Immaculate Heart Academy - Echo Yearbook (Watertown, NY)

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FCDREWGRD We, The olass oT NineTeen l-lundred and ThirTv-eighT, in order TO Torrn a more perTeoT bond oT devoTion beTween our- selves and The Chrislrian ideals oT our Alma lvlaTer, To esTablish our school days' n'iosT cherished rernernbranoes in our hearTs Torever, To insure To our successors in lrnmaoulaTe l-learT Aoadernv The privileges and genuine iovs ThaT have been ours, To provide Tor Those who Tollow us an inoenTive Tor sTilI TurTher endeavors, To prornoTe ThaT spiriT oT rnuTual love and undersfanoing which was handed down To us, and To seoure The blessings and good will oT Those who have been our oon- sTanT insoiraTion, do ordain and esTablish This ECl-lf? as our Tlnal rnernenTo Tor you, our Teaohers, parenTs and Triends.

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Dear Echo STaTT: I am enclosing herewiTh a shorT message on The Blessed MoTher Tor your yearbook The Echo . I would be graTeTuI To have a copy when iT is compIeTed if you would be so kind as To Torward one To me. Wishing you every success and wiTh kindesT regards and blessings, I am Sincerely in ChrisT, RT. Rev. Ivlsgr. EuITon J. Sheen MARY, OUR IVIQTI-TER Ten days aTTer The Ascension we Tind The AposTIes persevering wiTh one mind in prayer wiTh Ivlary The IvIoTher oT Jesus , awaiTing The descenT oT The I-Ioly SpiriT. The SpiriT had descended upon her aT IXIazareTh To make her The IVIoTher oT Jesus: now I-Ie descends upon The AposTIes To make Them I-Iis New Body and her The MoTher oT ThaT Body. Virgin in The Tlesh she broughT TorTh her TirsT-born, ChrisT, virgin by The puriTy oT her TaiTh she brings TorTh her oTher-born, The Church-and in boTh insTances iT is The I-Ioly SpiriT which renders her Tecund. Such was Gods reason Tor leaving The Blessed IVIoTher on oarTh Tor a Time aTTer I-Ier Son had ascended inTo I-Ieaven. Called To The sublime vocaTion oT being The IVIoTher oT ChrisT in I-Iis RedempTive work, iT was her duTy noT only To cradle The I-lead oT The Church in BeThlehem, buf also To cradle The Body in Jerusalem. The MysTicaI Body oT PenTecosT, like The physical body oT BeThlehem, was small and delicaTe and Trail, like any new- born Thing. ITs members were small, iTs organs were in The process oT TormaTion, and Though liTe was There iT was yeT To grow in age and grace and wisdom beTore God and men . BuT ThaT growTh and developmenT could noT be wiThouT The menace oT haTred and persecuTiong Tor new I-Ierods would arise To aTTack The Church as The oTher I-'Ierod had aTTacked iTs I-lead. IT was necessary, ThereTore, ThaT The IVloTher oT The inTanT IVIysTicaI ChrisT be There To besTow her loving care on iT as ThirTy-Three years beTore she had waTched over The inTanT ChrisT. Every inTanT needs a moTher's care - even an inTanT Church. The mysTery oT Jesus did noT begin wiThouT her, neiTher would iT Tinish wiThouT her. Cur Blessed Lord had kepT I-Iis promise. I-Ie did noT leave us orphans. I-Ie gave us I-Iis EaTher as Our EaTher, I-Iis SpiriT as Qur SpiriT, and I-Iis IVIoTher as Qui' MoTher. INIoT only was iT TiTTing ThaT Ivlary be presenT as IVloTher aT The birTh oT The MysTicaI ChrisT, iT was also TiTTing ThaT she be presenT as Queen oT The PxposTIes on The solemn day when The Church began preaching The Gospel To The world. IT was ThereTore in keeping wiTh her vocaTion ThaT she be wiTh The AposTIes on I3enTecosT To make known The IvIysTicaI ChrisT To The world, as she had made known The Physical ChrisT To shepherds and kings. PenTecosT was IVIary's spiriTuaI BeThlehem, her new Epiphany in which, as IvIoTher, sTanding by The crib oT The MysTic ChrisT, she makes I-lim known once again To oTher shepherds and oTher kings.