Sacred Heart College - Stella Oriens Yearbook (Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)

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EDITORIAL The American essayist, Emerson, has said “that the chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do the best we can.” He may be right, because one of the things most evident in human nature is its constant tendency to slip back. A school is normally called Alma Mater, that is, the best of friends, because the purpose of a school is to urge us on to better things.to make us do the best we can. How truly this can be said of Sacred Heart College ! All who have spent two or three years here will agree that it has prepared them to enter life with confidence in their own abilities, a knowledge of the basic elements of unchanging human nature, a high moral standard, a well dev¬ eloped character and the habit of looking on the bright side of things. Under the careful guidance of excellent teachers who possess the intellectual and moral qualifications necessary, and who manifest a sincere love for those who are confided to them, we have received the true Christian education which His Holiness, the late Pope Pius XI, set f orth in his en¬ cyclical on “The Christian Education of Youth.” After but a few of our informal and cheery classes, wherein we touch on other fields than those prescribed, we gain a new interest in, and love for, learning and this taste for knowledge is never allowed to go un¬ satisfied. Especially are we shown the Catholic viewpoint on all matters, the rightness of the Church’s mind, thus enabling us to uphold and defend our Christian Faith. The story of the ages has been unfolded to us, in which we see the Church as the greatest civilizing and uplifting force in history. We are thus encouraged to strive after the better things, to en¬ deavour that the age-old tradition of learning and culture proper to Catho¬ lic Christianity shall not be broken, but rather deepened and strengthened in our age and time.we have been made to do the best we can. In the spiritual life also, we are encouraged not to be content with mediocrity, but to aspire to higher levels. In our College every opportunity is given us of becoming exemplary Catholics.daily Mass, an Annual Retreat, Catholic companions, an abundance of Catholic literature, a clear knowledge of Catholic doctrine, and the very best of example. Life in our “family circle”, composed of persons of varying character and inclinations, affords us the occasion of becoming proficient in that basic Christian virtue, Charity. All these have impressed upon us the greatness of our responsi¬ bility, and instilled into our hearts a desire to do our utmost to make them effective in the world. (Continued on Page 9.) SIX

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£Rev. t3 ioi ie 3 la ie S)a Coea S)e esas As the Sacred Heart College is conducted by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, a sketch of the life and work of the Foundress will prove interesting to our readers. Euphrasie Barbier, the oldest of five children was born on January 4, 1829, at Caen in Normandy. It was in the atmosphere of faith and piety of a truly Christian family that the future missionary grew up. In mental capacity as wed as in the qualities of heart she was well gifted. Her mother taught her the truths of faith, implanted in her young soul an ardent love for God, a tender devotion to the Blessed Virgin, to the Angels and Saints. Like every good Christian mother, Mme. Barbier did not hesitate to correct and punish little Euphrasie for her faults. She seized every oppor¬ tunity of exciting in her a love of virtue and a horror of vice. At the age of six years Euphrasie became a pupil of the Sisters of Providence in her native town. So well did she learn her Catechism and grasp the truths of religion that when about ten years of age, an unusual age at that time, she was admitted to her First Communion. On that occa¬ sion, we are told, she first felt that God called her to the religious life. It is also said that in her ardent zeal for God’s greater glory and the salvation of souls, the child would insist on praying for the conversion of the devil and of the lost souls. As she grew older, Euphrasie felt a great attraction for the foreign Missions and she longed to devote herself to the conversion of pagan child¬ ren in far away lands. This fact is all the more strange as at that period religious women did not go far from their own countries to work for souls. By fervent prayer and self-denial, the future missionary sought to know the Will of God in her regard. The more she prayed, the stronger became her conviction that she was called to devote herself to the foreign missions. God’s Will was made manifest in the year 1861. On August 15, of that year, under the direction of Reverend Father Favre, Superior General of the Marist Fathers, Euphrasie Barbier, now Mother Marie du Coeur de Jesus founded a Congregation under the title of Daughters of Notre Dame des Missions. This title testified to the desire of the Foundress for the extension of God’s Kingdom, not only in the hearts of the Sisters but also in those of heretics and infidels. EIGHT