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

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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

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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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Tenors hit high ones with eose. Bosses mouth their vowels. Monsignor Meter's Glee Club, est Mother Fairest Bring Flowers of the Fairest More particularly she is praised by the two choirs of our little seminary the choristers in their Masses and hymns dedicated to her the Gregorian choir in the propers of the Masses of her feast days The Cardinal s Cathedral Choristers Quigley is indeed fortunate in hav ing for its music director the Very Reverend Monsignor Charles N Me ter whose talent has made him one of the foremost clerical figures in the field of music Monsignor Meter has the singular privilege of directing the O choir in singing the compositions of the very men under whom he studied in Rome He studied at ll Pontificio Instituto di Musica Sacra with some of the finest masters of church music Abate Feretti Abate Sunol Mcnsig nore Rafaelle Casimir: and the re nowned composer of Liturgical music Monsignore Licinio Refice On the occasion of the centennial of the Cathedral of the Holy Name Mon signore Refice composed one of his most splendid works Omnes Gentes Quascumque Fecisti Venient lAll Nations Whomsoever You Have Made Comel and dedicated it to Monsignor Meter and his Choir add Q s K fx, . 11 tn . . . . . . . 1 1 . ,1 . . - 1 . . . . . I, . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - . , 1 , 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1 . 1 . 1 ' . 11 ' 1 ' . . . 1, ' 1 ' 1 1 ' - w J