St Joseph Notre Dame High School - Reflections Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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Throughout the year, the students of St. Joseph and Notre Dame High Schools benefitted from the spiritual guidance and service provided by the parish priests and the religious leaders. Monsignor Alvin P. Wagner, Pastor Rev. John O'Reilly, C.S.Sp. Wits Rev. Edward Gracias, Associate Pastor Rev. William Kegel, S.J., Associate Pastor

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eh 1 “HOW GREAT IST MAN WHO DOES NOT LOSE ‘HIS CHI Apropos of this theme: I will go unto the Altar of God, to God Who giveth and the formula to the realization of the theme of your Year Book. This truth comes from the voice of fhe he ascends the Altar of d. The life of a priest Tal of divine art. Like all that comes fromthe hand pet the Sanctifier, it transcends the conditions onaoae a a and space and is new with the new she freshness of inet’ The Altar is the mainstay of our h und the truth of love and of truth — a source that is,unlimited in time in ; : er trated the sweetness of ageless infinity—the inexhaustible content ive e orsak heart's fullest capacity for. e 'SS— . | ¢ things as God sees themsindé ef that God gives joy to In the words of Holy Seript jung mM fisions and old men ¢ dreams are both enlightened ui D0 S on reality in prosp I heart joyful at any and all stages of life. I jay, the children of God iy time between the Abs and the grave mature without becoming sophis' 1 or cynical or pessimistic; they grow old gracefully. They have the value of ever- -increasing experience % ir hearts need not be 2. i all-good, all-loving, all-powerful God. The swan song of life is from the” Thee, and besides Thee what do I desire upor s earth. Thou art the ¢ my portion forever!’ oe Their advanced years need be neither dark f 10 ‘dank. They will be filled mor Y with that bright, brilliant, intellectual light which lets the intellect reach beneath words ¢ iptu ‘ithe wonderful — works of God, and interpret the ebb and flo sontemporar as the poor and the sinner. Indeed, because we hav we | wonderful works of God, we shall be w Light of God will guide our steps. — a «i I will go unto the Altar of Goa; to God ae ea are dee 4 3 = hd m ;. 4 “ y ‘ ; E pe ah ru 48 m: W a ae . . integers We Ann me te ome ou . ¥. Vag — Ts Shee J o ee 7 it a

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Church Leaders Provide Spiritual Guidance — Bishop Floyd Begin, Bishop of Oakland Top photos: Pope Paul VI Bottom photo: Rev. Thomas 0’Shea, Superintendent of Schools