Mount Angel Seminary High School - Spectrum Yearbook (St Benedict, OR)

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Mounl Angel Seminary High School is a community. Through the year sermons, liturgy days, and even stu- dent homilies repeated the statement. But what is a community? A biology student might say that a com- munity is a group of interrelated individual organisms. Organisms is a bit awkward, so we substitute peo- ple . lnterrelated? This means that we depend on each other, and we are connected in some way to each other. We are people who are unique, each with his own life style, but living together. l We try, at least to harmonize with one another We We have serious times, too: Father Paschal's moral work together and get things done We work but we also enjoy ourselves: we know there is a time to laugh, a time to weep. We know what it is to lose, but even when defeat seems to stare us in the face, we have a spirit that can't be topped. We have times for the study halls, the typing room, the biology lab, the yearbook room, and other hide-aways where we can get away from it all. bulletin board at night prayer, Father Emmanuel and all the other priests at the lectern each morning at Mass, Father Edmund and Father Curtiss explaining in strained voices why silence is necessary in the dorms after 9:30. We areya community made up of individuals, each marching to the tune ofa different drummer, yet some- how marching and living together. We live on a hilltop in the Willamette valley. Individuals-in a community -growing together.