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

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REVEREND FRANCIS A BRACKIN DEAN OF STUDIES

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Olfllfl 0 UUE Youth IS a tume for fallnng an love and the semnnaraan In hrs youth ns glven a love that wnll challenge his heart throughout has lnfe It as the love of Chrlst that flows through Mary the fount of love and floods hrs soul It as thus love that strength ens hum an what St Paul describes as an honorable warfare It ns thus love that nnspures hum IH hus ascent to the henghts of the prlesthood whuch IS In accessable wlthout It Though thus love might be the semnnarlan s one clanm to greatness yet he cannot help but shrunk un humlllty before nt Every true lover feels unworthy of has love Even more does one who realnzes that Love Itself through the Queen of I-leaven IS caring for hum He recognnzes has unabnllty not only to return but even to fully appreciate the gnft he has received Yet without that love and nts Ideal he suffers and the future with hum For love creates a vlslon and the future depends on the vnslon of the men who fashion It Therefore young Catholics and especially semlnarlans whose aposto late It as to restore all thungs to Christ must be young lovers Only In thas way shall they successfully carry on the work begun when God found I-Ins love God chose the Vnrgnn Mary to be the most nntnmate love Has Son should have ln Has work of redemptnon She ns the Instrument through whnch thas work was begun and the nnsplratlon through which nt IS ever to be continued God Himself s ems to have chosen Mary to be the gulde of our age I-le has sent her to us again and agaln Lourdes Fatuma and Guadalupe are places known by all and vlsuted by mnllnons In ISS4 Plus IX proclaumed the Immaculate Conceptnon of the Blessed Vlrgnn and again an l95O nn our own seminary days Plus XII de flned Mary s glorious Assumption lthe theme of our frontlsplecel It tury IS called the Marlan Age of the Church So It IS flttlng that thas volume should be deducated to the Blessed Vurgnn Mary for she has been the love of our youth a love whuch God shared with us to full our llves To llve with out a love ns to run without a destuna tlon to accept a love IS to choose a destnny Therefore nf our seminary llfe whlch IS described In the remannder of thus book as to be understood nt must not be separated from Mary who gnves It a purpose a meanung Love us the freest act of man through whlch he becomes a captlve We have not escaped thus voluntary captlvuty Il ' e . is not without reason that this cen-