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

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RIGHT REVEREND MONSIGNOR JOHN A. MARTIN Chairman of the Board of Directors of our Catholic Central High School VERY REVEREND MONSIGNOR JOHN J. O’BRIEN Our Diocesan Superintendent of Schools REVEREND BERNARD J. CONLIN Our Principal

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1856—CENTENARY of the FEAST of the SACRED HEART—1956 The love of Christ for us is symbolized by His Sacred Heart. In the outstretched arms of Christ we see in Him one who loves us with a great love and wants us to come to Him and love Him as a child clings to its father in trustful love. Three hundred years ago, Jansenism taught that God was to be feared rather than loved, even in the Sacrament of His love. It was then that Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary to tell His children not to fear but to come to Him in love. Today world conditions are such that we need this devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as we never needed it before. Today there is a growing fear in the hearts of many men, not of God, but of one another. For us Catholics there is great need for united action in making reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which still con- tinues to love us in spite of our sinfulness, coldness, and indifference toward Him. = |