Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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and prayer, only the long discipline of following sustains the leader. Marquette, Alma Mater, has made good followers. The Jesuit rule of obedience, disciplined thought and action, builds walls around them which stand solidly after the walls of school fall open to the world. The devotions of the Sodality, Communion, consecration to the Sacred Heart, Our Lady of Fatima rosaries, lead to self-perfection. The soul's concern must extend to others, too. Once secured in Christ, the followers may lead. All cannot preach nor teach, but they can live, and so lead by their example. Students' religious leadership will not be only in the cloister and the church, but in office and home and school. Our leadership is not only in the organized religious societies of the university, but also in every sincere follower of Christ. . . . Every student who visits Gesu daily before he leaves school, or chapel on First Fridays; the student who blesses himself when passing a church, who prays for the dead, who gives to Student Relief, who goes to noon Mass or six-thirty, who says the daily rosary, obeys the Commandments, who strives for the perfection of the beatitudes; who realizes he is a human being made for God. •X M.iss of ihc Holy CihoM Study in Meditation — 14 —

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The seeds of religious leadership have been planted in the soil of Marquette by the Jesuits. The first flowering is in Sodality, National Federation of Catholic College Students, Colum-biere Circle, Fatima, Inter-Racial Club, but their roots remain in Christ. They who would lead others to Christ know that they must first follow Him. He cannot lead who does not know Hun, or knowing, does not act on His principles. Jesuit retreats and courses in religion and philosophy bring knowledge: obedience gives strength. A leader must be strong. The unbelieving await him with spiked hands. He is spitted a thousand times on his own doubts. When the comfort of Christ lessens, when the world threatens to flood the dike of penance Hie leaven i here—may ii leaven the earth — 13 —

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 Jesuit retreats and counts in religion and philosophy bring knowledge This quiet following of Christ is one way to religious leadership ... in the world, not of it; in life, for Life. He who follows well will not walk empty-handed into heaven. He who leads well will walk companioned into heaven. Followers and leaders are complementary there—and here, where all must follow Christ and lead each other. So Marquette teaches that by following Christ and obeying the authority He has established to guide us, we may learn to lead humbly. The maternity of mothers, Marquette and Mary, has given self, self-knowledge, self-discipline, and the grace of Christ to the followers of Alma Mater. These, the fruits of following, are the seeds of religious leadership, sown in those intelligent, educated and knowing truth. The leaven is here—may it leaven the earth. The salt is here—may it preserve the earth. The light is here—may it illumine the world and shine forth before men to the eternal credit of Alina Mater, who has shielded and increased its flame. The seeds of religious leadership” The student who prays for the dead' ... so lead by their example Devotion leads to self perfection