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Zke Senior Class Annual of Assumption Preparatory School Worcester, Massachusetts
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T is good to note that you have chosen for your theme this year, What ' s right with youth. One hears so much about what is wrong with youth that it is encouraging to learn you are convinced that the picture is not all black. And, indeed, despite all that we see and hear of delinquency among many young people in our day, there is a brighter, though less publicized, side to the picture. The late Pope Pius XII evidently felt this way about our Catholic youth. This germination of youth from a generation which almost seemed doomed to extinction, His Holiness once said, is marvelous and charming. It is a youth new and vibrant in its freshness and vigor, with eyes fixed on the future and also with an unrestrainable impulse directed to the highest ideals. It is a youth determined to improve on the past and obtain more solid con¬ quests of greater value to the progress of man on earth. In my contacts with our Catholic young people, especially through our Youth Council, I have noted an awareness of the challenge which our prese nt world and society present to them. The importance of a good education, the attention and careful thought given to the selection of a college to fur¬ ther their education, and the sacrifices which many young people are willing to make in order to attain this goal are notable characteristics of modern American youth. I think, too, that there is a marked increase in the number of Catholic young people who recognize the implications and responsibilities of their membership in the Mystical Body of Christ. They understand that it is no longer enough to be just a passively good Christian, but that one must also be apostolic and on fire with zeal to bring the influence of our faith and moral standards to bear upon others who do not share this precious heritage. Wherever they have been given the op¬ portunity to assume positions of responsibility, ac¬ cording to their age, and to carry out cultural. spiritual and social programs aimed at extending this influence, our Catholic young people have risen to the challenge with admirable zeal and enthu¬ siasm. While I would naturally wish that there were many more Catholic youth who fulfilled this descrip¬ tion, I am definitely not among those who consider modern youth a lost generation. On the contrary, I am confident that with the direction and guidance being given to them by so many devoted priests and adult advisers, and with their own youthful devotion to high ideals, our young American Catho¬ lics will develop in increasing numbers into the better men and women needed to build the better world of tomorrow. With the late Pope Pius XII, I hold that, Today our Catholic youth is one of the finest forces to be relied upon. Sincerely yours in Christ, Bishop of Worcester
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