St Agnes Seminary School - Agnesian Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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4, Aww' The austere silence of the chapel offers atmosphere for a moment of prayer and meditation. Taking advantage of the free time on their re- treat schedule are Deanna Buttera. Gloria Combatti, Judy Fletcher. Agnes Kelly. Lorraine Domenge. As a fitting end for each day of retreat, Father Nugent offers Benediction. The student body bows its head in reverence as our retreat master raises the Monstrance in the Sign of the Cross. Kos

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THE ART HE PINNACLE of our religious heritage was reached at the moment when Christ arose from the dead and opened the gates of Heaven, thereby freeing man from the taint of his progenitors' sin and giving him a nobler aim for which to strive. The injunction from Our Lord seek the things which arc above found expression in another medium-the arts. Rising from the abyss of the dark ages, man progressed from the status of a crude primitive being concerned only with personal survival to that of a refined social individual whose love of beauty and art was essential to life itself. During the Middle Ages he revived the art and literature of the ancient world, at the same time producing men whose names and works would rise to heights of immortality. Architects and sculptors wrought beauty out of stone, metal and wood. Writers observing humanity, cap- tured its very essence on paper, while artists overpowered by the spiritual character of the times gave it wonderful expression with brush and canvas. In our own day the first man-made satellite has already rocketed into the heavens-and into history. It has inaugurated a new era of exploration and discovery, a prime result of which will be additional scientific knowl- edge and created leisure. This leisure should give us the impetus to produce and enjoy the arts without which no civilization is really complete. Our architects must expertly combine the beautful and the useful to produce works whose practical value may be equaled only by their con- tinuing splendor. Our writers while entertaining and informing us must capture the spirit of our civilization for correct evaluation in the future. Our artists, too, while preserving the earthys physical aspects must catch the spirit of this brand new world. 'Tis the privilege of Art, said Emerson, thus to play its cheerful part . . . and live on even terms with time.