Academy of Our Lady of Grace - Stella Yearbook (Colebrook, NH)

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The Sodallly of Qur Lady On November 27, 1953, feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, oernisslon to 1naugurate the Sodality in our Academy was requested from H1s Excellency Mathew F Brady This perm1ssion w s granted on the First Frlday, December 3, and Reverend Albert Gagnon was appointed Dlrector How grateful we were that we could organize our Sodality durlng the Marian Year' The first official m68t1Dg was held March 25, 1954 Was it not a symbolical day9 The Sodalist has to share in Mary's 'Drk But what lS the work that Mary had to do? That of the Annunclatlon bring Christ into herself in order to brlng Chrlst to others After studylng the need and the lmportance of Cathollc Action, fifteen of us presented ourselves as candldates on December 8, 1954 Affiliated with the Prlma Primarla, our Sodality is erected under the tltle and invocation of the Immaculate Conceptlon of tne Blessed Virgln Mary and under the patranage of Salnt larxa Gorettl May all of us learn always to go 'To Jesus Through Mary ' Front row G York, L Marquis, S Qullivan, P Qylvestre Second row M J Duverglas, I Frechette, C LaPerle, N Gagnon, J Dumont Standing I Belanger, M Dumoulin, M Marquls, Reverend Albert Gagnon, C Grondln, G Bouthilller, G Lamoureux AD JESUN i I W . . L . . '- Q 0 G. '. ' . o f 0 Q 0 1 , 0 0 0 . o O - . o - . . . . . 0 . . . - . - . . . - A 1 - O :iv 4 , - g O O 0 lv 0 I- 0 Q A 1 Q 0 0 I U O . n O C O O 0 - O O I O