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

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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

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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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The Beglnnlng of the Society of Jesus YEAR hefore Columbus dneoxered the new vxorld ILIIIHUU of Loyola w1 horn 1n the l1ttle Ba que x11l1ge of A pelfll He was born of 11 5p1n1 h noble f11111ly 111d the youn est of th1rteen ehlldren therefore 1eeord1ng to the eustom of those tlmes he should haxe heen deitmed lo the prre thood and the Chureh But 11'1el1I11f1OI1 d1d not lead h1m th1 way h1 dellghts werr ID tournaments and tllts So at the Court of FEIdlI1dDCl 1nd lahella he heeame the darmg CliNl1lI12 kfllght dre1m1nQ only of eh1yalro11s deed ln 15 1 a he fought 1g11nSt the Freneh 1ny11der around P1111pelun1 a eannon h1ll bhat tere h1s leg o hadly that ever after l1e h1d '1 hmp 111 h1 gut H1 e1ptors 111 adm1rat1o11 o ll raxery set IIT! ree an exen e1rr1e 11m them eke to t1e 1tle ol Loyoa lgnat111 then as exer afterwards comm 111ded the esteem of men he XVIN alw1ys the old1er To wl11le may the Iedllllll of h1s eonx 1leseente protr 1eted heeause he x only III 1 ted on l1lX1I1g h1 leg re hroken and re et to 1yo1d Xl 1ble defornnty lgnatlus e1lled for hooks of eh1y llTOU9 romances All that wxs 1xa1l1hle w1s a L1fe of ChTl5f and 1 yolume of the L1yes of the IIIIIQ or t1e want of fomethlng hetter he read them 1nd jllldfllli rose lrnm 1 h 1 ehanged man htt t1ll the se1ld1er These men ahout wl1om he had read were they not heroes lCld6YS o11 another type of h1ttleheld were they not eh1x 111 111 1 hetter eau Cou he not do Whil the e men Ind donel Dlxlne Grate touehed the soul of Loyola Qnee de tlned for the pr1eQthood hy the eustorn of the d1y lglldflus found h1m elf led thereunto hy Z1 dxtferent route though he knexx not whlther the future would lexd n 16 vm ahe to tra e l1t set our for the eelehrate s1netu1ry of the Blessed X 1I'g,IlI1 at 'vlon err lt not f1r from Baree lona There he made a generd eonfe 51on of h1 xxhole l1e and hefore Our L1dy 1lt1r he e t the lmlllglil X1j,ll He hung up h1 vu rr at her hr111e he put aslde the helmet for t1e heggars aekeloth He had noxx jomed the 11nk of 1 new Lead r 1nd Kmg sxxor l11 h1eld h1 helmet of proteetxon 111 th1 new vy11f1re aeunst the powers of d1r ne All these Cl1ll12, he 1x1 to le 1r11 at 1 httle x1ll1ge lXlIHCd lvlanre 1 where he spent the next ten months of h1s IC 1ere 111 1 eaye to 1X e1lle the Grotto o anre 1 1'n1t1us hxed dll rnedltated and prayed Vw7e do not know what posed hetween hl Soul and God hut fro111 hmts wh1eh l1e m1de 111 later hfe there hx 1r1 en 1 trad1t1on that the Ble sed Mother d1etated the QETIC of med1t11t1ona xxhleh he n11de Clllflflg thrs t1111e At any rate It was ID th1 eaxe th 1t Loyola was edueated IU the use of Gpmtual weapons Those med1t1t1on were later wr1tten down hy h1111 and are known as the Splfltlldl Exerelses of Sami IQIIHIILJQ Of th1 book Samt Frane1 de Sales onee Nlld that ll had tonyerted mo e souls than ll eontamed letters It was then by makzng these exerel 1 that th1 hero of P11Il1PClUI1i heeime Ignauus the Founder of the boe1ety of esu It WIN by llldlmlllll these same exeruses that Fra11e1s Xauer and all other eo1np1n1or1s and every KSUII tod1y ha heen formed ID the sp1r1t peeuhar to that ClglOllN Order And todly a eye1 1n the past the h1s1s o 11 retre1ts and IHINNIUITN con ducted hy tl1e JCSUIIQ 1 the sp1r1tu1l pr1ne1ples a outhned III th1 hook bo etfeetne hue they been that the late Pontxff Plllk Xl made Sarnt lg111t1us the Patron of all Retreats and 5p1r1tu1l Exeruses And IH h1 adm1r1hle eneyeheal letter tl1e Pope lauds the lgnat1an 111ed1tat1ons and the1r 11daptab1l1ty to all classes of people Consequently we next llnd h1n1 on the benches wlth sehool hoye learnmg the I'Ud1IHCDIS Of L.1t111 and at the age of thlrty seyen 1983 enrolled 1t the Umyer 1ty of Plfl Here lf w1s that he fathered around h1111 h1i hrst eompamon whom he nexer personally sollelted It was the person1l1ty and hohness of lflfliiflll that won the1r heuts all CFIOUN mature student not earr1ed away to the great 1de1l of Ign1t1us hy 1nere hoy1 h enthu 11 m Ignatius 1nd h1k eon1p1n1onG took yous of poxerty 1nd ehxstlty on Montmortre 1n Pdflh 'Xtgust 15 15714 From tlus tune we 1111y ay th II the SOCILIY of esus unofl1e1ally began 'among the early Co111p1n1ons was to he found a eertaln lranus Xavler who was destrned to do 1nered1hle veork 11 a IHINNIODHYY 1nd 111 our d1x heeome the Patron of 1ll FOYCIQLD M1 s10r1ar1es 0 0 0 A 1 ' x- F- 1 1 1 y A 5 A , 1 ,ls ' A 's 1 A 1 A'1lZA5 1 A'1 1 gf 1' A ' A ' 1 ' , 1 A' A ' ' J f A .', 5 ' 1 As A Q 1 ' ' 5 1 , ' ' ' ' ' 1 s' ', 1' A , 21' ' A' , 1 ' x ' A . s. 1 I , 's 1 1' ' A ' 1 1. 1 ' ' rd Ks 1 ', 1 . 11' A As1A. 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