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

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Rita Cunha William Weatherby Raymond Banville Virginia Grey Patricia Magane Raymond Vaillancourt Gerald LeBlanc Renneth Bonner Anton Morin Judith McDermott William Kiniry Agatha Marabello Frosh and Soph Memories Six portables were our classrooms during our Frosh days. As the year advanced we became quite chummy with cer- tain dogs, cats, and squirrels who liked either us or the free lunches we served them. auengaee es As Sophs we assumed a rathg ile

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é od’s ¢ Great Gift to Us— His Divine Grace heme of 1956 BERNARDIAN After St. Bernard had made the statement that all good owes everything to God's grace, one of his monks asked him, If grace does everything, what will be our reward, where our merits? To this St. Bernard replied, in the words of St. Paul: God has saved us by His grace, and not by works of justice, which we have done.'' He also quoted the words of Jesus, You can do nothing without Me. To answer more completely the question of what becomes of our free will and our merit, Bernard wrote a treatise upon ''G race and Free Will,’ in which he said that every good action supposes the cooperation of our free will with divine grace. Our wl must be free to accept or reject God's ly action performed without this free and rain i | consent of our will is without merit, re-

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Catholic Press Assembly Declamation Contest—1953 Bette Berlo David Blais Barbara Ciccolini Valerie Cohen James Connolly Mario Cuitetti Marilyn D’Errico William Ethier Peter Fitzgerald Freda Fournier Cornelia Hayes Andre Gelinas Philip Holden Katherine Keaveny Elaine LaPlume Doris LeBlanc Gerald LeBlanc Sharon Latham John Lynch Maureen McCaffrey Anita Mercier Anton Morin Joyce Morrilly Ellen Powers Raymond Rheault Alfred St. Germaine Ernest Saulnier Patricia Weymouth