Cathedral High School - Crusader Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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An active interest is taken in foreign missions by Cathedral students. Col¬ lections are regularly made in each class, and the money eventually helps the missions in foreign countries. The schcx)l as a whole collected over 350 dollars during the year with the junior classes showing unusual leadership in this respect. Similar collections were also made during February and March for the Bishops Relief Fund. Cathedralites also participated in church activities during the year out of devotion to God and His Blessed Mother. Going to church during the noon hour to pray the rosary was the pet project of the juniors. For the three days preceding Lent, Cathe¬ dral students attended church every afternoon while 40 hours’ devotion was held. And during Lent Cathedral boys were present for the Stations every Friday afternoon. The parish representative, who re¬ ceives little publicity around school, nevertheless deserves credit for the important little job he performs. I le is the one who must take all the report cards of the students in his parish and show them to his pastor, and then bring them back to school and distribute them to the students. The respective PR’s this year were: Fred Rensing, S t. Teresa’s; A1 Bauer, St. Luke’s; Bob Sax, Cathedral; Dick Arnold, St. Mary’s; Bill Thomas, St. Henry’s; and Pat Yoxall, Blessed Sacrament. 5

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IdJe embrace a ±tate Just as a country must have its govern¬ ment and a church must have its religious societies, so also must the Catholic schools have their sodalities. The sociality at Cathe¬ dral Furnishes the spiritual guidance lor the students throughout the year. More specifi¬ cally, its purpose is to promote special devo¬ tion to Mary, the Mother of God and the patroness of the Society ol Mary. General meetings were held usually once a month, while individual class meetings convened from one to four times a month. Father 1 rawalter served as school sociality chaplain and his timely remarks at the as¬ semblies kept the students on their toes in the constant war with evil. The sociality served many purposes. It was the rain which made the seed of faith grow in the student; it was the sunlight which made the student s devotion to Mary come into full bloom; it was the soap which washed out the cobwebs of indifference in the stud¬ ent s soul; it was the food which made the spirituality of the student grow in the eyes of God; it was the medicine which helped cure the student of the sickness of sin; it was the pathfinder which blazed a clear trail through the forest of materialism and worldliness. rhe sodality served to bring the students into closer contact with God and 11 is Blessed Mother. Many worthwhile suggestions of sodality leaders were heeded, particularly during the Lenten season. One of the prin cipal projects of the students was making the Holy Year Pilgrimage in order to obtain a plenary indulgence. Throughout the year the sodality achieved its purpose well.

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' M+ideSi . . . Since the Central Committee must furnish leadership for the school soda¬ lity, spiritual guidance for the indivi¬ dual homerooms must come from the class officers and particularly the class prefects. It is their duty to conduct class sodality meetings and make a report at general sodality meetings. The bovs elected lor these positions were: Norm Meder, Sam Kocurek, Wayne Lanter, Wally Amann, Jake Lippert, Bill Miller, Boh Schrag, and Joe Schwaegel. Wally Drone, prefect; Norm Med¬ er, secretary; John Schmidt, Euchar¬ istic chairman; Bill Gaul, Marian chairman; Ben Rice, Catholic action chairman; Jim Gedda, mission chair¬ man; Gene Sutton, parish representa¬ tive. These were the bovs who com¬ prised the Central Committee. All of them showed their leadership bv their participation in other activities around school. They were the team which combined its efforts to give Cathedral s sodality another successful year. Father Sullivan, the retreat-master, has been a priest for only twelve years and has been preaching retreats for only eight years, and yet he is widely known, particularly in the midwest section of the country. He more than lived up to the high standards expected of Cathedral retreat-masters. His clev¬ erness, wisdom, and clear understand¬ ing of youth’s problems provided the students with plenty of food for thought during the retreat. 6