St Thomas High School - Aquin Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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I3 LVESTU DIIJIIESE IIENTENNII-1L RHYMOND McBR1DF 1947 rnarks the cornpletron o 100 years of Catholrcrty rn the area of the drcce e of Galves ton The Senror Class of thr year wrshe to felrcrtate Most Rev C E By ne D D therr present Brshop He has labored long and hard to rnsure that the progre o the next 100 years wrll be as great as that of the frrst The followrng rs a brre ketch o the progress o the drocese The Very Rev Iohn Trrnrnon CM was the frrst prefect after the entrre state of Texas was desrgnated as a Prefecture Rpostolrc rn 1889 Havrng been erected to a Vrcarrate Rpostolrc the state became a drocese wrth Brshop lohn Mary Odrn CM as the frrst Grdrnary Varrous orders of prrests carne from the our corners of the earth to help rn the newly ounded mrssronary work The Vrncentron were the frrst to corne The Rro Grande Valley Was worked by the Oblates vho carfre at the request of the Brshop Brshop Odrn on berng trans e reel to the Plrcheprscopal See of New Orleans was suc ceeded by Claude Mary Duburs C M By 1874 the growth o the church rn the drocese was uffrcrent to fustrfy the separa tron of a large area rn the South whrch became the Drocese of Corpus Chrrstr Brshop Duburs kept hrs trtle untrl 1892 ond three years afterwards he dred rn France Succeedrng Brshop Dubur x a Br hop Nrcholas H Gallaghe the frrst natrve Hmerrcan to occupy the see On Rprrl 30 1882 he was consecrated Brshop Gallagher rs especrally dear to the colored people of the drocese for under hrrn therr cau e was frrst taken up by the foundrng of Holy Rosary Parrsh rn Galve ton In 1890 the drocese o Dallas wa formol drrrrrnrshrng agarn the terrrtory of the Gal veston See The Fathers of St Basrl began a school rn Waco and next came to Houston ID 1900 to establrsh and conduct our Hrgh School Ddrrng the next year and for a decade thereafter they took cha ge of the newly e tablrshed emrnary at La Porte wh1ch occupres the srte o the orrner Sylvan Beach surnrner re ort P1 great rgure arose rn the drocese rn the person o Father lames M Krrwrn who drd much to allevrate the sufferrngs and hardsrrp rncurred by the 1900 storm and under hrs gurdance the state of normalcy was soon resur red Qfter the death of Brshop Gallagher rn 1918 our beloved and venerable Brshop Chrrs topher E Byrne who came to us from St Lours Mrssourr was consecrated by the late Iohn ardrnal Glennon on Nov 10 1918 and Jas enthroned rn the Cathedral of Galveston Under hrs rule the drocese ha undergone a great charn of progressron he holds hrs sceptre over orne two hundred frfty frve thousand Catholrcs ln 1928 he asked the Basrlran Fathers to take charge of the St Plnne s Parrsh rn Houston whrch rs today one of the frnest rn the drocese lr 1935 the Ba rlran also undertook rnrssronary work among the rural Mexr cans throughout a vast area South and West of Houston wrth headquarters at Rosenberg Today the dro ese rncludes parrshes nrr srons cnapels hosprtals hrgh schools elementary schools orphanages horne for the aged and a protectrve rn trtutron But all thrs rs not enough Our Brshop has hrs eyes on the future Vast sums must strll be expended rn order to marntarn and further Chrrsts vork rn the drocese and vocatrons to the prresthood and the relrgrous state rrust be fostered Under the leadershrp of Brshop Byrne we shall shoulder the task , f Y I . . . . F - . . ss f . . . f s f f - ' I I f . f 3 9 , n n -11 A . . , . g F i , - , f 1 . , , D . . , . - , f . s , . , . s 'f s s 1 r, . . . C . , s s , . O . . , 1 . . - , f Q M, r s . S 1 . - 1 1 1 , ' v I - . 1 ' - - '-1 ' 1 rw - U - if 1 4 1 1 1' ' - , . O . . Q . I O D I C 1 Q 1 1 -- 1 , - U . . Q, 1 I , , r. . V I , . . M Z K g . .

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YIIU WHU ARE ABU T TU LIVE Recently rt was my prrvrlege to read two remarkable letters One wa wrrtten by a youth to the mother of hrs grrl frrend m whrch he asked the hand of her daughter rn marrrage l-le descrrbed hrs Catholrc background and stated that hrs educatron and trarnrng had been thoroughly Catholrc Hrs pastor would vouch for these statements rf she would care to consult hrm The second letter was the answer wrrtten to the young man The mother answered that thrs decrsron was one her daughter would have to make and that she had such confrdence rn her daughter s cha acrer he trarnrng and Judgment that any chorce she would make would meet w1th her ungualrfrei approval The letters were wrrtten over frfty years ago and mrght be rnserted as a footnote to Pope Prus Xl letters on Chrrstran Educatron and Chrrstran Marrrage The young mans hrghest qualrfrcatron accordrng to hrs own statement was the trarnrng he had recerved rn hrs Catholrc home whrch trarnrng wa perfected and completed by hrs Catholrc educatron The mother appealed to the same fundamentals of Catholrc trarnrng ln vrew of that trarnrng she felt no concern regardrng her daughters chorce and expressed the hrghest confrdence that her daughter would choose wrsely and well I need not tell you that that marrrage was rrchly blessed by God Those young people of frfty years ago are now approachrng the end of therr days surrounded by therr chrldren s chrldren and respected by all who know them The home whrch they establrshed has always been an outstandrng example of famrly lrfe gurded by Chrrstran rdeals and culture They lrke to speak of the happrness whrch results from lrvrng the Catholrc way lt rs that same trarnrng whrch that young man knew was hrs hrghe t qualrfrcatron that to develop rn you the mrnd of Chrrst They have wanted you to thrnk and act and judge 1ust as Chrrst would They would prepare you for what you must be and for what you must do to frnd the sublrme end for whrch you were created Thrs rs drffrcult work lust as the potter must beat the clay and put rt under the wheel and grrnd rt and shape rt and submrt rt to a terrrble ordeal before he gets the frnrshed p oduct so the teacher must mold your soul Those hours rn the classroom more hours of home work unpleasant drscrplrn eyperrences apparently useless tasks all these add up to help develop rn you the full stature of the Chrrst lrke man ln these days rt rs necessary for you to work doubly hard for you mu t be strong rn your arth The sprrrt o the world rs so oppo ed to your Catholrc rdeals and Chrrstran truth that rt rs rnevrtable that unless you are resolv d to be a strong zealous and loyal Catholrc you X rll become even worse than a bad one We are con rdent and we pray that the m n of St Thomas wrll be strong rn therr farth that th y wrll be the leaven whrch wrll make acrety what rt should be that they wrll alway reflect rn therr lrves therr Catholrc trarnrng ara that the p actrce of therr Farth wrll brrng an abundance of happrness rnto therr lrves FHTHER EMBSER l I I . . . i S . . . , w l W , , , . I , 1 1. V . . is being provided for you at St. Thomas. Your teachers, following St. Paul, have been trying I - I ' I I I I I I ' ' ' r , . I l I I , 9 , r T , .'7' V . f, 3 I A 1 , . . , I 3 . . . A S . . I . S