St Theresa High School - Veritas Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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VH RI TAS Our Parishioners From a tiny acorn grew a mighty oak. N comparison has the parish of St. Theresa expanded. Can you remember when a tiny handful of pioneers, comparing to the acorn, inhabited the then desolate northwest section of Michigan's great Metropolis, and were planted by the hand of God as the root of another of His mighty oaks in the forest of men on earth? Can you visualize the small church structure that first acted as a mecca to the faithful under the protective guidance of our own Father McCabe and the support of our pioneer parishioners? Of course, you can also remem- ber the loyalty of those supporters, the growth of that root had taken a stronger hold and St. Theresa, as in fond embrace, outstretched her arms and increased her flock a hundred fold. Our pastor erected the present school structure in honor of St. Theresa. With whose aid? The parishioners. And now that tiny acorn had taken on the appearance of a sturdy, striving, young sapling, and with its growth in the forest of humans, Almighty God changed His abode to the lower halls of our school. He knew the extent of His sowing and was posi- tive the small structure was not capable of caring for His profits in reaping. The parishioners made this also possible. Slowly, yet steadily, from acorn to sapling, from sapling to oak, from but a handful of parishioners adoring Almighty God in His glory to the thousands that grace the portals of His present bower, it grew. Yes, the parishioners have been loyal supporters, kind and willing friends in matters both moral and hnancial. But despite their kindness in these concerns their arduous love and mightiest support were supremely shown, when a few years ago, that insidious worm of the devil once again endeavored to show the entire world that, with his master forces, he could and would rot and crumble into nothingness God's Almighty Oak. Again and again that effort was vainly made. But did they rot even the bark of your faith and love? No. In their efforts to ruin and destroy the work Our Saviour accomplished in His crucifixion, they strengthened your faith. Ways of comparison are odd. God's ways are odder still, and yet- From a tiny acorn grew a mighty oak. MARY CATHERINE WHITING, '28. Twenty-eighl