Central Catholic High School - Echo Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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MAY Merry Christmas ECI-I0 in Your Home Merry Christmas fSome Stray Thoughts and a Wish.D The first Christmas gift was the Babe of Bethlehem sent from heaven by the Eternal Father who, we are told, so loved the world as to give His only begotten Son. The first Merry Christmas ever wished likewise came from heaven. I t was spoken on the very first Christmas morn to the lowly shepherds keeping their lonely watches on the Jndean hillsides. And the angel said to them: Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the peopleg for this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. That was the angel's way of saying Merry Christmas! , to the shepherds, and he tells the reason why they should be merry. This reason, for this day is born to you a Saviofu,r, is inseparably linked with the feast and its friendly greeting.

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Th Published Quarterly by the Students of the Central Cat? olic High School, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Entered as Second Class, December I5, l9l9, at the Post Office at Fort Wayne, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, I879 I Q h 0 Subscription per year, 31.00 Single Copy, 25c VOL. 8 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA NO. I .iQALlllIIli5CH0l45 62.325, Avggolfe December, I 92 2 APBSASSOGWQXX Qgftrzziiiiefli-Fdizxgications to THE ECHO Omfiieixfngiliiffig flizfi EDITOR-IN-CHIEF JAMES BELOT, '23 ASSOCIATE EDITOR RORERT PASSINO, '23 ART EDITORS JOSEPH PERREY, '23 ARTHUR VoLz, '24 ROBERT FRANKE, '25 EDNVARD SXGL, '26 ADVERTISING MANAGERS EUGENE CULL, '23 EDWNIN O'NEILL, '23 ARTI'IUR ZURER, '25 JOIIN PARROT, '24 STEPHEN ICELLEHER, '26 FRANCIS CORBETT, '26 AUSTIN CENTLIVRE, '23 JOSEPH LASSUS, '25 ALFRED GARDNER, '24 ROBERT LITOT, '23 CIRCULATION MANAGERS GILES PIERRE, '26 LOUIS BELOT, '24 CLAYTON HONVARD, '26 EXCHANGE EDITOR ROBERT BOYLE, '23 BUSINESS MANAGER THOMAS MCKIERNAN, '23 CONTRIBUTORS Edward Kallmyer, '23 Gerhardt Libbing, '25 Fred Steinbacher, '25 Joseph Clifford, '23 Eugene Luley, '23 Thomas McKiernan, '23 Albert Schoenle, '23 Donald Vordermark, '24 Eugene Husselman, '24 Joseph Perrey, '23 Richard Orff, '25 Raymond Murphy, '23 Adolph Schillli, '23 William Ryan, '23 Robert Suelzer, '23 Frederick Weber, '25 Arthur Zuber, '25 Robert Eggeman. '25 Edward Flood, '25 Robert Boyle, '23 Edmund Bresnahan, '23 Eugene Cull, '23 Alfred Gardner, '24 Maurice Fox, '23 Eugene Pequignot, '25 Geo. Fitzgerald, '23 Francis Parrot, '25 Edwin O'Neill, '23 John Huguenard, '23 James Kelker, '24 Harold Whitmer, '25 Stephan Moran, '25 Wayne Bushman, '24 Lester Conners, '24 Thomas Doyle, '25 Robert Litot, '23

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' ' 7 THE ECHO Merry Christmas! In spite of the widespread eyforts being made to de-Christianize Christmas by vainly pretending to trace its origin to pagan times and customs, by flooding the world with picture cards devoid of all religious sentiment and featuring glowing yule-logs, snow-covered hills and dales and sparkling holly sprigs, and by giving over the day and the season entirely to social amusements and unsocial carousals, it must and will rank first, last and always as as Christian feast to the core. Is it not, indeed, the birthday of the Christ, aye, even the feast of Christ's Mass? The very name stamps its unmistakably Christian character. I ' Merry Christmas! The joy which the greeting bespeaks should have source in the soul. The good tidings tell us that this day is born to us a Saviour. So our joy is that of the inner man, but not that only. Out of its very fullness it bubbles over to the outer, physical man, and thereby the whole man is made happy. That is why innocent fun and feasting and even fireworks are strictly in order at the Christmas season. Everybody is privileged to be a child about the crib of Bethlehem. Merry Christmas! We have heard it said, and with truth, that there is no happiness like that which comes from making others happy. Let us, then, make our Infant Lord happy by devoutly hearing Mass-even more than once--on Christ's Mass Day, and loyally receiving into our hearts Him for whom there was no room in the inn, and keeping Him ever enshrined therein by shunning sin and doing good works. Let us also make Him happy in His other Self, the poor, by succoring them in their needs for the sake of the poor Infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a man- ger. A Christmas barren of deeds of charity is unworthy of a follower of that same Infant who later in His life spoke the words, As long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me. Help His least brethren and make Him your bounden debtor. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! This is The Echo's sincere wish to all its contributors, subscribers, advertisers, friends and readers. On this blessedl Christmas morn, When our Saviour meek was born, May He From His loving Heart Choicest gifts to you imparty And throughout the bright New Year Grant you boundless grace and cheer!