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No. 40 

The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine 

Publications Department 

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1312 Massachusetts Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Copyright, 1941, by Confraternity of Christian Doctrine 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR HELPERS 

"Greet ... my helpers in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 16: 3) . 

Helpers arrange for the transportation of teachers, 
workers and pupils to instruction classes during the school 
year or during religious vacation-school classes, when the 
center of instruction is beyond walking distance. During 
the vacation school, they work in close cooperation with 
the Chairman of Transportation. In large parishes it is 
well to have a permanent Chairman of Transportation 
within the helpers' division, arranging for members with 
cars to call for members without cars who live a great dis-
tance from the place of meeting or teaching. The helpers 
may do many other things during the year to make the 
instruction classes more efficient and attractive. 

Save and collect from all members of the parish for 

redistribution: Catholic papers, pamphlets, magazines, 
books and other available forins of Catholic literature, to 
distribute according to local need in hospitals, railroad 
and bus stations, hotels, charitable and penal institutions, 
and to remail to nominal Catholics. Mail new literature 
and remail used literature to non-Catholics. The Catholic 
Action Committee, 424 N. Broadway, Wichita, Kans., the 
Catholic Information Society, P. 0. Box 35, Narberth, Pa., 

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Defenders of the Faith, Conception, Mo., Rumble and 
Carty Radio Replies, St. Paul, Minn., supply excellent in-
expensive leaflets. Fishers also distribute literature in mak-
ing home visits; they also supply the Chairman of Helpers 
with names and addresses of persons from whom it can be 
collected, and likewise with lists of non-Catholics who 
will receive it. It is well to appoint a Sub-chairman of 
Helpers for this activity. Not every piece of Catholic 
literature is appropriate for distribution to non-Catholics. 
A priest or his appointee should examine all literature col-
lected to assure its appropriateness. All literature should 
be clean and folded. Soiled or torn magazines and news-
papers make poor apostles. 

A Parish Confraternity Library should be supplied with 

current books of religious instruction and serviced by 
helpers. (See the Religious Vacation School Manuals for 
book lists.) 

Salvage the following materials for use in the develop-

ment of religious projects - the Chairman of Helpers 
should designate a place where they may be sent - and 
ask all members of the parish to bring or send them: 

1. Religious pictures, especially colored ones, from 
magazines; _greeting cards; calendars, etc. 
Use: small pictures for projects, large pictures to 
develop visual materials for teachers. 

2. Paper - silver, gold, all colors, from envelope lin-

ings, wall paper, scraps from paper ·dealers, cards 
and booklet covers; used manila envelopes.. 
Use: mounting pictures, making vestments, sacred 
vessels, booklet covers; manila envelopes are used 
to keep colored papers and patterns assorted. 

3. Cardboard, beaver and wall board. Request scraps 
from dealers. 
Use: plaque and picture mountings, miniature al-

tars, shrines, churches. 

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SPECIAL WoRK FOR VACATION SCHOOLS 

Assort salvaged materials, place them in separate 
ooxes or large manila envelopes, and label each container. 

Prepare cardboard patterns and paper figures to be 
used in developing project books. Mimeographed sheets 
of these patterns and figures are supplied with each proj-
ect. Use cardboard Christmas and greeting cards in mak-
ing patterns. Obtain from the Chairman of Fishers the 
number of children enrolled in each class, then consult 
with the Chairman of Lay Teachers to make sure which 
projects are being developed and to obtain patterns and 
written instructions. Make extra patterns for each class; 
each child should have one, and a surplus should be pro-
vided, as enrollment is often greater than anticipated. 

Sew the number of undeveloped project books re-
quested for each class. 

Pages of all books except the prayer books are to be 
numbered. Let the numbering be identical with the page 
numbering of the teacher's model. Copies_ may be obtained 
from the Chairman of Teachers. 

Note: The following may be found useful in proj-
ect work. 

Paste: 2 cups flour; 1 tablespoon alum to each cup 
of flour. Add enough cold water to make a smooth paste. 
Stir constantly while pouring enough boiling water on 
paste to make it like thick cream. Boil 20 minutes on 
slow fire stirring constantly from the bottom to prevent 
burning and lumping. Remove from fire and beat well. 
Add one-half teaspoon of any scented extract, such as oil 
of cloves, wintergreen or peppermint. 

Another type of paste may be made by securing pow-
dered paste from a paper-hanging store. This is very in-
expensive- 10 cents a pound. Just mix with a small 
amount of water. This must be mixed fresh each day. 

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Papier Mache: Tear sheets of newspaper (including 

the funny sheets or ariy kind of colored tissue paper 
wrappings) into shreds and soak in water (hot water) £ 
convenient) until very soft. Wring as nearly dry as possible 
and mix with paste (see recipe above), kneading thor-
oughly. If any water remains, squeeze through a cloth. 
Be sure there is enough paste to hold the paper together, 
but not so much that you can see it on the paper. Mix 
until soft like clay. Model and let dry in the sun if possible. 

Note: If a large group is making shrines, soak paper 
all night in laundry tub and wring through the wringer. 
To keep sweet, add a few drops of oil of doves or winter- ; 

green. 
Casein Glue: Powdered in bulk. Dissolve 20 to 30 

minutes in cold water. Good for any kind of woodcraft. 

Salt and Flour for Modeling: 1% cups flour; 1% cups 
salt. Mix flour in ·water to consistency of thick cream. 
Stir in the salt. Boil in double boiler for one minute. 

Sawdust and Plaster of Paris: To 3 or 4 cups of plaster 
of Paris add 1 cup of sawdust well dampened and ~ cup 
of thin casein glue. Spread thin casein glue on wood first, 
then apply mixture of plaster of Paris and sawdust. When 
dry this can be colored with calcimine. 

Nihil obstat. Henry J, Zolzer, Censor librorum. 

Imprimatur. t Thomas H. McLaughlin, Bishop of Paterson·. 

This and other literature issued by The Confraternity of 
Christian Doctrine, Publications Department, 1312 Massa-
chusetts Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., may be 
or!=lered direct from the publisher, St. Anthony's Guild, 

Pate·rson, N . . J. 

The ·cost of this leaflet is $1.50 per 100. 
In ordering, designate form 4D. 

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