St Boniface School of Nursing - Estole Fideles Yearbook (St Boniface, Manitoba Canada)

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JVrdjbtsljop Monseigneur Baudoux Dear Graduates: Not so long ago you started training to become registered nurses. This was for you an opportunity to develop your skills, enlighten your thinking and give new dimensions to your spirituality. It was also a chance for you to trust fully in your School of Nursing and in God. The School has offered you its best in everything and God has not counted his blessings for you. Now the School is happy to see you live this moment of YOUR GRADUATION and wishes you the great challenges and joys the world of nursing has waiting for you. As God sees you entering this new phase in your life, my wish is that He be with you always so that you may bring witness of His Love and His Grace for his children especially those afflicted by sickness. Estote fideles Cheres finissantes: Depuis longtemps deja vous attendez ce moment de VOTRE GRADUATION. Et avec raison! Votre joie et votre fierte sont bien legitimes et nous sommes tous tres heureux de les partager avec vous en cette occasion. Le monde de la souffrance humaine vous attend avec anxiete. 11 porte sur vous des esperances ecrasantes. Allez a sa rencontre avec confiance. Apportez-lui toute la generosite de votre coeur. Offrez-lui tout ce que l’ecole des gardes-malades a pu vous apprendre au sujet du soin des malades. Laissez la grace du Seigneur mouler votre ame a l’image de la sienne. Partout et toujours temoignez de l’amour de Dieu pour les siens et plus specialement pour ses malades. Je vous benis. Maurice Baudoux votre archeveque

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(Efyaplauts Father Allen Soucy and Father Clayton Barclay Dear Graduates, Hold the physician in honor”, the Holy Scripture says, for he is essential to you.” This praise given to doctors, should also be given to nurses, since they exercise a very noble influence on individuals and on society. Nursing is indeed an apostolic work, because it influences the spiritual life of the patient. Look at nurses”, says Pius XII, are they not just like born auxiliaries of the clergy?” Briefly, everything can be summarized in the two great Commandments of God: love of God and love of neighbour, the two being one and the same thing. If you, as nurses, recognize the suffering Christ in your patients, you will learn how to find the goodness of Christ toward them. Beside the bed of the suffering Christ, you will be the compassionating Christ. Congratulations and God Bless you in your apostolic work. The Chaplains, Father Clayton Barclay Father Allen Soucy

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,i®totljer roiitncial Dear Student Nurses: During your high school days, you often pondered these symbolic words of Ulysses: , . . all experience is an arch where through Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move.” As you stand on the threshold of a new life of service and dedication, may the spirit of the poet guide you on to an untiring and neverfading devotion to your ideal. You are indeed entering an untravelled world, despite the recent astounding discoveries in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and the medical sciences. I am happy to voice the good-wishes of all my Sisters of the St. Boniface Province when I fervently pray that you may have the grace ever To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Mother Rita Fortier Provincial Superior j tsier j upmor My dear Nurses — Today, you have reached one goal — graduation. To each and everyone I extend my most sincere congratulations. Although you have now reached the ultimate goal, it should not be looked upon as the final purpose of your training. A true nurse has an urge and an inspiration that comes from the realization that as she serves others she ministers as a representative of God. In this accomplishment you will be challenged to strive for new goals. Do not cast them aside but choose them cautiously keeping in mind these immortal words of St. Francis of Assisi: Lord, grant that I may seek To comfort rather than to be comforted, To understand rather than to be understood, To love rather than to be loved: For- It is by giving that one receives, It is by self-forgetting that one finds, It is by dying that one wakens to eternal life.” Sister Lucille Gosselin,s.g.m. Administrator Sister Lucille Gosselin, s.g.m.