St Thomas High School - Thomasonian Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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This is His soundless hymn, and He has made It hers. He hath thus magnified her soul. The soundless hymn He gave her, for her soul'sexultation was His loving and inspiring life at Nazareth. God in His humanity chose her, whom He had created sinless, as the most worthy of the Joy of witnessing His earthly life We too, having already dedicated our lives to Mary, now offer one of our greatest achievements of our high school life our Marian Thomasonion to her With this dedication we mtend to honor Maryin aspecial way m the year expecially devoted to her to show our gratitude for all the favors we as her children have received through her intercession and to plead for further protection and graces that will be necessary for us to reach our final goal eternity with her in heaven There are many others to whom we would like to dedicate tlus book our parents, our priests, our teachers, and our friends We feel however, that Mary, as an mmderstandmg Mother, will share her honor with all these and will repay them in our behalf May all the efforts and time spent in planning and completing this publication be a soundless hymn of praise to Mary by reminding her of the hymn offered her by her Divine Son the years spent with Him in Nazareth ,UU le6!lCat0 Q:- ,J Y . . , . 7 . . . . , . . , . ' ' H ll ' V, I u V Y E n I 4 - A . 5 e H ' W' n f 1 t .Swv , xl S . I if' ' ' v ' ,ug ' 1 . XL 1 L1 ' 13, p Q 4 Q w N 3. fn.

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IHUIVIASII 1954 Pub11shed by the Semors of St Thomas H1gh School Detro1t M1Ch1g2.H Ed1tors Kathleen Freder1ck Tom M1e1Caf6k f f , A Featuring the uMarian Year to I A

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nnouncmg f e avian ear... ,fbni wg., His Holiness Pope P1us XII This day 1954 Marks the Centenary of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Concept1on One hundred years ago on December 8 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception to a reJo1c1ng Catholic world It was declared that the Most Blessed Virgin at the first moment of her conception was preserved immaculate from all stain of origmal sin, by the of the mer1ts of Jesus Christ the Sav1or of mankind, and that this doctrine was revealed by God and therefore must be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful The Church, in proclaiming th1s dogma, was not announcing any new 1dea, but rather officially accepting a truth revealed by God The Holy Father Pope Pius XII, announced that the Centen n1al Year December 8 1953, to December 8, 1954 would be consecrated as the Marian Year This indeed is a most opportune time to pay tr1bute to the Immaculate Conception by lifting our volces in prayer and thanksglvmg, whlle at the same t1me we utter our humble petitions for God's help 1n the future May we use this as an occasion for a manifesto of Mary, Our Beloved Inspiration To you Immaculate Mary, we as graduates of the ' Marian Year humbly offer this book of memories so that deep 1n our hearts all our memories of you will always remain. 3 ' A ,S E f I - 1 fi' o , U . . . . . . ,, .0 . , . o o o n . singular grace and privilege of the Omnipotent God, in virtue ' ' . H u , . - 3 ? 7 H ' . H ' ' . . . , I ' H n , Q 0 ,