Ursuline Academy - Yearbook (Cumberland, MD)

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na Qui gave 'Lita Jifionfga O Sacred Heart! be Thou our shield and stay, Be Thou our hope through all life's weary wayg Open for us Thy saving portals wide, O Sacred Heart of Jesus Crucified! HE month of June may well be termed. liturgically, the month of the Love of God. Even from the standpoint of nature, it is a season of 5,X,4,4,5 warmth, light and happinessg the month of sunshine of life, the month WX'X ' of graduationsg the month of ordinations. May, with its flowers and sweet memories, is consecrated to Our Blessed Ladyg June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart. From the earliest ages of the Church, the attributes of the mercy and love of God have had a special attraction for the faithful. Such a devotion as the one recommended to us in June brings with it, as one of its distinctive graces, a feeling of love in the human heart in return for the love Christ lavished on mankind. Christmas and Easter have their symbolisms, and in June we have still another, and that the sign of the suffering heart. After the feasts of the Nativity and the Redemption, we have the feast of the hunger and thirst of Christ for the hearts of men. What could be more Christlike than the gift of His own Heart? What could be more symbolic of the strength of love, its power and its reward? Our Lord had revealed the devotion of His Sacred Heart to Saint Margaret Mary some years before making known His desire that a special feast should be celebrated in Its honor. In 1648, the saintly Eudes-now Saint John Eudes- had succeeded in establishing in the diocese of Autun the feast of the Holy Name of Mary, but it was not until twenty-seven years later that the feast of the Heart of Jesus was revealed. These dates, as a learned Jesuit remarks, are not without importance. They enable us to understand the admirable Wisdom of Divine Providence in the manifestations of two objects infinitely dear to our piety. They teach us that it is through the Heart of this Mother of beautiful love that we shall have free and easy access to the loving Heart of her Son Jesus Christ. It was, in fact, on the feast of the Holy Heart of Mary that Saint Margaret Mary received that most signal favor known as the Great Revelation, and which prepared the way for the future establishment of the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Let us ever bear in mind that love and reparation are the very essence of devotion to the Sacred Heart, and that it is through Mary that we shall go to Jesus. 4 0 cw, .f.l f THE 1940 URSULINE

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I i The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. The wind blew east: we heard the roar Of ocean on his wintry shore, And felt the strong pulse throbbing there Beat with low rhythm our inland air. A e THE 1940 ' l' ' URSULINE

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ff flflffio .mfg rm. ff Who finds delight in trees and brooks, Who seeks out Nature's quiet nooks, Who hails afresh each new-born sun, Who's well content when day is done- 'Tis he Who lives. Who wins the love of trusting hearts, Whose ordered life true faith imparts, Who gains his fellows' good esteem, Who seeks to be and not to seem- 'Tis he Who lives. Who holds in leash the sordid lust For selfish gain which turns to dust. VW1o follows hard the higher good Which leads to human brotherhood- 'Tis he who lives. Whose ev'ry Word and act rings true, Who nerves his being to pursue That high ideal-the Rule of Right Which far transcends the rule of might- 'Tis he who lives. . Who lends a hand, who thinks and works, Whom duty binds, who never shirks, Who knows he gets but as he gives- Such man it is who really lives. THE 194D URSULINE lin CJ.,