College of New Rochelle - Annales Yearbook (New Rochelle, NY)

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In Christ Jesus is our life, for He has brought us as members of His Kingdom to a glorious unity with Himself, in which we become the con- tinuers of His own humanity. By our incorporation as members of His Mystical Body through Baptism, we have been made sharers in His royal priesthood, we have been ingrafted as branches of the Vine. To- gether with Him, we form the “whole Christ”; with Christ as our Head, we partake in the mission of extending His Kingdom over all men and over all human activities. Our years at New Rochelle have brought a closer realization of what such a union “in Christ Jesus” really is. Together we have shared in the “wondrous exchange,” strengthened with the divine power of the God-Man Who is our X ing of Qlory through the sacramental life. Unit- ing with Him in the homage of worship and the work of the apostolate, we have sought to give praise to the Eternal Father and to give Christ to others. In our student vocation, we have seen the human reflections of truth and beauty with the Xing of Truth as our center and perspective. Growing in a knowledge of the arts and sciences and finding new expres- sion in co-curricular activities, we have learned to lead more fully human lives; yet we have seen as our ideal an intellectual life that would think and create in terms of a vital Christian culture. United in Christ Jesus Who is Xing of Love, we have shared our daily activities, the growth of four years, the bond of friendship. We have realized that a woman’s strength is the generosity of love and her glory a love rooted in Christ Jesus.”

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Prologue Ml things have been created through and unto him and he is before all creatures, and in him all things hold together. . . . Tor it has pleased Qod the Tather that in him all his fulness should dwell, and that through him he should reconcile to himself all things, whether on the earth or in the heavens, making peace through the blood of his cross. Col. 1:16, 19-20 Through Christ there has come to us the fulness of redemption, the wonder of a God Who would put aside the splendor of His majesty and become man for us out of the depths of His love. The Lord of inaccessible light now lived for us in time as the Child of Bethlehem; the Wisdom of the Eternal Word, as the Messiah Who brought men God’s truth. With Christ has come the establishment of the new Kingdom of God. As He united the divine and human orders in His birth, so He elevated all creation to a new birth in grace on the Cross; as He conquered sin by death, He gave life to the Mystical Body which would continue His redemptive work throughout all time. Entering into His glory as Sovereign Ruler of the earth both “by birth and by conquest,” He now shared with men the work of building up a Kingdom of the new Creation, which He would present to His Father in the fulness of time. 6

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Dedication TO THE FACULTY