St Michael High School - Archangelo Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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DICATIGN To Mary Immaculate, you who are the inspiration, the hope, and the ideal of every true Michaelian, we dedicate our Archangelo, confident that you will note, not its defects, but the love that accompanies it. You are the masterpiece of God's creation, our tainted nature's solitary boast. During the desolate winter that followed the fall of our first parents, all men were born in a sin-darkened world. Then on the horizon appeared the glory of your Immaculate Conception, and the dawn of the day of promise. Fittingly does the Church apply to you the words of Proverbs, l was set up from eternity And of old before the earth was made . . . He had not yet made the earth Nor the rivers nor the poles of the world. When He prepared the heavens I was there I was with Him forming all things You were there as God's cooperator when He remade the world after it had been shattered by the sin of Adam. It was your acceptance of Gabriel's message that, humanly speaking made the Incarnation possible. We honor you as our queen and we love you as our mother. But since no words of ours can adequately praise you, we wish to repeat the tribute of one of your most devoted sons, Father Daniel S. Lord, Your face glorious with the white light of purity is still the best-loved face in all the world. Your eyes are the clear clean eyes that were blessed with the vision of God's Incarnate Son. Youth will not be lost as long as it has Mary, Virgin and Mother, and it will never lose that vision while the Church lasts.

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SH RINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 10 From the time when Columbus approached these shores in the Santa Maria, the history of our country has been a recital of deeds undertaken in honor of the Mother of God. The Spanish who explored from Florida to California, made their camp settlements read like a litany of titles of the Blessed Virgin. Marquette who explored the northern half of the Mississippi had his own name for it. He called it the river of the Immaculate Conception. Spanish Franciscans and Jesuits in the South and French Jesuits in the North, carried the name of Mary throughout the length and breadth of the land. lt is not surprising therefore, that we should come to regard Mary the Mother of God as peculiarly ours, or that Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore, first American bishop, should dedicate our land to the Immaculate Mother of God. ln T846 the Sixth Provincial Council, meeting at Baltimore, humbly petitioned the Pope to give us as our national patroness, the Blessed Virgin conceived without sin. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception had not yet been pronounced, but to the honor of the American hierarchy and people, they believed in it and wanted to tell the whole world of their belief. To complete the crown of Mary Immaculate as patroness of America, there still remained the task of building a national shrine which would be an outward symbol of love and a place of pilgrimage where honor might be paid to her. Today one of the most splendid shrines in the world has been erected, the gift of the people of America. When the magnificent interior has been completed, the shrine will be unique not only in America but in Christendom.