Value for 2010-2011:
Community
"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The rest will be given. " – Mother Teresa
Upcoming Spiritual Events
- Opening of School Liturgy 9/15/2010
- Christian Prayer and Reflection Services (CPR) 9/22/2010
- Francis Fest Plant Sale and Franciscan Print Sale 10/2/2010
- “Francis and Ecological Science in Dialogue?” 10/2/2010
- Francis Fest Brat Fry 10/2/2010
- Francis Fest Horse Drawn Wagon Rides 10/2/2010
- Francis Fest Bake Sale 10/2/2010
- Francis Fest Bingo 10/2/2010
- Francis Fest Kid's Games 10/2/2010
- Transitus Service 10/2/2010
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Franciscan Values
Learning to Connect Mind & Spirit... the Franciscan Way
- COMMUNITY
- COMPASSION
- PEACEMAKING
- REVERENCE FOR CREATION
Each year the college community explores one of four fundamental Franciscan values: community, compassion, peacemaking, and reverence for creation. This academic year the primary focus is on Reverence for Creation.
Reverence for Creation
In the process of his conversion, St. Francis of Assisi was gifted with a deep faith-experience of God. Out of the abundance of his love, God created humanity and nature, animate and inanimate. Francis, hungering for truth and the realities of life, penetrated the mystery of creation with the eyes of faith. He came to realize that all creation was a reflection of the truth, goodness, and beauty of its Maker. In the beauty of the world, he encountered Beauty Itself. He sensed the unity, solidarity, and interdependence of all creation which inspired him to call creatures his brothers and sisters.
If peacemaking is living in right relationship with God and each other, reverence for creation includes right relationship with all of creation so that the integrity of creation is preserved.