St Joseph High School - Annunciata Yearbook (Williamsport, PA)

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Who 1933 i-.1-. dlnnunciata GJEHED IDDWWIEBJIR GDIIF GQIIUIHIIEJ MIADGDNNA No wonder painters rave and men go wild, O'er Raphael? Madonna and the Child, For what can tell a tale of perfect bliss, If not the blending trust and love in this. ZIIEDVEN in the early ages of the Church, Religion furnished a fertile Held for Art- interpretation. No theme found greater favor than the Madonna, with its touch- ing appeal and its power to move the human heart. Our Lady's special artist is Raphael. No artist has painted the Blessed Virgin with more affection. It would seem that Raphael had consecrated his genius to the Mother of God, and of the manifold forms in which he has depicted her blessed image, there is not one before which we do not feel constrained to kneel. It is estimated that he left one hundred and twenty images of Our Blessed Lady. They express in a wonderful variation the loveliness, tenderness and purity of the Virgin Mother, and the beauty, grace and serene innocence of the Divine Child. Therein lies their power. How could this artist-servant of Mary create such realistic representations of our Heavenly Queen? It was because of his idealism, because of his beautiful faith and because of his love for chastity. These characteristics he clearly reflected in the spiritual splendor of his artistic interpretation. Again--it was the power of the Madonna. MARY ALLISON JGDHNI RWIISIIKJIIINSW GIJIMIIBUGIEQ TCD THE JIMIIAIIDGDNJINIIA After careful examination, neither as adversary not as friend, of the influences of Catholicism, I am persuaded that the worship of the Madonna has been one of its noblest and most vital graces, and has never been otherwise than productive of holiness of life and purity of character . . . There has, probably, not been an innocent home throughout Europe during the period of Christianity in which the imagined presence of the Madonna has not given sanctity to the duties, and comfort to the trials, of the lives of womeng and every brightest and loftiest achievement of the art and strength of manhood has been the fulfillment of the poor Israelite Maiden's: 'He that is mighty hath magnified me'. Nine

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cghe, 1933 l dlnnunciata Cllflll-TED SIIDIIIRIIICJIF GDJIF GIIHIHIUIED GEDNSQTIIGIFUCIMCN WHAT does the Constitution of the United States mean to you? Is it some moldy manuscript that has been laid upon a shelf because it is out of date? Or is it a breathing, living thing? When our forefathers drew up our Constitution, it was their purpose to embrace in it the principles of justice, equality, liberty and democracy, and are not these principles of vital interest to all? . Let us consider Justice as an exponent of our Constitution. The law provides for a Supreme Court and a system of lesser courts to pass on the equity of all cases coming under the jurisdiction of the United States. The trial of all crimes is by jury, and is held in the state where the crime is committed. Is not this an improvement over the methods of olden times when people were guilty merely because accused? Imagine your- self a Catholic in Russia or Mexico today. Picture yourself a Jew in Germany! Are people in these countries getting justice? Indeed, you must admit that we have much to be thankful for in this land of ours. It is true that racketeers may threaten, swindlers may steal, and depression may linger, but at least we have the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. It was also the purpose of our founders to establish equality among men. Have you ever realized what a part this principle plays in the spirit of our Constitution? God created men to be equal, so it is fitting that we, His creatures, should consider them so in the machine of our daily life-the government. But, you may say, there are many different classes of men. Surely the Poor are not equal to the Rich! This is true when con- sidered from a social point of viewg but the so-called rights of man are just as num- erous and just as effective for the Poor as for the Rich. All classes enjoy the same basic privileges under the Constitution. Suffrage is the same for all. There can be no dis- tinction on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Equality has been distributed throughout the entire Union--to each and every state as well as to each and every individual citizen. ' Still more dear to the heart of every American is the principle of liberty embodied in its pages. Did not our forefathers come to this country seeking freedom? - the free- dom to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience, and to loose themselves from the fetters of servitude? Did they not give their very life blood in the battle for independence and to burst asunder the shackles of tyranny? And that free- dom, that liberty, that glorious heritage is ours today! Contrast the privileges that are ours and the conditions under which we live, with the servitude and oppression in Soviet Russia today. Would you change places with them, friends? But those three principles, justice, liberty, and equality, standing as three shining jewels in a diadem are overshadowed and eclipsed by the principle and the spirit of democracy. Ours is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people - a government in which the people carry out the work of governing. Theodore Roosevelt once said: We stand against all tyranny, by the few or by the many. We stand for the rule of the many in the interest of us all, for the rule of the many in a spirit of courage, of common sense, of high purpose, above all in a spirit of kindly justice toward every man and every woman. Eleven