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

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with hatred will pulsate, and the venom of sin and temptation Will flow in the place of blood. How grotesque these fairyland creatures of the world! In your journey through life, against three evil characters must you guard-the world, the devil, and the flesh. The world lays open to you a beauti- ful highway, paved With principles easy to follow, and with no laws to slow you dowu. Along it you may pick up honor, wealth, pleasure, as yOu glide in the most luxurious manner to your final and in- evitable destruction. The course laid out for you by God is not so smooth and broad. It is paved with penance and gov- erned by many irksome laws. It is beset with trials and tribulations; it dips into valleys of sorrow and tears; it Climbs tortuous mountains of misery. However, at the end there stands God with outstretched arms to welcome His faithful travelers. Of Satan, Saint Peter gives the warning when he says: Your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion goeth about seeking whom he may devour? A clever person, the devil! Running at your side day and night he plays the willing guide. He would help you, advise you. He knows the easier roads, the more scenic ones. And yet, Satank sworn work for all eternity is to hold you back in the race, to inveigle you into the dens of hell. Forget not that, as a member of the mystical body, Christ is your help and counsel; His Church, the pillar of truthf marks you way. Strangely enough you Will find that your greatest enemy is your own weak self. You may forget the world; you may silence the serpent; but you will not rid yourself of your own flesh and its cravings for rest and satisfac- tion. It is When you become weary with carrying your ever increasing burden of responsibilities that your flesh will lure you to seek after the Will-o- the wisps, those seeming pleasures that beckon you from Godls safe road to find rest and delight in the hidden quicksands and grasping bogs 0f sensuality. Bear in mind that, you cannot wallow in the quagmire of self-satisfaction without so maiming and disfiguring the soul that it becomes unfit to wear the crown of glory. If now you want from life the peace and contentment that can be yours, avoid these three pitfalls of sin. Forget the looking-glass land of Alice. Run swiftly in the race as Saint Paul advises you. And when the race is over you Will not wear the makeebelieve crown of tinsel, but the crown of eternal glory. Today, even now, you are living the answer to the question that God will ask you on the threshold of eternity: uHow well have you run? mew. Seraph W 259122, Q J m. .3 1 mWGt 15 gag,

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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-

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