Notre Dame De LaSalette Graduation Day 2009

Happy St. Anthony's Day!

The Notre Dame de La Salette Boys Academy located in Georgetown Illinois is the only Traditional Catholic School in the area transforming young boys into strong Catholic men with impeccable morals. Only two hours away from Carmel Indiana and under the leadership Headmaster Father McMahon, this school generates approximately 40% priestly vocations yearly.

DOWN
A
ROAD

In the Autumn when leaves turn
For our Lady I will yearn
Down a road called Olivet
Notre Dame de LaSalette.

September’s sky
A Marian blue
Red bricked Church
Came into view

Mewling and puking

In Mother’s arm
My parents left
I felt alarm

In the Autumn when leaves turn
For our Lady I will yearn
Down a road called Olivet
Notre Dame de LaSalette.

January’s
Cold white snow
Sanctuary’s light
Rose glow

Ready to study
Shining face
Satchel and book
‘Fore fireplace

In the Autumn when leaves turn
For our Lady I will yearn
Down a road called Olivet
Notre Dame de LaSalette.

Then cruel April’s
Warmth, sleet, rain
Upon the pitch
We fought for our Dame

The holy Mistress,
Lions trying
We ruck and maul
A furnace sighing

In the Autumn when leaves turn
For our Lady I will yearn
Down a road called Olivet
Notre Dame de LaSalette.

Jealous June
The four years fly
Oaths and honour
Are June’s good-bye

But soldiers Confirmed
Sudden and quick
From LaSalette’s lair
To the jungle’s thick

So in the Autumn when leaves turn
For our Lady I will yearn
Her constant Coronation guiding from above
To don Faith,
don Hope,
don everlasting Love!