Marty's Dad and his three other brothers arrived from giving after Communion was made usually with a Rosary Chicago. After the Office and Solemn Mass here on Satur- slipping through his fingers. There was a Rosary under his day, Marty was taken to Chicago for the Funeral Mass and pillow. Marty was our organist, and a hymn to Mary was his burial on August 22, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of choice every time. Her statue was on his desk; her medal Mary. round his neck. It was always "Mary" with that bit of a To tell how we feel about Marty-it's impossible. We just brogue-the way an Irishman always says it. His day, his can't capture all the impressions of the men here who life, his priesthood-to-be-all for Mary. We saw, more or less, knew him so well. What was he like at rock bottom? What the marks of the devotion; Mary saw the man-and took is the word that test keynotes his life? him to herself on her Feast of the Assumption after Mass Someone will say: "Sincerity"! And he's right. Marty's and Holy Communion. likes and his dislikes were his own-even when, perhaps, After a hard schedule at St. Louis University summer they were given him by others. His temper was quick; his school, Marty was enjoying the few weeks at camp before search to forgive and be forgiven was quick too. He so often Fall classes. Seemingly enjoying them even more than usal asked us to help him overcome himself. When he said in spite of the "honor" of Camp Dean. His natural leader- or did something, it was never a "front". He was always ship had full play-even on the 15th when his canoe led "Marty". the way from the Dam downr'ver to camp. The morning "Unselfishness!" "Cheerfulness!" "Charity!" Yes, to all had been so good, it was a shame to miss an afternoon of these-and a hundred more. He was for the Community floating below camp. Marty was in a canoe and gone. At (Continued on Page Two) Pa.ce Twon The De: Andrein Very Rev. William Slattery Visits the Barrens On September 20th, the Very Reverend William Slattery, C. M., Superior Gen- eral of the Congregation of the Mis- sion, arrived in St. Louis to visit the Western Province, accompanied by the Rev. Pierre Dulau, C. M., the Secre- tary General. This snapshot was taken the following day as our most honored Father entered the priest house here at the Barrens. The complete student body, all the novices and priests con- gregated at the front entrance to wel- come him. After his arrival and infor- mal welcome, we proceeded to the Com- munity Chapel and chanted the Mag- nificat. After this the Very Reverend Superior General was shown arou"d the spacious seminary grounds by Frn. William Barr, Joseph Lilly and the two directors. In a short ceremony thab night in the student auditorium, Mr. James Galvin, C. M., on behalf of students, novices and brothers, formally wel- comed our distinguished visitor. Point- ing out the historical significance of the Barrens and the part it has played in the development of the Community On the left, Rev. William Slattery, C.M., Superior General of the Congregation here west of the Mississippi, he thank- of the Mission; on the right, Rev. James Stakelum, C.M., Visitor of the Western ed God and justified our pride in being Province. members of the Community. As Ameri- cans we feel honored that our Superior troduced the main speaker of the carry out successfully the work of St. General should be from amongst our evening. Vincent. number, but it is truer that our real Fr. Slattery, after reminding uhSthat All were touched by the request of honor is our effort for strwvina after he visited here 14 years ago, immedi- our prayers for our persecuted con- the spirit of St. Vincent DePaul. ately proceeded to extend to us the best freres, both those in the Eastern Mis- The Falso Bardoni then spng in four wishes of the confreres in Paris at sions and those behind the Iron Cur- parts Remondi's beautiful "O Sacrum the Mother House. He singled out tain. He proceeded to commend Convivium" and Arcadelt's "Ave Ma- Rev. Edouard Roberts, former Vicar the praiseworthy work of his counsel- ria." General, as being especially pleased to ors at the Mother House in Paris. To- Now Fr Stakelum, our Visitor, in- send the American confreres his re- gether with this he beseeched our troduced the Superior General. In a gards. prayers for those directing the Com- short speech he pointed out the great Then Fr. Slattery praised the Wes- munity in its so very important tasks. love that all members of the Western tern Province. As far as he could ob- Much like St. Vincent, Fr. Slattery Province have for the Barrens; that serve there was little doubt but that' closed his talk with an exhortation to this love is really love of the Commun- we had the spirit of St. Vincent DePaul. observance of rules, progress in our ity; that love for our Community is The scholastics were urged to con- personal spiritual lives and an ever in- none other than our love for St. Vin- tinue assiduously their pursuit of the creasing devotion to St. Vincent him- .a-red sciences so as to be able to self. cent. Then in touching word. be in- _ ,, i, -- -- built on God. When Archbishop Ritter of the De Andrein, Dean, he grew dur- MARTY McHUGH had Marty repeat after him at Ton- ing his student years till last Spring (Continued from Page One) sure: "Dominus pars hereditatis meae he was elected President of the Stu- and our part of it here. There was et calicis mei: Tu es qui restitues dent Mission Society and our repre- never Self in the way. His troubles, hereditatem mihi" (The Lord is the sentative at the National CSMC Con- his time, were nothing when he portion of my inheritance and my cup: vention this summer. Above all his could make someone else forget. He (Lord) it is you who will give me back heart always looked ahead to years. always adjusted himself to take care of my inheritance), Marty meant this in China giving all he had to others. you. He was not to be outjoked. His consecration, this separation of the new He directed our Mail to the Mission bubbling laughter lifted above a crowd cleric from anything that could take his program. He would miss that family made you smile at his delight even heart from God, as an all-out pledge. of his, but there was a job to be done. when you couldn't see him. And he He was "big" physically and made it In the classroom there was the same laughed when the joke was on him. a way to give himself to others whip- interest. He was a "go-getter" when Even his faults could be said to have ping up interest in sports and plunging he thought it necessary. He was not come from forgetting his own interests in himself. He was in the lead to pro- "top of the class". True. But he lacked in an outpouring of sympathy for any- vide entertainment- a minstrel, play none of the qualities of an outstand- one who needed an ear or a shoulder. or "cornshow". Anyway he could help ing student and did above-average Personally, we would say the keynote -no matter how small the job-he was work.