Central Catholic High School - Centralma Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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WITH THE YUUTH 51112 LIIVES RMU G MAN NATIIJ 5 THREE EU TINENT5 Pauline at prayer ouibif Ziff:-' E. 5 1 . Pauline as a girl solicitous zeal for the weary Master strove to keep from Him. This explains her houndleses zeal in establishing schools. The flourishing activity of the congregation in the field of education was sadly curtailed in 1872 when, as a result of the May Laws, many of the schools were withdrawn from the custody of the Sisters, forcing them to return to the Motherhouse at Paderhorn. It was at this time that Mother Pauline accepted the invitation to establish schools in both North and South America. In 1873 the first Sisters arrived at New Orleans. That same year the Sisters were welcomed by the Right Rev. Wiilliam 0'Hara of Scranton, in whose diocese at W'ilkes-Barre, the first North American Motherhouse was erected. Thus it was that when Mother Pauline visited North America in 1880 she rejoiced to find more than twenty educational foundations flourishing under the management of her spiritual daughters. One of these missions was St. Paul's Parochial School, Reading. At that time this institution had over five hundred students in the elementary classes. A two-year commercial course was added later. In 1940. the seventy-Hve students of the commercial class formed the nucleus of our present Central Catholic High School whose enrollment has mounted to six hundred and fifty students at the present time. Today in heaven she must rejoice with hcr spiritual daughters who. celehrating the centennial of the foundation of their congregation., are continuing her work of leading to the Divine Shepherd the souls of those hoys and girls whose privilege it is to live I THE LAND UP HER EHUIIIE . . . MEHIII Page Three

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THIS I5 THE STUHY of . 3..m,,.e ,s1.,,4,,..,1.,.. MUTHEB PAULINE vnN MALLINEHHUDI od, ,Ae ,..,w,. me HHEE PASTUHEH O! CENTURY of IIATHIILIII EIJUIIATIIJ ' ago Mase who have enfruafeel fdenuegzea fo me, .g owe Jpirifuafpaifurage anJ nouriad- menf. O if you uri!! Le wild me, .9 can give Mem Lodi. .Mgr me, you my onfy Jufzporf, my wdogz, my onfy Jfrengfd .9 am nofding, you are aff oponi give I J f 1 H10 0101? all INDI? 0110- Her prayer was answered. In May, 1840, LOVE'S LABOR began. A month before Friedrich Froebel, the renowned founder of the kinder- garten , gathered his proteges about him at Lauterbach, Aunt Pauline , as the children lovingly called her, led eight lambkins into the sheep- fold of the Alexius Garden in Paderborn where fresh, green pastures would provide them with spiritual. intellectual, social, and physical growth. A kindergarten in every sense of the word, Pauline's project forecasted far-reaching educational activities in Europe, North America, and South America among rich and poor alike. That this kindergarten was one of her dearest concerns is evident from a letter to her brother Herman. in which she wrote: I shall be very happy if the good God bless my plan and I see my first undertaking-the day nursery-so firmly established that I may hope for its continuance through a period of, perhaps, a hundred years or even longer. God granted fruition to her fond hope. Not only the destitute in the kindergarten but also the poor blind of the city experienced the loving charity of Pauline von Mallinckrodt, for in 1842 she opened her first asylum for the blind. lfvithin a few years the number of blind children increased to such an extent that. at the suggestion of Dr. Claessen. Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne, Pauline asked permission of Bishop Drepper of Paderborn to establish a new religious congregation in his diocese to care for the poor and the blind. lvith his blessing, on August 21, 1849, the new religious family, the Sisters of Christian Charity, Daughters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Immacu- late Conception. came into being. Soon the new congregation had other kindergartens, schools, and orphanages in various cities. Little children are the Savior's darlings, slle said. RTO aH'ord me pleasure He will bless them as He blessed them during His earthly sojourn for the Mothers whom the Apostles in their fAU quotations introducing section: and pages have been taken from the correspondence of Molher Pauline von Mullinckrodt.I Page Two ' Pauline with the blind children s I s

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