Quigley Preparatory Seminary - La Petit Seminaire Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The head of the semrnary, says Pope Prus XI lovrngly follows the youths ewtrusted to hrs care and studres the rnclrnatrons of each Hrs watchful and experrenced eye wrll percerve wrthout drffrculty whether one or other have or have not a true prrestly voca tron Wrth thrs solemn statement Pope Prus XI rn hrs encyclrcal On the Catholrc Prresthood declares the tremendous responsrbrlrty of the rector of a semrnary He must determrne whether the asprrant has the rrght rntentron tog th r wrth a combrnatron of physrcal rntellectual and moral qualrtres whrch malce hrm frt for the prresthood What a serrous taslc thrs rs the late Holy Pontrff warns wrth the words Let superrors of semrnarres reflect how werghty a responsrbrlrty they assume before God before the Church and before the youths themselves, rf they do not talce all means at therr drsposal to avord a false step Over the past forty years Qurgley has had four rectors who have proved they realrzed how rmmense was the responsrbrlrty restrng upon therr shoulders Monsrgnor Purcell the Lrttle Semrnary s frrst rector labored at hrs grgantrc taslc for some twenty srx memorable years He was a learned brg hearted and fatherly prrest to every semrnarran After Monsrgnor Purcell there entered upon thrs posrtron Monsrgnor Mahoney who durrng hrs brref rectorshrp, became noted for hrs lcrndness culture and lrngurstrc ac complrshment The semrnary s thrrd rector Monsrgnor Foley, wrth whom many of us are famrlrar was partrcularly renowned for hrs capabrlrty rn the words of Prus Xl of rmpart rng together wrth learnrng a solrd manly and apostolrc sprrrt It rs to our fourth rector however hrm by whom we have been gurded through the past two years of our lrfe Monsrgnor john W Schmrd that we srncerely dedrcate thrs produc tron The successful precedents whrch he has establrshed throughhrs many years of teach rng asprrants to the holy prre thood and through hrs latter two years as rector of the l.rttle Semrnary offer an unclouded foresrght rnto the succe s of hrs future care for the screntra et vrrtus of hrs charge May God bless hrm rn hrs worlc and as he lovrngly follows the youths entrusted to hrs care render hrs every undertalcrng a frurtful one' I ll - ll . I . . r 1 1 1 1 ' . '7 1 s q . . . s ' 1 4 ll . 4 . a . F . . . . Q D . . . . ., .. 1 1 ' . . . . . ar . . . I 1 l 1 DI 1 ' 1 . s 1 . - f . . I - n I - I n 1 1 1 ' . . r . . . ' 1 . . . . s 1 - - ll - 1 1 1 ' . . . . . .. rr 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 ' . . . l . - S . . . A . ll 1 - 1 I . ll . A J. . I 1 ll 1 . l ll - . . , .

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IHHK THE PURPOSE OF THE SEMINARY The state ol the prresthood rs thus most sublrme and the grlts rt calls for very lolty Hence Venerable Brethren the rnescapable necessity ol grvrng candrdates lor the sanctuary a trarnrng correspondrngly superror Conscious of thus necessity the Church down the ages has shown a more tender solrcrtude and motherly care lor the trarnrng ol Her prrests than lor anythrng else She rs not unaware that as the relrgrous and moral condrtrons ol peoples depend rn great measure upon therr priests so too THE FUTURE OF THE PRIEST DEPENDS ON THE TRAINING HE HAS RECEIVED The words of the Holy Sprrrt apply no less truly to hum than to others A young man accordrng to hrs way even when he rs old he wrll not depart from rt Hence the Church moved by the Holy Sprrrt has wrlled that everywhere semmarres should be erected where candrdates lor the prresthood may be trarned and educated with srngular care A TRUE PRIESTLY VOCATION as you well lcnow Venerable Brethren rs not establrshed so much by some Inner leelmg or devout attraction whrch may sometrmes be absent or hardly perceptrble but rather by a RIGHT INTENTION IN THE ASPIRANT TOGETHER WITH A COMBINATION OF PHYSICAL INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL QUALITIES WHICH MAKE HIM FITTED FOR SUCH A STATE OF LIFE He must Iool4 to the prresthood solely from the noble motrve of consecratrng hrmsell to the service of God and the salvatron ol souls he must lrlcewrse have or at least strrve earnestly to acquire solrd prety perfect purrty of lrle and suftrcrent lcnowledge Thus he shows that he rs called by God to the prrestly state The Catholrc Rrresthood Rope Plus XI rl . . . . . I ' I I I I I I I 1 . . . . . r I I ' I I ' ' ' I I I I i I I I 1 I I ' . . rr ll . . rr . I