O Dea High School - Olympian Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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I ahh, nf Qlnntvnta oGRADUATES QCLASSES QORGANIZATIONS QSPORTS ,o SCHOOL LIFE Ihr 'l1Pt11P: THIS ISSUE of the OLYMPIAN, a pictorial and literary record of the school year just completed, has appropriately chosen for its theme the Catholic Centenary Celebration. A retrospective glance of one hundred years into the history of the Pacific Northwest, reveals not only the struggles and sacrifices of the intrepid mission- aries from Bishop Blanchet to our revered Bishop Shaughnessy, but also the splendid cooperation of the laity with the hierarchy in the work called Catholic Action, a new concept of the Church. The recent Centenary Celebrations not only testified, with all the appeal of pageantry and Church ceremonial, to the accomplishments of the past, but offered powerful incentives to an active liturgical life, as the new Christianity of the future. If the theme of the 1939 OLYMPIAN even faintly re-echoes the spiritual con- quests of the past one hundred years, we feel abundantly recompensed. '

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I 2 I l Rev. Father William H. O'Neil, J.C.D. illlezmtge A CENTURY OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION. How evaluate it except in terms of profit or loss, of progress or retrogression! At Hrst, we might be tempted to take pride in our present day facilities of organized religious instruction, but, upon more sober reflection, we must feel regret at the loss of the solid though simple foundations upon Which religion in the past was built. Not that we would forego the century's gain in our Catholic educational system, nor that today We would content ourselves with the primi- tive tools used by the missionaries, but that we would try at the same time to recapture the simple basic principles taught by the pioneers. Our mistake has been in sacrificing the things of the heart for the things of the mind. Not so the missionaries. Periodically they visited the members of their scattered flock to instruct them and to instill in their hearts the lessons of Divine Love, but their reliance was always upon the mother and father, who would recall the lessons and engrave them upon the consciousness of their children in the simple language of family prayer and devotion. Our gains of the century have been in the things of the mind, in the building of facilities of religious instruction: our losses, in the things of the heart, in our failure to insist more upon the development of the heart of the child within the encircling arms of a devout mother, and within the warm circle of family devotion.

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m , - g we Qfymjoian we . . -F CdfA66K'Cd! Cxetfy Helping us in every need and caring for our spiritual Welfare were the Reverend Father O'Neill and his worthy assistants. The Mass of the Holy Ghost at the beginning of the year and the monthly Holy Hour on the First Fridays were some ' of the numerous undertakings of our sincere friends. To these We give our thanks and beg that they will continue to assist us in the future. . Rev. Fr. Joseph Walter Rev. Fr. Christopher Sloane X i Rev. Fr. William Rev, Fr. Robert Rev. Fr. H. A. Quick Snodgrass Reinhold 8