Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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REVEREND MAURICE STANFORD, S.J. Loyola Graduate 1931 Recently appointed Rector of St. Joseph's College Darjeeling, D.H.Ry, North India.

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REVEREND J. F. McCarrREY, $.). — RECTOR — Loyola Graduate 1927

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The Holy Year (continued) The present great powers, leaders of Christendom, are not those nations who have known deep suffering; they are judges, not penitents. They proclaim material comfort and security, and faith in a threatened culture, though nothing temporal is secure, and their culture only mirrors back themselves. Weakened by atheism, Communist or earlier, they lack the strength of secret Russian Christians—the Yurodivy or born fools . Our leaders raise up arms against a physical onslaught, and they can not be sure of physical victory; yet by answering the real challenge we can ensure the real victory. In vigilance of spirit we will more sharply see, not only enemies of the spirit, but also the traitor within; at this time of the Great Return and the Great Pardon, ere the eastern prodigal may return, we must first seek pardon for ourselves. The Great Return is open to us, and to the enemy. Amid present wars and rumours of war, as we respond to Pope Pius XII in his call for purification, so can we join in his prayers for peace, wherein lies the sole victory. Like Yurodivy we should aim to win the enemy, not imitate him. Were we morally strong enough for war we would gain the enemy, not crush him in self-protective fury; and as much can be done in peace. Peace between nations is the fruit of Justice and Charity, and inward peace springs from purification; the one cannot be had without the other. Let us, then, answer the summons to a Jubilee, and the challenge of the enemy; and if we go not as pilgrims, let us watch and pray”. CT не year 1950 marks for us a jubilee other than the Holy Year. It marks the golden jubilee of Father John Milway Filion, S.J. On February 2nd, in the presence of relatives, friends, college officials, and students, Father Filion celebrated a special Mass of Thanksgiving to the good Lord who had granted him fifty years of service in that corner of His vineyard cultivated by the Society of Jesus. Father Filion has been associated with Loyola for many years. Both he and his father attended Loyola's mother college, Collége Ste-Marie. He was vice-rector in 1917, and as Father Provincial, first of all Canadian Jesuits, and later of the Upper-Canadian Province, he guided our destinies. To Father Filion, who is now at the age of 71 still doing a full day's work in the lecture halls as professor of Sacred Theology, the Review extends its heartiest congratulations, and best wishes for many more years in the service of his Master.