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

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learning, and zeal do not spring up overnight. Neither are they gifts of the Holy Spirit bestowed on the day of graduation, They are qualities that must be developed through daily re- peated acts of piety, respect, and obedience, of docility, application to study, and generosity. Opportunities - or not at all 3 to control his temper - or let it flare. By constantly striv- ing to make the right choice, a boy gradually learns to choose good in- stead of evil, without hesitation, and greater good instead of a lesser one. Though called upon by the rule to give up many things that are not in Co dnol e ords stud ous ess of soc ston Jm Rooche F s Klorko sk Wro ka ond Moho slent approval for such acts occasions to overcome his predominant faults and challenges to the students idealism are daily offered the seminarian by means of the rules Throughout his years at Quigley the seminarian is presented a series of choices Every day he can decide to arise early and go to Mass not to do his homework thoroughly or not to choose to smoke not to obey willingly or grudgingly 22 themselves wrong a seminarian will find it easy to obey if he looks upon all the rules as external manifesta tions of Christ s will and Mary s solicitude for him This then is the gentle unobtrusive but effective way in which the blue mantle of Marys protection hovers like an angel over the seminary the way in which Mary continues the teaching she began in the first semin ary at Nazareth ri rw i n ri i g r. w i, n , nin i V I , . . . . . . . . , . , I ! ! . . , . LCV Q I 1' Q '-Ol' - . .

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Fr M kola ts Go ng home to correct papers Father9 Fr Hoffman regular chapel confessor BesIdes LatIn there are no subjects perhaps more useful for the future prIest In the ChIcago archdIocese than relIgIon and EnglIsh Although at Mundelenn the semInarIan studIes theology at length here at QuIgley he recelves a complete course In relIgIon especIally In hus last three years when he thoroughly studIes the worshIp moral teachIng and dogma of the Church EspecIally for a DVIGST who must frequently be talkang to Indlvlduals small groups or large audlences a course IH EngIIsh IS absolutely neces sary Very often people judge a prIest by hIs speech and judge the Church by the pruest Therefore a prIest must have a fIrm grasp of EnglIsh funda mentals and be able to express hIm self clearly and accurately At the mInor semInary the course durmg the fnrst two years stresses the prnncuples of grammar rhetorIc and good usage In hIs remaInIng years he learns how to express hus Ideas fIrst In wrItIng and then In publlc speakmg The fIve year course In lIterature Introduces ographIes novels dramas poems short STOFIGS and essays BesIdes de talled studIes of such masterpIeces as Shakespeare s plays and Dante s DI vIne Comedy not only glV6 a semI narlan culture but also serve to develop In hIm good readIng habIts whIch are so necessary for a ChrIst lIke prIest BeSIdeS traInIng our mInds the semInary course under Mary s InspIr atIon provIdes necessary means to traIn our wIlls namely the rules of uIgley Semnnary Obvlously the rules are Imposed on the students not to make lIfe mIserable for them but to chart the way to the prIesthood to gIVe ODDOFTUHITIGS for character formatIon to guard vocatIons from harmful Influences and to strengthen wIll power QualItIes of holuness . I I I 1 I I I ' ' ' ' the student to some of the best bi- 'l

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l0ll lilfLCl And Jesus advanced un wusdom and age and grace before God and man Thus St Luke eputomuzes and outlunes the semunary career of Jesus at Nazareth As we ponder these words we realuze that progress us the keynote of semunary traunung Thus us one reason why Mother Church pro motes semunarues to help us advance not only un the eyes of man but un the eternal vusuon of God We come to Quugley from varuous parushes but wuth a common desure to be pruests ln grammar school days we saw the pruesthood as a gloruous magnufucent lufe and ut us' But we dud not realuze then that ut was duffu cult to attaun Not only does attaunung the pruesthood requure of us good wull sacrufuce and hard work but thus goal cannot be attauned by our own un auded efforts We need much help ance of our Spurutual Durectors To aud us to make progress as Jesus dud at Nazareth under Mary s durec tuon we have at Quugley three spur utual durectors who help us to fashuon our souls unto the lukeness of Chrust They guude us along paths of vurtue so that luke Jesus we too may grow un wusdom and grace before God And just as Mary was chosen eternally to guude the human progress of the boy Chrust so Father Crosby Father Sher udan and Father Mohan have been chosen un the Provudence of God to durect the spurutual destunues of Chu cago s future pruests the Quugley boys lt us hard to estumate properly the umportant role Mary played un the development of Jesus Sumularly we fund ut duffucult to do uustuce to the great work done by our three spurutual durectors K lll 0Cf0l 1f Furst of all our durectors play a real Mary role un our dauly Quugley Sched ule To see how thus parallel works out for a moment we telescope the centurues and kneel wuth Mary at the Crub un Bethlehem In wonderung love the Mother of Jesus contemplates the deep mysterues of God as she bends over the sleepung Babe Ecce Puer her Chuld her God Emmanuel the Savuor' Hus Infant helplessness has already made lovung demands on her servuce and care Already Hus lufe Hus joys Hus sorrows are unextrucably un terwuned wuth hers Henceforth Hus lufe Hus mussuon form warp and woof of the tapestry of her dauly round of lovung duty Forever Jesus and Mary are one un heart How exalted us Mary s role Mother Teacher Guude' Mother of Hum who us her God Teacher of Hum who us the eter the hughway of the stars And Jesus the furst semunaruan un the semunary at Nazareth looks to Mary at every turn un Hus human advance un wus dom and age He learns to take hus furst falterung steps under her watch ful eye He lusps Hus furst baby words un umutatuon of Mary How lastung were these umpressuons made on Hus baby mund we gather from our Sav uor s last words on the Cross Father unto Thy hands I commend My Spur ut was a bed tume prayer that Jewush mothers taught theur chuldren Most lukely Mary taught thus prayer to Jesus We make bold to suggest a parallel comparuson between Mary s maternal and spurutual durectuon of Jesus and the durectuon guven us by Quugleys spurutual guudes Ecce Puer The echo of these words float back from 25 O O I God's help, Mary's help, and the guid- nal Word: Guide of Him who charts