Saint Bede Academy - Via Baeda Yearbook (Peru, IL)

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- O RBEDA LIFE All the articles that appear nowadays concerning the teenager and television could not wholly apply to the St. Bede student. Television is available every night for an hour, but it is a rarity to see over a handful of students watching. Town permission is granted to boarding students on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Most students will avail themselves of the local theaters such as Jim Palka, Joe Meyers, Francis Beck, and Bob Benedetti are about to enter the Maiestic theater in LaSalle. Our own movie schedule brings some of Hollywood's best motion pictures to the stu- dent body. The movies are shown in the gymnasium with the basketball bleachers being used as theater seats. The team of Steve Staats, Jim Capes, and Bob Novreske supervise the proiecting encl. 25

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Father Marion is about to enter the confessional with Bernie Miks, Mike English, and Jim LePelI forming a waiting line. Saturdays and Sundays Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament is celebrated. Reverberating voices are heard as the entire student body ioins in singing the Benediction hymns with accompaniment by Pat Collins, our organist, as shown at the right. r WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS - No man is truly educated who is ignorant of his duties toward God and man. Any system of education which has no provi- sion for moral and religious training is incomplete. On Sundays a high Mass is sung while during the week a dialog Mass is celebrated at which the students recite the ordinary of the Mass along with the priest. Sunday sermons augment the classroom instructions in the religious training of the student. During the varsity football and basketball seasons Friday noon periods were used for pep sessions. Faculty men and players would appeal to the student body for school spirit and loyalty to the team. The football stadium was the scene of the first pep session as the rector, Father Theodore, addressed the student body. 24

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GTHER HIGHLIGHT - On the first Friday of every month day students have the opportunity of going to Mass and Holy Communion. Father Victor is here distributing Holy Communion as Ken Hughes and Allan Gorgal are waiting to receive. An opportunity to earn a great deal of spiritual profit was made available to the students of St. Bede when a Day of Recollection was held for them on November 21. Part of the day's program consisted of conferences given by Father Henry Bruce, C.P. and Father Henry Bonnike who are here talking to Francis Speltz and Bob Thibert. Ash Wednesday begins the traditional season of Lent. Father Marion, assisted by Fathers Felix and Christo- pher, places ashes on Tom Banta, Allen Anderson, Ray Calpin, and Wayne Burke. Occasionally during the school year the students attend special devotions, such as novenas to the Blessed Virgin and to St. Benedict, the May devo- tions, and extraordinary ceremonies on major feast days. Twice a year, on the feasts of the Immaculate Conception and of St. Benedict, Father Abbot Law- rence lat the right, celebrates a pontifical high Mass in the students' chapel. Everyone trying to live the spirit of the liturgy with full laity participation Fathers and students commemorate Palm Sunday services by marching in procession with palms in arms, from the monastery to the chapel.