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

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4 Q X, X cm my 1 l X 1, iii' , X. . v' ll 522' Q'-2213 3 in - If I . ' Y, 1 i ,F 5 ' --,.-.. wv ',,,ail' 1-n-sill A A Message to the Seniors As the school year draws to a close and you are about to complete your studies in Aquinas, receiving your diplomas of graduation and saying farewell to your teachers and class-mates, I naturally feel not merely an interest in you but a deep concern about you, I am wondering how you will get along in years to come, what success life has in store for you and what influence for good you will exercise upon those around you. The past at Aquinas with all your efforts in acquiring knowledge, in building character and in spiritual development, is now a closed book, it cannot be changed or gone over again. There is no second trial. The future for you is, however, an open book and what you will write there in time to come is something which you should think deeply and seriously about as you go forth from Aquinas, not to return. Aquinas is a Catholic school and its aim is, and always will be, to impart religious as well as scholastic training, in harmony with the spirit and teaching of the Church. Without minimizing the temporal, it makes the cultivation of the Christ-life or union with Christ the supreme purpose of education. There are many other elements which receive attention but they are all secondary to the one all-important spiritual objective, the quest for the pearl of great price, the Kingdom of God and His justice. - This great fact, I know, you have kept in view during the past four years and have given to it, no doubt, the attention it deserves, but it is the future that I am anxious about. If you fail spiritually hereafter, then all your efforts and ours likewise, will have been in vain and Aquinas might as well have never been. - There is no particular test of fidelity in that respect which I know of, ezgcept one, and while that may not be wholly decisive in the broad View of things, it will furnish, nevertheless, a fair means of formingla judgment. That test is the continuation of your active and devoted membership in the Sodality of Our Lady beyond school days. I have been most pleased and edified by your work in the Sodality, your fidelity, your constancy, your interest in all those things which make a Sodality what it should be and which render such honor to Our Lord and His Blessed Mother. ' Will you continue to associate yourselves actively with the Sodality in your respective parishes after you leave Aquinas? Will you in days to come be leaders in your parish Sodalities, walking before others less favored as a light on their paths, and that not just for a little while but on and on, into manhood and womanhood? That is the matter which gives me concern. Therein is the test. I pray you to be in that respect loyal and true. Shrink not from the small sacrifices which it involves. The rewards which will come from such a course will far outweigh any difficulties found in it. May God bless and protect you. I wish you success in life, temporal and eternal, and you will remember that the same road, through faith and truth and righteousness, leads to both. 1' ALEXANDER J. MCGAVICK, Bishop of La Crosse. 1 -, -axsss 'ff f.'.5--- ....-ss.-s-S Q ny777l 'wt Q 5- , ' s '-I-.cmwg-..--' x , aah!-85 'lasxss 5-sif Page 1 4