Ursuline Academy - Acres Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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CONTENTS Mary made a complete offering of herself to God. She offered all that she was that Christ might enter her, take possession of her. Thus did we offer ourselves to God in the first Mass of the Marian Year during the early hours of our Yesterday at Ursuline. And our offering was made more pleasing through: The Holy Father and His Marian Year .............. 5 Mary, the Dawn of the Morning ............ 5 Our Bishop ........................................ 8 Our Reverend Mother .......,.,. 9 So we offered our entire Day: Yesterday at Ursuline . . . Morning-Religious Offering .,..... ...... 1 0- 11 We, Who Offer Ourselves Seniors .......,................... ...... 1 2- 46 juniors .......... ...... 4 7- 54 Sophomores ...... .,.... 5 5- 62 Freshmen ...............i.,..,............ ...... 6 3- 72 Our Religious Activities ................. ...... 7 3- 79 Afternoon-Intellectual Offering ........ ...... 8 0- 81 Our Intellectual Activities .. ........... ......... 8 2-101 Evening-Social Offering .......,........ ......... 1 02-103 Our Social Activities ................ .. .-----.-- 104-113 Niglatfall-Renewed Offering ........ ................ 1 14-117 .W - -sr 1 an mn. MH-f its 1' erik W 3t'f'lH t W - ' rm! IW' 'W into t 'A Q ,,,, gpqdw ld! V- Mi' win ,Q 1 Tim' . H2 'Q' as-W-2 -ml -1 up we-if-,,. , f ,X K, 6 , M Ewa 'EQ .. M ff H' Yung t-if 53 ix it .. Rlmsii K? ' fir! gil!!

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l DEDICATION Today we dedicate this annual to you, Mary. Unlike so many teenagers in this land of ours, we have known you for many years. But more especially in this last year, this Marian Year, you have become to us a human being, living, breathing-the majestic, glorious Queen of Angels, yet the sweetest Mother man will ever know and cherish as his own. We have you daily, per- sonified in the Ursuline nuns who teach us and they have told us your life- as ordinary and commonplace as our own-yet the loveliest life ever lived by woman. To us, dearest Mary you are the Dawn of Yesterday, of Today, and of Tomorrow. Yesterday . . . our past year at Ursuline, Today . . . the present day in which we pause to look upon our life at Ursuline, Tomorrow . . . the future years waiting before us, years pregnant with potentiality. The dawn of each new day is expectant, the air is pure, the earth is soundless, silenced, waiting for the sun to take its place. So were you, before the Annun- ciation, Mary-virginal pure, soundless, waiting for the Sun, Christ to take His place in you. The dawn is the birth of day. Dawn comes, as it were, direct from the hand of God. Mary, you are always the Dawn, just as you came forth from the hand of God at birth, free from attachments, free from taint of self-love in any' form, free from all blemish. We go back with you now, dear Mother, to the dawn of Yesterday. Time goes so fast. Yesterday is gone, the light and darkness of it. Today is here. And yet the past, the words and friendship and love of it, still lives in our hearts and is recorded on these pages . . . 5

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