Christian Brothers Academy - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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i CLASS OFFICERS SENIOR A D. Dutton, Critic: H. Needham, Vice President: F. Mesmer, President C. Hoffman, Secretary: K. Clancy. Treasurer nge 6 PURPLE AND GOLD D STAFF OF SENIOR A Emory McKeever, Advertising Mgr.: J. Gaffney. Associate Editor: J. Sheedy, Editor: A. McGuire, Associate Editor: J. Pirro. Business Mgr. , .

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Pgf I 5f0tT19T ber John Z, I0f,l.,Ur Brother Jem FACULTY

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PURPLE AND GOLD Page 7 PURPLE and GCLD Published Bi-Monthly by the Students of Christian Brothers Academy, Syracuse, New York Subscription . . . One Dollar Per Year The Twenty-Eighth Eucharistic Congress On Sunday, June 20th, the Twenty-Eighth International Eucharistic Congress will open in the city of Chicago. To this Congress there will come distinguished prelates, religious, priests and laymen from the four corners of the globe. For the first time America will be privileged to see Catholicity in all its splendor and all its pomp. This great conclave will be officially opened by Solemn High Mass, to be celebrated at dawn in every church throughout the western Arch- diocese. It is hoped that all delegates will assist at one of these masses. From these masses it is hoped to garner the one million Communions, promised by Cardinal Mudelein as one of the fruits of the Congress. On Sunday night, Holy Hour services will be conducted in all the churches. Monday, the second day, is set apart as Children's Day. On that day over sixty thou- sand children will sing the Missa Angelorumf' This mass Will be sung in the field at Grant's Stadium in the presence of the Catholic Heir- archy. On Tuesday, VVomen's Day, the mass will be sung by the mothers and daughters and assembled nuns of America. Wednesday will witness the gathering of students and seminar- ians. It will be known as Higher Educational. Day. The mass will be chanted by the assembled men. On Thursday will come the climax. All the delegates will join in a final tribute to the Eucharistic Lord when they march with Him to Mundelein, there to dedicate the largest Seminary in America. God's sun will shine a little brighter over Chi- cago on those holy days. His grace, ever pro- fuse, will How a little more freely upon America and the delegates she welcomes to her shores. Only God knows what a part the Eucharist plays in everyday life. Only He knows what trials and temptations have been overcome with Holy Com- munion as an effective weapon. It is not in America alone that jesus in the Blessed Sacra- ment is loved and revered. In every clime and from century to century has come that cry Thy Kingdom Come. That Kingdom grows nearer every year. Today we may even see the golden liveried dawn.0f its blessed approach breaking in greater effulgence, and rising surely towards its zenith. In the vanguard is Christ, the Captain in the Blessed Sacrament, drawing all hearts unto Himself. Perhaps we cannot all journey to Chicago. We may be not able to able to send up our prayers from the great stadium to Heaven's Throne Room when the strains of the Angels' Mass are bringing Heaven to earth. But we can go to our own Heaven, our Church, and, kneeling there, with a deep love promise to Him, at least a week- ly Communion, as long as we live. JOSEPH SHEEDY