St Peter High School - Petrel Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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HIS EXCELLENCY, THE MOST REVEREND JOHN F. O'HARA, C.S.C. Installed Archbishop of Philadelphia, january 9, 1952. We would put on the lips of that other Shepherd of our souls, our own loved Archbishop O'Hara, the words of St. Paul: 1 would bring courage to their hearts, I 'would see them 'well ordered in Iozfe, enriched in every way with fuller undersland- ing so as to penetrate the serret revealed to us by God the Father and by Jesus Clzrist , . Colossians 11:2-3. The erection and the expansion of so many high schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in the last few years is an eloquent tribute to our Archbishop's solici- tude that the high school boys and girls under his care shall be penetrated by the whole treasury of wisdom and knowledge which is stored up in jesus Christ. of the Wz'se Shepherds

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,ig ! N J Q Q HIS HOLINESS, POPE PIUS XII Raised to the Chair of St. Peter March 2, 1939. In person, I am far away from you, bu! I am with you in spirit, and I rejoice to see how well disciplined you are, how firm in your faith in C hristf' Colossians Il:5-6 These words of St. Paul could very well be a message from our saintly Holy Father, Pope Pius XII. From his faraway home in the Vatican, he speaks to us often through radio messages, but more often through the voices of our pastors and priests who make known to us his wishes. Though Our Holy Father is valiantly coping with world-wide problems in an age of Marx, machines, and materialism, he is a man who radiates spirituality and love of God. This spirituality and love of God he would have us, his children, refiect in our lives by bidding us in the words of St. Paul, Go on, then, ordering your lives in Christ jesus, Our Lord. ruler the care

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In 1929-just a year before his Silver Jubilee in the Priesthood at the request of Cardinal Dougherty, Father Reing undertook the opening of a four-year accredited high school in St. Peter's School which, for sev- eral years prior to that year, had pro- vided a two-year commercial course for the children of St. Peter's and the surrounding parishes. Thus it was that Father Reing registered for old St. Peter's another first in Berks County-St. Peter's Reading Catholic High School. THE REVEREND MICHAEL V REING , Established Four-Year Ac- 6 0 0 credited High School at St. Peter's in 1929. THE REVEREND IGNATIUS J. SZAL Instructor in Apologetics Spiritual Director gms Students fir mv-A THE REVEREND JOHN J. LYNCH Instructor in Religion Director of Athletics