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St. Joseph Academy, Bay St. Louis, Mias.
Vol. IV - No. 4	January,	1952
Student Body Emphasizes Importance Of Reciting Daily The Family Rosary
Th weeks of January 13th., to February 17th have been set aside as a time to place special emphasis on the daily recitation of the Family Rosary.
?There is no more powerful and efficacious form of laily family prayer than the Family Rosary,? said Sr. Dorothy at a Miniature Rosary Rally staged in the S. J. A. Gym, Friday, January 25.
During the rally, the Crusade Prayer was recited and the Crusade Hymn was sung. Information of particular interest concerning Crusade Issues of Catholic Papers was indicated to the pupils and they were encouraged to read these publications.
r. FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER as exemplified by the Joseph BUnehara ily of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
bnckeround, left to right. Julianne, Marianne, Dianne, Mr. Joseph Blanchard, Mrs. Blanchard, Suzanne, Jouiine.
Forcgiound: left to right, Joseph, Albert, Ann, Patricianne.
The purpose of this assembly was to stress the aims of the Rosary Crusade which will take place Sunday, January 27, at Biloxi, Mississippi.
Tbf objectives of the Crusade i? to place the Rosary back into the homes as an institution. This means setting a time for its recitation when most of the family will be present most of the time.
S. J. A. Students are stressing this objective through special talks in Religion classes and in Sodality meetings, the press, bulletin board displays, films, poster contest, booklets, appropriate skits, poetry contests and the singing of family pledge cards.
In an opening talk at a sodality meeting on January 22, Carol Turner emphasized the following facts: ?True family life, in these modern times, has suffered a very noticeable decline. Today most of us think of the home as merely a place to hang our hats. The way to have a close family group to work together, play together and pray together. If we do all this in union with the Holy Family, we will truly be a fine example of a good Catholic family, There is a great need for strengthening family ties and prayer, and family prayer can do this. One of the most wonderful family prayers is the Rosary. By reciting this prayer in your home, you can gain the special protection of God and His Blessed Mother and you can do something really constructive to restore truly happy family life which is so badly needed, if the world is to return to God.?
These points were emphasized by appropriate skits.
In sharp contrast with the family who plays and prays together represented by the juniors, the seniors presented the Wayward Family.
In view of stressing the need of family prayer, individual so-dalixts made posters. Prize Posters are being displayed in the
vestibule of Our Lady of the Gulf Church.
The bulletin board in the basement portraying Our Lady of Fatima and the Rosary is an incentive to all students to pray the Rosary. Mary Rose LaBruzza, under the direction of Sr. T.nuico Aimee designed the display as a way of restoring peace and happy family life.
The truth of the slogan ?THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGFTHER" is evident in the Blanchard family? six of whose members attend S. J. A.
Joseph, the father, is employed as a Commercial Refrigeration salesman for the coast. Then there is Mother Blanchard, who looks young enough to be a sister to the children. Following her ar* nine children,.Joanne, 18, Suzanne 17, Marianne 16, Dianne 14, Julianne 13, Anne 11, Albert 10, Patricianne 7, and last but not least, Joseph Jr., 5. The girls attend Saint Joseph Academy in Bay St. Louis, Miss., Albert the oldest boy attends St. Stanislaus College at the Bay. The Blanchards have been married 19 years, having taken their vows at St. Patrick?s Church on Camp Street, in New Orleans Louisiana. After the birth of tbeii sixth girl, they received a congratulatory letter from Eddie Cantor in Hollywood telling then: that they had gone him one bettei | in the girl department and should be congratulated. Mary Blanchard, the mother, remarked, ?Mj girls can sew and cook. This o! course is a big help to me haviiy eleven to care for and to feed.? The final harvest of the wcrl of the S. J. A. students will b< reaped by S. J. A?ians whose zea will make possible the fulfillmen of the words of Pius IX, ?If yoi desire peace in your hearts, ii your home, in your country, assemble every evening to recite thi Rosary."
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