Harrisburg Catholic High School - Pridwen Yearbook (Harrisburg, PA)

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:ind protection that sho always sc-vu 'c PRIDWE RIDWEN was selvctvd as the nzune of our yozrrhook in tho hope tlmt vvcry graduate who goes forth from tht' portals of Futholic High School will invokv tht' uid of Our Lady, :mtl ohtuin thv glllfltlllli' 1 ifl for King Arthur. This nohlv king haul :1 pirture of tho Blvssvfl Virgin ongruvvml on his shiolcl, Prirlivevz, :md whvn engaging in serious conflict, hv was ucvrlstoillvil to cull on Our Lady for aid :incl protoc-tion. Thus, :rs wo, the l1l9lHlJl'I'S of the Clluss of 1942, louvv tho thrvsholml haillowvcl hy tht' inspiring influvnc-0 of Marry I1nm:1c'ul:1tv, :md tilkll our plat-vs in the ranks of worldly strifv and conflict., wo too, likr- King Arthur and his vzrlimit knights, will iIl'IIl ourselves with tho shit-ld of Our Lauly :intl go forth faithfully upholding hor principlvs :mil rvflvvtilig in our livvs tho vxultvcl virtues of hor holy lifv. A - V. ..l. r - . n . 1. . ' j ,. -1 ,I ' v 5 P .. 5 - 1. . 1 g .- l . .p ' sn, ':rf .J ug . I I I r I l I .A lv, f f X C F X Y sl Q Y X .4 'r .

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illllll I 'I'llA'l'l0 1 1 'lr 'A' 'A' 'A' i' His l lXL'l-1l,I.l'1NL'Y, lui-3 Nlosr Ricvaanso Griokoia l.iao l,i-:HcH, llll., -l.C.lJ. lfixlznfi Qf l!lI7'7'f.VblH:Q N Tllli unsearchahle ways offiod, my dear graduates, this triumph of your graduation day falls in a perilous time, in a period of history which men will study and ponder for centuries to come. You are anxious, deeply anxious, are you not ahout the future? Of' course you are. You and your countrymen have good reason to he concerned. lfor, to he carefree in such an hour as this is the prerogative of infants and fools, when peace is gone and men are living as though the Prince of Peace had never come, with your natural patrimony exhausting itself on war, with mankind seandalized at nian's in- humanity to man, with youth's rightful hopes hlasted and your whole American heritage in jeopardy. ln such an hour you are thinking hard, pondering a predicament which is yours to solve though it is not of your making. lfalse prophets and false ways, repudiating the hlaster's way, leave to your generation a heritage of havoc, and you are rightly indignant. A challenge to your fortitude, therefore, if ever there was one, confronts you on your lluarz 10 i :ggi ' 1 4 5 , i graduation day, the like of which, in importance and intensity, you have never heard or read almout. ln spite of our ingrained Christian alihorrence of war, in spite of our ahiding Christian love for our every fellow- man in the world, the fact is plain for any clear-sighted man to see that, in the present circumstances, the very continuance of our Catholic way of life in .-Xmeriea our freedom to offer sacrifice, our freedom to preach and to hear the word of God, our freedom to administer and to receive the Sacraments, our freedom to have Catholic schools-'drfarm, the very endurance of this freedom is now wrapped up in a military victory for the l'nited States. This victory will come, hut it will not come easily. You go now to your task with Christ, His Name upon your lips, His Spirit in your souls. You go, my dear graduates, to a victory which will give God to America and .-Xmerica to God, a victory which only the Grace of God can win. Clixcerpt from an address to the graduates of Notre llame University, delivered hy His lixcellency, Bishop l.eech.l