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

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PRESENTED EY TIIE SENIEIRS UE ST. JESEPIVS UELLEGE HIGH SEHEUL EELPIIIA, PENNSYLV

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am the light of the world. Ile who follows me does not walk in the darkness, but wlll have the light of life. John vul 12 As this year draws to an end, we can look back over the years which have come and gone here at the Prep. We can recall that as Freshmen we often knelt and prayed before the three large statues which stand above the great altar in the Gesu Church. Two of these figures we knew well, Christ and His Blessed Mother, the third was less familiar to us. But soon we came to know Saint John, the Beloved Disciple. As time passed we learned, too, that it was Saint John who remained close to Christ, not only while He lived, but also as He was dying. And since it is our desire to remain always near Christ, as His true com- panions, it is fitting that we honor the one saint who was closest to Christ on earth and whom Christ gave to His mother as her son. We pay this tribute to Saint John by choosing his words for the theme of our yearbook. Actually, we wish to pay this tribute from a real sense of gratitude. When we came to the Prep, we were children entering manhood and we entered with a sense of insignificance and a feeling of bewilder- ment. But we soon gained courage when we began to appreciate the words of Saint John concerning his Master and ours, Christ, as they were put before us and explained as principles upon which we could successfully build our lives. And now, as we are about to graduate, we know that wherever we go and into whatever field we enter, we can take the Apostle's words of love and charity for all men with great confidence to a world filled with turmoil and with little thought of its God or morals. But before we leave, come with us guided by the wise words of 'Saint John and review some of the happy hours spent in our last year at the Prep . . .