St Josephs College High School - Chronicle Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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l Left: Father Love, SJ., says the Mass of the Holy Ghost at the beginning of the school year. Below: Father Louis Wheeler,S.j., speaks to the students during the school retreat in October. Z E OF the class of nineteen hundred and forty complete our four years at St. Josephs simultaneously as the Society of jesus celef brates the four hundredth anniversary of its Confirmation as a Religious Order. A coincidence, true, but a coincidence with deep significance. For Catholicism, in the person of the Society of jesus, is so entwined with our lives that it is, indeed, our life. Religion, its influence, its practice, is the very basis and start of Jesuit education. Cn a morning last September, faculty and students of the Prep knelt in the Church of the Gesu, earnestly imploring that the Holy Ghost might enlighten, guide, and strengthen them during the course of the coming school year, much in the same fashion as Ignatius and his companions had knelt, four hundred long years before, at the feet of Four FORE

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WORD St Ignatius Loyola pronounces his first vows as a esult Augu t 15 1534 at the Mass celebrated by one of his first associates Blessed Peter Faber of fort1tude patlence, and knowledge As 1n former t1mes the Mass of the Holy Ghost th1s year but set the spark to the fire of rel1g1ous act1v1ty at St oseph s The Sodahty of Qur Blessed Lady the plant from wh1ch sprlngs the flower of other endeavor the Kmghts of the Blessed Sacrament the Bellarmlne Club small but CEECCIVC ID 1tS 1ncessant storm1ng of Heaven the School Retreat the Semor Retreat the Novena to St Franc1s Xav1er May Devotlons ll flour1shed and all testlfy to the attalnment of an xdeal formed xn the mrnd of a world weary Spamsh nobleman as he lay wounded 1n battle four cen tur1es ago We leave these now but they do not leave us They cannot leave us for they are part of us Thus lt IS that the fammllar phrase new worlds to conquer finds no place ID th1s Year Book We have already conquered It IS now but for us to forufy our pos1t1on w1th a rampart of Grace Th1S done our purpose IS accomphshed-our purpose the pur pose of St Ignat1us Loyola and the purpose of h1s jesu1t followers who have dlrected our hesltant footsteps these four years F113 ff agi- c -,WJ J I S Pope Paul Ill and begged the Paraclete to instill in their hearts the seeds . Q i . . 5 . -H