St Bernards High School - Bernardian Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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BERNARDIAN STAFF OF 1951 Editor-in-chief RICHARD LILLY Associate Editors Literary: Ward Farrell, Anne Grenier, Paul Lussier Business: Anthony Romano, Jacqueline McGrath, Margaret Provenzani Art: John Wong ADVERTISING STAFF Ralph Anness1 Barbara O’ Malley Anthony Anzalone Ralph Paglia Bernard Foley Doris Phelps James Kacper Francis LeBlanc Priscilla Lamontagne Roger Stebbins FEATURE and BIOGRAPHY STAFF Lucille Babineau Philip Leavitt Joan Conlon Nancy Leger Mary Connolly Gertrude McInerney Lucille Denomme Richard Menard Beverly Desrosiers Joseph Muldoon Richard Fletcher Clare Reardon Wallace Gendron Barbara Roberts Marie Giacoppe Pearl Robichaud Rita Lafosse Claire Sabourin Rowena Taylor SECRETARIAL STAFF Lorraine Basque Theresa Normandin Norma Boucher Claire Pare Nathalie Dufault Jean Payea Jeannine Mayer Norma Pezzolesi Jeanne Thibault to

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ol Presented by the Senior Class SAINT BERNARD HIGH SCHOOL Fitchburg, Massachusetts rg

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ST. BERNARD, THE 12TH CENTURY ECHO OF CHRIST A study of St. Bernard’s life shows us how closely he resembled his beloved Master. First of all, Bernard’s love for his own saintly mother and for God’s Mother was a bright reflection of the great love of Jesus for Mary. No other writer of the first thousand years of the Church had such an ardent love for the Mother of God and wrote so beautifully of her. As the Son of God sacrificed the glory and bliss of heaven to become incarnate for us, so Bernard forsook the castle of Fontaines and all the dignities that would have been his, to become a poor monk in the very austere order of Citeaux. Like Christ in His hidden life, so Bernard tried | to bury himself in obscurity doing the most menial tasks. As Jesus said that He was come to cast first on the earth, so Bernard became a lighted torch in the hand of God to dis- pense light to all His Church. From the moment that Bernard took the decisive step to give himself entirely to God, he became a powerful instrument in the sav- ing of souls. He showed how necessary it was for everyone to consider seriously the purpose for which he was created, and how foolish it was to exchange for a few passing pleasures, the eternal joys of heaven. In the Acts 1.1, we read that Jesus began to do, and afterwards He taught, so Bernard worked first at his own sanctifica- tion, and practiced himself all that he was afterwards to teach to others. In striving - to perfect himself, the meek and humble Jesus was the Model which Bernard ever tried to echo.