St Francis Preparatory School - San Fran Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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If ENVIRONSIENTS ALTER with time and space. Looking at Assisi, the birthplace of Francis some eight hundred years ago, one would observe a peaceful town nestled among foothills covered with olive trees, and, over all, an atmosphere of medieval charm. Then in contrast to this tranquil scene is the present day background of the Prep. Here we stand amidst a tangled forest of television aerials, power lines, and telephone wires, overrun with snorting buses and trucks, and all is permeated with the air of progress that abounds in this, the largest city of the world. This contrast leads us to one of the greatest tributes that can be bestowed upon Franciscanism. It is that the power inherent in this Spirit is able to rise above the accidents of mere externals. Today in this world of concrete and steel, where the aesthetic and the spiritual are too often ignored, it is indeed startling that this same Spirit, singularly characterized by the love of Cod through, the beauty of Nature should survive. But survive it does. Having withstood the shocks of time from the darkness of the Middle Ages to the enlightened barbarism of today it endures indelibly imprinted on the minds and hearts of its followers. Franciscanism has never had any delusions about clinging to the past by retreating from reality into some scenic confinement. On the contrary, the harsher reality of today has been met squarely. ln example of this we offer the very fact of the Prep itself. The world was seen to be in need of intel- lectual direction. And now, our school stands as a contemporary monument in the great stream of Fran- ciscan education which includes such genius as that of Scotus, Bonaventure, Dante, Ciotto, Columbus, da Vinci, Galileo, Volta, Calvani, Liszt, Palestrina, and Francis Thompson. Thus, despite the variance with the idyllic scene in which it began, the philosophy of Saint Francis of Assisi is today being passed on to new generations in the shadow of modern industry within the walls of our school. However it is not only the brick and mortar visible to the eye that stands as the monument, but rather is it that Spirit with which each of us is imbued during our tenure here as students. May each of us preserve this heritage so that in some small way we might carry to a turbulent world a share in the love and gentleness that is Franciscanism. ' G 5611100