College of St Benedict - Facula Yearbook (St Joseph, MN)

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t . i The pageant, With its bright fiames leaping higher and higher against the black night as if to reach God, its gorgeous costumes, its t painfully-practieed and well-done dances, its tail St. Benedict vividly i outlined against the White choric readers, and the freshmen-a little awed, a little frightened-ds one of the happiest memories of our col- lege life. What better way is there to start the school year than that of passing on the torch of. light and love? The fourteen upperciassmen, representing fourteen great Benedictine Saints, Who hand the torches of learning to the freshmen, are, in reality, symbols of our teachers, passing to us the culture of many centuries. The praying together of peasants, scholars and princes, expresses an ideal we all strive forwunity in the Mystical Body of Christ. Faculty, alumnae, and students bound together as one family by the Liturgy of the Church, worship and work in unity. This working and praying together of all for the glorihcation of God is an essential part of the family ideal and strengthens it. The memory of the hame dancers, gracefully rising from their circle; the Wild barbarians, dancing to the rhythm of the tom tom; the young peasants, eagerly shocking rich grain; the scholars studying heavy parchment scrolls; and the princes, riding to their subjects in their rich array Will always be With us. Nor could we ever forget the sheer beauty of the deep symbolism of our pageant.