Our Lady Queen of Angels Seminary - Prep Yearbook (Mission Hills, CA)

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THROUGH OUR FAMILIES

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Friendships and our ability to relate are integral parts of our seminary family spirit. Our natural need for community causes us to bind ourselves with others. No one likes to feel numbing despair or loneliness. The true value of community is never felt till one is separated from it. Here in the seminary we constantly turn to our friends for help and support, and in turn lend our help to those who need it. Here away from home, our close friends become our support when reality shatters our emotional or physical limbs. We learn to trust and open ourselves to others, and help each other to grow as brothers. In doing so we form bonds of mutual warmth and comradeship that last a lifetime. Our unique seminarian brotherhood leaves no room for class, racial, or economic prejudices. We all work constant- ly to create an atmosphere of family and of God ' s love made real. Our community is strong because there are no people, only persons. Each person is an individual with special strengths to contribute to the good of the whole. The call we all received from Jesus is the common denominator that holds our lives together and directs our unseen course. Our own willing- ness to pursue that call is the driving force that motivates us to band together as brothers. 1. Intramural sporting events are important facets of our semi- nary community. 2. During the Mass, the seminarians participate in every as- pect of the celebration, including the music. 3. Gustavo Ortiz helps Fr. Dober in welcoming 7th and 8th graders at the beginning of a Weekend Retreat. 4. Daily celebration of the Mass helps build a family spirit and school unity. 5. Msgr. Cokus calls us to prayer and service as our teacher and rector. 6. Senior big brothers pray with their Freshmen little brothers, creating a bond of trust and friendship. 7. Cardinal Manning, Msgr. Bauler, Fr. Murray, and Fr. Laner show their support for the seminary by their visits and concelebration of the Mass with the resident priests.

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jftffin Wt 1 . Fr. Burnham and Mrs. Cunningham discuss Sean ' s behavior during the past week. 2. Fr. Ziemann carries on a conversation with Mr. Barragan on a Friday afternoon. 3. Louis Lopez and his mother spend time together in prayer. 4. Believe it or not, Mr. Bernal and his son, Charles, are not really posing for this picture. 5. Mr. Figueroa and his son, Manuel, load up their belongings in the car before departing for home. 6. The Barrons are happy about their children ' s pres- ence in the seminary. 7. Kenneth Mickelson thinks carefully to ensure that he has not forgotten any items in the dormitory. 8. Jerry Gomez is delighted to see his family after a long school week.