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

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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 ' '.

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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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G' HERE NIEEIC HE RTS WILL RECEI E HINI STILL. . - 2 , I 'I' 5 eu: 5 a'7 s A I .eath from Joel Marucheiii I I .. IEE! Receiving her Wa pl-ized posseS5IOn so -2-ig, I I Q39 I H ' u , ai 1 :el i Jackie C0014 Qfwes P , Looking, OH and W , . f iffy he child will not Stawe. me Maxine Benke, E341 I I ' MHYC0 ' 'ta - Diana -Son R1 , their mms aiiii Buckendorf, Gary AudegbarziTodCI- A -rf I Breeden, like Hahn Aggie BenI4e,andBa V. ,, 3 Hardesfy, 1 sg' ,EE AT - V . I Q.: , W .. f 4, I Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus E i tecum... sings Barbara Todd. Barbara's 5 melodious singing was one ofthe highlights V of the program. Little suspecting who stands before her Margaret Youngpeter, the skeptic, and her companions receive the thanks of the Christ Child Uoel Marucheckj for the sacrifices they have made.