Monsignor Coyle High School - Review Yearbook (Taunton, MA)

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Ill. Hvv. Mgr. Jammu Cnylr, ll. ll. The Anointed Idealist to whom we owe our Present Reality -n , 'YA 'Q ,wg

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Brother Marcian, U. S. C. Remarks of Rev. Raymond B. Bourgoin, principal of Monsignor lames Coyle High School, at the Solemn Requiem Mass for Brother Marcian, C.S.C., celebrated at St. Mary's Church, Taunton, Mass., Nov. 18, 1942. Reverend Fathers, Dear Brothers, Students of the Coyle High School: We have assembled in this church this morn- ing to pay a Catholic tribute to a man who de- voted his life to the cause of Catholic education. You did not know Brother Marcianp l did not know him, yet both you and l are his beneficiaries. It is altogether fitting that We of Coyle should honor this man who for six years gave to our school the benefit of his talents, his fine profession- al training and his life of religious devotion. You did not know Brother Marcian but you do know his brothers in Religion. You meet them daily. They .preside over your classes. They direct many of your school activities. They are men who bring to your classes not only a professional equipment of high degree but also a singleness of purpose that can come only from religious dedication. They left their homes, their families, they voluntarily relinquished the satisfactions that would come from a family life of their own. They not only spent years in academic effort that they might become professionally competent but, what is of even greater importance, they spent considerable time and effort in training themselves in spiritual ac- complishment. Because of their religious dedication you have before you daily the example of men whose lives are lived with rigorous discipline, whose lives are characterized by com- plete self-sacrifice and unselfishness, All of this is done not for worldly gain or fame, all of this is done that they might become and remain fit instruments in the hands of God for the Christian education of youth. Their years of study, their years of spiritual preparation, their efforts, their prayers, their talents, their energy are all poured out that you may become worthy Catholic gentlemen. ln short, their lives are being spent for you. Let us hope that you ap- preciate it. Brother Marcian, then, was one of the Brothers of Holy Cross. His training was identi- cal or at least similar to that of the Brothers whom you know. When the Coyle High School was only an empty building, he and his associates came here to give it form, direction and life. ln cooperation with Father Gorman, the diocesan superintendent of schools, Brother Marcian directed the destinies of Coyle for six years during the all-important days of its beginnings. The courses of study which you follow, the activities in which you engage, the traditions which you cherish and the procedures with which you are familiar. . .all these were in large meas- ure instituted and set in operation by the good Brother whose memory we honor this morning. While his funeral services are being conducted at the University of Notre Dame, we of Coyle today by this assembly make acknowledgement of our debt to Brother Marcian. We add the suffrage of our prayers to the offering of the Holy Sacrifice at which we have assisted that Almighty God, in Whose service Brother Marcian's life was spent, may speedily bestow upon him his eternal reward. May his soul rest in peace. Amen.