Dominican College of San Rafael - Firebrand Yearbook (San Rafael, CA)

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the wrapping, thin as onion skin, of illusions. Toltecs on quest for beast to deify, passed by puma, eagle, swan, and chanced upon the snake, unvicious wise and beauteous. But who would worship one that crawls? Wings they borrowed to plant on diamond-designed back that from groundedness he might soar. Then they could adore, while many-bowed magueys buckled under when thunder shook the hight plateau at Teotihuacan, Where now plumed serpents speak in stone on standing facade of Quet zalcoatl. A. Beltran Irwin Shone 120

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CRISIS IN CHRISTENDOM THE WORLD today has reached a crisis. Christ is a remote figure to most people; He stands in the shadow of two thousand years, and does not influence our lives. The lack of the truly Christian spirit has made almost every environment, whether it be school, office, factory, or home, incomplete and poor. Most people live as if there were no God. They seek worldly pleasures, trying to find happiness; they do not realize that real happiness comes from knowing and loving God. Paganism is settling on the world, clogging up the pores of humanity. Religion is looked upon as something to be ashamed of, or at least never to be mentioned. It is considered unethical to remind men how religious principles should affect their politics, their big business, and all other affairs of state. Every- where worldly customs, principles, and institutions are flourishing, and they are so common and expected that most people do not even recognize them as vicious. Racial and national prejudices, hatred of enemies, selfishness, sensual pleasure are a few evi- dences of the lack of Christian charity in the world. This shattered world can not be rebuilt through politics or diplomacy alone, but through the power of God and His Church. In the Psalms of David we read. 122