St Patrick’s Dominican College Teschemakers

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 45, 12 November 1924, Page 22

St Patrick’s Dominican College Teschemakers

The annual GARDEN FETE will be held at TESCHEMAKERS on 15th NOVEMBER. A cordial invitation to attend is extended to the friends and pupils of the Dominican Nuns. .>

“His whole life is like a stormy day. At the beginning a fresh clear morning, perhaps a languid breeze, scarcely a breath of air. But there is already in the still air a secret menace, a dark fore-boding. Large shadows loom and pass tragic rumblings, murmuring awesome silences: the furious gusts of the winds of the “Eroica” and the “O Minor.” However, the freshness of the day is not yet gone. Joy remains joy: the brightness of the sky is not overcast; sadness is never without a ray of hope. But after 1810 lie poise of the soul is disturbed; a strange light glows. Mists obscure his deepest thoughts. Some of the clearer thoughts appear as vapor rising: . . . Even joy has assumed a rough and riotous character: . . , storms .gather as evening comes on. Heavy clouds are big with tempest. The climax of the hurricane is approaching! uiiven away and the clear tranquil atmosphere is restored by a sheer act of will power. What a conquest was this ! What Napoleonic battle can be likened to it? . . . Sorrow personified: ... to whom the world refused, joy, created- joy himself to give to the world. He forged it from his own misery! . . . And indeed it was the mott o ' of his whole heroic soul: “JOY THROUGH SUFFERING.”