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

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apprecia tlon N gratitude to you, dear parents, and to you, our teachers, for the generous sacriflces made in our behalf; for your helpful guidance; and for the genuine interest With Which you have greeted our every endeavor, we pray: The Lord bless and keep time. May H 0 519010 H is face to thee and have pity 011 time. May H 9 turn H is countenance towards Ham and give flaw peace. T196 Lord bless fb00., THF. BLESSING OF SAINT FRANCIS

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070 the HEN little Alice of Wonderland fame stepped through the looking-glassfi she left behind her the world of reality and wandered off into the land of make-believe. Some of her experiences in the land behind the looking-glass were terrifying, while others were very, very pleasant. Because it was a land of the fanciful she had visited, it was not difhcult for Alice, upon returning to reality, to laugh at those instances which had struck terror in her soul and to recall with extreme delight the pleasures of that fantastic world. Today you may feel that, like Alice, you are about to begin a journey n through the looking-glass. Do not delude yourself. What you leave behind you is, indeed, a world of reality. However, the world which you will find on the other side, unlike the looking-glass land of Alice, will not be just a world of fancy, but a mixed-up worldefull 0f the real as well as the unreal. And once you step into this curious world there is no turning back. There is no awakening, as if from a dream. You will go on and on into eternity. Saint Paul had no illusion about the life that faced him. He called it a race. Brethren, he said, nknow you not that they that run in the race all run, indeed, but one receiveth the prize? 80 run that you may obtain? To Saint Paul, life meant a glorious light, and then, the ineorruptible crown of glory. What of the life that you think to leave behind you? That you are com- pleting a most important phase of your existence you should well realize. During the years gone by, you have laid the groundwork; you have prepared for the journey that is to come. Spiritually hardened and well-conditioned you stand ready for the race. You have been very fortunate in the assistance which you received in your training. Into your Christian education have gone the love and wisdom of deeply interested parents and teachers. You are equipped with much learning, not solely in the worldly arts, but principally in the things that count most in the light of eternityein the God-given standards of morality, in Godis 0WD faith. More than that, you have your God, in that you are a member of Chrisfs own mystical body. With Saint Paul you, too, may boast, nI can do all things in Him Who strengtheneth me? The past will serve you in good stead. Alice met many strange creatures 0n the other side of the looking-glass. But in this serious world of yours Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the other harmless fairyland people Will have no part. Instead you will End truth, goodness, holiness, all the virtues, without disguise. Evil, however, will fre- mmeaaacjtjaaw quently wear the mask of truth and goodness beneath which a heart hlled veil 14 ?EW-