Monte Cassino School - Pax Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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illlfllliY Seeing Sister Pancratia watering flowers seems quite out of the ordinary, but believe it or not it's one of her daily office chores, since the planter forrns one vvall of her office. Sister Pancratia is the religious superior of Monte Cassino, principal of the grade school, and the eighth grade teacher, Just walkin in the rain. Sister Mary Charles d Cioles it is a bit too wet, so she takes to driving, Sister is the Freshman Class sponsor. Page S Sister louise studies for a post graduate course, a side line interest. Sister Louise is the high school principal and teaches Latin and Spanish.

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lHl2 UEUIEMIUN The yearbook staff Wishes to dedicate the l957 Pax to the Rev. Mother Paula, O.S.B., prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of St. Joseph Convent, Tulsa. In appreciation of her service to the sisters and to the Benedictine Order Ne, by this edition of the yearbook, celebrate her years as Mother Superior and ask God to bless her efforts for Christ and for Oklahoma. Page 7

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lllNllllSlINl SISllllS Sister Theophile is caught in a momenr of silent prayer Ctfl.'1'tuu5o, c3liRIs'I'lAN XX OlN1liN for a hetter world. This is the stated theme of the PAX. But hetore Monte Cassino can produce cultured, Christian women she IHUSI herself have the qualities she proposes to infuse into her students. The Benedittines come from an Order rich in just that: culture and Christianity. They originated hc-cause a young Roman named Benedict of Nursia fled Rome in the fifth cen- tury to escape its sickening mediocrity and de- tadency. lle started an Order designed to he the very antithesis ol Rome, and set down his own particular formula for monastic life in the llwfy Kult' of SI, liwzwlict. The Benedictine Order grew steadily in numhers. They invaded pagan lfurope as missionaries and converted it, thus giving hirth to its culture and civilization with their own hands, and through their own rule. Monte Cassinos Benedictine sisters come from St. wloseplrs Convent, which has been in Oklahoma lor sixty-six years. and was moved lrom Guthrie to Tulsa last year. Originally, it was a daughter house of St. Marys Convent, Pennsylvania, the first Benedictine convent in the United States. St. Mary's had heen founded in l852 hy a group of sisters from St. Will- hurga's Convent in liichstatt, Bavaria. And so, the Monte Cassino sisters possess a tradition of wisdom, knowledge, and goodness that has come down from the hands of St. Benedict himself. They are well-equipped to teach liy principle in the classroom, and hy ex- ample in the daily living of their community life. lt is in this daily community life ofthe sisters that the Pax linds the roots of all that is Monte Cassino. From here spring the love of God, man, and life that makes of Monte Cassino students cultured, Christian, young women. And so, here too, in the part of their lives most characteristic of them, is the INOSE appropriate place to depict the nuns from whose hands that culture and that Christianity come. First traces of spring are discovered by Sister Ignatia and Sister Berchmans. Sister Igriatia is The bursar and Sister Berchman is the school librarian. ESU Page 9