St Josephs Academy - Academia Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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Q'-'U uA3 Qu 'H Sgngt nsiliitx l 307 Qongress Street Portland Maine lo the fluss of 1991 SI Joseph S flceldemef ln sexeral forexxords already xx ritten for our xarious school yearbooks I haxe pointed out that xx hat xxe need aboxe all things else in our xx orld today is sanctity Perhaps people do not xx ish to be saints perhaps they think that it xxill be time enough to think of sanctity xxhen they sense the approach of death perhaps they think that sanctity is a xocation peculiar to a fax ored fexx among us try to be serious sometimes xx ith ourselx es In a serious state of mind xx e shall see that xx hen xxe begin to take seriously all our instructions beliefs and resolutions xxe shall then bevin not to restore peace but in truth to bring peace to the xx orld lt is my deep conxiction that our C atholic school graduates hax e much to ansxx er for in the present stlte ofthe xx orld lhey haxe been taught sanctity thex haxe lixed it they hlxe no excuse for not lixing it more intensely and for not propagating it xx ith more 7eal As the Graduates of 1931 I pray that xou may measure up to God s e xpectations for you 'lllklflelfej Bishop of Portland ei is , .Z!ZZl.IgQ. ' S -i w I Yi 'K V Y Y I X V I I 7 3 ' All these attitudes are rank nonsense for a Christian mind. l.et us V X Yi V I 3 . 1 ' ' , I I I ' Y I O. Y 1 3' V ' ' ' X cw ' 1 I