Academy of the Holy Angels - Echoes Yearbook (Demarest, NJ)

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Litur y Stud Club examined the changing Church. Preparing the oratory altar for Mass are Liturgy Study Club officers: Szecretary Mary Maher, President Gail Brinkworth and Vice-President Judy utro. Showing a Hebrew prayer scroll, Mrs. Allan Weber explains its theme to Gail Brinkworth, Roseann Browne, and Sister Francis. i Starting its second year at Holy Angels, the Liturgyt Study Club accepted 28 new members. Early in the year, girls participated in the erection and blessing of the Stations of the Cross in the Academy Oratory. At one of our meetings early in the first semester Mrs. Allan Weloer, representing the B'nai Birith Anti-Defamation League, gave a talk and demonstration of the Jewish re- ligion. Supplementing our weekly discussions, members attended a series of lectures during Lent on liturgical subjects at Mt. Carmel, Tenafly and were guests at an Open House at St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Church in Bergenfield. As highlight in the year's activities, the Liturgy Study Club staged a Jewish seder feast com- memorating the Passover, to which all students were invited. l i w l i

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The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine is not a club, but rather an adjunct of a parish organi- zation of the laity. Holy Angels is one of the few high schools participating in this movement. Here at HA students are given the opportunity of learning the methods of procedure to be fol- lowed in teaching religion to public school chil- dren. In addition CCD members are taught how to give demonstration lessons, how to conduct Bible Vigils, and, above all, how to use visual aids effectively in catechetics. After completing their course, CCD members receive certification and are then qualified to help in the various parishes throughout the county. This year some of the members taught exceptional children while others assisted Father lVIcTague in his various projects, such as helping immigrants adjust to their new mode of life. Secretary Annemarie DiPalma checks the CCD attendance record with President Dominica Luvera and Vice- President Dianne Sasso. Preparing a CCD lesson for retarded chil- C -D trained student catechists. dren, Karen Dugan, '67, and Maryann Sticco, '69, select visual aids. 5 'W 5 - 'E x ' ' -fi. i 'Xxx ' wir X 2. 3- Q? xg A.

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YC promoted the brotherhood of man. SI-I.-XBOX? YCS officers: Vice-President Ellen Cooke, Secretary Patty Durkm President Carol Rovegno, and Secretary Joan Rice spread brotherhood through posters and songs. The Young Christian Students aim to bring Christ to all men and to see Christ in all men. This objective is carried out by frequent trips to Welfare Island as well as by the collection of clothing and medicine for the less fortunate of Godis children. This year in order to broaden their religious outlook, members visited a Jewish temple and learned to respect and appreciate the beliefs of others. Weekly meetings follow a format of ob- serve, judge, and act. Each member is ex- pected to carry out a particular act of in- volvement according to the theme agreed upon for that week. YCS-sponsored happen- ings and hootenany Masses comprise but a few of the worthwhile activities of this new awareness group at the Academy. Sorting clothes and medicals for Maryknoll missions are YCS members Denise Italiano, Pat Miney, Pat Durkin, Joan Rice, Ellen Cooke, Carol Rovegno, and Pegeen Downey. 41