University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Pope John XXIII 1881 - 1963 President John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963 Pa e 6

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JL 9 4 04- | j A Time for Everything There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away. A time to rend and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak. A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.— Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Page 5

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In Memoriam 'There is an appointed time for everything ... A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot the plant ... a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance ... a time to love and a time to hate, a time of war and a time of peace. No one had a more delicate feeling for the times and no one left such a sensitive imprint on recent times as Pope XXIII and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. One was very old and the other young, but both were uprooted within the same year. For all of us their departure was a time to weep and mourn just as their presence among us had been a time to laugh and dance. Perhaps most important of all, their life and death has been a time to love, a time to dispel the hate that tears men apart and to replace it with a bond of genuine affection that transforms every aspect of human life. Thus a heritage of love is passed on to us by an aging Italian Pope and a vigorous American President. Unfortunately the warmth of real love demands great sacrifices and total commitment. It means that the I gives way to the Thou and that the Self finds its fullest perfection only in the Other. It means that we must open ourselves to the loved one in much the same way as Angelo Roncalli opened himself fearlessly to his Lord until cancer terminated what fear could not. It means that we must expose ourselves to every type of harm in much the same-way as John Kennedy strove day and night that his country and the world might realize their proper historical stature until an assassin's bullet turned the full light of his bright days into a premature darkness and night came at noon that day in Dallas. We all recognize the greatness of these men, but very few of us are willing to pay the price they so gladly did. They left us a genuine heritage of love but hate follows as the avenger of things that disrupt the unity and good of man. The danger is that while we may find real inspiration in their life and actions, we will not allow their force to strengthen the course of our own lives. For this reason we now live in a time of war rather than a rime of peace, a time of hate rather than a time of love. Pope John died believing that we must respect another's right to be what he is and to live according to the inspirations he truthfully receives from God. And yet we persist in fashioning people according to our own ideals without regard for the individual involved. Similarly President Kennedy died in the South as a symbol of the equality of all men. And yet we persistently segregate people according to our own whims and desires regardless of their intrinsic value. It is one thing to tell a tale of praise in honor of two great men. It is quite another to let these men be our caders and follow them down the crooked paths and into l,e recesses of the world around us so that, streng-t icned by their determination and bathed in their light, we, too, may get in step with the times and leave our mark somewhere under the heavens.