St Marys College - Dial Yearbook (St Marys, KS)

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HE AIM at St. Mary's has always liccn to turn out men representative of the highest type of Christian manhood. In order to do this the religious training and instruction of the students is strongly emphasized. Every opportunity is offered the student in order that lie may come to know, to appreciate and to love his religion as his most precious heritage. On all sides the student is reminded that lie is at school to receive not only a secular education but a thorough religious training as well. Our beautiful Chapel, our shrine and grotto of the Blessed Virgin, our sodalities, and our acolythicnl societies arc monuments and special aids which help us to a more perfect knowledge and love of our Blessed Lord and his Holy Mother. The earnest devotion of St. Mary’s boys is well known wherever St. Mary's boys have traveled. And. it is the thoroughly religious environment that surrounds one at St. Mary's that is responsible for this. In recent years the daily reception of our blessed Lord in Holy Communion has come to be the practice of almost every boy in the school. Every morning after Mass the march of students to the Grotto of our Lady includes a large number of students. And throughout each day the visits to the shrine, the grotto, and the Immaculata are numerous. REV. VM. 0 SH A UGLINESS Y, S..F. During the season of Lent just passed the religious zeal of the students was most edifying. With each change of class, before and after meals, and during other times of the day many students were to Ik- found in the Chapel making special visits or following the Way of the Cross. In retreat, which was conducted by Fathers O’Shaughnessy and Scott, during the last three days of Holy Week, the usual strict silence was observed as each boy gave himself up entirely to the contemplation of his God and of his own future life. In past years the harvest for the priesthood among St. Mary’s students has been great. Each year a number of young men arc found to respond to the call of the Master. We have no reason to believe that this year is an exception and we trust that with the dawning of the year 1028 we will find St. Mary’s well represented among the new workers in the religious life This, the supreme sacrifice, is the RFY JOSEPH I SCOTT finest fruit of the religious training and environment at old S. J. St. Mary’s. Page Xinety-one