Jesus Mary Academy - Echo Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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Catholic Literature Committee in action Socialists of the Bundle Drive about to spread Christmas cheer. Catholic Literature Committee

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LEARNING TO LIVE A Catholic School is successful when its graduates shape their lives according tc Catholic principles The systematic teaching ot r ligion in every grade is one means taken to attain the desired end Then the entire school day is steeoed in Catholic atmosphere with prayer woven as a golden thread throughout the hours When High School is reached another means of developing a Catholic mentality that will issue into a thoroughly C tholic life is encouraged 'lctiwe participation in the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary The am of tle Sodality which includes personal sanctification sanctification of the neighbor spread and defense of the Catholic Church seems to sum up every Catholic students duty and ambition in life This organization established in almost every Catholic school helps its members both spiritually and temporally Our Blessed Lord once sa d I am the Vine and you are the branches the Sodalitk help us to realme our part in the Mystical Body The Soclalists motto Ad esum per Mariam To esus through Mary indicates the role Mary plays in the life of evfry Catholic and explains the devotion reverence and filial love each sodalist develops for her ueen Ad at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on her successive feas s the practice of tae Five First Saturdays the study and imitation of her virtues are some expressions of a sodalists love for Qur Lady The patronal feast of the Immaculate Con ception and Marys Day in May are obs rved with special solemnity and joy Mary becomes a living force in the spiritual life of her sodalists Who does not need a strong character and will power? There is no one who does not for in every phase of life there are difficulties to be faced Here again the Sodality helps us to encounter these trials and problems with a Catholic pirit The Sodality proposes mall means of character development which insignificant though they may seem trifles now are a store of energy for the future A you might presume the Sodality to be exclusively a spiritual association you must know it organizes parties charity drives group discussions var ous contests plays and Catholic reading clubs to give our Catholic principles ex pres ion in our everyday social and intellectual life No Catholic student wishes to remam on the side lines or to be out of date so the Sodality sponsors social actn ities to show its members the correct way to act actmg socially in a Catholic way' Thus when each graduate emerges from a Catholic Hi h School and from Jesus Mary Academy in particular she should be equipped with all the principles and virtues of a good Catholic American Woman Irene Fonteneau 45 ' 1 . , . . . . . , S . , . . , ' 'Y Q I rt - sv. ' I . . . , . A 4 , u .. , ,. ,, I 7 s i I' A Q a ' vocate and Mother. The daily recitation of the beads in her honor, attendance . . f . , . , . ' Y . , . . . . . D V K . , . S i l . l S 1 I 1 . . .. Y . v 6 S , . . W . . . . , . . . , g . . , . . y i 7 5 . l I V - ' A - . . . , - -K .,. . . - . Q . . 4 - , . 3 ,

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XIJYTE COMXII I 1I:Ii 'XIXRH S FEET. Sodality officers nt n general meeting: Lorraine Boule, president, nt centerg Irene Gt-ndreau, recording secretary. reading the minutesg seated: Irene Fonteneau, corresponding secretaryg Irma Rattc. vice presidentg Henriette Lajoie, treasurer, THE PUBLICITY COMMITTEE PRESENTS SOME OF ITS XVORK. THE EUCHARISTIC COMMITTEE RECALLS SOME PROJECTS, FIR DROP. Whats HCM