Immaculate Heart Academy - Echo Yearbook (Watertown, NY)

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TI-IE CONSTITUTION FIQEES TI-IE MASS 44 RAYMOND DONOGI-IUE, '38 We, The people oT UniTed STaTes do ordain and esTabIish . . ThaT, Congress shall malce no law respecTing an esTablishmenT oT religion or prohibiTing The exercise ThereoT . . Thus reads The TirsT amendmenT To The ConsTiTuTion oT The UniTed STaTes. The resulTs oT This TirsT amend- menT are probably more signiTicanT Than Those oT any oTher amendmenT - aT IeasT To CaTholics. The ConsTiTuTion, Iaclcing This amendmenT, would indeed degeneraTe inTo sugary words oT Treedom. AlmosT consTanTIy since The ReTormaTion The anTi-CaTholic anTagon- isms have been perpeTraTed parTicuIarly againsT The Mass and The priesT. American colonial hisTory is Tull oT anTi-lvlass propaganda. NoT only The savages Teared The priesTs and his Ivlass, buT even seTTIers and governors had This complex. Lord BaITimore's TirsT aTTempT aT coIonizaTion was in NewToundland, in Io27, where he buiIT Tor EaTher AnThony SmiTh a chapel in which To say lvlass. Lord BaITimore generously gave The ProTesTanTs a place To worship and a minisTer, lvlr. STourTon, buT This genTleman ungraTe- Tully reTurned To England and complained ThaT CaTholics were allowed lvlass. The maioriTy oT The colonies ouTlawed The CaTholic clergy and The saying oT Mass. DespiTe The TacT ThaT religious Treedom was allowed To oTher secTs, iT a priesT were caughT and escaped, his second capTure was punishable by deaTh. SomeTimes second oTTenders were senT To England To be especially dealT wiTh There. IT was required oT every public oTTice holder ThaT he Take an oaTh denying TransubsTanTiaTion1i.e., denying The TacT ThaT bread and wine are changed inTo Jesus ChrisT's Body and Blood in The lvlass. IT a magisTraTe aTTended a Popish assembly , he TorTeiTed The righT To his oTTice and auTomaTicaIIy became ineligible Tor any TuTure oTTice holding. I-lowever, The long nighT oT Trial oT The colonial CaThoIic Church had abouT spenT iTseIT. A new day oT IiberTy was dawning: Tor when The RevoIuTionary War broke ouT, CaTholics ToughT vaIianTIy To proTecT The IiberTy which so Tar They had noT enioyed. The CaTholics of Those days were indeed paTrioTic To TighT in deTense oT a cause which was TurThered by anTi-CaThoIic preiudice, Tor The baTTle cry oT The rebels was No King, No Popery . The preiudice oT The leaders oT The counTry was Tinally worn down aT The end oT The war. As a resulT, when The deIegaTes meT aT Philadelphia To amend The arTicIes oT The EirsT ConTinenTaI Congress, CaTholics and Tair-minded men insisTed ThaT There be religious Treedom. The Tollowing clause was aT IasT added To ArTicle VI: No religious TesT shall ever be required as gualiTicaTion To any oTTice or public TrusT under The UniTed STaTes. I.aTer, aT The TirsT Congress, The Tollowing law was passed: Congress shall malce no law respecTing an esTabIishmenT oT religion or prohibiTing The Tree exercise TheroT. ThaT was all The Church needed: Treedom To oTTer her sacriTiceg Treedom To Teach. As soon as our religion was recognized, iT grew by leaps and bounds. The land became doTTed wiTh chapels, and Mass was celebraTed aT every corner oT The naTion.

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LQVEAS GARDEN QQ ELIZABETH KAUFFMAN, '39 l wandered in lhe garden ol my hearl, While a slorm ol anger swelol lhe boughfbenl lreesg An ugly cloud ol darkness overhead Senl oul ol sighl lhe warming sun and bees. You were a rose, my dear, along a mossy balh- A guiy'ring llow'r whom l was giving paing And as you swayed againsl lhe slorm Your yelyel cheeks were wel wilh lears and rain. l gazed upon lhe garden ol my hearl lhal eye. There was a Cooling, damoning misl Thal sellled sollly on lhe leayes and A rose's lovely pelals genlly kissed. You were lhe rose, my dear, whom l had bruised In slormy moods. And as l walked along lhe lane' I saw your head was benl wilh guiel griel, And your lender cheeks were wel wilh lears and l slrolled lhroughoul lhe garden ol my hearl, And l smiled al your smiling 'nealh lhe sun. Your cheeks were damp wilh glisl'ning morning dew, lQr lears7l -- and you had lin'lly won. -lhroughoul lhe slorm, dear, you had benl, Bul ils ragings all had been in vain, For you liye on. And as you see lhe welness ol rain. My cheeks - you know lhal il's ol lears and nol ol rain. 'xy i' ,su 4. .Q w-K -'- . :..:'- v

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TQ SECURE Tl-TE BLESSING CDT LIBERTY LIBERTY ff ELIZABETH KAUEEMAN, '39 lT sTands mafesTic wiTh iTs Torch l-leld high above The crowd: We see ETS Tlovfing robes oT sTaTe, lTs noble head so proud. BUT, Too, we noTe anoTher one Which dominaTes The sceneg lT sTands Tor warlike gases and Eor monsTer submarine. Which shall we choose To champion In The biTTer Times To come- The slaying oT The innocenT, The rolling oT The drum? Or shall we go abouT our lives ConTenTed, happy, Tree- Enioying all ThaT is implied By one word, LiberTy ?