Cathedral High School - Beacon Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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REVEREND EDWARD F. WARD Our Rector

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Foreword In his encyclical on the Catholic Priesthood issued in 1935, the late Pope Pius Xl of happy memory has this trenchant paragraph: Amidst all the aberrations of hrunan thought, infatuated by a false emancipation from every law and curb, and amidst the awful corruptions of human malice, the Church rises up like a bright lighthouse, warning by the clearness of its beam every deviation to right or left from the way of truth, and pointing out to one and all the right course that they should follow. VVoe if ever this beacon should be-we do not say extinguished, for that is impossible owing to the unfailing promises on which it is founded- but if it should be hindered from shedding far and wide its beneficent light! We see already with our own eyes whither the world has been brought by its arrogant rejection of divine revelation, and its pursuit of false philosophical and moral theories that bear the specious name of 'sciencef That it has not fallen lower down the slope of error and vice is due to the guidance of the light of Christian truth that always shines in the world. THE BEACON is an apt choice for the name of your annual class-book. It represents the mind of Pius Xl, for it is under the guidance of the beacon of divine truth that you have re- ceived your education. This beacon has flashed the direction of your lives to an eternal haven. This beacon has lighted up your minds to know that all else in this life is but an aid to that eternal end. Because you have been fortunate enough to come within the rays of this beacon there is imposed upon you a greater responsibility than that imposed on contemporary school- mates of secular systems. You have come to know Christ. You know what I-le expects of you. You know that without Him you can do nothing. You know that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. lt is to young Catholic graduates like you that the Church looks for the continuance of the flashing beacon. May your minds, illuminated by the truth of Christ, ever direct your ac- tions in the paths of strict Catholic morality, and may your souls ever be responsive to the riches of the sacrificial grace of the Saviour. Under this beacon you cannot fail. rl-1 DANIEL I. FEENEY, P Auxiliary Bishop of Portland.

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Farewell - Cathedral High Cathedral High-Cathedral! Love of our loyal hearts Cathedral High we hail you to the sky For the joy which your name imparts. School Song Lyric by S. M. Stephanieg Music by S. M. Evarista Page nine