Mount St Charles Academy - Excelsior Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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Respectfully embracing the spiritual guidance ot our Most Reverend Bish- ops, we strive, under the immediate care of our devoted teachers, to realize our citizenship ot two worlds by the consistent building up oi a deeper SENSE OF GOD, through daily prayers and a sincere de- votion to Our Lady ot Fatima, centering our lives in God, and denying our sel- fish whims by a closer imitation ot our unselfish Lord, lesus Christ- SENSE OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION, by knowing and loving God, and wall:- ing in the steady light of His command- ments in our choice of companions and entertainments- SENSE OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY by our total dependence on God, our Father, 'constantly aware that our time and talents belong to God, by sharing tasks with others and by the weekly reception of the sacrament of penance- SENSE OF MISSION , by dedicating ourselves for a better society, ever mindful that the will of God is more important than any per- sonal consideration.

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all gn, of ma, Mary, Our Most Sweet Mother was the affectionate phrase of the bearded Cardinal Tisserant, acting Dean of the College of Cardinals, in his ceremonial appeal to the Holy Father asking for the proclamation of the Blessed Virgin's Assumption as a dogma of the faith, on November l, 1950. Peter in the person of Pius Xll acceded to the plea of the entire world, whether gathered about his temporary throne set on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica, or united to him in heart and mind everywhere in the world. Speaking with the authority con- fided to him as Christ's Vicar and the immunity from error assured by the Holy Spirit, the Holy Father solemnly promulgated as a truth revealed to the Apostles to be believed by all men, the presence of Mary, both in body and soul, in heaven triumphantly taken there by God to reign as Queen of the Choirs of angels and of the legions of the saints. Never in human history, perhaps, has humanity gathered in such numbers, sending representatives from every corner of the globe, as in the bright, mild sunshine of All Saints' Day in Rome. From the steps of the basilica the mitred heads of more than seven hundred bishops rejoiced in the announcement that answers the petition of over three thousand members of the hierarchy and more than eight million of the faithful during the last eighty years. The formal proclamation of Mary's bodily presence in heaven as a fact places official and infallible seal on an ancient and universal Catholic belief. To honor Mary's Assumption, Catholics have been reciting a decade of the ro- sary for nine hundred years, have filled churches on August 15, the Feast of her Assumption, as the heavenly patron of nations. No other theme has so at- tracted the affection of the Christian art- ist. ln paintings over the altar, in sculp- ture over Cathedral portals, in gleam- ing light from many-colored rose win- dows, the representation of Mary's bod- ily triumph over death and corruption have for centuries expressed the uni- versal belief of Catholics. During the past century, Mary has come to La Salette, to Lourdes, to Fat- ima, in order to remind us that heaven is our home, that heaven is won by prayer and penance, sinlessness and service, that she, our Mother, is ten- derly watching our way. flflxcerpts from Amerioa .l

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