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in the field of education was sadly curtailed in 1872 when, as a result of the May Laws, many of the schools were withdrawn from the custody of the Sisters, forcing them to return to the Motherhouse at Paderhorn.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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we SLQPLQVJQJJ 0 youd . . T0 THE PRE-SCHOOL CHILD . . For whose well-being Mother Pauline sacrificed high social position, wealth, and leisure that the days of childhood might be among its sweetest memories of unalloyed happiness and pleasure. T0 THE BLIND . . . For whom this gracious, Cbristly woman opened vistas of unsurpassed spiritual and material beauty through fourteen years of personal atten- tion and labor. TO THE ORPHAN . . . On whom she lavished a motheris care and devo- tion for thirty years, lovingly providing for body and soul because her heart echoed the words of the Master: As long as you did it for one of these, the least of my brethren, you did it for Me. TO CATECHETICAL GROUPS . . . For whom, in her spirit, hundreds of Sisters of Christian Charity provide spiritual pasturage and nourishment lest they stray from the fold. TO CENTRALITES . . . For whose spiritual and intellectual advancement labor twenty-two of her daughters. Her immor- tal zeal for the glory of God and the welfare of her neighbor motivates their endeavors to ex- tend His kingdom on earth, and inspires us in loving gratitude. jo lethfdft' fo LGI' WQINOIV Qui' .S?0I'y glrxriziezl Ly Aer J2aLJJll-255, .Her far-.iecing vision, .fdnzl Aer finale of youlL. Pn ge Five