St George High School - Georgian Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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SPIRITUAL EDUCATION Christian Education takes in the whole aggregate of human life, physical and spiritual, intellectual and moral, individual, domestic and social, not with a view of reducing it in any way, but in order to elevate, regulate and perfect it, in accordance with the example and teaching of Christ. There can be no true education which is not wholly directed to man's last end. -Poms Pius XI. Catholic education does not confine its efforts to one set of human capacities. It seeks to develop the whole man, body and soul. Here we take our stand, sure and solid, on the rock of education that makes both for time and eternity. One only is the way as one only is the Master-Christ. To restore all things in Him, then, is our aim, to give God His due by making our education essentially Christian is the great need-the one point eternally worth while. Only on the foundation of His teachings can education securely and lastingly rest. Youth should know about God and His will, through Christ, that he will possess that virtue of right living deeply grounded upon a Christian training of mind, heart, will, and body. Where youth on the road of life have to tread the trackless expanses of knowledge without the great guide, faith, how often they have been lost in the quagmires of life. Their vision was but partial, half-blinded, and they were sense- less to eternal realities. This is the crying danger of the day despite all our secular principles. Knowledge, the strength of the intellect, is thought to be all sufficient, but it is not. Man born to act can never Find in mere mind enough strength to carry him aright through life unless he has in addition faith, hope and love-the virtues of religion. If the chief end of education is virtue, if conduct is three-fourths of life, if character is indispensable, while knowledge is only useful, then it follows that religion should enter into all the processes of education because religion more than any other vital influence has the power to create virtue, to inspire conduct, and to mold character. The Catholic school as one agency in Catholic education according to our late Holy Father Pope Pius XI seeks to mold the true and Hnished rnan of char- acter-and acts constantly and consistently in accordance with right reason illum- ined by the spiritual light of the example and teaching of Christf'

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4 at-gud. 1'Tl11f Hurrfest Indeed Is Great, Bm? the l.11lmr1'1's l 1fw. Religious Vocation Club Some very active members ol the Religious Vocation Club are busy playing Santa lor the boys and girls in the service ol the Lord. This group has been especially active the past year in corresponding with the young men and women ol' the parish preparing lor the priesthood or sisterhood. The Religious Vocation Club proves an excellent means ol arousing interest in the various religious communities. From lelt to right: Peggy Dailey, Margaret Kelly, Mary Ellen Pietz, liereniee lXIorr1s, Dolores Straub, glean Artman, Anna Marie Van Kirk, -Ioan Poremski, Slnrley Flynn. Church Singing 'l'hroughout the year there have been many instances in which music has been instrumental in Iilling our hearts with glaclness. Music is one of the hne arts which gives one interior joy and serenity ol soul. The students experience this especially in participating in the singing of the High Mass. A select group ol' boys from the Glee Club are honored by being permitted to sing the Propers of the Mass. This group is seen above standing at the left of the picture.