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

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665,62 1933 .i dlnnunczata Homer TEAR or afumnrsno GJIITHAT the Nineteenth Centenary of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, might be observed with appropriateness and solemnity, His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, decreed that the year extending from April 2, 1933 to April 2, 1934, be a Holy Year of Jubilee, or a year of sacrifice, gratitude, reparation and prayer. The Holy Year idea had its birth in the early centuries of the Church and in the beginning such an observance took place every century. The zeal, piety and spirit of sacrifice manifested by the faithful during the days of the Holy Year, the spiritual benefits and temporal blessings that resulted and the subsequent times when Divine aid was so much needed, prompted the authorities of the Church not only to shorten the time between Holy Years but to leave it to the judgment of our Holy Father to declare a Holy Year Whenever he thought it appropriate and necessary. Such a time is the present. With good reason did Pius XI style this the greatest of all Holy Years. Who will question the appropriateness of it? It is the nineteen hundredth anniver- sary of the Drama of Calvary and the Glorious Resurrection of Christ from the Tomb. And if it is proper to observe the anniversaries of those who died that temporal happiness might be ours, is it not fitting that we give special solemnity to the nineteenth centenary of Christ's victory over sin and death and His opening for man the gates of eternal happiness? Our Holy Father asks that we bow down in thanksgiving and offer grateful hearts to God, that we emulate the sacrifice of Christ in our effort to spread peace, good- will and happiness among our fellowmen, and that we spend this year in atonement for not only the wrongs that we have committed against God, ourselves and our fellowman, but that we offer our very all for the countless outrages that have been committed against the King of Kings by a sinful and sinning world. And that is not all. The Vicar of Christ on Earth, with solicitude for all, realizes more thoroughly and feels more keenly than any other individual the poverty, hunger, hardships, and distress of men and nations at the present time, and is thoroughly convinced that if there was ever a time when a stricken world should bend in prayer for Divine guidance and Heavenly aid, it is today. He bids a war-threatened world to beseech the God of Peace that the clouds of war may be dispelled. He asks weak and helpless man to turn to Him who said: Ask and you shall receive . That is the purpose of this Holy Year of Jubilee. It has been inaugurated to com- memorate the nineteen hundredth anniversary of the Passion and Death of Our Lord and as a period of prayer whereby men may be elevated, as Michael Williams writing in the Commonweal says, out of the depths of the depression and out from under the shadows of war and of the plagues of hunger and despair now darkening so many nations, into the light of a new day, of peace and Christian fraternity. - The Pope has told his non-catholic children as well as the sheep of his visible flock, that the way out of their economic and political and racial and religious problems and strifes would be opened to all during this Holy Year, provided that, attempting to solve these problems, men should remember that they must guide their statescraft and treaties and economic systems by the immutable laws established by Almighty God and brought to the earth by God's Son, when He lived and worked as a man among men, and that they also must remember that justice and love must be the twin cornerstones of their temples, marts and forums and courts and parliamentsf' MATTHEW FOGARTY Six