Assumption University - Ambassador Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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E cf 'S . seg rv-Q. If ff fl' 5 V, x 2 : X 'Nsi X ,Q-X 1 v ' by ,- 'w.S: Qrgbxx C i -, - ? X . 5 E 'iid' l if, uguifa' 'E ,'1n'-,l?- -' ' -'S'gsI'f7 l J rrilnsth t Most Rev. J. C. Cody, L.L.D., Bishop of London Bisfiofzs cllfleisruys My dear friends: I respectfully suggest that you ponder These words of an outstanding scholar and a great beliver, His Emmin- ence Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini of Milan: Prayer is the highest activity of the intellect, which, having reached the limits of its powers, calls onthe other faculties, and especially on Love, not now in search of truth, but to surrender to it and to serve it. And a wonder- ful thing happens. The soul becomes aware of a Voice, living, strong, gentle as the voice of a friend ,who from eternity has awaited this ineffable moment - for prayer is a conversation. How can we describe this encounter, how depict the beauty of this meeting of man with God - a beauty which the arts have striven, each in its own way, to express. For prayer is a living action, a communion. Wishing you God's choicest blessings l remain Devotedly yours, 05 Bishop of London 68

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Rev. E. C. LeBel, C.S.B., M.A., C.D. f .qlzsiccfanf 1 f 511035 My Dear Students: Hearty congratulations to the graduates ot 1962! A thought was expressed in the citation read at Convocation IDec.lI honoring the Governor General, which I think is worth repeating. Since the time of the Greeks, and more emphatically since the Judeo-Christian revelation, which culminated in Our Lord, enlightened mankind has striven to attain the excellent. In the Iliad, Homer portrayed the excellent in Achilles the soldier, in the Odyssey, he portrayed the excellent in the wily thinking leader, Ulysses, Plato idealized the Philosopher-King, in his Republic. In the Old Testament men revered the patriarchs, prophets and Kings. Christ Himself set the pattern of the excellent and His closestimitators are known as saints. In every age, the excellent has been set up so that the young could have before them what Whitehead calls the habitual vision of greatness. All education needs the habitual vision of greatness. All teachers must show their students what is great and first-rate in their subject. A University must show their students the best things that have been done, thought and written in the world and fix these in their minds as a standard by which to measure greatness. Not only must the student learn to know excellence in things, in the arts, and humanities and the sciences, but he must be able to recognize excellence existentially in people and have reverence for it. With cordial good wishes to all for an excellent year. if'-Lellqoc REV. E. C. LeBEL, C.S.B. 69 PRESIDENT