St Mary of the Assumption High School - Assumpta Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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Little Flower Procession Little Therese of Lisieux is surely very pleased as she looks down upon our yearly tribute so carefully prepared in her honor. Even though her beautiful life story and pageant never change substantially, from year to year, yet she seems to bring forth a renewed challenge to her clients, a chal- lenge to imitate her simplicity and Chris- tian fervor. There is always a keen interest in know- ing which senior girl shall be elected to the principal role. The answer came one Sep- tember morning when the senior girls assembled to elect the principals for the pageant. Helen Melville '41 was the stu- dents' choice to take the part of Therese as a Carmelite nun. Hers was the honor of crowning the little Christ Child, a part assigned to Arthur O'Shea, Jr., of the sec- ond grade. Margaret E. Carmody was elected to the role of the Little Flower as a bride, receiving the Habit of the Carmelite Order. Her choice of attendant was Patricia McCormack '4l. All Senior girls participated in the beau- tiful tableaux formed on the steps of the main altar. There were trumpeters in pink satin to the left and right of the principal characters, garbed in soft blue and carrying silver grapes was a second group, a third group in white made a pleasing contrast with their palm branches. During the procession and pageant the underclassmen sang a selected group of hymns dedicated to St. Therese. MARG ARET CARMODY 43 B Carmody as bride H. Melville St. Therese Senior Attendants SSUTTI P. McCormack as bridesmaid

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G. Donovan and QI. Madden Senior-Junior members of St. John Berchmans V. Quealy and M. Meade St.john Berchmans' Sanctuary Society lt is Holy Week 1941! The congregation is impressed by the assurance and knowl- edge of ceremonies manifested by the St. Mary's altar boys and especially the mem- bers of St. John Berchmans' Society. As it does not suflice in order to erect a house to merely lay the stones but it is a requisite that they be united, so too we know that it was instruction, repetition and constant drill that made the altar boys render serv- ices at the altar that are in keeping with the principles Rev. William McCarthy imparted to them. Living in the service of God are the altar boys in the St. john Berchmans' Sanc- tuary Society. When a boy has completed two years of service and is about to gradu- ate from grammar school, he is presented with a diploma of membership in this or- ganization. St. John Berchmans, you know, is the patron of all altar boys. His devout inten- tion from his earliest youth was to enter the priesthood and save souls for God. When very young, he became one of those nearest to God and to the priest, an altar boy. All during his years of serving, his in- tention to be a priest was uppermost in his mind. However, it did not coincide with God's will and when his day came, John died in complete peace and union with his Creator. On his deathbed, his face shone with sanctifying grace, he was still a young boy but a boy who had done every deed as well as it could be done. He wanted to be near God, his way was to be a good. We too should act like him and be grate- ful to God for the great privilege he offers us. With St. John Berchmans in mind, the altar boys at St. Mary's accept their as- signed tasks and endeavor to fulfill them in an excellent manner. Q 'lomsr KLLNNEY

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Children of Mary The meetings of the Children of Mary for 1940-1941 were almost completed when this account was sent to the printer. Rev. William J. McCarthy has presented for this year a program of conferences under the general title Knightr of Gad. When we were very young we thought of knights as the lordly, heroic characters of literature who went about saving the op- pressed, or lighting for Christendom. They seemed to us to belong in a world apart. Now that we have heard fourteen of Father McCarthy's conferences on the Knights of God we know that even though war and devastation have not reached our shores that we ourselves are Knights of God and daughters of Our Ladye Fair. Now it is our turn to answer the challenge given us at these conferences and to really respond to the call to arms by appreciating our duties as Knights. We have paused to think about our rich endowment of God-given graces and vir- tues. We have meditated on the standard that is ours. We have carefully considered our plan of campaign and our equipment which includes the Gifts of the Holy Ghost and the Theological Virtues. We know that as Christian Knights our reward will be the Fruits of the Holy Ghost and The Beatitudes. ln addition to the general program of conferences there has been our biweekly Sodality paper Our Ideal, a Holy Ghost book composed by the Senior girls, and the many literary contributions of Father Mc- Carthy in the form of pamphlets. Our liter- ary and art project for the Children of Mary will take the form of posters and poems which exemplify the lesson which impressed us the most during the year. The climax of these meetings will take the form of a beautiful May procession and the coronation of Our Lady. M. Rocmz