Mount St Marys Academy - Mercycrest Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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' Our school is a Dominican school ' -Theme for 1957 Our School is Dominican! How proud we ore of our name, Dominican, and how we love to sing it, to spell it out in our cheers and pep songs! it is a fine old name, and it has always stood for the school we love and all that our school means to us. We know, of course, that the word Do- min ' ican means a good deal more than any one school, even if that school is the grand- est place on earth. However, when we were considering possible themes for our 1957 Dom;n og, following the tradition of DA seniors in looking for some phase of our school life which might be improved by con- centrating on it for the year, we began asking ourselves questions. Were we fully aware of the richness of our seven-hundred- year-old Dominican heritage? Had we ever stopped to think seriously what it is that gives Dominican Academy the spirit we love? What is the source of its friendly, joyous atmosphere, its tradition of culture, of high scholastic endeavor? Was there anything we could do to stimulate appreciation for all that our name Dominican connotes? A little reflection showed us that a year- long study of Dominican history and tradi- tions would be an enriching experience and would make our school life and memories more deeply meaningful for ourselves and our schoolmates. It was therefore in the hope that we could make a contribution toward inten- sifying the Dominican spirit of DA that we adopted as our theme for our yearb ook and for the year, Our School Is A Dominican School. O LUMEN ECCLESIAEI Prayer to St. Dominic O great Saint, who, inflamed with divine love, didst find thy delight in prayer and intimate union with God, obtain for us to be faithful in our daily prayers, to love our Lord ardently, and to observe His commandments with ever increasing fidelity. — Dominican Calendar, 1957 3

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i DEDICATION To understand the spirit of an Order, we must trace it to its Founder and then see it realized in the lives of its most illustrious members. An Order is but the immortal reflection of a man raised up by God, wrote Lacordaire. As the true spirit of the Dominican Order is an inheritance from St. Dom- inic, we must go back to him if we are to estimate how truly Dominican is the spirit of our school. He is here represented by one of our yearbook artists in the connection that has made him familiar to most people, as the saint to whom the Blessed Virgin entrusted her Rosary, one of the most precious her- itages of the Order. St. Dominic ' s holy life has been a model and in- spiration for every generation of Dominicans. It was a life of flaming enthusiasm, wholly absorbed in saving souls and spreading the saving light of Christ. To St. Dominic we therefore dedicate our 1957 Dom ' milog and our year of loving and prayerful research into Dominican life.