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

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Fr Mohan on office coller most mothers do How You have grown' You are as tall as Your foster father My Son I am afrald You wall be leavung me soon You are now a man' And Jesus mnght have answered I must be about My Father s business For Jesus now IS no long er a boy He has grown up Ecce Homo Y s behold the Man Luke Mary Father Mohan sees In the fourth and fifth year men the promlse and the fulfnllment of the mlsslon to whuch they have been called by their Father Already they have come a long way on the road that the end of therr manor seminary days Through the work of Father Crosby and Father Sheridan and through thelr own per severang cooperation they have advanced un grace and wisdom tull now lookrng upon them Father Mohan can say Ecce ho mlnes Behold God s men Yes they are God s men for they have answered God s call and cooperated wlth the grace of voca tlon men who have persevered through fuve years of strenuous semunary tramnng men who have kindled the love of their prnestly vocation at the foot of the Taber nacle and fanned lt unto flame through fre nf T 5 Q, Fr Crosby penltcnnt s remlsslon quent Holy Communlon men who lnstened to the whuspered summons Come follow Me and caught nts deeper meanlng through dauly mental prayer men to whom the Cruclflx ns not lust a pxous symbol but a luvnng reality of thelr own sacrlflclal vocation In Chrxst men who more than any others can call Mary thenr Mother for she IS the Mother of the Eternal Pruest Ecce l-lomlnes Yes behold the men of Cod a tutle of honor which the Senlors have e rned whlch they treasure and whxch they wnll carry to the end of their semlnary And In God s own time we shall dare to look unto the future the Senlors wall outgrow even thus title of homlnes and seven years after thelr graduatlon from Qulgl y they wnll have reached another mllestone One day they wall Ile prostrate at God s altar ln the major seminary at Munde leln the journey 5 end with the strams of Ecce Sacerdos Magnus rnngnng IH theur ears lt wall be thelr tutle forever sacerdos Den They want no fame no other name than thus a prlest of God Twelve long vears have passed ln thus trannlng Years they were of trlal of wantung 75 I4 S . . ' . ' . A 2 V . ' . leads to the altar of God. They are almost at days.

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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

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of hoping and praying of advancing in wis- dom and grace years which with the help of God of Mary of parents of professors and of directors have brought boyhood dreams to blessed reality years which have brought to happy fruition a mothers and father s prayers and sacrifices years which are crowned with blessing for all During the solemn rite of Ordination the young Deacon lies prostrate before God s altar praying and meditating And while he is lying there prostrate and happy sur rounded by happy parents friends and directors he realizes that the twelve years No two people in looking up to heaven see the same queen reigning there Just as our eyes are our own so each of us vlsualizes Our Lady in his own way This fact may explain why we never see a painting no matter how acceptable it may be as art which depicts her exactly as we think she is In the hope of reconciling these individual differences in a rep resentative work we shall begin by settling upon a broad almost basic consideration Mary s maternity From this asp ct nothing could be more common to all of us yet so per sonal to each of us as she No man comes to life without a mother for motherhood is the source spring of human life she is a Guide 71 of preparation have been well-spent that the sacrifices were worthwhile that the time was short long only with eternal con sequences And when he stands up after the ceremony the young priest s heart will over flow with gratitude and joy His spiritual directors too will swell the tide of grateful praise to God and Mary And Mother and Dad looking through rainbow tears of joy will feel that their love and sacrifice have been repaid a thousand fold For here is their own little boy grown to manhood now standing at Gods altar singing his First Solemn Mass an alter Christus a Priest forever' on, MOA! for it The first love the crying infant in its crib knows is that special affec tion called mother love The first teacher the wide eyed child has in the school of life is its mother All this is undeniably true in the natural lufe of a man in a parallel sense it is equally true in the mysterious life of the seed from which the seminarian receives his name This seed of vocation falls from the tree of Calvary to perpetuate the Fruit of that tree among men Yet in falling it passes through the hands of the sorrowful mother who can ever be found at the foot of the Cross The life ofa vocation like the life of the one who possesses it demands 11 1 1 11 . . . . . 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 - 1 . . . . 1 . 1 1 ' 1 . . , . . . 1 1 1 . , , . - - . . . 11. 11 1 . , ' - . 1 . . . ' 1 ' . 1 . . 1. 1 11 1 1 . , . 1 , . 1 . . 1 1 . . 1 . , . 2 1 x.. 1 1 T 1 1 L, 1 -1