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

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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

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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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Nazareth as Quigley s halls buzz with each lncomlng group of new semlnarlans We come e ge but untralned to take the flrst f lterlng steps on the twelve year road that leads to the altar of God Ours ns the work of prep ratlon for our great goal the prlest hood the durectors IS the work of devotion and zeal un guudung us raw recrults to the reallzatuon of our cherushed dream Luke Mary guzdung the Boy Chrlst our sprrltual fathers lnltuate us In the ways of God They guide our first steps dispel our doubts and gloom lnft the pall of dlscour agement share our joys and sorrows send us on our way encouraged and lnspnred spur us on by thenr love and Interest toward our boyhood nd al alter Chrlstus What a sublnme role our dnrectors play father teacher gunde' Yes they are leadnng us on to the altar of God and under thenr watchful eyes we advance Slowly but sure ly through personal durectlon chapel exer clses dally rosary frequent confession and communlon we are advancrng In wisdom and age and grace Along every step of has fave year road the Qulgley boy IS carefully guided As he ad vances In age he IS strongly advused to keep the same splrltual director for all flve years Yet because of the large number of stu dents the semnnaruans fund there ns a new spnrltual durector for second and thnrd years Father Sherudan takes up the work that Fa ther Crosbv began wuth the Freshmen l-le welcomes the boys seasoned by one year s tralnlng fewer In numbers but stronger In wnsdom and grace I-tus ns the task of keepung them fum un thenr resolves of pre venting any laxnty of fannnng to whnte heat the flame of love and zeal of guudung each boy a llttle further along the labyrlnthnne ways of God of lnutuatung each one a luttle deeper unto the art of llvung as another Christ And Mary as she once looked upon Jesus continually advanclngln wlsclom and grace now looks upon the semunaruan comung closer to the same Ideal under the watchful eye of her representatuves Fnnally as the semnnarlan advances fur ther un age Father Mohan takes over the frnal two years of preparatron for the mayor seminary He continues the work started by the younger sprrntual dnrectors And lust as Mary watched Jesus growung from boyhood to manhood so Father Mohan watches the boys grow up to maturuty of mrnd body and sou One day sn that long ago at Nazareth Mary probably looked at Jesus and sand Fr Sherndon purple stole Fr Sherldon white stole Fr Crosby porush Moss 24