TO MAKE GOD KNOWN, LOVED, AND SERVED

“Zeal is that flame of burning desire which one feels to make God known, loved, and served, and thus save souls.”
-- Basil Moreau, Christian Pedagogy

SNAPSHOTS AT NOTRE DAME

Educating both the mind and the heart.
“The mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart.”

  • The annual Notre Dame Forum addresses key policy issues and their moral implications.
  • Notre Dame’s participation in the Millennium Development Initiative
  • Growing student enrollment in domestic and global service-learning programs of the Center for Social Concerns, offering transformative learning that engages students’ research and life-plans.

Zeal to make God known, loved, and served.
“Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others.”

  • Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) prepareing teachers for the nation’s Catholic schools
  • Sponsoring ND Vision for teenagers, plus a conference for students on choices of vocation
  • Notre Dame as a dynamic place for spiritual growth, sacramental celebration, devotional practice
  • Father Jenkins leads an ND delegation to the University’s ecumenical studies institute in Jerusalem, and ND conducts a conference: “Perspectives on Hope; The Perspective of Hope”

Community inseparable from the mission of God’s work.
“Continue to remain united in the Lord…Let us often come together in spirit…By these relationships of mutual friendship and dependence, we shall help one another correspond with the designs of providence…”

  • Residence hall life, with CSC rectors, connects education to community experience.
  • Ongoing and wide-ranging Holy Cross ministry to the whole Notre Dame family, including marriages of alumni, chaplaincy for University staff, and “Coming Home” cemetery ministry
  • Interdisciplinarity, internationality, and diversity toward goals of better learning, unified purpose.

IN MOREAU’S WORDS …

“In order to be a foreign missionary, one must know the mystery of the cross. From the mystery of the cross, the missionary must draw the apostolic strength of those generous imitators of Jesus Christ whose life below was but a continuous martyrdom.” -- Circular Letter 11

“Everyone must show his gratitude by ever-increasing generosity. Let us then renew our zeal. And, the better to ensure success in our efforts, let us sanctify ourselves constantly by fidelity to chastity, poverty, and obedience.” -- Circular Letter 47