Concordia College - Spire / Concordian Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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TE DEUM LAUDAMLIS We Praise Thee, O God, We acknowledge Thee To be The Lord. All The earTh doTh worship Thee, The Fafher everlasTing. To Thee all angels cry alolud. The Heavens and all The powers Therein, To Thee cherubim and seraphim conTinually do cry: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of SabaoTh, Heaven and earTh are full of The maiesTy of Thy glory. The glorious company of The AposTles praise Thee. The goodly fellowship of The propheTs praise Thee. The noble army of marTyrs praise Thee. The holy Church ThroughouT all The world doTh acknowledge Thee The FaTher of an infiniTe maiesTy, Thine adorable, True and only Son, Also The Holy GhosT, The ComforTer. Thou arT The King of Glory, O ChrisT. Thou arT The everlasTing Son of The FaTher. When Thou TookesT upon Thee To deliver man, Thou didsT humble Thyself To be born of a virgin. When Thou hadsT overcome The sharpness of deaTh, Thou didsT open The kingdom of heaven To all believers. Thou siTTesT aT The righT hand of God In The glory of The FaTher. We believe ThaT Thou shalT come To be our judge. We Therefore pray Thee, help Thy servanTs, Whom Thou hasT redeemed wiTh Thy precious blood. Make Them To be numbered wiTh Thy sainTs In glory everlasTing. O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine heriTage. Govern Them and lifT Them up forever. Day by day we magnify Thee. And we worship Thy name ever, world wiThouT end, Vouchsafe, O Lord, To keep us This day wiThouT sin. O Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us. O Lord, leT Thy mercy be upon us, as our TrusT is in Thee. O Lord, in Thee have I TrusTed, leT me never be confounded.

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DEDICATIC T0 ' CHALLE G The challenge of Concordia is the call to its students to be men of Christ. It summons Christ's man to take life from God and to return it to Him by integrating it into that part of Christ's body, the Church, which lives on this campus. Concordia challenges us to grow by taking life from God-consciously, richly, greedily. It dares us to take Life from the Holy Eucharist and from the Sacred Scrip- tures-to take life from Christ incarnate in the brother, from Church Fathers, philoso- phers, scientists, psychologists, from Cicero, Sophocles, Goethe, T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Wil- liams, from books, magazines, and sheet music, frorn Bach and Brubeck, from intra- linears, from choir and cheerleading, from golf and girl friends. But Concordia also challenges the man of Christ to grow through returning life humbly to God. lt calls for the humility that is action, the action of willing and doing the humdrum sub specie aeternitatis. lt is the humility that irons shirts, that completes bor- ing lesson assignments, that treats to a coke, that feeds the ducks, that smiles on a rainy morning, that memorizes Hebrew vocables, that teaches a retarded child, that takes time to listen, to laugh at a dull ioke, to help with a problem, to counsel, to reprimand, to en- courage, to comfort, that eats noodles with thanksgiving, that lends a dollar, a type- writer, a razor blade, a tie, an automobile, that sings, that prays, forgives and loves . . . . . . above all, that loves. For, finally, Concordia calls for Christ's man to grow in love as Christ loved, recklessly, urgently, completely. For while the greatest suffering is that of being unable to love, the greatest ioy is to be carried away by a vision, how- ever unreasonable, that springs from a great Love. -