Mount St Marys College - Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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1:1 A . at f o N 55 ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES 714 WEST OLYMPIC BOULLNARD LosANeufs15- cAuFomwA Rlchmond 7-7471 December Twelfth 1 9 5 1 To send greetings to the stuients of WMOUHT SAINT MARY'S COLXEGEN is a joy and a challenge. It is e challenge because the projection into the future of the potentialities of education at Mount Saint T-iary's draws heavily upon the capacity of imagination. Your training cnltivetes the foundations of womanhood that are in such marked contrast to the de- clining standards resulting from e Godlees education. Therefore, ee leaders and examples of a truly religious womanhood you will be e challenge to the community. ,f ARCHBISHGP of Los Angeles. S

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eniofzs . .. l Hli most important day on each college seniors calendar is Commence- ment Day '. This term is a profound one, deep-rooted in four years of preparation to enter the arena to take part in the battle as Our Holy Father has said in his D21scw'Ij1'tt,v for flu' llnfllllrlll nf Today. You commence to live life, not passively but actively. Each alumna, in accordance with the will of His Holiness, is to participate in the impregnation of public life with the spirit of Christ to as large an extent as her state in life will permit. The wife and mother is to courageously accept her new duties and enter into the activities which protect the integrity of Christian homes, further the welfare of all children, and influence legislation and administration when God-given rights are being undermined. Among the students who receive their bachelors degrees this year are some who may have the leisure to prepare themselves in a particular way to engage in the front-line battle of public life, and to lit themselves to direct their energies to preserve the way of life guaranteed to us by our Christian constitution and government. The Przjmf IDi1'erfi1'u.i' for flw llnfllllzlll of Y'ofL1,3' state: To live today in our great cities without loss of faith and purity requires no less heroism than was needed in the days of bloody persecution. To reinforce the prayer and sacrifices of those in the midst of the social melee will be those members of the Class of Fifty-one, who by devoting themselves to prayer and training of youth, will obtain graces for all of you, and send forth recruits to fill your ranks. I can give you no better challenge than the words of Pope Pius XII, Be present everywhere for the Faith, for Christ, in every way and to the utmost possible limit, whenever vital interests are at stake, whenever laws bearing on the worship of God, marriage, the family, the school, and the social order are proposed and discussed. My prayer will accompany you in the pursuit of these noble ideals. MOTH IYR AGN IES MARI IT