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

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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

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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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a mother lndeed the prlesthood ut self Ines under the necesslty of a mother and she IS Mary Two thou sand years ago the world trembled un expectation of the answer that a gurl no older than any Quigley semlnarnan would gnve to God ln the most thrall :ng romance the world has ever known Dnvlnlty fell In love with hu manlty ln the heart of a vlrgln The Dlvnne Lover asked l-las young love for everythlng she had and was On her answer all depended' She ans Fnrst Prnest entered the world the redemptnon was at hand' The love whnch the young brlde evldenced that tnme In her complete surrender to her Duvnne Spouse has been projected to thus day an the person of the pruest her lat r son of the same love Mary fAQl gave herself completely to God Be hold the handmald of the Lord l-l returned her to us Behold thy moth er and as grateful sons we take her to our own But nf Mary IS truly our mother thas cannot be the end of the story lf so then as a mother she will guide her sons by her example and care for them In her affectlon l-ler llfe and her love wlll be theirs As a maternal teacher Mary leads each of her sons by being the model after whach he may pattern hrs own lfe She shows her courage In her Flat charity In her vlslt to Elnza beth compassion at the Cross and puruty throughout her lufe Yet not only IS Our Lady a heroic model for semunarnans but also nn many ways as she the prototype of priests Pope Plus Xl has ponnted out the rela deeply and truly that which Mary bears to her Dnvnne Son As the prlest daily brings Chrlst Into the world so Mary brought l-lnm the flrst tnme As the pruest each mornnng stands at the foot of the Cross so on the first Good Fruday Mary stood on Golgotha s bloody height looknng down unto eyes squlntlng with human scorn and up Into eyes swollen wlth Dnvune tears As the pnest constantly offers Christ to a world which re peatedly rejects l-lnm so Mary offered Hum nn swaddllng clothes to a race that returned Hum un shrouds Besndes the offuce of teacher we wered Fiat and her Firstborn, the tion of the priest to Christ is more 2 g . . . Z.. e . . . .