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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER December 2,1958 Mary's Army Conquers Satan By Prayerf Selfless Charity I will put enmities between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed, and she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. No one but the divinely inspired could have managed to state so clearly and suc cinctly the chasm that lies between Mary and Satan. First there is an enmity be tween them based on the fact that Mary never was made subject to the devil, not even by the universal taint of original sin. Conceived without sin, she al ways was what we have become only through Baptism the reflec tion of God on earth, the sharer of divine life. Thus immaculate before birth, Mary lived her life in a constant and ever-in creasing enmity to Satan, a perpetual and ever-growing closeness to Christ. She was full of graces, of more grace than all the angels and saints combined. Preserved by grace from mortal sin and confirmed in grace, Mary was also free from any inclination to sin and co operated perfectly with all actual graces. How much the devil must have hated this woman who at every moment possessed all the graces that she possibly could. This aversion between these an cient enemies is carried on to their descendants and followers. We as Mary's children must partake of the same antagonism, share the sign of her seed fullness of grace and enmity to Satan. Pope Pius XII has suggested three ways in which we could imitate Mary by developing an armor against sin and a closeness to Christ. His first emphasis was on PRAYER, an awareness of God Apathy, Mediocrity Pose Challenges to Education Say NSA, NF Leaders The last two weeks has seen Munde lein acting as hostess to officers of both NFCCS and NSA. The idea presented by both young men was that American higher education needs a revamping to rid it of the apathy and mediocrity that plague our system today. Michael Phenner, president of the National Federation of Catholic College Students suggested that we, as Catholics, should seek to rise from the scourge of mediocrity and become well-informed, thinking members of the lay apostolate and a positive force in society. Fred Werner, vice-president of the National Student Association, agreed with Phenner's concept of the mediocrity of higher education. However, he went one step further and charged American students with apathy toward almost every phase of the world around them. Besides giving Mundelein stu dents a personal interest in both these national organizations of which they all are members, these young men presented a challenge. The challenge is twofold: a distinct re sponsibility as American students to take account of the purpose in acquiring a higher education, and as Catholic stu dents, the responsibility to use education to further the cause of the lay apostolate in today's troubled world. developed especially through frequent offering of Mass and reception of the sacraments. Strengthened with this inner energy, we will find it easier to attain SELF LESSNESS, doing God's will all the time. This leads to our late Holy Fath er's third point action, truly Catholic, effective action, which flows from love of God and love of man. This is the con crete CHARITY of St. Paul's epistle; it is the love of Mary. Certainly it is wise to affiliate oneself with an army not only in the right, but also sure of victory. Mary will win But Satan must be con stantly put down as he writhes up repeatedly in every age, in every life. This is the job for her army. We must so arm ourselves that we do not impede her progress or allow Satan even one victory. We must develop in ourselves the three qualities so empha sized by Our Holy Father and thus ally ourselves with Mary, the immaculate, the grace-full, the victorious Queen of heaven and earth. Coming on Campus Tuesday t m r CTATIIC of 0ur Lady' pur I 11 C b I A I U C chased from Italy last year by the Sodality, now stands on the landing of the grand staircase between the first and sec ond floors. New Pioneers... Frontiers Expand into Outer Space by Evelyn Berg When the word frontier is men tioned, one immediately thinks of the Old West. You picture in your mind a band of wild Indians attacking the wagon train, the dashing cowboy hero rescuing the helpless maid in distress or a herd of buffalo grazing in an open, flat plain. But, have you ever thought that per haps the American West was not the last frontier? Where is the new wilderness? Love, Knowledge Bring to Advent Wonder of Season By Mary Lou Brady Wordsworth believed that strong feel ing broke the shell of habit and let the wonder of an object shine forth. Three words stand out in the above statement: habit, strong feeling and won der. Habit means to grow so accustomed to a thing that we finally reach a state of apathy toward it. Advent has come to be a habit for many. Some people ex perience no feeling or wonder in Advent any more. The modern tempo of the world has seen to that. Wonder is left to the child; adults are too busy to bother. Why? Feeling comes from love and love from