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

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have mentIoned the other dIstInctIve feature of motherhood Its love for Its chlldren Thls IS by far the more Im portant aspect for the example the Blessed Vlfgln provldes us would be useless were It not buttressed by that Intense recIprocal love whIch IS the Insplratlon to ImItatIon We hersons at Qulgley may measure her love by Innumerable favors receIved through her Intercesslon We may measure our love by our Incessant attempt to echo what we cannot equal She IS wlthout a doubt the semInarys fIrst love as well as Its fIrst lady ThIs book IS only one of the many thIngs we dedI cate to her She IS In a sense the theme of our entlre lIves Some not knowlng or neglectIng thus look upon us and suspect that we are wIthout a love To them our love must seem In human If not Insane To the contrary love desperately In love but our love IS not InsDIred by a barren moon rather by the Woman who treads It e do not dream to see a twInklIng s but dare to love the Star of the ea In so fallIng we are elevated e glve to Our Lady all that we are and regret that we are so lnttle we receuve from her her love and rejolce that we have so much Such IS Marys Influence on our lIves as a whole Thus Influence can be felt In every feature of each one s BCTIVITIES as surely as the whole equals the sum of all Its parts We can see It In the spIrItual growth of each one In the ImItatIon of her FIrst Son In hIs Intellectual growth In the lIb eral arts of the currIculum and no less In the fIne arts whIch lead to the 8 development of hIS expressIveness and the expansIon of hIs abIlItIes We are all acquaInted wIth the young mother who anxuously lIstens for her Infant s fIrst words In such a moth er s Splflf we may ImagIne Our Lady watches over our artIstIc attempts as we strIve to sIng well In her Sons sanctuary or to speak well on a stage that IS also HIs to praIse Hum wIth pen or to paInt Hum wIth brush All of these actIvItIes further the de velopment of the personaluty of Ma ry s son they manufest the boy becomIng man and the man becomIng prIest ever under her unendIng gaze Just as the masterful lIps whIch spoke DI Vlne Wusdom to large and often tur bulent crowds learned to Imltate as baby lIps theur mothers speech just as the tongue whIch gave to men the Our Father learned as a young boy s so the semInarIan who wIIl later come to men as a prIest to teach them the Way now comes to Mary as a son to learn l-lIm ThIs then IS the relatIonshIp ex IstIng b tween Mary and the semI narIan It IS that of teacher to pupIl of queen to subyect and more than these It IS the relatIon of mother to son Her POSITION and Influence In those organIzatIons whIch have for theur Imm duate object one of the fIne arts can be clearly seen In the lught of thIs motherhood Now havlng shown how these varIous groups are unIted under the folds of Marys maternal mantle we wIll begIn a more partlcu lar dIscussIon of each one of them as they pursue musIc drama art and Wflllng skIll we must admit that we have fallen in tongue to pray at its mothers knee: ky, U w ' ' ' 9 '- ' . ' ' Q v e 1 . 1 'T

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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 . . . .

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Ve y Re Monsg o Cho les Mete One ot the speclal ways that sem: narlans at Qulgley come to Mary through slnglng Quigley can be proud of nts glorious musncal herutage color ful and magnificent a heritage pur chased with unremnttlng effort and sacrifice Yet always In the back ground ot thus heritage stands Mary watchnng over us and gundlng us on to further grace wlth her Dlvlne son e ing fo Ha, For, who can say that much of Quig- ley's spiritual and even temporal good has not come from Mary, who is well pleased with all the pralse and honor shown her by her other sons 9 We especially honor Mary un May when we crown her Regina Coell and sung to her all her hymns such as Mnra ll Tuo Popolo Mother Dear Re erend Father Rncho d Woyc k 9 QI 91 ll I '!1 . , . tt I YD' tl on I - r v. i n r r r , IS , - V - , . . 4, ' it 5 v ' r ' i 2