Our Lady of the Angels Academy - Angelican Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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Eva Kirch, (standing) foreign exchange student from Germany, interests her American friend-students with her views on American government and labor practices. Piously disposed, on that memorable De¬ cember 7, 1953, the Academy students were privileged to assist Mother M. Simplicita and Mother M. Laura in the official opening of the Oratory, a special project initiating the formal observance of the Marian Year at the Academy. i . |Y(S Our Lady in full splendo r and glory at her new home. Seniors KAREN M. BLOOM St. Patrick Thompsonville, Conn. Alpha Beta Science Club 4; Christopher 3, 4; Dramatics 3; Glee Club 3, 4; Library Club 4. Determined to be something in God’s world. ROSE M. BORRACCI St. Mary Windsor Locks, Conn. Christian Citizenship Forum 2; Christopher 1, 2, 3, 4; Commercial Club Treasurer 2, 3; Dramatics 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4. Knows how to tint life’s diffi¬ culties with faith and humor. ALICE C. COBB St. Mary Windsor Locks, Conn. Christian Citizenship Forum 2, 3, 4; Christopher 1, 2, 3, 4; Dra¬ matics 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Library Club 2; Literary Club 1, 2; Maris Stella Club 2. Her life is arched with kindness and calm. 12

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Mary, God’s Mother and Ours Mary is called Mother. And when is Mary not a mother? Every letter of that word mother” spells loyalty, sacrifice, and love. It speaks of days of anxious watching and loving care, of generous giving and compassionate affection. A mother’s heart is a divine creation. No one but God could have thought of mother¬ hood. No one but God could have given us a mother. So wonderful a creation is motherhood that God Himself determined to have a Mother. And Mary was this Mother. By God’s grace then Mary possesses the singular privilege of divine Motherhood. All the qualities of Christ’s body, the dispositions and graces of His character are derived from His human Mother. He was like Mary in form and feature. The light of her eyes shone in Him, the smile of His lips was as the smile of His Mother, and the inflection of His voice was like the echo of her own. The qualities of His human soul and human heart were instilled in Him from the mind and heart of His Mother. And God knowing that His only Son would derive from this Mother all that was human in Him, made that Mother to the measure of the greatest of the children of men. And when we say that Mary is the Mother of God we have exhausted the measure of her dignity. When that is said, all is said. It resumes and includes everything. Every honor is contained for Mary in the title of Mother of God. It is an immense prerogative for her to possess with the Heavenly Father a mutual Son. If Christ is like His Mother in the order of nature, she is, without doubt, like Him in the order of grace, and grace has its source in Him. Mary then is what she is because of Christ. She is the Mother of Jesus in the flesh; she is the Mother of His members in the Spirit. Motherhood consists above all in the communication of life. Mary fulfilled this function of motherhood in giving life to Jesus, Our Saviour, and in giving to us, her children, the spiritual life of our souls. Motherhood has a two-fold aspect: physical and spiritual. Just as physical motherhood is not confined to conception and childbearing but must continue in the rearing and education of the child until it can fend for itself, so too spiritual motherhood is not merely that of conceiving and giving birth to the life of their souls. The role of motherhood must be prolonged until the supernatural life is beyond all the dangers that assail it. In God’s plan, such is the function of Mary’s spiritual motherhood in regard to men. Such too is the role of all who enter into life through her. In this plan every young miss, every woman must co-operate with Mary, just as she would have shared, in God’s original plan, in the role of Eve. Every young miss, every woman is to be a source of life, sharing with others what she received. She must be a transmitter, a source of supernatural life to all with whom she comes in contact, and in order to transmit that life, she must first possess it. She must be a spiritual mother, and that she cannot be unless she moulds herself on the virginity and the Maternity of Mary. She must, like Mary, consecrate all there is of woman in her to God. O Mother of my life, let my heart die to every life and live of thy life. Let my life be animated by thy spirit and inflamed with thy love, that together with thee, it may forever bless, love, and praise Him Who is life essential, the first and sovereign principle of all life, whose infinite desire it is to communicate life to all men.” 11

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Seniors’ gift to Mary — a project showing forth the fruit of Her womb — the Christmas Rose. Seniors who sponsored and took active part in the gold¬ en jubilee of the encyclical Motu Proprio. Joan Jedziniak as St. Pius X at the assembly commemo¬ rating the 50th anniversary of the encyclical Motu Proprio. BARBARA A. CORMIER All Saints Somersville, Conn. Christian Citizenship Forum 2; Christopher 2, 3, 4; Dramatics 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 2, 3, 4; Literary Club 3; Maris Stella Club 3, Treasurer 4. Holds joy in giving comfort and courage to the needy. JOAN A. FARRELL St. Bernard Hazardville, Conn. Alpha Beta Science Club 4; Christian Citizenship Forum 2, 3, 4; Christopher 1, 2, 3, Vice-presi¬ dent 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Library Club 2, 3, 4; Diocesan Labor-Management Essay Contest; Second Prize 1. Tall in her size; set in her ways. PATRICIA A. GANTLEY St. Mary Windsor Locks, Conn. Christian Citizenship Forum 2, 3, 4; Christopher 1, 2, 3, 4; Dra¬ matics 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Maris Stella Club 2. 0« rAzge she is at her best.