St Marys High School - Sancta Maria Yearbook (Lynn, MA)

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Q Vagalate et Orate Watch and Pray -II UTY 'Vw 'N as a es? mage tn the Graduates 'Ihas message to the graduates of 1946 comes from the palm franged coast of Puerto Raeo I am en yoyang the generous hospatahty of the genial Bashop of Ponce the Most Reverend A Wallanger DD an Ameracan Redemptorast who has spent tharty years on thas Island Paaerto Raco has over 2 000 000 anhabatants who are tradataonally Catholac I am wratang these lanes an a parash of 80000 souls almost twaee tlae num ber of Cathohcs an Lynn The sparatu al needs of thas yurasdactaon are cared for by sn. Ameraean Redemptorast praests On one day they baptazed nanety nane babaes The Iatlaers not requared an the parash ehureh go on horseback to the outlying mas aons an the hall towns They haye permassaon to say three Masses on Sundays and holy days Yester day I yasated a parash of 2 000 It has four Dutch been forty years on the Island These two dastracts are better supplaed wath praests and Sasters than many others There are parashes wath one praest who as responsible for the eare of oaer 10000 souls Wfh t about the paroehaal schools? There are grammar schools an the larger parashes But tlaey are anadequate because of the small number of Sasters A few parashes haxe hugh schools The Bashop of the Daocese feels that the greatest need of Puerto Raco as hagh schools Wlaen we talked of our good fortune and of the growth of our hagh schools he saad If we were proyaded wath hugh sehools lake Saant Mary s an Lynn and the Massaon Chureh an Roxbury our problems would be settled In the Arehdaoeese of Boston you haye eaerythang just aroaand tlae eorner H w true thas as Wfhat a contrast watla Puerto Raeo Thousands of men women and ehala en down here lease thear homes aw ay up on tlae halls at daybreak to attend the last Mass Many people who are fastang walk oyer rough hally roads and through streams to assast at the Holy Sacrahce The praest may be delayed for hours baptazang and hearing confessaons The devotaon of these sample peasants wlao haae worked hard all week an the cane fields and the coffee and tobacco plantataons would put us to shame Boys and garls walk four or Eye males to and from school The sacrafices they make the hardshaps they en dure for a Cathohe education are ancredable Al though most of them are undernourashed they are happy and cheerful The Sasters tell me that they ue blessed wath memoxaes and are ambataous to learn My companaon Monsagnor Iraneas A Burke of the Blessed Sacrament Parash amaaca Plaan remarked how seldom we passed school chal e ren wathout books an tl ear hands I as not because I feel the graduates of 1946 do not appreeaate what has been done for them an Qaant Mary s that these lew paragraphs haye been w ratten I know you y alue the sparat aal and moral helps that haae been yours Xou know the sacra taees that your praests your Sasters and your par ents haye made to proyade you wath the advan tages of a Catholae educataon and you are grateful My atm as to remand yoa of the facahtaes the con aenaences wath whaeh all thas may be had an a l rge well organazed e ntre of Cathohc culture So thank God for thas faaor and for the blessang of spendmg the erataea years of your hfe an a parash wath a Catholae grammar sehool and an a dastraet where you ean attend a fatholae hugh sehool Remember the good Bashop s words XVe haae eaerythang yust around the corner Mossae 'sou Me Ga use HI s E 1946 SANLTX 'I XR 4 fn.-1 -- if Q e ,., V4 f' QE : 'IA 'I-1 .5335 1. fix- - ss Q . . 3 I , ' A. ....1Tl.-. , , ,I 1 i ...T-.T ' ' ' '11 . .,. 'eral' If . rf' vf 7 l , ,V ,fl y 'ny ' A V I ' C' C T - Q 1 K K T I 1 sp A 4 - . , , A , ,t . ,. , ' ' ' I 1 , 1 1 . , . ., ' 1 .' , V 1 1 1 . . e . ' I '. v Ya v I 1 Y ' ' 9 a ' - - V s , 1 1, 1 Y l ' ' . . ' ' C - 1 1 1 1 1 . . 4 l I . v B' K s 1 7 I . I . I ' 4 , I 1 as , ' A - . , I v, ' 1 - , s s L ' , ' , . . Y I , , I ' ' - 1 ' I 'ff ' ' A A 1 I ' 1 . . . V . A , . - I . - A s . .. 1 ' . ' V M R I .Q . , , , ,, h ', .. L 1 . , Ja 1 I , - , T I' I 2. Y A ' I L' I V L '1 N . - ' ' f , . 1 .I I . . , Domanaean Fathers. The pastor, an old fraend, has A v 1 I 1 . ,f v ' ' - - 1 , I A 1 , . ' . 1 K ' v Q cl- 1 V s . . f 'V - Y' ' V - y 1 f 4 - A - V ez . , ' ' ' . ' Y 1 . ' V 'f - V' -a I v A' - - - I I 1 1' . . 1 ' .' '.'. ' I ' ' ' 1' ' -' lf v . ' I' ' f ' . V v' v v' . 1 1' . . ' .x . 1 ' I Q. 1 y -k' 4 . ' - f ' v q ' 1 7 1 v L xy . 7 ' r ' , - I I ' In 7 , - I ' . . I 'I f v v. v. I s Y I I A sa ' ' 1 I ' . 1 ' 1 . ' 5 ' f a J ' I 5 . , - -41 1 K X- f A 1 , s 1 ' - ' 5 - . I ' , ,. ' ' 1 1 5' 1 I I K I A 1 A A 4 1 ,I ' - - - 1 -1 , '. ' .I , , . s ,' - 1 1 v 1 I y I 4 . s 1 I' o . , . . . ., - ' - - - ' , I - - - . , I . .. . ' . ' , . lr . ' '- .' x' ' 3 a.' i ,'i f' T H . ' . 1 ' ' I . I .V I A

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