Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Disciple Timmy XV C' ATHER GLEN HAMILTON, tall, blonde, and twenty-eight, came to Saint Catherines in May in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three. Because the people of the town were always a little conservative in welcoming a stranger into their midst, he wasn't too enthusiastically received by the community. Father Glen, as he came to be called, possessed of the zeal which youth and the grace of the priesthood bestow, soon dissipated their reluctance to accept him and everyone was calling him friend , One day, after the good Father had been at his new post for about three months, he found it necessary to go down to the union depot to pick up some luggage that had been delayed in ship- ment. He was on his way to the baggage room of the station, when he heard, Fa-, Father Hamilton. He turned, and there directly behind him stood a small boy-a lad about ten years old. Well, hello there. And who are you? I'm Timmy! the child declared. I'm very glad to meet you, Timmy, the priest smiled warmly. What are you doing down here? Oh, my pop is a brakeman on the JEAN QUIGLIZY '45 train. I'm goin' to be a brakeman some- day tool We live over there in 'at house. He pointed to an old house that had seen better days, when the city was young. Well, what can I do for you, Timmy? Father, I went to church up at St. Catherines last Sunday, and-and- Yes, Timmy? You're just wonderful! Timmy blurted out, with admiration oozing from his every pore. The way that you told about the little boy who grew up to be King of everything. Father Hamilton smiled. It wasn't I who was wonderful, Tim. It was the Little Boy Whom I was talking about. Would you tell me about -f about Him, please, Father? Of course, Tim. Come over to the car and we'll have ourselves a nice talk. After walking hand in hand to the priest's car, the two sat for over an hour. X3C'hen Father looked at his watch, he discovered that it was later than he thought. Well, son, it looks as if we'll have to finish this some other day. Tomorrow, Father Tomorrow, Timmy. ?n That evening, back in the rectory. Father Hamilton was reading over his sermon for the coming Sunday when suddenly the telephone rang. St. Catherines Father Hamilton speaking. Father, this is Mike Howes from the station. I was wondering if you would come down right away. He paused. Little Timmy Burnett was hurt tonight on the tracks and he has been asking for you, and- I'll be right there! A half hour later Father Hamilton was at Tim's bedside. The first thing Timmy said when he gained consciousness and recognized his friend was, Father, will fTurn to page 32j 12 THE SCROLL

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High Priest of Poetry ECAUSE his Jesuit superior en- couraged Gerard Manley Hopkins to renew his interest in writing, the world was given a great Catholic poet. Asked to write a poem commemor- ating the death of five Franciscan nuns who perished in the Deutschland disaster, Gerard Manley Hopkins 0844-1889j wrote his first great work, The Wreck of the Defzlrrlalaml. While a period of poetic silence lay behind this poem, so also did seven years of study and re- ligious meditation. Hopkins had not neglected his study of poetry. He had taught rhetoric, and devoted considerable time to the prob- lems of prosody. In the poetry he now began to write he created a rhythm which had been haunting him, and which re- sulted in poetry different from any he had ever written. In this new experience he brought an aspect of reality to his work. Hopkins viewed the universe as filled with meaning and significance which gave him an opportunity for ex- pression in an entirely new manner. In his new way of life he found fulfillment in the praise, reverence, and service of God. Father of Modern Verse Accredited with being the father of modern verse, Hopkins has an original- ity and a freshness superior to many of his contemporaries. He cleverly avoided the cliches of Romanticism, he seems by this invention in verse to have over- powered the poetic language of his time. Father Hopkins' poems were not pub- lished during his life, but remained in obscurity until Robert Bridges, sensing their worth, collected and published a first edition of them in 1918, and a sec- ond in 1931. Hopkins was not immedi- ately comprehensible to the reading pub- lic. Often he verged on the mystical. There was an acute feeling of restraint in his approach. Yet the frankness, vigor, and enthusiasm of his writings have ex- erted definite influence on modern poetry. JANET SHIZPIERD '-15 The reader is conscious always of the fact that Hopkins was a priestg thus the encomium, The Priest of Poetry and the Poet of the Priesthood is most fitting. Conversion In the quarter of a century since the first appearance of his works, critics have alternately attacked him as an eccentric and hailed him as a genius. He began his writing before entering Oxford, but while there his works show definitely the influence of the Oxford Movement, as well as the teachings of his professors, Wfalter Pater and Benjamin jowett. About a year after he received his degree from Oxford, Hopkins was converted to Catholicism, and shortly thereafter ap- plied for admission in the Society of Jesus. Filled with gratitude for the gift of faith, he resolved to devote all his time to the exercise of his religious duties. He spent his energy in teaching, preaching, and meditation in scrupulous compliance with the Jesuit rule. He burned all his old manuscripts and re- solved to relinquish his writing. He de- voted his life to the love of God, the love of art, and of scholarship. He studied deeply and read assiduously. He could not acquiesce in the pagan phil- osophy of the nineteenth century. It had been secularized beyond redemption, ex- cept that redemption which could come only from the principle from which Euro' pean art and scholarship had originally sprung-the sanctity of the founders of Christian culture. In Hopkins' deep love of God, he dedicated himself solely to the truths scorned by a pagan world. Hopkins had a passionate love of Christg and during his early religious life the Exerri.re.r of Sf. Igmztiur gave great strength and purpose to his love. The exhortation, Man was created to praise , contained in these same exer- cises, gave him deep inspiration and en- during impetus in the devotion of his religious life. After seven years Hopkins emerged 14 THE SCROLL l 1