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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