Aquinas High School - Trumpet Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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The blessing of the Golden Mass gifts precedes their being sent to the mission fields. The Reverend Stanley Andrzejewski, celebrant, is flanked by the Rever- end George Nelson, deacon, and the Reverend James Ennis, subdeacon. Acolytes are Howard Erickson, Thomas Bruha, Earl Ritter, Thomas Gautsch, and Rudolph Lusk. The Reverend Joseph Ferron and Charles McCabe represent the faculty and homeroom officers. Golden Mass Annual participation in the Golden Mass highlighted the pre-Christmas season. On December 20 the seventh yearly observance occurred. At the Offertory of the Mass the students carried to the altar gifts of food and clothing to be sent to the nation's missions. The Mass of the Wednesday in the Ember Week of Advent, the Golden Mass, is one which reflects the faith and joy of the Christian who awaits the redemption earned for him by One Whose coming the penitential season of Advent anticipates. ln such a spirit, the Christian, in thanksgiving for the rewards of eternal happiness offered to Him, gives of his temporal gifts to those less fortunate than himself. Giving the gifts at the Offertory further reminds the Mass-goer of the participation of the laity in the Sacrifice. It commemorates, as does the Offertory collection in any Mass, the ancient days in which those attending Mass provided, at that juncture, the bread and wine for the Eucharistic service. Homeroom officers lead the student body in the reception of Holy Communion. Holy Mass was cele- brated in the auditorium, temporarily improvised as a chapel for this occasion. Sixty f

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Mass Servers I950 - I9 I Each school day commences with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Each student who participates does so in the knowledge that it is the constantly renewed Sacrifice of Calvary in which he partakes. The Sacrifice of the Mass is the perfect sacrifice. It is the offering of the infinite Son of God to His Father in reparation for man's sins. The student's participation in the Mass suggests his sorrow for his own misdeeds and his desire to obtain from the Mass the grace to do better. ' The Mass is the renewal of that act of infinite love of an infinite Being in which He gave Himself for His creatures. Again, when the student partakes in the Mass, he shows his appreciation and a willingness to recipro- cate the love of his God. Christian education would be incomplete without the Mass, for it is the purpose of Christian education to inspire man to seek to serve his Godg that is, to practice the virtue of religion. The Mass is the perfect act of religion.

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'tx' :Pl 0 A ,...,7. lie I 5, E f I if X ai Court members in upper row include Evelyn Kamrnel, Kathleen Dwyer, Ruth Udulutch, Queen Harriet Galligan, Mary Lois Glotz, Therese Shedesky, and Janice Mader. Other members are, left to right, Beverly Kulas, Barbara Bracken, Jeanette Schams, Mary Rathburn, Ellen Grams, and Mary Ziegelmaier, Center picture, Queen Harriet Gal- ligan is accompanied by Janice Mader, Ruth Udulutch, and page Michael Ziegelmaier. The Reverend John Trant who preached the sermon for the occasion is shown in the lower picture. ar , We Crown Thee Each year the student body demonstrates its respect and veneration for the one worthy to be the Mother of God in the annual crowning of the Virgin Mary as Queen of May. The crowning symbolizes a dedication of that month to a more intensified pursual of that type of lite which won for the Queen of Heaven her reward. Ceremonies last year consisted of a student procession, the crowning, an address in Tribute to Mary by the Reverend John Trant and Bene- diction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Harriet Galligan was chosen by her classmates to perform the coronation. Sixty-one jf N1 we ,TJ .4-