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

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are a great joy and release to a semi narian and are smiled upon by his superiors provided that they are not overdone The priests of the faculty often join in and the subjects range from Soxvs Cubs through Socrates state of soul to Revolution In a City Parish The Blessed Virgin not only guides and guards our for mally organized school program but like a loving mother istening in e night for the foot step or cough that tells her something is amass with her child also keeps attuned to us luster ing for the footstep lest it wander from the way of Life and the cough that tells her we are choked with earthly cares In the day s early hours before the nine oclock bell calls him to class the Quigley boy assists at the Holy Sacrifice and receives the body and blood of his Lord and Master lf it is inconvenient or impossible for him to attend daily Mass in his own parish he can join his fellows who have the same difficulty and offer the Sacrifice of Calvary with one of the faculty priests in Saint James Chapel here at school He can then take breakfast in uigley s cafeteria where F Le Compte plays the genial host Between a busy morning and after noon schedule he again feeds these young gourmets lor perhaps gour freres After school hours the organized sport musical dramatic and literary pursuits occupy many of the students but the walls of the seminary enclose far more than the number so em ployed until Fr Brackin sounds the all out bell at 5 30 Where are the others? lnchapel in thelibrary inthe classrooms in the corridors on the gymnasium balcony almost every where And what are they doing? Making the weekly confession that helps them along towards their goal so well reading working or doing 69 . . . Q . , . , r. 2 . . ' ' - who sleeps lightly, mandsl and their six hundred con- I' ' ' th .

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S O S Semmarlans out of school Upon that note we launch unto one of the most Important phases In the lnfe of a semnnarnan particularly a Quigley semunaruan Chrnst has told us that we are to be nn the world but not of the world These words l-le addressed to the Apostles Has furst prnests but they fund particular applscatnon for the day school semunarnan Indeed Chrlst an Has beatlfnc sclence un doubtedly had us also IH mind ln the bustlnng cnty of Chicago what words lnfe for a youth who aspures to Christ s own munlstry? The semlnary at most plans but eight or nme hours of our day fIV6 days a week nlne months a year Th remaund r of th tum IS ours to do with as we vvlll Tru we are coun selled to sp nd so much of our fre time In prayer study and recreation but the decnslon remains ours to make Though the semnnary takes up less th n 5099 of a fellow s tame stall he ns he must be a semlnarlan twen ty four hours a day seven daysa week twelve months year Absclndlng from prayer and study h w does he spend has free hours? Sleep naturally takes per haps a thnrd of hrs total time and nd school some tnmes great dns tances another sizeable chunk But what remains how does h spend nt? It stands to reascn that th best companions for one who want to be another Christ ar those who are struvung for the s If same ld al Informal gatherln s bulls sslons lull . E T . . X . . A . ' . . - , , . . A . a ' . . . U 7 . . . . O but these could be chosen as a rule of ing to and from . . v . . ' . Q I Q O . , n x.. v - ' e e ' e ' c e ' ' . ' . e - s A ' e e e ' ' ' ' . ' e - ' e .

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oole, Just luke downtown, mon Jlm Byrne after 0 luscious repost Theodore Novy, Chuef Enguneer 11 homework playmg chess watchung a basketball game handball set or ping pong match or just talkung On Wednesday afternoons after school a group of Sensors goes to Saint John s In Chinatown for a foretaste of their Apostolate to teach Catechism to the luttle children who otherwnse would have no opportunlty to glean the Chrlstlan truths Thursdays and Sundays when term papers have been written and Mom s work has been gnven an assist the boys get together Perhaps they go to a Park Dlstrlct or parish gym gracn ouslydonated for some basketball or to a ballfueld IH the sprung for softball or baseball an the fall for football a Ice rnnk In wlnter for some hockey On Thursdays too a volunteer group this time from fourth and flfth year takes the field In the struggle for souls Samtloseph son the near North snde of the clty ns the scene of thelr tolls which consust of teachnng Cate chnsm to Negro chaldren most of whom are non cathollcs taking n structlons preparatory to Baptism wnth their parents consent Besides the wonderful reward of feelung that they re donng somethnng tanglble for Chrlst they galn the valuable expert ence In handlnng chnldren and learn from the school of hard knocks the psychology of teaching How thus work must please Mary ln the evening, happy times are had with the famnly, perhaps famuly de votaons are held wlth the priest to be son leadmg the rosary He and hns family may go together to the parlsh church for evening devotions, the Mother of Perpetual Help or Sorrow V Y , , , A rv k . , , . N ' ff, . . , L . . . X. . A filff' , Y . . C x 1 ' 1 I ' - X 1 , l , , . VT V V V . l l . . , . , . . . I v -