Holy Family High School - Spires Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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M, 1 1 Nil C'I'he following is the address delivered by Bettsy Hildebrandt on the occasion of the program honoring His Excellencyj All of the citv of Tulsa is keeping holiday in God's honor. Brother priests, fellow citizens and pastoral flock vie, one with another, to honor him who, through years of association, has merited love, respect, and admiration from those among whom he has ministered with zeal and fervent solicitude. Your Excellency - we, your pastoral children, come with glad hearts to greet you, our respected high priest. Through your friendly care you have led us among green pastures to the water's brink where we find a resting place, refreshed and content. We are your own children, the lambt OI yvur Own piiiiuringl Ai in 3911931 pledged, by sure paths you have led us. Following you we have lingered lovingly in pastures, green and plenteous, nourished bountifully by your generous and constant self- spending. But, as on Galilee's hills Peter was commissioned by the Savior to feed His sheep, so from Peter's successor has come the call for Your Excellency to look down broader Vistas and out toward the wider horizons of a new pastoral charge. Into your hands will be placed the rod and the crook, symbol of your greater responsibilities and of the strength and fortitude needed for your new duties. On your anointed hand will be put the jeweled emblem of fidelity. Your head will be adorned with the hel- met of Christ's champions to signify the radiance of truth and sturdiness of endeavor savored with peace . In this symbolic succession we ask to share in a small way in pre- senting, with a bouquet of prayers, this silver basin figuring the clean- liness of the New Man with which God's minister is encompassed as he spreads the banquet of the Lord and offers the goodly cha1ice. The Church bids your Excellency pass through the gates of her anoint- ing and enter the courts of her hierarchy. Though we rejoice with you and are justly proud of the honor and dignity of your elevation to the office of high-priest of the Church, yet there is in the harmony of our joy a minor strain of sadness. The city of Tulsa will experience the loss of one of its outstanding leaders, but the loss to the parish and school of the Co-Cathedral will be one difficult to sustain. Yet in our prayerful devotedness, in the spirit of interest in Your Excellency's future mission, we join our voices to that of the Psalmist and bid you Pass through these gatesg enter these courts of Hisg With hymns of praise give thanks and bless His name, For gracious is the Lordg everlasting His mercy. . . .191-

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aeea af ,-466 aeeaa , . . l And as if to add the perfect touch to the year, there stands at the end of the way the lovely lady called Mary. Her month is May, the closing month of school: it is as though she awaited,- ready to lead each student as he steps from the Holy Family Way into the wider way of life. So it is that she is the queen of each heart, and the crown that is placed upon her head by Myrna 'Gray attended by Joyce Hibbs and Mary Margaret Lowe is only a symbol of the circle of love which she wears in the heart of each one of her children. ' -92-