Dominican Academy - Dominilog Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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Lourdes 18 8-1958 fvgi-3i.ios DEDIC T10 oar-Af?..L When our Blessed Mother appeared at Lourdes one hundred years ago and told Bernadette Sou- birous, I am the Immaculate Conception, Berna- dette did not fully understand the meaning of the words, but she believed. Many of us today still do not grasp Our Lady's full meaning, but like Berna- dette we also believe, and we recognize in Lourdes a symbol of simple faith in a century of complexi- ties. From the miracles of Lourdes, we may gain fresh confidence in God, it has been truly said that no one visiting Lourdes has ever returned without the solid impression of vital, living faith. Our Lady is there in its aura of glowing faith and sanctity. Divine power is evidenced in the ever-recurring miracles. This year marks the centenary of the Lourdes ap- paritions. The beautiful Lady who spoke to Berna- dette is a wonderful Mother who has helped each of us many times during our four years in Dominican Academy. Like the perfect Mother that she is, this blessed Lady has never asked anything in return. We have never been able to show her how much we loved her and appreciated the things she has done for us. To manifest in our own little way our love and appreciation, it is fitting, therefore, that we dedicate our yearbook, this lasting memento of our high school years, to the Blessed Virgin under the title of Our Lady of Lourdes. We would wish to make Lourdes better known by joining the thousands who will pay special honor to Mary during this year of the Lourdes centenary. May this dedication serve as a reminder of the Dominican perspective of Lourdes. For, as a symbol of faith, Lourdes should be very meaningful to an Order dedicated to championing the faith. And as an integral factor of this great Marian Age, Lourdes should figure highly in the thought life and prayer life of an Order that has always sought and received the patronage of the Immaculate Mother of God. Dominican Calendar, 7958. Dear Saint Bernadette, kneeling before Our Lady, representing the youth of the world, please speak to her for us. Plead for world peace and the annihila- tion of all Communistic ideology. Tell her of our ever burning love for her, ask her please to keep us pure in heart and mind, ask her also to give us strength in this, a very difficult stage of life for usp tell her that we wish to be enfolded in her loving arms during these trying times, ask her to create in us a hatred of sin and temptation, tell her that today we dedi- cate to her our yearbook. Plead for each one of us, that after graduation and in our future years we may be modeled after her, the most perfect of women. PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES Heeding your voice, O Immaculate Virgin of Lourdes, we hasten to your feet at the humble grotto where you deigned to appear to show the way of prayer and penitence to those astray, and to dispense to the stricken the graces and wonders of your unsurpassed kindness. Receive, O merciful Queen, the praise and supplications which peoples and nations, oppressed by bitterness and anxiety, trustfully raise to you. O fair vision of paradise, banish the darkness of error from our minds with the light of faith! O Mystical Rose, relieve crushed souls with the heavenly fra- grance of hope! O inexhaustible source of healing waters, revive barren hearts with the flow of divine love! Grant that all of us, your sons and daughters, comforted by you in our sorrows, protected in our dangers and aided in our struggles, may love and serve your gentle Jesus, and merit eternal happiness near your heavenly throne. -His Holiness, Pope Pius XII

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