West Philadelphia Catholic Girls High School - Gleam Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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l l6tl6l,l'l btC6l,fl0l'l of OM It IS there+ore as 1mportant to make no nnstake ID educat1on as 1t IS to make no ITHQ il take 1n the pursu1t of the last end w1th wh1ch ff 93 fr 1:5 the whole work of educat1on 1s mtxmately Q ll W Q 1nd necessarxly connected In flct slncc edu catlon LOHQISIS essent1ally 1D preparrng mm for what he must be and for what he must do here below 1n order to attam the subl1me end for wh1ch he xx as treated It IS clear that there can be no true educat1on whlch IS not wholly d1rected to man s last end and that IH the present order ot Prowdence s1nce God has revealed H1mself to us IH the Person of H s Qnly Begotten Son who alone IS the way the truth and the l lt there cln be no 1de1lly perfect educ 1t1on wh1ch IQ not Chr1st1an educat1on From th1s we see the supreme muportance of Chrlstxan educat1on not merely for each 1nd1x1dual but lor fam1l1es and for the who'e ot human soc1ety whose perfect1on comes from the perfect1on ot the elements that compose If From these same pr1nc1ples the excellence we may well call lt the unsurpassed evcellence of the work of Chrls tian educat1on becomes mamfest and clear for after all It 'ums at securlng the Supreme Good that IS God for the souls of those who are belng educated and the max1mum ol well bemg possxble here below for human soclety And th1s lt does as efHcac1ously as man IS capable of domg If namely by cooperatmg w1th God 1D the per tectmg of 1nd1v1duals and of soc1ety masmuch as the educat1on of youth makes on the soul the Hrst most powerful and lastxng 1mpres s1on for lnfe accordmg to the well known saylng of the W1se Man A young man accordmg to h1s way even when he IS old he w1ll not depart from 1t W1th good reason therefore chd St lohn Chrysostom say XVhat greater work IS there than tra1n1ng the mmd and formmg the hab1ts of the young? Emyclzcal Lfttfr Dzfwrzz Illzus fllagwtzz 07 H25 Holznfu, Popf P1115 fl! e- , . . ' Q 1 c ci GT 'f J. rig' I ' K 9 kr v V ec. iq. E A Q 9' . ., H I . . . , - , V V ' ,-gif'-.,f? ' ' , . , L c 1 -, -' - 1 9 - 1 N - s x , V E ,l 3 - L c L . L , w t ' , I ' a ' ' ' ' . , A c . 4 Y . . 7 , L L c 1. , . , , . . y . ' 9 V , c 3 - J ' bb -N 9 9 f z W' 1 c . A -,-, . A . . . . . . , , -, .,, ,,- -, A ,, 4 4 1 c J sl 1 . N 3 3 . 5 . . i Q . ' 9 l , L l 3 ' 9 9 -1 I I , v - 9 C C 1 C K 1 . 3 . 9 9 9 f 'X 9 ' f 9 9 9 . I , t, , ' 9 9 ,L . . . . 9 9 - - -la - - . u . 5 c H . . , . . 9 9 - 51