http://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/browse?collection=10&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle&sort_dir=a&output=atom2024-03-28T08:51:52-05:00Omekahttp://digitalcollections.loras.edu/items/show/2931Postcard to Monsignor Foley written on May 2, 1944]]>2022-07-21T08:29:08-05:00
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Postcard to Monsignor Foley written on May 2, 1944
The enclosed pictures were taken at my midnight Mass celebrated in the South Sea Islands on Christmas, 1943, by Chaplain William J. Menster of the United States Navy.
Lt. William J. Menster, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dubuque now serving as a Navy chaplain "Somewhere in the South Pacific," in a letter to the Very Rev. Msgr. Dorance V. Foley, Chancellor of the Archdiocese, "recalled years ago as a youngster, putting pennies in a Propagation of the Faith box to collect $5 to have a Chinese baby baptized."
Today's feast is one of the Church's newer feasts, established to set forth a model and as a protection against certain beliefs and practices that would force God out of the modern home.