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The pain of loss is a frightening one. The individual who loses someone he loves—that person in whom and with whom he finds courage, satisfaction, and meaning — experiences fear, anxiety, and absurdity. There is a vast feeling of emptiness and of uselessness, a sense of time in which there is no future, and an awareness that things are not free, but fated. There is another kind of loss, also the loss of a love object, but a loss which completes itself not in pain and suffering, but in joy and hope. The loss of child¬ hood is such a loss. Surely, there is pain, and some¬ thing is gone forever, but this growth process prom¬ ises something greater than what is suffered or lost. At each stage of maturation, the individual develops in a positive icay, retaining ivhat he already has, and incorporating a new and hopefully a greater energy, outlook, understanding and spirit. The growing individual supplants despair with the promise and the hope of things to be. The destruction of the Butler Street Campus is a loss of the latter type. We have lost something, and not just the building, but that atmosphere, and that outlook, and that spirit which accompanied it and was some¬ how ' an inherent part of it. In a sense we have lost our childhood, our security from the immediacy and the energies of the daily world. W e are no longer “off the beaten path,” we are on it, physically; ive can no longer boast of a small-town, homey rhythm and environment, but of a cosmopolitan energy and cluster; we are no longer hidden from the dynamism of civil life, we are now a part of its center. And these physical changes which have taken place during the past few years—the moving into the Renisen Street Campus, the continuing construction of auxiliary buildings on Remsen Street, and the final destruction of the Butler Street Campus-have changed us deeper and more important¬ ly. We are now ' incorporating and living the responsibilities, the leadership, and the courage expected of a college in our modern world. We now go to make up part of this energy, this hope, these forces which shape our world. Our new location has committed us to participate, to challenge and to be challenged, to call out in ques¬ tion and to answer, to give as ivell as to demand, and always under all circumstances—to be there. To be there in the same way that Jesus teas there in Jerusalem during his public ministry, doing ivhat he must do because it had to be done. He was angry and used force against the money-changers in the temple; he was proud and self-assured when he preached the Sermon on the Mount; he was gentle and forgiv¬ ing with Magdalene; he suffered in his resignation in the Garden at Gethsemani. This is the Jesus we know and imitate, the public Jesus, the Jesus par¬ ticipating in his world and influencing it, the Jesus loving his world and sacrificing for it. To be here at Remsen Street is to be our public ministry. We must note begin to imitate the public Jesus, ice must now begin to act in the same way that Jesus acted, with force, with pride, and with unself¬ ishness. Butler Street was our youth and our time to prepare ourselves for the world. We are grown now, our preparation is complete, and we have ar¬ rived at the threshold of our maturity. We must enter our new world and en¬ gage ourselves as Christians, embracing our new matur¬ ity with the courage and fortitude expected of us as Franciscan men. Let what has been destroyed at Butler Street be a stim¬ ulus for what is and what will be constructed at Rem¬ sen Street—a present full of courage, energy, and hope, and a future heavy with promise and the joy of achievement. A PREFACE
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