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

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STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS For four thousand years the Israelites awaited the coming of their Saviorg at times their spirits were quickened by a strong, pure hope, and at times that hope lay smould- ering and obscure, but it was never completely quenched--the memory of the Promise ofthe one true God prevailed. During the season of Advent Catholics commemorate the wait of the Jews by the lighting of the Advent Wreath, a slender branch of evergreen twisted into the shape of a circle and bearing four candles, used to mark off the four weeks of waiting. After Monsignor Reid has blessed our wreath according to the traditional rites, Dennis Campbell, the youngest member ofthe school family, lights the first candle and. . 80 A . . . the hall is filled with a chorus of youthful voices raised in anticipation of the great feast of Christmas. 4' 1 .QQ 1 WT?

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SPAN ISH STU DENTS SAY qv- -ir F Rudarfvw' 4 I xi- 'Z I . 5 .j-:ki 1, g ' vc Hai iff' ' J H K N l 2':x-'.. 1 I ' p N ' Like all families on daysnear- ing the Noel, Pascualita CGG1'l'i AH' thamattenj and PepinfDennisCarnp- belly ,playing checkers, discuss their unopened Christmas presents with their mother Pascuala Uudy Fordj. 3- 'tl lm We we :2 A 513521, i: Is., l wg M ,Q if 4, M ,ll , ' E HFELIZ NAVIDADF' As their project this year Mrs. .lane Murphy's Spanish I cgc II classes presented a Christmas play entitled La Mujer Gana -- ,i The Woman Wins. And WHAT the woman wins is a cow--as she had hoped--instead of the dress husband Blas CBernard Kennedyj in- sisted on giving her. In the midst of the busy hum of the market place Bias continues on his quest for a dress of allthe colorsofthe sky for his dear Pascuala. CCrash!J Merry Christmas! As Pepin breaks the traditionalMexican pinifta, the Spanish play comes to a smashing finish.

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Ox f- ' Ft-5. I 11' 13 L, ,P - Q .,., 1, On the last school day of the fourth week, immediately after the Advent Wreath ceremony, the students, each with some article of food and many with an armload of books, hurried to the hall for the last assembly before Chi 1st1'nas C E R E S stopping on their way to .... . . . leave an offering for the Christmas poor baskets in the care of Sister Angelina Marie, who recruited several senior volunteers to assemble and deliver them in plenty of time for Christmas. 'BE-,L X S 1 ' J, J.,fAt,'3ff- ' if z ' '.