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

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!7'lY9? 'l x Ex x xiii Ns ii! .r 'ff-'H f':ffe1v1 sffi--vf'-r w'- . , , W' , . A 1- ' I A Our Be! 0 ea' Pastor The Reverend Michael V. Reing More than fifty years ago a young boy-then known as Michael Reing-left his home in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania and en- tered St. Charles seminary to prepare for the Priesthood. He was ordained on May 31, 1905-just fifty years ago. After serving in various churches of the Archdiocese, Father Reing came to St. Peter's, Reading, on January 2, 1924-more than thirty-one years ago. During all these years his priestly hands have ministered unto the people of Reading-our parents, our friends, ourselves- the things that pertain to God. In tribute to his Golden Years, let us ever pray that God may bless his labors with abundant fruit, and that they to whom he has ministered may be his. joy and consolation here below and in heaven his everlasting crown. Wikis For every high priest taken from among nzen is appointed for men in the things pertaining to God . . . Hebrews V :l-2 At the very dawn of our life on earth, the priest's hands poured on us the saving water of Baptism. From that moment on, his sacred ministry touched on every important moment of our lives. By the hands of the Bishop-who is First a priest-we are made soldiers of Christ in Confirmation. The priest's anointed hands are raised over our heads in absolution. As another Christ, the priest re- enacts the supreme mystery of Calvary every time he says Mass. His consecrated hands place the Sacred Host on our tongues: those same hands are raised in nuptial blessing as he is the official witness of the Church in the Sacrament of Matrimony. And how often those blessed hands have brought strength and consolation to our dear ones as they prepared them to leave this world! X . ' 1 . -N .9113 -- 'ji-3 fs' FW ' si' a . ,.ai1I-Zelw 2: .ixiii . rss' , ,,.,.5 ,., .., ,., Z P 1 fx

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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