Academy of the Sacred Heart of Mary - Nytana Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Mary Mayor rn Rome, Hts Hohness Pope Prus XII maugurated the Maman Year, openmg the ceremony wrth a prayer he hrmself had composed Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and rm pelled by the anxtetres of the world, we cast ourselves 1nto your arms O Immaculate Mother of Jesus and our Mother, Mary O crystal Fountam of Faxth bathe our mmds wnth eternal truths' O well be loved of God hear the ardent cry whrch rtses up from every heart rn thrs year dedrcated to you Convert the wrcked dry the tears of the afllrcted and op pressed quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safe guard the flower of putrty tn youth protect the Holy Church, make all men feel the attractron of Chrrstran goodness That day the presence of Mary filled the streets crowded wrth thousands of school chrldren and adults who wanted patrently to honor Hts Holmess as he traversed the streets of Rome for the first trme rn ten years on hrs way to and from the Basrlrca of Samt Mary Mayor After the maugural ceremony the Pontrff proceeded to the Vancan where he broadcasted a message urgmg all Itahan Cathohcs to rntercede wtth Mary Immaculate that the purposes of the Marxan Year mtght, through God's lovrng mercy, be realtzed that devotron to the Mother of God be mcreased and her exalted vtrtues more farthfully rmrtated, that peace, charrty and yustrce be revrved among men, and lrberty restored to the peoples recently overcome by the horrors of persecutron lhtt ceremony on December S IOM xx ts nn mem ory ofthe t tx one hundred ye tts tco xxhen Hts Holt ness Pope IJILIS IX exerctslnn the gift of tnfllhblhtx proc nmed thtt the doctrtne xx hlch holds thtt the Most Blessed VIYQIII Mlry at the hrst moment of her eonceptton xx ts by the stngultr grtce tnd prtxlleec of the Omnlpotent God ln xrrtue of the merlts of esus Lhrtst Sn lor of thc human r tee preserxed from all stun of orrgtntl sm rs revealed by God and there fore to bc hrmly and resolutely belreyed by all the futhful lnefftbths Deus XX tth untxcrs 11 1nd unalloyed yoy the Cathohc xxorld xxeleomed the procltmttlon of that dogma xxhtch tt htd expressly accepted for mtny centurtes Our Lady grtctously detgned to seal the declaratlon xxrth her lpprox al by tppearmg several trmes to Ber nadette Soubrrous a humble httle gtrl rn the httle town of lourdes sltuated rn the south of France Wlaen Bernadette awed by the splendor of the celes Illl VISION h 1d rnqurred the name of the beauttful Lady she h td rephed wtth mefftble svxeetness, I am the lmm tcul tte Coneeptron As soon as the farthful learned of these vrstons, they flocked from all ox er the xxorld to that obscure vrllage, and many marxelous mrracles rewarded thetr futh Mtry had counseled Bernadette to have a church bu1lt rn her honor on the exact srte of the vrstons The magnrhcent basrlrca vyhrch stands there today IS a trrbute of love and gratrtude for the superabundant graces obtamed through her mtercessron, and a refuge for the oppressed multttades who annually journey there on ptlgrrmtges from the ends of the earth ' ' .. ,w . 'I , ' .'l . 7 r - I Q xl ' t t, , t. ' . . . . 1 f I e ' , 4, . r . . I k l 1 x rg r IL . t . .Q - L- A . 1 A L A A ' ll, ' 1 Il l I 'll' 1 ' . . . . Q L41 l . V l , , - 1 , . J -, L, . , A-, I lt I I 4 'JI A I I ' , 7 a a a V' A ' 1' V Y . I K . h 'L 4 . 7' , f -, I v ' . . . I ' l 1 I ' ' 2 I t ' v -e - . A ' ' 1 7 h . t . . 1 ' L I Q Qc x, Y Q fi fi Y , n . . . . . K . I ,L - , I . I ' s 1 , 1 . A . 1 y 1 t a U f 71 r , . I - .. K L' . I . I . V Y L , , 4 t A I K L L . L ' . ' ' . ' . . ,, . . . .. . t . ' ' t e ' 1 . D - 1 h t t t , I t , e .... ' ' I . 2 , - 9 n 1

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xv CEN T ENAR Y 1854 On December 8 1854 before a vast and splendxd congregatron of cardrnals archb1shops bishops and other dngnxtarles assembled rn St Peter s Basrlrca H1s Holmess Pope Plus IX wnth mfalhble and apostolrc authorlty proclarmed to the Catholrc world the dogma of Mary s Immaculate Conceptlon Our Lady he knew would be a beacon to hght the way for the fa1thful amldst the storms of cymcrsm and godlessness of that era Q 1954 Now a hundred years later another Pope gazmg sorrowfully at a world rent asunder by hate and greed by fear and diabolical persecutnon and remem berlng that the Church has always had recourse to Mary m tnmes of dnre need has rssued an encycllcal Fulgens Corona dedlcatmg thrs centennnal year as a tune of fervent devotnon and suppllcatlon to the Immaculate Mother of God On December 8 1953 m the Basxlncxa of Samt 8 eeee t' 8 I 'C , - gxxa: wx .-'Kg . my , - I ' ' 8 M' lx .I I , N-. y . 'e l 2. A of the Dogma of the I Immaculate Conceptlon

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