Our Lady of Angels High School - Amaranth Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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070 the GER: DUHTES: ODAY thousands of you young people stand on the threshold of a new life. You are forced to cross that threshold, Without any turning back, into a world Which presents anything but a pleasing vista. What confronts you is a world despoiled by the rampant passions of menesteeped in Viceetorn by warefraught With pessimism and futility. Many listening to the advice of the world itself shall enter it as they Would the gates of Dante35 Hell over Which were in- scribed the words: ctAll hope abandon, ye Who enter here? Others shall be buoyed up for a time with the thought that they face only a few dark hours before the dawn of a Golden Age, the same will-o-the-Wisp that has escaped the grasp of men since Eden. While these must despair before the seemingly in- surmountable obstacles to happiness in this life, you shall find the answer in the pastoral voice of St. Peter raised in the midst of all the misery and persecution of his day telling his sheep now as well as then: YYou are a chosen generation? In these words you have something that lifts you out of the turmoil, the mad scramble of a pagan world, and gives you a peace and happiness the rest of the world Will never know. A knowledge of God that millions about you shall never attain is yours. A worthwhile goal, the incorruptible crown of eternal glory has been put within your reach by the Church. A solid Christian education has set you hrmly on the path to that goal. You are Catholics with the Way and the Truth and the Life in your hearts. Your future lies Within you, and it is anything but pessimistic. ea 8 gem-

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Unhappy shall be the lot of those not fortunate enough to be among the Chosen generation? For they shall search for a material, yet mythical, happiness that is expected to satiate the minds and bodies of men on earth. Some With the trite excuse: uWe only live oncef shall plunge themselves into the mad whirlpool of sinful pleasure only to be sucked down into the bot- tomless depth of black despair. Others shall spend a miserable lifetime totter- ing on the brink of the Whirlpool torn between the desire to taste of its pleas- ures and the muddled longing for a God they do not know. The pity of it is, that these earthy creatures have not learned to look beyond this earth, beyond the rainbowis end, to the real future of man,-the eternal happiness that is your goal. It is given to you, ltthe chosen generation? to understand, by the grace of God, something of His Wisdom. You of all people, by the Faith that is in you, shall be able to solve the problems that confront the world in Which you live. It is in your power, then, to bring happiness not only to yourselves but to the rest of mankind. Some of you may find that happiness in the quiet seclusion of religious life, some in the sacred duties of married life, and others in single blessedness in a work-a-day world. But all of you understand the Christian paradox of happiness and suffering that the world fears so much. And you have been taught to expect and accept the good things of life as well as suffering With the knowledge that all these come in answer to your query: uLord, What Wilt thou have me do?,, Therein lies your happiness. mew. Seraph W zeitz, C9. 3 772. saga 9 gm-