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

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REV LEWIS C. BRACHT ff Z ff , 43 1' YM, yy ,W VH f ff . fy, rm! W WM REV. CARL P. HENSLER - PASTOR WWW fa ,ff f f f Graduates of 1952: If thou wilt be perfect go sell what thou hast, . . and come follow Me. These words of Our Lord were addressed to a y0U11a man who vlaimed that he had kent all the Command- ments from his earliest youth. The Gospel says that Christ's invitation was a hard says ing for the young man. He was struck sad and went away sorrowful. There is a deep lesson in this incident for us, parteularly for young neonle. To be true followers of Christ we must aim at Derfee- tion. Medioerity is not enough. We are called not to just ordinary decency. such as can be practiced even by the pagan, but to holi- ness of life. Our vocation is to be saints in whatever walk of life G-Od marks out for US. Saints? Yes, saints. We med them today, and need them sorely. They alone ean build a Christian world who in their lives try con- sistently te be other Christs. We are not soing to have a peaceful world until we have more men and women who try to live as Christ would live if He were walking the earth today. You may not become a great saint, or a wanonized saint. But you are definitely Called upon to try to reach that stage of perfec- tion whif-h, with the hen of God's grace, is within your compass. Serond-rate Christians cannot save the world. We will have better times only if we have better men and wo- men than is the ease today. This is the challenge that Christ. your Model, offers you as you graduate in this year of His grace, 1952. It takes real cour- age to accent it. It takes, too, a lot of faith. Those who live under the spell of the modern world will c-all it nonsense. And nonsense it would be, if the Christ who issues the ehal- lenge were not God. But He is God. If you believe in Him, and have courage to follow Him. you have the stuff of which saints are made. Unlike the worldlings, Who are do- minated by the here and now, you will re- ceive no immediate rewards. You must learn the Christian paradox that to find, one must first lose, and to get, one must give. The re- ward is a hundredfold for him who gives to God. Your pastor and teachers pray that God may bless you, the graduates of today, and help you to see the path that leads to per- fection, and set foot upon it, unix-aid. Father Hensler REV. RICHARD GINDER REV. JOHN D. O'NEIL