St Francis School - Troubadour Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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K N x 'x K X , n echo from Um' Laffy If Our Lady of the Assumption were to write a letter of thanks for your having dedicated the Troubadour to her under that title, it might run something like this: My dearest daughters, There is a new and lovely jewel in my crown now. It is alive with the beauty of your bodies and souls which you have rededicated to me. Of all of heaven's lovely things it is among the loveliest because of your goodness 1Each day I pray for that day when you can see it for yourselfj and I want you to know, really know, that its beauty is from you, that in all the world there are few things more beautifulg that the color of your hair, the shape of your bodies, your smiles, your hands- they are only the media through which the divine beauty in your souls is communicated to the world. If you lose that divine beauty, the beauty that remains is drab indeed, and the mother of ugliness. And so may my Son bless you forever with goodness. Your Lady of the Assumption Father J. J. McDonald, S.M. Diocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools A,,..,.l , ,..,,n......- M- S... - A