Rice High School - Edmundian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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uis' I ' fir v A, ASSUMPTIO OF MARY Q - 4? ' E, the senior class of 1951, lovingly dedicate this, our annual, to the HASSUMPTION OF MARY. On November 1, of the Holy Year 1950 our Holy Father, the Pope, declared the Assumption a dogma of faith. This is another gem that has been added to the already glorious crown of the Queen of Heaven. Because of her divine maternity, Mary derived a certain infinite dignity from the Infinite Good that is God. It was, therefore, in keeping with this indescribable dignity that she should be free from sin. Consequently, her freedom from the slightest stain of sin exempted her from the natural effects of the individual law of death. Not that Mary didn't die, but, as St. Alphonsus Liquori points out in the Glories of Mary, her death was caused more by the vehement and blessed flames of divine love than by merely natural means alone. But bodily corruption, the temporal stigma of sin, was also beneath the dignity and place of the Mother of God. Her incorruptibility in life was not to be blemished by bodily decay in death. Hence, soon after death, her virginal body was permitted to share in the heavenly joys of her pure soul. Now hundreds of years later we realize the fullness of so great a feast and claim it a Dogma of Religion. Mary has always been the fond Protectress of the students here at Rice. Our lives have been lived under the protecting mantle of her love. She has always been, to us, a Mother, It is only fitting therefore that we, the graduating class of 1951, pay homage to our Blcissed Mother by dedicating this, our annual, to the latest gem in her glorious crown, THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY!

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