knowledge. Many are too in different to knowledge that does not concern them immediately. Too often, one uses time as an excuse saying, I'll do it later. Or maybe the reason is that we don't realize the wonder there is in Advent, or that we know this, but do not know how to capture this wonder. There was a girl who learned that a foreign student was coming to visit her family. In order to make him feel at home she dec:'ded it would help to know as much about him and his country as she could. She went to the library and learned, and in learning she found herself waiting anxiously for his arrival, eager to find It's no exaggeration to say that it is out of this world because I am thinking of outer space as the new frontier. The places to be settled are first, the moon, then the planets in our galaxy, and finally, the entire solar system. Perhaps some day there will be spaceships leaving earth with the motto, Mars or Bust carved on the side. Spaceships and rockets are a little different from covered wagons with the motto California or Bust, but the ideas are the same. Thei'e will also be prospectors in my plan. Maybe they won't be riding on mules in the middle of the Arizona desert, but they will be hopping about in a small rocket from asteroid to asteroid looking for uranium instead of gold. The traditional cowboy hero will be represented by a slightly different type. The modern spaceman will be attired in a plastic space helmet and a heavily in sulated spacesuit to protect him. Small boys will regard Flash Gordon as their hero, and Kit Carson and Roy Rogers will forever be forgotten. The faithful horse will be replaced by the trusty spaceship. Flash will fight his enemies with the standard handy-dandy ray-gun. Savage Indians will reappear, if at all, in the form of little green men from Mars or the purple people eaters of Pluto. So, don't despair if you find yourself with a pioneering spirit. The space age is here and with it whole new frontiers to conquer. out more about him, ready to accept him with charity into her life and home. If there is time for one of us to do this for a visitor from another coun try, can't each of us find time to pre pare to make the Visitor from heaven feel just as welcome? And won't the time we spend help to warm our hearts with love before His arrival? Try reading a little; do something on your own that will increase your knowl edge and your feeling, and then perhaps the wonder Wordsworth spoke of will shine forth for you during this Advent season. December 2-8 Annual fall concert on classical music, 1:10 p.m., auditorium glee club, conducted by Adalbert Huguelet, piano and organ majors of the de partment of music. From Renoir to Picasso, art club film, 4 p.m., Room 307. Thursday Mrs. Stella Counselbaum, director of Community Service Anti-Defamation league of B'nai B'rith, speaker for human relations club, 4:10, Room 306. Miss Delphi Nikopoulas readings for the related arts club, 4:10 p.m., Room 405. Friday First Friday devotions adoration all day. Freshman assembly, 1:10 p.m., audi torium speaker Dr. Marcella Volini Meyer, former Mundelein student, on marriage. Benediction, 4:10 p.m., chapel. Closed Retreat, Our Lady of the Ce dars. Loyola Pow-Wow jazz concert, Bob Scobey and band, 8 p.m., Union house. Saturday Loyola Parade, 12 noon, Howard st. to Sheridan rd. Basketball game, Loyola vs. Denver, 8 p.m., LSC Alumni Gym. Monday Immaculate Conception, Holy Day of Obligation no classes. Tour of Argonne National laboratory, 1-4 p.m. Phi Theta Nu, chemistry club. December 9-15 Tuesday December SAC assembly, 1:10 p.m., auditorium. Tuesday afternoon musicale, 3:10 p.m. Studio 703. Thursday Senior class meeting, 1:10 p.m., audi torium. Our Lady of Guadalupe program, 4:10 p.m., Room 405. Human relations club lecture, 4:10 p.m., Room 306. Friday Mass Spanish club, 9:00 a.m., chapel. Freshman assembly, 1:10 p.m., audi torium alumnae panelists discussing marriage. Sunday Christmas Cantata, 8:15 p.m., audi torium. Monday SAC meeting, 4 p.m., Room 407. (Life's little problems were the same 20 years ago according to this reprint from an old Sky scraper and an older Chicago Sun.) I wish I were beside a lake Or sitting in a boat, With all the things I have to write Wrote. VOL. XXIX Dec. 2, 1958 No75 The Skyscraper is published semi-monthly. October to May inclusive, except during vacations and semester examina tions, by the students of Mundelein College. 6363 Sheridan Road. Chicago 40, Illinois. Subscription rates are 1.76 per year. Entered as second class matter, November 80, 1932. at the U. S. Post Office. Chicago. Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1897. The Skyscraper is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press Association. STAFF MEMBERS Editors Barbara Guderian, Marguerite Phillips Associates Mary Gart Margaret Nicholson Lynda Rousseau Staff Artist Mary Anne King Skyscrapings Joanne Twomey Assistants Mary Lou Brady, Claudia Radzwicki, Ann Miller, Patricia Nova, Dorothy Nelson, Mary Ann Makowski, Dorothy Lahman, Kathleen McGuire Reporters Newswriting Class
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