Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Раде 10 The English-speaking Canadian Jesuits will be working in the territory indicated by the arrow and the dotted circle. to his room and deprived of what he looked upon as his greatest consolation, his breviary. Doomed to sit without reading during the long hours of е day, deprived of frequent contact with members of the busy teaching staff, he spent his days in loneliness, but never in despondency. Whenever a visitor came to see him, he found a pleasant greeting from a still buovant personality carrying the heavy burden of his infirmities with unfailing cheerfulness, always ready to find some spiritual aspect to a condition which, from the human point of view, must have been depressing and utterly discouraging. This particular aspect of his last months on earth must have been emphasized by the retrospect of his long and active career as a Jesuit.. Father Cox was born in Montreal on October 11, 1868 and studied at Collége Sainte Marie, which, at that time, had no English-speaking course. He entered the Society on August 14, 1887 at the Novitiate at the Sault-au-Récollet, and pronounced his first vows on August 15, 1889. Following the custom of those days for English members of the French-speaking Province, he went to Stoneyhurst in England to study the Humanities and Mathematics in 1891-1892, returning for his Philosophy to the Immaculate Conception in Montreal in 1892-1895. He then taught at Collége Sainte-Marie, the Juniorate at Sault-au-Récollet and at Loyola College, which had began its separate existence in 1896, returning to the Immaculate Conception for his Theology in 1900. He was ordained to the Priesthood on June 28, 1903, and the following year went to Mold in England for his Tertianship, returning to Loyola College where he pronounced his last vows on August 15, 1905. From then on till 1913 he taught, first at Loyola and then at St. Boniface College in Manitoba.

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SOLEMN BENEDICTION THE ‘МАМРАТОМ” Left to right Rev. Wm. Mackey, S.J. Rev. John Prendergast, S.J Rev. Wm. Daly S.J. Rev. Maurice Stanford, S.J.

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Раде 11 In 1913 when the English Novitiate was opened at Guelph, һе was appointed Socius to the Master of Novices. The following year he returned to Loyola as Parish Priest, only to the following Mission Band: of the Mission his for many a the exception of the Humanities Loyola, he was on until 1922 when Priest at Port 1925 returned to Parish Priest. his work was memberorhead of In 1928 he was the New York- Province and an indefatigable Province's very Missioners. From was the superior York- Maryland be appointed year to the this strenuous life Band was to be long year. With one year teaching and Rhetoric at the Mission Band he became Parish Arthur and in Loyola, again as From then on practically all as the Mission Band. ‘leaned’ to Maryland until 1940 was member of that busy group of 1940-1944 he of the New Mission Band and was stationed Rev. Jonn Cox, S.J. in Philadelphia. During this period of time he made many friends among those with whom he was working, and the bonds of that friendship were strong enough to bring many of his former associates who were passing through Canada all the way to Montreal to visit him in his retirement. Failing health forced his retirement from active life and he returned to Loyola as a Spiritual Father of the Community. During his last stay at the College he was a source of edification and encouragement and his spiritual advice was as useful to his confreres in religion as his preaching had been throughout the many years of his active missionary career to the tens of thousands of the faithful who had heard him in the various churches throughout Canada and the United States. While the academic year has been all too rapidly flowing by, the world at large has been undergoing changes that are bound to have a profound influence on every member of the human race. The active strife of the last Great War is over. The destruction, the dislocation, the turmoil it left in its wake, are still with us. The angry passions aroused during the conflict show no sign of abáting. Тһе peace- makers of the nations are toiling amidst misunderstanding, jealousy, hatred, with conflicting streams of interests and ambitions, to arrive at some workable method of living together, in a world made small by modern methods of communication and transportation. While students in a College may not have an immediate contribu- tion of wisdom, of advice, to offer in the making of world peace, they cannot remain totally unaware of what is being done: their future depends on the success of the statesmen. Students in a Catholic College can, and should, make a very direct and a very important contribution to the work of bringing the peace of Christ into the Kingdom of Christ, by utilizing to the full the potent instrumentality of prayer. “Unless the Lord keep the city, in vain do they work who keep it”, said the Psalmist. Unless the Lord, answering the prayers of the millions of little people, be allowed to play His rightful part in the framing of the peace, in the building of the house, then it is very much to be feared that the structure now being erected will prove no more stable than that erected without His help, some years ago at Versailles.