Ursuline Academy - Yearbook (Cumberland, MD)

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fy, IHE 1940 uRsuLlNE aw C-Q, 51720 7,0118 Remember, O beautiful Mother, That none ever asked thee in vain To comfort, to cherish, to bless them, Or soothe their heart's desolate pain. O hear me, as humbly confiding In thee, my dear Mother, most blest, I place at thy feet my petitions, And ask thee for peace and for rest. In thy arms the pure Word Incarnate Did lovingly, trustingly, lie, While thy tender heart of a mother Was pierced by His tiniest cry. This remember, my Mother most holy And thy loving child let me be, Until in the radiant Heaven I dwell with thy Son and with thee. anis aw 6124 may Queen

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BV Sw. ,fx ' ' THE 1940 uRsul.lNE Ufzitlufa fo Jlflafzy, wz Queen flowers unshlne and warmth is our Blessed Mother s festaltide Mary s Aww long day of gladness and joy and peace and purity and holiness, Our fWN'N' lady's feast of rejoicing as the Mother of the King and our own dearest Mother, to whom We owe Our Lord's coming and with Him all her own great love. From the first day of May to the end of the fair month of brightness and life and freshness, the Church and all her children send up a song of praise and glory, of gratitude and love, to the Virgin Mother of Christ. And justly sog for Mary never fails us if we but place our trust in her. She is our friend, our advocate before the throne of high Heaven. She always lends a Willing ear to our petitions and always obtains an answer if, in the wisdom of God, our petitions are for the good of our immortal souls. And that is why, during May- time, saint and sinner, the fervent and the indifferent, all feel a new impulse of devotion. Reverend A. Ryan said that the reason above all why we honor Mary is simply this: Mary is the Mother of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is God. Thus our love for her is only as a means of loving God. It does not rest or end in her. She is fairest of creatures-none mirroring the perfections of the Creator as she does-but still only a creature, only a wondrous reflection of the infinite beauty of God. She is bountiful, but only with what has been given to her, and if graces pour from her hands, it is because her Divine Son puts them there. She never took honor to herself. When Elizabeth praised her as Blessed among wornenj, at once she passed on the praise to God in her canticle Magnificat. We never pray to her to have mercy on us as we pray to God, but we beg her to pray for us that God may be moved to have mercy. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners. The young pray to her for purity, and she goes to her Son and begs the gift for them. The sinner cries out: Refuge of sinners, pray for me, and she throws herself at her Son's feet and implores Him to have mercy and forgive. We light candles at her altar, and we place beautiful flowers there, but our hearts are ever in the Tabernacle, where her Divine Son hides His majesty, and We ask Mary, His Mother, to make us less unworthy to kneel there before the face of Jesus. All our lives we shall pray to Mary, and we shall meditate on her beauty, and the holiness of her Song and when the hour of death comes may each Ursuline girl close her eyes in death in the sweet embrace of her dear Mother and Heavenly Queen, whom she has loved so tenderly during her life time. .HE fairest month to the fairest Queen--The month of May, month of

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Cfafgzvzina gem 1012 Jlffazy, Dm Jmofgsz M ,O Mth,L kd sh Imslzimgugous .gay sfmczzzz diss S Yam dffandanf Virgin the purest, We give you our loveg Present it to Jesus in heaven above. 0 dearest of Mothers, We greet you today For you have been chosen Fair Queen of the day. ff 1 uRsuuNE TH:-: 194D AUX