Academy of the Holy Angels - Angelus Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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LO-tfU £ yi t hi£ -jax3 J b FOREWORD Joyfully the eorfh awakens to the light of the newborn day. Each separate plane of the living universe eagerly rises to sing its song of praise to the Author and Giver of this new life. Recognizing the fullness of her importance in this drama of re awakening life, the Church joins her voice in tho chorus of praise ascending from the realms of all creation. Gaining in intensity even os the fiery herald of day completes its course, the Divine Office of praise swells and increases with each passing hour. As students, our passing hours, filled with the all-embracing activities of academic life, are united with this great prayer of Holy Mother Church. Realizing the need for guidance during our journey through the beginnings of days and years, four voices beseechingly in the early dawn and chant at the O God, My God, For Thee I Long at Break of Day . . . words of our blessed morning petition ringing in our hearts, we fulfill our rtake of the fullness of Divine Life through our participation in the Holy the Mass. Looking forward to the undiscovered events which fill each fresh we place our daily work on the golden paten, confident that the fruits of our at ofls will ascend to the Eternal High Priest. Retreat, with its long hours of peaceful T?ontemplation, beckons softly, and we absent ourselves from the rushing world of work that quiet call. Throughout our day we re-echo the fervent pleas expressed our mo 'ning prayer, whether it be as freshmen, begging for guidance in the as seniors, entreating the Most High for protection along the Confident in the power of hearts uplifted in prayer, we proclaim ot Am-v CH7 NONE- 'Through Thy Statutes I Gain Understanding . . Advancing hurriedly through our day, we pause to turn our minds and hearts once again toward the heavens. As the sun ot high noon holts in its course to solute its heavenly King, so we students break our day in order to continue with the Church J ] if j f the official song of praise to our Creator. We speak to God of the studies and activities which fill our day, and glean from His Truth and Love those ideals which we strive to carry out in our classes and organizations. We know that only by working in the warmth of this Love and in the light of this Truth can we hope to advance securely from time to eternity. So it is that through our specialized deportments, we seek to develop — jJO Wgzar COMPLINE— Ucp tjie gifts entrusted to us by our Maker. Let our mid-day meditation be a joyous hymn of gratitude resounding throughout heaven and earth in proise of the ever-generous Giver of Gifts. Reassured that God has lovingly provided the means of salvation for each moment of life, we happily repeat the antiphon from He Hath Given His Angels Charge Over Thee . . . Resting now from the labors of our four years, we once again raise our hearts in praise and adoration to Our Eternal Father in the peaceful prayer of evening. As the sun of our high school days sinks below the horizon, we reflect upon the honors and and accomplishments which have accrued from a worthy stewardship of God-given talents os we hove developed them under His guiding wing. Earnestly we lift up our voices in the twilight, entreating God to recall with us the pleasures of social events and the pride in academic organizations which flow from our participation in the student apostolate. With the Church we pause a moment at the end of day to look into the darkening sky and praise anew the Light of the World. This reflection is especially significant for us who are seniors. Like balm. His quiet peace penetrates our spirit, and His serenity tranquilizes the uneasy tempo of our doys even os if strengthens us to bear in a new day His light among men. So it is that we who have lived our day in the spirit of the Divine Office must continue our course through life repeating in our hearts these words of the Introit, token from the Moss on Graduation Day: Dilexi fi justitiam . . . Thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity. In this, our last Mass os high school students, we proy God to help us fulfill our vocation. For ours is the invigorating challenge of manifesting to a sceptical world the joyous courage, the selfless generosity, the integrity of Truth and Love, clad in the humble and pure loveliness of Christian womanhood. 'U

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To desire what is right and to obtain what we desire. Postc. 0 A a y. The children of men take refuge under the cover of thy wings. Ps. 137.

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I lift up my soul to Thee, O Lord Ps. 85.